Gold Rush
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Gold Fields correspondence. Letter of Lieutenant Colonel Valiant. Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 18th October, 1853.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104135/2022_DSFB_4841-300x300.jpg)
# 36443
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Gold Fields correspondence. Letter of Lieutenant Colonel Valiant. Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 18th October, 1853.
Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio, 2 pp; fine. Officer commanding the Troops in Victoria, Lt. Col. Thomas Valiant’s letter advising of reinforcements for the detachment of the 40th Regiment on the Sandhurst (Bendigo) gold fields, because of the threat of disturbances by miners. These extra troops have been brought from Melbourne …
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Gold regulations. Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 21st November, 1854.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104140/2022_DSFB_4843-300x300.jpg)
# 36442
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Gold regulations. Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, by Command of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 21st November, 1854.
Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio, 2 pp; fine. Details of regulations pertaining to gold licenses, claim disputes etc., printed just prior to the Eureka Rebellion.
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![[GOLD RUSH] Gold Fields. Return to Address, Mr. Murphy. 29th June, 1852 ... ordered by the Council to be printed, 20th October, 1852.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104144/2022_DSFB_4845-300x300.jpg)
# 36441
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH] Gold Fields. Return to Address, Mr. Murphy. 29th June, 1852 … ordered by the Council to be printed, 20th October, 1852.
Melbourne : Government printer, 1852. Foolscap folio, string bound, 18 pp; fine. Returns of the names of places in Victoria where gold fields are being worked, the number of gold commissioners, the number of clerks, the number of police, government expenditure relating to the administration of the gold fields, amount of gold carried by government …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Report from the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the claims for the discovery of gold in Victoria. Together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix. Ordered by the Council to be printed, 10th March, 1854.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104149/2022_DSFB_4847-300x300.jpg)
# 36440
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH] Report from the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the claims for the discovery of gold in Victoria. Together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix. Ordered by the Council to be printed, 10th March, 1854.
Melbourne : Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio, string bound, 11 pp; fine.
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Gold Fields, together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104224/2022_DSFB_4857-300x300.jpg)
# 36435
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Gold Fields, together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix.
Ordered by the Council to be printed, 1st November, 1853. Melbourne : Government printer, 1853. Foolscap folio, string bound, 112 pp, fine. An important and substantial Government report, pre-dating the Eureka rebellion by a year, which seeks to examine the causes and extent of unrest amongst miners on the goldfields.
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![[GOLD RUSH] Minutes of evidence. Thursday, 3rd November, 1853. (Select Committee's cross-examination of Louis John Michel and other witnesses over Michel's claim for a government reward for his discovery of gold near Warrandyte in June-July 1851).](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104057/2022_DSFB_4827-300x300.jpg)
# 36450
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH] Minutes of evidence. Thursday, 3rd November, 1853. (Select Committee’s cross-examination of Louis John Michel and other witnesses over Michel’s claim for a government reward for his discovery of gold near Warrandyte in June-July 1851).
Melbourne : John Ferres, Government Printer, 1853. Foolscap folio, string bound, 22 pp; fine and complete, as issued. From the ADB: ‘Louis John Michel (1825-1904), gold discoverer, was born on 5 July 1825 at Walworth, Surrey, England, son of Louis Michel and his wife Elizabeth, née Watts; his parents were of French origin and came …
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![[GOLD RUSH] Assay of gold. Report from the Select Committee on the expediency of establishing an Assay Office, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and minutes of evidence. Ordered by the Council to be printed, 20th January, 1853.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104234/2022_DSFB_4861-300x300.jpg)
# 36433
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH] Assay of gold. Report from the Select Committee on the expediency of establishing an Assay Office, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and minutes of evidence. Ordered by the Council to be printed, 20th January, 1853.
Melbourne : Government printer, 1853. Foolscap folio, string bound, vi, 16, [3] pp; complete and clean
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![[GOLD RUSH] Report of the Royal Commission, appointed to enquire into the best method of removing the sludge from the gold fields; together with proceedings of the Commission, minutes of evidence, and appendices.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/02140102/2022_DSFB_5362.jpg)
# 33996
COLONY OF VICTORIA.
[GOLD RUSH] Report of the Royal Commission, appointed to enquire into the best method of removing the sludge from the gold fields; together with proceedings of the Commission, minutes of evidence, and appendices.
Melbourne : Government printer, 1859. Foolscap folio (340 mm), string bound, 80 pp, including a splendid large folding colour plan of the valley of Bendigo and numerous other folding tables and plans; a fine example.
