Author: SCHMEISER, KARL.
Title: The Gold-fields of Australasia Assisted by Bergassessor Dr. Karl Vogelsang. Translated by Henry Louis.
Description: Text Volume Only; 8vo; pp. xx, 254, (ii) book catalogue; folding b/w panorama frontispiece, 12 b/w plates, appendices, general index, index of mines, reefs, etc, index of minerals and rocks, red cloth, title lettered in faded gilt on spine, spine faded, spine and corners bumped and worn, 20mm strip along bottom edge of front board worn down to boards, light flecking to cloth with some small marks, foxing to tissue guard of frontispiece, no marks to frontispiece or title page, some pages unopened, binding slightly weakened but still quite tight, cloth and boards fair, pages unmarked and in good condition. London, Macmillan And Co., 1898. Considered to be one of the most comprehensive studies of Australian goldfields done in the Nineteenth century. Text Volume only (was originally accompanied by a folder of maps).

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