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Le Jeu de Dames a la Polonoise, ou traite historique de ce jeu, sa marche, ses regles, leur explication, & plusieurs observations relatives, avec un grande nombre de positions curieuses
by Manoury, M
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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About This Item
Paris: Chez l'auteur, Quai de l'Ecole, 1787. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter-leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards. Condition: Internally good to very good. The covers are in fair condition, being worn and scuffed, particularly the cover corners, the spine is also worn and scuffed, particularly the head and tail. Binding sound. p.263 has a small section missing to the outer edge, not affecting the text. There are a few period inscriptions in ink in the margins, relating to moves, positions and executions. 272pp. plus a table of contents page and four pages of errata to rear. One folding plate to rear. The table of contents appears to show that the sections entitled L'Art Polonois, Poeme Didactique, Lettre d'Envoi and Preface du Poeme should be at the rear of the book, however they are bound at the beginning of the book. This scarce book was published by M.Manoury in 1787 and is a revised and enlarged edition of his book entitled "Essai sur le Jeu de Dames a la Polonoise" published in 1770. Manoury ran the eponymous cafe located at Quai de l'Ecole, close to the Louvre. It was a meeting place for Parisian draughts players, and leading personalities of the time including Rousseau and Danton played there..
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- Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
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- Title
- Le Jeu de Dames a la Polonoise, ou traite historique de ce jeu, sa marche, ses regles, leur explication, & plusieurs observations relatives, avec un grande nombre de positions curieuses
- Author
- Manoury, M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Chez l'auteur, Quai de l'Ecole
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1787
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- chess, drafts, board games, checkers
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
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