Le Grand Trictrac ou méthode facile pour apprendre sans maître la marche, les termes, les règles, et une grande partie des finesses de ce Jeu, enrichie de 270 planches ou figures, avec les décisions des cas particuliers. Prix XXXVI. sols en Feüille.

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 19 x 11.5 cm. pp. [viii]+320+[4, table] Contemporary patterned calf, spine gilt with floral device repeated in panels between raised bands, dark red label., marbled endpapers, red edges. Calling for 270 figures, each occupying c. a third of the page, but in fact with 271, numbered 1 to 269 (includes 2 x no.2 and one additional, "figure détachée" at p.178), plus 2 full page illustrations of dice combinations, plus numerous decorative culs-de-lampe. Damp stain to top third of book more or less throughout - but still a genuine copy, binding rubbed at extremities. Named Trictrac due to the sound of the pieces, and invented in France c.1500, this is a variant of the game we know as Backgammon. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 47659

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