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Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes
Date: 1911Reference: WF/M/PB/47/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Ephemera
Sweden / Thomas Holloway.
Thomas Holloway (Firm)Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Ephemera
Esquimau / Thomas Holloway.
Thomas Holloway (Firm)Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Ephemera
Lapland / Thomas Holloway.
Thomas Holloway (Firm)Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Ephemera
Russia / Thomas Holloway.
Thomas Holloway (Firm)Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Journals
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Badminton magazine of sports and pastimes
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Baily's monthly magazine of sports and pastimes, and racing register
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The brain side of games, sports and pastimes / by H. C. Donovan.
Donovan, H. CDate: [1909]- Books
The brain side of games, sports and pastimes / by H.C. Donovan.
Donovan, H. CDate: [between 1910 and 1920]- Books
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Tales and sketches, illustrating the character, usages, traditions, sports and pastimes of the Irish peasantry / By William Carleton.
Carleton, William, 1794-1869.Date: 1845- Books
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A picture of the manners, customs, sports, and pastimes, of the inhabitants of England, from the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons down to the eighteenth century. Selected from the ancient chronicles. And rendered into modern phraseology / By Jehoshaphat Aspin.
Aspin, Jehoshaphat, active 18th century-19th century.Date: 1825- Books
The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
Johnson, Thomas Burgeland, -1840.Date: 1848- Books
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The sports and pastimes of the people of England including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time / By Joseph Strutt. Illustrated by one hundred and forty engravings.
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802.Date: 183l- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: being, ingenious sports and pastimes. Containing, the many curious inventions: pleasant tricks on the cards and dice: Arithmetical Sports: Diverting Experiments, natural and artificial: Recreative Fire-Works: and other curiosities, affording variety of Entertainment. Translated from the French of Mons. Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
The every-day: or, everlasting calendar of popular amusements, sports, pastimes, ceremonies, manners, customs, and events, incident to each of the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times / [William Hone].
Hone, William, 1780-1842Date: 1831- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: being, ingenious sports and pastimes. Containing, many curious inventions: pleasant tricks on the cards and dice ... and other curiosities, affording variety of entertainment / Translated from the French of Mons. Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717Date: 1759- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: being ingenious sports and pastimes: containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; Arithmetical Sports; new Games; Rules for assuredly winning at all Games, whether of Cards or Dice; Recreative Fire-Works; Tricks to promote Diversion in Company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French, of Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1790- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: Being ingenious sports and pastimes: containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; arithmetical sports; new games; rules for assuredly winning at all games, whether of cards or dice; recreative fire-works; tricks to promote diversion in company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French of Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1790- Books
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Recreations for gentlemen and ladies: Being ingenious sports and pastimes; containing many curious inventions, pleasant tricks on cards and dice; arithmetical sports; new games; rules for assuredly winning at all games, whether of cards or dice; recreative fire-works; tricks to promote diversion in company, and other curiosities. Translated from the French, by Monsieur Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Archives and manuscripts
Archives and Manuscripts Resource Guide: Exercise, Fitness, and Sport
Date: 2nd century - 21st century- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 36. 'The Development of Sports Medicine in Twentieth-century Britain'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1965-2010Reference: GC/253/A/36Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
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The every-day book: or, everlasting calendar of popular amusements, sports, pastime, ceremonies, manners, customs, and events, incident to each of the three hundred and sixty-five days, in past and present times / By William Hone.
Hone, William, 1780-1842Date: 1826-1827- Books
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Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions. Shewing 1. How to cleave money. 2. To make Sport with Cats, Ducks, or Poultry. 3. To hang two Knives on the brim of a Glass. 4. To wash your Hands in melted Lead without damage. 5. To make a Sixpence seem to fall thro' a Table. 6. Teach Children to Read by Dice. 7. Divers wonderful Things done by the Loadstone. 8. To catch Kites, Crows, Magpies, &c. alive. 9. To catch a Pick-Pocket. 10. To name a Pack of Cards, and not feel 'em. 11. To write Love-Letters secretly. 12. Experiments in Drawing, Painting, Geometry, Astronomy, &c. 13. To make variety of Fireworks. 14. To keep Fowl, Venison, or any Flesh sweet a month. 15. To make a Drink you cannot relish other Liquors. 16. To sox Fish and Fowl. 17. To make one Candle outlast three. 18. To preserve Fruit all the Year. 19. To make excellent plaistering for Ceilings or Walls. With many other Natural and Artificial Conclusions, affording great variety of innocent Sport and Pastime. Adorn'd with above 40 curious cuts. By J. White, a Lover of Art and Ingenuity.
White, John, -1671.Date: [1715?]- Books
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The young man's best companion: Being new arithmetic in two parts. I. Shews, how a person may speedily learn (without the help of a master) numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, reduction, the rule of three, the rule of proportion, the rule of fellowship, allegation, false position. II. Vulgar fractions, reduction of vulgar fractions; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of vulgar fractions; of decimal fractions, reduction of vulgar fractions to decimal, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division of decimals, the rule of three in fractions; of simple interest, of compound interest, practical questions of barer, loss, gain exchange of coin, &c. Rules of practice, with divers curious recreative questions for the exercise of arithmetic. Also an appendix, containing compendious ways of subtraction, multiplication and division; with several entertaining sports and pastimes. By S. Lowe, schoolmaster.
Lowe, Solomon, -1750.Date: 1754- Archives and manuscripts
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Sales catalogue 41: Marks and Co
Date: c.1938Reference: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/22Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library