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First edition of an extensive work on gymnastics intended for the Sicilian army troups View picture(s) 1 ABBONDATI, Niccoló. Instituzione di arte ginnastica per le truppe di fanteria di S.M. Siciliana. Compilata sulle teorie de' più accurati scrittori antichi, e moderni. Napoli, Reale Tipografia Militare, 1846. 3 parts in 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary green boards. With 45 numbered folding engraved plates with exercises a.o. fencing. 192; 192, (8), VII, 193- 472 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Duelling  Fencing  Italy  Militaria  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive manual on the physical education of children from birth to puberty View picture(s) 2 BALLEXSERD, Jacques. Dissertation sur l'education physique des enfans, depuis leur naissance jusqu' à l'âge de puberté. Ouvrage qui a remporté le prix le 21 mai 1762, à la Société Hollandoise des Sciences. Paris, Vallat-La-Chapelle, 1762. 12mo. Contemporary half calf,  gilt spine with red title label. With engraved vignette on title with explication on p. 16. (16), 189, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Education  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare draught-players' manual View picture(s) 3 CECINA RICA Y FERGEL, Pablo. Medula eutropelica calculatoria, que enseña a Jugar a las damas con espada, y broquèl: divida en tres tratados: en el primero se ponen las salidas mas firmes, assi de mano, como de postre, defendidas por ambos lados. En el segundo otras defendidas por un lado, por no ser igualmente firmes por ambos. En el tercero se ponen cinquenta y cinco lances sueltos, muy provechosos para rematar con acierto los juegos. Sacala a luz un jugador incognito, aunque nombrado. Madrid, Francisco Xavier Garcia for Valentin Francès Cavallere, 1759. Sm 8vo. Contemporary vellum, title written in brown ink on spine. With some woodcut tailpieces, one charming woodcut initial and an almost full-page woodcut showing the playing board for the game of draughts with numbers added for the game-notations. (16), 184 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chess  Games & Pastimes  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Stimulating young people to dance View picture(s) 4 CELLARIUS. The Drawing-Room Dances. New York, Boston, Dinsmore & Co., Ditson & Co., 1858. Small 8vo. Original gilt and blind-stamped green cloth. With a couple of dancers back to back on title, and 8 full-page wood-engraved plates of couples of dancers by Holcomb & Davis, 6 nicely coloured by hand. 105, (1 blank, 6 advertisements) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Dance  Music  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The art of fencing View picture(s) 5 DANET, Guillaume. L'art des armes, ou la maniere la plus certaine de se servir utilement de l'epée, soit pour attaquer, soit pour se défendre, simplifiée & démonstrée dans toute son étendue & sa perfection, suivant les meilleurs principes de théorie & de pratique adoptés actuellement en France; ouvrage nécessaire à la jeune noblesse, aux militaires, & à ceux qui se destinent au service du Roi, aux personnes même qui, par la distinction de leur état, ou par leurs charges, sont obligés de porter l'epée; & à tous ceux qui veulent faire profession des armes. Paris, Herissant, fils, 1766-1767. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines ribbed and richly gilt, with red and green title labels. With richly designed emblematic frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, engraved armorial headpiece for the dedication, engraved armorial tailpiece with the French Royal coat of arms, and 45 double-page engraved plates by L.G. Taraval after Taxcilliere, showing the various positions and movements of two gentlemen fencing in the fields. (4), XXXVIII, 241, (9); (14), 215, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fencing  Militaria  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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One of the earliest woodcuts depicting the "Jeu de Paume" View picture(s) 6 FLOCCUS, Andreas Domenichus. Il Fenestella d'i sacerdotii, e d'i magistrati romani. Venice, Giolito di Ferrarii, 1544. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping limp vellum. 42 very interesting historiated woodcut initials of professions, sports and past times. 43 numbered leaves. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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German gymnastics View picture(s) 7 GUTS MUTHS, Johann Christoph Friedrich. Turnbuch für die Söhne des Vaterlandes. Frankfurt am Main, Wilmans, 1817. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, gilt and ribbed spine, red title label with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers (Buchbinderei Albert Günther Wien). With 4 large folding engraved plates (25 x 42 cm) by Carl Auefeld, with gymnastics exercises and gymnastic equipment. (38), XXXXII, (2), 300, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Education  Germany  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to raise your children View picture(s) 8 KRAUSE, Adolph Gottlob Ferdinand. Die physische Erziehungskunde für Lehrer und Erzieher, systematisch bearbeitet. Leipzig, Friedrich Christain Durr, 1808. 8vo. Contemporary boards, library number on spine, sprinkled edges. XVI, 172 , (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Education  Germany  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Groundbreaking history of the Olympics View picture(s) 9 KRAUSE, Johann Heinrich. Olympia, oder darstellung der grossen Olympischen Spiele und der damit verbundenen Festlichkeiten, so wie sämmtlicher kleineren Olympien in verschiedenen Staaten, nebst einem ausführlichen Verzeichnisse der olympischen Sieger in alphabetischer Ordnung und einigen Fragmenten des Phlegon aus Tralles peri ton Olympion. Wien, Fr. Beck, 1838. 8vo. Later half cloth library binding with pasted shelf number on spine. XLIV, 420 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  German  History  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First and only Dutch edition: on the practical use of a newly invented life jacket View picture(s) 10 LA CHAPELLE, Jean Baptista de. De Scaphander. Of de Konst om in de diepste Wateren dryvende te gaan en allerhande werk te verrigten. Amsterdam, G. Warners & Harlingen, Volkert van der Plaats, 1777. