CHAPER, MAURICE-ARMAND.

Note sur La R‚gion DiamantifŠre de l'Afrique Australe. Folding table, 3 plans, map, and 8 photographic plates. 8vo, original green printed wrappers, rebacked in cloth; thick paper stock providing new endpapers and pastedowns. Cover signed in ink by "P. Chaper." Paris: Masson, 1880 first edition of a remarkable account of the diamondiferous region of South Africa. Mention is made of the Kimberley, De Beers, Dutoitspan, and Bultfontein mines and river diggings. The maps and charts show routes to, and plans of, the mines, and the views show the workers and machinery used in mining. Sinkankas 1246.