Gold Rush

  • Gwlad yr aur, neu, Gydymaith yr ymfudwr Cymreig i Australia :

    # 50097

    AP HUW, D. Ap G.

    Gwlad yr aur, neu, Gydymaith yr ymfudwr Cymreig i Australia :

    yn cynwys, hanes y cyfandir australaidd, y trefedigaethau prydeinig ynddo, ac ardaloedd yr aur, eu tir, hinsawdd, masnach, cyflogau, deddfau, &c., &c.; yn nghyda lluaws o ffeithiau o ddyddordeb a phwys arbenig i’r ymfudwr. Gan D. Ap. G., Ap Huw, Feddyg. Caernarfon (Wales) : H. Humphreys, [1852]. Octavo, printed wrappers (neatly detached, chipped), folding frontispiece …

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  • [THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

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    LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    [THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862

    London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 – N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria …

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  • [GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

    # 34804

    TULLOCH, David

    [GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,

    drawn on the spot by D. Tulloch, engraved and published by Thomas Ham. Melbourne : Thomas Ham, 1852. Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial stiff paper wrappers, the upper wrapper with six vignettes of goldfields scenes by Tulloch (stained and creased with short tears, old paper reinforcement lower wrapper), title page and five tinted lithographed plates, …

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  • General description of the Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, Wiluna, Western Australia. (Prepared for the Members of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy).

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    MORTESON, G.

    General description of the Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, Wiluna, Western Australia. (Prepared for the Members of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy).

    [Wiluna, W.A.] : G. Morteson [for Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd.], [1933]. Small square quarto (245 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed paper wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring a map of Western Australia hand-drawn in black ink, with Wiluna marked in red and the names Meeka[tharra] and Laverton added later in pencil, the upper margin with typed …

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  • The Klondyke Nugget / by S. F. Cody

    # 49192

    CODY, S. F. (Samuel Franklin) (1867-1913)

    The Klondyke Nugget / by S. F. Cody

    Belfast [Ireland] : David Allen & Sons, [1898]. Chromolithographed poster, 435 x 720 mm (sight); matted for framing; in fine condition. A striking poster produced in Ireland around 1899 for S. F. Cody’s stage production The Klondyke Nugget.  ‘The Klondyke Nugget was a gory melodrama, written by and starring the Wild West showman S. F. …

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  • S.T. Gill & his audiences

    # 48806

    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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  • For Melbourne, Australia. On or before Wednesday June 25 [1856], the magnificent first class clipper ship "Sumatra"!

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    GLIDDEN & WILLIAMS

    For Melbourne, Australia. On or before Wednesday June 25 [1856], the magnificent first class clipper ship “Sumatra”!

    Josiah Dudley, Commander. The ship has been built expressly for the trade, is ventilated in the most thorough manner, and will be despatched as above … For freight or passage, apply to Glidden & Williams, no. 39 Lewis Wharf. Agents at Melbourne, Messrs. McPherson, Francis & Co. Boston, Massachusetts : Watson Pr[inter], 1856. Clipper card, 145 …

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  • Eight bells. A tale of the sea and of the cannibals of New Guinea

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    NISBET, (James) Hume (1849-1923)

    Eight bells. A tale of the sea and of the cannibals of New Guinea

    London : Ward and Downey, 1892. Third edition. Octavo, yellow back, pictorial papered boards (worn, rubbed, lacking the backstrip), advertisements to endpapers, vignette illustration by the author, pp. vi; 334; a few light marks, a little shaken, a good copy. A tale of fiction set in New Guinea, where Hume Nisbet had travelled to personally …

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  • An artist on the goldfields. The diary of Eugene von Guerard

    # 47606

    TIPPING, Marjorie

    An artist on the goldfields. The diary of Eugene von Guerard

    Melbourne : Currey O’Neil, 1982. Quarto, boards in dust jacket (light handling wear), pp. 84, illustrated, a very good copy. An advance review copy, publisher’s slip pasted on to front free endpaper, rom the library of art historian Ann Galbally, with a letter to her enclosed.  

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  • Samuel Thomas Gill : artist

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    BOWDEN, Keith Macrae

    Samuel Thomas Gill : artist

    Collaroy, [N.S.W.] : K.M. Bowden, [1971]. Quarto, dark green cloth boards in dust jacket (spine sunned, edge wear), xiv, 148 pp, illustrated, light foxing to preliminaries, a good copy. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art …

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  • Gold Mining and Milling in Western Australia

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    CHARLETON, A. G.

    Gold Mining and Milling in Western Australia

    London : E. & F. N. Spon, and New York : Spon & Chamberlain, 1903. Thick octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, worn and rubbed (particularly at corners), rebacked with original spine laid down, cloth repairs to head and foot of spine, touching a few letters, advertisements to endpapers, previous owner’s wet stamp to endpaper and title page, …

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

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

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    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.

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    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

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    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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