KLOOF AND KARROO

With a notice of the game birds, and of the present distribution of the antelopes and larger game

First edition. 435 pages, frontispiece, 16 plates, original olive green cloth, titled and decorated gilt on upper cover and back, cloth a little dull with an ink spot above the title, starting to fray at the bottom of the spine, corners slightly bumped, a good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol.1 page 211: A series of articles on South African matters of interest, mostly connected with the sport and natural history of the country. The sketches afford considerable information with regard to the game of South Africa, and the author seems to have delighted in the life that he portrays, and remarks, " To me the scenes of which these pages treat were profoundly interesting. To have wandered in the footsteps of Paterson and Sparrman, of Le Vaillant and Barrow, of Burchell and of Campbell, and to have compared the wonderful fauna of their day with the fauna of the present, to have sojourned among the primitive up-country Boers, and heard their old-world lore and legends, and noted their quaint customs “all these were experiences of never ending charm." There are a number of excellent illustrations, many of which were taken from photographs by Mr. T. Haig-Smellie, while some of the pictures of game-birds, &c, have been copied from the works of Sir Andrew Smith and others.