1. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

2. Kramer, Jürgen.

British Cultural Studies.

Munchen, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1997. 17 cm x 24 cm. 255 pages. Illustrated thoughout with black-and-white photographs and diagrams. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with one minor inscription by previous owner on inside front cover.

3. Poirier, Jean.

Historie des Moeurs. Volume I: Les Coordonnées de l’homme et la culture matérielle / II: Modes et modèles / III: Thèmes et systèmes culturels.

3 Volumes. Paris, Gallimard, 1990. 17.7cm x 11cm. 1738 pages / 1658 pages / 1756 pages. Reliure originale / Original Hardcover in original slipcases. Very good condition with minor external signs of wear. Leather binding.