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Aborigines & Mining Companies in Northern Australia

Aborigines & Mining Companies in Northern Australia

by Howitt, Ritchie and Douglas, John

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9780909188719
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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 the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper (wraparound) with orange and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. "This book attempts to give information (and to help empower) those involved in negotiating with transnational companies, particularly to the Australian Aborigines." – from the front fold over panel blurb. Softening of the back strip edges with bumping to the book corners. Age toning to the text block edges with some foxing to the top text edge. Offset tanning to the end pages with light age toning of the pages. A little creasing… Read More
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Australia's Earliest Mining Era, South Australia 1841-1851; Paintings

Australia's Earliest Mining Era, South Australia 1841-1851; Paintings

by Auhl, Ian & Marfleet, Denis

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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 map "Part of South Australia, Showing the Mining Districts", and then follows the reproduction of 31 colour paintings by ST Gill, many of which are held by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Colour illustrated dustjacket has faded on the left-hand side and top edge of the front panel and on the spine section. There is no other damage to describe. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: S. T. Gill. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Art -- Australian; Mining; Australia; ISBN: 0851798861.… Read More
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Australia's Earliest Mining Era, South Australia 1841-1851; Paintings

Australia's Earliest Mining Era, South Australia 1841-1851; Paintings

by Auhl, Ian & Marfleet, Denis

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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 "Part of South Australia, Showing the Mining Districts", and then follows the reproduction of 31 colour paintings by ST Gill, many of which are held by the Art Gallery of South Australia. X-library, with stamps and cancellation marks to the rear end pages, and title page and the next 2 pages. The dustjacket is robbed across top and bottom edges, and library stamp on the top and bottom of the text block. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: S. T. Gill. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local… Read More
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Australia's Mines and Miners: An Illustrated History of Australian Mining

Australia's Mines and Miners: An Illustrated History of Australian Mining

by Carroll, Brian

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9780333229781
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0333229789
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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 coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Title says it all. Rubbing of the book corners and back strip corners. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. There is a nasty 5 inch tear to the right hand edge of the rear dustwrapper panel which a previous owner has held together with a the front side of the dustwrapper. Foxing to the verso. Size: Landscape Octavo. [7], 8 - 112 pages,. Please refer to… Read More
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The Explorers  (Seal Books)

The Explorers  (Seal Books)

by Joy, William

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First Australian Paperback Edition
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Paperback
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9780851791128
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0851791123
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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 to the backstrip. Minor creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges and book panels. Reading creases to the backstrip. Previous owners details to the lower right-hand corner of the title page. A look at Australia's Explorers. Part of the Seal Books series. Size: Standard Paperback. V, 6-160 pages, last page blank,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: History; Local History -- Western Australia; Mining; Australia; ISBN: 0851791123. ISBN/EAN: 9780851791128. Inventory No: 0110249. . 9780851791128 Read More
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The Explorers 
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The Explorers 

by Joy, William

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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 describe or the binding apart from the usual browning of the page edges. The book contains double page in the page maps, reproductions of drawings and photographs, and small maps. In this book the author deals briefly with events leading to the discovery of Australia then relates in graphic detail the heroism, trams and sufferings of the explorers who blazed the trail across the great subcontinent and laid it open for settlement. – The author also devote some chapters to the adventures and perils of the settlers, Overlanders, and gold fossickers who played an important part in opening up the nearly 3,000,000 square miles of Australia. Size: 8vo - over… Read More
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Gold Rush Album; To California in '49, the Complete Story of the Greatest treasure-hunt in...
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Gold Rush Album; To California in '49, the Complete Story of the Greatest treasure-hunt in history

by Jackson, Joseph Henry -- Editor

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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 region 1833 -- 1860, the rear endpaper has a map of America and Westward advanced 1849 -- 1860. Black coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed illustration of a gold pan, with gilt 'gold, on the front cover ; with gilt coloured illustration and titles on the spine. Slipcase has pasted square cameos to the front and rear panels, the front panel showing California and some contemporary illustrations, and the rear panel giving a potted synopsis of the book. White coloured pasted oblong cameo to the backstrip with back coloured titles and illustration. The history of the Californian gold rush.… Read More
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The Irish at Eureka
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The Irish at Eureka

by Currey, C. H

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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 on spine. Green coloured endpapers. The front panel is faded and there is a brown staining over most of the panel. Back panel also shows this brown staining. The endpapers are faded and brown staining also occurs on them. Previous owners name on ffep. The brown staining does not intrude into the internal pages. Illustrated dustwrapper, which is protected, showing a printed the Eureka Stockade, dark brown writing on front panel and on the spine. Brown staining commensurate with staining on the book present. Some minor rubbing of the edges of the dustwrapper. "This critical and penetrating study will… Read More
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Mary Smith's Hotel

