The Hobart Town almanack and Van Diemen's Land annual
- Bib ID:
- 2616745
- Format:
- Journal
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. NK2528 copy
- Description:
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- Hobart Town : William Gore Elliston, [1838]
- 1 volumes : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Series:
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- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; 2528.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; 677.
- Partial contents:
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- Frontispiece: Quambi’s Bluff, from Westbury, V.D.L.; also folding Table of Distances from Hobart Town to Launceston (facing page [2] of the Annual) and coloured doubIe plate of signals and flagstaff at Mulgrave Battery (facing page [156]).
- The Almanack
- Civil establishment, with the salaries of each officer, [13]-39
- Public institutions, 40-72
- The Annual
- Narrative of the sufferings and adventures of certain of the ten convicts, who piratically seized the Brig Frederick at Macquarie Harbour, in Van Diemen's Land, as related by one of the said convicts whilst lying under sentence of death for this offense in the gaol at Hobart Town / [James Porter], ([3]-33)
- A shred of autobiography: containing various anecdotes, personal and historical, connected with these colonies / [Jorgen Jorgensen], [35]-135
- Colonel Arthur's last day in Van Diemen's Land, 136-155
- Errata to the autobiography, [156]
- Telegraphic signals from Mount Nelson to the Battery, [157]-[165]
- Arrivals of vessels during the year 1837, [165]-169
- Departures of vessels during the year 1837, 169-173.
- Notes:
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- Issue for 1838 contains Pt. 2 of "A shred of autobiography: containing various anecdotes, personal and historical, connected with these colonies "[by Jorgen Jorgensen]. Pt. 1 was published in Ross's Hobart Town almanack and Van Diemen's Land annual in 1835.
- National Library's NK2528 copy lacks title page, frontispiece, signals plate, and foldout table of distances. F2520 copy lacks frontispiece and signals plate. F2520 NL Petherick copy is in poor condition, but it and the NK677 copy are complete.
- Also available on microfiche. Canberra : National Library of Australia.
- NK2528 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2998436484
- FRM NK2528 lacks t.-p.
- Cited In:
- Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 2520
- Life Dates:
- 1838
- Former Title:
- Elliston's Hobart Town almanack and Ross's Van Diemen's Land annual
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Elliston, William Gore, 1798-1872
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