# 48524

ROSS, James

The Hobart Town Almanack, for the year 1830.

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With embellishments. Hobart Town : James Ross, [1830]. 24mo (130 x 90 mm), original green calico (faded and stained), upper board with the initials ‘C. C. H.’ in early manuscript, spine with remnants of printed paper label; front hinge split; front free-endpaper with early ownership inscription of Isabella Robinson, Westbury; engraved frontispiece of The residence of Joseph Hone Esquire, illustrated title leaf with vignette of cockatoos engraved by Thomas Bock, pp. viii, 16, 272; with 9 other engraved plates (most by Bock) including the Calendar vignette title page, and the coloured Signals made at Mulgrave Battery; numerous woodcut in-text illustrations; front free-endpaper and frontispiece almost detached, occasional spotting.

Ferguson, 1366