78 results filtered with: Gambling
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Drink, drugs, and gambling / by M.K. Gandhi ; edited by Bharatan Kumarappa.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948Date: 1961- Pictures
Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19582i- Books
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The sportsman's sure guide, or Gamester's Vade-Mecum; shewing the exact odds at horse-racing, lotteries, raffles, Cock-Fighting, Cards, &c. &c. With a Table, shewing the Odds of the Variety of Chances of throwing any Number of Points with Dice, from One to Ten inclusive; Also the Odds of Back-Gammon, Bowls, Coits, &c. The whole forming a complete guide to the turf, the cock-pit, the card-table, and other Species of Public Diversion, either in the Parlor or the Field. By Henry Proctor, At Woodhouse, near Masham, in Yorkshire.
Proctor, Henry.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Pictures
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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.
Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.Reference: 23026i- Books
Gambling : a review of the literature and its implications for policy and research / by D. B. Cornish.
Cornish, Derek B. (Derek Blaikie), 1939-Date: 1978- Pictures
The Roman general Sulla requisitioning goods from citizens
Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536Date: [1531]Reference: 3334565i- Pictures
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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.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674996i- Pictures
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A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1848Reference: 26026iPart of: The drunkard's children- Books
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Reflections on gaming, annuities, and usurious contracts.
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A full inquiry into the subject of suicide : To which are added (as being closely connected with the subject) two treatises on duelling and gaming. In two volumes / by Charles Moore.
Moore, Charles, 1743-1811.Date: MDCCXC [1790]- Books
A full inquiry into the subject of suicide. To which are added (as being closely connected with the subject) two treatises on duelling and gaming / By Charles Moore.
Moore, Charles.Date: 1790- Books
Taking chances : abortion and the decision not to contracept / Kristin Luker.
Luker, Kristin.Date: [1975], ©1975- Pictures
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The Chevalier D'Eon meets bankers in a London office or coffee-house to discuss wagers placed on whether D'Eon was a man or a woman. Engraving, 1771.
Date: 1771Reference: 32375i- Pictures
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The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 1 July 1829Reference: 26477i- Pictures
Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
Henriot, 1857-1933.Reference: 17002iPart of: Série aux armes d'Épinal- Books
Pathological gambling : the making of a medical problem / Brian Castellani.
Castellani, Brian, 1966-Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
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A dissertation on the pernicious effects of gaming. Published, by appointment, as having gained a prize (june 1783) in the university of Cambridge. By Richard Hey, LL. D. Fellow of Magdalen College.
Hey, Richard, 1745-1835.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Pictures
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Salome shows the head of John the Baptist to her parents at the feast. Engraving, 1652, after P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: 1652Reference: 24123iPart of: Historiae sacrae Veteris et Novi Testamenti.- Books
Cardano, the gambling scholar / With a translation from the Latin of Cardano's Book on games of chance, by Sydney Henry Gould.
Ore, Øystein, 1899-1968.Date: 1953- 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
Dadi, fratture e vecchi belletti : tra storia antica e medicina moderna : atti della giornata di studio (Genova, 29 novembre 2013) / a cura di Maria Federica Petraccia.
Giornata di studio Dadi, fratture e vecchi belletti, tra storia antica e medicina moderna (2013 : Genoa, Italy)Date: 2014- Books
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Three dissertations ; on the pernicious effects of gaming, on duelling, and on suicide / First pub. in 1783, 1784, 1785, by appointment; as having gained, in the University of Cambridge, the three prizes of an anonymos donor. By Richard Hey. Rev. and cor., in 1811, by the author.
Hey, Richard, 1745-1835.Date: 1812- Pictures
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Negligence and idleness represented as a dishevelled woman surrounded by people gambling, drinking, fighting etc. Engraving attributed to P. Galle.
Reference: 17837i- Books
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Reflections on gaming, annuities, and usurious contracts.
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The memoirs of the lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures Of the most Famous gamesters and Celebrated Sharpers In the Reigns of Charles II. James II. William III. and Queen Anne. Wherein is contain'd the secret history of gaming, discovering all the most sharping Tricks and Cheats (us'd by slight of Hand) at Picquet, Gleck, Lanterloo, Bankasalet, Basset, Primero, Cribbidge, Verquere, Tick-Tack, Grand-Tricktrack; and all the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Italian Games, play'd with Cards, dice, Tables, or otherwise. The whole calculated for the Meridians of London, Bath, Tunbridge, and the Groom-Porters. By Theophilus Lucas, Esq;
Lucas, Theophilus.Date: 1714