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Manual on Diving - Practical Diving and the Conduct of Diving Competitions with notes on the Construction of Baths and Diving Equipment -
1945 - Amateur Swimming Association / Simpkin Marshall Ltd, London
“It is better to Dive and risk a fall, than not to make the attempt at all” - handwritten quotation to ffep dated 1945.
A small book in canvas wraps. 231 pages full of photographs illustrations and diagrams. Photographs include the Berlin Olympics and various coastal bathing pools which are quite likely no longer in existence. Some pencil notes pointing out certain mistakes divers are making.
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1945 - Amateur Swimming Association / Simpkin Marshall Ltd, London
“It is better to Dive and risk a fall, than not to make the attempt at all” - handwritten quotation to ffep dated 1945. A small book in canvas wraps. 231 pages full of photographs illustrations and diagrams. Photographs include the Berlin Olympics and various coastal bathing pools which are quite likely no longer in existence. Some pencil notes pointing out certain mistakes divers are making.
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Swimming - The All-England Series -
Martin and J. Racster Cobbett
1891 - George Bell & Sons, London - First Edition
A scarce superb copy of the first edition. With 60 illustrations.
Wonderfully written in the Victorian manner, with chapters headings which include: floating; parlour practice; the kick; the racing stroke; tricks; plunging and diving; sea-bathing; and an appendix with Directions issued by the Royal Society for restoring the apparently dead.
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1891 - George Bell & Sons, London - First Edition
A scarce superb copy of the first edition. With 60 illustrations.Wonderfully written in the Victorian manner, with chapters headings which include: floating; parlour practice; the kick; the racing stroke; tricks; plunging and diving; sea-bathing; and an appendix with Directions issued by the Royal Society for restoring the apparently dead.
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British Manly Exercises: In which Rowing and Sailing are now first Described; and Riding and Driving are for the first Time given in a Work of this Kind… -
Donald Walker
1836 - Thomas Wardle, Philadelphia - Very early, possibly first, American edition.
The first book of wide circulation containing rowing instructions and also extolling the physical benefits of rowing. With Engraved frontispiece and title, 50 plates (1 folding) and vignettes to chapter headings, gathered at the front of the book. With diagrams illustrating the methods extolled by Walker, and covering sports from boxing rowing swimming and horse riding to running, gymnastics and skating.
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1836 - Thomas Wardle, Philadelphia - Very early, possibly first, American edition.
The first book of wide circulation containing rowing instructions and also extolling the physical benefits of rowing. With Engraved frontispiece and title, 50 plates (1 folding) and vignettes to chapter headings, gathered at the front of the book. With diagrams illustrating the methods extolled by Walker, and covering sports from boxing rowing swimming and horse riding to running, gymnastics and skating.
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