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FIRST TRADE EDITION WILLIAMS, GARDNER F. The Diamond Mines of South Africa. Plates with lettered tissue guards, numerous illustrations. Thick 4to,

FIRST TRADE EDITION WILLIAMS, GARDNER F. The Diamond Mines of South Africa. Plates with lettered tissue guards, numerous illustrations. Thick 4to, pink cloth gilt, stain along lower front cover and small marks on spine; few pencil notations; bookplate. New York, 1902

  • Notes: first edition. Williams was appointed general manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. in 1887, a position that enabled him to write this informative work. "This work, and its second edition... remains the most important historical treatise on the diamond mines of South Africa"--Sinkankas 7233.

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