Soumille Bernard Laurent - La grand trictrac - 1756

Bernard-Laurent Soumille, Le Grand Trictrac, Paris, Chez Giffart, 1756, with 270 figures in the text.

Book in excellent condition, binding in leather with gold tooling on the spine and a title on the panel. Inner pages fresh, crisp, with no gore, wormholes, or signs of moisture.

vi, 324. 8vo

Soumille teaches through a game between Cloris and Damon, progressively explaining moves, particular situations, and strategies through numerous diagrams. This method makes the work interesting also for the history of teaching games.

Bernard-Laurent Soumille (1703–1774) was born in Carpentras and died in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. He was an ecclesiastic, mathematician, physicist, and agronomist; from around 1736 he was a priest beneficiary of the chapter of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. In 1746 he was named corresponding member of Duhamel du Monceau at the Académie royale des sciences.

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