Australasian Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1825

A$2,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

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Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the sixth of the Reign of His Most Gracious King George the Fourth. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency Sir Thomas Brisbane, K. C. B. c. c. c. Australia : Compiled and Printed, at Sydney, by R. Howe, Government Printer, [1824]. Duodecimo, contemporary paper wrappers, ownership inscription to upper wrapper dated 1825, lettered along spine Austn. Almanack 1825 , edges chipped; bookplate to front pastedown; early owner s name to title-page; pp. iv, 1-150; folding engraved plate of telegraph signals, folding meteorological table; occasional light foxing, a very good example. Rare Brisbane-era imprint, compiled and printed by the second Government printer, Robert Howe. The almanac includes much on gardening and the cultivation of fruit and vegetables, lists of governors and officials in Sydney and Hobarttown, schedule of fees and duties, table showing the value of the Spanish dollar, Chronology of local occurrences in the colony, including a lengthy description of Bennelong, etc. It also includes the list of Succession of the Lieutenant-Governors of New South Wales and of Van Diemen s Land, lists of civil establishment figures in New South Wales and Van Diemen s Land, including Hobart, New Norfolk, George Town, Macquarie Harbour and Launceston. Ferguson, 994 Provenance: Richardson, name inscribed upper wrapper, dated 1825 Unknown inscriptions, front free endpaper and title page Henry L. White of Belltrees

• Binding: Hardcover

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