playing it well . . . By Edmond Hoyle, Gent. The
Sixth edition . . . And also, never before published, A Dictionary for Whist . . . To which is added, An artificial Memory . .
.
London: Printed for
T. Osborne,
J. Hildyard at
York,
M. Bryson at
Newcaste [sic], and
J. Leake at
Bath,
1746. [Price
One Shilling.]--
A Short Treatise on the Game of Quadrille . . .
ib
,
1745.--
A short Treatise on the game of Piquet . . . The
Second Edition . . .
ib
.
1746.--
A short treatise on the game of Back-Gammon . . .
ib
,
1745.
12mo. No copy was seen for collation. The treatises on Quadrille, Piquet and Backgammon are included for the first time in
this edition; each has a separate title-page. The treatise on Quadrille is the
first edition of that work.
Notes and Queries, series 7, vol. viii, page 262.
Edmond Hoyle, 1672-1769, English writer, was the first to write scientifically on whist, and the word Hoyle, in the course of time, came
to be used for any book on games.
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Building.
1
La Faye sur la Chaux des Romains.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 51. no. 69, as above.
La FAYE, Polycarpe de.
Recherches sur la Préparation que les Romains donnoient a la Chaux dont ils se servoient pour leurs constructions, & sur la
composition & l’emploi de leurs Mortiers. Par M. de La Faye, Trésorier général des Gratifications des Troupes.
A
Paris: De
l’Imprimerie Royale,
1777.
TP880 .R7 L2
First Edition. 8vo. 51 leaves.
Entered in and deleted from Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
4.0.
This work was deleted by Jefferson from this chapter and reentered by him in his chapter 32, Architecture. It is in the Library of Congress 1815 Catalogue, chapter 30; see no. 4205.
[1176]
2
Architecture rurale de Cointeraux.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 51. no. 71, as above.
COINTERAUX,
François.
École d’Architecture rurale, ou Leçons par lesquelles on apprendra soi-même à batir solidement les maisons de plusieurs étages
avec la terre seule, ou autres matériaux les plus communs et du plus vil prix. Ouvrage dédié aux Français, par François Cointeraux . . .
A
Paris: [de l’Imprimerie de
J. Grand] chez l’Auteur, et chez les principaux Libraires de Paris et des provinces,
Mars 1790-Novembre, 1791.
TH1421 .C67
First Edition. 8vo. 4 parts. Part I, 28 leaves; part II, 40 leaves; part III, 31 leaves; part IV, 38 leaves; plates on tinted paper
in each part; the titles and imprints vary, that to part III (which has continuous signatures and pagination) reads:
Traité sur la Construction des Manufactures . . .
and is without
École d’Architecture and the cahier number.
Quérard II, 240.
Not in Lacroix.
Shaw, no. 158.
This may be the book referred to by Jefferson in a letter written from Philadelphia on April 13, 1800, to William Short at
Paris: “
I have to acknolege the receipt of your’s . . . of July 2. & 3. by m(
~
r)
Griffith, by whom also I recieved the Virgil stereotype & the book on the method of building in Pisé. I had seen buildings
in this way near Lyons, and moreover had known the author at Paris, where he raised some walls to shew his manner: and
”
