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London: H. Ingram & Co., 1855 First edition. Tall 12mo. xvi, 240pp. Engraved frontis portrait, hand-colored folding map. Blind and gilt-stamped dark blue cloth with gilt Australian coat-of-arms on front cover. Lower blank portion of title page trimmed and repaired, lower blank portion of page xi trimmed away, owner's name stamped on endpaper and title page, very light wear to spine ends, corners just showing. With the exceptions notes, a fine copy in the publisher's dark blue cloth. One of the m... more information

London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1852 First edition. 2 volumes. Small folio. iv, 76 + viii, 131pp. Map (Upper Turon Gold Diggings), text maps and illustrations. Original blue wrappers printed in black. Part I: chipping to wrappers at head of spine and fore-edge of front wrapper; Part II: soiling to wrappers, light wear to head and foot of spine. A near fine set. Very rare. The first official report of the Australian gold discovery. These papers were "Presented to both Hou... more information

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861 First edition. Pp. ix, [1], 209, [1], [2, ads]. Publisher's advertisements to fixed endpapers. Blind-stamped plum cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine faded to brown. Contemporary book label on inner cover. A fine copy. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition. Until fairly recently (2002) the authorship of this work was attributed to a Mrs. Elizabeth Ramsay-Laye. It is now assumed that the author was Mrs. A. C. White, the wife of Major Hans White. Th... more information

Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1854 First American edition. Scarce thus. xvi, [17]-408pp. Engraved frontis, 9 engraved plates. Original blind-stamped rose cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lower corners slightly jammed, spine faded to brown. Small owner's sticker to upper corner of fixed endpaper; oval embossed binder's stamp to upper corner of fixed endpaper. The slightest of foxing to two preliminary leaves, else a fine, clean and tight copy. The history of Australia from 1520 to 1822, mentioning the vari... more information