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Popular text book on a game of cards

[GAMES - PASTIMES].
Le jeu de l'hombre augmenté des decisions nouvelles sur les difficultez et incidens de ce jeu.

With a finely etched frontipiece showing three card players at a table, a women, a nobleman and a clergyman, by Jean Baptist Bonnart, some woodcut figures in text, and woodcut illustrations of card games and problems on 21 pages, with the cards showing charming figures of jacks, queens and kings.

With a finely etched frontipiece showing three card players at a table, a women, a nobleman and a clergyman, by Jean Baptist Bonnart, some woodcut figures in text, and woodcut illustrations of card games and problems on 21 pages, with the cards showing charming figures of jacks, queens and kings.

With a finely etched frontipiece showing three card players at a table, a women, a nobleman and a clergyman, by Jean Baptist Bonnart, some woodcut figures in text, and woodcut illustrations of card games and problems on 21 pages, with the cards showing charming figures of jacks, queens and kings.

With a finely etched frontipiece showing three card players at a table, a women, a nobleman and a clergyman, by Jean Baptist Bonnart, some woodcut figures in text, and woodcut illustrations of card games and problems on 21 pages, with the cards showing charming figures of jacks, queens and kings.



Paris, Pierre Ribou, 1709. 12mo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title-label, binding edges gilt decorated, red marbled edges. With a finely etched frontipiece showing three card players at a table, a women, a nobleman and a clergyman, by Jean Baptist Bonnart, some woodcut figures in text, and woodcut illustrations of card games and problems on 21 pages, with the cards showing charming figures of jacks, queens and kings. (12), 166; (12), 33, (3) pp.

Rare early edition of a popular text book on a game of cards, called "Hombre", or "Ombre", here with a supplement giving the latest decisions and rules for the game. The game of Ombre became popular at the turn of the seventeenth century, and gave birth to whist and later to the game of bridge. In the preface to the main part the publisher calls the present the sixth edition and claims that the book is useful for both beginners and advanced players, clearly laid out in small chapters, each explaining and illustrating a specific rule or problem. The privilege for this part is added at the beginning and dated 1708.
The newly added part, explaining the latest decisions taken to solve incidents and difficulties arising when playing the game, has a short privilege at the beginning, dated 1706, and an extensive one added at the end, dated 1711.

Fine copy.
Not found recorded; cf. Bibl. Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 3467-3471 ("Le royal Jeu de l'ombre et du picket", publ. at The Hague and Brussels from 1690 to 1712); idem 3474-3487 (German ed. of "L'Hombre Spiel" from 1715 to 1846); Cat. Schaakboekerij Niemeyer 1146-1174 (idem, incl. also a French Amst.-ed. of 1735).

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