I have here for sale a work written by Pierre-Jean Burette on L'HISTOIRE DES ATHLETES.  It forms part of a bigger work entitled Memoires de Litterature tirees de la Registre de l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres which was published around 1736.  This extract covers the first, second and third memoirs of M. Burette on  Greek athletics.  Written in French with occasional Greek and Latin thrown in to demonstrate the Author's great learning😉  

An early promising music student who was in demand to give lessons to the courtiers of Louse XIV, Burette devoted all the money he earned from his courses to purchasing books to study Latin and Greek.  He then abandoned music and entered the college of Harcourt , where he studied humanities, then enrolled in the medical faculty of Paris.   Having received a doctorate in 1690, he became a doctor at the Charité hospital, where he practiced continuously for nearly thirty-five years. He successively held several chairs of medicine, including that of the Royal College from 1710 to 1747.  

Alongside his medical career, he conducted research on Antiquity and published a large number of memoirs on music, dance, gymnastics, wrestling, running and pugilism among the Greeks and Romans. In 1715 , he was appointed Royal Censor and was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Medals.

Brown paper covers with the title written in black ink to the front.  Front cover is detached.  Pages sunned but clean and fully legible.  81 pages, 26 cm x 19 cm.

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