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“Paulmier” [Extracted from: Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Libéraux, et les Arts]. Court Tennis, Denis Diderot, , Jean Le Rond d’Alembert.

“Paulmier” [Extracted from: Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences...

[Paris; Liege: Panckoucke; Plomteux, 1785]. The complete set of these Beautiful plates relating to Court Tennis (“le Jeu des Paumes”) from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict the creation of implements and play of tennis and billiards... Read More

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Other Times and Other Seasons. Laurence Hutton.

Other Times and Other Seasons.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1895. First edition. Inscribed: "To Stephen Palmer, My Constant Friend In All Times and All Seasons. Laurence Hutton Dec. 7th 1902". This inscription is the same as the dedication (which is to Thomas Bailey Aldrich). Features chapters on Football, boxing, tennis, golf, boat-races, transportation, tobacco... Read More

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Country Contentments: or, The Husbandmans Recreations. Contayning the wholesome Experiences, in which any man ought to Recreate himselfe after the toyle of more serious Businesse. As namely, Hunting, Hawking, Coursing with Grey-hounds and the lawes of the Lease, Shooting in Long-bowe or Cross-bowe, Bowling, Tennis, Baloone. The whole Art of Angling, and the use of the Fighting Cocke. By G M. Gervase Markham.

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Country Contentments: or, The Husbandmans Recreations. Contayning the wholesome Experiences, in which any man ought to Recreate himselfe after the...

London: Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Iohn Harison, at the golden Unicorne in Pater-noster-row, 1631. "The fourth edition. Newly Corrected, Enlarged, and Adorned with many excellent Additions, as may appeare by this marke [pointing hand]" First separate edition. First separate edition. First published in 1615 (STC 17342), with its companion... Read More

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Photograph of a doubles lawn tennis match, with 2 observers and a large brick building and "penny-farthing" high-wheel bicycle at right. Tennis.

Photograph of a doubles lawn tennis match, with 2 observers and a large brick building and "penny-farthing" high-wheel bicycle at right.

n.p: ca. 1880’s. A fine early image of a doubles lawn tennis match, the players wielding flat-topped wooden racquets. With an intriguing pencil notation beneath the image, "H.F. Chaffee." One Herbert Fuller Chaffee, born in 1865, achieved great success managing a Bonanza farm on North Dakota only to perish with... Read More

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Autograph Letter, signed (“Bill”), to Mrs. Marrion Anderson & her son Arthur (“Bratto”). William T. Tilden.

From Prison to his “Only Family”

Autograph Letter, signed (“Bill”), to Mrs. Marrion Anderson & her son Arthur (“Bratto”).

Saugus, Calif (“Barracks 19”): ca. 22 August 1949. From Prison to his “Only Family”. A touching letter from the 56-year-old Tilden, the greatest tennis player of the first half of the twentieth century, then recently incarcerated for a second offense on charges of stemming from his homosexual encounters with young... Read More

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