Views of Sydney, Twofold Bay and East Boyd, N.S.W. used to illustrate Wells' Gazetteer, 1848 / William Henry Wells

R 337/Item c
R 337/Item d
R 337/Item e

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1848

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Copy print : REF 1/980.1/51B1. A geographical dictionary or gazetteer of the Australian colonies, 1848 / by William Henry Wells. Sydney, Council of the Library of New South Wales, 1970. Facsimile ed. p. [iv] ‘Sydney, N.S.Wales. 1788’ ; opp. p. 69 'East Boyd, N.S.W.’ ; opp. p. 72 'Bay Whaling off the Boyd Lighthouse, Twofold Bay, N.S.W’
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

3 printing plates - engraved copper - 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. each

R 337/Item c
'Bay Whaling off the Boyd Lighthouse, Twofold Bay, N.S.W. Etched by J. Carmichael'. This plate appears to have been used previously as a floral design is engraved on the back.

R 337/Item d
'Sydney, N.S.Wales. 1788 Etched by J. Carmichael'. Engraved on the reverse side of a plate used for a plan of Sydney.

R 337/Item e
'East Boyd, N.S.W. Etched by J. Carmichael'

Out of copyright: Created before 1955

Plates published in 'A geographical dictionary, or, Gazetteer of the Australian colonies : their physical and political geography, together with a brief notice of all the capitals, principal towns, and villages, also of rivers, bays, gulfs, mountains, population, and general statistics / by William Henry Wells'. Sydney : W. & F. Ford, 1848.

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