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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. By Captain H. Butler, 59th Reg. London: printed by C. Wood, published by Ackermann & Co., 1841. 2° (364 x 270mm). Lithographic frontispiece, 30 lithographic views and vignettes (15 hand-coloured) on 15 leaves. (Outer margin of leaf numbered 'Plate IV' with old vertical creases, small tear to lower blank margin of final plate, some light marginal soiling.) Original green moiré cloth, covers with blocked panel design in blind, titled in gilt on upper cover, glazed yellow endpapers (scuffed, extremities rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped). Provenance: C. Townshend Wilson (presentation inscription from the author 'C. Townshend Wilson 59th. Regiment, from the Author. ,Trinidad 1843', by descent to:); Caroline Townshend Wilson (inscription dated 1891).
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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. By Captain H. Butler, 59th Reg. London: printed by C. Wood, published by Ackermann & Co., 1841. 2° (364 x 270mm). Lithographic frontispiece, 30 lithographic views and vignettes (15 hand-coloured) on 15 leaves. (Outer margin of leaf numbered 'Plate IV' with old vertical creases, small tear to lower blank margin of final plate, some light marginal soiling.) Original green moiré cloth, covers with blocked panel design in blind, titled in gilt on upper cover, glazed yellow endpapers (scuffed, extremities rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped). Provenance: C. Townshend Wilson (presentation inscription from the author 'C. Townshend Wilson 59th. Regiment, from the Author. ,Trinidad 1843', by descent to:); Caroline Townshend Wilson (inscription dated 1891).

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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. By Captain H. Butler, 59th Reg. London: printed by C. Wood, published by Ackermann & Co., 1841. 2° (364 x 270mm). Lithographic frontispiece, 30 lithographic views and vignettes (15 hand-coloured) on 15 leaves. (Outer margin of leaf numbered 'Plate IV' with old vertical creases, small tear to lower blank margin of final plate, some light marginal soiling.) Original green moiré cloth, covers with blocked panel design in blind, titled in gilt on upper cover, glazed yellow endpapers (scuffed, extremities rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped). Provenance: C. Townshend Wilson (presentation inscription from the author 'C. Townshend Wilson 59th. Regiment, from the Author. ,Trinidad 1843', by descent to:); Caroline Townshend Wilson (inscription dated 1891).

AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this 'rather scarce' (Mendelssohn) volume 'devoted to an illustrated description of sporting adventures on the "Bontebok Flats" in Kaffraria, near the Kat River Settlement.' (op.cit.). Abbey Travel I,336 ('An interesting book'); Mendelssohn I,p.235; Schwerdt I,p.90; Tooley 126.
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