Gold Rush
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# 41714
ERSKINE, Captain John Elphinstone, R.N.
A short account of the late discoveries of Gold in Australia;
With notes of a visit to the Gold District. London; T. & W. Boone; 1851. First Edition. Octavo, contemporary calf-backed cloth boards, armorially stamped; pp. [ii], 102 (last blank); folding map (partially hand-coloured, a little toned) showing the location of the goldfields; (first four leaves slightly foxed; otherwise fine and clean); top edge gilt, others …
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# 44186
[HARLAND FAMILY]
[BALLARAT] Wesleyan Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead : book prize awarded to George Harland, April 1870. (With associated ephemera)
PROSSER, Mrs. (Sophie Amelia). Quality Fogg’s old ledger. London : The Religious Tract Society, [1869]. Square octavo, gilt-decorated brown cloth over boards (rubbed and marked); front free-endpaper inscribed in ink: ‘Presented to George Harland by the Primitive Methodist Sabbath School, Scotchman’s Lead, April 5th 1870’; pp. 162, [6], woodcut illustrations; occasional staining, otherwise sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An …
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# 44499
BARTHOLOMEW, J[ohn], W. HUGHES, and Sidney HALL (engravers)
Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions
A series of maps from the latest and best authorities. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, c. 1853. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, containing six hand-coloured engraved maps (five double page, and one folding) of the gold regions of Australia, a few pale stains, short tape repair to the margin of the first map, and a …
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# 44335
DAVIES, Alan (curator)
[HOLTERMANN COLLECTION; GOLD RUSH] The Greatest Wonder of the World
Sydney : SLNSW, 2013. Quarto (295 x 210 mm), wrappers lettered in gold, pp. 32, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; an as new copy. Catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the State Library of New South Wales, 23 February to 12 May 2013, curated by Alan Davies, which presented photographs from the historically important Holtermann Collection. …
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# 44555
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. From the library of Jonathan Wantrup, his book label to upper pastedown.
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# 33495
GILL, S. T. (Samuel Thomas) (1818-1880)
Diggers shipping from Melbourne / The Shipping Agents are netting handsome.
[Melbourne : James J. Blundell, between 1852 and 1855]. Illustrated letter paper, 182 x 115 mm, bifolium with lithographed letterhead reproducing one of the plates from S.T. Gill’s Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are (Melbourne : Macartney & Galbraith, August 1852); lithographed image, including captions, 90 x 90 mm; the rear blank side has a …
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# 16379
SANDS AND KENNY
The Victoria gold ready reckoner
Carefully revised. Commencing at £3 and terminating at £4. 5s 9d per ounce. Melbourne: Sands and Kenny, 1857. Sextodecimo, cloth bound blind-embossed boards with gilt lettering to upper board, 218 pp, one gathering with soiling and wear from use, most liking during mining activities, advertisement endpapers, charming contemporary ownership inscription of a gold miner ‘A. …
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# 24975
[HAMILTON, Mrs.]; [DEUCHAR, John, Mrs.]
A Nugget of Gold from Australia!!! presented to Mrs John Deuchar by Mrs Hamilton on 12th Aug. 1867, New Zealand.
Manuscript note in brown ink on a small scrap of paper, 50 x 60 mm, laid down on later card backing; old fold lines (the gold nugget was originally enclosed inside the note), a small perforation and two short edge tears, resulting in the loss of a couple of letters, else complete; [together with] the …
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# 43886
SANDS & McDOUGALL
The Victoria gold ready reckoner,
carefully revised. Commencing at £3 and terminating at £4. 5s 9d per ounce. Melbourne: Sands and McDougall, 1878. Fifth edition. Sextodecimo (110 x 73 mm), original blind-embossed brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering to upper board (boards rubbed, spine slightly rolled and ends a little frayed); front pastedown with early ownership inscription of ‘A. …
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# 43897
LA TROBE, Charles Joseph; LONSDALE, William [HEPBURN, Robert]
[MELBOURNE] Town Lot purchase document for land in present-day Carlton, with signature and seal of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe, countersigned by William Lonsdale. 16 May, 1853.
[Melbourne : Government of the Colony of Victoria]. Pro forma document printed on vellum, 340 x 430 mm, with manuscript entries recording the purchase by Robert Hepburn for £270 of a Town Lot measuring one rood (1/4 acre) at the corner of Queensberry Street and Bouverie Street (now Carlton), in the County of Bourke, Parish of …
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# 44065
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
Stereoscopic view of scenery at Mount Macedon, Victoria, circa 1862.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 70 x 72 mm, on original card mount 83 x 173 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Jones’s Photographs of Australian Sceneries’, and with a fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Scenery at Mount Macedon’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in very good condition; …
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# 44064
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
Stereoscopic view of the Devil’s Glen Falls on the Campaspe River, Victoria, circa 1862.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 70 x 72 mm, on original card mount 83 x 173 mm; recto of mount imprinted ‘Jones’s Photographs of Australian Sceneries’, and with a fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘On the Campaspe / View of Devil’s Glen Falls’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints …
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# 44033
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, light handling marks, but 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 …
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# 30358
Anon.
In Memory of John Dowel Whittle, who was drowned off Cape Otway (Bass St.), N.W. 10 miles, 7 a.m., 29th July, 1852, aged 23 years.
[Melbourne, s.n., 1852]. Broadside, 210 x 150 mm, printed on one side only, text set within decorative border surrounding the heading and Psalm LXIX, and with a fully contemporary annotation at top left, ‘P. & O. S. “Chusan” 1st arrival at Port Phillip’; in fine condition, mounted on card and housed in a modern frame with …
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# 41965
JONES, John H. (1817?-1872)
Stereoscopic view of Castlemaine, Victorian goldfields, 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 with contemporary manuscript caption in ink to bottom margin: ‘Castlemaine’; verso with pencilled name of the original owner ‘McMillan’; both prints are in good condition; …
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# 42240
PATERSON BROS.
Studio portrait of Signor Battista Antonio Borsa, brewery and guesthouse owner and prominent member of the Swiss-Italian community in the Daylesford area, Victorian goldfields. Melbourne, 1870.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mount); bottom margin with studio wet stamp of ‘Paterson, 8 Bourke St. E., Melb.’; verso inscribed in pencil by the sitter: ‘Presented to Wm. Jervis by Signor Borsa Antonio, Bellinzona, Switzerland. Sepr. 25th 1870’; a very strong print in excellent condition, the mount with …