Bound volume of published reports of Royal Commissions. It includes the Report of the Royal Commission on Harbour Improvements and a River and Harbour Trust ...1860; Royal Commission on Silting-Up of the Bay. 1872; Low Lands Commission. Progress Report. 1873. Folio. Half calf. Worn.
Prepared for the Melbourne Harbour Trust Resident Engineer. The 1860 Report substance is devoted to improving access for ships to central Melbourne either by a new ship canal or by dredging the River Yarra to a depth of twelve feet. The two further reports are really reviews of the outcomes achieved by the 1860 changes. Historically very important records that record the decisions that affected the developement of inner Melbourne.
Rare.