Apponyi count henrik (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" pp 254 + 32 pp ads. 157 photogravure plates, 5 pages of illus map endpaper (of his route). A Hungarian aristocrat, Apponyi died just before publication of this book. His trip to India in 1930 included a driven tiger shoot near Hyderabad, shooting blackbucks from a car with the Maharajah of Bikaner and more hunting in the Terai. Other chapters, describe his climbs and hunts in the Khyber highlands where trophy ibex, markhor, and urial were collected. On the frontiers of Tibet, he bagged Ovis ammon, burhel and Tibetan antelope. Great photos, map endpapers. Minor foxing to prelims and title page o/w clean. Handspmely bound in brown quarter leather, , pale red boards lettered abd decorated leather at spine with 4 raised bands. Very good.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Photos, 9.5 x 6", red cloth, 254pp, covers quite rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, spine sunned, textblock edges spotted, pp toned and spotted with finger soiling, former owner's bookplate on half-title page. FIRST UK EDITION. SCARCE.

Edition limited to 500 copies (this, no. 255); 8vo, pp. [12], 7-253, [5]; facsimile edition of the original edition of 1937, frontispiece and numerous reproductions of photographic illustrations; original full black leather stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g.; fine copy in glassine jacket and publisher's slipcase. Issued in the publisher's Asian Series. With a new introduction by Ken Czech.…