Gold Rush
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# 34264
BATES, John
Manuscript letter written by an American fortune seeker during the Port Curtis gold rush. Sent from Gladstone, Queensland to New York, May, 1859.
Entire letter, bifolium, 260 x 205 mm, folding to 80 x 130 mm, with an enclosed sheet; at the top corner of the first side is the embossed stamp of Sydney stationers Smith & Hinton; [3] pp of manuscript in brown ink; headed ‘Port Curtiss [sic] May 24th ’59‘ and signed at the foot ‘Your affectionate …
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# 34180
SIDNEY, Samuel
The three colonies of Australia : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia; their pastures, copper mines & gold fields
London : Ingram, Cooke & Co., 1852. First edition. Octavo, gilt-lettered plum cloth (edges rubbed), pp. 427, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings. History of the Australian colonies with a section on the gold rush. Ferguson 15679
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![[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Riot at Ballaarat. Report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballaarat, together with the evidence taken by the Board.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11115959/2022_DSFB_0724-300x300.jpg)
# 33995
COLONY OF VICTORIA.
[GOLD RUSH; EUREKA REBELLION] Riot at Ballaarat. Report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the late disturbance at Ballaarat, together with the evidence taken by the Board.
Laid upon the Council table by the Colonial Secretary, His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and Ordered by the Council to be printed, 21st November, 1854. Melbourne : John Ferres, Government printer, 1854. Foolscap folio (340 mm), string bound, 22 pp; a fine copy. A key primary source document for the history of the Eureka Rebellion, …
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# 34162
BURROWS, J. W.
Studio portrait of a woman standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sandhurst (Bendigo), Victoria, circa 1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount), recto imprinted ‘Burrows, Photo., Sandhurst’; verso with the photographer’s illustrated back mark surmounted by a crown and a pair of doves, ‘J. W. Burrows, Photo Artist. Next Commercial Hotel, Pall Mall, Sandhurst. (Late Chevalier)’; the print and mount are both in very good condition. …
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# 33862
"Garryowen" (FINN, Edmund, 1819-1898)
The chronicles of early Melbourne, 1835 to 1852. Historical, anecdotal and personal, by “Garryowen”
Centennial edition with portraits and illustrations. Melbourne : Fergusson and Mitchell, 1888. First edition. Two volumes, quarto, gilt-decorated roan (edges rubbed, as commonly found), all edges gilt, pen inscription to preliminary blank, pp. xiv; 1000, numerous lithographed illustrations, the occasional spot of foxing, overall a very good set, uncommon in this condition. “The two volumes of …
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# 34130
TIPPING, Marjorie
An artist on the goldfields. The diary of Eugene von Guerard
Melbourne : Currey O’Neil, 1982. Quarto, boards in dust jacket (light handling wear, a couple of small scuff marks), pp. 84, illustrated, a good copy.
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# 33495
GILL, S. T. (Samuel Thomas) (1818-1880)
Diggers shipping from Melbourne / The Shipping Agents are netting handsome.
[Melbourne : James J. Blundell, between 1852 and 1855]. Illustrated letter paper, 182 x 115 mm, bifolium with lithographed letterhead reproducing one of the plates from S.T. Gill’s Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are (Melbourne : Macartney & Galbraith, August 1852); lithographed image, including captions, 90 x 90 mm; the rear blank side has a …
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# 32623
SHERER, John
The gold-finder of Australia; how he went, how he fared, and how he made his fortune.
