Billiards
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The ancestor of modern Pool. Originally, this was more or less Table Croquet.
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Academie Universelle des Jeux (1718)
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Facsimile
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Games in *The Academy of Armory*
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Transcription
) -- Transcription by Justin du Coeur and Jeff Singman of the relevant sections from this 1688 book on heraldry, which happens to talk a lot about a lot of stuff. (
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Billiards on Traditional Games
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History
) -- A quick but good overview of the evolution of this family of games. (
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