329. Harris (Capt. William Cornwallis) Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, hand-coloured lithographed additional vignette title and 30 plates by Frank Howard after Harris, list of subscribers, title trimmed and laid down, Hippopotamus plate with some light water-staining at head, text f. to plate V with a repaired tear within text, several plates and text ff. with repaired marginal tears or chips, some spotting and soiling to text ff. plates generally bright and clean, modern green dark crushed half morocco, gilt, [Abbey, Travel, 335; Mendelssohn I, p.688], folio, 1840.
est. £2000 – £3000
“one of the most important and valuable works on South African fauna” (Mendelssohn).
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