La maison des ieux academiques : contenant un recueil general de tous les Ieux diuertissans pour se réjoüir, & passer le temps agreablement.
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Title
La maison des ieux academiques : contenant un recueil general de tous les Ieux diuertissans pour se réjoüir, & passer le temps agreablement.
Created/published
A Paris : Chez Estienne Loyson, au Palais, à l'entrée de la Galerie des prisonniers, au nom de Iesus, M. DC. LXV.
Description
[12], 288 + pages : illustrations ; (12mo)
Associated name
La Marinière, De, author.
Note
Cataloged from an incomplete copy; wanting frontispiece and all after p. 288.
Signatures: pi⁶ A-M¹² +.
With frontispiece illustration.
Woodcut ornament on title page.
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Also attributed to Charles Sorel.
Signatures: pi⁶ A-M¹² +.
With frontispiece illustration.
Woodcut ornament on title page.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Also attributed to Charles Sorel.
Place of creation/publication
France.
Item Details
Call number
270287
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The B. F. Saul Rare Book Acquisitions Fund. From dealer's description: "Early edition (first 1654) of this influential anthology of games, in particular parlour games and popular games played by the general public, including women. It is based on De la Mariniere’s slightly earlier La Maison Academique contenant un recueil general de tous le Ieux divertissans (1654) and Loyson's La Maison de Ieux (1659), and explains card games, board games, billiards, but also indoor ball games such as the jeu de paume or real tennis, and jeu de palle mail, a lawn game, which appears to be the ancestor of croquet. A number of gambling or betting games are also included, such as Hoca (Biribis), a kind of lottery card game, and the jeu du monde, which involves dice. The fine engraved frontispiece shows a staircase leading up to the Maison Academique, where people play cards, chess, and dice at a number of gaming tables. This games manual was popular for the next couple of centuries. Zollinger, 119; OCLC Tulane only (incomplete)." Ordered from Susanne Schulz-Falster, D 9051, 2017-01-23, Games and Gaming catalog, item 8.
Folger accession
270287