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Item Details
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| Author: |
Harris, Sir William Cornwallis |
| Title: |
The Wild Sports of Southern Africa; Being the Narrative of a Hunting Expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, Through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Pelham Richardson |
| Date: |
1844 |
| Item # : |
169049 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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118 |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1150 |
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| Description: |
| xvi, 359 pp. Illustrated with 25 hand-colored lithographs by Frank Howard after Harris, including frontispiece and additional pictorial title; folding map in the back showing routes of imigrant farmers and native tribes. 9½x6½, original gilt and blind-stamped crimson-red cloth, rebacked with original gilt-stamped spine laid on, new endpapers, all edges gilt. Fourth Edition. |
| This fourth edition contains the two additional chapters providing a full account of the massacre of Retief and his party by Dingan, the fall of PietUys in the Zulu territories, etc. "The third, fourth and fifth editions, in particular, are the most sought after of this famous African exploration and sporting work, due to the wonderful coloured plates of African game and scenery. Harris journeyed to the Meritsane River where he encountered a herd of quaggas and bridled ‘gnoos’ he estimated at 15,000 head…Crossing the Mariqua River he hunted ostrich and white rhinoceros…[in] the Limpopo Valley…he hunted buffalo and hippopotamus, with additional sport after giraffe, black rhinoceros, sable, and lion. Harris’ work is valuable as it presents a detailed picture of the South African game fields prior to the growing pressure of civilization" - Czech, p. 71; Litchfield 26; Schwerdt I, pp. 231-2. |
| Condition: |
| Chipping to original cloth of spine ends, mild rubbing and edge wear; light foxing, occasional minor marginal stains (chiefly to rear endpapers); else very good or better. |
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