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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Baines (Thomas)

THE GOLD REGIONS OF SOUTH-EASTERN AFRICA (Presentation Copy from Robert White)

Published: Edward Stanford, London, 1877

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240 pages (including 51 pages 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, tiled gilt on the spine, working loose at the front hinge, but holding on to the netting, slight foxing on the page edges, a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South Afrcian Bibliography Volume 1 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.

The presentation inscription on the title page reads: 'To T. Gervers Esq., with Rob. White's best regard. Brighton, Decb. 21. 1898.'

This volume belonged to Robert White, a very good friend of Thomas Baines. On the front paste down end paper is photograph of the marble tablet which White made to commemorate his friend with a handwritten inscription by him which reads: Copy of Tablet I sent to Durban, Natal, to be placed in the Church there in memory of my old friend Rob. White.

There is also an autograph letter written by White to Mr Herbert about Baines inserted loosely with the volume.

Frank Bradlow's article published in Africana Notes and News December 1978: Robert White, Thomas Baines and the Gold regions of South Eastern Africa is also included in the volume as well as an article from the Cape Monthly Magazine November 1875: Mr Baines' book on the Gold Country.

  • Overall Condition: A Good Copy
  • Size: 8vo (230 x 150mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 021 794 0600
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  • Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA


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