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Auction: 13017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 753

CORNELL, Lieut. Fred C. The Glamour of Prospecting. Wanderings of a South African prospector in search of copper, gold, emeralds, and diamonds. F.A Stokes, New York, 1920. Octavo, 348 pages, fold-out map at back, illustrations throughout book. Original maroon blind-embossed cloth, gilt title on spine, rubbed at corners and top and bottom of spine. Clean and sound internally. WITH: BLELOCH, W.E. & O'FLAHERTY, A.E. A Thousand Million Pounds For Us or Germany? The Gold of the Far East Rand. Johannesbury, 1917. Quarto, 336 pages, folding maps in pocket at back. Original green cloth, gilt, minimal wear. WITH: NICHOLAS, F.C. Mining Investments and How to Judge Them. Moody's Magazine, New York, 1909. Small octavo, 233 pages plus 7 pages of adverts at back. Original green cloth, titled in black on cover and spine, minimal wear (3).

[Frederick Carruthers Cornell was born in Devon in 1867. As a young man he commenced his mining career in Brazil and then Mexico before travelling to South Africa in 1901. He made many prospecting trips in the course of his 20 years in South Africa: to Namaqualand and the Richtersveld and South West Africa searching for gold, copper and diamonds but was never fortunate enough to make a significant find].

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