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[Manette Books]. [Games & Tips].
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201
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[Manette Books]. [Games & Tips].
See original version (French)
Estimate €40 - €60
Voluntary lot
Description
[Manette Books]. [Games & Tips]. A SIGNIFICANT COLLECTION of 19th- and 20th-century works, including:
1. *Mademoiselle Le Normand’s Grand Board Game: Secret Practices, the Game of Fortune, or Answers from the Gods, Goddesses and Demigods [...].* Paris: Depot du Grand Jeu de Société, 1845. One volume in glossy calfskin, dyed midnight blue.
2. *Mademoiselle Le Normand’s Grand Game of Society: Secret Practices*, *Ancient and Modern Astrology* containing all the tables necessary to draw up all manner of charts, in any place and for any age [...]. In Paris, published by the author, 1845. One volume in glossy calfskin, dyed midnight blue.
3. CASTON (Alfred de). The Fortune-Tellers. Paris, Librairie Centrale, 1866. A volume in full black publisher’s cloth.
4. EUDEL (Paul). Tricks and Tricksters. Paris, Librairie Molière, [1907]. A substantial paperback volume with an author’s ex-libris.
5. ANONYMOUS. Games of Chance. A volume bound in half-calf, with a plain spine.
6. ROBERT-HOUDIN. The Greeks’ Cheating Tactics Unmasked: The Art of Winning at All Games. Paris: Bourdilliat & Cie, 1861. A paperback volume.
7. LANDRAIT. The Museum of Games: containing the principal games in use amongst high society, collected and organised. Paris: Lebigre frères, 1837. One volume bound in half-calf with a smooth spine.
8. The Witches’ Manual, or a Course in Physical and Mathematical Pastimes, Card Tricks and Sleight of Hand; followed by minor parlour games and their penalties. Sixth edition, expanded to include a note on black magic. Paris: Ferra the Younger, 1825. One octavo volume, paperback, with illustrations. As is.
9. RICHARD. Science Taught through Games, or the Scientific Theory of the Most Common Games. In Paris, at Roret’s Encyclopaedic Bookshop, 1830. One bound volume in-18 (Volume I only).
10. A Manual of Card Games: Piquet, Écarté, Bésigue, Cinq-Cents, Impériale, Whist, Manille, Bouillotte, Boston, Brelan, Lansquenet, Baccarat, Chemin de Fer, Vingt-et-un, Mouche, Rams, Poker, Polignac. Paris: Delarue, undated. One paperback volume.
11. FELIX (H.) New Collection of Card Tricks: a comprehensive work containing the essential theoretical and practical principles and basic instructions required to succeed in this art. Paris: Bernardin-Béchet, undated. One paperback volume.
12. BLISMON (Simon BLOCQUEL, known as Ana-Gramme). The Thousand and One Party Games: a collection of card sleight-of-hand tricks and ingenious sleight-of-hand techniques, mathematical puzzles, experiments drawn from physics and chemistry, etc., etc. In Paris, published by Delarue, and in Lille, published by Blocquel-Castiaux, undated. One paperback volume.
13. LE GAI (Hilaire). Academy of Card Games: a combination of exercises with a wholly new treatise on the game of whist. In Paris, published by Passard, undated. A small paperback volume.
14. COLLECTION OF BOOKS FOR PRACTICAL USE AND ENTERTAINMENT. Rules of all games. In Paris, published by Maurice Dreyfous, undated. A paperback volume.
15. Small parlour games and solitaire. In Paris, published by Delarue, undated. A paperback volume.
16. LAUN. A short treatise on the game of poker. A small paperback publication.
17. RETY (Marius). Complete rules, including the latest information on the game of piquet for 2, 3 and 4 players, with the most recent details. Paris: Léon Hayard, n.d. A small publication.
18. The Complete Rules of Poker, Five-Hundred, Baccarat, Three of a Kind, Rams and Écarté. Paris: Hayard, n.d. A publication.
19. LAUN. Rules for the games of Rams, poker and Polignac. Paris: Delarue, undated. A paperback publication.
20. Historical Yearbook for the year 1837, published by the Society for the History of France. Paris: Jules Renouard, 1836. One volume bound in green-stained half-calf.
21. MOREAU-NERET (Olivier). The Game of Bridge. Paris: LAHURE, 1945. A paperback volume with an author’s autograph.
22. PUSSEY. Treatise on Bridge. Paris: Cassegrain, n.d. A paperback volume.
23. Grande Académie des Jeux. Solitaire. Paris: Mauclair-Dacier, undated. One unbound volume.
24. HADIN. History of the Card Game ‘Grenadier Richard’ or Explanation of the Game of Fifty-Two Cards. Paris: published by the author, 1811. One paperback volume with a separate engraved fold-out plate.
25. Dictionary of Popular Games with an Alphabetical List of the Penalties Associated with Them; or The New Society Scholar; containing entertaining card tricks, cup-and-ball tricks and games of skill, amusing stories, comic adventures, anecdotes, wordplay, puns, and a dictionary of floral emblems. Paris: published by Corbet the Elder, 1826. One paperback volume.
26. BONNEFONT (Gaston). Games and Pastimes for Young People. Paris: Maurice Dreyfous, undated. One paperback volume.
& miscellaneous.
All as is.
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