ANDRASY Emmanuel Les Chasses et le sport en Hongrie d’après l’original hongrois de Mr. Mrs. les comtes Emman. Andrasy, Maur, Sandor, Bela Festetits, et les barons Bela Orczy, Fréd. Podmaniczky, Bela Wenckheim et George Szalbek. Traduit par J.B. Durringer et F.A. Schwiedland.

Frank, I, p.34;  Jeanson Monaco, 1987 sale, lot 23; Schwerdt, I, 31 ; Thiébaud, 21 ; Souhart, 13.

First edition of the French translation of this magnificent illustrated cynegetic album.

Translated into French by J.B. Durringer and F.A. Schwiedland.

This beautiful edition is illustrated with 13 full-page plates (including a portrait of the author) detailing the leisure activities practised by Hungarian nobles at the time, with hunting featuring prominently: Historical overview or memories of hunting with hounds in Hungary; bear hunting; greyhound hunting; deer hunting: the hide; fragments from the Journal of Count Maurice Sandor; bustard hunting; races; wolf hunting; fishing in Hungary; wild boar hunting; the Csàrda or the steppe inn.

The hunting iconography is complemented by 12 colour lithographed vignettes in the text. The plates are lithographed by Arnz & Company, Eugène Charles François Guérard, Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot and others, based on works by various Hungarian artists. Among the scenes depicted are a beautiful night-time wolf hunt and a bear hunt in the mountains.

“A magnificent book which illustrates every form of sport as practised by the Hungarian nobility in this unrivalled corner of pre-war Europe” (Schwerdt).

Scattered foxing, otherwise a fine copy.