Apponyi henrik count (6 resultados)

Full-Leather. Condición: Very Good. Asian Collection. Limited number 220/500. Black leather.Very good, clean, tight condition (collector's near fine). Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Leatherbound. Condición: Near fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None issued. Limited reprint. #228 of 500 copies bound in black leather with gilt letter to covers, gilt page edges, ribbon marker and decorative endpapers. Near fine copy shows touch of rubbing to covers and some other very light trace wear in a near fine slipcase that shows just a touch of wear as well. 254 pages with black & whites. Remains an attractive copy of this edition of the hunting classic.…

Hardcover. Condición: 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. Condición: 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. APPONYI, Count Henrik [254] pp. Selwyn & Blount 1937 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" *foxing condition issue noted* "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 (hardly sporting!) and more tiger hunting in the Terai. His best chapters, however, 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. Some exceptionally good photos complement the text" Henrik started a diplomatic career, in Berlin (1912 1913) and Istanbul (1913 1914), but that was cut short by World War I and the end of the Habsburg monarchy. He relocated to Oponice in 1918 and dedicated his life to adventurous traveling, particularly in Sudan (1924) and India and Tibet (1930). His travel notes were published in London in 1937 under the title My big-game hunting diary from India and the Himalayas, with a foreword by the Viscount Halifax whom Henrik had met while in India. The book came out after the deaths of both his mother Marguerite, who had promoted the publication project, and that of Henrik himself. He died in Berlin in unclear circumstances.…

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.…