Lot 141
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BUTLER, Henry (c.1835-50). South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony. London: Ackermann, 1841. 2° (370 x 268mm). Additional lithographic title and 30 plates, 16 hand-coloured, on 15 sheets.(Lithographic title spotted, foxed, a few plates lightly spotted.) Original blue moiré cloth (lightly rubbed, nick at spine).
BUTLER, Henry (c.1835-50). South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony. London: Ackermann, 1841. 2° (370 x 268mm). Additional lithographic title and 30 plates, 16 hand-coloured, on 15 sheets.(Lithographic title spotted, foxed, a few plates lightly spotted.) Original blue moiré cloth (lightly rubbed, nick at spine).

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BUTLER, Henry (c.1835-50). South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony. London: Ackermann, 1841. 2° (370 x 268mm). Additional lithographic title and 30 plates, 16 hand-coloured, on 15 sheets.(Lithographic title spotted, foxed, a few plates lightly spotted.) Original blue moiré cloth (lightly rubbed, nick at spine).

FIRST EDITION of an 'illustrated description of sporting adventures on the "Bontebok Flats" in Kaffraria, near the Kat River Settlement' (Mendelssohn). Abbey Travel 336; Mendelssohn I, p.235; Schwerdt I, p.90; Tooley 126.

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