Author: SELFE, NORMAN.
Title: Sydney: Past, Present and Possible. An Address to the Australian Historical Society on November 27th, 1906.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 24, original stiff stapled printed wrapper, notes and underlined from previous owner, a good copy. Scarce. (Sydney, n.p. 1908). Norman Selfe (1839-1911) was an engineer, and promotor of technical education.inventor . In 1908-09 he served as one of 11 expert commissioners to the Royal Commission for the improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs. Selfe's proposals included an overhead railway station at Circular Quay and major landscaping works at Belmore park opposite Central railway Station. Both of these visions were later realised but not in his lifetime.

Keywords: Australia local history New South Wales Sydney