PAYABLE GOLD

Gilt band and titles on brown background.  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. 

Fold out page at back of book "Mijnpachtbrieven Registered up to and Including 25th October 1886.