Author: STIRLING, PATRICK JAMES.
Title: The Australian And Californian Gold Discoveries, and their Probable Consequences; or, an Inquiry into the laws which Determine the Value and Distribution of Precious Metals: with Historical Notices of the Effects of the American Mines on European Prices in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
Description: Reprint; 8vo; pp. xiv, [13]-280, original blue cloth, title in gilt on spine, minor bumping to spine, otherwise very good copy. New York, Greenwood Press, 1969. Letter xviii deals with recent accounts of gold discoveries in California and Australia. The rest of the work is devoted to probable economic consequences. The first edition is one of the rarest of the early Australian goldfields works.

Keywords: gea Gold Australia History California Mining min gen