Le Grande Trictrac ou methode facile

by Bernard-Laurent Soumille

$800 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Second edition. 271 woodcut game board diagrams in text. 6 , 323, 1 pp. 8vo. Contemporary mottled french calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers. Provenance: Suremain of Bourgogne bookplate, Quaintain no. 1049 . Barbier II: 565. Item #354137 Souymille's book is the first important modern book on the subject, and is considered the first illustrated book on backgammon. It was first published in Avignon in 1738;

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