Sale 629: Fine Golf Books, Hickory Clubs & Golf Memorabilia (#629) 11/12/2017 5:00 PM EST CLOSED!

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Lot 41 of 400:
Gymnastics Golf & Curling 1866  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,800
Estimate:
$3,000 - $5,000

Title:
Gymnastics, Golf, Curling

Author:
Chambers, Robert, the younger

Place:
London & Edinburgh

Publisher:
W. & R. Chambers

Date:
[c.1866]

Description:

[2], 94 pp. Illustrated with engravings. (12mo) 14.5x11 cm (5¾x4¼") original stiff pink pictorial wrappers, advertisements on endpapers. First Edition Thus.

The section on golf is actually the second, enlarged, appearance of Chambers's "A Few Rambling Remarks on Golf", which first appeared in 1862. The second golf instructional to be published. This copy from the collection of Joseph Murdoch, with his library bookplate on the verso of the title page, sold at PBA Galleries in 1998 for $2,250 and not seen in the original wrappers since. Murdoch 119; D&M 860; D&J 9070


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Condition:
Old tape repair to spine, rear cover reattached, small crease to lower corner of front cover; very good.


 
Item number:
287173
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