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[COLOR-PLATE BOOKS]. [TRAVELS AND VOYAGES]. BUTLER, Captain H[enry] (1805-1881). South African Sketches: Illustrative of a Wild Life of a Hunter on the Frontier of the Cape Colony. London: Ackermann and Co., 1841]. Folio. Illustrated with lithographed title-page, and 31 illustrations on 15 plates (16 of which are hand-colored). [16] pp. Approximately 15 x 10 ¾”. Bound in modern half red morocco over red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt (minor rubbing to spine, light bumping to lower corners, hinges starting). Fine. FIRST EDITION. Austin Smith’s copy with his leather bookplate on the fp. The attractive plates of hunting scenes illustrate sporting adventures on the Bontebok Flats in Kaffaria, near the Kat River Settlement. The book was written and sketched on the spot and is valued for its record of this part of South Africa in its early years of the nineteenth century. Abbey, Travel, 336.