Games.- Savant de Société (Le)...Contenant la description exacte de tous les Jeux innocens..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, bookplate of William Ashley Webb 3rd Baron de Mauley, some spotting and light browning, contemporary half morocco, some wear to extremities, rubbed, Paris, Michelet, 1801 § Nouveau Savant de Société (Le), ou Encyclopédie des Jeux de Société, Tours d'adresse, de Physique..., 2 vol., quatrième édition, engraved frontispieces and 4 folding plates, few illustrations, vol. 1 title with small hole and stain to lower margin, vol. 1 single wormtrace within text from p.187 to end (approx. latter third), occasional very light spotting or browning, some light offsetting, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spines uniformly sunned, vol. 2 couple nicks to spine head, some rubbing to extremities, Paris, J.N. Barba, 1825, half-titles, few minor marginal defects, spines gilt; and 2 others French, 18th century, one relating to the andryogynous French diplomat Chevalière d'Éon, 8vo & 4to (5)
⁂ The first mentioned complete in itself, although a second part was seemingly published in 1803. The frontispiece illustrates a popular kissing game of the time "Le Baiser à la Capucine" ("kiss the monkey"). The second mentioned is enlarged with new games including conjuring, the frontispiece to vol. 2 illustrating a man about to perform a sleight-of-hand.
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