Title: | Wits laberynth, or The exercise of idlenesse Containing an artificiall texture of two thousand two hundred and sixtie figures, so placed and disposed, as by the helpe of a briefe direction for that purpose, you may tell which of them any man thinketh. As also by the same obseruation, to discouer any name, or number, that shall bee imagined. Besides an ample and large subiect for those that affect such ingenious recreations, by the sharpnesse of their owne conceits, to drawe out many other delightfull varieties. First composed in Italian by Andrea Ghisi, and now Englished and augmented. |
Author: | Ghisi, Andrea |
Note: | At London : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, and are to be sold at Britaine Burse by Iohn Budge, An Dom. 1610 |
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Subject: | Games -- Early works to 1800 |
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