Project update 4 - Unique and/or significant?

An interesting week wandering the shelves with purpose...We have an 1829 version of the Australian Subscription Library Catalogue. If we needed to identify the 1826 collection this would make it much easier. I'll organise to have the catalogue digitised along with the Rules and regulations for the conduct of the Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room, 1826.
I have identified some other interesting items this week including:

The Laboratory, or school of arts, 1756, a two volume work by George Smith. Along with instructions on glass making, paper marbling and gold refining there are fascinating instructions on making fireworks including rockets, firewheels, stars and illuminated letters with detailed drawings.

An amazing collection of manuscripts on the Slave Trade, dated between 1556 and 1792, collected by George Chalmers. You can read a brief biography on George Chalmers on Wikipedia. The Banks Papers includes correspondence between Chalmers from the Office of Trade and Banks in 1805. Among the documents is a series of letters related to the 1787 plan to settle some of London's "Black Poor" in Sierra Leone. This is a fascinating and little known story. Half of the prospective new settlers didn't turn up to embark on the voyage as they thought they were going to be shipped off to a convict settlement! There is information on the Black Poor and the Sierra Leone scheme on the National Archives site in the UK. The Library purchased the documents in 1880.