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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian & Colonial - Antique & Historial
• Sale Date:
  09 Nov 2015 ~ Session 1: 10.30am (Lots 501 - 815)
  09 Nov 2015 ~ Session 2: 2pm (Lots 816 - 1105)
• Lot #:
  715
• Lot Description:
  “WALCH’S TASMANIAN ALMANACK and GUIDE to TASMANIA for 1863”
  [J. Walch & Sons, Hobart Town, 1862] with a folding map and many pages of advertisements. The first year of publication. Endorsed by the publisher to R.C.Gunn, Esq.
• Notes:
  From the ADB: Gunn was a first-rate botanist whose contribution was commemorated in Sir Joseph Hooker’s introduction to his Flora Tasmaniae: ‘There are few Tasmanian plants that Mr. Gunn has not seen alive, noted their habits in a living state, and collected large suites of specimens with singular tact and judgment. These have all been transmitted to England ... accompanied with notes that display a remarkable power of observation, and a facility for seizing important characters in their physiognomy’.
• Estimate:
  A$200 - 300
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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