KALINOVSKY, A - Les chasses au Caucase. Publication: Vilborg for A. Yakovlev, Skt. [...]

KALINOVSKY, A Les chasses au Caucase. Publication: Vilborg for A. Yakovlev, Skt. Peterburg, 1900. THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS FINELY- PRODUCED RECORD OF IMPERIAL HUNTING PARTIES IN THE CAUCASUS - ONE OF THE GREATEST RUSSIAN HUNTING BOOKS, IN FRENCH AND RUSSIAN, conceived and produced specifically to promote the Caucasus region at The Pa- ris Universal Exhibition of 1900. Large folio (41.8 x 31 cm). Title, 53 pp. in Russian and French, 192 photographic plates on 100 leaves, each captioned below in both Russian and French; some tissues missing, title and pp. 1-2 on new guards, repair of a small mar- ginal tear p. 3, browning of lower margin of first 6 ll., a few plates with small closed tears, some light soiling. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettering within decorative boarder to upper board; rebacked with green leather, boards slightly spotted. КАЛИНОВСКИЙ, А. А. Охоты Кавказа. Первое и единственное издание об Императорской охоте на Кавказе. На русском и французском языках. Направленная на популяризацию Кавказа к Всемирной Выставке в Париже в 1900 году.