Sándor Apponyi

Count Sándor Apponyi de Nagyappony (19 January 1844 – 18 April 1925) was a Hungarian diplomat, bibliophile, bibliographer and great book collector.

Thus he was able to amass a collection of interesting historical, arithmetical, biological, geographical and philosophical works in many languages: German, French, Italian, Turkish, Dutch, English and Latin.

Known as the Apponyi Hungarika, this fine collection is now held in the National Széchényi Library, Budapest, and contains about 3,000 books on a wide range of interesting topics.

Also there is a book by Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli about coffee, from the planting of the shrub to the serving of the drink.

As he had family links through his ancestry with Isotta Nogarola, one of the most famous female humanists of the Italian Renaissance, Sándor Apponyi collected books about her era.