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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Jas. Gray F.I.C.

PAYABLE GOLD

Published: Central News Agency, South Africa, 1937

Edition: First Edition

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Rexine covered boards, gilt band and titles on brown background. Some foxing on endpapers and sub-title page, but the rest of the book is clean. Binding tight.

Many maps and facsimiles of documents, and photographs of people. Pull-out registration document with names and dates.

Pages [1-4]5-286

An intimate record of the history of the discovery of the payable Witwatersrand goldfields and of Johannesburg in 1886 and 1887, based on research by Ethel L. Gray and containing the Oosthuizen Papers which reveal the story of the discovery. A history compiled entirely from original documents and newspaper cuttings of the time. Place index, Index of person, Translations of photographic reproductions of documents by B. De Coligny Marchand, pp239-260.

  • Size: 220 x 150 x 25 mm
  • Sold By: Pringle Bay Books
  • Contact Person: Neil Berens
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 082 899 7195 or 083 652 5694
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  • Trade Associations: SABDA


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