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[email protected] Australia Web: www.hincebooks.com.au CATALOGUE 120 February 2010 Including: • Governor La Trobe’s 1853 Regulations for Ports and Harbours • Redmond Barry’s 1854 Rules for the Supreme Court • A record of the disastrous bushfires of 1898 • Almanacs, including Melbourne’s first • Federation souvenirs • Scarce immigration guides • An extensive group of tourist guides and views 160. 1. The AGE. The Age Annual; A Political & Statistical 3. Almanac. The Victorian Almanac for 1884 [1886, Register of the Colony of Victoria, 1880 ... Sixth Year. 1887, 1888, 1890 and 1896]. Melbourne, Mason, Firth & Melbourne, David Syme & Co., 1880. Octavo, pp. 143, lix (il- M’Cutcheon, 1884-1896. Six issues, octavo, all stapled as lustrated advertisements), original embossed cloth, gilt, end- issued in original wrappers (one back wrapper lacking), one papers browned, inscribed with the publishers compliments. with Observatory stamp on title, minor chipping but in good $120. state. $1,200. See Ferguson, 5772. Containing standard information-calendar, astronomical tables, postal rates, medical notes, notable events. 2. Agriculture. Victoria, The Garden State of Australia A good group starting with the twenty-fourth annual issue. [cover title]. Melbourne, H. J. Green, Government Printer, no date [1930s?]. Quarto, illustrated, map on inside rear wrapper, a fine copy in original wrappers with colour pictorial onlay. $150. Promoting Victoria’s butter, dried, canned and fresh fruit, wines, jams and jellies, lamb and wool, wheat growing. 4. American Fleet. Souvenir of the Visit Of The United States Fleet to Victoria, Australia Illustrating the Garden State of the Commonwealth.