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Harris, William Cornwallis : The Wild Sports of Southern Africa

Struik, 1963

The boards are slightly rubbed. A little foxing. Soundly bound. No. 426 of 750 copies.. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

Harris, William Cornwallis : The wild sports of southern Africa

C. Struik, 1987

ISBN 0869773429

facsimile reprint. jacket is shelf rubbed and a bit creased. edge wear and knocking on boards. tanning and marks. ownership inscription. well bound. fairly good copy.[S.K]. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

Harris,William.Cornwallis : The Wild Sports Of southern Africa

Struik, 1963

the boards are shelf rubbed.gift inscriptions,mild tanning.soundly bound.[J.K]. Book Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

Harris, William Cornwallis : The Wild Sports of Southern Africa

(Cape Town: Struik, 1963)

Number 148 of an edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Facsimile of the text and plates of the fifth edition published by Henry G. Bohn in 1852. 8vo; original green rexine lettered in gilt on spine and with gilt device to upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in protector; pp. (vi) + xvi + 359. Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn, and rather sunned and foxed; tape marks and foxing to endpapers; moderate foxing throughout. Good. 'Captain (later Sir) William Cornwallis Harris was an Englishman with a passion for the hunting of big game. "From my boyhood upwards," he says, "I have been taxed by the facetious with 'shooting madness', and truly a most delightful mania I have ever found it." An officer in the East India Company's corps of engineers, he was granted two years' leave on medical grounds, and decided to exploit this opportunity to indulge his interest in the wild game of Africa. He arrived at the Cape in 1836 and spent two years travelling in South Africa, from Port Elizabeth to as far north as the Limpopo River - described in his book as "a hunting expedition from the Cape of Good Hope through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn". But Harris was not just a hunter: he was a careful observer of the social and political situation in which he found himself - a situation of special interest because his visit coincided with the early days of the Great Trek, and he made detailed observations about the conditions of the Trekkers, and of their initial conflicts with the Bantu.'

Harris, William Cornwallis : The Wild Sports of Southern Africa

(Cape Town: Struik, 1987) 0869773429

ISBN 0869773429

Facsimile of the text and plates of the fifth edition published by Henry G. Bohn in 1852. 8vo; original green boards lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (vi) + xvi + 359. Trace of foxing to endpapers. Near fine condition. 'Captain (later Sir) William Cornwallis Harris was an Englishman with a passion for the hunting of big game. "From my boyhood upwards," he says, "I have been taxed by the facetious with 'shooting madness', and truly a most delightful mania I have ever found it." An officer in the East India Company's corps of engineers, he was granted two years' leave on medical grounds, and decided to exploit this opportunity to indulge his interest in the wild game of Africa. He arrived at the Cape in 1836 and spent two years travelling in South Africa, from Port Elizabeth to as far north as the Limpopo River - described in his book as "a hunting expedition from the Cape of Good Hope through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse to the Tropic of Capricorn". But Harris was not just a hunter: he was a careful observer of the social and political situation in which he found himself - a situation of special interest because his visit coincided with the early days of the Great Trek, and he made detailed observations about the conditions of the Trekkers, and of their initial conflicts with indigenous people.'

HARRIS, William Cornwallis : The Wild Sports of Southern Africa

Cape Town: C.Struik (PTY LTD), 1963

The best facsimile of the best edition of 1852. The de luxe edition, #7 of 50 copies only, fine in the original 1/2 brown calf, raised bands, contrasting title label, brown paper sides with the publisher's gilt monogram.

HARRIS, William, Cornwallis : The Wild Sports Of Southern Africa

C.Struik 1963

Facsimile reprint of the best edition of 1852, #313 of 750 copies in a tall 8vo as part of the Africana Collectanea series (not to be confused with the smaller format facsimile issued by the same publisher in the same year), a near fine copy (sl. tape marks ep's) in the original dark green skivertex in a vg++ lightly chipped d.w.

HARRIS, William Cornwallis : The Wild Sports of Southern Africa

C.Struik, Cape Town, 1963

Facsimile reprint of the best 1852 edition (slightly smaller format than the Africana Collect anea limited edition of the same year). A neasr fine copy (acid offsetting to endpapers) in a near fine d.w., spine faded and lightly stained.

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HARRIS, William Cornwallis : The Wild Sports of Southern Africa

Struik, 1987

A fine unread copy in a fine d.w.

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