For Melbourne, Australia from Battery Wharf, the fast sailing, first class British ship “Veritas”, only 632 tons register … Boston, Nov. 25, 1865

A$750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Thomas Carrey, Commander. Will receive prompt despatch for Melbourne, direct. For freight or passage, apply to Samuel Stevens Co., 209 State Street, or Neal Crowninshield, 6 Central Street. Agents in Melbourne, Messrs. Newell Co., Commission merchants. Boston, Massachusetts : Fred Rogers, Steam Job Printer, 1865. Clipper card, 165 x 105 mm, lithograph-printed recto only in carmine, azure, and gold on white enamel card; at the head is a vignette illustration with the Samuel Stevens Co. Australian Line house flag, flanked by the United States and Australian coats of arms; fine condition. Scarce and attractive clipper card advertising a sailing of the Veritas , an Australian Line ship, from Boston to Melbourne in November 1865. She arrived in Hobson s Bay, Melbourne on 16 April 1865 ( The Age , 17 April 1865) just seven days after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox: Veritas, ship, 632 tons, Thomas Carrey, from Boston, U.S., 17th January. No passengers. Newell and Co., agents .

• Binding: Hardcover

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