Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 36 no. 3081 17 February 1838 of The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser est. 1803 Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser
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* Contents derived from the , 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Ex 'Marquis of Hastings' : Standard Works, single work advertisement

Advertisement for a lengthy list of books for sale including, Cook's (Capt.) Voyages Round the World and other works of biography, autobiography, and travel. Shakespeare's Dramatic Works (1 vol.), Aesop's Fables, Nights of the Round Table, and the Life and Exploits of Don Quixote. Novels include Coelebs in Search of a Wife, by Mrs Hannah More, works by Mrs Hemans [Felicia Hemans] and Mrs Hofland [Barbara Hofland]. Works for children are advertised including Original Tales for Infant Minds, Rhymes for the Nursery, Juvenile Everyday Book, Mrs Leslie and her Grandchildren [by Mrs Hamerton] and Tales for Winter Evenings. Other titles include, Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, Nights of Mess, and Other Tales [by James White], Encyclopaedia of Romance, by [the Rev. Henry] Martineau, Anecdote Library, Seymour's Comic Album, Mirror of Literature [Amusement and instruction], Sherwood Forest and Other Poems [by Robert Millhouse], Bowdler's Poems and Essays, and London Minstrel, a Collection of Songs Set to Music. Non-fiction titles include encyclopaedias and dictionaries, works on history, domestic sciences, religion, the animal and plant kingdoms, Redding on Wines, medicine, phrenology, temperance and books for the school room.

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A Compositor, single work advertisement

Advertisement, dated 14 February 1838, for a compositor for the Sydney Gazette. The advertisement is repeated on 17 February 1838.

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Theatre Royal, Sydney : Charles XII &c., single work advertisement

Advertisement for: Performance on 17 February 1838 of: 'the Historical Drama, in two Acts, entitled Charles XIIth, or, The Siege of Stralsund’, [James Robinson Planche, 1828]; and ‘to conclude with (first time at half-price) the Melo Dramatic Romance, in 3 Acts, called Melmoth the Wanderer, and Walburg, the Victim'.

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