The picture of Sydney and stranger’s guide in New South Wales for 1838 :

A$6,250 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

embellished with forty-three engravings of the public buildings and picturesque land and water views in and near Sydney. Sydney : J. Maclehose, 1838. Octavo, later half calf over cloth, spine lettered in gilt; new endpapers, folding frontispiece map of Sydney (some paper reinforcements to folds verso), inserted leaf with manuscript inscription, pp. viii, 188; engraved illustrations printed in yellow, green, blue, pink and purple papers; occasional light foxing, a very good copy. A charming guidebook for visitors to Sydney, illustrated on coloured papers with numerous views of street scenes and buildings in colonial Sydney by the artist John Carmichael. A second issue was published the year following, identical save for the changing of the date. Ferguson, 2539; Wantrup, 224a

• Binding: Hardcover

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