HARRIS (WILLIAM CORNWALLIS)
Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, first edition, additional hand-coloured title and 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates, red half calf by J.Wright, spine with gilt elk, deer and leopard tooled within raised bands, g.e., bookplate of 'Charles Clarke, Graiguenoe Park, County Tipperary', [Abbey, Travel 335; Schwerdt I, p.231; Mendelssohn I, pp.688-689], folio, For the Proprietors, by W. Pickering, 1840
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- Captain Harris, an officer in the East India Company's Bombay Engineers, was invalided to the Cape for two years, 1835-1837. In 1836, after conferring with Dr. Andrew Smith, he and Richard Williamson set off from Algoa Bay, by way of Somerset and the Orange River and travelled in a north-easterly direction until they reached the kraals of the famous Matabele chief Moselikatze. He proved friendly and allowed them to return via a previously closed route. The present work was based around his sketches of the game and wild animals he encountered on his travels.
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