HARRIS, Sir William Cornwallis. Wild Sports of Southern AfricaLondon: Henry G. Bohn, 1852. Large 8vo (235 x 165 mm). Hand-finished tinted lithographed additional title, 25 hand-finished tinted lithographed plates (including the frontispiece) and a small folding map. Original publisher's cloth gilt covers and spine bound in later half crimson crushed morocco over cloth covered boards by G. P. Putnam's Sons, covers ruled in gilt, spine ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, a.e.g. Condition: very minor foxing to the frontispiece and title, else quite clean internally; worn at extremities, front joint partially split. AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY WORK ON AFRICAN GAME, wonderfully illustrated with handsome color plates. Stated on the title as the fifth edition, the work was first issued in 1839 in folio format.(1)