Monographie de la horticulture en Hongrie redigee de par ordre du ministre royal hongrois de l'agriculture M. Ignace Daranyi . pour l'Exposition universelle de 1900 a Paris par le Dr Charles Schilberszky
by Schilberszky, Charles
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About This Item
Budapest: La Societe Anonyme "Athenaeum", 1900. Large quarto, illustrated with 48 plates (one folding), mainly photographic, 64 pages of text in French, a little used internally with slight age-toning, faint staining to the bottom margins, the final plate worn at the margins and lacking a small corner, the original upper cover is bound in, but lacking a corner (no loss of text), bound in a simple recent green quarter calf, very slightly marked and faded. RARE. [An intriguing account of fin-de-siecle horticulture in Hungary. COPAC lists only two copies within the UK - Kew and the London Library.]. First Edition. Quarter leather. Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Monographie de la horticulture en Hongrie redigee de par ordre du ministre royal hongrois de l'agriculture M. Ignace Daranyi . pour l'Exposition universelle de 1900 a Paris par le Dr Charles Schilberszky
- Author
- Schilberszky, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- La Societe Anonyme "Athenaeum"
- Place of Publication
- Budapest
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Hungary.gardening.landscape.Europe.European.garden.design.International.Exhibition.Paris.
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Garden History; Photography; History of Science; Victorian;
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