Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.- Royal Charter, Sanctioned by the Queen...for the India and Australia Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, ink inscription "With the compliments of R. Montgomery Martin" to head of first f. (trimmed with loss to letters), first f. with contemporary ink notes to margins, a few tiny tears to margins, light soiling to first and final leaves, first f. loose, disbound, [1847] § Royal Charter of Incorporation...for the India and Australia Mail Steam Packet Company, stab-holes to inner margin, unbound, Offices for the Company, [1847], 8vo (2)*** Robert Montgomery Martin (c.1801-1868), Anglo-Irish author, civil servant and first Colonial Treasurer of Hong Kong (1844-45). Martin is listed on the first leaf of the first mentioned among the individuals petitioning for the Royal charter.