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Der Weidmann. Blatter Fur Jager Und Jagdfreunde: Erste Illustrirte Deutsche Jagdzeitung . . .

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Blasewitz-Dresden, Verlag Von Paul Wolff: 1889

Seller ID: 000462

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

Elephant Folio. 456 + 114 pp., binding together 12 monthly issues of hunting/shooting/fishing/ sporting magazine of late nineteenth century. With index. Besides articles, rich in ads for hunting and outdoor gear. Spine starting, and joint rubbed. Otherwise, tight, clean, toned.
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Der Deutsche Jager: Illustrirte Suddeutsche Jagdzeitung: Offizielles Organ Der pfalzisch-Bayerischen jagdschutz-Verein

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Munich, Eduard Pohl's Verlag: 1889

Seller ID: 000463

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Folio - over 12. Book. 1889 and 1890 runs of this hunting/sporting periodical. 239 + 249 pp. With Index. Profusely illustrated, with many interesting advertisements of hunting and outdoor gear. Tight binding, clean, toned pages.
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Der Waidmann. Blatter Fur Jager Und Jagdfreunde: Erste Illustrirte Deutsche Jagdzeitung . . .

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Blasewitz-Dresden, Verlag Von Paul Wolff: 1883

Seller ID: 000464

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

Elephant Folio. April 1881 to August 1883. 14th Band (year). 436 pp., binding together monthly issues of hunting/shooting/fishing/ sporting magazine of late nineteenth century. Besides articles, rich in ads for hunting and outdoor gear. Tight, clean, toned.
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Smoking and Smokers; Also, Snuff and Snuff-Takers. With Numerous Wood Cuts

By: N/A

Price: $475.00

Publisher: London, Joseph Baker: 1851

Seller ID: 001373

Binding: Blindstamped decorated cloth

Condition: Very Good

Essentially two books, closely related in topic and tone, in one. 90 and 90 pp. 8to, 8 by 4.5 inches, 20 by 12 cm. With numerous often droll woodcut illustrations of smokers in their various attitudes and conceits. The work(s) treat seemingly all aspects of their subject, including history, statistical data regarding, and then countless other looser associative matters of which the very act of smoking invites, for smoking, and now the mostly bygone practice of taking snuff, so much more to their acolytes than the simple consumption of the stuff. Thus there are chapters on reveries concern...
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Vie au Grand Air Noel

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: 1912

Seller ID: 002128

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Scarce sporting periodical, with the most notable piece on aviation, but also articles and plates depicting car racing, shooting, tennis, fencing, equestriana, boxing, cycling. (1912 was an Olympic year.) The graphics and overall production of this periodical, or at least this issue, are extraordinary, with the use of colorized photos for a number of the plates. The format is large, with the pages measuring 13.5 by 11 inches, or 34 by 28 cm. No copies found on OCLC. Clean and tight. Original wraps bound in red cloth.
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E. I. Horsman Wholesale Catalogue Spring Goods. 1898 Manufacturer, Importer, Exporter and Jobber of Indoor & Outdoor Games, Novelties, Sports, and Toys. Sole Manufacturer of the Famous Trade "Blue Hill Box Kite" Mark. Headquarters for Croquet, Golf, Tennis, Hammocks, &c.

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, 1898

Seller ID: 002227

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Scarce, with no copies found on OCLC, nor anything else produced by this company. A diverse sporting goods catalog that includes a number of items of individual interest. First there is the kite alluded to on the front cover. Within the catalog maintains that this kite, "now Famous throughout the Country", and "KITE FLYING LAWN PARTIES", will be "THE SOCIETY FAD for the Coming Season". In the heyday of kite-flying, coinciding with the dawn of modern-day aviation, the rage, it seems, was for "scientific kite flying". Some of the games advertised in the pages...
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Collection of Five Trade Cards Featuring Baseball Caricatures

By: N/A

Price: $195.00

Seller ID: 002833

Circa 1880s, these five cards were all promotions, or ads, for The New Carlton Dining Room in Boston. The cards depict a fat klutz contending with various elements of the National Pastime. We see this man knocked off his feet by catching a ball, stiffly awaiting a pitch while at bat, as a catcher, striking out and lolling after apparently hitting a home run. The captions are"Bravo! The Pet of the Nine", "Something must be done! Put it there!", "A close affair. Hugging the bat.", "Struck out.", and "Hero of a Home Run. The Ladies Favorite". These cards were not designed specifically for ...
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58th Fete Federale de Gymnastique 17-21 Juillet 1925 Geneve Album Souvenir

