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413 - Australia.- Tasmania.- Hobart Town Almanac, for the Year 1829 (The), first edition, 2 additional engraved titles, 2 engraved plates, and 2 engraved signals plates, bound with some blank ff. at end (few with clippings pasted and ink annotations), lacking front free endpaper, a few contemporary ink corrections, very occasional light surface staining, contemporary red morocco, chipping to spine ends, splitting to upper joint but firm, light staining, slight wear to extremities, [Ferguson, 1272; Wilson, 236], 24mo, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, by James Ross, 1829.
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Australia.- Tasmania.- Hobart Town Almanac, for the Year 1829 (The), first edition, 2 additional engraved titles, 2 engraved plates, and 2 engraved signals plates, bound with some blank ff. at end (few with clippings pasted and ink annotations), lacking front free endpaper, a few contemporary ink corrections, very occasional light surface staining, contemporary red morocco, chipping to spine ends, splitting to upper joint but firm, light staining, slight wear to extremities, [Ferguson, 1272; Wilson, 236], 24mo, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, by James Ross, 1829. *** The first and rarest of Ross’s Tasmanian almanacs. The ink corrections suggests that this copy was owned by a resident who was updating the information in the almanac regarding the other resident.
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