240 pages (including 51 pages of commercial advertisements), frontispiece portrait - a laid down photograph of Baines, title page vignette, large folding map in pocket in back cover, 3 plates, folding facsimile letter, engraved illustrations in the text, original pictorial dark green cloth with a gilt vignette of a galloping zebra on the upper cover, neatly recased – the cloth is dull and lightly stained, some light foxing throughout.
Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume I, page 71. 'The volume is a most important work, and contains full information of every description upon the subject of the gold discoveries in Matabeleland and Mashonaland ... The book also contains an account of the gold discoveries in the Transvaal...' An unusual variant in dark green cloth.
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8vo (225 x 150mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
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