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Price: $125.00

Publisher: Geneve., Le Comite D'Organisation. La Rotogravure S. A.: 1925

Seller ID: 003315

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

4to., 28 by 22 cm. 96 pp. Richly illustrated with photos of all the gymnastic events, the parades and other celebratory events, including theatrical productions, and group photos of the officialdom. A fascinating document celebrating physical cutlure of the period. Soiling to the wraps. Tight and clean otherwise.
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Manufacture Francaise d'Armes & Cycles de Saint-Etienne. Societe Anonyme au Capital de 10,000,000 de Francs

By: N/A

Price: $200.00

Publisher: St. Etienne, Loire,

Seller ID: 003562

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

N.d., circa 1919, based on one plate with women's fashion from that year. 4to. 25 by 18.5 cm. 660 pp. plus wraps. Catalogue of the French answer to Sears Roebuck -- a more specialized version -- with great variety of goods, including furniture, clocks, silverware, cameras, etc.; but the greatest emphasis is on sporting equipment, and particularly firearms and other paraphernalia for shooting and hunting, cycling, as clear from the title, and then followed by other sports, and the outdoor life more generally. This is expressed particularly in the color plates, which depict fox-hunting, s...
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[Early Baseball Ephemera] Humorous Mid-Nineteenth Century Valentine "Base Baller"

By: N/A

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York and Baltimore, Fisher & Denison:

Seller ID: 003668

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

Very scarce humorous Valentine, circa 1850s to 1860s, with a baseball theme. With a hand-colored baseball player, and a caption with the verse: "Greatest of muffo with butter fingers,/ Defeat around you always lingers,/ 'Tis with pity I hear the shouts,/ That greet your constantly recurring out./ Dear Sir, you missed calling/ When you sought money in Base Balling." The vinegar Valentine is framed and matted. The broadside itself is 22 by 15.5 cm, and the frame, 37 by 29 cm. The Valentine has minor soiling and creases, now flattened. The frame and mat are pristine.
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A Los Toros! Viva Espana!

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Valencia, Lit. S. Dura:

Seller ID: 004028

Binding: Leporellos

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1890. Oblong, 10.5 by 15 cm. 12 color plates depicting crowd heading to arena on the front cover, then within the leporello all the pageantry and ritual of the bull fight, with an illustration of the bulls reposing in a pasture on the back cover. The panorama was almost certainly produced as a souvenir -- a keepsake for someone attending the bullfight and hawked by peddlers calling out to passerbys on the periphery of the arena. The quality of the printing is not necessarily of the highest level, but the arrangement of the images in a leporello has a compact charm all its own. ...
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Image for Ortega, Imprenta-Litografia. Catalogo Muestrario de Carteles, Cartelitos, Cabeceras, Prospectos y Billetes de Propaganda Taurina, Ferias y Fiestas.

Ortega, Imprenta-Litografia. Catalogo Muestrario de Carteles, Cartelitos, Cabeceras, Prospectos y Billetes de Propaganda Taurina, Ferias y Fiestas.

By: N/A

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Valencia, 1955

Seller ID: 004447

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Oblong 4to. 20 by 29 cm. 41 leaves in brown tinted illustrated wrappers. Splashily colorful trade catalogue from lithographic printer specializing in cards, tickets, programs and posters dedicated to bullfights and local fairs and fiestas. Much of the content is brilliantly illustrated promotions of bullfights, with flyers, posters and the like tipped in, generally two or three pasted onto the same base leaf. Samples which in practice might have been printed in varying sizes, often much larger than in the catalogue, they capture the thrill, ritual and spirit of the sport. The pages with tic...
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Jugendspiele zur Erholung und Erheiterung. Knabenspiele. Mit zehn illuminirten Kupfern

By: N/A

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Tilsit, W. Sommerfeld:

Seller ID: 005546

Binding: Hardcover. Paper pastedown.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1846. 12mo. 15 by 10 cm. x, [2], 95, [1] pp. 10 hand-colored plates depicting boys' sports and games. These are incredibly charming, and include a precursor of baseball, it would appear. Uncommon in hard copy, original form.
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Image for Catalogo de propagana taurina 1961. Imprenta-Litografia Ortega Valencia-Espana. Catalogo Muestrario. Carteles, Cartelitos, Cabeceras, Prospectos, Billetes.

