‎"BUTLER, H. (HENRY).‎
‎South African Sketches: Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony.‎

‎London, Ackermann & Co., 1841. Folio. Fine later hcalf. Raised bands, gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. With extra lithographed title-page. 15,(1) pp. and 31 lithographed illustrations of which 16 are handcoloured on 15 plates. A fine clean copy.‎

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‎First edition. ""Ilustrated description of sporting adventures on the ""Bontebok Flats"" in Kaffraria, near the Kat River Settlement' (Mendelssohn). ""An interesting book, combining lithographed linedrawings with more elaborate coloured lithographs.""(Abbey No 336). - Tooley, 126.‎