Sports et Jeux d'Adresse
Librairie Hachette & Cie, [1903]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #648936
Folio. 10.5 x 13 in. 382pp. With more than 400 illustrations, including one hundred full page plates, of which twenty-nine are hand-colored. In a full binding of paper covered boards, printed in colors, and the front cover and spine with some additional hand-finishing, with marbled paper endsheets. Top edge gilt. Boards have some evidence of small abrasions and minor markings, top outside corner bumped (apparent in the text block as well), spine and corners with some small nicks and wear. Altogether a nice copy of this fragile book in the original publisher's binding. Discreet private library bookplate of Auguste Lambiotte on the front pastedown, and a warm presentation inscription from him to Louis Marx [American toy maker and businessman ?] on the first blank. A wonderful encyclopedia of sports and games, their history and rules, fully illustrated.
Price: $800.00