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Fore's Sporting Notes & Sketches. A Quarterly...

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sports Fore's Sporting Notes & Sketches. A Quarterly Magazine descriptive of British. Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Sports. 50 volumes. Approx. 32 tinted lithotables per band. London. Fores. 1887-1912 Olwd. with rich lid gilding and all-goldchn. (edges and corners partly slightly bumped, r. partly brushed). The book contains the double volume 1897/98 as well as the volumes 1899, 1900 and 1907, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1937, and the double volume 1939-1940 - Comprehensive overview of the German equestrian sport of the time, with numerous portraits of jockeys, owners and horses, of racing events, with reports about the private stud Weil, endurance rides around the Kaiserpreis, the Concours hippique Berlin, the spring meeting in Hoppegarten, a race day in German Southwest Africa, etc. - Inside only slightly browned on the endpapers, otherwise in very good condition. Fore's Sporty Notes & Sketches. A quarterly magazine describing the British language. Indian, colonial and foreign sports. 50 volumes. Approx. 32 tinted lithographic tables per volume. London. Fores. 1887-1912. Extensive collection of this excellently illustrated English sports and hunting magazine, with beautiful lithographs. - The annual volume 1898 is missing. Various duplicates. - Few layers loosened. 6 volumes without plates. *