Sold for:
$2,640
$2,640
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sr. , Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in their Native Haunts. London: for the Proprietor, by W. Pickering, to be had of Colnaghi, Wood, and Cadell, 1840. Folio, with all thirty hand-colored lithographic illustrations "drawn on stone" by Frank Howard, and black and white lithographic vignettes at the end of each chapter, bound in contemporary three-quarter pebbled morocco and marbled boards; text leaves foxed, spotted, and water stained throughout, with a signature or two quite brown, foxing less evident on the plates, but still present intermittently, 22 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-06-01
