Gold Rush
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![[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.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_DSFB_3069-300x300.jpg)
# 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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# 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 …
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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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![[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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![[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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![[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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# 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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# 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 …