Australasia, The State of Tasmania, Australia - a late Victo...

Hammer

£260

Australasia, The State of Tasmania, Australia - a late Victorian photograph album, illustrated with 71 mixed size sepia photographs, each mounted to card leaves and annotated with named-view topography in MS. pencil, including Government House - New Norfolk, the River Derwent of the same, Fern Scenery, Silver Falls - Fern Free Gully, Government House from Rosny, Township of Kingston - Browns River, Part of Hobart Town from Castray Esplanade, Mount Wellington & Holbrook Place, Franklin Square, further urban architecture, ports and ships, mountain and other natural scenery, ferns, etc., very infrequent personages within the plates, contemporary decorative cloth over bevelled boards (disbound), oblong folio (39.5cm x 27.5cm), [1]

Provenance: 'From J. Noel White/To H.H. Perkins Esqr/In grateful recognition of his unvarying/courtesy, & many acts of kindness in the past/Hobart 1.1.80' [?Sidney Hobart-Hampden-Mercer, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1860-193), styled Lord Hobart from 1875 to 1885].