A Guide to the Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones of Southern Africa
Includes a pull-out colour and hardness table.
Includes a pull-out colour and hardness table.
Past owner’s name in ink on front endpapers. Slight marking on boards, corners frayed and bumped.
With thirty-five coloured plates
Clean copy; a little edge wear to boards and binding mildly skewed. Slight foxing to endpapers and top fore edges of pages. DW chipped at top, spine browned with shelf number in black ink on white paint at lower edge.
Eighth edition revised and enlarged by A C Madam. Pencil scribbles on front and back endpapers. Front fep missing. General wear to boards and bumped corners. Spine replaced with green tape. Oriiginal spine (piece at top missing) loose in book.
Compiled for the Bechuanaland Protectorate Administration. Published for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures.Folded map clean and whole. Ex library copy: front endpapers stamped, also title page and some other pages (vii, 117, 213, 257). Mark to spine from shelf mark. Otherwise a clean sturdy copy.
Previous owner’s name on fep.
Some foxing on pages. Includes six illustrations. Corners bumped. Ink inscription dated 1904 to fep.
Ex-library. Top of spine bumped with bottom of page edges untrimmed. Some foxing to back and front paste down fep.