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Title
Portraits of the game and wild animals of southern Africa, delineated from life in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837, with sketches of the field sports |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/7476 |
Date
1840 |
Author(s)
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807-1848 |
Contributor(s)
Howard, Frank, 1805-1866 |
Abstract
Half morocco, gilt spine in 7 compartments showing animals encircled by gilt ornaments. - Coloured lithographic plates of wildlife, accompanied by explanatory text, depicting the 1836 journey undertaken by Cornwallis Harris and Richard Williamson, from Algoa Bay into the north-eastern interior of southern Africa, as far as the kraals of Mzilikaze. - http://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1696759 |
Subject(s)
Lithographic plates; Fauna; Wild fowl; Game; Waterfowl; Mammalia; Wildlife; Beasts; Voyages; Travels; South Africa -- Discovery and exploration |
Coverage
Africa; South Africa; AD; 1836 |
Language
en |
Publisher
London: Published for the proprietor by W. Pickering, and to be had of P. & D. Colnaghi |
Relation
Adobe Reader version 8 or 9 |
Type of publication
Book chapter |
Format
vi, 125 p., [30] leaves of hand coloured lithographic plates, 30 lithographed vignettes; 56 cm x 39 cm. |
Rights
Electronic copy: University of Pretoria; Printed copy: Public domain. |
Repository
Pretoria - University of Pretoria, UPSpace
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