Georges AUBERT Le TRANSVAAL et l'Angleterre en Afrique du Sud (1898) A two folding tables shows most

A two folding tables shows most important facts about the values of all South African and Rhodesian Mines, chartered companies, corporations, syndicates and unions, the values of land and diamondiferous lands (including their names and owners, their capital in British pounds, number of issued actions, dividends, number of mineral claims, number of active grounds, productivity in ounces on August 1899 and their benefits in British pounds on August 1899).

Chapters (translated from French):

1. Origins and history of Anglo-Boer conflict

2. Gold mines

3. Some indications on the gold mines

  - Statistics of gold mines

  - Tables of the values of South Africa

4. The reforms requested by the mining industry

  - Excange of lettrers on the mining reforms

5. Decadence of french trade

  - Its causes and remedies

6. The South African Republic (Transvaal)

  - Johannesburg

  - Pretoria

  - Imports of the Transvaal

  - List of Licenses required in the South African Republic

7. Cape Colony

  - Trade of Cape Town in 1898

  - New Customs Tariff

8. The Colony of Natal

  - Customs Tariff

9. The Orange Free State

10. The provinces of Mozambique

11. General:

  - Customs duty

  - General information on trade in South Africa

  - Maritime Lines to the South Africa

  - Practical advice for the trip 

  - General table of weights, measures, etc., in use in South Africa

  - General indications on articles imported in South Africa

Half-sheepskeen binding with marbled cartonage boards; Collation complete - 346 pages + folding colour map; Text in French; Binding is tight and firm, a bit scuffed to the extremities. Text block/pages in very good condition, with some yellowing.