1923-1933. - Lot 3

1923-1933. Important lot of documentation including maps, tracings, plans and booklets relating to geology and mining in Indochina including: - Société des Mines de Trang-Da (Tonkin). Important set of tracing paper plans for the design of Fossati shaking tables for the processing of fine ores in Indochina under the aegis of the Société des Mines de Trang Da in Tonkin. - Note sur le Four à Cuve Fossati à marche continu pour la calcination des terres calaminaires breveté S.G.D.G. Paperback published in 1923, Imprimerie d'Extrême Orient. - October 1928. PNOM DEK. Collection of various geological maps on tracing paper of the Pnom Dek region signed by Lagoutte, listing soil qualities, drillings and boreholes carried out in the region for mining activities. Physical and economic map of Indochina. - 9 paperback volumes comprising volumes VII, XIV, XV, XVII, XVIII and XIX of the bulletin du Service Géologique de l'Indochine. Incomplete set produced between 1920 and 1931 by the department, including studies of Indochina's soils, relief and prehistory. Extensively illustrated with black and white plates and photographs. - A paperback book published by the General Government of Indochina on the Mining Industry of French Indochina in 1928. - L'industrie minérale indochinoise en 1933, Hanoi, Imprimerie d'Extrême Orient. Published under the patronage of the Association des Mines du Tonkin. - Réglementation minière de l'Indochine. Recueil des documents officiels de l'année 1929 dité par l'Associatiion des Mines du Tonkin à Hanoï. - Introduction aux études Minières Coloniales, publications by the Bureau d'études géologiques et minières coloniales. Paperback published by Société d'Editions géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, Paris, 1934. - Also included: - Two brochures published respectively by the Société des Mines d'étain du Haut-Tonkin and the Compagnie Fermière des Étains d'Extrême Orient, including articles of association and financial statements for 1933. - A set of five black & white photographs showing unusual views of a Tonkin mining company and its activities: group photograph on a hillside, sacking of mined ores, transport by cart through the mining area under the supervision of foremen, loading of ore sacks onto a junk, etc. - 9 postcards from Tonkin, including views of Hanoi, Haiphong and portraits of Tonkin women.