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Mr. Hoyle's treatises of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: 1748]- Books
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The accurate gamester's companion: containing infallible rules for playing the game of whist To Perfection In all its Branches. Treated in an easy Manner, and illustrated with Variety of Cases. Also the laws of the game, Calculations relative to it, &c. The ninth edition improv'd. To which are added, the games of quadrille, piquet, chess and back-gammon, fully explain'd. Likewise a dictionary for whist, and an artificial memory. The whole founded on the experience of Edmond Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1748] [1750]- Books
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A treatise on the game of cribbage: Shewing the laws and rules of the game, as now played at St. James's, Bath, and Newmarket. With the best methods of laying out your cards, and exposing all the unfair arts practised by Sharpers. Composed by several sporting gentlemen of the first celebrity; and digested By Anthony Pasquin, Esq.
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.Date: [1791]- Books
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The polite gamester: containing, short treatises on the games of whist, with an artificial memory, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess. Together with an essay towards making the doctrine of chances easy to those who understand Vulgar Arithmetic only. To which are added, some useful tables on Annuities for Lives, &c. &c. &c. By Edmund Hoyle, gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The polite gamester: containing short treatises on the games of whist, with an artificial memory, quadrille, backgammon, piquet and chess. Together with an essay towards making the doctrine of chances easy to those who understand vulgar arithmetick only. To which are added, some useful tables on annuities for Lives, &c. &c. &c. By Edmund Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]