AUSTRALIA Tasmania View of Launceston

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you.= Print title: General View of Launceston, Tasmania Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1890 Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., New York. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17 x 26,5 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Notes: 1. Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: Tasmania offers to British settlers a climate which, more than any other in the southern hemisphere, resembles that of their native land. Hence during the dry and sultry Australian summers, numerous temporary visitors come from Victoria and New South Wales to enjoy its fresh marine breezes. As in other Australian colonies, the staple export is wool; but the island also possesses deposits of tin, gold, and silver ; another source of wealth are its excellent fruits, which grow in such abundance that the greater part rot on the ground. Tasmania, says Trollope, should prepare jams for the rest of the world. The island contains only two large towns, and these have been founded at the northern and southern extremities of the depression connecting the two fjords that penetrate farthest inland. Both cities are also connected by a railway, and by a splendid highway, constructed by convict labour. Launceston, the northern city, is the chief commercial centre, and already a more important place than the Cornish town from which it takes its name. With its outer port of Georgetown, situated at the entrance of the fjord on Bass Strait, it monopolises nearly all the trade of Tasmania with Melbourne, from which it is distant only a day's voyage by steam. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998. Five-star service.

Price: 18.7 USD

Location: Manassas, Virginia

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