Lot #145 - Howe, Robert. Australasian Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1824; being Bissextile, or Leap Year...
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Auction House:Mossgreen
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Sale Name:The Denis Joachim Collection
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Sale Date:19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818 -
Lot #:145
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Lot Description:Howe, Robert. Australasian Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1824; being Bissextile, or Leap Year...
Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency Sir Thomas Brisbane… Small octavo, with a folding plate of signals, modern red morocco, gilt. Sydney, Robert Howe, Government Printer, [1824]. -
Notes:Scarce and early Sydney almanac: the issue on superior paper, advertised in the Sydney Gazette 16 December 1823: “In the Press and will be published on the First of January, 1824... Those printed on fine paper will be Three Rupees; and those printed on rather inferior paper will be Six Shillings.” Apart from the host of calendrical and official information, this issue includes a thirty-page section “Observations on the Garden and the Field”. Ferguson, 930 (not noting the signal plate).
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Estimate:A$300 - 500
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Realised Price:Withdrawn
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Category:Books & Manuscripts
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