Payable Gold (Hardcover) - Gray, Jas

Payable Gold. An Intimate Record of the History of the Discovery of the Payable Witwatersrand Goldfields and of Johannesburg in 1886 and 1887. A historic treatment of the discovery of gold on the Rand, Subtitle continues: Based on Researches made in the State Archives, Pretoria by Ethel L. Gray and containing the Oosthuizen Papers which reveal the story of the discovery.

Hardcover. English. Central News Agency. 1937. 286pp. Good condition in hardcover though 1 plate is loose. Small name in front and possibly front ep missing. 8vo; original light brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, with band blocked in gilt around middle of boards and backstrip; pp. 286, incl. index; plates; some illustrations in text; folding table. Light wear to cloth.. Comment inside as well as previous owner's name inside. Book No: 1500045