The Wild Sports of Southern Africa;

£1,400 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

This fifth edition is preferred to the first as it is much expanded and includes 26 coloured lithographs - all clean and bright in this copy. The author claims in his forward to have been “taxed by the facetious with shooting madness … a most delightful mania…” But Harris’s work is more important than just an account of big game hunting. It presents a “detailed picture of the South African game fields prior to the growing pressure of civilization” (Czech). Mendelssohn I, p688. Czech, p71.

• Year: 1852

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