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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. xvi, 88pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Sun-faded bottom edge of front boards. Top text block edge dusty and foxing. Green endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, lightly bumped spine ends, price clipped. 8vo. Facsimile of the 1878 edition. The Cotswold Olimpick Games is an annual public celebration of games and sports, now held near Chipping Norton each Spring. The games, first held in 1612, originated with a local lawyer, Robert Dover. The Annalia Dubrensia (Annals of Dover), is collection of poems praising Dover and his achievements in promoting and managing the games, first published in 1636.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. The ANARE member's memoir; mostly of his time as Australian observer on the Third French Antarctic Expedition. pp219. Illus. Maps. Owner's mark. DW in archival sleeve.