Item #56327 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. Patrick James Stirling, F. R. S. E.

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

New York: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. With Historical Notices of the Effects of the American Mines on European Prices in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Folding frontispiece. Facsimile reprint of the 1853 Oliver & Boyd first edition. "The Stirling work consists primarily of an economic discourse on gold, history of coinage, comparison with silver, and the economics effects of the Australian and California gold discoveries." Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A very good copy. Kurutz, G.: The California Gold Rush, #606. Very Good. Item #56327

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