Manière de découvrir les qualités d'une personne par le tirage des cartes and Scrutateur
Description:
A fortune-telling game to determine what a person is like by drawing from a deck of cards and then consulting charts printed in the book., Stamp: J.O. Wedberg. Blind stamp: [illegible] Bibliotheket, Stockholm., and There are eight pages of charts for different types of people (that is, children, young adults, young men, young women, husbands, wives, widowers, and widows). Each chart is divided into five columns.The first column lists personal or physical characteristics, and the following four columns correspond to the four suits of the cards (in order: heart, club, diamond, spade). Under each of those columns are descriptive adjectives. On pages following the charts are seven lists of questions, with from 10 to 40 answers each, to be asked of the players, to further reveal their characters and predict their future. One player is designated to be the "scrutateur" --the scrutinizer-- who will begin the game by choosing a characteristic to be revealed and then a person to draw a card and compare it to the chart of his or her type.
Jacques d'Amiens' adaptation of the Ars amatoria ends on leaf G4b, and is followed by "Le chef damours" (G4b-K5a) and "Les sept are damours" (K5a-K6a, called in the colophon "Les sept artz liberaulx")., Signatures: A-I4K6., and With the bookplates of Ambroise Firmin Didot and Stroehlin. Quires misbound as follows: A G C D B F E H-K.
Publisher:
[Jean Trepperel?]
Subject (Name):
Didot, Ambroise Firmin--Bookplate, Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria. Old French. Jacques d'Amiens, and Stroehlin--Bookplate
A broadside calendar with, at the top, a portrait of six Osage Indians from the U.S. who visited France in 1827. The portrait of the Indians forms the upper third of the sheet. The figures are shown from the waist up and each is numbered; four men and two women are depicted. A column on the left side of the calendar, "Notice sur les Osages," lists their names as well as information about them and their journey to France. The middle six columns, which are divided in half horizontally, contain the calendar. The column on the right, "La giraffe: envoyee a S.M. Charles X, par le pacha d’Egypte," has an illustration of a giraffe and describes the one given to Charles X and its journey to France.
Publisher:
Chez Lecrene-Labbey, imprimeur-libraire, Grande-rue, n 160, ou l’on trouve un assortiment general d’almanachs, livres d’ecoles, Bibliotheque bleue et images
Subject (Name):
Osage Indians --Portraits and Osage Indians --Travel --France