Capt William Cornwallis Harris (15 results)

19+16+359+6 pages, folding map, coloured plates : : exploration and hunting from the Cape to the Tropic of Capricorn, an African classic - Mendelssohn I.688, Czech 118 "a cornerstone title in the African sporting library"; hardback, FINE, vg dw isbn 0869202650 south africa big game.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1987). (1840) 1987 Briar Patch Press edition. 8vo (157 x 235mm). Ppxxxi,359. Colour plates by the author, map, decorative end-papers. Gilt titles to brown bonded leather, spine titled and decorated in gilt, silk marker, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers. Former owner's name to end-paper verso, lower corners unobtrusively bumped but very good clean copy. ".Being the narative of a hunting expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn." Facsimile reprint from the fourth edition. This edition had two additional chapters dealing with Dingaan's massacre of Retief's party. Chapters include: Voyage from India to the Cape of Good Hope; Journey from Port Elizabeth to Graham's Town; Journey from Graham's Town to Graaf Reinet; Graaff Reinet - and final prepartions for our journey into the interior; From Graaff Reinet, bu the snowy Mountains, to the borders of the Colony; From the boundary of the Colony, across the Great Orange River, to Kuruman; From Kuruman to Little Chooi; To the Meritsane River; Hunting at Meritsane; To Mimori, and hunting on the Molopo; Mosegra, the capital of the Chief Moselekate; History of Chaka, surnamed 'the Bloody'; History of Chaka, concluded; Mosega to the Kurrichane Mountains; Kapain, and visit from the Chief Moselekatse; Residence at Kapain; Kapain to the Mariqua River; The Mariqua River to Tolaan, residence of the heir apprent; The Matabili described, the River Simalakate; Kalipi's Commando, the Cashan Mountains; rhinoceros and wild buffalo huntin alon the Cashan Mountains; elephant hunting in the Cashan Mountains; Elephant hunting, lion shooting from the waggons; Hippopotamous shooting, hunting in the Valley of the Limpopo; Excursion to the wastward of the Limpopo, and a journey to the northward across the Cashan Mountains; Hunting the cameleopard, or giraffe; Return to the southward from the Tropic of Capricorn; Interview with Um'Nombate, and journey through the Cashan Mountains to the south-eastward; Discovery of a new antelope, final departure from the Cashan Mountains towards the River Vaal; Exit from Moseletse's Dominions, and passage across the Nama-Hari; Three days' solitary wandering in the wilderness; Journey resumed, to the 'Gy Koup, or Vet Riviere of the emigrants; Plundered by Bushman hordes, and left a wreck in the desert; Night attack on the marauders; Excursion on horseback in quest of assistance, and meeting with the emigrant farmers; Return to civilsation, and arrival in Cape Colony; Sketch of the emigration of the border colonists; Sketch of the Emigration resumed - treacherous massacre of Retief and his party by Dingaan, King of the Zooloos; Fall of Uys in an abortive invasion of the Zooloo territories, annihilation of the Natal Settlers, death of Maritz; Demolition of the Zooloo nation, convention with Dingaan, establishment of the emigrants at Port Natal; Proposal. Zoological appendix. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. VG/VG, moderate edgewear dj, square, sharp corners, always quality.

24+387+39 pages, elephant frontispiece engraving, 6 other plates, folding map : exploration and hunting from the Cape to the Tropic of Capricorn, an African classic, an earlier version "Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa" was published in Bombay in 1838 - Mendelssohn I.688, Czech 118 "a cornerstone title in the African sporting library"; hardback, professionally re-cased with the original boards & original backstrip relaid, new end papers, board edges sl rubbed ow a very good copy of a classic south africa big game hunting elephants african hunter cape good hope limpopo great trek matabele.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

From Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in Their Natural Haunts, During a Hunting Expedition From the Cape Colony as Far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 & 1837. This is one of the rarest and most important works on large African Game. This folio was published in five parts containing in total 30 colour plates of the animals in their own habitat that Harris encountered while traveling and hunting in Africa. Lithograph. Very good condition Original hand colour Size: 53 x 35 cm.

Fourth Edition, 8vo, xvi + 359pp, Frontispiece + 25 hand-coloured lithographic plates + Map. Attractive contemporary full calf binding, some rubbing along the spine, marbled endpapers. Internally in fine condition, plates fine. The first edition with the additional chapters giving a full account of the massacre of Retief and his party by Dingaan and the fall of Piet Uys in an abortive invasion of Zulu territories, the death of Maritz and the annihilation of the Natal settlers. It also has the full compliment of colour plates. An attractive and well priced copy Mendelsohn I, p689 240 by 165mm (9½ by 6½ inches).