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South Africa
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The Seven Lost Trails of Africa, Hedley A. Chilvers, 1930, 1st Edition

Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure.

With eight illustrations by Alfred Palmer, R.O.I and eight maps by H.E. Winder,

Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1930, 1st Edition, xiii+242 pages,

Brown leatherette, gold lettering,

Previous owner's signature inside front and back cover,

Some foxing on end paper, minor shelf wear on spine, nice, tight binding, clean inside,

Very good overall condition.

Please note: some of the page edges were not cut very well, leaving some untidy edges.

Some background information on this: 

Books are printed on large sheets of paper, about the size of newsprint. Several pages are printed on each sheet. In fact, there is a specific number of pages per sheet, depending on the size of the book. 
Each group of sheets folded like that is a signature and the book was assembled by stacking all the signatures in order, sewing them together, gluing on a back cloth and attaching it to the end papers, which were attached to the front and back covers. But before the covers were attached, the page edges were trimmed. If the original sheet folding wasn’t too accurate, the trimming might miss a folded edge or two and when you came to that page, you found two pages joined together at both front and back. The solution is to take your penknife (which every gentleman carries) and slit the pages so you can continue reading. (Sometimes books were deliberately uncut, leaving to the reader the task of cutting all the pages. There was a time when cutting pages was considered a great pleasure.)

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The exploits of African treasure-hunters. Seven lost treasures:

  • the way to the great valley of precious stones said to be in the wild hills to the North of the bend of the Orange River;
  • the old diamond craters, the source of the diamonds scattered over S. Africa;
  • the diamonds and gold bars said to have been buried by the murderer Swartz in 1903 in the banks of the Blyde River, Transvaal;
  • the precise site of the shipwreck of the Grosvenor which sank with a great Indian treasure on the Pondo Coast in 1782;
  • the "Rhodesian" treasure, in diamonds, gold and ivory buried by Lobengula, King of the Matabele, in 1893;
  • the old silver mines of Chicova or Chicoa, on the North side of the Zambesi;
  • the whereabouts of the second & larger half of the Cullinan diamond.
  • Also, the missing Kruger millions &
  • the lost goldfield of Madagascar.

 

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