‘Discipline des Convicts à Van-Diemen’ by Gaston de Roquemaurel, written on board the Astrolabe, 20...
‘Discipline des Convicts à Van-Diemen’ by Gaston de Roquemaurel, written on board the Astrolabe, 20 April – 24 May 1840.
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Date
20 April – 24 May 1840
Call Numbers
MLMSS 10106
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Language
French
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0.32 metres of textual material (2 volumes in box) - manuscript
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Fonds
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Out of copyright : Published in author's lifetime. Author died before 1955.
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Contents
Pair of matched notebooks numbered ‘1’ and ‘2’, manuscript in ink, totalling 88 pages, the first notebook with paper watermarked 1837 and the second 1838, written in a neat, legible hand, erasures and corrections throughout. The manuscript is concerned with the transportation of convicts to Van Diemen’s Land and was written by Roquemaurel only a fe...
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Full title
‘Discipline des Convicts à Van-Diemen’ by Gaston de Roquemaurel, written on board the Astrolabe, 20 April – 24 May 1840.
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Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Lanterne Rouge Press (Matt Fishburn), June 2018
Collection history
The manuscript formed part of Roquemaurel’s personal library and remained in the family until the early 1970s when it was sold to a private collector. Remained in the same collection until early 2018 when it was purchased in the USA by a UK collector.
Administrative / Biographical history
Louis François Gaston Marie Auguste de Roquemaurel was born in 1804 in Auriac near Toulouse. In 1825 he joined the French navy and for the next 11 years served in the Mediterranean. In 1836 he was promoted lieutenant de vaisseau and a year later joined Dumont d’Urvilles’ third expedition to Antarctica and the South Seas as second officer of the Ast...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 10106
Record Identifier
Yj7o4R39
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7o4R39
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Reference code
9611539
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