Gold Rush

# 46908

WOOD BEILBY, J.

Reasons suggestive of mining on physical principles for gold and coal. A review of the assumptions of geologists

Melbourne : Walker, May and Co., 1875. Octavo, lettered salmon wrappers, pp. 54, a clean copy. Ferguson, 6882.

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# 46874

"Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)

The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”

Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (refurbished and recoloured, expertly rebacked with new spines lettered in gilt, a pencilled note on the endpaper of the second volume reads ‘Repaired H. Green £6.6.0’), all edges gilt, endpapers replaced, bookplates of Bernard Gore Brett …

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# 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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# 46871

The illustrated journal of Australasia. Volume II. January to June 1857

Melbourne : George Slater, 1857. Octavo, contemporary colonial binding (by Detmold?) of roan, ruled and decorated in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and ornamentation, edges rubbed, a few stains, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers (marked), pp. iv; 284, engraved vignettes, musical notation, scattered foxing and small stains, a good copy. A …

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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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