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The compleat gamester: or, full and easy instructions for playing at above twenty several games upon the cards; with Variety of diverting Fancies and Tricks upon the same, now first added. As likewise at All the Games on the Tables. Together with the royal game of chess, and billiards. To which is added, the gentleman's diversion in the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting and bowling.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: 1725- Ephemera
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Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil : what it has done : what it will do : [playing shuttlecock] / [Foster, Milburn & Co.].
Foster, Milburn & Co.Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Pictures
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Parodies of pictures at the Royal Academy: women are playing cards at a table, a man has a bottle stuck on the end of his nose, jockeys ride on rocking horses and a camel looks over pyramid. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1872, after John Gordon Thomson.
Thomson, J. Gordon.Date: [1872]Reference: 36177i- Pictures
Peter denies knowledge of Christ; men play cards. Engraving by R. Delaunay after Marchais after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1809Reference: 22993iPart of: Musée français.- Books
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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.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, full and easy instructions for playing at all manner of usual, and most genteel games, after the best method. Viz. I. Ombre, piquet, with a song on the same; lanterloo, whist, and a great variety of other games on the cards. II. The famous game of verquere, tick-tack, Irish, back-gammon. III. Inn and inn, passage, hazard, the royal game at chess, and billiards. To which is added. The gentleman's diversion, in riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting, and bowling. All regulated by the most experienced masters
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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Observations on card-playing. With an address to the Clergy.
Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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The use of the astronomical playing-cards : teaching any ordinary capacity by them to be acquainted with all the stars in heaven, to know their place in heaven, colour, nature, and bigness. As also the poetical reasons for every constellation, very useful, and pleasant, and delightful for all lovers of ingeniety. By Joseph Moxon hydrographer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.
Moxon, Joseph.Date: 1692- Pictures
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The viscount sits despondent in a chair, his wife indicates tiredness by stretching her arms, while a disapproving steward exits carrying a handful of bills. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [1745]Reference: 38352iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Pictures
An old woman telling fortunes from cards for four ladies in a drawing room. Coloured etching by by Joseph Stöber after Matthäus Loder.
Loder, Matthäus, 1781-1828.Date: [1818]Reference: 47024i- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, full and easy instructions for playing at above twenty several games upon the cards; with Variety of diverting Fancies and Tricks upon the same, now first added. As likewise at All the Games on the Tables. Together with The Royal Game of Chess, and Billiards. To which is added, The gentleman's diversion in the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, Cock-Fighting, and Bowling.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: 1726- Books
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A short treatise on the game of piquet. Directing with Moral Certainty how to Discard any Hand to Advantage, by shewing the Chances of taking in any one, two, three, four, or five certain Cards. Computations for those who bet their money at the game. Also the Laws of the Game. To which are added, some rules and observations for playing well at chess. By Edmund Hoyle, gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1744]- Books
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A short treatise on the game of piquet. Directing with moral certainty how to discard any hand to advantage, by shewing the Chances of taking in any one, two, three, four, or five certain Cards. Computations for those who Bet their Money at the Game. Also the laws of the game. To which are added, some rules and observations for playing well at chess. By Edmond Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1745]- Books
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A short treatise on the game of piquet. Directing with moral certainty how to discard any hand to advantage, by shewing the Chances of taking in any one, two, three, four, or five certain Cards. Computations for those who Bet their Money at the Game. Also the laws of the game. To which are added some rules and observations for playing well at chess. The second edition. By Edmond Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Pictures
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A hand holds a playing card bearing a hand, the number '3' and 'La Mano'; representing the idea that AIDS is not spread by shaking hands, an advertisement by Conasida. Colour lithograph by Carlos Gayou, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 678983i- Books
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The Genteel house-keepers pastime, or, The mode of carving at the table represented in a pack of playing cards : by which together with the instructions in this book any ordinary capacity may easily learn how to cut up or carve in mode all the most usual dishes of flesh, fish, fowl, and baked meats, and how to make the several services of the same at the table, with the several sawces and garnishes proper to each dish of meat / set forth by the best masters in the faculty of carving and published for publick use.
Date: 1693- Books
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A letter to a lady, on card-playing on the Lord's Day.
Bolton, Robert, 1697-1763.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The New game of cards; or A pack of cards changed into a compleat and perpetual almanack, in a dialogue between a nobleman and his servant. First, shewing the use of his almanack by the quarters, months, weeks, and days of the year. Secondly, shewing how he converts his cards to a complete monitor or prayer book, with curious remarks on the knave. The whole adopted to the entertainment of the humourous as well as to the satisfaction of the grave, learned, and ingenious. The like never before published. Entered according to order.
Date: 1790?]- Books
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A Pack of cards changed into a compleat almanac and prayer-book. Adapted to the entertainment of the humorous, as as [sic] well as to the satisfaction of the grave, learned and ingenious.
Date: [ca. 1786]- Pictures
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A skeleton hand holds a playing card bearing skull and bones, the number '12' and 'La pelona'; representing the idea that AIDS means gambling with your life, an advertisement by Conasida. Colour lithograph by Carlos Gayou, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 678981i- Books
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Hoyle's games improved. Being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, and Billiards. In which are also contained, the method of betting at those games upon equal, or advantageous Terms. Including the laws of the several games, as settled and agreed to at White's and Stapleton's Chocolate-Houses, the Star and Garter, &c. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1786]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved being practical treatises on whist quadrille piquet chess back-gammon draughts cricket Tennis Quinze Hazard Lansquenet Billiards Faro Rouge & Noir Cribbage Matrimony Cassino Goff or Golf and Connexions In which are contained the method of betting at those games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1796]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, Hiquet, Chess, Back-gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quince, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In which are also contained, the method of betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. including the laws of the several games, as settled and agreed to at White's and Stapleton's Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved. Being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, billiards, cricket, tennis, quinze, hazard and lansquenet. In which are also contained, the method of betting at those games upon equal, or advantageous Terms. Including the laws of the several games, as settled and agreed to at White's and Stapleton's Chocolate-Houses. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq;
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1775]- Books
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Hoyle's games improved; being practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, Lansquenet, Billiards, and Goff or Golf: In which are contained, the method of betting at those games upon equal or advantageous Terms; including the laws of each, as settled and agreed to, at Brookes's, White's, D'Aubigny's, the Scavoir Vivre, Miles's, Payne's, and other Fashionable Houses &c. Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq. A new edition enlarged.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: 1790