Travel
BUTLER, Captain H[enry]
South African sketches: illustrative of the wild life of a hunter on the frontier of the Cape Colony.
Ackermann, London 1841. First edition. Folio, 16pp., additional pictorial lithographed title-page, 30 lithographed vignettes on 15 plates (16 hand-coloured), modern dark brown half morocco gilt, a fine copy. * The colouring in this copy is modern, probably 1950's, and the book is priced accordingly.
This work combines lithographed line-drawings with coloured lithographs of hunting scenes in the Cape. The sketches were made to "relieve the dreariness of two years' residence upon a barbarian frontier," and provide an excellent record of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century. The plates depict various sporting scenes including hunts after quagga, wildebeest, eland, and lion among others. Abbey 1, 336; Mendelssohn p235; Czech p29.
Price: £ 650
US Dollar Price: $ 1290
Stock Number: 51317