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Back-gammon. Rules and directions for playing the game of back-gammon. Illustrated with calculations, critical cases, and games.
Date: 1798- Books
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Back-gammon: or, The battle of the friars. A tragi-comic tale. To which is added, A short essay on the folly of gaming, by way of application.
Bellamy, D. (Daniel), 1687-Date: 1734- Books
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New Hoyle, or the general repository of games; containing rules and instructions for playing whist, Cribbage, Piquet, Quinzf, Goff, Draughts, Faro, Hazard, Quaerille, Cricket, Chess, Matrimony, Rouge et Noir, Tennis, Lansquenet, Backgammon, &c. &c. &c. With their Laws, as established at Brookes's, White's, D'Aubigny's, Scavoir Vivre, Miles's, Payne's, Phillips's, the Jockey Club, And every other Subscription House. From the manuscript of the late Charles Pigott, Esq.
Pigott, Charles, -1794.Date: [1795?]- Pictures
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Two men and two women sit at a table playing backgammon (trictrac) in France. Engraving, 1715.
Date: [1715]Reference: 33383i- Books
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Of the laws of chance, or, a method of calculation of the hazards of game, plainly demonstrated, and applied to games at present most in use; which may be easily extended to the most intricate cases of chance imaginable. The fourth edition, revis'd by John Ham. By whom is added, a demonstration of the gain of the banker in any Circumstance of the game call'd Pharaon; and how to determine the odds at the Ace of Hearts or Fair Chance; with the arithmetical solution of some questions relating to lotteries; and a few remarks upon Hazard and Backgammon.
Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]