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Auction archive: Lot number 17

Spiele zur Uebung und Erholung des Koerpers und Geistes, fuer die Jugend...

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$240
Auction archive: Lot number 17

Spiele zur Uebung und Erholung des Koerpers und Geistes, fuer die Jugend...

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$240
Beschreibung:

Title: Spiele zur Uebung und Erholung des Koerpers und Geistes, fuer die Jugend... Author: Gutsmuths, J[ohann] C[hristoph] F[riedrich] Place: Stuttgart Publisher: Hoffmann Date: 1845 Description: vi, [2], 360 pp. 4 engraved diagram plates at rear. 7x5¼", period cloth-backed boards. A compendium of sports from a pioneer of physical education. The first edition of this work was published in 1796 and contained a very early description of baseball, "englische Base-ball," the forerunner of American baseball. "Gutsmuths's documentation of the game is an important contribution to baseball history, because it is the strongest surviving evidence of an ancient family of European ball games that may have influenced the inception of baseball in England" (David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, 2005, p 182). Lot Amendments Condition: Edges rubbed; name in ink on front pastedown; a few marks to title page; foxed; very good. Item number: 233964

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2013
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Spiele zur Uebung und Erholung des Koerpers und Geistes, fuer die Jugend... Author: Gutsmuths, J[ohann] C[hristoph] F[riedrich] Place: Stuttgart Publisher: Hoffmann Date: 1845 Description: vi, [2], 360 pp. 4 engraved diagram plates at rear. 7x5¼", period cloth-backed boards. A compendium of sports from a pioneer of physical education. The first edition of this work was published in 1796 and contained a very early description of baseball, "englische Base-ball," the forerunner of American baseball. "Gutsmuths's documentation of the game is an important contribution to baseball history, because it is the strongest surviving evidence of an ancient family of European ball games that may have influenced the inception of baseball in England" (David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, 2005, p 182). Lot Amendments Condition: Edges rubbed; name in ink on front pastedown; a few marks to title page; foxed; very good. Item number: 233964

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2013
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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