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Whist

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  • Progressive whist : score card : lady / Kilverts.
  • Progressive whist : always a safe lead: Hovis, the better-balanced bread.
  • Progressive whist : score card : lady / Kilverts.
  • Progressive whist : always a safe lead: Hovis, the better-balanced bread.
  • Progressive whist : always a safe lead: Hovis, the better-balanced bread.
  • University lecturers at Christmas playing cards. Etching after H. Bunbury.
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Catalogue

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    Maxims for playing the game of whist: with all necessary calculations and laws of the game.

    Payne, William, teacher of mathematics. | Date: Printed in the Year 1785
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    A short treatise on the game of whist. Containing the laws of the game: and also some rules, whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them, attain to the playing it well. Calculations for those who will bet the odds on any point of the score of the game then playing and depending. Cases stated, to shew what may be effected by a very good player in critical parts of the game. References to cases, viz. at the end of the rule you are directed how to find them. Calculations, directing with moral certainty, how to play well any hand or game, by shewing the chances of your partner's having 1, 2, or 3 certain cards. With variety of cases added in the appendix. By Edmund Hoyle, Gent.

    Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769. | Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]
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    Maxims for playing the game of whist; with all necessary calculations, and laws of the game.

    Payne, William, teacher of mathematics. | Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]
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    University lecturers at Christmas playing cards. Etching after H. Bunbury.

    Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. | Reference: 33343i
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    Progressive whist : always a safe lead: Hovis, the better-balanced bread.

    Hovis Ltd. | Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]
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