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Hoyle's games improved: being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, back-gammon, chess, billiards and tennis. With the established rules of each game. By James Beaufort, Esq. Of Cavendish-Square.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
Sleep medicine : a comprehensive guide to its development, clinical milestones, and advances in treatment / Sudhansu Chokroverty, Michel Billiard, editors.
Date: [2015]- Pictures
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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the billiard room. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly, 1860.
Vizetelly, Frederick, active 1860.Date: 1860Reference: 39258i- Books
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Games most in use, in England, France and Spain, viz. basset, picquet, primero, l'ombre, chess, billiards, grand-tricktrack, verquere, &c. Some of which were never before printed in any language. All regulated by the most experienc'd masters. With a table to the whole.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: [1715?]- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : Together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice. To which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687Date: 1676- Pictures
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An Italian medical student leans casually against a billiard table, polishing his cue. Lithograph by the Perrotta brothers after Colomnca[?].
Reference: 18029i- Books
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The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess : together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards, or dice : to which is added, the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687Date: 1680- Books
Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed. Inquiries in Female Health Technologies
Billiard, Morgan- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, instructions how to play at all manner of usual and most gentile games, either on cards, dice, billiards, trucks, bowls, chess. Also the arts and misteries of riding, racing, archery, cock-fighting. To which is added, the game of basset, never before Printed in English. All Regulated by the most Experienc'd Masters.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: 1709- Books
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The polite gamester; containing, short treatises on the games of whist, with an artificial memory, quadrille, back-gammon, chess, piquet, billiards and tennis. 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 Edmond Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Archives and manuscripts
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Billiard Room interior
Date: 1952-1953Reference: RET 1/8/9/7/12Part of: The Retreat Archive- 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 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 Thomas Jones, Esq.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- 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: 1725- Books
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The compleat gamester: or, instructions how to play at all manner of usual, and most gentile games, either on cards, dice, billiards, trucks, bowls, or chess. Also the arts and misteries of riding, racing, archery and cock-fighting. To which is added, the game at basset. With a Discourse of Gaming in general. The Description of a Gaming Ordinary, and the Character of a Gamester. With a song on the Game at Piquet. All Regulated by the most Experienc'd Masters.
Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.Date: [1710]- Books
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The whole art and mystery of modern gaming fully expos'd and detected; containing an historical account of all the secret abuses practis'd in the games of chance, ...
Date: 1726- 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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An epitome of Hoyle, with Beaufort and Jones's Hoyle improved; or, Practical treatises on the following games. Hazard, backgammon, tennis, billiards, cricket, chess, draughts, whist, quadrille, piquet, lansquenet, and quinze. With an account of the present fashionable game called e-o, played at most of the polite chocolate houses, never before attempted in print. Comprising the laws and rules of the several games, as settled at White's, Stapleton's, &c. &c. Also the most advantageous method of betting at those games, and the erroneous odds introduced in former productions of a similar kind, rectified. By a Member of the Jockey Club.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1783?]- Books
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An epitome of Hoyle, with Beaufort and Jones's Hoyle improved; or, practical treatises on the following games. Hazard, backgammon, tennis, billiards, cricket, chess, draughts, whist, quadrille, piquet, lansquenet, and quinze. With an account of the present fashionable game called e-o, played at most of the polite chocolate houses, never before attempted in print. Comprising the laws and rules of the several games, as settled at White's, Stapleton's, &c. &c. Also the most advantageous method of betting at those games, and the erroneous odds introduced in former productions of a similar kind, rectified. By a member of the Jockey Club.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Pictures
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An interior of a games room: anthropomorphic figures playing, drinking, and smoking. Colour lithograph.
Reference: 11742i- Books
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A catalogue of all the neat and genuine household-furniture, linen, china, a very good-billiard table, ... and other effects, ... of a victualler, which will be sold by auction, at the sign of the Half-Moon, in Clepstone-Street, St. Mary-le-Bone, ... on Wednesday, March 14, 1781, by George Dollitt. ... Catalogues may then be had on the premises, and of George Dollitt, number 48, Minories.
Dollitt, George.Date: 1781]- Archives and manuscripts
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Petty Cash Book
Date: 1 April 1915 - 31 March 1919Reference: RET/3/2/10/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Alphabetical sequence of notes on various subjects (incomplete): A, B-D, E, F
Date: c.1910-1991Reference: SA/PHC/D.3/23/1Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)- Pictures
Six pictures of skeletons engaged in group games. Etching after W.F.E. Liardet.
Liardet, W. F. E.Reference: 36673i- Archives and manuscripts
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Swimming Pool
Date: c.1920s-1930sReference: SA/PHC/H.1/10Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)