Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa 1840

First Edition, Second State (there isn’t a list of subscribers)
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 (555mm by 338mm).

All 30 hand-tinted lithographic plates present.
All pages complete and present.
Scattered foxing throughout.
Contents page repaired.
First few pages have vertical repairs to the folds in the paper.

This huge work 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.

R225,000

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