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PEARSON, HUGH. The Diamond Trail: An Account of Travel Among the Little Known Bahian Diamond Fields of Brazil. Photographic plates and one folding

PEARSON, HUGH. The Diamond Trail: An Account of Travel Among the Little Known Bahian Diamond Fields of Brazil. Photographic plates and one folding map. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth; scattered light foxing. London, 1926

  • Notes: first edition of Pearson's description of "primitive life of the inhabitants as well as furnishing remarks on the alluvial diamond deposits, local geology, geography,... [and] an interesting description of "burning" diamonds to remove surface defects"--Sinkankas 5048.

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