Gold rush (50 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 100 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.23 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 100 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.23 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. 8vo. Stiff yellow pictorial wrappers. 95pp. Illustrations, maps, line drawings. Near fine. Undated (circa 1970?) facsimile reprint of the Chicago Record Co.'s original 1897 edition of this well-known Klondike Gold Rush how-to. Superb copy.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [12], xiiixxiv, [3], 4-195, [5] pp. Brown cloth with decorations in black and gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; green topstain. Gold endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a plate, a drawing on the title page, and a double-page map. Edited with an introduction by Howard L. Scamehorn. A few hints of edge wear and rubbing to the jacket. …

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Fraaie halfleren band met titel en decoratie in goud op rug. Iets geschaafd maar een (zeer) goed exemplaar. Please see description or ask for photos.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Originele decoratieve kartonnen band ("reliure romantique") , rug en hoeken helaas flink gesleten. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 229pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Navy blue cloth over boards. In the dust jacket, with negligible surface wear. First published in London in 1856, this edition is the illustrated 2003 edition. Limited second edition with an Introduction by Mallard R. Huntley. Various (illustrator).…

[1] pp. Bifolium. 5 x 8 inches. March 24th, 1859. Gold Rush era letter from John Hobart to Trinity County Clerk, J.A.Watson, resigning from his post in Weaverville, California . "I will be obliged to you to tender in my resignation as Road overseer for Rattlesnake Creek Road District to the Board of Supervisors when next they meet as I am doubtfull that circumstance will keep me in that section of the County throughout the summer." Weaverville, California, founded in 1850, was a Gold Rush town and once had a population of nearly 2500 Chinese goldminers. In 1855 the Weaverville Trinity Times called attention " the large and rapidly increasing number of Chinese among us.crowding themselves into every vacant spot they can find." Very good, minor creasing along edges and folds, minor soiling, contents clean.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1878. First edition [1878]. Lightly worn. Charmingly written reminiscences of adventures of a young man from New Haven, including during the California Gold Rush and his experiences with salt water fishing. Sections include: A Dish of Chowder; A Voyage up the Mediterranean; California in 1849; Sam Patch's Last Leap (Genesee Falls in 1825); Respect to Aged Fisherman; The Serpent of the Sea; Short Beach; and "Throw a Rope". Rust colored cloth lettered and with a ship motif in gilt, 127 pages plus an advertisemen for Forest and Stream, Rod and Gun weekly magazine at the front. Some external wear, mainly rubbing to the corners and spine ends, some light external soil, front hinge very lightly internally cracked, text block sound, blank page before title page starting to tear from the bottom inner margin up, pages clean with a bit of age-toning and a few spots in the upper margin of a few, names on front pastedown and at the head of the advertisement, which also has a small chip. Howes H-666. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

1st Edition. First edition. One of 950 copies printed. Colored frontispiece, facsimile of a page of the manuscript, map. 1 vols. 4to. Includes an index to the "Persons at the Fort". Howes S1155. Howes S1155 Original linen-backed decorated boards, printed paper label. Some discoloration of spine, Bookplate of Alistair Cooke Colored frontispiece, facsimile of a page of the manuscript, map. 1 vols. 4to First edition. One of 950 copies printed. …

Hardcover. Folio (13 x 8 inches). Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. A detailed set of accounts showing the total amount of export duty on gold - 1,500,000 pounds; and the total expenditure for managing the gold fields - 460,000 pounds - broken down in the minutest detail.

