Landrait - Musée des jeux - 1837

[LANDRAIT]
The Museum of Games, containing the main games in use in good society, collected and arranged by Landrait, member of the Academy of Games of Berlin.
Paris, at Lebigre brothers, booksellers, 1837.

A half-leather bound octavo volume from the period, with a smooth spine adorned with ridges and gilded titles, covers lined with green granulated paper. A well-preserved copy, complete with its frontispiece engraving representing a salon scene with card players and billiard players. Interior well preserved.

This reference manual from the first half of the 19th century lists and details the rules of the main parlor, card, and table games in use among the fashionable circles of the time. The work covers a wide variety of salon amusements, methodically classified:
Card games: Écarté, Piquet (and its variants), Imperial, Lansquenet, Reversis, Bouillotte, Vingt-et-Un, Whist, Boston, etc.
Table and strategy games: Chess, Checkers, Trictrac, and Domino.
Skill games: billiards and its various forms (bricole, doublet, poule à deux billes, etc.).
A precious illustration of bourgeois leisure and the art of living during the July Monarchy.

Good copy.