Gold Rush

# 16336

[READE, Charles 1814-1884]

[GOLD RUSH] Never too late to mend!

Part Ist. The Grove Farm, at Farnborough … The Emigrant. Part 2 Mr Merton’s Cottage. Part 3. The Log Hut in Australia … Tom Robinson, a Ticket-of-Leave man … Black Jem and Red Ned, Bushrangers … The Inundation in the Wilds of Australia and the Discovery of Gold … Part 4. Bar Parlour, at the …

# 16319

[GILL, S.T.]

The Melbourne Rose. Part II.

London : Joseph, Myers & Co., 1862 (printed in Hamburg by C. Adler’s Printing Establishment). Chromolithographed and engraved folding card in the shape of a rose, in the original gilt-printed envelope honouring Burke and Wills; fine. A significant and very rare Melbourne publication of the gold rush era, with engravings after those of S.T. Gill …

# 15985

ARBUCKLE BROS.

Trade card with map of Australia and illustrated cartouches, 1889

New York : Arbuckle Bros., [copyright 1889]. Trade card, 68 x 138 mm, recto with chromolithographed design incorporating map of australia and images of kangaroo, black swan, gold miner and sheep; verso with information about Arbuckle Bros’ coffee; in very good condition. The map lists some places which today may seem obscure, but which around …

# 15975

Gympie Agricultural, Mining and Pastoral Society

[QUEENSLAND; GOLD MINING] Gympie Agricultural, Mining and Pastoral Society. Exhibition held at Gympie, 1894. First Prize.

Section 12, Class 450, No. 1028. Awarded to B.H. Bennetts for Ores in all their rarity … [Gympie] : Gympie Miner, 1894. Lithograph printed card with decorative border, 72 x 115 mm; entries in manuscript; in very good condition. The prize awardee was manager of the Wilmot Gold Mine at Gympie.

# 16007

PETERMANN, August (1822-1878)

[GOLD RUSH] Géographie et statistique de la colonie de Victoria, dans l’Australie méridionale.

pp 147-159 in: Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, de la Géographie, de l’Histoire et de l’Archéologie. 6e. séries, 2e. année, Novembre 1856. Paris : Arthus Bertrand, 1856. Octavo, original printed wrappers; pp 129-256, folding map of Australia Felix by Malte-Brun (with offsetting); pages mostly uncut; scattered foxing, a good copy. Translated into French from the German of …

# 15695

Photographer unknown.

Gold digger and Aborigine, Port Darwin, September 1875

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 67 mm, no photographer’s imprint; verso with a contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Costume of the diggers in P.D. All the gentlemen dress just like they do in Melbourne. Mr. Solomon’, and dated in pencil in the same hand ‘September 19th 1875’; the albumen print has lost some contrast …

# 14664

A visit to Australia and its gold regions

London : Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1856. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (browned), inscriptions to endpapers, folding map printed in colour, pp. 202, [4 – catalogue], illustrated. 

# 14171

COOK, Eliza and RUSSELL, Henry

The English Emigrant

London, Musical Bouquet. Company, c. 1855. Folio, sheet music, 6 pp. disbound,  a couple of short edge tears, lithograph illustration on front panel (probably by Alfred Ashley) of the emigrant lamenting at his departure from home, insert illustrations of shearing a sheep and mining for gold in his new adopted country. Henry Russell (1812-1900) and …

# 13940

RICHARDS, Thomas

New South Wales in 1881 :

Being a brief statistical and descriptive account of the colony up to the end of the year, extracted chiefly from official records. Sydney : Thomas Richards, 1882. Second issue. Octavo, printed blue wrappers (chipped), pp. v; 144; 19 (advertisements), folding tables and map. 

# 13922

UNKNOWN.

Social life and manners in Australia. Being the notes of eight years’ experience by a resident

London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. Octavo, half-crushed morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, pp. ix; 209, bound with the half-title. A scarce account of the Victorian gold rush by an author whose identity is in doubt. Ferguson attributes authorship to Mrs Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye, while Wantrup favours Mrs A. C. White. A pencilled …

# 12518

NEW SOUTH WALES. SURVEYOR-GENERAL.

