JOSEPH BOSISTO.
Pp. 44, frontispiece portrait, index; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown;The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1970. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Keain 407. *The text is based on an address delivered to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Joseph Bosisto was a chemist who pioneered the distilling from gum leaves of eucalyptus oil - the first 100% Australian export product. He settled in South Australia in the 1840s, moved to Victoria during the Gold Rush, and later became the Mayor of Richmond and an active organiser of the Victorian Exhibitions. He sat in the Victorian Parliament for over 20 years. Item #136406
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