ANDRASY, Mano (1821-1891), WENCKHEIM, Béla, and others

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Lot 71 | ANDRASY, Mano (1821-1891), WENCKHEIM, Béla, and others
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ANDRASY, Mano (1821-1891), WENCKHEIM, Béla, and others

Hazai vadászatok és sport Magyarországon. Budapest: Armin Geibel, 1857.

First edition of 'a magnificent book which illustrates every form of sport as practised by the Hungarian nobility in this unrivalled corner of pre-war Europe' (Schwerdt). Also issued in French the same year, this first, Hungarian-language edition is rare on the market, with only the Le Vivier (2012) and Schiff (1990) copies recorded at auction by ABPC and RBH. This edition has the table of contents printed with publisher’s advertisements on the verso. The main bibliographies list only the French edition, cf. Lipperheide Ebd 11; Schwerdt I, 31. Bobins II, 431.



Broadsheet folio (598 x 429mm). Half-title. 13 hand-finished chromolithographic plates, of which 6 are mounted on card, and 12 chromolithographic vignettes mounted in the text, after B. Orczÿ Béla, Marko and others by A. Bayot and others, wood-engraved illustrations (minor marginal spots in one plate). Original brown cloth boards tooled in blind, title lettered in gilt on upper cover (rebacked in brown morocco lettered in gilt, recornered). Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of a woman reading with initial ‘C’ — John M. Schiff (sale, Sotheby’s NY, 11 Dec. 1990, lot 20).





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