Historical information
This Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer was inherited by one of the donors, a gift from her father who was Tasmanian.
Physical description
Large hard covered book with maps, charts and tables. The cover is green linen with green leather, gilt trimmed corners and decorative spine, It includes 500 maps and diagrams in colour, with commercial statistics and gazetteer index of 105,000 names. Jan 1908.
Also inserted between the pages of the book were 2 folded sheets of waxed paper, each with carefully placed flowers pressed between them; native orchids and wattle.
Published at Carmelite House, Carmelite Road, London
Subjects
- flagstaff hill,
- warrnambool,
- shipwrecked coast,
- flagstaff hill maritime museum,
- maritime museum,
- shipwreck coast,
- flagstaff hill maritime village,
- great ocean road,
- harmsworth atlas and gazetteer,
- atlas 1908,
- maps 1908,
- gazetteer 1908,
- book 1908,
- pressed australian native flowers,
- pressed wattle,
- pressed orchid
