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ROWING

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Classic Victorian rowing manual from the Isthmian Library series, offering advice on all aspects of performance and training - including diet - plus surveys of the sport at Cambridge, Oxford and Eton, as well as in Australia and America; beautifully illustrated throughout with period photography.

8vo. 192pp. Dust-wrapper. Covers lightly worn. Title-page detached but present. A good first-edition copy.

Date
1898
Publisher
A.D. Innes & Co.
Author
R.G. LEHMANN et al

£65.00 (Code: 95675)

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