The Mineral Wealth of Queensland 1888 1st Edition Queensland Commission Centennial International Exhibition Melbourne 1888
Jack, Robert L. (Robert Logan Jack)
$325.00
Place Published: Brisbane
Edition: 1st Edition
Date Published: 1888
Illustrator: folding map
Size: sm 8vo
Overview of the mineral fields of Queensland in the late 19th-Century, providing localities of minerals which ‘still await the attention of miners and capitalists’ (from the introduction); goldfields, copper, silver, coal, tin, etc; includes colour folding map to rear of text (69 x 54cm when open); original front wrapper retained over new stiff card with blue cloth spine, new endpapers; this copy with blind-stamp of the University of Arizona Agricultural Library (twice to prelims, once to front cover), o.w. Very Good throughout, with occasional mild foxing; map with one or two closed tears along folds, some acid-free tape repair, but generally good and intact; published for the Centennial International Exhibition Melbourne 1888.