Vintage Book Collection - European Travel Guides

A group of hand-coloured copper engraved maps comprising 1866 "Part of the County of Evelyn" (featuring notes such as "Aboriginal Reserve" and "...presents good auriferous indications and ought to be prospected"), 1866 "Dundas" (from Baillière's Country Atlas of Victoria), 1875 geologic map of Burrumbeep and surrounds, and c. 1870s "Ararat Gold Fields"; the largest 78 x 106cm. (4 items)

"1868 Victoria - Report on the Condition of the Chinese Population in Victoria, by the Rev. W. Young", 29-page report offering much detail, including sections offering detailed numerical analysis of the specific Chinese sub-populations living in the various goldfield towns; together with 1859 Victorian Government blue paper "Chinese and Gold Fields Revenue, Belvoir; and Customs, Murray". (2 items)

December 1860 Indenture concerning the lease of 2 acres of land at Spring Hill, Creswick (from Arthur & Cecil BIRCH to John DYKE and others) "for Church of England purposes."; with a small coloured map illustrating the piece of land at the junction of the road to Castlemaine with the road to Ballarat.

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT BLUE PAPERS - GOLD FIELDS: 1859-1861 group, including July 1861 "Mining Under Wendouree Swamp", July 1861 "Mining Districts Altered", July 1861 "Heathcote Gold Fields Common Enlarged", August 1861 "Mining Under Gaol Reserve, Ballaarat", and November 1861 "Sandhurst Gold Fields Common Enlarged". (7 items)

POLICE BUILDINGS, LIVERPOOL STREET, HOBART: An original hand-coloured plan of the proposed new Hobart City Police Station, dated November 1927, with later pen and ink annotations. Construction was completed in 1928 and the site continues to serve as a Police Station. overall 61 x 55cm on linen-backed stock.

TASMANIAN PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS: October 1870 "Convicts, Paupers, and Lunatics at Port Arthur"; and, September 1876 "MRS. DANDRIDGE. Correspondence with the Government." (2 items). The Port Arthur Return lists the Names, Ages and Periods of Sentence of the 556 "residents" ; Mrs. Dandridge petitions the Government for the continuation of the allowance she and her late husband had received for the care and maintenance of Truganini (to whom she refers as Lallah Rookh) & the other Aborigines in her c