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Gall and Inglis, London and Edinburgh, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (illustrated Cloth). Fair Condition. Illustrator: Illustrated. List of illustrations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece, being an etching of Cornish tin mines below the sea. The text is illustrated with black-and-white edges. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with coloured illustrations and silver coloured embossed titles… Read more about this item

The Currawong Press, Sydney, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: Illustrated. Foreword by author. Colour illustrated frontispiece, showing the 'Sophia Jane'; with 12 black-and-white reproductions of other packets throughout the book. Blue coloured textured boards with dark blue coloured embossed titles to the front panel and back strip. Colour illustrated… Read more about this item

Macmillan, South Melbourne, Victoria, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Acknowledgements, introduction by author, further reading, picture sources and index. Photographic end pages, showing goldminers from the 19th / early 20th century. The text is illustrated with copious black-and-white photographs and the occasional black-and-white illustration. Black coloured boards with white… Read more about this item

Alternative Publishing Co-Operative, Chippendale, New South Wales, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Maps. Author's explanatory notes and acknowledgements, foreword by Gough Whitlam, AC, QC, introduction by authors, map of Australia showing some Aboriginal communities, seven appendices and list of maps and figures dark pink coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to… Read more about this item

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Dark red coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper red and white coloured titles to the front panel and red and black coloured titles to the backstrip. Set in the isolated goldmining town Charleston… Read more about this item

Seal Books/Rigby, Adelaide, 1973. First Australian Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. list of illustrations, acknowledgements and index. Colour illustrated cover, showing a man on a camel, with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. A history of the… Read more about this item

British Phosphate Commission, Adelaide, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Douglas McNaughton-- Photographer. 84 pages, acknowledgements. Endpapers illustrated with map of Indian-Pacific zone. The text is illustrated with black and white and colored photography taken by Douglas McNaughton. Pale tan coloured boards silver writing on the spine. … Read more about this item

Rigby, Adelaide, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition (ex-library)/Good. Illustrator: S. T. Gill. 700 g; (2), 108, (2) pages with bibliography. The 1st 43 pages are illustrated with reproductions of documents and also black-and-white photographs. The accompanying text gives a history of the opening of South Australia through mining. Page 44 has a colour map… Read more about this item

Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. a look at Australia's Explorers. the dustjacket is slightly faded on the spine, has split at the lower right and left of the front panel, and rubbing with short tears across the top edge. There is no damage to… Read more about this item

Rigby, Adelaide, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: S. T. Gill. 700 g; (2), 108, (2) pages with bibliography. The 1st 43 pages are illustrated with reproductions of documents and also black-and-white photographs. The accompanying text gives a history of the opening of South Australia through mining. Page 44 has a colour… Read more about this item

Seal Books/Rigby, Adelaide, 1971. First Australian Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. preface by author, foreword by Alec H. Chisholm, preface and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography, maps and illustrations. Colour illustrated cover with white coloured titles to the front panel and red and black coloured titles… Read more about this item

Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1960. Facsimile Edition -- First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. IX, 10-109 pages, a further 19 pages of advertisements, list of subscribers, preface by a author. At the rear of the book is a four-page, foldout map, showing principal mines of South Australia in 1863. At… Read more about this item

Cassell Australia, New South Wales, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 600 g; X, 266 pages, indexed, with 32 pages of black-and-white photography, maps, document facsimile, appendices, index. With colour illustrated photographic dust jacket, slightly faded on the spine section. Non-authorial gift inscription dated 1975 on half title page … Read more about this item

Widescope International Publishers, Camberwell, Victoria, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Ron Bentley -- Photographer. Olive coloured endpapers. Illustrated title page, being a photograph of Broken Hill in the early 20th century. The text is illustrated with both contemporary and modern black-and-white photographs. Olive coloured boards with white writing on… Read more about this item

Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. 102 pp., headings of the constituent sections, abbreviations, references and notes, index. Text illustrated with black and white photographs of contemporary prints. One quarter dark green coloured cloth with light green coloured boards with gilt writing on the front panel and… Read more about this item

Scribner's Sons, New York, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Slipcase. foreword by editor, acknowledgement, index. The text is illustrated with 352 contemporary illustrations in black and white. Illustrated endpapers by maps, all different, front endpapers have maps of crossroads of the mountains 1840 -- 1860, California and the Sierra Nevada… Read more about this item