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Casino; a mock-heroic poem. dedicated, by permission, to Her Grace the Duchess of Bolton. To which is added, an appendix; containing the laws of the game of casino, and rules and directions for playing it.
Date: [1793?]- 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 academy of play; containing, a full description of, and the laws of play, now observed in the several academies of Paris, relative to the following games, viz. piquet, quadrille, ombre, qaintille, piquemdrill, imperial, the reverse, papillon, l'ambigu, commerce, tontine, lottery, ma commerce, la mariě, triomphe, the beast, la mounche, man d'auvergne, the farm, the game of hoc, l'emprunt, le poque, romestecq, sizette, guinguette, le sixte, vingt-quatre, la belle, gillet, cul-bas, the cuckoo, brusquembille, the comet. From the French of the Abbé Bellecour.
Bellecour, abbé.Date: M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The academy of play; containing a full description of, and the laws of play, now observed in the several academies of Paris, relative to the following games, viz. Picquet, Quadrille, Ombre, Quintille, Piquemdrill, Imperial, The Reverse, Papillon, L'Ambigu, Commerce, Tontine, Lottery, Ma Commere, La Mariée, Triomphe, The Beast, La Mouche, Man D'Auvergne, The Farm, The Game of Hoc, L'Emprunt, Le Poque, Romestecq, Sizette, Guinguette, Le Sixte, Vingt-Quatre, La Belle, Gillet, Cul-Bas, The Cuckoo, Brusquembille, The comet. From the French of the Abbé Bellecour.
Bellecour, abbé.Date: M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]- Books
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The academy of play, containing, a full description of, and the laws of play, now observed in the several academies of Paris, Relative to The following Games, viz. Piquet, Quadrill, Ombre, Quintill, Piquemdrill, Imperial, The Reverse Papillon, L'Ambigu, Commerce, Tontine. Lottery, Ma Commere La Mariée, Triomphe, Tue Beast, La Mouche, Man D'Auvergne, The Farm. The Game of Hoc, L'Emprunt, Le Poque, Romestecq, Sizette, Guinguette, Le Sixte, Vingt-Quatre, La Belle, Gillet, Cul Bas, The Cuckoo, Brusquembille, The Comet. From the French of the Abbé Bellecour.
Bellecour, abbé.Date: [1770?]- 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- Pictures
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A man has his fist raised against another man as playing cards lie all around, a woman carrying a tray recoils in fright. Etching.
Reference: 33359i- 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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New royal game of connections. Rules for playing the new royal game of cards called Connections. Invented by their Royal Highnesses the Princess Elizabeth and Duchess of York. With an address to the public by Charles Courtly, Esq.
Date: [1794]- 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- Books
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The compleat gamester: in three parts. Containing, I. The court gamester: Or, Full and Easy Instructions for playing the Games of Whist, Ombre, Quadrille, Quintille, Picquet, and the Royal Game of Chess. II. The city gamester: Or, True Manner of playing the most usual Games at Cards viz. All-Fours, Cribbidge, Put, Lue, Brag, Lottery, &c. With several diverting Tricks upon the Cards; also Rules for playing at All the Games both Within and Without the Tables; and at English and French Billiards: With the Laws of each Game annexed, to prevent Disputes. III. The gentleman's diversion: or, the arts of riding, racing, archery, Cocking, and Bowling. First Written for the Use of the Young Princesses, by Richard Seymour, Esq; and now carefully revised, very much enlarged and improved, agreeable to the present Method of playing the several Games, by Charles Johnson, Esq;
Seymour, Richard, Esq.Date: 1754- 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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The litterary cards, being a new invention to learn to read, and speedily acquire the greatest Knowledge in Calculation without Pains or Trouble. Likewise directions to play all the most usual games on the cards and dice, without either Box or Dice. The whole adorned with historical, geographical, and moral instructions, and embellished with forty-eight heads of illustrious personages, And other ornamental Engravings, curiously done on copper-plates, By the most Eminent Artists. The whole comprehending a great Variety of useful Knowledge, and peculiarly adapted for the Amusement and Instruction of the Youth of both Sexes. Wrote in English and French, by Thomas Foubert.
Foubert, Thomas.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Pictures
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Men sitting around a table playing a game of cards. Engraving by C. Gaucher, 1766, after G. Van Tilborch.
Tilborgh, Gillis van, active approximately 1635-approximately 1678.Date: [1766]Reference: 33340i- 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
A wicked pack of cards : the origins of the occult tarot / Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett.
Decker, Ronald.Date: [1996]- 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- Pictures
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A couple sit in a slum dwelling playing a card game; the man is drinking from a tankard and washing is hanging from a line stretched across the room. Wood engraving by E. Landells after H.K. Browne.
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 33355i- Books
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The compleat gamester: in three parts. Viz. I. Full and easy instructions for playing the games chiefly used at court and in the Assembleés, viz. Ombre, Quadrille, Quintille, Picquet, Basset, Faro, and the Royal Game of Chess. II. The true manner of playing the most usual games at cards, viz. Whist, All-Fours, Cribbidge, Put, Lue, Brag, &c. With several diverting Tricks upon the Cards. III. Rules for playing at all the games both within and without the tables; likewise at English and French Billiards. Also the Laws of each Game annexed to prevent Disputes. Written for the Use of the Young Princesses, By Richard Seymour, Esq;
Seymour, Richard, Esq.Date: [1734]- Books
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Rules of Reversis, as played in the fashionable circles. By a gentleman.
Gentleman.Date: 1796- Pictures
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An all-night gambling party breaks up at four o'clock in the morning: one man says he has lost his last twenty francs. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1824.
Bellangé, H. (Hippolyte), 1800-1866.Date: [1824]Reference: 33351i- Books
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Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards / By W. Hooper.
Hooper, William, M.D.Date: 1787- Pictures
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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.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 677264i- Books
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A short treatise on the game of loo: in which is contained the method of playing at this game, upon equal, or advantageous terms. Including, the laws of the game, As Played at the Select Parties of the Nobility and Gentry. Inscribed to The Ladies of the West End of the Town.
Date: 1768- 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]