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EXTREMELY RARE! EXCELLENT Cond - with just some light foxing to a few pages, but basically the book if fantastic! 1st Ed, Printed 15 months after the exhibition in 1881 with Gold Gilt edges all around & Leather Binding, 3 Maps, 1154 pp - see all photos, and feel free to ask for more info, or more photos as we already have another 20 photos that we can't upload because of eBay limits to numbers of photos. The Official Record of the Sydney International Exhibiton 1879 - EXTREMELY RARE The Official Record of the Sydney International Exhibiton 1879 - EXTREMELY RARE EXTREMELY RARE! EXCELLENT Cond - with just some light foxing to a few pages, but basically the book if fantastic! 1st Ed, Thomas Richards, Government Printer, Printed in 1881 ( approx 15 months after the exhibition had closed) with Gold Gilt edges all around & Leather Binding, 3 Maps, 1154 pp - see all photos, and feel free to ask for more info, or more photos as we already have another 20 photos that we can't upload because of eBay limits to numbers of photos. Provenance: this book has been in my family for the past 65 years when it was bought as a VERY EXPENSIVE present for my brother who had just passed his university entrance exams! It was bought from a 2nd hand book shop in either Military Rd, or Spit Rd, in Cremorne in 1959. My brother thinks the shop belonged to an A.J. Laws. My grandmother who bought the book was a relatively wealthy artist named Joan Kingsley-Stack, and her father was a very well known "Early Australian" artist called Donald Gregor Grant Commons (So the family at that time, had the money to spend on extravagent presents!) Here is your chance to get a piece of early (European) Australian history! The National Library of Australia has a copy, and so does The National Gallery of Victoria (their copy is not in as excellent cond. as ours!) In late 1877, the Agricultural Society of New South Wales discussed the possibility of hosting an international exhibition in Sydney. Jules Joubert proposed importing the goods from the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1878 as a basis of the exhibition. On 31 December 1878, the Royal Commission for the Sydney International Exhibition was established headed by Lord Augustus Loftus. A site of 35 acres (14 ha) on the high ground of the Inner Domain along Macquarie Street was chosen for the exhibition. James Johnstone Barnet designed a massive building called the Garden Palace. The nave of the building measured 800 x 60 feet and the transept ran for 500 feet. A large dome 100 feet in diameter rose 90 feet above the building. The builder, John Young, finished the building in just eight months at a cost of £191,800. International response grew so rapidly that in June 1879, construction began on two large machinery halls and an art gallery. Four steam tram motors were imported to Sydney and tracks laid from the Redfern railway station to the site. Intended as a temporary transport installation, this became the genesis of a larger tram network and probably the exhibition's most lasting legacy. There were 23 nations represented at the Exhibition. Africa: Cape Colony; America: Canada, United States; Asia: Ceylon, India, Japan, British Malaya, Singapore, Straits Settlement; Europe: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland; Oceania: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and from the Australian continent, the colony of New South Wales, Colony of Queensland, Colony of South Australia, Colony of Tasmania, and the Colony of Victoria. There were 9,345 exhibitors providing about 14,000 exhibits. Official records cite that between 19,853 and 24,000 visitors attended the Exhibition on the opening day of 17 September 1879, and over 1.1 million people visited during its seven months of operation . Despite exceeding the predicted cost by almost four times, the Exhibition was deemed a resounding success. If you are curious about our other eclectic collection of books then please click HERE! The book in the scan is the EXACT one you will receive! . WATERPROOF & bubble wrapped and boxed and FULLY insured and tracked postage is $57.50 to anywhere in Australia Get images that make Supersized seem small. Showcase your items with Auctiva's Listing Templates! THE simple solution for eBay sellers. Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter