‎Australie‎

‎Campbell Robert Editor‎

‎Wild Australia‎

‎Sydney: Reader's Digest. 1984. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards in a very good dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with colour photographs and maps. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 432 pages A recreational guide to all national parks. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Reader's Digest hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : BIB309091

‎Gee Lionel C. E. Compiled by‎

‎Department of Mines Mining Review Half-Year Ended December 31st 1917 No 27‎

‎Adelaide: R. E. E. Rogers Government Printer. 1918. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Fair/good condition. The paper covers are marked and a little chipped. The interior is very good. Previous owner's name to title page and small annotation to front cover Report Leigh Creek Coalfield pp 34-51 to front cover. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and maps/diagrams. 82 pages . 1st Edition. Softcover. R. E. E. Rogers, Government Printer paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : BIB309094

‎Sayers Andrew and Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin and Ellis Amy; Johns Elizabeth‎

‎NEW WORLDS FROM OLD 19th Century Australian & American Landscapes‎

‎Canberra: National Gallery of Australia. Fine. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. 0500974691 . Index of works in the Exhibition Chronology of Social Cultural and Historical events in Australia USA 1770 -1901. Weight 1.6k; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 271 pages . National Gallery of Australia paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 20064 ISBN : 0500974691 9780500974698

‎Leah Day‎

‎Beautiful Bowral - A Pictorial Celebration‎

‎Bong Bong Publishing 1997. General wear to edges of jacket. Signed by the author on the minor title page. 136 pages with b/w illustrations. . SIGNED. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Bong Bong Publishing Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 023185 ISBN : 0646322249 9780646322247

‎Marion Dormer‎

‎The Bushman's Arms : Bush Inns and Hotels of Gilgandra District and the Castlereagh‎

‎Gilgandra Newspapers 2009. 96 pages with b/w illustrations. . THIRD EDITION. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Gilgandra Newspapers Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 023181 ISBN : 0959279806 9780959279801

‎Willey Keith‎

‎Australia's Heritage a History in Pictures Since 1788‎

‎Sydney: Sunshine Books. 1982. Quarto Size approx 24cm x 30.5cm. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and Plates and Drawings. 319 pages . 1st Edition. Hardback. Sunshine Books hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : BIB309038 ISBN : 0867772646 9780867772647

‎Arrowsmith John‎

‎The Maritime Portion of South Australia from the Surveys of Captn. Flinders & of Col. Light Survr. Genl.‎

‎Adelaide: Austaprint. 1978. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. A Near Fine copy. Excellent condition. Comprises a large fold-out colour map housed in blue boards with gilt to face. 1 fold out map A facsimile of the original 1838 map. . Facsimile Edition. Hardback. Austaprint hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : BIB308099

‎Litchfield Lois‎

‎Marree and the tracks beyond in black and white. Commemorating the Centenary of Marree 1883-1983‎

‎Adelaide: Published by the Author. 1983. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. 198 pages . Reprint. Hardback. Published by the Author hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : BIB109783 ISBN : 0959173900 9780959173901

‎Mary E. White‎

‎The Nature of Hidden Worlds‎

‎Sydney NSW Australia: Reed Books 1993. Jacket has two large repaired tears to rear. Crease to front free endpaper. 256 pages with colour illustrations. Animals and plants in prehistoric Australia and New Zealand. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good minus. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Reed Books Hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 005602 ISBN : 0730102750 9780730102755

‎Viking Australia‎

‎Penguin Touring Atlas of Australia 1996‎

‎Penguin Books Australia Ltd. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. Penguin Books Australia Ltd unknown‎

Ссылка продавца : GRP97013667 ISBN : 0140259902 9780140259902

‎Butler Reg‎

‎A College in the Wattles Hahndorf and its Academy‎

‎Adelaide: Published by the Author. 1989. Small Quarto Size approx 17.5cm x 24cm. Very Good copy. No dustjacket as issued. Lovely condition. Green boards with gilt to face and spine. Maps to endpapers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Includes a ltter from the author to the previous owner. 542 pages Starting in 1857 the Hahndorf Academy quickly became one of the leading schools in the colony. This book is cleverly divided into two parts - a story and a biographical record of some 700 old scholars. More than a history its a story of growth of part of South Australia. Uncommon. . 1st Edition. Hardback. Published by the Author hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : BIB193673 ISBN : 0731674634 9780731674633

‎Education Department of Western Australia‎

‎Spelling Resource Book‎

‎Pearson Canada. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. Pearson Canada unknown‎

