May 27, 2004 - Sale 2008

Sale 2008 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(DIAMONDS.) Babe, J. L. The South African Diamond Fields. Engraved frontispiece, 5 plates, and a folding map (only 1/4 still present). 8vo, modern wrappers with title erroneously printed with "Mines" instead of Fields; scattered wear includes dampstaining, foxing, pencil marks, preliminaries professionally reinforced with tissue, author's review statement mounted to verso of map. New York, 1872

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first edition