NOBLE JEU DE BILLARD. COUPS EXTRAORDINAIRES ET SURPRENANTS

by Billiards, FranÇOis Mingaud

$8,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

First edition

Paris: s.n., 1827 . 339 x 247 mm. 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 . 3 p.l., 40 pp. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary presumably original wine red moiré silk, upper cover framed by gilt rule with elaborately curling passionflower vines at corners, lower cover with gilt centerpiece, flat spine, white moiré-textured endpapers. Lithographed throughout. With portrait of the author and 40

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