THE GOLD MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA (1890)

We are offering here a sound copy of this sought after mining study from 1890 which contains 6 folding colour MAPS and 6 figures in the text, the monographs of more than 600 companies, numerous tables and statistics, the translation of the mining law in the Transvaal, the Royal Chart of the British South African Company, etc. This is an extremely rare copy of this precious work, rarely sold in auctions and hard to find even in National and University Libraries!

Folding Maps:

1) Color Map of South Africa from the Zambezi (drawn after George Cawston);

2) Color General Map of the Transvaal (by Henry Dupont);

3) Color Map of Matabeleland (with locations of the Ruins and Former Gold Mine Workings, discovered by Carl Mauch);

4) Map of the De Kaap Gold Fields (drawn from Ed. Mathers);

5) Map of the Witwatersrand District (by Henry Dupont);

6) Multiple folding Profil of the Main Reef, with the name of all the companies which exploit it, their location, their surface area, the number of their claims and the number of their pylons (by Henry Dupont).

"Les Mines d'Or de l'Afrique du Sud"; High quality half-binding in white stippled cloth and leather with gilt border-lines and paneled sp. with gilt lettering and decorated panels plus 'Paris 1890' to bottom; Text in French; Collation complete - Title page, xxiii, 357 pages, with 6 folding colour maps and 6 figures in the text; Overall in very good condition. Binding is tight and firm, worn as usually for the age, mostly to the extremities, little bumped and rubbed. Text block/pages in very good condition, much unopened and uncut fore-edge meaning outer margins of some pages inevitably tanned and/or slight wavy, but clean, tight and unmarked. No foxing throughout. Text block/pages somewhere pressed by folding maps/tables. Maps in excellent condition, whole and clean.

IMPORTANT informations regarding shipping: Shipping to South Africa possible only via Fedex/DHL Express service ($80-120). Shipping to EU & UK via our national post registered Airmail trackable parcel ($30-40). Shipping to US via USPS ($40). For other countries please ask.