GOLD & MINING from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

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 -… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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.

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.… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item