An Account Of A Journey To The Diamond Fields In South Africa In 1872 Containing A Full Description

by Frederic W Smith

$4,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New London, Connecticut, September 1876. 8vo 9.875” x 8” , three quarters black leather and coated black cloth over boards, gilt title at upper cover. 92 pp. in ink on as many leaves, most numbered. Regular corrections and annotations in ink, in Smith’s hand, on versos facing the relevant pages; occasional later pencil annotations to margins. Small newspaper clipping 1” x 1” and Smith’s ownership stamp at front pastedown

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