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[Frontispiece.]
[Frontispiece.] To David Davies Esq.r this Second Part of African Scenery and Animals is Most Respectfuly Inscribed from a Grateful Recollection of his Long and Valuable Friendship by his much Obliged and Faithful Humble Servant Samuel Daniell.
[n.d., c.1806.]
Aquatint, fine, watermark 1801 J. Whatman. Plate: 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾'') very large margins.
A frontispiece to Samuel Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals' which described the animals and and landscape of South Africa.
[Ref: 48102]   £320.00  
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[Frontispiece.]
[Frontispiece.] To Lieutenant General Francis Dundas Late Lieut and Acting Governor of the Cape of Good Hope under whose Patronage the Materials of the Present Work were Collected this First Part of African Scenery and Animals is inscribed with the Greatest Respect by his Most Obliged and Faithful Humble Servant Samuel Daniell.
[n.d., c.1806.]
Aquatint. Plate: 380 x 500mm (15 x 19¾''). Foxing and handling marks
A frontispiece to Samuel Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals' which described the animals and and landscape of South Africa.
[Ref: 48103]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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A Bosjesman. A Bojeswoman. A Booshuana Woman. A Booshuana Man.
A Bosjesman. A Bojeswoman. A Booshuana Woman. A Booshuana Man.
Drawn, Engraved & Published by Samuel Daniell, No 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square, London, Nov.r 15, 1805.
A very rare coloured aquatint. 380 x 505mm, 15 x 20", on thick paper.
Hand and shoulders portraits of four Africans, two bushmen and two Bechuana natives (now Botswana), published in Daniell's 'African Scenery and Animals', one of the scarcest plate books on South Africa. Despite the inscription it had been suggesed that the plates were in fact engraved by William Daniell. Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
Abbey: 321.
[Ref: 23655]   £360.00  
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The African Rhinoceros.
The African Rhinoceros.
S. Daniell del.t. T. Medland sculp.
Published Feb.y 14. 1806 by Mess.rs Cadell & Davies, Strand London.
Hand-coloured aquatint. Sheet: 210 x 275mm (8¼ x 11'').
A portrait of a Rhinoceros. From 'African Scenery and Animals at the Cape of Good Hope' (1804-1805).
[Ref: 48084]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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Wild Boar.
Wild Boar. No.V.
Drawn by Samuel Daniell.
[London, R. Havell?, c.1831.]
Fine aquatint. 385 x 500mm (15¼ x 19¾"), with wide margins.
A wild boar at a watering hole, from Robert Havell's reissue of 'African Scenery and Animals' (1804-5) by Samuel Daniell (1775-1811). Daniell (1775-1811) arrived in South Africa in 1799 (soon after British occupation) and in 1801 joined an exploratory expedition to Bechuana, then at the limit of known territory. Daniell himself discovered the Kuruman Eye, a drinkable spring rising up into the Kalahari Desert, which has become one of South Africa's most celebrated natural wonders. He lived in Ceylon from 1806 until his death from tropical fever.
See Abbey Travel 321 for the first edition.
[Ref: 52841]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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