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 Precious Metals: with Historical Notices of the Effects of the American Mines on European Prices in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries First Edition; 8vo; pp. xiv (last blank), [13]-280 (last blank), [2] 1 book ad, last blank; folding frontispiece table, original maroon cloth with decorative blind stamp design, title in gilt on spine; spine faded, repair to base of spine; two bookplates pasted to front fixed endpaper, faint remnant of 4 white digits at the base of spine; a good copy. Bookplates of James Angus Johnson and Charles R. Glover. This actual book is listed in the Glover Catalogue as item 2374. Written as a series of letters on various precious metal related areas from 1492 and including origin, use and function of money, market and mint price of gold and silver, effects of increased supply, phenomenon of prices in Australia, America and Europe, prices of labour and commodities, principles governing international values, effects of discoveries on different classes of society, recent accounts of gold discoveries in California and Australia and more. One of the rarest of the early Australian goldfields works. Folding chart details the value of precious metals since 1500. Ferguson 16282. This book has only 1 book ad at the back, the rest have been neatly removed. Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale Court. Agents in London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1853.