234 A modern facsimile of Scaino (Antonio) Trattato Del Giuoco Della Palla, 1555,
A3-size sheets tie-bound in a red cloth folio
£50 - 80
235 A facsimile of Julian Marshall’s Annals of Tennis, the 1973 reprint of the original 1878 edition
£80 - 100 237 238 239
238 Sears (Richard Dudley) Lawn Tennis as a Game of Skill, edited by Sears, published in 1885, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, very good condition
This is the first coaching book on lawn tennis published in the USA and it is almost identical to that title published in 1884 in the UK by Lieut. S C F Peile. £200 - 250
239 Dwight (James) Practical Lawn Tennis,
1st US edition of 1893, quite rare and in very good condition
A wonderful and very early USA coaching title, to be precise the second such book in USA lawn tennis bibliography. £100 - 150
242 Miles (Eustace) The Game of Squash, scarce, 8vo, brown suede covers, embossed title, published by J F Taylor & Co., New York, 1901 £140 - 180
236 La Haye (A.) La Maison Academique,
Chex Elinckhuysen, 1702, thirty five pages on tennis in three parts, scoring, rules & health benefits £500 - 800
237 Cavendish (Henry Jones) The Games of Lawn Tennis and Badminton,
5th edition of 1883, very good condition £200 - 250
240 American lawn tennis fiction, Stories For Boys by Richard Harding Davis, 1891, contains the earliest known tennis story, 35p. short story titled The Great Tri-Club Tennis Tournament; sold together with Harold M Sherman’s The Tennis Terror, and Champions Choice by John R. Tunis (3 vols) £80 - 100
241 Two gilt-decorated volumes of Punch or The London Charivari, July to December 1901, and January to June 1902, with more than 15 cartoons, articles and comments relating to the contemporary craze for ping pong £60 - 90
243 Tompkins (Frederick Charles) Court Tennis Racquets and Squash, the first American book published on these games, J B Lippincott Company, 1909
£250 - 350
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