Gold Rush
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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. …