Mining and Geology

In the Land of Pearl and Gold – Alexander MacDonald – First Edition 1907

First edition 1907. A Pioneer’s wanderings in the backblocks and Pearling grounds of Australia and New Guinea.

A nice copy with the striking front board illustration. Prospecting, mining and travel experiences in and around Australia with an excursion into New Guinea.

Good collectable relevant with nice illustrations

$120.00

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The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia – Hall and Neal – First Edition 1902 – A Special Book with Superb Map

A first edition of Hall and Neal’s legendary book about the ancient ruins of Rhodesia.

The binding is in very good condition and the gilt top edge clean and bright as day one. The pages are rough cut as required and there is some foxing internally as usual especially around the many plates where there is a change in paper type. Accepting this it is a very good copy with the gilt device to the front board strong and impressive. There is no fading along the bottom of the front cover that is just a glitch with Voyager’s scanner!

11 plans some folding along with 36 plates and a massive folding map of the ruins and ancient gold mines. An incredible effort and a Voyager favourite.

Early history in Zimbabwe that will surprise.

$170.00

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The Fortune Hunters – Frank Clune – First Edition 1957 Near Fine

Angus and Robertson First Edition 1957 in very good if nit fine condition.

Frank Clune out in Jeep amongst the minerals and aboriginals. Uranium and Jack Noble (discovered Nobles Nob) and confronting story and images of murdered Kai-umen. More than the usual Clune.

Best Clune – First and Good

$40.00

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Cape River Gold Field – Report of William Rands – 1891

William Rands was Assistant Geologist to Robert Logan Jack. This is his report to the Queensland Parliament on the Cape River Gold Field.

18 foolscap pages of the usual intense observation and detail exhibited by the Queensland geological team of the period. Covers Union Reef, General Grant Reef, Hayward Reef, The Big reef, The Just-In-Time Reef, Hughes Leader, The Mystery Reef (no Mystery!), Springs reef, Mount Remarkable, Morning Star, Martin’s, Bell-Gay, Victoria, and Governor Blackall Reefs and many many more. Crushing reports with yield from Ellen Boss, Treasure and Albion as complied by Commissioner Gill.
An appendix provides a short geological description of rocks and thin section slides of 43 samples taken in the area. The thin section slides being prepared by Clarke of Charters Towers.

The report contain a folding coloured page showing 8 geological sections the first across Mr Davenport and the cape River. And a very nice coloured Geological Sketch Map of part of the Kennedy District by William Rands (50cms by 25 cms) … note our image on the Voyager website is partly truncated because of the limitations of our scanner.

Quality Cape River Report with fine example of the Map

$90.00

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The Australian and Californian Gold Discoveries and Their Probable Consequences; or, An Inquiry Into the Laws Which Determine the Value and Distribution of the Precious Metals – Patrick Stirling F.R.S.E

With Historical Notices of the Effects of the American Mines on European Prices in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries.

Published by Greenwood Press of New York in 1969. Facsimile reprint of the 1853 Oliver & Boyd first edition. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. Folding frontispiece of the value of precious metals gained showing the impact great discoveries of the 1840’s.

An important book comprising an economic discourse on gold and the history of coinage, comparison with silver, and the economics effects of the Australian and California gold discoveries.

Important gold book with early Australian content

$40.00

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 182 – 1891

An 1891 compilation of philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, volume 182. Contained herein a marvelous collection of articles which explore a wide variety of subject matter.

Here collected are articles concerning; The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks by Francis Galton; Observations on the Anatomy and Development of Apteryx by T. Jeffery; On the Course of the Fibres of the Cingulum and the Poster Parts of the Corpus Callosum and Fornix in the Marmoset Monkey by Charles E. Beevor; On the Changes produced in the Circulation and Respiration by Increase of the Intra-Cranial Pressure or Tension by Walter Spencer; On the Organisation of the Fossil Plants of the Coal-Measures by William Crawford Williamson; On the Mammalian Nervous System, its Functions, and their Localisation determined by an Electrical Method by Francis Gotch; Some Points in the Structure and Development of Dentine by J. Howard Mummery; Contributions to the Study of the Connection between Chemical Constitution and Physiological Action by T. Lauder Brunton, and; Contributions to the Chemical Bacteriology of Sewage.

Each article is accompanied by relevant diagrams and illustration of scientific findings, and the compilation itself is completed by marvelous photographs, illustrations and prints regarding the various articles; from cell cultures to anatomical photographs and cross-sections.

A marvelous collection of historic works and findings.

Please note, this item weighs 2.5kg.

$240.00

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In the Land of Pearl and Gold – Alexander MacDonald – First Edition 1907

The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia – Hall and Neal – First Edition 1902 – A Special Book with Superb Map

The Fortune Hunters – Frank Clune – First Edition 1957 Near Fine

Cape River Gold Field – Report of William Rands – 1891

The Australian and Californian Gold Discoveries and Their Probable Consequences; or, An Inquiry Into the Laws Which Determine the Value and Distribution of the Precious Metals – Patrick Stirling F.R.S.E

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 182 – 1891

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