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A HANDBOOK OF GYMNASTICS AND ATHLETICS

A HANDBOOK OF GYMNASTICS AND ATHLETICS

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A comprehensive instructional book primiarily aimed at gymnastics and athletics clubs. Both authors were very important figures in the development of the modern Olympic Games. Both were founder members of the National Olympian Association in 1866, which was a forerunner of the British Olympic Association. Hulley also organised a number of Olympic Festivals in Liverpool and Llandudno in the early 1860s before staging the first National Olympian Games in London in 1866.

First edition. 8vo. 408pp. Original boards, rubbed and bumped with some splitting to edge of spine. Some browning to page edges, but otherwise very good internally. A very rare book.

Date
1867
Publisher
Trubner & Co.
Author
Ernst Georg RAVENSTEIN and John HULLEY

£385.00 (Code: 68501)

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