Search Results: GOLD & MINING from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Melbourne: Government Printer, 1866. Second edition. Otherwise very good condition. International exposition in London held just ten years after the discovery and beginning of the Australian gold rush. The introduction nicely summarizes the increased presence of the Australian colonies: "In 1851 the Australasian colonies were but poorly represented, although a few made some efforts to put in an appearance. ... in 1862, the Australian colonies exhibit one of the most extensive and finest collections of the whole group. .. New South Wales has a beautifully arranged collection of its gold products from all the principal fields in the several shapes of nuggets, quartz, grain gold, washing stuff, coin from the Sydney mint, &c. ... Victoria has gone to great expense ... one of the most striking objects is a gilded obelisk representing the actual amount of gold found in the colony since 1851, about 800 tons or L103,000,000 sterling.:" Also information on wine, with wine coming from South Australia; 4… Read More

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Gold rush stories 'of the Australians who followed gold to California and of the Australians and Americans who reversed the direction of the California rush'. 8vo, 318pp with 14 pages of photographs, black/brown cloth with gilt title on spine.Very nice copy in clipped dj. Dj good - one tear at front fold.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. Hardcover. Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Pictures of the Gold Region; and Experiences of Mexican Travel. Two volumes in one, complete. Sml 8vo, Vol. I: 188pp; Vol. II: iv, pp 189 - 360, Appendix, all edges marbled. One half tan morocco and green boards, with gilt title at spine, on black label. Spine slt rubbed, lower label slt chipped, but legible. Internally, signature at ffep, a handwritten admonishment against stealing the volume, some slt fox spotting, o/w very good.

Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1919. Commonwealth of Australia Advisory Council of Science and Industry, Bulletin No. 16. In the Introduction, F. L. Stillwell sates that the bulletin "endeavours to deal fairly completely with the gold shoots". Contents include: The Quartz Reefs, Formation of Quartz Reefs, Relation of Faulting to the Reefs, General Survey of the Auriferous Reefs, Detailed Occurrence of Gold, Causes of Localization of Gold, Summary. With 14 b&w plates, with large folding b&w plan of Bendigo Gold Field. Blue printed paper wraps, title in black, ads rear cover, staple bound. With stamp, University College of Wales, front cover and title page. Slt vertical crease to cover, first few pages, o/w very good.

New York: School of Mines Quarterly, 1881. Very good overall. Reprinted from The School of Mines Quarterly. Author John Strong Newberry wrote this paper while Chair of geology and paleontology in the School of Mines, Columbia College (now Columbia University). The paper discusses the geological placement of gold. At Columbia, Newberry created a museum of over 100,000 specimens, principally collected by himself, which served to illustrate his lectures in paleontology and economic geology. At that time, it contained the best representations of the mineral resources of the United States to be found anywhere, as well as many unique and remarkable fossils. (Wikipedia). 14 pp, original blue paper wrappers, sunned on front, slight water mark on back cover. Cover slightly chipped. 'Prof. W. P. Trowbridge' inscribed in pen on front cover. Trowbridge was a professor of civil engineering, one of the most important in the field of bridge building, including the cantilever bridge for the Niagara Rapids. OCLC… Read More

1897. Share certificate number R128338 for 100 shares of the Wyoming gold field. The buyer was Oppenheimer & Co.; the certificate is dated November 14, 1958. Signed by the secretary and vice president of the mining company and registered at Reno, Nevada. 10 x 6 1/2", printed in black on green stock. Very good.

Paris: Lemaire & Dupont, 1895. Second revised. Hardcover. Very good condition. An important work in French on gold and gold mining in South Africa, written shortly following the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in 1886, a profound transition for South Africa from farming to becoming the largest gold producer in the world. Part Three of the volume pertains to the various gold fields, including: Lydenburg, de Kaap, Komati, Witwatersrand, Klerksforp, Malmani, Zoutpansberg, the Murchison Range, and more. 8vo, xxiii, 357pp, 6 color folding maps. Ex library, with bookplate inside front board, cancellation stamps verso of title page. Quarter brown cloth with printed boards; title printed in red and black at front board, no title at spine. The cover has date of 1895 printed, while title page has date of 1890. Cloth at spine marked at lower half; boards a bit rubbed & marked. Internally, very good condition. OCLC: 422300168.

Camden: Privately Printed: The Haddon Craftsmen, 1941. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Limited edition of 1,250. 4to, color frontispiece, 28pp, 2 color plates. Illustrated with color wood cuts by Paul Honore, with introductory note by Richard Ellis. Tan burlap covers with title in white at orange label at front cover. Original glassine wrapper, chipped. Internally, bright and clean.

187_?. Very good overall. Part of a series called Ten Australian Views; this is card number 1 of only three cards in the series which relate to gold. 11.8 x 17.4 cm chromolithograph card, showing two gold miners returning to camp and celebrating their good luck. Two male figures, one with a pick over his shoulder, and waving his hat in jubilation, and the other with his gold pan resting on top of his head, approach a miner's cabin and announcing their good fortune to a woman bending over a laundry bucket and a man leaning out of the doorway of the cabin. In the background are scenes of miners at work against a bright blue sky. The number one is printed at lower left; the title at the center below the image. Colors are bright and fresh; one small mark at upper right hand corner; does not affect image.

Madrid: Banco De La Republica, Bogota. Hardcover. Book condition: Very Good+. Pages clean and bright, in pristine condition. Light wear to board edges around spine. Dust jacket Condition: Poor. Rubbed and chipped, with loss to spine.. A survey of Pre-Columbian, indigenous Goldsmithing that took place in what is now the nation of Colombia. Based on the collections in the Museum of the Bank of the Republic of Colombia. Volume II ONLY, 4to, 298 illustrated plates from photographs. Original beige cloth with brown lettering & dust jacket.

Cambridge: MIles and Dillingham, 1862. Hardcover. Very good condition. Scarce volume, written by a forty niner whose trip from Boston to California took nearly six months; he spent 12 years at his trade and includes instructions and encouragement to novice miners. 12mo, 108pp, appendix. Dark brown gilt stamped cloth, title in gilt at front cover, no title at spine. Slt chipped outer corners front cover; internally, very good. Cowan p.475; Graff 3211; Howes P121; Kurutz 484; Rocq 15995; Sabin 59140; Streeter 2876; Wheat Books 154.

1869. Paperback. Very good condition. Part of a series of articles "The Gold fields of Australia" in a 16pp, 8vo weekly magazine, The Home Circle magazine. Depicting countryside with cattle in the foreground, city in the distance, by an unidentified artist. The view corresponds with the leading article of the issue. 8vo, pp 129 - 144, b&w ills. Unusual English weekly magazine, No. 165 - Vol. VII. Not found on Trove.