Colonial binding
The Royal South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1840…
Adelaide: Robert Thomas and Co., December, 1839.
The second South Australian almanac
Octavo, 150, xii pp., original printed limp linen wrappers; folding Sangorski quarter brown morocco case. Ferguson notes this is the second South Australian almanac. The work includes the important and very early botanical series of lectures by George.....
Price (AUD):
$1,800.00
Ref: #4107206
The New South Wales Government Gazette… Vol. 16…
Sydney: W.J. Row, 1st July - 31 December, 1844. Thick folio; in contemporary half calf with gilt-lettered labels. A fine collection of the New South Wales Government Gazette for July to December 1844, in an original binding by William Moffitt, a free convict and Sydney's first bookbinder of note. Examples.....
Price (AUD):
$950.00
Ref: #2400739
The Hobart Town Almanack for the Year 1830...
Hobart Town: James Ross, 1829.
Swan River settlers from Hobart Town
24mo, [viii],, 272 pp., engraved and lettepress titles, with a total of 11 engraved plates (including title page), original cloth. Rare and desirable early Tasmanian almanac here in its second year of issue, featuring eleven plates by the accomplished.....
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #3804576
The Royal South Australian Almanack and General Directory for 1848.
Adelaide: J. Stephens, 1848. Duodecimo, 126 (last blank), xxiv, xvi (advertisements), title cropped at top and bottom edges, otherwise an excellent copy in original patterned green cloth with printed paper label (rubbed) on front board. With George McEwin's "Horticultural and Botanical Sketch of the Colony" (pp. 25-30), the extensive "Mines.....
Price (AUD):
$900.00
Ref: #4107201