Gold Rush

  • My adventures on the Australian goldfields

    # 47487

    CRAIG, W.

    My adventures on the Australian goldfields

    London : Cassell and Company, 1903. Octavo, illustrated cloth (edges rubbed, a few light stains), advertisements to endpapers, pp. x; 344; 16 (publisher’s catalogue), a few spots of foxing. Craig’s eye-witness account of the Eureka rebellion, including personal reminiscences about activist miner Peter Lalor, whom Craig emigrated to Victoria with from Dublin in 1852.

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  • The history of New South Wales; with an account of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania, New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and other Australian Settlements.

    # 47412

    FLANAGAN, Roderick (1828 - 1862)

    The history of New South Wales; with an account of Van Diemen’s Land [Tasmania, New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and other Australian Settlements.

    Comprising a complete view of the progress and prospects of gold mining in Australia. London : Sampson Low, 1862. Two volumes, octavo, blind embossed red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (rebacked, preserving original spines, repairs to head and foot of spines and along the hinges and joints), contemporary owner’s name to title page, …

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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

    # 47469

    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

    # 47287

    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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  • The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by "Garryowen" (Facsimile edition)

    # 47119

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

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

    Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. [Melbourne : Heritage editions, 1976]. Facsimile edition. Three volumes, quarto, gilt-lettered rexine, pp. x; [iv]; 1000; 120; numerous lithographed illustrations, the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good set. Includes : The Chronicles of early melbourne. Biographical notes by Michael Cannon. Descriptive …

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

    # 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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  • The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by "Garryowen"

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

    # 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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  • 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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