New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1814;

Being the second after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the fifty-fourth of the Reign of His Present Majesty King George the Third. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief. Sydney : Compiled and Printed by G. Howe, Government Printer, [1813]. Duodecimo (170 x 105 mm), later half red morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with contrasting black leather title-piece lettered in gilt; pastedown with ex libris of G. & N. Ingleton and gift inscription from Geoffrey Ingleton to his son Nicholas Ingleton; pp. [4 blank], [i]-iv, 1-135, [1 blank]; recto of second blank inscribed in ink by the original owner ‘Henry Aspinwall, August 31st 1814’; title-leaf re-margined, an expected amount of browning and some occasional foxing, else clean throughout, a very good example.

One of the earliest books printed in Australia, compiled and printed by the first government printer, George Howe.

In addition to its calendar the almanac contains numerous other sections of interest, among them The Colonial Garden (pp. 21-33) – one of the earliest essays on Australian horticulture, which includes advice on the cultivation of grapes; Arrival of Vessels at Port Jackson, and their Departure (pp. 34-52); lists of the colonial civil and military establishments (pp. 55-65); and Abridgement of Established General Orders and Colonial Regulations (pp. 67-135).

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