Portraits Of The Game And Wild Animals of Southern Africa

'First published in 1840 this famous work presented 30 magnificent animal 'portraits', the work of close and detailed observations by Harris, and inspired stone lithography by Frank Howard - a wonderful and greatly prized book. But it was also a huge and unmanageable book, too heavy to hold, and with a printed text that was scarcely legible. This reprint remedies the faults but preserves the virtues. Harris was an accomplished man - soldier, artist, author, engineer, diplomat, sportsman, naturalist and geographer. While on recuperative leave at the Cape he fully exploited his opportunities to travel and to hunt, to experience the strange and exciting African environment, to record his impressions and observations of the animal life and countryside. They are quaint and often shrewd, lively and tolerant,' [front flap notes].

Book condition: binding and contents faultless (previous owner inscription on front end-paper). Jacket: very good, but has been covered with sticky plastic laminate., 195pp. facsimile edition, with numerous full colour fold-out reproductions of Harris's paintings, and also many black and white sketches and illustrations.