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rubbing to the extremities, and a small chip to page x. [45916] £375 An interesting history of this old Scottish club. Murdoch 38. 80. BAUCHOPE, C. Robertson THE GOLFING ANNUAL Vol. II 1888-89 1888. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with blind ruled borders, gilt titles and vignette of a stickman to upper cov- er, gilt titles and rules to spine. Five fold
78. BALFOUR, James REMINISCENCES OF GOLF ON ST. AN- DREWS LINKS David Douglas, 1887. First edition. 12mo. Re- bound in recent full red calf with black titles and blind stamped borders to upper cover and marbled endpapers. A very good copy, with a little wear to the corners of the prelimi- naries, a chip to the upper corner of the half title and scattered foxing through- out. [45942] £1,250 This book has long been re- garded as one of the great
out black and white maps and black and white sketches. A very good copy, with damp mottling to the boards, both hinges split- ting, and minor worming to the preliminary leaves. [45941] £375 More than just another annual because it was the first golf annual sup- ported by the golfing public and enjoyed yearly publication for 23 years until its demise in 1910. Murdoch 43. 81. CHAMBERS, Charles E.S. GOLFING A Handbook to The Royal and Ancient Game with List of Clubs, Rules, &c. also Golf- ing Sketches and Poems W. R. Chambers, 1887. First edition. 8vo. Olive cloth blocked black to the upper cover
rarities of golf literature. Murdoch refers to it as “one of the rarest of all golf items”. It charts the development of golf in St Andrews, the architectural development of the Old Course during Balfour’s forty-five years playing there, and the great development in equipment over this period. Balfour was one of the noted golfers of his age and member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, where he won the Club’s gold medal three times between 1853 and 1861. Murdoch 30
with gilt titles to the spine, blind borders to the lower cover and floral endpapers. Six aquatint plates, including a fron- tispiece of Tom Morris, and black and white illustrations in the text by Ranald Alexander and others. A near fine copy with only very slight wear to the extrem- ities and an ownership inscription to the verso of the frontispiece. [45940] £600 Said to be ‘a lineal descendant’, though much enlarged and changed, of Rambling Remarks on Golf, edited by Charles Chambers’s father,
79. BARRIE, James HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE HAWICK GOLF CLUB. With List of Members, Consti- tution and Rules &c., appended. James Edgar, 1898. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth, lettered gilt on the spine and with gilt emblem of the Hawick Club to the upper cover. Top edge gilt. Twenty-eight illustrated plates with tissue guards. A very good copy in- deed with slight fading to the spine, light
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