April 12, 2024
1880 Rare TRAPEZE DUMB BELLS INDIAN CLUBS STARR BOOKPLATE AMERICANA
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MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION IN THE USE OFDUMB BELLS INDIAN CLUBS AND OTHER EXERCISESM.Bornstein, Publisher NY 1880 First Edition 128p,well illustrated. Ten illustrated exercises in the use of dumb bells,then sections on The Trapeze, Suspended Rings, The Gymnasium,The Game of Quoits, Archery and Muscular Training--all withillustrations 4 1/4 x 6 inches tall, 128 pages,illustrated, clean, tight, straight copy,signed by owner William J Starr also with his bookplateon fep paste down.Nice piece of Americana in original form.From google searchWilliam J. Starr was born in 1861 and came to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, as a youth to reside with his guardian, Elijah Swift. He was married in 1886 and in the same year, along with George Davis, formed the Davis and Starr Lumber Company. From this beginning his business interests gradually spread out to other areas of the nation. By1921 he was president of the Davis and Starr Lumber Company and the Wisconsin Refrigerator Company, secretary of the Eau Claire Book and Stationery Company, owner and operator of an orchard and stock farm in Wisconsin and four farms and a large country estate where the family resided near Easton, Maryland, had large interests in the Steven and Jarvis Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and the Florence - Louisiana Company of Vermillion Parish, Louisiana, and owned extensive
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