Mansfield, Ralph: 'Australian Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1830''. Small octavo, with two folding plates of signals (one coloured), (Sydney, Ralph Mansfield, Gazette Office, for the Executors of Robert Howe, 1830.) Rebound preserving blank endpapers. Ferguson 1317. Packed full of useful and interesting information such as regulations about Tickets of Leave, advice on reviving the drowned, the early 'Observations on the Garden and Field' (pp. 107 ff.), a section on horticulture and botany specifically adapted to Australian conditions with notes for different regions. Of great importance is the early 'Memoranda of Australian Fruits and Vegetables' by Charles Fraser, the Colonial Botanist (pp. 120-4). Fraser had arrived in Sydney in April 1816 and within two months was appointed superintendent of the new Botanic Garden. He became a noted early explorer, travelling with Oxley, Bigge, visiting the Swan River with Stirling, and Allan Cunningham to Moreton Bay. Another important contribution printed for the first time here is the 'Sketch of the Geology of. the Country about the Hunter River' by Reverend Charles Wilton (pp. 124-31).The list of Shipping Arrivals and Departures in 1829 (pp.196-207) is fascinating