The Discovery and Geognosy of Gold Deposits in Australia; with comparisons and accounts of the Gold Regions of California, Russia, India, Brazil, &c
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 1st ed., pp.ix, 484, incl Index, chromo-tinted map, faded ink notations to t.p., browning to pages as usual with some foxing, new eps., half-calf, watermark silk boards, cnrs, bumped, light fading to spine, otherwise a nice copy of this rare first edition.
The author's first hand account of the events leading up to the discovery of gold. Simpson Davison was a Yorkshire man who had only been three years in the colony when he left for the Californian goldfields. He had purchased a Queanbeyan squatter’s insolvent estate and another at Nimitybelle (Nimmitabel). Much of Davison’s time had been devoted to searching the quartz for signs of gold. Davison now intended to visit America to learn a little more of the subject that had fascinated him for so long. He set sail for San Francisco in July 1849 sharing a cabin with goldfields publicist and speculator, Edward Hammond Hargraves, who in 1851, claimed to have found gold in Australia. Item #95174
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