THE BOOK OF GAMES
MAGIC, MAGIC, GAMES OF SKILL, CALCULATION, GAMBLING AND CONVERSATION
GAMES OF DEXTERITY: BALLS, POCKETS, COINS AND CARDS
ENJOYABLE PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY GAMES; GAMES WITH MECHANICAL APPARATUS
WITH 200 ILLUSTRATIONS
FLORENCE
ADRIANO SALANI EDITOR
1894
Scarce first edition of 1894 of this manual of prestidigitation and magic.
In the first part instruction for games of magic and prestidigitation, rules, important rules, behavior of magician in front of the public.
Different numbers described: Hand games with balls (Crystal balls, cup games, hand games with coins, dexterity games with cards, amateur physics and chemistry games, games with mechanical devices, games of skill and calculation etc..)
An entire part is dedicated to chess.
Then billiard, checkers, ball, card games (threesette or twenty-one, pinch, cross, picket, ecartè, ehist, scopa, scopone, cheeky ace, tarot or minchiate, briscola, briscolone, croquet), games of chance, conversation games etc...
Different engravings in the text.
"The book was very successful, as demonstrated by the fact that the sixth edition was printed in 1918, and the twelfth in 1932. The chess part, covering 83 pages, was a truly elementary treatise, printed in a separate edition". See Sanvito n. 1094.
In good conditions.
Half cloth cover with spine title label in very good conditions lightly worn on the extremities. Binding in good conditions. Pages in very good conditions with occasional foxing. In 8. 19.5x13.5 cm. pp. 495
