SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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TROEDEL, Charles.
The Melbourne Album.

Published
Melbourne: Troedel, Album Office, 73 Collins Street East, n.d.[1864].
References
Ferguson 17322; Wanthrup 262; Bobins 1127.
Plates
24
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
25001-100000
Published
Melbourne: Troedel, Album Office, 73 Collins Street East, n.d.[1864].
Ref
5704

Folio, 24 hand-coloured lithographed plates printed in colours, from two stones, captioned in the lower margin, loose in original publisher's portfolio, upper cover lettered in gilt. The author was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1835 and has been a resident of Melbourne since 1860. The album comprises an elegant series of 24 views of Melbourne and surrounding districts. Coloured plates in order: 1. Sandridge, from Hobson's Bay (1863). 2. Merry Creek. (Plenty Ranges 1864) 3. Botanical Gardens (1863). 4. Collins Street (from Queen Street). 5. Queen's Wharf. (Yarra Yarra 1864) 6. View from Studley Park (1864). 7. St. Kilda, from Kenny's Bath. 8. Wentworth River Diggings, Gipps Land. 9. Dight's Mill (Yarra Yarra Falls, 1863). 10. Great Lonsdale Street East (1864). 11. Swanson Street (1863). 12. Flinders Street, from the Melbourne Railway Station. 13. Melbourne Cricket Ground (1864). 14. View on Eastern Hill, from Half Way House, Albert Street). 15. Treasury Buildings (1863). 16. Nicholson Street (Fitzroy). 17. The Lal Lal Falls, near Ballarat (1863). 18. Elizabeth Street (1864). 19. Mount Abrupt and The Grampians. 20. Bourke Street (East, 1863). 21. Sheepwash Creek, near Sandhurst (1863). 22. Fitzroy Gardens (1863). 23. View on the Upper Mitta Mitta. 24. The Eastern Market, from top of Whittington Tavern.