Ссылка продавца : GRP91107440 ISBN : 0131972367 9780131972360

‎AUSTRALIA GOLD RUSH‎

‎Victoria. Mr. Wilkinson's Patent. Reply to Question put byMr. J.S. Johnston 16th May 1861 for a Copy of the Report of the Board appointed to enquire into Mr. Wilkinson's Patent for the Extraction of Gold from Quarts‎

‎Melbourne: John Ferres 1861. Folio 13 x 8 inches. Printed on blue paper. 3 FINE LITHOGRAPHED PLATES showing location and working of Mr. Wilkinson's patent quarts crushing machine. Modern brown leatherette. A report on the efficacy of Mr Wilkinson's machine in extracting gold from quarz by means of calcination and used at the Anderson's Creek diggings: "The Board have been much impressed with the importance of the investigation entrusted to them in its practical and commercial as well as its scientific bearings; and although they cannot fully endorse the sanguine convictions of the inventor they are equally unable to deny their possible correctness." page 3. Melbourne: John Ferres, 1861. hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 72lib918

‎AUSTRALIA GOLD RUSH‎

‎Victoria. Report of the Royal Commission appointed by his Excellency to Enquire into and Report upon Applications made for Authority to Mine within and under certain Reserved Lands at Ballaarat‎

‎Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer 1867. Folio 13 2/8 x 8 inches. Modern brown leatherette. An extensive report into the claims made by mining companies to prospect for gold on land previously 'reserved' for some other use near Ballaraat. "In cases where it is necessary to authorise mining operations under lands which have been for a long period dedicated to public uses and where the contingent rights of the neighbouring claimholders are not involved we are of opinion that it would be convenient and more satisfactory to demise the reserved lands than to authorise holders of miners' rights to occupy them under the 15th section of the "Mining Stature" 1865". In order to prevent future violations it is recommended that the Mining department be sent any reports showing land that has been preserved for public use in mining fields. The lands include the Cricket Reserve permission refused; the Public Park permission granted; Miners' Racecourse Reserve judgment withheld; Benevolent Asylum Reserve permission refused; Botanical Gardens Reserve applicant failed to appear; Survey Paddock Reserve applicants withdrew; Corporation Reserve applicant failed to appear; Cattle Yards Reserve permission refused; Prince of Wales Park permission granted; and Lake Wendouree already being mined by another party. Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1867. hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 72lib922

‎AUSTRALIA GOLD RUSH‎

‎Return Respecting The Gold Fields‎

‎Melbourne: John Ferres at the Government Printing Office 1851. Folio 13 x 8 inches. Printed on grey paper. Modern brown leatherette gilt. GOLD IS DISCOVERED IN VICTORIA "Whereas by Law all Mines of Gold and all Gold in its natural place of deposit within the Colony of Victoria whether on the lands of the Queen or of any of Her Majesty's subjects belong to the Crown. And whereas information has been received by the Government that Gold exists upon and in the soil of the Colony and that certain persons have commenced or are about to commence searching and digging for the same for their own use without leave or other authority from Her Majesty: Now I Charles Joseph LaTrobe Esquire the Lieutenant Governor aforesaid on behalf of Her Majesty do hereby publicly notify and declare that all persons who shall take from any lands with the said Colony and Gold Metal or Ore containing Gold . will be prosecuted both criminally and civilly as the Law allows." page 10. The above notice was issued on the 15th of August in 1851 little more than a month after gold had been discovered in Victoria. The discovery sparked a rush similar to that in California the population quadrupled in the next 3 years and Britain had enough wealth to pay off her foreign debts and fund an industrial revolution. This is an important collection of 11 Returns and Memos detailing the history of the discovery of gold in Victoria including documents that record the dates and locations of the finds the number of licenses issued the quantity and value of the finds. There are also documents recording the incidental consequences of the finds including the number of immigrants to Victoria drawn there by the gold the number of extra Government Commissioners and Police required to maintain order and details of the gold escort system that took the gold from the fields to the treasury in Melbourne. Melbourne: John Ferres, at the Government Printing Office, 1851. hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 72lib902

‎AUSTRALIA GOLD RUSH‎

‎Victoria. Gold Fields. Report from the Select Committee on the Management of the Gold Fields together with the Proceedings of the Committee and Minutes of Evidence‎

‎Melbourne: John Ferres at the Government Printing Office January 1853. Folio 13 2/8 x 8 inches. Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette gilt. A far-reaching although incomplete report of the select committee in to the management of the gold fields which examined everything from the number of officers required to maintain order at the diggings to the preservation of fresh water holes the regulation of butchers and other 'hawkers' and 'sly grog-selling'. Melbourne: John Ferres, at the Government Printing Office, January 1853. hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 72lib908

