Howe, George (1769-1821) 'New South Wales Pocket Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1820.' (Sydney) 119p, rebound with bookplate of Mannie Lesnie. Extremely scarce. This almanac contains information on many topics such as the public holidays for the year, tide table, moon phases, a chronology of English Sovereigns as well as the reigning families of Europe, distances from township to township, persons in the Civil Establishment and the Military Establishment, as well as details on the rates of labourers' wages, and the costs of various offices. The two main features are. The 'Chronology of Remarkable Occurrences'. This lists world events from 1715 through to 1818, and is useful for putting things in a world context. The 'Chronology of Local Occurrences' starts at 1770, and continues through to 1819 listing events that occurred in New South Wales it covers everything from shipwrecks, floods and executions to openings of orphanages, to when Liberty Plains was named, and when coal was discovered at Port Stephens. Ferguson 795