Sports/Hobbies

Pictured Puzzles and Word Play A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book

A. Cyril Pearson

Pictured Puzzles and Word Play is a nineteenth‑century puzzle compendium that blends riddles, charades, and a…

Chess Strategy

Edward Lasker

Edward Lasker’s Chess Strategy is a systematic guide that begins by teaching the reader how to read the…

Mountain Craft

Mountain Craft is a comprehensive treatise on mountaineering that begins with a reflective preface in which…

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

Daniel Carter Beard

The book is a practical handbook for boys and young men who want to learn how to construct simple wilderness…

The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting

Edward, of Norwich; Gaston III Phoebus, count of Foix

The book of the cat

Frances Simpson

Frances Simpson’s The Book of the Cat is a comprehensive guide for anyone who loves felines, written from the…

Every Boy's Book: A Complete Encyclopædia of Sports and Amusements

Every Boy’s Book presents itself as an exhaustive reference for young readers interested in sport, games and…

Puzzles and oddities: Found floating on the surface of our current literature, or tossed to dry land by the waves of memory

The Teesdale Angler

R. Lakeland

The Teesdale Angler is a practical handbook for anglers who wish to master the art of catching trout, salmon…

Boating

Walter Bradford Woodgate

The volume Boating is a comprehensive guide to rowing, presented as part of the Badminton Library of Sports…

Handicraft for boys

A. Frederick Collins

Handicraft for Boys is a practical manual written by A. Frederick Collins, the inventor of the wireless…

Beeton's Book of Needlework

Mrs. Beeton

Beeton’s Book of Needlework is a comprehensive manual that opens with a series of detailed instructions for a…

The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

Joseph Strutt

The work is a comprehensive survey of English recreation from antiquity to the early nineteenth century,…

Hoyle's Games Modernized

Hoffmann, Professor; Hoyle, Edmond

Hoyle’s Games Modernized is a comprehensive reference work that gathers the rules and strategies for a wide…

Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906

Various

Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85, gathers a half‑year of British sporting reportage from…

Little Wars; A Game for Boys From Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty and for That More Intelligent Sort of Girl Who Likes Boys' Games and Books.

H. G. Wells

The work is a nonfiction treatise on a tabletop war game that H. G.

The cross word puzzle book

The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

Arnold, George; Cahill, Frank

Football days: Memories of the Game and of the Men Behind the Ball

William H. Edwards

Yachting, Vol. 1

Sullivan, Edward, Sir; Brassey, Thomas Brassey, Earl; Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor); Seth-Smith, C. E.; Watson. G. L.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others

James A. Henshall

The blue book of chess: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings

Howard Staunton

The cross word puzzle book: Second series

The Game of Go: The National Game of Japan

Arthur Smith