Catalogo de propagana taurina 1961. Imprenta-Litografia Ortega Valencia-Espana. Catalogo Muestrario. Carteles, Cartelitos, Cabeceras, Prospectos, Billetes.

By: N/A

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Valencia, 1960

Seller ID: 004458

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

4to. 29.5 by 23 cm. Unpaginated, 48 leaves in colorful wrappers. Setting this catalogue apart from earlier Ortega catalogues, all of which are scarce, is besides the shape, the facing pages from the specimen samples feature action line illustrations of various facets of the bullfight. Splashily colorful trade catalogue from lithographic printer specializing in cards, tickets, programs and posters dedicated to bullfights and local fairs and fiestas. Much of the content is brilliantly illustrated promotions of bullfights, with flyers, posters and the like tipped in, generally two or three ...
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Croquêt

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Price: $1,450.00

Publisher: England,

Seller ID: 004642

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

N.d. Circa 1870s. Small 4to. 24 by 18 cm. Eight pages of manuscript, with eight delightful pen and ink illustrations, including cover decoration, plus six ornamental letter vignettes ("historiated", "floriated" and "rusticated"). The illustrations include ones of a manor house, with three croquet players in the foreground, a grouping of players with one about to do an agressive swing resembling a golf drive, a group of young adults listiening to a serenader, and wooing couple and a seraph steering a tiny sailboat. The verse is pleasant and rich in charm: "Inst...
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[Game][Broadside] Championnat International de Natation. Jeu de Société Original

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Paris, Saussine:

Seller ID: 005862

Very colorful chromolithographically printed uncut sheet for a swimming-inspired game, with cut-out figures for swimmers from various nations (France, U.S., U.K., Switzerland, Germany, Italy), sailboats, fish, and a curmudgeonly looking man. N.d., circa 1920. Dating based on dress, including female competitors in one piece bathing suits. Measures 76 by 56 cm. Light age toning. Very minor edgewear.
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Giuoco del Ponte

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Pisa, Lischi & Figli: 1935

Seller ID: 005992

Binding: Color pictorial wraps

Condition: Very Good

12mo. 19 by 13 cm. 12 pp. History and description of Medieval martial game, a contest between two neighborhoods of Pisa over control of a bridge. An antediluvian "war game", as such. The publication in the mid-thirties can be seen as a projection of Fascist ideals, which glorified violence and embraced militarism. The same publisher came out with a longer book the same year by Virgilio Salvestrini. This, probably an abridgement, imparts enough to quench most reader's curiosity. The longer book is uncommon, and this brochure, especially so, with only two copies of the brochure lo...
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Loop Tennis

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Lowe & Campbell Athletic Goods Co.:

Seller ID: 006708

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1940s. One sheet, double-folded, closed, measuring 15 by 9 cm. Opens to 30 by 18 cm. Promoting now a forgotten sporting game being promoted as building eye and hand coordination. In the game, a ball is connected to a string, with two hoops on opposite sides. The goal is to hit the tennis ball through your hoop and prevent your opponent from scoring. Several versions of the game and its set-up are on offer -- indoor and outdoor and tabletop versions. Scarce, with no copies found on OCLC First Search. Light wear, and a few light pencil markings on the back.
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[Print] John Mytton, Esq. Halston, Saloop. From the original picture in the possession of John Bishton Minor, Esq.

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: 006710

Binding: NA

Condition: Near Fine

Hand-colored plate, with oval cameo portrait of the famous early nineteenth century sportsman. The print in its entirely measures 24 by 15 cm, the portrait, 8.5 by 6.5 cm. On a thick weave paper.
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Paper Cutting Knife, Made of Bone, with Small Painted Relief of Huntswoman Riding Side-Saddle

By: N/A

Price: $175.00

Seller ID: 006715

Condition: Fine

Lovely vignette of female equestrian on white horse. We don't know when this was made, but our best bet would be around 1920, and probably from England. 29 cm tall. The purpose of a paper cutting knife was to cut uncut leaves in a new book. By the 1930s most books were sold with the pages pre-cut. The early twentieth century was a transitional period, though, when it was still not unusual to encounter books with uncut pages. To cut the pages, a knife with somewhat smooth, rounded, dull edges were used, as anything else would have led to an inordinate amount of collateral damage.
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Category: Sporting