Gold Rush
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# 42028
BATCHELDER, Benjamin Pierce
Pair of photographic portraits of a young Scottish immigrant family. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, 1866-67.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, in uniform 105 x 62 mm format (mounts); versos imprinted ‘Photographed by Batchelder, Pall Mall, Sandhurst’; rectos with fully contemporary inscriptions in ink identifying the four children by their first names, Jessie & Robert (with their father) and Willie & Mary (with their mother); both prints are in …
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# 41811
[WELLES, C. W.]
Three years wanderings around the world
By an adventurer. Illustrated with steel engravings. Hartford, Connecticut : Hurlbut, Scranton & Co., 1864. Octavo, gilt-decorated cloth (dulled), engraved title page and frontispiece, pp. 358, scattered foxing. Originally published in 1859 as ‘Three years’ wanderings of a Connecticut Yankee in South America, Australia and California : with descriptions of the several countries, manners, customs …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Australien och dess guldregioner : tillförlitliga underrättelser för utwandrare till Australien, i synnerhet med afseende på öfwerfart, ankomst, bosättning och guld-gräfning.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/19085414/2012_DSFB_4875-186x300.jpg)
# 41531
KANN, Charles Albert (1813-1866)
[GOLD RUSH] Australien och dess guldregioner : tillförlitliga underrättelser för utwandrare till Australien, i synnerhet med afseende på öfwerfart, ankomst, bosättning och guld-gräfning.
Götheborg [Sweden] : C.F. Arwidsson, [1853]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s contemporary buff boards (lightly marked) with blue cloth spine, contemporary ownership inscription dated 1853 to front pastedown, [2], v, [1], 104 pp. Text in Swedish. Ferguson, 11049a. The first Scandinavian gold digger’s guidebook. A guide book for prospective Swedish travellers to the Victorian and New …
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# 41619
WESTGARTH, William
Victoria ; late Australia Felix, Port Phillip District of New South Wales; being an historical and descriptive account of the colony and its gold mines.
With an appendix, containing the reports of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce for the last two years upon the condition and progress of the Colony. Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd and London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1853. Octavo, blind decorated boards (spine dulled, small chips to head and foot of spine), folding map frontispiece, …
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![[GOLD MINING] Three photographs documenting gold sluicing at Uralla on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, early 1890s.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5647-300x300.jpg)
# 41384
RUDD, Charles (photographer and publisher) (1849-1901)
[GOLD MINING] Three photographs documenting gold sluicing at Uralla on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, early 1890s.
Three albumen print photographs in identical 140 x 200 mm format, each with the photographer’s manuscript captions and consecutive serial numbers (999-1000-1001) in the negative; all preserved as issued, mounted on the original green backing sheets, 230 x 190 mm, imprinted in red ink, upper centre: ‘C. RUDD, VIEW SPECIALIST, 257 BOURKE STREET.’, at l.l. ‘C. …
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# 41489
KNIGHT, J. G. (John George) (1826-1892)
Narrative of the visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the Colony of Victoria, Australia.
Compiled by J. G. Knight. Melbourne : Mason, Firth and Co., 1868. Quarto (280 x 225 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over bevelled boards with gilt device, lettering and rule to upper board, lower board with same device stamped in blind (lightly marked, edges rubbed), all edges gilt, photographic frontispiece with tipped-in oval albumen print portrait …
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![[WESTERN DISTRICT; BOTANY] Dr. Daniel Curdie, pioneer colonist and naturalist : original signature on British Association for the Advancement of Science membership form, giving his address as Port Phillip, New Holland, dated 2 July 1851.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_DSFB_5355-300x300.jpg)
# 41185
CURDIE, Daniel (1810-1884)
[WESTERN DISTRICT; BOTANY] Dr. Daniel Curdie, pioneer colonist and naturalist : original signature on British Association for the Advancement of Science membership form, giving his address as Port Phillip, New Holland, dated 2 July 1851.
Manuscript in ink on section cut from printed British Association for the Advancement of Science form, 60 x 182 mm, with original full signature of ‘Daniel Curdie MD’, who also gives ‘Port Phillip, New Holland’ as his ‘usual residence’; in good condition. The following biography of Curdie was published in the Camperdown Chronicle (Vic.), 27 …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Ham’s five views of the gold fields of Mount Alexander and Ballarat, in the Colony of Victoria,](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/05/07134049/2022_DSFB_2774-300x300.jpg)
# 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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# 40490
STREETER, Edwin W.
Gold : legal regulations for the standard of gold & silver wares in different countries of the world (presentation copy)
Translated and abridged from “Die gesetzliche regelung des feingehaltes von gold- under silber-waaren, von Arthur von Studnitz,” by Mrs. Brewer. With notes and additions by Edwin W. Streeter. London : Chapman & Hall, 1877. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Fifth thousand. Octavo, full polished calf (a little scuffed), ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with …
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# 40961
PEAKE, Andrew Guy
Gardens, Orchards and Vines: The Histories of Wilson, Neilson and Townsend Families of Penola, South Australia
Adelaide : Tudor Australian Press, 2014. Quarto, cards with plastic cover, pp. 160, illustrated. New copy. ‘Traces the descendants of William Wilson (1816-1891) who emigrated with his family from Scotland on the Agincourt in 1850. He became a shepherd on sheep runs round Penola. After a trip to the Victorian goldfields, he was able to …
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# 41283
THOMAS, David
Artists of the Bendigo goldfields 1852 – 1864
Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 1989. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, lightly rubbed, pp. 32, illustrated, a couple of underlined lines.
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# 41066
McCULLOCH, Alan
Artists of the Australian gold rush (deluxe edition)
Melbourne : Lansdowne Editions, 1977. Quarto, half-leather binding over cloth covered boards, gilt-lettered title label to spine, pp. xiii; 214, illustrated, the deluxe edition, specially bound, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author.
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# 40638
CHEVALIER, Nicholas (1828-1902)
Nicholas Chevalier, colonial artist : autograph letter signed, 1879.
Manuscript in ink, recto of single octavo sheet of writing paper (180 x 115 mm), dated July 1st 1879, addressed to Mrs. Kayser, discussing the difficulty in obtaining tickets for the Royal Academy Conversazione; signed at foot ‘Yours very faithfully, N. Chevalier’; fine. Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902) is considered one of the most important artists active …
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# 40193
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …
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# 36378
BONWICK, James (1817-1906)
Notes of a gold digger, and Gold digger’s guide,
by James Bonwick. Melbourne : R. Connebee, 174 Elizabeth Street, and sold by all booksellers, 1852. Duodecimo (170 x 110 mm), finely bound without wrappers in full crushed morocco, spine in compartments with gilt-tooled raised bands and contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt; gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate to preliminary blank, frontispiece …
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# 40346
George Philip & Son
Australia
[Cover title : New Map of Australia]. London : George Philip & Son, circa 1856. Engraved map, dissected and laid on linen, 52 x 62.5 cm (image), stained, in original publisher’s folding cloth case, worn and stained, with a contemporary presentation inscription. A rare separately issued gold rush map of Australia, showing the counties in …