Gold Rush

# 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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# 45138

[ALEXANDER, Selig]

Deed of conveyance between Selig Alexander and Charles Williams, relating to a land allotment in Sandridge (Port Melbourne), November 1857.

Manuscript on parchment, folio bifolium (470 x 320 mm), [3] pages, written in a fine clerical hand, dated 18 November 1857 and recording the conveyance of part of Allotment 3, Section 9 in the Parish of South Melbourne at Sandridge (on Stoke Street in what is now Port Melbourne), from Selig Alexander, merchant, of the …

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# 44598

[SIMPSON, John] COWTAN & BLAND

[WESTERN DISTRICT, VICTORIA] Entire letter written by John Simpson of Cowtan & Bland, Belfast (Port Fairy), addressed to James Greig of Glen Ronald Station near Wickliffe. 2 April 1859.

Manuscript in ink, 1 page, written on the first side of a quarto bifolium of blue paper; headed ‘Belfast, 2 April 1859’, the letter is addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald’, and is signed at the foot ‘Truly yours, Cowtan & Bland’; front panel addressed to ‘Mr. James Greig, Glen Ronald by Wycliffe [i.e. …

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# 44613

HAIGH, Edward

Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria.

[1861-1862]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, flat yellow mount 83 x 165 mm; verso with printed label ’40. Gold washing, at the Ovens, Victoria. Ed. Haigh, Photo.’, and below this in manuscript the monogram and sequence number of the original owner ‘MAH. 72’; both prints, as well as the mount, …

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# 44639

COUNIHAN, Noel et al.

Eureka 1854 – 1954 : a folio of lino-cuts

Melbourne : Popular Print Art Group, 1954. Quarto, lettered paper portfolio (a little edge-worn, the tipped-on Noel Counihan linocut on the front panel in fine condition), four sheets letterpress and fourteen original linocuts of the Eureka Rebellion by Ray Wenban, Noel Counihan, Pat O’Connor, Peter Miller, Ailsa O’Connor, Len Gale, Ernie McFarlane, Maurice Carter, Naomi …

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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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# 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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# 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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