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TRICTRAC || JEU. Le jeu du Trictrac, enrichi de figures avec les jeux du Revertier, du Toute-table, du Tourne-case, des Dames rabatues, du Plain, et du Toc. 1715.

Photo TRICTRAC || JEU. 

TRICTRAC || JEU. 

Le jeu du Trictrac, enrichi de figures avec les jeux du Revertier, du Toute-table, du Tourne-case, des Dames rabatues, du Plain, et du Toc. 

Paris, Henry Charpentier, 1715.

12mo (158x88 mm), (12)-198-(16)-111-(9) pages. The engraved frontispiece is missing.  binding : Contemporary full speckled calf, spine gilt in six compartments, title in gilt on lettering-piece, sprinkled edges. Headcap a little chipped. 

Photo TRICTRAC || JEU. 

Third edition, corrected and increased.

This book deals with the rules of several unknown games today including the famous Trictrac.
Trictrac is a two-player reasoned game that is played with dice on a deck similar to backgammon. It belongs to the family of table games.
It was very popular in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, at the court of Versailles and in aristocratic circles. It experienced a renaissance during the Restoration before almost disappearing in the late nineteenth century. It is part of reasoned games of chance such as backgammon which was known in France under the name all tables or backgammon.

Price : 150 €

Photo TRICTRAC || JEU. 
Photo TRICTRAC || JEU. 
Photo TRICTRAC || JEU. 
Photo TRICTRAC || JEU. 
Photo TRICTRAC || JEU. 
Photo TRICTRAC || JEU. 
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