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All plates hand-coloured View picture(s) 1 GARCIN, Jean. Le vrai patineur, ou principes sur l'art de patiner avec grace, précédé de réflexions et de remarques critiques sur la manière de quelques patineurs inélégans, ainsi que sur les différens formes de patins, le choix quel'on doit en faire, et les variations dont cette chaussure est susceptible. Paris, Delespinasse, Delaunaux, Nepveu, the author, 1813. Small 8vo. Wrappers. With frontispiece giving an overall view of a skating-rink, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 engraved plates, each showing a skater in a different position, all in contemporary handcolouring. XXIV, 93, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  French  Games & Pastimes  Ice-skating  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Entertaining book for skating enthousiasts View picture(s) 2 ZINDEL, Christian Siegmund. Der Eislauf oder das Schrittschuhfahren ein Taschenbuch für Jung und Alt. Mit Gedichten von Klopstock, Herder, Cramer, Krummacher und Kupfern von J.A. Klein. Nuremberg, Friedrich Campe, 1825. 8vo. Original decorated boards, with illustrated border of 12 zodiacal signs, an illustration of northern winds, pouring snow and sending cold winds over skating figures on the frontcover, on the backcover King Winter ordering the cold winds to blow. With 6 full-page engravings (incl. frontispiece) depicting nice skating scenes. IV, 180 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Ice-skating  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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