Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 16 March 2015

Cape & Colonial Silver, Furniture & Dec Arts, The Harvey Collection of Africana & SA & Int Art

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ZAR 4 684
Lot 385
  • Harris, William Cornwallis; The Wild Sports of Southern Africa: Being the Narrative of a Hunting Expedition from the Cape of Good Hope Through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn


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Harris, William Cornwallis
The Wild Sports of Southern Africa: Being the Narrative of a Hunting Expedition from the Cape of Good Hope Through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn

(1844) London: Pelham Richardson, 8vo, fourth edition, frontispiece, 24 hand coloured plates, folding map, contemporary half morocco rebacked, plate VIII repaired along edge and inserted after page 64, pages 61 and 62 misbound



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