Mansfield, Ralph 'Australian Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1832' (Sydney 1831), 270 pp with fold out of Telegraph Signals but lacking the Flagstaff Signals plate. Ferguson 1506. Inside front cover bears the ownership inscription of 'Hovenden Hely 31/6/43'. Hely (1823-1872) explorer, landowner and politician, was born at Tullamore, King's County, Ireland. As an infant he went with his family to Sydney. Educated under W. T. Cape and at The King's School, Parramatta, he worked for two years as a clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. In 1841 under the trustees he managed his father's estates near Brisbane Water and Wyong