Comtesse de BLANCOEUR

Le livre illustré des Patiences

Haar & Steiner, Paris 1890 (S.d.), (14,5x20,8cm), 114pp., relié.

Description de 60 jeux de Patiences avec figures en rouge et noir indiquant la place des cartes. Encadrement rouge sur toutes les pages. Page de titre dans un cartouche avec un encadrement Renaissance, en noir, rouge et sépia.
Cartonnage de l'éditeur ocre. Compositions ornementales sur les [...]

260 €

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First edition

Abbé Charles COTIN

Recueil des enigmes de ce temps

Chez Nicolas Le Gras, à Paris 1687, In-12 (8x15cm), (12) 219pp. (9), relié.

New edition.
Binding in full red morocco signed Richard de Coverly at the bottom of the counterplate. Ornate nerved back. Golden title and date. Triple framing net. The 5 table sheets are restored. Beautiful copy.
This collection contains 245 puzzles in poetic form, a game that we played in [...]

350 €

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Bernard Laurent SOUMILLE

Le grand Trictrac, ou methode facile pour apprendre sans maître la marche, les termes, les regles, ...

Chez De Hansy, à Paris 1766, In-8 (13x20,5cm), xvj, 357pp. (2), relié.

Nouvelle édition, après l'originale parue en 1738. 269 figures numérotées à mi-page.
Reliure en pleine basane marbrée d'époque. Dos à nerfs orné. Pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. Mors supérieur en tête fendillé, et une petite fente en queue sur 0,5cm. 3 coins très émoussés et [...]

500 €

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COLIBRI

La clé des jeux d'esprit

P. Dubreuil, Paris 1890, 12x18,5cm, broché.

First Edition. Cryptographic (encrypted problems, pointed, Banking ...), charades, riddles, word square, triangle, hexagon, star, curiosities ... spine tired and largely missing, small angular gaps on the boards, some small foxing. Rare but in good condition. --- Please note that the translation in [...]

70 €

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First edition

Charles JOLIET

Mille jeux d'esprit

Hachette, Paris 1882, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition.
Spine cracked with small lacks, internally very good.
Rare.

90 €

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First edition

GOYER LAVALETTE

L'arbitre du joueur de piquet

Imprimerie Lefèbvre, Paris (1878), In-8. 14 x 23 cm. , 171 p..

First Edition.
8vo paperback, illustrated cover and text in a frame triple border.
Hinge cracked, cover browned, first partially detached flat with a marginal and snag a spot, lack head back, tearing the head of the second flat near the jaw, however fresh inside.
Some illustrations [...]

180 €

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First edition

Arrest de la cour du parlement, portant defenses à toutes personnes de quelque qualité & ...

chez Louis Denis Delatour & Pierre Simon, à Paris 1722, in 4 (23,5x17cm), 7pp., Un Vol. broché.

First Edition.
Paperback. Covered with a blue nineteenth recycled paper.
Judgment which was printed last year of the regency of the Duke of Orleans, Louis XV will be crowned king in October of the same year, which confirms the previous orders on games. While the ban was especially people of [...]

450 €

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First edition, Signed book

Lionel BONNEMERE

Les jeux publics et le théâtre chez les gaulois

Emile Lechevalier, Paris 1888, 14x22cm, broché.

First Edition printed in small numbers. Illustrated book of drawings in black A. Léofanti. Insolated coverage, glued back with gaps. autograph dedication of the author. The pantomimes, masquerades, the Bardic Theatre, fields of laughter, wedding drama, baby June, the dancing, the struggles, the [...]

100 €

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