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Lot 234
Sale 5024 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 31, 2019
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[Court Tennis] De Luze, Albert La Magnifique Histoire du Jeu de Paume
Bordeaux: Delmas; Paris: Bossard, 1933. First edition, #785/1,000. 4to. Contemporary quarter gilt-ruled brown morocco and cloth, gilt-lettered spine, raised bands. With frontispiece and 14 plates, illustrations and figures in text. Lot also includes the English-language 1979 edition of the preceding, translated by Richard Hamilton. (Kineton, Warwick): Roundwood Press, 1979. #96/500. 4to. Original gilt and red lettered royal blue cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket, original slipcase. With 15 plates, other illustrations. Signed in ink by the translator, Richard Hamilton, on the title-page.