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Auction: 13017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 778

STIRLING, Patrick James. 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: with historical notices of the effects of the American mines on European prices in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In a series of letters. First edition, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1853. Octavo, 280 pages plus folding table (slightly defective with small tape repair to back); original blind-stamped red cloth, glit-lettered on spine, fading to spine and slight wear at spine ends. Ex-library with labels removed from front pastedown and endpaper causing small hole to endpaper. Internally clean and sound. Very good.

One of the rarest of the early goldfield works and one of the few that link the Californian and Australian discoveries. The author discusses the historical effects on European prices and considers the commercial potential of the 1850's discoveries on commerce, agriculture and manufacturing together with some of the wider effects on the World economy. A very scarce and important work.

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Estimate
£150 to £200