South African Sketches:

£2,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Noted by both Abbey and Mendelssohn respectively as “interesting” and “rather [a] scarce volume”. According to Czech, this rare “beautiful visual record of sport of the era” was written by Butler to relieve the tedium of life on the frontier. He records various sporting scenes including hunts after quagga, wildebeest, eland, and lion. Abbey, 336; Mendelssohn I, p235; Czech, p29.

• Year: 1841

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