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Claims for compensation. Ballaarat. Supplementary Return to Address, Mr. Grant. 7th December, 1855.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/12104229/2022_DSFB_4859-300x300.jpg)
# 36434
VICTORIA. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Claims for compensation. Ballaarat. Supplementary Return to Address, Mr. Grant. 7th December, 1855.
Laid upon the Council table by the Chief Secretary, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 25th January, 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio, 1 page; fine. This document concerns a supplementary return of claims presented to the Government for …
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# 36377
BONWICK, James; PESCOTT, E.E.
Notes of a gold digger and Gold digger’s guide
Introduction by E.E. Pescott. Melbourne : The Hawthorn Press, 1942. Edition limited to 250 signed copies, printed on Abbey Mills paper. Octavo, quarter red calf over brown cloth (edges rubbed), previous owner’s name to endpaper, occasional light foxing, spine with gold lettering, a very good copy. THP 29. Facsimile of the rare 1852 edition.
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# 15370
Tulloch & Brown’s map of the Colony of Victoria :
comprising part of New South Wales, the boundaries, counties, also seaport & inland townships, the gold fields with the latest discoveries, roads, tracks, &c. &c. Compiled from drawings in the Survey Office and correctly revised till 1857. Melbourne : Tulloch & Brown, 1857. Engraved map with original hand colouring (foxed), 550 x 860 mm, laid …
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![[LEPORELLO] Album of Sandhurst views](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/10/15100654/2021_DSFB_7533-300x300.jpg)
# 32898
Anon.
[LEPORELLO] Album of Sandhurst views
[Melbourne : Schütze, Steffens & Co., 272 Little Collins Street (but printed in Germany), c.1891]. Leporello album. Octavo, original cloth backed pictorial boards gilt (corners bumped), containing a concertina foldout with [13] panels of lithographed views (after photographs) of Sandhurst, including a four-panel panorama of the town, public buildings and churches, Alexandra Fountain and Pall …
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![[GOLD RUSH]. The Book of Adventures](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/05/13144211/2022_DSFB_2954-300x300.jpg)
# 35298
"HAWTHORNE, Alice" (WINNER, Septimus, 1827 - 1905)
[GOLD RUSH]. The Book of Adventures
Philadelphia: Charles H. Davis, 1854. First edition. Duodecimo, illustrated papered boards over cloth spine, rubbed, contemporary pencil gift inscription to endpaper, pp. 128; 16 (publisher’s catalogue) illustrated with wood-engravings; a very good copy. Children’s adventure stories, including ‘Encounters with a boa constrictor’, ‘Ascent of the Wetterhorn’, ‘Attacks of the cult-fish’, ‘The Greenland Whale fishery’ etc., …
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# 34946
ROYAL GRECIAN THEATRE (LONDON); CONQUEST, George Augustus (1837-1901)
Royal Grecian Theatre. Forget & forgive ; or, Love me, leave me not.
At head of title: On Monday, April the 8th, 1861, and during the week, the performances will commence with a New Drama, in 4 acts, by Mr. G. Conquest, partly founded on a tale by Pierce Egan, Esq., entitled … Whitechapel : Pownceby, Steam Printer, 43 Leman St., [1861]. Double-page playbill, 340 x 430 mm; lithograph …
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![[GOLD RUSH]. The Book of Adventures](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/29150429/2022_DSFB_2652-300x300.jpg)
# 34950
"HAWTHORNE, Alice" (WINNER, Septimus, 1827 - 1905)
[GOLD RUSH]. The Book of Adventures
Philadelphia: Charles H. Davis, 1855 (first published 1854). Duodecimo, blind-embossed purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine (faded), pp. 128, illustrated with wood-engravings; a very god copy. Children’s adventure stories, including ‘Encounters with a boa constrictor’, ‘Ascent of the Wetterhorn’, ‘Attacks of the cult-fish’, ‘Perils of the Sperm-Whale fishery’ etc., as well as ‘The gold-mines …
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA] Second report from the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Ballarat Outbreak Petition, together with the proceedings of the Committee and minutes of evidence.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/03/19084509/2022_DSFB_1481-300x300.jpg)
# 33997
COLONY OF VICTORIA.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA] Second report from the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Ballarat Outbreak Petition, together with the proceedings of the Committee and minutes of evidence.
Ordered by the Council to be printed, 14th March 1856. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1856. Foolscap folio (340 mm), pp iv, 3; a fine example. The Ballarat Outbreak Petition was submitted to the Legislative Council in December 1855. Its 752 signatories demanded compensation for citizens who lived in the vicinity of the Eureka …