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Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. A fine copy.
JONES, Robert Tyre (Bobby)
Bobby Jones on golf.
New York Doubleday & Co [1966]
Price: $100.00
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LOWNDES, Thomas
Brine-salt improved; or, the method of making salt from brine: that shall be as good or better than French bay-salt: in a letter to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated 8 July, 1746
London S. Austen 1746
Price: $1,800.00
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[STOVES]
Die kunst holz zu ersparen, und beym Kochen durch wirthschaftliche Verminderung des fevers die Speisen sogar kraftig zu machen. Nebst Palmers-Methode, zimmer ohne kosten zu heitzen.
[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1809.
Price: $450.00
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Original red publisher's cloth paneled in blind, gilt title on upper cover, slight soiling. An excellent presentation copy inscribed in purple ink, "Mrs. Neate from the Author." Preserved in a modern burgundy cloth box with red morocco sides, gilt lettered.
CARROLL, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]
Doublets: a word-puzzle
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879.
Price: $9,500.00
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[BOOK OF SECRETS].
English Tudor medical manuscript.: ENGLISH RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF SECRETS
[England]: [n.p.], [ca. 1590 and later].
Price: $75,000.00
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OLIVIER, J.
Fencing familiarized: a new treatise on the art of sword play.
London: John Bell, 1771.
Price: $1,250.00
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Woodcut title by Hans Weiditz depicts a man raking the earth and woman gathering herbs. Among the other woodcuts are illustrations of a herb garden, an apothecary shop, and a banqueting scene. Finely bound in blind-stamped full calf of the period.
BRUNSCHWIG, Hieronymus.
Hauss apoteck, zu jeden leibs gebresten fur den gemainen mann und das arm landvolck.: HERBAL REMEDIES FOR ALL OCCASIONS AND STATES OF MIND
Augsburg: Hainrich Stainer, 1545.
Price: $6,000.00
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GEOFFROY, [Etienne-Louis]; ARMSTRONG, John
Hygieine, sive ars sanitaten conservandi poema. (b/w) L'hygieine....; (b/w) The art of preserving health.
Paris; London: Petrum-Guillelmur Cavelier; A. Millar, 1771;1774; 1757.
Price: $1,500.00
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THEVENOT, Melchisedech
L'art de nager, demontré par figures. Avec des avis pour se baigner utilement
Paris Thomas Moette 1696
Price: $8,500.00
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With one-page index in contemporary manuscript on blank endleaf. A magnificent woodcut title designed by Guiseppe Porta [Salviati] depicting classical figures consulting Marcolini's book. Full-page engraved frontispiece portrait of Marcolini framed by a pediment and caryatids on the verso of the title page (a composition sometimes attributed to Titian), and hundreds of beautiful text illustrations and tables. Elaborate colophon with printer's device and mark ("Veritas Filia Tempris") on verso of last printed leaf. Contemporary calf with blind-stamped floral decoration and fillets on covers, extremities and some interior corners carefully restored; a few small, unobtrusive wormholes on frontispiece, lightly age-toned. Overall an excellent copy.
MARCOLINI, Francesco
Le ingeniose sorti
[Venice] [Marcolini] [1550]
Price: $39,500.00
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HALLE, Johann Samuel
Magie, oder, Die zauberkräfte der natur....; Fortgesetzte Magie, oder, die Zauberkräfte der Natur....; Neufortgesetzte Magie, oder, die Zauberkräfte der Natur....: THE STATE OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES THROUGH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Berlin: Joachim Pauli, 1784, 1784-1786; 1788-90, 1792-9
Price: $15,000.00
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CRESCENTIO, Pietro
Opera di agricoltura. Nellaqual si contiene a che modo si debbe coltivar la terra: seminare, inserire gli alberi, governar li giardini e gli horti. . . : VADE MECUM FOR THE GENTLEMEN FARMER
Venice: [Li heredi di Joanne Padouano], [1553].
Price: $5,500.00
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Frontispiece photographic portrait and numerous photographs in the text. Publisher's cloth, minor staining and soiling, without the dust jacket; interior very good.
HOGAN, Ben
Power golf.
New York A.S. Barnes and Company 1948
Price: $200.00
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With frontispiece plus 6 engraved plates, engraved title vignette, folding hand-coloured map. Contemporary half morocco and cloth, stained, corners worn; marbled endpapers. Ownership signature of David Maitland on title page, annotations; some browning on first and last blanks, but overall a clean copy.
LAMONT, James
Seasons with the seahorses, or sporting adventures in the northern seas.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861.
Price: $300.00
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Publishers cloth in original dust jacket. A fine copy.
DONOVAN, Richard E. & MURDOCH, Joseph S.F.
The game of golf and the printed word, 1566-1985: a bibliography of golf literature in the English language.
Endicott, N.Y. Castalio Press 1987
Price: $150.00
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CARROLL, Lewis [Dodgson].
The game of logic.: THE TRUE FIRST EDITION
London Macmillan & Co., 1886.
Price: $7,500.00
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BEST, Charles, et al.
Three offprints on sports medicine.
1928-1929.
Price: $350.00
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