Witwatersrand gold years

     Book is in very good condition. It is a review of the discovery and development of the Witwatersrand Goldfield as seen from the geological viewpoint.   This is the Standard Edition. It includes lots of fold out maps A Rare Find! Format:  Hardcover with dustjacket Date of Publication: 1986 - 1st Edition       R50 postage costs. I do combine postage so have a look at other books I have for sale by clicking on the ladybean logo below!    

African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines BBy: Hugh Tracey A first edition hardcover published by African Music Society in 1952 Red cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, pages are lightly agecoloured Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation

Buy African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines by Hugh Tracey with photographs by Merlyn Severn for R450.00

Buy RARE RARE AFRICANA AFRICAN DANCES OF THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD MINES !!!!! for R50.00

  Witwatersrand University Press, 1994. First Edition.  Paperback in good condition, somewhat edgeworn, scuffed and scraped, bookdealer stamp on front inside cover, 284 pp.

Gold Bricks and Mortar: 60 Years of Johannesburg History by Eric Rosenthal is a moving and dramatic book about a significant epoch in South Africa. The author has, with meticulous attention to detail, reconstructed the events that led to the discovery of gold on the Wiwatersrand and has told, as human narrative, the story of those pioneers who laid the foundations of Johannesburg. Edition: 1st, No DW Publisher: Printing House Binding: Hardcover

GOLD BRICKS AND MORTAR by Eric Rosenthal Hard cover NO d/wrapper 190x125 mm Johannesburg Printing House Ltd 1946 1 st ED 186 pages no index 16 b/w illustrations/photos (all intact) Good cond spine/lower corners bumped complete, but binding threatening to part; owner™s inscription on f/board 60 years of Johannesburg history.

Buy ** 1937 ** Payable Gold - Witwatersrand & Johannesburg 1886 & 1887. Jas. Gray., F.I.C for R130.00

  Payable Gold - Jas. Gray - CNA 1937 - Hard cover in very good, clean an dtight condition. Gray's Payable Gold is an intimate record of the history of the discovery of the payable Witwatersrand goldfields and of Johannesburg in 1886 and 1887.

1998 paperback with 507 pages in good condition. R46 postage in SA. Ship of Gold tells the story of the sinking of the SS Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, two hundred miles off the Carolina coast in September 1857. Over four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of California gold were lost. It was the worst peacetime disaster at sea in American history, a tragedy that remained lost in legend for over a century. In the 1980s, a young engineer from Ohio set out to do what no one, not even the United States Navy, had been able to do: establish a working presence on the deep-ocean floor and open it to science, archaeology, history, medicine, and recovery. The SS Central America became the target of his project. After years of intensive efforts, Tommy Thompson and the Columbus-America Discovery Group found the SS Central America in eight thousand feet of water, and in October 1989 they sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. Gary Kinder tells this extraordinary tale of history, human drama, heroic rescue, scientific ingenuity, and individual courage.

Set in South Africa's Rand, The City of Gold is a sequel to They Seek a Country (1937). The history of the Grafton family, taken up thirty years after the ending of the first novel stretches from 1872 to 1896. It is a story of the Annexation of the Transvaal; of Sekukuni's wars; of the development of the mining industry of the Transvaal; and of Johannesburg, the city of gold. Historical figures such as Kruger, Joubert, the Rhodes brothers and Jameson are included in the fiction. The brothers and sisters of the Grafton family represent a variety of opinion: nationalistic; pro-Boer; pro-English; moderate; and, in the case of Janse and Lena, South Africa as a great nation in which all races and groups would be reconciled. This is a magnificent novel bringing to life the beauty of an immense and varied land, and of its people, written with the sensitivity of a born poet.   Author: Francis Brett Young Format: Paperback Pages: 539pp ISBN: 2016111701

Subtitle: Some History of Natal and Zululand Author: Mr Daryl O'Connor Publisher: Daryl O`Connor (2013) ISBN-10: 0620570482 ISBN-13: 9780620570480 Condition: Very Good. Light wear to cover, edges and corners. Binding: Softcover Pages: 260 Dimensions: 24.5 x 16.9 x 1.5 cm +++ by Mr Daryl O'Connor +++ South Africa has a really rich and varied history, probably best known for gold and diamonds, the Boer War and the Zulu war - there is just so much more! Sugar has been the major economic activity in what is now Kwazulu Natal,  formerly Natal and Zululand for nearly 200 years. It has been a story of clashing worlds and cultures, Western and African, Imperialism, settlers coming to a new land to make new lives, making of great fortunes, creation of dynasties, conflict and treachery leading to war between the settlers and the Zulus and finally the conflict between the powerful old families leading to a massive takeover battle leading to consolidation of the industry into two massive organisations operating internationally.

Book is one of  the set shown BUT this one looks brand new and unread with bright gold titles.   >>>    Two Years Before the Mast  is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834.  -   While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles, which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour as most of his fellow classmates traditionally did (and unable to afford it anyway) and being something of a non-conformist, left Harvard to enlist as a common sailor on a voyage around Cape Horn on the brig Pilgrim. He returned to Massachusetts two years later aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim).  -   He kept a diary throughout the voyage, and after returning he wrote a recognized American classic,  Two Years Before the Mast, published in 1840, the same year of his admission to the bar.  (Goodreads)    

Alexandra I Love You - A Record of Seventy Years Edited by: Jon Swift A first edition hardcover published by Alexandra Liason Committee in 1983 Red cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, 3cm closed tear to bottom right back cover light fade to spine and agecolour Postage inside South Africa R40.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quote Abe #    

The Shell Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design By: Hugh & Marguerite Stix and R. T. Abbott A hard cover edition published by H Abrams Blue cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, previous owners signature inked out on back of front cover, book smells of mothballs, dustjacket is complete, has tear & hole situated on front cover by spine 10cms from top Postage within South Africa R70.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation