May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 345

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
KOENIGSMARCK, HANS VON, Count. The Markhor: Sport in Cashmere . . . Translated from the German by Norah Bashford. Frontispiece reproducing painting of markhor on mountain peak; 8 plates after photographs. Half-title. 8vo, original silver-pictorial navy cloth, spine ends bumped, lower outer corner of rear cover frayed; contents clean, translator's name corrected in ink on page xv, with (her?) signature below in contemporary hand: "Norah Gräfin Koenigsmarck née O'Nolan-Martin." London, 1910

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first edition of a German officer's account of his experiences hunting wild goat in Kashmir, translated by his wife. The German version first appeared the following year.