South African sketches:
illustrative of the wild life of a hunter on the frontier of the Cape Colony.
London, Ackermann, 1841
Please note - we guarantee that this copy has original 1841 hand-colouring and is not one of the copies coloured up in the circa the 1950's from plain sheets.
Folio (37 x 27 cm.); additional lithographic title & 30 plates, 16 hand-coloured, on 15 sheets, lithographic title spotted. Original blue-green moiré cloth, lettered to upper cover, neat repairs to corners, neatly rebacked in morocco gilt, a very good clean copy.
Abbey (Travel), 336; Czech p29; Mendelssohn I, p.235; Schwerdt I, p90; Tooley 126.
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