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The cross bearing Christ is hoisted up before a multitude of lamenters and soldiers. Engraving by N-H. Tardieu after B. Audran after C. le Brun.

Playing cards with a condom and a warning gambling games are dangerous when it comes to AIDS; an advertisement by the Lions Club of Bombay Hilltop and the HIV/AIDS Information and Guidance Centre in Bombay. Lithograph, ca. 1996.

Two episodes about Mr. Muff and Mr. Randle at the races and being swindled out of some money. Letterpress and wood engraving.

A pack of black spade cards spread out to spell the word AIDS representing a warning not to gamble with your life; an advertisement by the National AIDS Committee and Hecopab. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

A man crawls on all fours towards a gambling dice bearing hearts as a glamorous woman holding a bag looks on; with diagrams on how AIDS is not contracted along the bottom; an advertisement for safe sex by the OFfice of Federal Health and Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Birez.

The crucifixion of Christ ('The Great Crucifixion'). Engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1589, after G. Robusti, il Tintoretto.

The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...

Men gambling in a casino or gaming club. Aquatint, ca. 181-.

Le jeu des 36 bêtes / André Demaison ; dessins de Jacques Darcy.

60 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 8-72, 61-266, 74 pages, 8 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm

A complete history and development of all the extraordinary circumstances and events connected with the murder of Mr. Weare : together with the trial at large, including speeches of counsel, examination of evidence, defence, &c. &c. : a faithful picture of all the fashionable "modern hells" and "black-legs" of the metropolis with sketches of the principal individuals who frequent them, whether in the character of "Greeks" or "pigeons" : an exposition of the frauds practised, the immense sums won and lost, and the calamitous events to which this system of nefarious villany has in many instances led : comprising most curious and highly interesting details, furnished from original and authentic sources, with a view to deter the young and unwary novice from this vortex of vice and misery : the whole forming a genuine series of gambling biography.

Cmnd. (Great Britain. Parliament)

Final report / Royal Commission on Gambling.

<p>Five men, three squatting on a mat gambling, two standing, one with a long plait. Strings of cash and other paraphernalia on the mat. Taken in a make-shift studio with a draped sheet as a backdrop behind the men</p>
<p>In the late 19th century gambling was popular  throughout southern China. Government legislation aimed at banning it did not contain the problem; on the contrary it forced gamblers to go underground, and the result was an increase in corruption and crime. Gambling was not confined to gambling houses, for it also took place in clubs and private homes. For the poor labouring class, the streets were a common venue for it</p>

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion

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Le jeu des 36 bêtes / André Demaison ; dessins de Jacques Darcy.

Final report / Royal Commission on Gambling.

Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Reflections on gaming, annuities, and usurious contracts.

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Le jeu des 36 bêtes / André Demaison ; dessins de Jacques Darcy.

Final report / Royal Commission on Gambling.

Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Reflections on gaming, annuities, and usurious contracts.

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