First Edition (not the Subscribers Edition).
By Captain William Cornwallis Harris

Delineated from Life in their Native Haunts, during a Hunting Expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, with Sketches of the Field Sports.

Elephant Folio (555 by 338mm).
Contents page tipped in. All 30 hand-tinted lithographic plates present. Minor foxing throughout. The first few plates have more foxing than the rest. Otherwise complete in original binding. Front board and back board are worn and chipped at the edges.

10mm tear on the Quagga plate.
Offsetting on the tissue guards of all the plates.

This huge work was first published in parts between 1840 and 1842 and in volume form in 1843. It was considered by Mendelssohn “One of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna”. Each chapter has a detailed description of the animal illustrated in the accompanying plate.

R250,000