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A very scarce copy of one of the earliest annual reports by the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines, which, after 1902, was renamed the Transvaal Chamber of Mines.
Published in Johannesburg in the final decade of the 19th century, at the time of the Jameson Raid and President Paul Kruger's South African/Transvaal Republic.
Publisher's red cloth binding with gilt titles to front panel and spine.
275pp + numerous pull-out charts containing information on the Rand's gold output for that year. Folding map of the Transvaal Gold Fields as frontispiece.
Binding damp stained along the edges (not affecting text internally). Rear inner hinge cracked.
The Membership list of the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines contains many famous names: B. I. Barnato, Solly Joel, J.P. Fitzpatrick of Simmer & Jack East (and author of Jock of the Bushveld), Theodore Reunert, Carl Jeppe, H. M. Guest, H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines), Georg Schmitz-Dumont (President Kruger's Inspector of Mines - killed in action in 1900 at the Battle of Spioenkop).
- Binding Condition: Fair
- Overall Condition: Fair
- Size: 4to
- Name: Rare Paper
- Contact Person: Armandt Marais
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 0741235861
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