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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

James Wyld.

Wyld’s New Map of the Witwatersrandt Gold Fields and District

Showing the Main and other Reefs, and the Farms and the Gold Mining Company’s Claims and Concessions [also Plan of Johannesburgh].

Published: James Wyld, London, 1889

Edition: Second edition

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One of the first maps of the newly developed gold fields. Measures 103 cm x 60 cm, 36 folding panels mounted on linen, vividly coloured. In a somewhat worn brown cloth case. A scarce map of the new gold fields, first discovered in 1886, by the mapmakers under James Wyld (1812-87), one of the world's leading mapmakers and Geographer to the Queen. Bright and sound. Scarce. 



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