Product Description
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.
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