[GOLD RUSH] L’or

Paris : Nony & Cie., 1901. First edition. Large quarto, publisher’s pictorial green cloth gilt (lightly foxed and rubbed); decorative lining papers, front endpaper with label, all edges gilt (slightly flecked); early owner’s inscription to title page; pp. 363, [4] (advertisements); illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates and line drawings in the text, contents clean and sound.

A comprehensive and superbly illustrated history of gold: in nature; in the laboratory; different means of extraction; regional studies; the uses of gold through the ages. Includes a section on the Western Australian goldfields.

The first edition is unrecorded in Australian collections; a copy of a later edition (1910) is held in the National Library of Australia.