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(DIAMONDS.) Babe, J. L. The South African Diamond Fields. Engraved frontispiece, 5 plates, and a folding map (only 1/4 still present). 8vo, modern
(DIAMONDS.) Babe, J. L. The South African Diamond Fields. Engraved frontispiece, 5 plates, and a folding map (only 1/4 still present). 8vo, modern wrappers with title erroneously printed with "Mines" instead of Fields; scattered wear includes dampstaining, foxing, pencil marks, preliminaries professionally reinforced with tissue, author's review statement mounted to verso of map. New York, 1872
- Notes: first edition of "one of the earliest firsthand accounts of the discovery and working of the alluvial and in-situ diamond fields of South Africa"--Sinkankas 267. Babe describes mining methods, tools, geographical descriptions and contains vivid explanations of the latest discoveries. "A rare work"--Sinkankas.
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