Illustrated with forty-eight magnificent engravings, from authentic sketches taken in the Colony. London : Clarke, Beeton & Co., 1853. Octavo, half-calf over marbled papered boards, a little rubbed, ex libris bookplate to front free endpaper, library pocket and card to preliminary blank, engraved title page, text title page with library stamp from the Cowra High …
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![[GOLD RUSH] The Illustrated London News, January 3 1852 to June 26 1852. Volume 20, nos. 539-566. (Complete bound run)](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/10/29104033/2021_DSFB_7901-300x300.jpg)
# 30844
[GOLD RUSH] The Illustrated London News, January 3 1852 to June 26 1852. Volume 20, nos. 539-566. (Complete bound run)
London : William Little, 1852. Folio (420 x 290 mm), original blind embossed green cloth over boards with gilt lettering and pictorial device to upper board showing a scene on the Australian gold diggings incorporating a kangaroo and emu coat of arms and ‘Advance Australia’ banner (boards rubbed and with mild staining, but the gilt …
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# 32905
GRISHIN, Sasha
S.T. Gill & his audiences
Canberra, ACT ; [Melbourne] : National Library of Australia Publishing in Association with the State Library of Victoria, 2015. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 255, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘Samuel Thomas Gill, or STG as he was universally known, was Australia’s most significant and popular artist of the mid-nineteenth century. For his contemporaries he epitomised ‘Marvellous …
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# 31798
CHEVALIER, Thomas (1828-1898)
A pair of studio portraits of a husband and wife. Bendigo, Victorian goldfields, circa 1865.
Two albumen print photographs in identical carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mounts); versos imprinted ‘Photographed by Chevalier & Co., (Next Commercial Hotel), Pall Mall, Sandhurst’; both prints have beautiful tones and excellent clarity; the portrait of the woman has some mottling in the negative, and both mounts have some very light foxing. …
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# 22673
[GILL, S.T.]
Twenty-eight engraved vignettes of Melbourne from The Melbourne Rose.
[London : Joseph, Myers & Co., 1862] (printed in Hamburg by C. Adler’s Printing Establishment). Twenty-eight steel engraved vignettes cut from the original ephemeron, which was an illustrated diecut folding card in the shape of a rose, pasted on to an old album sheet. A significant and very rare Melbourne publication of the gold rush …
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# 28163
Maker unknown.
Australian Gold Dust.
[Title from manuscript label on mount]. [U.K.? : s.n., probably before 1860]. Microscope slide, 76 x 26 mm, maker’s manuscript label to mount; sealed underneath the circular glass (diameter 13 mm) at the centre of the mount is a quantity of specimens of gold dust (unspecified nett weight); the glass has a hairline crack but …
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![[SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY] Six studio portraits of actors in costume. Castlemaine, Victorian goldfields, 1869-71.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/05/25114912/2021_DSFB_3363-300x300.jpg)
# 29755
CEARNS, W. G.
[SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY] Six studio portraits of actors in costume. Castlemaine, Victorian goldfields, 1869-71.
Six albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, 102 x 64 mm (mounts), versos with the highly decorative imprint of ‘W. G. Cearns, Photographer, Mostyn Street (one door from Market Square), Castlemaine‘; one of the backs also bears a caption in ink which identifies the actor on the front as ‘John Brown’; three of …
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# 30358
Anon.
In Memory of John Dowel Whittle, who was drowned off Cape Otway (Bass St.), N.W. 10 miles, 7 a.m., 29th July, 1852, aged 23 years.
[Melbourne, s.n., 1852]. Broadside, 210 x 150 mm, printed on one side only, text set within decorative border surrounding the heading and Psalm LXIX, and with a fully contemporary annotation at top left, ‘P. & O. S. “Chusan” 1st arrival at Port Phillip’; in fine condition, mounted on card and housed in a modern frame with …
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# 30085
CAMERON, Roderick William, Sir (1823-1900)
Australia Pioneer Line … Carrying the United States Mails … From Pier 18 East River. The noble clipper ship “Thomas H. Perkins” … For Sydney, N.S.W.
[New York] : Nesbitt & Co. printers [for R. W. Cameron], [1859]. Clipper card, 150 x 92 mm, lithograph printed recto only in red and blue on glossy white card; some toning, verso with old glue stains. Scarce clipper card advertising a sailing of the ship Thomas H. Perkins from New York to Sydney in October 1859. …