The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, 1833 (Sir Thomas Phillips copy)

by RAYMOND, James (compiler)

$1,090 · Offered by Biblio

[Sydney] : [Stephens &​ Stokes], [1832 or 1833]. Octavo, original publisher's plum cloth with title label to spine (faded, edges lightly worn), lower joint a little cracked, shelf mark to upper pastedown, folding frontispiece map of Sydney Town; title-page with vignette engraving of the General Post Office (mild offsetting); pp. xxi, [blank], 330, [68]; folding statistical tables, engraved folding plate with hand colouring (Code of Signals), engraved folding table (Telegraph Signals), engraved map and two engraved views of Mount Victoria, eleven engraved advertisement sheets (some tinted) for Sydney firms, which are bound into the business directory section at the rear; short tear with small loss to upper margin of pp. 251-52; complete, as issued, a very good copy. Housed in a handsome custom clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco spine. The rare second year of issue of The New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory, a publication that ceased in 1837. The fascinating textual content is a valuable primary source for the period, and includes: sketch of the Colony, pages i-xxi; description of the northeast coast (what is now Far North Queensland, then part of New South Wales), by Captain Philip Parker King, pages 21-48; directions for inner passage through the Torres Strait, pages 49-52; itinerary of roads throughout New South Wales, pages 53-149; list of toll gates throughout the Colony, pages 150-152; assigned servants (text signed by Alexander McLeay), pages

• Binding: hardcover

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