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BUTLER (Captain Henry): SOUTH AFRICAN SKETCHES illustrative of the wild life of a hunter on the frontier of the Cape Colony, London, Ackermann, 1841
FIRST EDITION, folio (377 x 275mm.), additional lithographed title and 15 lithographed plates each with two vignettes, one hand-coloured the other in outline, except plate 11 which has two coloured vignettes, original green cloth, upper cover blind-stamped and lettered in gilt
Abbey Travel 336; Tooley 126; Schwerdt vol. I p. 90 "a pleasing book, which shows the manner of hunting African big game in the first half of the 19th century"
FIRST EDITION, folio (377 x 275mm.), additional lithographed title and 15 lithographed plates each with two vignettes, one hand-coloured the other in outline, except plate 11 which has two coloured vignettes, original green cloth, upper cover blind-stamped and lettered in gilt
Abbey Travel 336; Tooley 126; Schwerdt vol. I p. 90 "a pleasing book, which shows the manner of hunting African big game in the first half of the 19th century"