Perth: Geological Survey of Western Australia, 1974. Octavo, copper-coloured metallic stiff paper wraps, pp 32, Very good condition. Pamphlet issued "to assist prospectors, and the public, in the search for minerals and rocks and to broaden their knowledge of the science of Geology"
Sydney: Australian Stock Exchange, 1991. 8vo, wraps, figures and tables, pp 189. Near-fine condn. Provides a detailed two page profile of fifty major listed gold producing companies in Australia, with commentary on the Australian gold industry.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1972. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp vii, 236. Very good in slightly chipped d,j. Recollections of pioneers on the central goldfields of Victoria, assembled from the 1880s onwards and here published for the first time.
Gillingham, 1980. Octavo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 30. Very good condn. Facsimile edition, originally published in 1914.
Adelaide: Rigby, 1975. Oblong 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour plates, b&w plates, pp 108. Previous owner's signature, very good in like d.j.
![Item #104093 The Entombed Miner [First edition]. Tom Austen](https://muirbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/104093.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770266716)
Perth: St George Books, 1986. 1st ed., octavo, pp. ix, 214, Index, b/w frontis, b/w plates, original cloth boards, dustjacket. Near-fine condition in like dustjacket. Account of the rescue of Coolgardie miner, Modesto Varischetti, in 1907. Varischetti was trapped in an air pocket within the flooded mine for nine days.....
Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1951. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, pp 100. Dustjacket slightly chipped, protected, very good condn.
Sydney: Wentworth, 1976. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 333. Very good condition in good d.j. Novel set in a mining town in Queensland in the 1930s and WWII.
London: N.A.G Press, Ltd, 1976. Octavo, pp. xiv, 532, Index, colour frontis, colour plates, b/w ills., original boards, dustjacket. Previous owner's stamp. Lightly rubbed. Very good in like d.j. History of the diamond industry, including myths, mining techniques, diamond cutting and polishing. Also includes chapters on identification, grading, and synthetic.....
Carlisle: Hesperian Press, 2023. 1st ed., octavo, stiff illustrated French flaps, b&w illus, maps, index, pp xv, 276. Includes folding map in rear pocket. Fine condition. Before Gold is the mining history of Northampton. The first mining field in WA, it was a flourishing copper and lead producer. A very.....
South Yarra: John Currey, 1982. 4to, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour plates, pp 100. Previous owner's signature, slightly marked to top edge of text block, o/w very good condn.
London: Edward Stanford, 1870. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, large folding colour map 'Province of Victoria 1870', colour frontis (Port Phillip Head and Queencliff), colour plate (Pontoon Bridge at Echuca), pp xiv, 214 plus publisher's catalogue. Light creasing to upper pages, some previous restoration to the top and edges.....
Adelaide: Aboriginal and Historic Relics Administration, 1975. A4 size, paper, spiral bound, b&w illus, pp (iv), 42. Photocopy, reference copy. Good condition.
Nedlands: University of Western Australia, 1954. H.T. Phillips, and Rex T. Prider. Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, Vol. xxxviii, 1954, pp 64, fold. map to rear, or. wraps, ink stamp to front cover, sunned edges, v.g.
Kalgoorlie: The Chamber of Mines of Western Australia, 1911. 4to, original green cloth boards with gilt titles, folding plates, folding map (Kalgoorlie map in colour), b&w photographs and diagrams, pp xvi, 268. Very slight rubbing to edges, pencilled previous owner's signature, offsetting endpapers, near-fine condn. Includes shaft sinking and timbering.....
Melbourne: Surbiton Associates, 2002. Octavo, original pictorial boards, dec endpapers, pp xiv, 281. Presentation copy, signed by the author. Near-fine condition. Looks at the transformation of the Australian gold industry. Written by an industry expert and former geologst, banker and corporate manager.
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.....
![Item #100388 The Prospector's Pocketbook [First Edition]. G. A. Goyder, George](https://muirbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/100388.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724303044)
Adelaide: Government Printer, 1888. 1st ed., octavo, original upper board relaid on new matching cloth with black rule new endpapers, pp 63 plus six plates. Very good condition. Written by the eldest son of George Woodruffe Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia. George A. Goyder worked for the Government Assay.....
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1980. Octavo, paper wraps, map, pp. (xi) 82. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition. An account of the author's life at Lakewood Main Camp between Kalgoorlie and the Eyre Highway in the late 1940s. A tribute to the hardworking people - mainly Italian and Yugoslav.....
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1939. 1st ed., octavo, pp.x, 270, original orange cloth boards. Two of the original three folding tables have been replaced by facsimiles. New endpapers. Ex-army library, with stamps, and marks to spine. Abrasion to front board where a large label has been removed. Rubbed to edges.....
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1954. Repr., octavo, pp x, 296, incl Index, b&w illus, bookseller's ticket (Alberts Bookshop, Perth) to paste-down, light foxing to edges, orig yellow cloth bds, marked, spine tanned, o/w very good condition. With a chapter on 'Prospecting for Oil' by Dr. W.G. Woolnough.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1966. Repr., octavo, pp x, 296, incl Index, b&w illus, cloth bds, unclipped dustjacket. Very good condition in like d.j. With a chapter on 'Prospecting for Oil' by Dr. W.G. Woolnough.
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1943. Octavo, original stiff printed wraps (French flaps), b&w illus, index, pp 288. Spine worn, previous owner's blind stamp ffep and halftitle page. Very good condition. Classic guide to prospecting. With a chapter on 'Prospecting for Oil' by Dr. W.G. Woolnough.
London: The Mining and Geographical Institute, 1897. 1st ed., quarto, original green cloth boards with gilt decoration and title, author portrait plate frontis, b&w plates, four maps including one folding, pp 102. Previous owner's signature front free endpaper. One plate loose. Small closed tear to edge of p. 29/30, 31/32.....
Melbourne: c. 1952. Dyson, Ambrose. 13 folding leaves with text and illustrations in remains of paper portfolio, o/w contents in fine condition.