Physical Education / Sports Medicine / Eugenics / Desbonnet - Lot 38

Physical Education / Sports Medicine / Eugenics / Desbonnet 2 copies of the book: DESBONNET (Professor), ROUHET (Doctor), The Art of Creating the Human Thoroughbred, Paris, published by Berger-Letrault et Cie, Librairie Athlétique. Forewords by Georges Strehly and Albert Surier, 1908, in 8°, 182 photographs and engravings, 400 pages - Hardcover edition in soft red and gold percaline, cover intact - Unmatched copy, classic Delaitte binding; missing the inner cover and title page, which has been hand-copied; on the reverse side of which is a signed and dated dedication from Desbonnet to Mr. Delaitte in 1948

Estimate:£100.11

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