The Eastern & Australian Steamship Co. Ltd. Tourist Guide to China, Japan, islands and ports en route, Australia and Tasmania

Sydney : William Dymock, 1899. Small quarto, gilt-lettered red cloth (marked, recessed), advertisement for David Jones to lower board, advertisements to endpapers, pp. xvi; 288, extensively photographically illustrated and with several two tone maps, a few marks, some bleeding from red boards to lower few leaves, a very good copy.

A very scarce tourists guide published by William Dymock for the The Eastern & Australian Steamship Co. Ltd., with details of destinations on the route from the eastern seaboard of Australia through south-east Asia to China and Japan. Departing from Sydney, the guide covers Brisbane, Toowoomba, Gympie, Bundaberg, Mackay and Thursday Island, with an article ‘Buffalo Shooting and other sport’ in Port Darwin, Northern Australia by A. B. Paterson, illustrated by George Washington Lambert, an essay first published in The Sydney Mail on January 7, 1899.

The route from Port Darwin to Hong Kong is illustrated with views of Dilly (Dili) in Timor and islands in the Celebes, with 10 pages on Hong Kong, Canton and Macao including a full page map and a view of Victoria Harbour. The next 25 pages cover Japan, and the subsequent 110 pages Sydney and New South Wales. The guide then travels to Melbourne and Victoria (with views of picking wine grapes), Adelaide, Perth, Hobart and Launceston, all with maps, photographs and advertisements.

Scarce, with four copies recorded on Trove, and a single copy at auction (Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen, 2020, EUR 590).

Ferguson 9364a (recording the Mitchell Library copy only)