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HARRIS (Major Sir William Cornwallis): PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA delineated from life in their native haunts, London, for the proprietor, 1840
FIRST EDITION, folio (535 x 360mm.), additional lithographed title with hand-coloured vignette, 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates and 30 uncoloured lithographed tail-pieces (without list of subscribers; final two text leaves with holes repaired, one with loss of text), contemporary red half morocco gilt, g.e., bookplate of George L. Harrison Jr.
Mendelssohn I p. 688: "One of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna"; Tooley 247; Abbey Travel 335; Nissan ZBI 1843
FIRST EDITION, folio (535 x 360mm.), additional lithographed title with hand-coloured vignette, 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates and 30 uncoloured lithographed tail-pieces (without list of subscribers; final two text leaves with holes repaired, one with loss of text), contemporary red half morocco gilt, g.e., bookplate of George L. Harrison Jr.
Mendelssohn I p. 688: "One of the most important and valuable of the large folio works on South African fauna"; Tooley 247; Abbey Travel 335; Nissan ZBI 1843