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Gold Fleet for Californis : Forty - Niners from Australia and New Zealand
by Bateson, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Sydney, Australia: Ure Smith, 1963. Maritime and gold mining history of the Australians and New Zealanders who migrated to the Californian gold fields from 1848 to 1851. CONDITION Nice production, White bds illustrated, fold out photo eps, 172 pages with 16 plate illus. Printed on nice hand made paper untrimmed, with gold metallic DJ. Name to verso of ffep, spine a little faded to DJ which also has mild surface wear. Overall a very nice copy. Overweight. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16712
- Title
- Gold Fleet for Californis : Forty - Niners from Australia and New Zealand
- Author
- Bateson, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ure Smith
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, Australia
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Gold Rush
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- BDS
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- First Edition
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- New
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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