Mary Smith's Hotel

by Lawson, Will

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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 on the west coast of New Zealand in the 1870s. Mary Black and her young son Christopher were left in the town after tragic circumstances. They found solace Mary Smith and the hotel that she ran. It was the miners who took the place of Christopher's father, but, it was Mary Smith who became his mother when his own remarried and left New Zealand. Minor rubbing of the book edges with light tanning of the text block edges. Age toning of the pages. The half title page has become a little crease closest to the hinge. Faint offset tanning to the end pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with a couple of small tears to the top dustwrapper edge. Some… Read More
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The Mines and its Wonders

by Kingston, W. H. G

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Edition Unstated
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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 to the front panel and back strip. A book on mining in the late 19th century, including as its first chapter the dangers of mining. The book is in quite ordinary shape – please see photograph. Rubbing, fraying and softening of the back strip edges and there is bumping, rubbing and fraying of the book corners. The underlying board is visible to a small or large degree at the corners. Rubbing of the other book edges and there is quite significant rubbing of the book panels (especially of the coloration of the front cover illustration). The decoration, titles and anything else that… Read More
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The Mines of South Australia, Including Also an Account of the Smelting Works in That Colony;...
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The Mines of South Australia, Including Also an Account of the Smelting Works in That Colony; Together with a Brief Description of the Country, and Incidents of Travel in the Bush

by Austin, J.B

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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 the beginning of the text and at the end of the text is a red coloured paper "covers" -- as for the original edition. Tan coloured textured cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing to the book corners. This book was first published in 1863 and this is a facsimile edition put out by the Libraries Board of South Australia -- Number 48. A book about the principal mines, smelting facilities of South Australia in the middle of the 19th century and a brief description of each along with a small travel log and incidences that happen within the authors' travels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read More
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The Newcastle Packets and the Hunter Valley

by Abbott, J. H. M. (John Henry Macartney), 1874-1953

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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 dustwrapper, same illustration as for frontispiece, with navy blue coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Quoting from the front fold over panel blurb " ... (the author) with has succeeded in presenting and mass of facts about the early days of navigation on the New South Wales coast, in a way that will capture the interest, not only of ship loving people, but also of the thousands of Australians who at long last are beginning to curious about the past and present history of the land they live in." Softening of the back strip edges with a little bumping and rubbing of the lower… Read More
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Three Islands

by Williams, Maslyn

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9780909477004
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0909477000
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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. Photographic dustwrapper, showing guano, with white and black writing on front panel and white on spine. This book was published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the British Phosphate Commission, set up in 1920 to work the phosphate deposits (guano) of Nauru & Ocean Islands in the Pacific Ocean, then in 1948, in Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Previous owner's neat name stamp a top of half title page, some light rubbing/chipping of the top and bottom edges of the dustwrapper. No other damage. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s).… Read More
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To Broken Hill and Back

To Broken Hill and Back

by McNally, Ward

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9780869320037
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0869320033
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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 the spine. Rubbing to the head and to the heel of the spine. Rubbing and bumping to the book corners and shelfwear to the lower book edges, and there is a mark to the front board, lower edge. The rear endpaper has been slightly scuffed. Illustrated dust wrapper (wraparound), by Pro Hart, with white coloured titles to the front panel and spine. A little rubbing and scuffing to the top and bottom dust wrapper edges. The top spine edge has a scuff mark in which the laminate has been removed. A small history of a mining town in far west New South Wales -- Broken Hill. The history… Read More
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Westwood Gold !  (Seal Books)

Westwood Gold ! (Seal Books)

by Wilson, H.H

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First Australian Paperback Edition
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Paperback
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9780727003652
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0727003658
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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 gold mines, and of the men and women, of the early Roaring days of Western Australia at the beginning of the 20th century. Part of the Seal Books series. Minor creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Age toning of the text block edges. Size: Standard Paperback. VIII, 184 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Natural History & Resources; Mining; Australia; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0727003658. ISBN/EAN: 9780727003652. Inventory No: 0128848. . 9780727003652
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What's Good for Australia..!  -- The Story of BHP

What's Good for Australia..! -- The Story of BHP

by Trengove, Alan -- Editor

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9780726987212
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0726987212
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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 The author presents the BHP story as one of extraordinary people rather than dry company records. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Business; History -- Australia; Mining; New South Wales; ISBN: 0726987212. ISBN/EAN: 9780726987212. Inventory No: 0228581. . 9780726987212
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