xiii+435pp. Numerous b/w plates with tissue guards.
Binding very slightly shaken and very slight rubbing to the corners of the boards. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine and top board. Top board also with gilt Klipspringer image as found mirrored in one of the plates contained in this volume.
Mendelssohn quotes the preface which states: ""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 legend, and noted their quaint customs; all these were experiences of never-ending charm."
A near fine copy, with an inscription to the head of the title page: "To Gunther, with the author's compliments".
- Binding Condition: Near Fine
- Overall Condition: Near Fine
- Size: 8vo
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