.jpg?w=1)
Details
J. FORBET, compiler
GALENUS. L'utilité qui provient du jeu de la paume au corps et à l'esprit, traduict du grec. - [GOSSELIN, Jean]. Déclaration de deux doutes qui se trouvevent en comptant le ieu de la paume. - [Ordonnance du royal et honorable jeu de la paume parangon entre tous autres ieux & exercises contennant vingt quatre articles ... faicte à Paris l'an 1592]. - [DOCTEURS S. BARBE. Les formes tenues et observées par less anciens maistres du royal et honorable jeu de la paume, lors qu'il se iouë un prix] [approved in Paris, 1594]. Paris: Thomas Sevestre, 1599. 4 parts in one volume, 8° (15.8 x 9.6cm), collation: [*4] A-E4; [4] 19 1ff. Roman letter with some italic, woodcut title vignette, headpieces and historiated initials (lower margins waterstained), red morocco by Hardy-Mennil, spine gilt lettered, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges (covers stained, corners a little bumped). Provenance: Ja: ... M...y.... (faded early inscription on title) -- Comte Greffulhe (bookplate; sold by Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 9 December 1937, lot 46, where purchased by Norman Railing through Leo Baer for fr. 2000 (£13).
FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE LAWS OF TENNIS, described in the 1937 sale catalogue as "Opuscule de la plus grande rareté". In addition to Galen's work on the health giving properties of tennis, this compilation by "Forbet l'aisné, maistre en cest exercise" included Gosselin's tract on the method of scoring, the codification of the laws of tennis in twenty-four articles, and the rules to be observed in prize tournaments. It was only the second book on tennis to be published in France, and was not really succeeded by any other until the publication of de Garsault's Art du Paumier-Raquetier et de la Paume in 1767. A second edition was issued in 1623. Hulpeau's Le Jeu Royale de la Paume of 1632 contained exactly the same material apart from the addition of an introductory "Epistre à Monsieur Morin". The descriptions of tennis in the game books that appeared over the next two centuries were all based on Forbet. Garnett p. 288; Henderson p. 178; not in Brunet, Cioranesco, Adams or BL/STC French Books 1470 to 1600.
GALENUS. L'utilité qui provient du jeu de la paume au corps et à l'esprit, traduict du grec. - [GOSSELIN, Jean]. Déclaration de deux doutes qui se trouvevent en comptant le ieu de la paume. - [Ordonnance du royal et honorable jeu de la paume parangon entre tous autres ieux & exercises contennant vingt quatre articles ... faicte à Paris l'an 1592]. - [DOCTEURS S. BARBE. Les formes tenues et observées par less anciens maistres du royal et honorable jeu de la paume, lors qu'il se iouë un prix] [approved in Paris, 1594]. Paris: Thomas Sevestre, 1599. 4 parts in one volume, 8° (15.8 x 9.6cm), collation: [*
FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE LAWS OF TENNIS, described in the 1937 sale catalogue as "Opuscule de la plus grande rareté". In addition to Galen's work on the health giving properties of tennis, this compilation by "Forbet l'aisné, maistre en cest exercise" included Gosselin's tract on the method of scoring, the codification of the laws of tennis in twenty-four articles, and the rules to be observed in prize tournaments. It was only the second book on tennis to be published in France, and was not really succeeded by any other until the publication of de Garsault's Art du Paumier-Raquetier et de la Paume in 1767. A second edition was issued in 1623. Hulpeau's Le Jeu Royale de la Paume of 1632 contained exactly the same material apart from the addition of an introductory "Epistre à Monsieur Morin". The descriptions of tennis in the game books that appeared over the next two centuries were all based on Forbet. Garnett p. 288; Henderson p. 178; not in Brunet, Cioranesco, Adams or BL/STC French Books 1470 to 1600.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.