Academie Universelle Des Jeux avec des Instructions Faciles pour apprendre a les bien jouer. Nouvelle Edition Augmentee & mise en meilleur ordre.
1763LLV2074Amsterdam:: n.p. 1763. 1763. Two volumes. Sm. 8vo. 176 x129 mm. Collation: -2 A-Y8 Z4 Z4 blank; -1 A-R8 S2. Pagination: 4 358 2 blank; 2 276 pp. Title is an insert. Illustrated woodcut as chapter-title heading 1 typographic ornament vol. II chapter-title heading; paper flaws in margin vol. I pp.115-118 light spotting occasional worming at gutter one signature loose. Original plain paper wrappers completely untrimmed. Very good. This enormously popular collection of games was first published in 1717 and went through numerous editions well into the 19th century. Gaming in the eighteenth century mostly card games such as "Quadrille" card game popular during the 1700s played by four people with a deck of 40 cards "Hombre" a predecessor to whist and bridge "Piquet" "Comet" "Reversis" "Papillon" "l’Ambigu" Tontine Lottery Triumph Poque Sizette billiards Paume "palm game" – an indoor predecessor to tennis Trictrac similar to backgammon Toc and Chess. STCN 176308 1 copy. Thierry Depaulis Les loix du jeu: bibliographie de la litterature technique de jeux de cartes en francais avant 1800 1994 91; Catherine Perry Hargrave A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming p. 411; F.A. Jackson & G.B. Keen Catalogue of the Chess Collection of the Late George Allen 1878 p.1. n.p., 1763. unknown books
