James Ross: 'The Hobart Town Almanack for the Year MDCCCXXIX' (Hobart Town, 1829). 165pp with six copper plate engravings including 'Macquarie Street Hobart Town', the plate of ship's signals being hand coloured. The first issue of the almanacs by James Ross. A presentation copy from Thomas Scott, the Deputy Surveyor General (appointed by Lachlan Macquarie) to his father in Scotland. From the collection of Henry L. White, with his bookplate. Ferguson 1272