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A. KALINOVSKY
Les Chasses au Caucase. St. Petersburg: A. Iacovlev, 1900. Small 2° (413 x 193mm). 180 black and white photographic illustrations on 100 leaves, text in double columns in Russian and French, title-page printed in red and black. (Some light spotting to title.) Publisher's original blue cloth, upper cover lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, decorative endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, some spots of discolouration to cloth, hinges cracked).
FIRST EDITION. RARE volume on big game hunting in the Caucasus produced to promote the Caucasus region at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. With superb images of Grand Ducal hunting parties with great piles of animals laid out as trophies at the end of the hunt. Thiébud 529 ('rare'); not in Czech.
Les Chasses au Caucase. St. Petersburg: A. Iacovlev, 1900. Small 2° (413 x 193mm). 180 black and white photographic illustrations on 100 leaves, text in double columns in Russian and French, title-page printed in red and black. (Some light spotting to title.) Publisher's original blue cloth, upper cover lettered and blocked in gilt and blind, decorative endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, some spots of discolouration to cloth, hinges cracked).
FIRST EDITION. RARE volume on big game hunting in the Caucasus produced to promote the Caucasus region at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. With superb images of Grand Ducal hunting parties with great piles of animals laid out as trophies at the end of the hunt. Thiébud 529 ('rare'); not in Czech.