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HARRIS, Sir William Cornwallis (1807-1848). Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa. London: Green and Martin for W. Pickering and others, 1840.
2° (575 x 415mm). Letterpress title (spotted), hand-coloured lithographic title and 30 plates by Frank Howard after Harris, lithographic illustrations. (Some spotting, occasionally heavy, affecting the titles and about ten of the plates.) Contemporary half morocco (extremities a little scuffed). Provenance: Charles R. C. Hibbert (armorial bookplate); Frederick DuCane Godman (armorial bookplate).
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; Nissen ZBI 1843.
2° (575 x 415mm). Letterpress title (spotted), hand-coloured lithographic title and 30 plates by Frank Howard after Harris, lithographic illustrations. (Some spotting, occasionally heavy, affecting the titles and about ten of the plates.) Contemporary half morocco (extremities a little scuffed). Provenance: Charles R. C. Hibbert (armorial bookplate); Frederick DuCane Godman (armorial bookplate).
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; Nissen ZBI 1843.