Les Nouveaux savans de société, ou Recueil de jeux, la plupart neufs et inconnus ..
A French collection of parlour games and conjuring tricks compiled by S.-J. Ducœurjoly, published by Barba in Paris in 1808 for drawing-room amusement. Small woodcuts show lettered hands holding looped cord, numbered grids for counting tricks, and boxes and trick apparatus drawn in hatched perspective and plan, useful for diagram keys, puzzle grids and cut-away mechanisms.
