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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Early Johannesburg

GROCOTT & SHERRY'S PLAN OF JOHANNESBURG AND SUBURBS 1898

Published: Grocott & Sherry, Johannesburg, 1898

Edition: First Edition

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Publisher's green cloth-covered card binding enclosing a fold-out map of early Johannesburg.

Size: 55 x 43cm

Bookplate of Witwatersrand University on front panel and withdrawn stamp at top left. 

Includes a table of information at bottom right corner relating to the population demographics of Johannesburg in 1896, the total Gold production of the Witwatersrand from 1887 to 1897, and information regarding the distances by rail to South Africa's other major centres of the period.

A rare, early Johannesburg printing and map of the Golden City.

  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 55 x 43cm
  • Sold By: Rare Paper
  • Contact Person: Armandt Marais
  • Country: South Africa
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