'a beautiful visual record of sport of the era and rare' (Czech). An attractive example of Butler's South African Sketches, an 'illustrated description of sporting adventures on the "Bontebok Flats" in Kaffraria, near the Kat River Settlement' (Mendelssohn). The book combines lithographed line-drawings with coloured lithographs of hunting scenes in the Cape. The sketches were made to 'relieve the dreariness of two years' residence upon a barbarian frontier', and provide an excellent record of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Please note - we guarantee that this copy has original 1841 hand-colouring and is not one of the copies coloured up in the circa the 1950's from plain sheets.

Folio (37 x 27 cm.); additional lithographic title & 30 plates, 16 hand-coloured, on 15 sheets, lithographic title spotted. Original blue-green moiré cloth, lettered to upper cover, neat repairs to corners, neatly rebacked in morocco gilt, a very good clean copy.

Abbey (Travel), 336; Czech p29; Mendelssohn I, p.235; Schwerdt I, p90; Tooley 126.