‎AUSTRALIA GOLD RUSH‎

‎Victoria. Gold Despatches‎

‎Melbourne: John Ferres at the Government Printing Office September 1852 Folio 13 x 8 inches. Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette gilt. "It is quite impossible for me to describe to your Lordship the effect which these discoveries have had upon the whole community" Lieut-Governor La Trobe to Earl Grey An important collection of papers detailing the discovery of gold in Victoria. Throughout the year La Trobe gives a very detailed and increasingly desperate account of the discoveries made at Anderson's Creek Clunes Buninyong and Ballaarat sic. He not only gives a vivid account of how the gold was found but also an analysis of the geology of the areas soil clay and ore type. His main and growing concern however is the detrimental effect of the gold discoveries on the community as a whole: "Within the last three weeks the towns of Melbourne and Geelong with their large suburbs have been in appearance almost emptied of many classes of their mail inhabitants; the streets which for a week or ten days were crowded by drays loading with the outfit for the workings are now seemingly deserted.Not only have the idlers. day labourers. shopmen artisans and mechanics of every description thrown up their employments and in most cases leaving their employers and their wives and families to take care of themselves run off to the workings but responsible tradesmen farmers clerks of every grade and not a few of the superior classes have followed" page 5-6. In the face of a complete breakdown in society La Trobe took a number of extraordinary measures: he authorised an immediate pay rise to all clerks turnkeys constabulary and mounted police as well as to messengers and surveyors; the cost of a prospector's license was increased although La Trobe would have preferred a tax to be paid on the gold found; he seconded the help of subordinate officers from his neighbouring colonies; and begged the Imperial Government for guidance and help in the form of men to police the diggings and to guard the ports. After the initial fever or "Gold Crsis" as La Trobe refers to it many of the original absconders returned to their more mundane and less lucrative lives having discovered what punishing and often disappointing work digging for gold actually was but the colony's problems were ongoing. Melbourne: John Ferres, at the Government Printing Office, September 1852 hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 72lib904

‎AUSTRALIA GOLD RUSH‎

‎Victoria. Gold Fields‎

‎Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer 1860. Folio 13 x 8 inches. Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette gilt. A detailed set of accounts showing the total amount of export duty on gold - 1500000 pounds; and the total expenditure for managing the gold fields - 460000 pounds - broken down in the minutest detail. Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1860. hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 72lib917

‎AUSTRALIA GOLD RUSH‎

‎Victoria. 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: John Ferres 1859. Folio 13 1/8 x 8 inches. Printed on blue paper. FINE FOLDING CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED MAP WITH ORIGINAL HAND COLOUR OF THE VALLEY OF BENDIGO folding leaf of profiles of slag heaps full-page profiles of Bendigo Creek Reservoir near Irish Town Bridge Golden Square Bridge and 2 of sluice gates. Modern brown leatherette gilt. An extensive report illustrated with a very fine map of Bendigo investigating how best to carry off sludge from the puddling mills at Sandhurst without interfering with the drainage of the town and the roads in the neighbourhood. "Throughout the gold field the injurious consequences o the choking up of the natural drainage channel and the want of a proper system for carrying off the sludge from the puddling mills is everywhere apparent. Even in the gullies where the ground lies relatively higher large areas may be seen of partially worked ground which have been overflowed by the sludge and rendered almost worthless. On the flats and low levels the damage is even more extensive; in many places and particularly at the junction of large gullies where the sludge has found no outlet and has consequently spread to vast mud estuaries it has covered many acres of valuable auriferous land filling up the water-dams and rendering useless the machines erected in these localities; in some instances it has risen to so great a height that the machines themselves have been totally submerged. This is the case particularly at the junction of Long ad Ironbark gullies with the Bendigo Flat where the sludge has attained a height of twelve feet above the level of the old workings" page 3-4. Alluvial gold was first discovered in the creek at Bendigo in 1851 but was soon depleted and a system of puddling the topsoil down to the bedrock was developed to get at the gold trapped within it By 1853 By1853 the alluvial gold was "increasingly hard to find and some miners turned to crushing the quartz reefs which were standing above the surface first using hand methods and then crushing machines. The miners followed the quartz reefs below the surface until in the 1890s a few shafts were nearly 1500 metres deep. Booms in quartz mining occurred in 1859 and 1871; gold production declined gradually as the mines were deepened but there was a revival during the 1890s depression and in the early 1900s production was maintained with the cyanide treatment of gold left in the earlier tailings" Bendigo Historical Society online. Melbourne: John Ferres, 1859. hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 72lib915

