Sea and river-side rambles in Victoria.

Stock ID 8744 Sea and river-side rambles in Victoria. Samuel Hannaford.

Geelong: Heath and Cordell, 1860. Octavo, text illustrations. Publisher's printed stiff card, upper cover detached, stain on title page, scarce.

Printed in Geelong, an early printing. Geelong was gazetted as a town in 1838.

Samuel Hannaford (1828-1874) arrived in Melbourne in 1853 and worked as a bank teller in Warrnambool (1855-1856) and Geelong (1856-1863) then moved to Tasmania in 1863. He was editor of the Victorian Agricultural and Horticultural Gazette during his time in Geelong, and later editor of the Launceston Times (1863-1868), moving to Hobart from 1868. He wrote extensively on botany and agriculture, and collected algae at Tamar Heads for William Henry Harvey, the greatest phycologist of the nineteenth century and author of the monumental Phycologia Australica 1858-1863.

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