Hardcover. Folio (13 1/8 x 8 inches). Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. "It appears that a certain lead known as Contest Lead at Smythe's Creek was discovered in November, 1857, and that a 'prospecting claim' was awarded to the discoverers.", who then abandoned the claims, which were taken up by newcomers. This document seeks to unravel the complicated and conflicting claims at the Contest Lead and thereby set a precedent in similar circumstances.…

Hardcover. Folio (13 1/8 x 8 inches. Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. Since gold had been discovered in Ballarat in 1851 a substantial community had developed, which now needed infrastructure. Of great concern was the maintenance of a clean water supply: "there is a considerable quantity of water collected in a natural reservoir, known as the Wendouree or Yuille's swamp, . the storage of water therein might be readily increased at a small cost." (page [i]). However at the time of the report a by-law existed entitling only the residents of Ballaarat East to the water. The report concluded that this should be changed to allow all residents of Ballaarat access to the water from the swamp.…

Hardcover. Folio (13 x 8 inches). Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. Including detailed inventory of the stores and provisions at the gold diggings in Beechworth, Sandhurst, Upper Loddon District (Castelmaine is recorded as having 2 Union Jacks), Heathcote, and Ballaarat.

Hardcover. Folio (13 2/8 x 8 inches). Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. A far-reaching, although incomplete, report of the select committee in to the management of the gold fields, which examined everything from the number of officers required to maintain order at the diggings to the preservation of fresh water holes, the regulation of butchers and other 'hawkers', and 'sly grog-selling'.…

Hardcover. Folio (13 x 8 inches. Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. Detailed Returns (accounts) of the individual gold fields in Victoria, which had by this time been whittled down to Mount Alexander, and Ballaarat. Included are: a break down by month from November 1851 of the number of licenses to dig for gold issued, showing a rise from about 8,000 to 24,500 in June of 1852; a list of the Gold Commissioners by name, gold field, salary etc; the number of police and soldiers employed to maintain order in the fields; the cost of the gold escort; the incidental costs to the public service of the gold crisis; the amount of gold escorted to the treasuries in Melbourne and Adelaide between November 1851 and June 1852, which was valued at nearly 3,000,000 pounds; and a comprehensive list of the gold exported from the colony, on which ship and where to, most of it going to London; although amazingly no gold is recorded as having been lost in transport, there is a record of the number of assaults and robberies carried out with a direct connection to the gold crisis.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First Edition. Two volumes, [large octavo], lxxxviii, 630pp; viii, [631]-1404pp. Publisher's gray boards, black cloth spine, lettered in gilt. Illustrated with frontispieces, maps, facsimiles, and reproductions of Bruff's drawings and sketches. Housed in the publisher's slipcase with printed paper label on side panel. Glassine dust jackets, light shelf wear. A fine copy. From an unstated limited edition of 1250 copies. (Howes R91) (Kurutz 93) (Wheat 25) (Zamorano Select 9). Bruff led the Washington City and California Mining Association overland to California in 1849. His journals document the journey west, life in the mining districts, and his return to Washington in 1851. The first edition of Gold Rush by J. Goldsborough Bruff, edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines. The "most elaborate of overland narratives." (Howes). (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Broadsheet (12 2/8 x 8 inches). Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. An extensive report recommending the institution of a Mining Board that would be in charge of carrying out extensive geological surveys throughout Victoria to distinguish between auriferous and agricultural land. This survey would become the basis for an ordnance map of the county, and provide initial information to plan a railroad, reservoirs, etc: "America, which has credit for being the most economical Government in the civilised world, has expended very large sums of money in making topographical, geological, and natural history surveys on the most comprehensive scale, and which surveys are superior to those elaborated by any Government of Europe, and results of great practical value have in all places followed from such proceedings" (page iii-iv). The Committee also reports on the mining equipment and methods currently in use and decides that it is very unsatisfactory, and in need of organisation: "there are 100,000 miners either engaged in actual mining, or rushing about from place to place in search of new gold fields."(page v). A supplement to the report provided by mining expert, Jacob Braché (1827-1905) estimates the auriferous lands of the Colony to be 20,000 square miles, including 200 square miles of quartz reefs; that there are 20,650 millions of tons of quartz, which would take 100,000 miners 300 years to work up. Estimating its value as low as 1 pound per ton, it would give the enormous yield of 62 millions sterling per annum, allowing 10,000 companies of 10 men each to quarry and crush 24 tons per day. it gives the grand total of the estimated auriferous wealth of the Colony of Victoria of 26,783 millions sterling!" (page v). On the strength of his enthusiasm alone Brache was commissioned to conduct the report into the mining methods employed - a task he was signally unsuited for.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, vi, [4], [11]-504pp. Publisher's red cloth, title in gilt, illustration of Saladin in gilt on cover. Original cloth laid down and reinforced at spine. Includes frontispiece and 13 full-page illustrations of naval life. Even toning throughout, a few scholarly notes in pencil. Previous ownership inscriptions on the front endpapers and verso of frontispiece. (Sabin 32457) (Howes H576) (Howell, California 50: 524) (Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush 102.) A scarce first edition, with only a handful of known copies appearing on the retail market. Samuel Holbrook arrived in California in 1850, after a difficult journey over the Isthmus of Panama. His descriptions of early California detail the "worst and unromantic side of life in the state [but] are nevertheless interesting." He wrote that "San Francisco was filled with gamblers, rogues of every species, cut throats, highway robbers, Sydney convicts, villainous commission merchants and bankers, fraudulent auctioneers, hypocrites, apologies for courts, and some of the most miserable and contemptible pettifoggers that could be scraped together from every section of the country.". First edition of Threescore Years: An Autobiography, an early history of the Gold Rush era in California, by Samuel F. Holbrook. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Folio (13 1/8 x 8 inches). Printed on blue paper. Folding lithographed map of the Parish of Narree Worran. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. The accompanying "sketch of the ranges of hills and streams contiguous to these gold workings, and also of the track leading thereunto, has been only very cursorily made with the aid of compass-bearings and rough estimation of distances; and even to procure this very ride and imperfect delineation of these topographical features, I found it necessary to force a passage through such dense tangled scrub that I was occasionally compelled to crawl on my hands and knees to advance at all" (page [i]). The reason for the map's sketchiness is explained by the "unexampled stupidity" of the men that Clement Hodgkinson sent before him, in getting lost. However Hodgkinson was able to provide a detailed report of the area and the diggings. He noted that the profitable land was limited in area and that only about 200 miners were working it. By 1860 these fields were largely depleted.…

