Academie des jeux,

contenant l'historique, la marche, le régles, conventions et maximes des jeux en usage dans les cercles et dans les salons....

  • Paris: Garnier Frères, [1851]
By Van-Tenac, Charles (b. 1798).
Paris: Garnier Frères, [1851]. Good. xvi, 523 pages. Figures, tables, and diagrams in text. In 1/4 leather over mottled paper-covered boards, with leather title labels between raised bands, titled in gilt with gilt ornaments. Marbled endleaves with matching marbled edges. Corners and extremities worn. Some light scattered foxing.

Not only a handbook of rules and strategies for a host of games (many of them extinct), but also a discourse on probability and an exploration of the mathematics of chance.

Details

Title

Academie des jeux,

Author

Van-Tenac, Charles (b. 1798).

Condition

Good

Publisher

Garnier Frères: Paris

Date

[1851]


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