auction house |
Hereditas Antikvárium |
date of auction |
d-m-Y H:i |
title of auction |
17. árverés – Miscellanea ex libris Borda Lajos |
date of exhibition |
2025. szeptember 22 - október 2. | hétköznap 11.00 - 17.00 óráig |
auction contact |
+36 30 442 1386 | info@hereditasantikvarium.hu | www.hereditasantikvarium.hu |
link of auction |
https://axioart.com/aukcio/2025-10-03/17-konyvarveres-hereditas |
295. item
Máttyus Nep(omuk) János, alistáli ’s padányi: Lótudomány. Szerzé ~. Két részben, 20 táblával.
Pesten, 1845. (Trattner és Károlyi ny.) 2pl(s). (frontispiece of Palatine István + lithographed title page)+XVI+424+(4)p.+20 folding pl(s). (1 coloured).
The author, a hussar lieutenant, wrote the first Hungarian handbook of horse breeding, following the 1786 German translation of Markus Fugger’s treatise. His work first appeared in 1828 under the title A Nemzeti Lovag az az A’ Lótudomány’ vizsgáló isméretére vezérlő rendszeres oktatás (The National Knight: A Systematic Guide to the Study of Horse Science), the same year as Széchenyi’s Lovakrul (On Horses). This is its revised edition. At the end, the appendix plates were issued with a separate green wrapper, also present here.
Signed, black leather, with white title on spine. The covers decorated with four leather inlays depicting horsemen in different colours. In hardpaper case.
Dimensions: 225 × 160 mm.
starting price: 600 000