Gold Rush

  • S.T. Gill & his audiences

    # 46917

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    S.T. Gill & his audiences

    Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated, a fine copy. ‘Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous …

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  • Dychweliad Morgan Bach o Australia : a’i fam (Gwen o’r Gyrnos) yn methu ei adnabod.

    # 46289

    THOMAS, Isaac (of Aberdare)

    Dychweliad Morgan Bach o Australia : a’i fam (Gwen o’r Gyrnos) yn methu ei adnabod.

    [=The return of Morgan Bach from Australia, unrecognisable to his mother (Gwen o’r Gyrnos)]. [Drop title]. [s.l.] : [s.n.], [between 1850 and 1860]. Chapbook ballad. Disbound duodecimo bifolium (155 x 90 mm), printed on all four sides with woodcut vignette of a paddle-steamer at the head of the first side; at the foot of the …

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  • The Black Forest, Macedon Ranges, after bushfire. Central Victoria, circa 1862.

    # 46058

    JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)

    The Black Forest, Macedon Ranges, after bushfire. Central Victoria, circa 1862.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on original card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount imprinted Jones’s photographs of Australian Sceneries and inscribed in ink: ‘[Vi]ew at Black Forest after Bush fire’; verso inscribed in ink ‘No. 105’; the left-hand print is somewhat faded, and the mount is rubbed …

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  • Eugene von Guerard in Ballarat

    # 46431

    RICH, Margaret

    Eugene von Guerard in Ballarat

    An exhibition for the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery 5 October-2 December, 1990. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, illustrated. Includes: “Journal of an Australian gold digger by E.v.G”.  

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  • [MARITIME; CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH] De chinesiske sjöröfvarne: Reseminnen.

    # 46400

    LOVIOT, Fanny Mme.

    [MARITIME; CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH] De chinesiske sjöröfvarne: Reseminnen.

    Öfvers. från franskan af M.Wester. Gefle [Gavle], Sweden : Hjalmar  Ewerlöf, [1865]. Octavo, contemporary half morocco over pebbled red cloth (lightly rubbed, corners bumped), spine with gilt ornament and lettering (head with small amount of loss), original owner’s inscription to free-endpaper dated 1865, [4], 126 pp, a good copy. Text in Swedish. Swedish translation of …

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  • Death warrants for Samuel Gibbs, an African-American from Philadelphia, and George Thompson, of African heritage from the West Indies, both found guilty of murder in Ballarat on the Victorian goldfields. Melbourne, November 1858.

    # 44067

    [COLONY OF VICTORIA]

    Death warrants for Samuel Gibbs, an African-American from Philadelphia, and George Thompson, of African heritage from the West Indies, both found guilty of murder in Ballarat on the Victorian goldfields. Melbourne, November 1858.

    I. Death warrant for Samuel Gibbs. Pro-forma document printed on laid paper, 420 x 320 mm, with manuscript entry in a secretarial hand, dated 2 November 1858; authorised by His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Victoria, addressed to the Sheriff of the Colony of Victoria: ‘Whereas at the Circuit …

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  • The gold-finder of Australia; how he went, how he fared, and how he made his fortune.

    # 45871

    SHERER, John

    The gold-finder of Australia; how he went, how he fared, and how he made his fortune.

    Illustrated with forty-eight magnificent engravings, from authentic sketches taken in the Colony. London : Clarke, Beeton & Co., [1853]. Octavo (227 x 145 mm), contemporary blind-blocked green cloth (scattered tiny paint spots, mostly confined to the lower board and spine), gilt-lettered spine (softened at ends); front pastedown with original owner’s initials JWB, engraved title page …

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  • Traveller sleeping in a mia mia. Central or northern Victoria, circa 1862.

    # 44930

    JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)

    Traveller sleeping in a mia mia. Central or northern Victoria, circa 1862.

    Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 74 x 73 mm (arched-top format), on original card mount 83 x 175 mm; recto of mount inscribed in ink: ‘Traveller sleeping in a mia mia’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in very good condition, as is the mount. This stereoscopic photograph …

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  • Panorama of the old world and the new.

    # 44895

    PINNOCK, William

    Panorama of the old world and the new.

    Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …

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  • Swanston Street (1863)

    # 44876

    COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)

    Swanston Street (1863)

    Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.5 × 36.5 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.9 cm (outer framing line); 35.5 x 45.5 cm (trimmed sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine view looking down the main boulevard of Melbourne during the height of …

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  • Sandridge from Hobson's Bay (1863)

    # 44874

    COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)

    Sandridge from Hobson’s Bay (1863)

    Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.6 × 35.7 cm (image); 28.0 × 37.1 cm (outer framing line); 40.1 × 52.3 cm (sheet), a few spots of foxing, old repaired tear extending to the edge of the image upper right, mounted. A fine, animated view of Sandridge (now called Port Melbourne), from Troedel’s The Melbourne album …

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  • Botanical Gardens (1863)

    # 44875

    COGNE, Francois (1829–1883); TROEDEL, Charles (1836-1906)

    Botanical Gardens (1863)

    Tinted lithograph, printed on stone, 26.3 × 36.1 cm (image); 28.1 × 37.8 cm (outer framing line); 31.6 × 41.0 cm (trimmed sheet), a few spots of foxing, mounted. A fine view looking across the Yarra River and the City of Melbourne from the Botanical Gardens, taken from Troedel’s The Melbourne album (Melbourne : Charles …

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  • Deed of conveyance between Selig Alexander and Charles Williams, relating to a land allotment in Sandridge (Port Melbourne), November 1857.

    # 45138

    [ALEXANDER, Selig]

    Deed of conveyance between Selig Alexander and Charles Williams, relating to a land allotment in Sandridge (Port Melbourne), November 1857.

    Manuscript on parchment, folio bifolium (470 x 320 mm), [3] pages, written in a fine clerical hand, dated 18 November 1857 and recording the conveyance of part of Allotment 3, Section 9 in the Parish of South Melbourne at Sandridge (on Stoke Street in what is now Port Melbourne), from Selig Alexander, merchant, of the …

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  • [WESTERN DISTRICT, VICTORIA] Entire letter written by John Simpson of Cowtan & Bland, Belfast (Port Fairy), addressed to James Greig of Glen Ronald Station near Wickliffe. 2 April 1859.

    # 44598

    [SIMPSON, John] COWTAN & BLAND

    [WESTERN DISTRICT, VICTORIA] Entire letter written by John Simpson of Cowtan & Bland, Belfast (Port Fairy), addressed to James Greig of Glen Ronald Station near Wickliffe. 2 April 1859.

    Manuscript in ink, 1 page, written on the first side of a quarto bifolium of blue paper; headed ‘Belfast, 2 April 1859’, the letter is addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald’, and is signed at the foot ‘Truly yours, Cowtan & Bland’; front panel addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald by Wycliffe [i.e. …

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  • Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria.

    # 44613

    HAIGH, Edward

    Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria.

    [1861-1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with printed label ’40. Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria. Ed. Haigh, Photo.’, and below this in manuscript the monogram and sequence number of the original owner ‘MAH. 72’; both prints, as well as the mount, …

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  • Eureka 1854 – 1954 : a folio of lino-cuts

    # 44639

    COUNIHAN, Noel et al.

    Eureka 1854 – 1954 : a folio of lino-cuts

    Melbourne : Popular Print Art Group, 1954. Quarto, lettered paper portfolio (a little edge-worn, the tipped-on Noel Counihan linocut on the front panel in fine condition), four sheets letterpress and fourteen original linocuts of the Eureka Rebellion by Ray Wenban, Noel Counihan, Pat O’Connor, Peter Miller, Ailsa O’Connor, Len Gale, Ernie McFarlane, Maurice Carter, Naomi …

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