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Walch's Tasmanian Almanac for 1894... Thirty-second year... by Walch's Almanac: - 1894

by Walch's Almanac:

Walch's Tasmanian Almanac for 1894... Thirty-second year... by Walch's Almanac: - 1894

Walch's Tasmanian Almanac for 1894... Thirty-second year...

by Walch's Almanac:

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Hobart: J. Walch & Sons. 1894. With a map of the colony showing railways and roads. 396pp, 84pp adverts with index, folding map with coloured highlights, coloured signals plate, folding coloured table (Progress of Tasmania 1816-92). Original red cloth, decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt, and with 'Presentation Copy' stamped in gilt on the upper board; spine and adjacent parts of both boards a little faded. There is a slight tide mark on the top edges but no text pages show any sign of this, although it does make a minor appearance at the head of the front free endpaper; some offsetting on the endpapers. A good to very good clean copy. 'With the publisher's compliments' slip laid onto the front endpaper, inscribed to H.L. D'Emden Esq. ***'With the publisher's compliments' slip laid onto the front endpaper, inscribed to H.L. D'Emden Esq. Henry D'Emden was later employed by the new Commonwealth government as Deputy Postmaster-General, and featured in the first important case relating to constitutional law to come before the High Court of Australia, in April 1904. Pedder v D'Emden concerned the question of whether salary receipts of federal government employees were subject to state stamp duty (on their salary), but in a broader sense it concerned the degree to which the two levels of Australian government were subject to each other's laws. Pedder was a Superintendent of Police in Tasmania, and Tasmania's case was argued by the Attorney-General, Sir Herbert Nicholls. When the case was before the Supreme Court of Tasmania, Andrew Inglis Clark had written a minority judgment, against the state government; the High Court agreed with him and found for D'Emden, and the Commonwealth. .
  • Bookseller Astrolabe Booksellers AU (AU)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher J. Walch & Sons
  • Place of Publication Hobart
  • Date Published 1894
  • Keywords 19th century, almanac, constitutional law, law, tasmania