Item #80014 A Brief Sketch of the Coinage and Paper Currency of South Australia. With Facsimile Illustrations of the First Currency Notes, and other Interesting Documents, including Reprints of the Historic 'Bullion' and 'Gold Token' Acts, of 1852... Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch. Thomas GILL.
A Brief Sketch of the Coinage and Paper Currency of South Australia. With Facsimile Illustrations of the First Currency Notes, and other Interesting Documents, including Reprints of the Historic 'Bullion' and 'Gold Token' Acts, of 1852... Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch
A Brief Sketch of the Coinage and Paper Currency of South Australia. With Facsimile Illustrations of the First Currency Notes, and other Interesting Documents, including Reprints of the Historic 'Bullion' and 'Gold Token' Acts, of 1852... Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch
A Brief Sketch of the Coinage and Paper Currency of South Australia. With Facsimile Illustrations of the First Currency Notes, and other Interesting Documents, including Reprints of the Historic 'Bullion' and 'Gold Token' Acts, of 1852... Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch
A Brief Sketch of the Coinage and Paper Currency of South Australia. With Facsimile Illustrations of the First Currency Notes, and other Interesting Documents, including Reprints of the Historic 'Bullion' and 'Gold Token' Acts, of 1852... Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch
A Brief Sketch of the Coinage and Paper Currency of South Australia. With Facsimile Illustrations of the First Currency Notes, and other Interesting Documents, including Reprints of the Historic 'Bullion' and 'Gold Token' Acts, of 1852... Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch

A Brief Sketch of the Coinage and Paper Currency of South Australia. With Facsimile Illustrations of the First Currency Notes, and other Interesting Documents, including Reprints of the Historic 'Bullion' and 'Gold Token' Acts, of 1852... Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch

Adelaide, Vardon & Sons, Printers [for the RGSSA], 1912.

Octavo, [viii], 101 pages plus 22 plates (one folding), 2 folding facsimile documents (8 and 4 pages respectively), a folding map and a tipped-in errata slip.

Original half black leather and dark green cloth; leather a little rubbed at the extremities, cloth slightly flecked and scuffed; endpapers a little discoloured at the corners by the leather turn-ins; minor silverfish nibbling to the rear endpaper; an excellent copy.

The head of the title page is inscribed by the author to 'E.W. Hawker Esqre MA LLM East Bungaree'. Edward William Hawker (1850-1940), barrister, grazier, politician and metallurgist, was born on 14 January 1850 at Bungaree near Clare, South Australia, eldest of fifteen children of George Charles Hawker, grazier, and his wife Bessie' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'); in 1895 he inherited a large estate at East Bungaree. Loosely inserted is the pictorial front panel of a mailing cover from George Collingridge's Jave-la-Grande Library, addressed to Gill; the two NSW centenary penny stamps on it are postmarked 1893.

Item #80014

Price (AUD): $250.00

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