The Adelaide Almanack, Town and Country Directory, and Guide to South Australia for 1866
Adelaide, C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, J. Howell and W.C. Rigby, [1865].
Duodecimo, [iii], viii, 130, [ii], 114 (South Australian Directory), [iv] (index), 161 (South Australian Almanack Advertiser) pages (including endpaper advertisements) plus a rear cover advertisement.
Flush-cut cloth boards a little rubbed at the extremities, with slight wear to the head and foot of the rear hinge; bottom corner of the front cover cracked but now neatly strengthened; smudged inkmarks and a few inkspots (mainly) to the front cover; spine crinkled (it looks like the cover was detached at some stage and has been reattached inexpertly); one leaf in the first section supplied in early facsimile (pages 99/100) and one advertising leaf (pages 37/38) missing; tiny piece missing from the bottom margin of two leaves; a few minor ink marks and annotations; overall, a very good copy.
An octavo leaflet relating to alterations to postal rates, dated 14 November 1866, has been folded to fit the book and tipped in on page 115.
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