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GOLFIKA
GOLF BOOKS IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE BEFORE 1950
(Except France)
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DEUTCHLAND - ALLEMAGNE - GERMANY
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| | KD - Ph.-Heineken - Das Golfspiel.
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| 1898
| vi + 110pp
| Verlag Gustav Weise, Stuttgart
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| | One of the very first book fully dedicate dto golf in Continental Europe.
Some illustration are from Horace Hutchinson "Golf" (by allowance of the editor).
Nunber 1 in a serie : "Sportspiele im Freien".
A superb high quality reprint (leather cover and slipcase, limited 100 ex.)
was made by Franck P. van Eck in 1985.
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| | KD - Eva Gräfin von Baudissin - Golf. In Spemanns goldenes Buch des Sports.
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| 1910
| 678-712 / 872pp
| Verlag von W. Spemann, Berlin & Stuttgart
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| | Sports in general with a significant part on golf.
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| | KD - Carl A. Hellmers - Golf. In Hans O. Simon : Der Stockball (Hockey / Golf / Polo).
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| 1913
| 54-90 / 94pp
| Franckhs Sportverlag, Dieck & Co, Stuttgart
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| | A small illustrated book. The game and rules. A very short reference to golf books
and organisation. Several reprints (3rd edition in 1922).
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| | KD - Dr H. Schlepegrell - Das Golfspiel.
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| 1923
| 174pp
| Grethlein & Co, Leipzig und Zurich
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| | #9 of "Bibliotek für Sport und Spiel" series. History , teaching plus an uncommon scientific chapter by Dr Karl Beck "Die Physik des Ballfluges".
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| | KD - - - Kennen Sie schon den Salzbrunner Golfplatz.
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| | More a photo album. Made of 24 pictures 18x24 cm. Edited to promote the course.
Opening in 1925 as first 18 holes in Germany after WWI by Fürst von Pless.
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ITALIA - ITALIE - ITALY
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| | KI - M. A. Brunialti. - Il Golf - Che cosa è e come si gioca.
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| 1932
| 151pp
| Ulricho Hoepli, Milano
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| | Teaching golf. Rules. Listing of Italian's golf culbs.
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| | KI - Ch. Whitcombe. - Golf.
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| 1933
| 57pp
| A. Corticelli, Milano
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| | Small book translated from English.
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| | KI - G. Cesura & A. Spalding. - Tennis & Golf.
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| 1939
| 113-147 / 147pp
| A. Corticelli, Milano
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| | Golf part is an adaptation from the english "Golf for beginners".
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| 351pp | Total number of pages.
| | 165-170 / 370pp | from 165 to 170 dedicated to golf (total is 370pp).
| | (42pp) | Total number of pages, unpaginated.
| | var. | various.
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