Author: KIMBERLY, W. B; Compiler.
Title: Bendigo and Vicinity. A comprehensive history of her past, and a resume of her resources; together with the biographies of her representative pioneers, public, commercial, and professional men.
Description: First Edition; Lge. 4to; pp.(iii), 274 (last blank); b/w frontispiece, numerous portraits and illustrations, printed in double column, original purplr cloth, title lettered in gilt on front board, cloth binding starting to split on edges, cloth faded, binding still strong, internally very good. Melbourne and Ballarat, F.W. Niven & Co., MDCCCXCV (1895). The book is divided into two sections, the first containing chapters on Bendigo's history, including the city before gold, various pioneering experiences, the public institutions and buildings, real estate, the gold seekers, the goldfields. The second half of the book contains biographies of people in Bendigo's history as well as histories of important companies and firms that helped to establish Bendigo.

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