Hardcover. Folio (13 x 8 inches). Printed on blue paper. Modern brown leatherette, gilt. "It is quite impossible for me to describe to your Lordship the effect which these discoveries have had upon the whole community" (Lieut-Governor La Trobe to Earl Grey) An important collection of papers detailing the discovery of gold in Victoria. Throughout the year La Trobe gives a very detailed and increasingly desperate account of the discoveries made at Anderson's Creek, Clunes, Buninyong and Ballaarat [sic]. He not only gives a vivid account of how the gold was found, but also an analysis of the geology of the areas, soil, clay and ore type. His main and growing concern, however is the detrimental effect of the gold discoveries on the community as a whole: "Within the last three weeks the towns of Melbourne and Geelong, with their large suburbs, have been, in appearance, almost emptied of many classes of their mail inhabitants; the streets which, for a week or ten days, were crowded by drays loading with the outfit for the workings, are now seemingly deserted.Not only have the idlers, day labourers, shopmen, artisans, and mechanics of every description thrown up their employments, and in most cases, leaving their employers and their wives and families to take care of themselves, run off to the workings, but responsible tradesmen, farmers, clerks of every grade, and not a few of the superior classes have followed" (page 5-6). In the face of a complete breakdown in society, La Trobe took a number of extraordinary measures: he authorised an immediate pay rise to all clerks, turnkeys, constabulary and mounted police, as well as to messengers and surveyors; the cost of a prospector's license was increased, although La Trobe would have preferred a tax to be paid on the gold found; he seconded the help of subordinate officers from his neighbouring colonies; and begged the Imperial Government for guidance, and help in the form of men to police the diggings, and to guard the ports. After the initial fever, or "Gold Crsis" as La Trobe refers to it, many of the original absconders returned to their more mundane and less lucrative lives, having discovered what punishing and often disappointing work digging for gold actually was, but the colony's problems were ongoing.…