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three books are stacked on top of each other on a tableseveral open books sitting on top of a table next to each other
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221 - (Sport) – 6 books.
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Estimate €80 - €120
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Description
(Sport) – 6 books. - DECKER (Wolfgang) & Jean-Paul THUILLIER. Sport in Antiquity: Egypt, Greece, Rome. Paris, 2004. In-8, 260 pp, [2 ff]: advertisements, paperback, illustrated cover. Illustrated with 167 figures, 28 of which are in colour. Glossary, bibliography, index. - (Skating) - FOSTER (Fred W.). A Bibliography of Skating. Privately printed. London, 1898. (Reprint, 2003). In-8, [1 f]: frontispiece, [2 ff], 136 pp, [1 f], publisher’s cloth. From the origins of the sport up to 1893, the author has catalogued several hundred books in various languages and arranged them in chronological order. Several indexes. - (Tennis) - WHITMAN (Malcolm D.) and Robert W. HENDERSON. *Tennis Origins and Mysteries*. With an Historical Bibliography by Robert W. Henderson. New York, 1932 (Reprint, 2002). In-8, 258 pp, publisher’s grey cloth. Inserted pages, two indexes. The bibliography (1,500 titles) occupies pages 161 to 252. (Baseball) - GROBANI. *Guide to Baseball Literature*. Detroit, 1975 (Reprint c. 1996). In-8, XV, 363 pp, hardback. - (Baseball) - The Spalding Baseball Collection. New York, 1922 (Reprint, c. 1875). In-8, [43 pp], paperback. - (Boxing) - MAGRIEL (Paul). Bibliography of Boxing. Reprint, 2002. In-8, 32 pp, hardback.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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Auction time 10/05/2026 at 2:00 PM
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