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Dictionnaire des jeux familiers, ou, Des amusemens de société : faisant suite au Dictionnaire des jeux, annexé au tome III des Mathématiques

Lacombe, Jacques, 1724-1811 · 1796 · A Paris : Chez H. Agasse, imprimeur-libraire, rue des Poitevins, no. 18 · 5 pictures

A French dictionary of parlour and society games compiled by Jacques Lacombe and printed in Paris by H. Agasse in 1796, issued as a supplement to the games dictionary in his Mathématiques, for adult players. The plates are small letterpress diagrams: heavy-ruled billiard tables with pocket arcs, lettered balls and dotted cue paths, plus an octagonal solitaire board of numbered holes.

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