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Author Stirling, Patrick James, 1809-1891.

Title 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 / by Patrick James Stirling
Published Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd, 1853

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 ADPML SPC  332.41 Sti/Aac 1853  LIB USE ONLY
Description xiii 279 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 21 cm
Summary Letter xviii discusses the Australian gold fields and the economic consequences of the mining of gold in Australia Includes bibliographical references
Notes Cover title: The gold discoveries and their probable consequences
Letter xviii discusses the Australian gold fields and the economic consequences of the mining of gold in Australia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Gold mines and mining -- Australia.
Gold mines and mining -- California.
Gold standard.
Gold.
Money.
Precious metals.
Prices -- History.
SUBJECT Australia -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009585
LC no. 06003996
Other Titles Inquiry into the laws which determine the value and distribution of the precious metals
Gold discoveries and their probable consequences
Inquiry into the laws which determine the value and distribution of the precious metals