THE WILD SPORTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

by Captain William Cornwallis Harris, of the H.E.I. Company's Engineers on the Bombay Establishment

Second edition (or first London edition): 387 pages, tinted lithographic frontispiece and 5 plates, folding map ‘Exhibiting the relative positions of the emigrant farmers and the native tribes, May 1837’ compiled by the author with the route of his travels outlined in red, original green cloth, upper cover titled gilt and surrounded with gilt vignettes of animals, titled gilt on the back, yellow endpapers intact with a bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. Some very light on the lithographic plates, overall a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (Sydney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 688, ‘This edition contains the “Proposal” of Captain Harris “to the Geographical Society of Bombay,” volunteering to proceed on an expedition to penetrate to “that great Inland Lake, the actual existence of which, between the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, was first established by Dr. Smith's expedition in 1853.” In a postscript to the Introduction some particulars are given of Retief's massacre, together with his party, by Dingan, and of the efforts of the colonial authorities to put an end to the “mania of emigration” on the part of the colonial farmers.

See also: Africana Notes and News, Volume XII, No. 2, June 1956, page 63.