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y separately published work icon Descriptive Australia and Federal Guide. Special Edition. Useful as a Work of Reference to Tourists, Travellers, Business Men, Hotel Keepers, and the Public Generally. There Will Be Found, as the Result of a Great Deal of Research —Condensed Data of Australia, Culled for Reference. A Graphic Outline of Adelaide. A Brief History of South Australia, the Other Colonies, and Tasmania. A Guide to All the Inland Towns in Australia and Tasmania, with Mode of Transit and (when Obtainable) Population. Number of Manufactories in Each Colony. Imports, Exports, Shipping, Business, and Biographical Notes, Making an Heirloom with Leaves for the Ancestral Trees Of the Future. single work   prose   travel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1890... 1890 Descriptive Australia and Federal Guide. Special Edition. Useful as a Work of Reference to Tourists, Travellers, Business Men, Hotel Keepers, and the Public Generally. There Will Be Found, as the Result of a Great Deal of Research —Condensed Data of Australia, Culled for Reference. A Graphic Outline of Adelaide. A Brief History of South Australia, the Other Colonies, and Tasmania. A Guide to All the Inland Towns in Australia and Tasmania, with Mode of Transit and (when Obtainable) Population. Number of Manufactories in Each Colony. Imports, Exports, Shipping, Business, and Biographical Notes, Making an Heirloom with Leaves for the Ancestral Trees Of the Future.
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  • Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing

    James Smillie’s short pamphlet Descriptive Australia and Federal Guide is a special edition travel guide. It was designed for all classes of traveler, serving as a compact guide of Australia and its colonies for tourists, businessmen, and the general public. It included a summary of Australia, statistics from 1887-8 and information about the railways. It provided accounts of South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, noting towns and places, the manufactories in each colony, as well as imports, exports and shipping information. The work was published by Smillie, and the preface highlights the reliability of the information supplied, and the need for works on Australia to fill popular demand.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Vardon and Pritchard , 1890 .
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      Alternative title: Descriptive Australia and Federal Guide
      Link: 21958734Full text document Sighted: 03/06/2021
      Extent: 204 pages, [6] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports

      Holdings

      Held at: State Library of Tasmania State Library of Tasmania
      Location: Hobart Reading Room
      Local Id: TL 919.4 SMI

      Holdings

      Held at: Adelaide University Barr Smith Library
      Location: Rare Books & Manuscripts
      Local Id: 919.4 S641

      Holdings

      Held at: Flinders University of South Australia
      Location: TC Borrow Collection
      Local Id: 919.4 S641

      Holdings

      Held at: National Library of Australia
      Location: Main Reading Room
      Count: 2
      Local Id: NL 919.4 SMI

      Holdings

      Held at: Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Library
      Local Id: rga 919.4043 D449.2

      Holdings

      Held at: Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
      Local Id: DSM/980.1/S

      Holdings

      Held at: State Library of South Australia State Library of SA
      Location: Special Collections
      Local Id: 919.4 S641
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