A TRIP TO PILAWIN; The Deer Park of Count Potocki in Volhymia, Russia.
Rowland Ward. 1908 London, 1st edn, A near fine copy, inner hinghes tender. Period ink signature of previous owner, neat number of a private library. Item #001720
Description of the famous deer park owned by Count Potocki who wrote SPORT IN SOMALILAND. In the preface (written by Count Joseph Potocki himself) he recounts how he started the preserve to breed deer and elk and how he imported American and Siberian wapiti, the red deer of the Caucasus, and other animals. He was given a breeding pair of European bison from the royal preserve of Bielowicz, and added a herd of American bison as well. The Pilawin preserve, near the Potocki palace of Antoniny (in present day Ukraine), comprised more than 7,000 acres of forests and meadows enclosed by an eight-foot high wooden paling and was part of a larger forest of some 50,000 acres. Lydekker did an admirable job of describing what was one of the finest hunting estates ever in Europe. A very scarce book.
Price: $850.00