BOXING, WRESTLING, FENCING, ARCHERY, CRICKET & FOOTBALL, A COLLECTION, INCLUDING
ROLAND, GEORGE. AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE OF FENCING. EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, [N.D.]
£380
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
Second edition, 8vo, 5 plates; [bound with] Roland, G. An Introductory Course of Modern Gymnastic Exercises. Edinburgh: for the Author, 1854. Send edition, 8vo, 2 plates, original pictorial pebbled cloth gilt; Walker, Donald Defensive Exercises, comprising Wresting as in Cumberland, Westmoreland, Cornwall and Devonshire, Boxing. London, 1840. First edition, 12mo, 5 plates (1 folding), illustrations, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, neatly recased, slightly rubbed; Ford, H.A. Archery: its Theory and Practice. London, 1859. Second edition, 8vo, frontispiece & 5 plates, original pictorial green cloth gilt; Furniss, Harry The By Ways and Queer Ways of Boxing. London: Harrison, [n.d.]. 4to, illustrations, original pictorial cloth; [Bicycling - Ostberg, A.] Hjulridt. Stockholm, 1897. First edition, 8vo, plates, deerskin; Fry, C.B. The Book of Cricket. [1899], folio, original pictorial green cloth gilt; Thomson, John Drumpellier Cricket Club 1850 to 1906. 1908, 8vo, original cloth; Kilburn, J.M. History of Yorkshire County Cricket 1924-1949. 1950. 8vo, original cloth gilt; Riddell, T.C. Greenock Cricket Club Records 1887-1937. 1938, dustwrapper; O'Neil, A. Annals of Brechin Cricket 1849-1923. 8vo, original cloth; Robbie, J.C. The Chronicle of the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh 1735-1795. 1936. 8vo, original cloth; and a collection of other sporting books (quantity)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison