Cycling/St Petersburg/Terront/Duncan. Nice copy of the book (24x16) by Herbert Osbaldeston Duncan (1862-1945) and Pierre Laffitte (1872-1938) : "Following Terront from St Petersburg to Paris by bicycle". Published in 1894, under a beautiful color cover of the brilliant, but elusive Ch.Tichon, we are well in the hectic wheel of the Napoleon of the pedal during 14 Days and 132 pages enhanced with drawings of Tichon and F Garat. With Duncan-Laffite-Tichon-Garat and above all Terront (on Rudge-Humber), we hold in our hands five of the most beautiful actors of the golden age of the velocipedie, and we vibrate with this symbolic and current raid via Warsaw-Berlin-Liege-Namur and Buffalo.

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