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全部拍賣 / Books, Maps & Manuscripts / Philidor & Edmond Hoyle - Académie universelle des jeux


Fascinating edition of one of the most important collections devoted to board games, strategy games, cards, and games of chance at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries - Designed as a true learning manual as well as a reference work, this volume gathers with great rigor the official rules, tactical principles, and methods of play that allow readers to acquire perfect mastery of the era's most popular entertainments - The authors meticulously describe the card games then played in salons, circles, and private houses, such as whist, piquet, Boston, reversis, trictrac, belote, lansquenet, Pharaoh and several other variants - A special place is given to chess thanks to the teachings of Philidor, regarded as the greatest player of his time, who develops the fundamental principles of the opening, the middle game, and the endgame, demonstrates the importance of coordinating the pieces, controlling the center, mobility of the pawns, and anticipating the opponent’s combinations - Philidor & Edmond Hoyle - Universal Academy of Games, containing the rules of games with easy instructions to learn how to play them well - 1805 - Volume II - B. Cormon and Blanc - 300 pp Good binding condition, book in its original full brown morocco with marble pattern, signs of wear, some minor defects on boards and spine, headcap damaged, corners worn, page edges speckled, smooth decorated spine, gilded title and volume number on red and green camelhair morocco, cold-stamped rules framing the boards - Good interior condition, browning, marbled endpapers in decent condition, ex-libris, a pleasant copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days -
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