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Price: US$990.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Octavo volume. Complete with half title, [xv]+319 pages and publisher's ads. Includes frontispiece, 96 illustrations and the fold out map in a pocket on the rear endpaper. Light blue cloth, lettered in gilt, although with the spine slightly faded. Patterned endpapers. Internally bright and crisp. Very good condition overall. Demidov (1868-1943) was among the richest men in the world (due to his family's industrial holdings) and was sent by Tzar Nicholas II as the Russian Ambassador to Greece, where he remained in exile after the revolution. A profusely illustrated account of Demidov's three hunting trips in 1895 and 1896 to the Caucasus mountains of Georgia and Azerbaijan, then amongst the sprawling estates of Russian Grand Duke Sergei Mickhailovich. Czech, in his 'Annotated Bibliography of Asian Big Game Hunting Books', notes that Demidoff variously hunted aurochs, ibex, antelopes, and bears. Demidoff also wrote separate accounts of hunting trips to Mongolia and Kamchatka.
Seller: Tradewinds Books, Ainslie, ACT, Australia
DEMIDOFF [E]lim.. HUNTING TRIPS IN THE CAUCASUS.. London: Rowland Ward, 1898.
Price: US$1152.26 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 319, illustrations, folding map in slip case, original blue/green cloth, spine slightly faded, very good and clean.
Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Demidoff to former owner "with kindest regards from the author" the half title. xvi, 319, [1] +4 four ad pp; fold-out map in pouch on rear paste down. Very Good, cloth lightly worn and soiled with sunned and slightly scratched spine, former owner's bookplate on front paste down, hinges starting. Map verso a little toned but basically fine. Housed in custom slipcase. A Russian nobleman's photo-illustrated account of three hunting trips in 1895 and 1896 to the Caucasus mountains of Georgia and Azerbaijan, a minor classic of hunting literature that is quite scarce signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.