Australasian Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1829

Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the tenth of the Reign of His Most Gracious King George the Fourth. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency Lieutenant General Darlig, &c. &c. &c. Sydney : Edited, Compiled and Printed, at Sydney, by Robert Howe, Government Printer, [1828]. Duodecimo, later half crushed morocco over cloth (edges rubbed), spine lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; Hobill Cole bookplate to front pastedown, pp. vi, 1-212; Notice leaf inserted between pp. 64-65, folding engraved plate of telegraph signals, hand-coloured folding engraved plate of Code of Signals in the Harbour of Port Jackson; occasional light foxing, a very good example.

Rare Darling-era imprint, compiled and printed by the second Government printer, Robert Howe.

The almanac includes much on gardening and the cultivation of fruit and vegetables, list of Australasian Newpapers, Interesting Memoranda Respecting this “Great South Land” being an account of the discoveries of Philip Parker King, lists of governors and officials in Sydney and Hobarttown, lists of prisoners, schedule of fees and duties, table showing the value of the Spanish dollar, Chronology of local occurrences in the colony, including a lengthy description of Bennelong, etc.

Includes details of the Military Establishment in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, with stations in Hobart, and the distribution of Regiments in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land.

Ferguson, 1238

Provenance :

Cancel stamp, Public Library of New South Wales, signed by W. H. Ifould, Principal Librarian at the Public Library of New South Wales (1912 – 1942)

F. Hobill Cole, his bookplate to front pastedown,

private collection, Sydney