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Auction #124 begins on 03 Jul 2025

Auction #124 - Mining

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Lot 10

Praagh (L. V.)

THE TRANSVAAL AND ITS MINES (1906)

The Encyclopedic History of the Transvaal.

Lot 11

Reunert (Theodore)

DIAMONDS AND GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA (1893)

Scarce first edition.

Lot 12

Jansen (E.)

CONCEPTS ABOUT DIAMOND SCIENCE AND DIAMOND PROCESSING (1923)

One of the only 25 copies of this work printed on hand-made paper, numbered and provided with the author's signature (this copy is numbered as "4").

Lot 13

Williams (Gardner F.)

THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA (Special Author's Signed Edition)

By Gardner F. Williams, M.A., General Manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd.

Lot 14

Chilvers (Hedley A.)

THE STORY OF DE BEERS

With Some Notes on the Company's Financial, Farming, Railway and Industrial Activities in Africa. And some Introductory Chapters on the River Diggings and Early…

Lot 23

Dunn (E. J.)

GEOLOGY OF GOLD (SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND) (1929)

Lot 24

Rose (T. Kirke); edited by Roberts-Austin (W.C.)

THE METALLURGY OF GOLD (1894)

Lot 25

Gray (Ethel Lillian & James)

A HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD FIELDS (1940). (Signed copy)

With photographic reproductions of the official records of the discovery.

Lot 26

Imperial institute. Mineral resources department.

MINING ROYALTIES AND RENTS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE (1936)

Lot 27

Katzen (Leo)

GOLD & THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY (1964)

The Influence of the Goldmining Industry on Business Cycles and Economic Growth in South Africa, 1886-1961

Lot 28

Schatz (Ilse)

TSUMEB IN OTAVI MINING & RAILWAY COMPANY'S TIME (1997)

The foresight of the founder of the Tsumeb Museum on the Tsumeb Mine (Ongopolo Mine) in Namibia.

Lot 30

Mitchell (Henry)

DIAMONDS AND GOLD OF SOUTH AFRICA together with the Transvaal Gold Law and other useful Information (1888)

Very early book referencing Johannesburg, which was proclaimed a city in October 1887.

Lot 31

Stokes (Ralph)

MINES AND MINERALS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (1908)

Lot 43

Sawyer (A. R.)

THE GOLDFIELDS OF MASHONALAND (1894)

Lot 44

Summers (Roger)

ANCIENT MINING IN RHODESIA and adjacent areas (1969)

Lot 45

De Launay (Louis)

LES MINES D'OR DU TRANSVAAL (1896) - "The Gold Mines of the Transvaal"

Lot 57

[Noble (John) Editor:]

ILLUSTRATED OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE CAPE AND SOUTH AFRICA (1893)

with chapters on the Diamond Mines of South Africa, Gold-Mining on the Witwatersrand, the Coal Fields & Silver Mines of Transvaal

Lot 165

Bell, (R.L.P.)

DIARY OF A SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNEY

Inscribed & Signed

Lot 170

Sauer (Dr. Hans)

THE WITWATERSRAND GOLDFIELD

Lot 237

Bee (A. G.)

KEEPER OF THE HIGHWAY - THE STORY OF SAMUEL COWLEY (1942) x 2 inscribed copies

1.) Inscribed by Early Rand Pioneer Samuel Cowley & 2.) Inscribed by author to the publisher

Lot 238

Cartwright (A. P.)

DIAMONDS AND CLAY (1977) - full leather de luxe edition signed & dated by the author

Lot 239

Hans Bornman (compiler)

PHOTO HISTORY OF BARBERTON 1884 - 1984

contains numerous early photographs of the pioneer mining town.

Lot 291

Angove (John)

IN THE EARLY DAYS

The reminiscences of pioneer life on the South African Diamond Fields

Lot 313

Various Eds

THE MINING SURVEY (27 Editions)

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