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[MINING] Bonwick: Notes of a Gold Digger and Gold DIgger's Guide

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James Bonwick

Notes of a Gold Digger and Gold Digger's Guide

Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1942.
Facsimile Edition.
25.5cm x 17cm. [iv], 48 pages. Quarter leather, brown cloth, gilt lettering.

Introduction by E. E. Pescott. Limited to 250 copies, being a facsimile of the rare 1852 edition.

Previous owner's name and stamp. Some foxing.

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