Surveyors’ pocket-book

: articles and tables supplementing the information contained in the standard books on surveying. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Govt. Printer, 1886. Squarre duodecimo, original limp red morocco with gilt lettering to front (a little scuffed, small tear at front top edge and stain at tail of spine), inner covers lightly foxed, 62 pp, illustrated with [8] …

# 11337

[MELBOURNE; GOLD]. Casella Illustrated Family Paper. Vol. I, No. 14. London, Saturday, April 1, 1854

Folio, pp. 8, central fold. Includes the article 'Melbourne, Port Phillip', over two pages with four wood engravings, which detail the booming colonial city and the gold rush that funded it. 

# 11886

JONES, Jack

Memories of Golden Gate, North Queensland

[s.l. : s.n., 197-]. Second edition, revised and enlarged, of “Gold by the Ton” (1970). Quarto, original cloth backed pictorial limp wrappers, 16 pp, line illustrations, map, a good copy. “Pupils of Golden Gate School, years 1896-1903” (5 pp) inserted.

# 8288

Special correspondent of "Engineering".

Mount Morgan : the field and machinery

Rockhampton : [s.n.], 1892. Octavo, original printed green wrappers (lightly marked, upper wrapper with a few nicks, lower wrapper with tear at upper edge), 15 pp, paper browned, but a good copy. Ferguson, 9449.

# 5403

ALEXANDER, Fred

Moving frontiers : an American theme and its application to Australian history [Presentation copy]

[Carlton, Vic.] : Melbourne University Press, 1947. First edition. Octavo, red cloth (boards marked) in dustjacket (faded and lightly marked), presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper 'R.G. Casey [diplomat and future Governor-General of Australia], with the writer's compliments, June '47', frontispiece portrait of American historian Frederick Jackson Turner, 48 pp, a good copy. …

# 5262

MENSCH, G.

[GOLD MINING] Die Goldgräber ; oder in den Goldminen und unter den Buschkleppern

und Wilden Australiens : Natur- und Culturbilder aus dem fünften Weltheil. Leipzig : F.M. Gebhardt's Verlag, [1878?]. First edition. Octavo, publisher's pictorial boards (corners bumped) with red cloth spine, pp 276, [4] colour plates, scattered foxing, a sound copy. Text in German Fraktur. Based on the writer's experiences on the Central Victorian goldfields, with accounts …

# 3339

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 …

# 1730

PECH, Émile

[CHILDREN’S] Un oncle d’Australie

Paris : Ancienne Libraire Furne, Boivin &​ Cie, 3 & 5 rue Palatine, [c 1890]. Quarto, pictorial gilt red cloth (rubbed), spine with gilt decoration (faded, tail bumped), all edges gilt, 286 pp, illustrated with 73 gravures in the text. A very good copy. A French children's story in which much of the story is …

# 1342

HUE, Fernand

[CHILDREN’S] Aventures de deux Franca̧is et d’un chien en Australie

Paris : Lecène, Oudin et Cie, Éditeurs, 1892. “Nouvelle Édition.” Octavo, red cloth with gilt embossed armorial crest of the Ville de Paris, spine (a little tender) with gilt lettering, 142 pp (occasional spotting), illustrated; a good copy. Text in French. Muir 3655. An adventure story set on the Victorian goldfields.

# 1728

PECH, Émile

[CHILDREN’S] Un oncle d’Australie

Paris : Ancienne Librairie Furne, Combet &​ Cie, 5 rue Palatine, [c1895]. Quarto, quarter red calf over red pebbled cloth, stamped gilt 'Lycee Condorcet, Universite de France', spine with raised bands gilt lettering and decoration (worn at head and tail), marbled endpapers, 286 pp, [18] leaves of plates, 73 gravures in the text. A very …