INVENTORY #140493
The Sports of the World with Illustrations from Drawings and Photographs. Vols. I & II
AFLALO, F. G. (ed.)
Regular price
$40.00
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Includes pastimes as diverse as lion hunting, shooting eland and other antelopes, pheasant shooting, stag hunting in France, Japanese wrestling, toboganning, sport with tigers, pigeon shooting at Namur, Portuguese bullfights, sea fishing at Constantinople, hockey for men and women, trotters and trotting in England, the great Indian Rhinoceros, cliff limbing for birds' nests, pig sticking, seal shooting, hunting with the cheetah, kangaroo huting, Maori sports, military sports in India, much more.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Cassell and Company
- Edition: Special Ediiton
- Date Published: nd. 1900s
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Fair
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
2 vols.: vii, 216; viii, 217-416 p. 29 cm. Blue cloth with gold trim. Small tears in spine ends. Moderate shelf wear. Ink signatures and stamps for E. Keppel Jones. One page detached in vol. 1. One signature coming loose in vol. 2. Foxing to endpapers and frontispiece tissue guard. Some small tears.