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HARRIS, Sir William Cornwallis (1807-1848). Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa. London: published for the proprietor by William Pickering and others, 1840 - [1842].
Five parts in one volume, colombier 2° (566 x 410mm). 3pp. list of subscribers. Lithographic additional title with hand-coloured vignette, 30 hand-coloured plates by Frank Howard after Harris, 30 uncoloured vignette illustrations. (Lacking lithographic title to part 5 (Abbey no. 25), some spotting, slightly heavier in text leaves and light in about 10 plates, short marginal tears in 3 plates, corner of plate 30 missing.) Later half blue morocco, red leather spine label.
LARGE-PAPER ISSUE, with generally clean bright plates, of "ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE OF THE LARGE FOLIO WORKS ON SOUTH AFRICAN FAUNA": Mendelssohn I, p.688; Tooley 247; Abbey Travel 335; Nissen ZBI 1843; Schwerdt I, p.231.
Five parts in one volume, colombier 2° (566 x 410mm). 3pp. list of subscribers. Lithographic additional title with hand-coloured vignette, 30 hand-coloured plates by Frank Howard after Harris, 30 uncoloured vignette illustrations. (Lacking lithographic title to part 5 (Abbey no. 25), some spotting, slightly heavier in text leaves and light in about 10 plates, short marginal tears in 3 plates, corner of plate 30 missing.) Later half blue morocco, red leather spine label.
LARGE-PAPER ISSUE, with generally clean bright plates, of "ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE OF THE LARGE FOLIO WORKS ON SOUTH AFRICAN FAUNA": Mendelssohn I, p.688; Tooley 247; Abbey Travel 335; Nissen ZBI 1843; Schwerdt I, p.231.