THE SHOT TOWER AND ITS BUILDER JOSEPH MOIR. HOBART 1870. Being a description of the only circular stone shot tower in the Southern Hemisphere.
Photography by J. C. S. Bowler. Pp. xiii+91, frontispiece portrait, plus numerous full page illustrations, family tree, corrigenda slip loosely inserted; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; the author, Hobart, 1980. First edition. *Joseph James Moir (1809-1874) constructed several buildings in 19th century Tasmania, the best known being the Taroona Shot Tower, the tallest (and only circular) stone shot tower in the southern hemisphere. Item #180593
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