THE AUSTRALIAN AND CALIFORNIAN GOLD DISCOVERIES, AND THEIR PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES; or, An Inquiry Into the Laws Which Determine the Value and Distribution of the Precious Metals
by Stirling, Patrick James, F.R.S.E
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New York:: Greenwood Press,, (1969). Hardcover -. Very near fine in turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spine (lettering slightly dulled), no dust jacket as issued. . Facsimile edition. "With Historical Notices of the Effects of the American Mines on European Prices in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries in a Series of Letters." Folded chart as frontispiece. A facsimile reprint of work originally published in 1853 by Oliver & Boyd. xiii, 279 pp.
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- Title
- THE AUSTRALIAN AND CALIFORNIAN GOLD DISCOVERIES, AND THEIR PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES; or, An Inquiry Into the Laws Which Determine the Value and Distribution of the Precious Metals
- Author
- Stirling, Patrick James, F.R.S.E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spine (lettering slightly dulled), no dust jacket as issued.
- Jacket Condition
- turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spine (lettering slightly dulled), no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Greenwood Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1969)
- Keywords
- australia, gold mining,
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- California;
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