The programme for the heady celebrations of May 6-16 , 1901 , marking the opening of the first parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia , during the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York was referred to this blog . It was in a most interesting booklets and ephemera short list from Gaston Renard Fine and Rare Books ,Melbourne . Consisting of 44pp, with maps , and illustrated by Norman Lindsay , listed for $120 .
A more sober occasion , another Gaston Renard oddity , was celebrated in the following item , $85, a July 27, 1846 Van Diemen's Land Total Abstinence Society pledge , signed in the name J. Marston Crouch , of Brisbane Street, Hobart .
