Australasian pocket almanack, for the year of Our Lord 1824 ;

A$2,200 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

being Bissextile, or Leap Year ; and the fifth of the Reign of His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth. Published, under the sanction and patronage of His Excellency Sir Thomas Brisbane, K.C.B. c. c. c. New South Wales: Compiled and printed, at Sydney, by Robert Howe, Government Printer. Sydney : Robert Howe, [1824]. Duodecimo (175 x 120 mm), contemporary papered boards (rubbed and lightly marked), expertly rebacked preserving remnants of the original paper with black-lettered title; marbled endpapers, recto of first blank with the original owner s name Berry Wollstonecraft inscribed in ink; pp. [2] (blank), iv, 164; with the folding plate A Table Shewing the several Positions of the Vanes of the Telegraph ; several annotations in ink in the personnel list sections; pale water stain to bottom edge of the plate, but otherwise a fine, crisp example, printed on laid paper. This early Sydney almanac was published on New Year s Day, 1824. As advertised in the Sydney Gazette (16 December 1823), the present example was one of a presumably smaller number of higher-grade copies that were printed on laid paper and priced at three rupees; copies on inferior paper cost six shillings. In addition to the standard calendrical information, tables of weights and measures, etc., the almanac contains numerous sections which illuminate the state of society in Sydney and the greater colony of New South Wales at the time. These include: Established Police Regulations for the Town of Sydne

• Binding: Hardcover

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