Author: ABOTT, W. E.
Title: Mount Wingen and the Wingen Coal Measures.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 26, (8) maps and plates; marbled endpapers, 2 coloured one page maps, 1 cross section diagram, 4 full page b/w. photographic plates, in pocket on rear board a large (35cm x 46cm) coloured folding map "Showing Geological formation in the vicinity of Mount Wingen Upper Hunter District of N.S.W.", bound in half black calf with green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, bookplate of Henry L. White on front endpaper, some foxing but otherwise a very good copy. Together with a small archive of items on Mount Wingen - ABBOTT, J. H. M., the Burning Mountain of the Kingdon Ponds Valley.( being a paper read before the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1921) typescript copy, early black morocco binding, bookplate of H.L White, with ink inscription from the author to H.L. White. - Two Typescript copies of reports of Mount Wingen in 1828 and 1829, one being a 6 page letter from Charles Wilton to the Editor of the Sydney Gazette in 1829, both together in later printed wrappers with White's stamp. - original b/w. photograph circa 1891 at Mount Wingen inscribed to White from his field worker, the ornithologist and author S. W. Jackson. - An attractive and valuable archive, with distinguished provenance on the world famous coal seam fire in the Hunter Valley. Sydney; Angus & Robertson Limited; 1918. Burning Mountain, the common name for Mount Wingen (224 km north of Sydney) it takes its name from a smouldering coal seam running underground through the sandstone. The underground fire is estimated to be at a depth of around 30 meters, it is estimated that the fire has burned for approximately 6.000 years and is said to be the oldest known coal fire. ------- Henry Luke White (1860-1927) was a wealthy pastoralist, book collector and amateur ornithologist of Scone, New South Wales. ------- William Edward Abbott (1844-1924) was one of the larges pastoralists in the Upper Hunter region of NSW, by the 1890's his Abbotsford estate incorporating Glengarry and Murralla stations, had 21,00 sheep and 100 cattle on 30,000 acres. As well as the book listed here he was the author of several other books.
Keywords: Australian new south wales local history coal seam fire geology
Title: Mount Wingen and the Wingen Coal Measures.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 26, (8) maps and plates; marbled endpapers, 2 coloured one page maps, 1 cross section diagram, 4 full page b/w. photographic plates, in pocket on rear board a large (35cm x 46cm) coloured folding map "Showing Geological formation in the vicinity of Mount Wingen Upper Hunter District of N.S.W.", bound in half black calf with green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, bookplate of Henry L. White on front endpaper, some foxing but otherwise a very good copy. Together with a small archive of items on Mount Wingen - ABBOTT, J. H. M., the Burning Mountain of the Kingdon Ponds Valley.( being a paper read before the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1921) typescript copy, early black morocco binding, bookplate of H.L White, with ink inscription from the author to H.L. White. - Two Typescript copies of reports of Mount Wingen in 1828 and 1829, one being a 6 page letter from Charles Wilton to the Editor of the Sydney Gazette in 1829, both together in later printed wrappers with White's stamp. - original b/w. photograph circa 1891 at Mount Wingen inscribed to White from his field worker, the ornithologist and author S. W. Jackson. - An attractive and valuable archive, with distinguished provenance on the world famous coal seam fire in the Hunter Valley. Sydney; Angus & Robertson Limited; 1918. Burning Mountain, the common name for Mount Wingen (224 km north of Sydney) it takes its name from a smouldering coal seam running underground through the sandstone. The underground fire is estimated to be at a depth of around 30 meters, it is estimated that the fire has burned for approximately 6.000 years and is said to be the oldest known coal fire. ------- Henry Luke White (1860-1927) was a wealthy pastoralist, book collector and amateur ornithologist of Scone, New South Wales. ------- William Edward Abbott (1844-1924) was one of the larges pastoralists in the Upper Hunter region of NSW, by the 1890's his Abbotsford estate incorporating Glengarry and Murralla stations, had 21,00 sheep and 100 cattle on 30,000 acres. As well as the book listed here he was the author of several other books.
Keywords: Australian new south wales local history coal seam fire geology
Price: AUD 2250.00 = appr. US$ 1556.71 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 114041
- Book number: 114041