Author: Greco, Gioachino [= Abbe Bellecour]
Title: La plus nouvelle academie universelle des jeux ou divertissemens innocens. 3 volumes, Amsterdam / Leipzig, Arkstee / Merkus, 1752.
Description: 392+392+273+(42) pag., bound in 3 early 20th century board bindings. Good copy. Illustrated with 2 titleprints and 8 mostly folding engravings. Parts of the text are by Philippe Stamma and A.D. Philidor. The plays: Jeux de cartes, billard, mail, courte-paume, longue-paume, trictrac, revertir, toute-table, tourne-case, dames rabattues, plain, toc & echecs (the chess-part occupies pages 184-392 and 1-273).

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