Gold Rush

  • Cole's Gardening in Victoria;

    # 49997

    COLE, T. C.

    Cole’s Gardening in Victoria;

    containing full directions for the formation and general management of a good garden ; together with a comprehensive calendar for the operations of each month in the year. Melbourne : W. Fairfax and Co., 1860. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered pebbled cloth embossed in blind (spine slightly sunned and edges a little rubbed); binder’s ticket for Detmold …

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  • Studio portrait of young brothers Charles James and William Walter Stebbing. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victorian goldfields, c.1865.

    # 51432

    BATCHELDER, Benjamin Pierce

    Studio portrait of young brothers Charles James and William Walter Stebbing. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victorian goldfields, c.1865.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Batchelder, Pall Mall, Sandhurst’, and with a fully contemporary inscription in ink by the father of the sitters, Frederick Stebbing: ‘Charles James / William Walter / Our last child is called Mary, after my wife’s [name], she is just …

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  • Captain Frederick Standish, Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria: cut signature (c.1880).

    # 51626

    STANDISH, Frederick Charles (1824-1883)

    Captain Frederick Standish, Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria: cut signature (c.1880).

    Manuscript in ink, 45 x 80 mm, cut from the foot of a letter and reading ‘Very sincerely yours, Fredk. C. Standish’; mounted on a section of card cut from a nineteenth-century album leaf, the mount inscribed in the hand of Jane Emma Murphy (see below) ‘Capt. Standish, first Chief Inspector of Police in Melbourne’; …

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  • [GOLD MINING] Russell's Gold Battery on Tararu Creek, Thames Goldfields, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, 1869.

    # 51355

    MUNDY, Daniel Louis (1826-1881)

    [GOLD MINING] Russell’s Gold Battery on Tararu Creek, Thames Goldfields, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, 1869.

    Albumen print photograph, 225 x 170 mm; mounted on section of a leaf of thickish card removed from a nineteenth-century album; in fine condition. The Auckland Museum (Mundy Album, no. 2) holds a number of Mundy’s photographs of the Thames Goldfields, including another example of the view offered here, which it dates to 1869. The scene …

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

    # 51203

    "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 (edges rubbed and scuffed as usual, but a solid set), all edges gilt, joints and hinges sound, pp. xiv; 1000, numerous lithographed illustrations, occasional marginal foxing, text block cracked at final leaf of first volume, overall …

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  • Early Creswick : the first century

    # 51504

    GRAHAM, John A.

    Early Creswick : the first century

    Melbourne : Arbuckle, Waddell Pty Ltd, 1942. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth, upper hinge cracked, bookplate to endpaper, pp. 275, photographic illustrations, internally clean, a good copy, signed by 16 people who are presumably from early settler families. The section ‘prominent Creswickians’ includes details on various members of the Lindsay family, and is illustrated with photographs …

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  • History of Australia

    # 51028

    RUSDEN, G. W.

    History of Australia

    Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1897. Second edition. Three volumes, octavo, in fine presentation binding of gull polished calf, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled, lettered nd tooled in gilt, contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt, armorial stamp for Scotch College, Melbourne to upper panels, edges slightly scuffed, marbled edges and endpapers, …

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  • The Irish in Australia

    # 50728

    HOGAN, James Francis

    The Irish in Australia

    London : Ward & Downey, 1887. Octavo, lettered cloth (edges rubbed, wear to head and foot of spine), patterned endpapers, faded stamp to half-title, pp. [viii]; 348; [blank]; viii, text block slightly shaken, a good copy. Written mostly in Melbourne, Hogan’s history of the Irish population in Australia covers the history of Irish emigration to …

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  • S.T. Gill's Bendigo

    # 51058

    THOMAS, David

    S.T. Gill’s Bendigo

    Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 1st September-17th October, 1993. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Scarce.  

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  • 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

    # 40072

    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).

    # 26670

    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"!

    # 48159

    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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