[TASMANIA; ALCOHOL] Licence to keep an Inn or a Public House, circa 1836.

A$250 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[Hobart Town : s.n., circa 1836]. Foolscap folio, 315 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with watermark W. Warren 1836 ; a colonial Government licence to keep an Inn or a Public House and to sell and retail therein Ale, Beer, and other Malt Liquors, and Wines, Cider, Ginger Beer, Spruce Beer, Gin, Rum, Whiskey, Cordials, and any other spirituous or fermented Liquors by an Act of the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Legislative Council Given under my hand this day of One thousand eight hundred and thirty- ; an unused example, in fine condition. Provenance: Robert Muir Old Rare Books, Perth (Catalogue 74, 1981, #517); ex Peter Dodds (1929-1980) Peter Dodds was a notable Australian antiquarian book collector and antique dealer, Melbourne-born but based in Perth from 1949, and later York, Western Australia, from 1976. See: Australian book collectors : some noted Australian book collectors collections of the nineteenth twentieth centuries / edited by Charles Stitz, volume 1, pp 97-98 (Bendigo : Bread Street Press, 2010). In 1981 Robert Muir issued two catalogues (69 and 74) that featured 950 lots comprising the cream of Dodds private collection, including much Australian colonial material (books, maps, engravings and ephemera) of major significance. In his introduction to the first of these catalogues Muir wrote: The Dodds Collection was certainly one of the most important, extensive and erudite ever to be assembled and shown in Western Australia. It

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