Illustrated Guide to Tasmania. The Holiday Resort of Australia.
Launceston, Tasmania: Tasmanian Government Railways: The 'Examiner' and 'Weekly Courier' Offices, n.d. [1903]. Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. 60pp, with many photographs and much text, well printed on glossy paper, giving scenic views and much information, including a 'Transit and Cost' column at each opening, advising on access and accommodation. The last five pages are taken up with railway timetables, and in the gutter at the penultimate opening a few staples are showing, rusting slightly. A slightly tanned Addenda sheet of Timetable Alterations, dated 1903, is tipped onto the front endpaper. Contents are in excellent condition. Landscape format, 9x11ins, in a firm binding of smooth warm grey cloth: the characterful pictorial front cover is soiled and slightly rubbed, the back cover is more rubbed. Extremely scarce. Good. Item #19032050
Price: £300.00