New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1820

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Being Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the sixtieth of the Reign of His Most Gracious King George the Third. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief. Sydney : Compiled and Printed by G. Howe, Government Printer, [1819]. Duodecimo (155 x 95 mm), later half crushed morocco over cloth, spine lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. [2], iv, 1-118, [2] (Advertisement, verso blank); occasional light foxing and staining, a very good example. Rare Macquarie-era imprint, compiled and printed by the first government printer, George Howe. The almanac includes Observations on Gardening Agriculture Including the planting of grapes), A Table, for finding the Time of High Water at Sydney Wharf and other Places ; lists of the colony s civil and military establishments; Chronology of Local Occurrences from the Formation of the Colony Down to the Present Period (with a long description of Bennelong and other indigenous figures of the early colonial period); and Distances of the several Townships and Settlements in the Interior from Sydney , including Parramatta, Windsor, Liverpool, Bathurst, Emu Plains, Pitt Town, Wilberforce etc. In addition to details of the civil establishment in Sydney, it includes details of Newcastle, Hobart Town, and Port Dalrymple (George Town) in Van Diemen s Land. Ferguson, 795

• Binding: Hardcover

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