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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated Edition. Portraits of Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa by Captain W. Cornwallis Harris From A. A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1969. Very large, heavy book with fantastic illustrations and some foldouts. Originally published in 1840. Pages are tight and clean shipping outside and inside the US will be extra because of weight and size Covers look good Dustjacket edge wear mainly.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Edition. VERY HEAVY. 175pp, bw text ills, full page col plates. Or gray cloth with gilt vignette of antelope head, in jacket. Slightest of edge wear to jacket, brown mark at lower right of rear jacket panel. Several signatures and expressions of thanks on front free endpaper, frontis plate has a crease which was a (very minor) fault from the publisher. An excellent facsimile of the 1840 original which remains one of the most beautiful and sought after 19th century illustrated works on Africa and its wildlife. Size: Elephant Folio.…

FOLIO. A NEAR FINE COPY IN A NEAR FINE DUSTWRAP. FACSIMILE OF THE 1840 EDITION. 30 COLOUR PLATES AND TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS. SCARCE. NEAT INSCRIPTION ON FEP.

FACSIMILE EDITION, folio, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt antelope illus to front board, frontispiece, illus title page, vi + 175pp, illus, VG- (light to moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, light to moderate chafing & glue/paper residue to rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals, heavy crack to gutter towards rear) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate to heavy chafing/scuffing & soiling with minor foxing also. …

Leather Spine Gold Embossed. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. #345 of 550. Leather spine is fine but cloth has some scuffing. Text block and plates are clean and square. Large heavy book would be over $125 to ship international. Signed by Publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dust jacket is slightly shelf rubbed with minor marks. The boards are still in a very good condition. Minor insect damage on the front end page and within the front board. Internally clean and tightly bound. This very tall; heavy book is complete with 175 pages.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required. [B.K.][INF40]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. Tall. 1/4 Leather. Hand Made book. Signed by Frank Read (Publisher) #278/550.published in Mazoe, Rhodesia. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, and very lightly scuffed along the edges. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. Tall. 1/4 Leather. Hand Made book. Signed by Frank Read (Publisher) #278/550. Mazoe, Rhodesia 1976. The boards are very lightly shelf rubbed, but shows little wear. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.…

Condition: Very good. Imperial folio (55.5 x 39cm), [15pp.], including 3pp list of subscribers, 175 pp, [2] 30 full page coloured lithographed plates. This first issue, first edition has the additional coloured vignette title page and the lithographed chapter tailpieces. Ex libris to the front pastedown endpaper, some newspaper cuttings from the period have been tipped onto the front free endpaper. Some spotting and foxing, though the plates remain bright. An exceptional copy free from any restoration and bound in the original half red morocco binding with gilt stags and tigers to the spine. Some scuffing to the leather and rubbing and scratches to the marbled paper covered boards. "One of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna. In the prospectus of the volume, which appeared in the "Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa" (Bombay, 1838), it is stated that the publication of the " twenty-eight original paintings " was made with the "object to combine in them, as far as possible, information which might be useful to the Naturalist, the Sportsman, and the Lover of Wild Scenery." The delineations of the quadrupeds were "drawn from repeated measurements upon a uniform scale of one and a half inches to a foot. One or more of each species is depicted in the foreground of an appropriate landscape, twelve by seventeen inches, with groups in the distance or middle ground." This arrangement has enabled the author " to convey an accurate idea of the nature of the country inhabited by each species,; also their manner of living, in numerous herds, in small families, or singly. It was estimated that the expense of publishing the volume would be £5000, and at the time the advertisement appeared 250 subscribers had been obtained at £10. The list given in the volume, however, is far larger, and 449 copies are accounted for amongst the names given. In addition to the beautiful coloured engravings which render this work almost the most highly prized of the books relating to South African animals, every plate is accompanied by an exhaustive chapter upon the characteristics of the animal represented, as well as by a short sketch of its personal appearance, &c., and numerous engravings in the letterpress illustrate the notes." (Mendelssohn, South African Bibliography, vol.1, 1957, pg.688) Dimensions: Folio, 55.5 x 39cm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Portraits Of The Game And Wild Animals Of Southern Africa 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. Drawn on Stone by Frank Howard. "One of the rarest of all books dealing with African big game and sport, this monumental presentation depicts wild game of southern Africa as encountered and studied by Harris. The tinted lithographs highlighted in colour by hand are especially lovely and make this volume exceptionally desireable. Included among the portraits are elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros, lion, leopard, kudu, roan, eland, and quagga, among others. Each of the illustrations is also enlivened by scenic backgrounds of the habitat. The portraits are highlighted with Harris' detailed descriptions of the game, habitat, and with occasional mention of his hunting adventures." [Czech, 1999 : 71/2]. "One of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna.In addition to the beautiful coloured engravings which render this work almost the most highly prized of the books relating to South African animals, every plate is accompanied by an exhaustive chapter upon the characteristics of the animal represented, as well as by a short sketch of its personal appearance, &c., and numerous engravings in the letterpress illustrate the notes." [Mendelssohn, Volume I, 1957 : 688/9]. 3/4 red leather + red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Five raised, ruled, bands with 6 spinal compartment and gilt embellishments in spinal compartments. All edges gilt. Marbled end-papers. Lithographed title-page + Title-page + Introduction + Contents + List of Subscribers. 30 hand-tinted lithograph illustrations. Vignettes (uncoloured) at the end of each section. Two title-pages bound in at rear, together with 3 copies of a list of the authors works. Plate VIII, trimmed and relaid on paper, inserted professionally. Some minor repairs to plates and elsewhere. Staining to margins of text in places, not affecting plates. Expected foxing throughout. 11 cm. tear in the leather at the base of spine. Some rubbing and wear to corners and edges of the leather. Some lifting to cloth in parts. Ex-libris R. Egerton Helme, with his book-plate on the front, paste-down. Captain R. Egerton Helme was a great benefactor of palaeontological and archaeological research. Five fossil animals were given the name helmei in recognition of his interest and financial support. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Captain W. Cornwallis Harris Portraits of Game and Wild Animals Of Southern Africa Hand-colored lithographs: London, 1840. Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807-1848) was the epitome of the "Great White Hunter." After graduating military college, he was appointed to the Bombay headquarters at sixteen years of age. A series of promotions and consequent locational changes brought Harris, en route to a new post, to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was detained for two years by a medical board. On the voyage, Marris had befriended the avid hunter Richard Williamson of the Bombay civil establishment, and the two had arranged an expedition into the interior in quest of big game. At the time, South Africa had attracted Europe's attention owing to the Dutch colonists' exodus. For years, there had been dangerous encounters with the fierce Zulu tribes of "Dingaan," in present-day central Natal, South Africa. After conferring with the noted African naturalist, Dr. Andrew Smith who had just returned from the interior, both Harris and Williamson headed northeasterly from Algoa Bay, Cape Province. Following the Orange River through Basutoland, they finally encountered the kraals of the famous Matabelechief "Moselikatze." Through the chief's help, they returned to the colony via a new and previously closed route. Their safari, which lasted almost two years, allowed them to encounter a great variety of large game in new territories. Harris communicated an account of his travels in Southern Africa to both the Royal Geographical Society of London, and the Geographical Society of Bombay. In 1840 he published the Portraits of Game Animals, the first with pictures drawn by Harris, and reproduced on stone by F. Howard in London. All of the prints are in excellent condition, and each is accompanied by the original text describing the first impressions of the ¿Cape Colonists¿ of the particular species pictured in each print.…