The academy of play [electronic resource] : containing, a full description of, and the laws of play, now observed in the several academies of Paris, relative to the following games, viz. piquet, quadrille, ombre, qaintille, piquemdrill, imperial, the reverse, papillon, l'ambigu, commerce, tontine, lottery, ma commerce, la mariě, triomphe, the beast, la mounche, man d'auvergne, the farm, the game of hoc, l'emprunt, le poque, romestecq, sizette, guinguette, le sixte, vingt-quatre, la belle, gillet, cul-bas, the cuckoo, brusquembille, the comet. From the French of the abbb̌ellecour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellecour, abbé.

Standardized Title:

Academie universelle des jeux. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Card games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([8],280p. ) ill ;

Other Title:

Academy of play

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by James Potts, bookseller, at Swift's-Head, in Dame-street, M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T163437.

OCLC:

509049699