THE DIAMOND FIELDS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

Johannesburg: The Transvaal Leader, 1914

4to, xxv + 347pp. Hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to spine. With 36 plates, two of which fold out, and 2 fold-out maps, collated and complete.

Percy Albert Wagner was born on October 18th, 1885, at Richmond, Cape Province, and educated at the South African College Preparatory School; the South African College; the South African School of Mines and Technology, Johannesburg, where he graduated B.Sc. and took the Diploma in Mining Engineering in 1906. He also won the University' Mining Exhibition and the Corstorphine Prize. He then went to Freiburg, where he took the D.Ing. degree under Prof. R. Beck, and to Heidelberg. On his return to South Africa, he taught at the Transvaal University College for a short while, and was for a few months on the staff of the Geological Survey of the Transvaal; he was appointed to the Geological Survey of the Union in 1919 for economic work, and from that date to 1927, when he resigned to become consultant to the Union Minerals Exploration Syndicate, he

was chiefly engaged in producing memoirs on certain mineral deposits. (https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA10120750_1707)

Condition: Good. Spots of staining, wear and edgewear to boards, some shelfwear to top and tail of spine, closed tear along front hinge. Previous owners’ signatures to front pastedown and endpaper, old stamp to rear pastedown, and light offsetting to facing endpaper. A few small notes in pencil to some pages, light splitting to gutters between some pages. Small creases to corners of the fold-out maps. Plates and maps are clean. Copy still well bound.