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READ (CHARLES RUDSTON)
What I Heard, Saw, and Did at the Australian Gold Fields, FIRST EDITION, 1853; and 3 others (4)

14 June 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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READ (CHARLES RUDSTON)

What I Heard, Saw, and Did at the Australian Gold Fields, FIRST EDITION, 4 tinted lithographed plates, wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations, large folding map (short tear without loss), publisher's cloth, spine gilt with vignette [Abbey Travel 585; Ferguson 14756], T. & W. Boone, 1853--STEPHENS (JOHN) The History of the Rise and Progress of the New British Province of South Australia, second edition, folding map and plan of Adelaide, 4 lithographed plates, folding table, 9pp. advertisements, some browning, publisher's decorative cloth gilt [Ferguson 2851], Smith, Elder, 1839--MAYNE (R.C.) Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island, wood-engraved plates, folding map, advertisements at end, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, hinges cracked [Sabin 47174], John Murray, 1862, 8vo--BIRKBECK (MORRIS) Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois, third edition, engraved folding map hand-coloured in outline, 4pp. advertisements, publisher's boards, spine worn with loss [Sabin 5569], James Ridgway, 1818, 8vo (4)

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