‎AUSTRALIA GOLD RUSH‎

‎Victoria. Gold Fields‎

‎Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer September 1853. Folio 13 x 8 inches. Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette gilt. An important report listing the number of prospecting licenses sold an increasingly long list of Officers employed to maintain order in the gold fields but also the long awaited "Regulations and Instructions for the Gold Fields. 1852". While the report outlines the duties of the Chief Commissioner his subordinates etc. it also records the duties of the "Escort for the Gold": "Most particular instructions must be given to the Officer in charge of the Escort that he never loses sight of the treasure; that the men are not allowed under any pretext to leave the immediate proximity of the horses or cart bearing it; and that at night it is deposited in the room where the Officer himself is; and that a sufficient guard is kept constantly over it. At night also the whole of the Escort should rest in the immediate vicinity of the room where the gold is; and on reaching Melbourne it is to be immediately handed over to the Colonial Treasurer; for which purpose the Escort should not reach Melbourne later than 2pm on the day fixed for arrival" page 15. Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, September 1853. hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 72lib907

‎AUSTRALIA GOLD RUSH‎

‎Victoria. Gold Fields‎

‎Melbourne: John Ferres at the Government Printing Office 1852. Folio 13 x 8 inches. Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette gilt. Detailed Returns accounts of the individual gold fields in Victoria which had by this time been whittled down to Mount Alexander and Ballaarat. Included are: a break down by month from November 1851 of the number of licenses to dig for gold issued showing a rise from about 8000 to 24500 in June of 1852; a list of the Gold Commissioners by name gold field salary etc; the number of police and soldiers employed to maintain order in the fields; the cost of the gold escort; the incidental costs to the public service of the gold crisis; the amount of gold escorted to the treasuries in Melbourne and Adelaide between November 1851 and June 1852 which was valued at nearly 3000000 pounds; and a comprehensive list of the gold exported from the colony on which ship and where to most of it going to London; although amazingly no gold is recorded as having been lost in transport there is a record of the number of assaults and robberies carried out with a direct connection to the gold crisis. Melbourne: John Ferres, at the Government Printing Office, 1852. hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 72lib905

‎Black John McConnell Edited by Marjorie Andrew and ShirleyClissold‎

‎The Diaries of John McConnell Black Vol. 1 Diaries One to Four - 1875-1886‎

‎Adelaide: Investigator Press. 1986. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Colour & b/w illustrations. Gift inscription on front pastedown crossed out. 271pages. Diaries of the author of Flora of South Australia edited by his granddaughters Marjorie Andrew and Shirley Clissold. . 1st Edition. Laminated Boards. Investigator Press hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : BIB202998 ISBN : 085864102X 9780858641020

‎MasterChef Australia‎

‎MasterChef Australia Series 3. The Cookbook‎

‎Sydney: Harper Collins 2011. 270 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/None Issued. Harper Collins Paperback‎

Ссылка продавца : 159995 ISBN : 0732291879 9780732291877

‎Brassey Lady Annie‎

‎The Last Voyage to India and Australia in the "Sunbeam"‎

‎New York and London: Longmans Green 1899. Hardcover. Very good. First edition American issue. 8vo. pp. xxiv 490; with two folding maps 20 full-page plates many other illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt top edge gilt. Very mild spine slant rubbing to extremities; internals clean and sound. Lady Brassey was a skilled photographer and botanist and also had an interest in medicine. She and her husband a Member of Parliament and accomplished sailor traveled extensively on their yacht "Sunbeam" and Annie's lively books about their adventures found an eager audience. This book published after she died of malaria at age 48 recounts travels in India Sri Lanka Indonesia Malaysia and Australia. Longmans, Green hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 14880

‎Freeman Lewis R.‎

‎In the Tracks of the Trades The Account of a Fourteen Thousand Mile Yachting Cruise to the Hawaiis Marquesas Societies Samoas and Fijis SIGNED‎

‎London: William Heinemann 1921. First Edition. First UK edition. 380 pp illustrated with 48 black and white photographs. Signed "Lewis R. Freeman Grand Canyon 1923" on the front free endpaper. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Lower corners rubbed some offsetting to endpapers otherwise minimal wear. Binding tight and square. Laid in are the front flap of the original dust jacket and a prospectus/order form for the book. Freeman who was raised in California traveled extensively all over the world and wrote a many engaging works about his adventures. His publisher touted the journey that forms the subject of this book as "the most successful from a yachtsman's standpoint of any of the South Sea pleasure voyages including those of Lord Brassey in the Sunbeam Stevenson in the Equator and Casco Lord Crawford in the Valhala and Jack London in the Snark." William Heinemann hardcover‎

Ссылка продавца : 13800