The New South Wales and Port Phillip General Post Office Directory for 1839

A$4,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Sydney : published by James Maclehose, Hunter Street, printed by James Spilsbury, Lower George Street, [1839]. Octavo, modern full calf, lettered in gilt; preliminary blank; pp. [ii]; 178; terminal blank, water stain to title page and scattered foxing, else a very good copy. Very rare. The first Port Phillip Directory. Ferguson A Notice in The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser and similar colonial papers for 15th April 1839 declares the Directory is published this day at the price of 5s. 3d. The utility of a DIRECTORY is so well known, that it is unnecessary for the Publisher to make any comments in offering the NEW DIRECTORY to the public; but can say, (which is the best recommendation for. a Work of the kind), that it may be depended upon for correctness . A facsimile was published in 2000, in which the editor asserts that only five copies are known to have survived. Ferguson 2816

• Binding: Hardcover

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