Author: Harris, Captain W. Cornwallis.
Title: Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa. Delineated in Life from Their Native Haunts.
Description: Sable. A facsimile copy of the 1840 edition. Gilt dec. grey cloth boards. 175pp illustrated colour & b/w. folio 16.75"h x 13.00"w. 2.5kg. No inscriptions. damp storage mark lower corner front board only, shelf wear lower edges. A mite of insect attack to lower area of ffep and some tanning to the half-title page only, else the facsimile contents are Fine end to end. The dustwrapper is VG+, marks show, but there is no loss, no tears, no chips, minor rubbing and marks; no major faults but accumulated small faults render it only just less than pristine. Overall an above average copy. ISBN: 9780620083928 This is a near same-size facsimile edition (17" high versus 21" of the original elephant folio), not to be confused with one of the other smaller reduced-size editions. The consummate hunter's hunter, Harris slaughtered game in quantities that no one else was ever able to match - mainly because in later years all the game had gone.

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