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ANDRASSY, Mano (Count), Count Maur. SANDOR and others, Les Chasses et la Sport en Hongrie... Traduit par J.B.Durringer et F.A.Schweidland. Pest: Jean Herz for Armand Geibel, 1857.
Large 2° (610 x 433mm). Half-title. 25 fine hand-finished chromolithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, 13 full-page, 6 mounted, 12 smaller, illustrations mounted as head or tailpieces to the text within a decorative border of typographic ornaments. Contemporary half cloth with large portion of the original upper printed wrapper laid down on the upper cover (extremities and upper cover slightly scuffed).
"A MAGNIFICENT BOOK which illustrates every form of sport as practised by the Hungarian nobility in this unrivalled corner of pre-war Europe." Schwerdt I, p.31.
Large 2° (610 x 433mm). Half-title. 25 fine hand-finished chromolithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, 13 full-page, 6 mounted, 12 smaller, illustrations mounted as head or tailpieces to the text within a decorative border of typographic ornaments. Contemporary half cloth with large portion of the original upper printed wrapper laid down on the upper cover (extremities and upper cover slightly scuffed).
"A MAGNIFICENT BOOK which illustrates every form of sport as practised by the Hungarian nobility in this unrivalled corner of pre-war Europe." Schwerdt I, p.31.