1696 book featuring the origins and rules of Real Tennis and other games, French language, titled Divertissemens Innocens contenant les Regles du Jeue
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1696 book featuring the origins and rules of Real Tennis and other games, French language, titled Divertissemens Innocens contenant les Regles du Jeue des Echets [Chess], du Billiard [Billiards], De La Paume [Real Tennis], Du Palle-Mail [Pall-mall] et du Trictrac [Backgammon], Jeu de Paume in two parts i) ''Declaration de deux doutes'', which deals with the origin of tennis scoring, and ii) ''Ordonnances ...'' which contains the rules of tennis, published Adrian Moetjens, The Hague, calf, marbled end papers, spine adorned in git, etching frontispiece by Adrian Schoonbeck (1651-1705) showing chess, backgammon, billiards & jeu de paume players, The part devoted to the game of chess is the treatise of Gioachino Greco