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers (back cover loose), uncut. With 4 engraved plates on 2 large folded sheets by B. de Bakker after the plates in the original French edition, charmingly illustrating the water-jacket and water-pants discussed in the text. (2), VIII, 139, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Hunting  Militaria  Sports & Recreation  Swimming  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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"the finest of all wrestling books and deservedly the most famous" View picture(s) 11 PETTER, Nicolaes. Klare onderrichtinge der voortreffelijcke worstel-konst, verhandelende hoemen in alle voorvallen van twist in handtgemeenschap, sich kan hoeden: en alle aengrepen, borst-stooten, vuyst-slagen &c. versetten. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1674. 4to. 19th-century red morocco, gilt fillet borders along the edges, gold-tooled spine in compartments, inner dentelles, green silk pastedowns, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (GRUEL). With woodcut vignette on title-page and 71 full-page etched plates (ca. 17.5-19.5 x 14.5-16.5 cm) by Romeyn de Hooghe. [8], 16 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Engravings  Illustrated Books  Print Series  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A famous Dutch scholar on writing, gymnastics, music and painting View picture(s) 12 VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes. De quatuor artibus popularibus, grammatistice, gymnastice, musice, & graphice, liber. Amsterdam, Johannes Blaeu, 1650. Small 4to. Later blue wrappers, title label pasted on spine. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. (14), 94, (12) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Music  Painting & Drawing  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Entertaining book for skating enthousiasts View picture(s) 13 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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Interesting sportsman's manual View picture(s) 14 [CUISIN, J.P.R.]. L'école du chasseur, suivie d'un traité sur l'oisellerie, la pêche, et les nouveaux fusils de chasse a piston, sans  pierre, a foudre, a système, a foudre fulminante; avec la manière de s'en servir, etc. Paris, Lécrivain, 1822. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With folding lithographed frontispiece and 9 full-page lithographed plates showing guns, nets for bird catching, fishing rods, etc., and all kinds of hunting and fishing devices. (4), 402 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Fishing  Hunting  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The gentlemen's guide to hunting and fishing View picture(s) 15 [FORTIN, François]. Les Ruses Innocentes, dans lesquelles se voit comment on prend les Oyseaux passagers, & les non passagers: & de plusieurs sortes de Bêtes à quatre pieds. Avec les plus beaux Secrets de la Pêche dans les Rivieres  & dans les Estangs. Et un Traité tres-utile pour la Chasse. Et la Maniere de faire tous les Rets & les Filets qu'on peut s'imaginer. Paris, Ch. de Sercy, 1688. 4to. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt. With title printed in red and black, engraved armorial headpiece and large engraved initial to the dedication, and 66 full-page woodcut plates, several folding or double-page, of which 50 illustrate hunting and bird-catching and 16 fishing. (16), 445, (1 blank), 12 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Fishing  Hunting  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to pass your spare time methodically View picture(s) 16 [GAMES - PASTIMES]. ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE. Dictionaire des Jeux avec les planches relatives, Faisant suite aux Amusemens  des Sciences Mathématiques &c. Padova, 1800. 4to. Contemp. wrappers. With engraved allegorical vignette on title, and numerous illustrations of all sorts of table and party games on 13 engraved plates, 5 double-page, by P. Scattaglia. IV, 247, (1 blank) pp. in 2 columns Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  French  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A playful way to learn about Dutch history View picture(s) 17 [GAMES - PASTIMES]. Spel verbeeldende de historie van Holland. 's Gravenhage, Pieter Paupie, 1742. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. 15 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Games & Pastimes  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Gymnastics in the army View picture(s) 18 [GÖRNE, Von, Von SCHERFF & MERTENS]. Die gymnastik und die fechtkunst in der Armee. Berlin, A. Bath, 1858. 16mo. Modern cloth with original frontwrapper pasted on. XIV, 231 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibliography  Fencing  Militaria  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The offical guide for the Olympic Games of 1928 in Amsterdam View picture(s) 19 [OLYMPIC GAMES]. Officieele gids voor de Olympische Spelen ter viering van de IXe Olympiade. Amsterdam 1928. Uitgegeven met medewerking van het Comité 1928 (Ned. Olympisch Comité). Amsterdam, Holdert & Co. & A. de la Mar Azn., 1928. Sm.8vo. Contemporary decorated boards. Numerous advertisements and illustrations. Text in Dutch, French, German and English. 306 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Finely illustrated work on dogs used for hunting View picture(s) 20 [ROUSSELON]. Traité des chiens de chasse, contenant l'histoire générale de l'espèce; les soins à prendre pour faire des élèves, croiser les races, entretenir une meute en santé et guérir les maladies; la description des races propres a la chasse, avec la figure de chacune d'elles, et la meilleure méthode pour dresser les chiens. Par un des collaborateurs du traité général des chasses. Paris, Rousselon, 1827. Small 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt with title lettered in gold and pasted shelf-label on bottom, marbled boards, red mottled edges. With 16 full-page aquatint engraved numbered plates of which 12 signed by Théodore Susémihl, showing the various races of hounds. VIII, 200 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  French  Hunting  Sports & Recreation  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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