Lot 121
121
ANDRASY, Mano (1821-1891), WENCKHEIM, Béla, and others. Hazai vadászatok és sport Magyarországon. Budapest: Armin Geibel, 1857. 2° (598 x 430mm). Frontispiece and 12 chromolithographed plates, of which six are mounted, and twelve chromolithographed vignettes mounted in the text. (Spotting and dampstains mainly in the text and plate margins, some repaired marginal tears.) Contemporary, possibly original, diced half calf, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, cloth sides with blind-rule frame, the upper side centred in gilt with an ornament and the title, blue printed endpapers (recased, hinges and corners repaired, sides spotted and discoloured).
ANDRASY, Mano (1821-1891), WENCKHEIM, Béla, and others. Hazai vadászatok és sport Magyarországon. Budapest: Armin Geibel, 1857. 2° (598 x 430mm). Frontispiece and 12 chromolithographed plates, of which six are mounted, and twelve chromolithographed vignettes mounted in the text. (Spotting and dampstains mainly in the text and plate margins, some repaired marginal tears.) Contemporary, possibly original, diced half calf, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, cloth sides with blind-rule frame, the upper side centred in gilt with an ornament and the title, blue printed endpapers (recased, hinges and corners repaired, sides spotted and discoloured).

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ANDRASY, Mano (1821-1891), WENCKHEIM, Béla, and others. Hazai vadászatok és sport Magyarországon. Budapest: Armin Geibel, 1857. 2° (598 x 430mm). Frontispiece and 12 chromolithographed plates, of which six are mounted, and twelve chromolithographed vignettes mounted in the text. (Spotting and dampstains mainly in the text and plate margins, some repaired marginal tears.) Contemporary, possibly original, diced half calf, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, cloth sides with blind-rule frame, the upper side centred in gilt with an ornament and the title, blue printed endpapers (recased, hinges and corners repaired, sides spotted and discoloured).

FIRST EDITION. 'A MAGNIFICIENT BOOK which illustrates every form of sport as practised by the Hungarian nobility in this unrivalled corner of pre-war Europe' (Schwerdt). RARE: ABPC records just one other copy, the Schiff copy (sold, Sotheby's New York, 11 December 1990, lot 20). cf. (for the French-language issue): Lipperheide Ebd 11; Schwerdt I, 31.

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