ANDRÁSY, Emmanuel, Count and others. Les chasses et le sport en Hongrie. Translated by J.B. Durringer and F.A. Schwiedland.  Budapest: for Armand Geibel by Jean Herz, 1857.
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ANDRÁSY, Emmanuel, Count and others. Les chasses et le sport en Hongrie. Translated by J.B. Durringer and F.A. Schwiedland. Budapest: for Armand Geibel by Jean Herz, 1857.

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ANDRÁSY, Emmanuel, Count and others. Les chasses et le sport en Hongrie. Translated by J.B. Durringer and F.A. Schwiedland. Budapest: for Armand Geibel by Jean Herz, 1857.

2° (628 x 435mm). Half-title. Chromolithographed frontispiece and 12 plates, 12 chromolithographed vignettes, finished by hand and heightened with gum arabic, wood-engraved illustrations. Printed in double column. (Title almost detached, spotting at start affecting frontispiece and 4 plates, only light occasional spotting elsewhere.) Contemporary paper boards, uncut (hinges and edges strengthened with fabric tape, a little soiled); modern cloth chemise and slipcase.

FIRST AND ONLY 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 I, 31; cf. Westwood & Satchell p.59.