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The Olive and Its Products
Lewis A. Bernays
Brisbane: James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1872.A Treatise on the Habits, Cultivation, and Propagation of the Tree; and upon the Manufacture of Oil and Other Products Therefrom. Early publication on developing an olive industry in Queensland. Lewis Adolphus Bernays (1831-1908) was the first Clerk of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and as a foundation member of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society devoted to introducing exotic species for commercial purposes wrote a number of papers on economic botany. FERGUSON 6952.
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Coffee: Its History, Cultivation, and Uses
Robert Hewitt, Jr.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872.19th century history of coffee. Brief mention of Australia’s potential as a coffee growing region, as well a global listing of tariffs on coffee, including Australian colonies. This copy signed by the author, and with the world map, A Chart of the Globe Showing the Several Places Where Coffee is or May be Produced and Where it is also used together with The Telegraph Lines in operation or contemplated for completing the Circuit of the Globe, considered the first American map on coffee.
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Aberdoniana: Footdee in the Last Century
A Lady, A Native of Aberdeen
Aberdeen: A. Brown & Co., 1872.A short account of Footdee, a historic fishing village in Aberdeen.
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Revidirte Statuten fur den Deutschen Kranken=Verein in Brisbane
Deutschen Kranken-Vereins
Brisbane: A. Cleghorn, 1872.Revised statutes for the German Health Association in Brisbane.