Port Phillip shipping

THE BOOK COLLECTORS’ SOCIETY AND THE ESA SHARE INTERESTS AND MEMBERS. Peter Williams and his collection are well known, or so we thought. Peter’s talk about his early collecting interest and thus his early finds in Melbourne bookshops revealed a collection of not only great breadth, with wonderful foundation documents like the government gazettes and shipping registers, but also great and rare heights. Some of these are shown in the photographs taken by Mimmo Cozzolino.

Peter holding up the sheet music.
Peter holding up the sheet music about the first Australian subamarine.
A register of ships entering (and leaving Port Phillip Bay) for the 1850s to late nineteenth century.
A register of ships entering (and leaving Port Phillip Bay) for the 1850s to late nineteenth century.
School exercise book with shipping illustration on its cover.
School exercise book with ship and tug illustration on its cover.
A great time was had by all. Thanks to the Book Collectors and Peter.
A great time was had by all. Thanks to the Book Collectors and Peter.

 

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