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INCOMINCIA LARAPRESENTATIO/NE DELLA REINA HESTER. Finita lanuntiatione il Re Assuero e in/sedia & dice a suo baroni.
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Con fecha de 29 del mes próxîmo pasado me dice el Señor Don Joseph Antonio Caballero lo siguiente.
Spain. Real Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna.Date: [1803]- Books
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The gamesters law: wherein is treated, of unlawful games. What considerations are good to ground an assumpsit for money won upon wagers and bets. Several Cases on particular Games; as Dice, Cards, Horse-Racing, Cock-Fighting, &c. Of Pleading the Statute 16 Car. 2. c. 7. against Excessive Gaming, and the Explanation thereof, and what Securities given for Money won at Play, are avoided by the said Statute, in several nice Cases argued and resolved by the Judges. Of Cheats in Gaming. Remedy against Cheats, in several resolved Cases by Action at Law, or by Indictments, &c. Of the Power of the Justices by the Common and Statute-Law, in punishing Offenders, and searching Gaming-Houses. To which is added. An abstract of an act passed in the ninth year of Q. Anne, for preventing excessive and deceitful gaming, with some Observations thereon.
Date: 1711- Books
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Qui comincia lahistoria & leggenda di San/cta Apollonia vergine & martyre di christo. Et prima dice uno Agniolo chosi.
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A dice bearing the words 'Don't gamble with AIDS' amidst a backdrop bearing the words 'Think!'. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 667019i- Books
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INCOMINCIA LA RAPPRESENTATIO/NE DELLA REINA HESTER. Finita lannuntiatione il Re Assuero e in sedia & dice a suo baroni.
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Qui comincia lahistoria & leggenda di san/cta Apollonia uergine & martyre di christo. Et prima dice uno Agniolo chosi.
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Qui comincia la historia & leggenda di san/cta Apollonia uergine & martyre di christo. Et prima dice uno Agniolo chosi.
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Qui comincia la historia & leggenda di san cta Apollonia uergine & martyre di christo. Et prima dice uno Agniolo chosi.
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A society lunch with patrons playing dice, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by R. Leitner, mid-19th century, after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 25445i- Books
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COMINCIA LARAPRESENTATIONE DI SANCTA GUGLIELMA COMPO/STA PER MONA ANTONIA DON/NA DI BERNARDO PULCI. ET PRIMA VIENE LANGELO AN/NUNTIARE LA FESTA ET DICE.
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COMINCIA LARAPRESENTATIONE DI SANCTA GUGLIELMA COMPO/STA PER MONA ANTONIA DON/NA DI BERNARDO PULCI. ET PRIMA VIENE LANGELO AN/NUNTIARE LA FESTA ET DICE.
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El Sr. Subprefecto del partide con fecha 18 del corrienta me dice le siguiente ... "A consequencia del espediente seguido en esta Prefectura."
Mexico.Date: 1831]- Books
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COMINCIA LA RAPRESENTATIONE DI SANCTA GUGLIELMA COMPOSTA PER MONA ANTONIA DONNA DI BERNARDO PULCI. ET PRIMA VIENE LANGELO ANNUNTIARE LA FESTA ET DICE.
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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]- Pictures
A Dutch man playing trictrac with dice; behind, a man smoking a pipe and another man. Engraving by J. Beauvarlet, ca. 1755, after A. van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: [1755?]Reference: 3043039i- Pictures
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Lord Cochrane and Captain de Beranger, collaborators in a fraudulent manipulation of the Stock Exchange, playing dice while in the stocks. Coloured etching by George Cruikshank, 1814.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1 April 1814]Reference: 38455i- Books
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The universal fortune teller: or, Mrs. Bridget's (commonly called the Norwood Gipsey) golden treasury explained. Containing I. The whole art of fortune telling by the Planets, Cards, Dice, &c. II. A true Interpretation of all kind of Dreams. III. The Art of Palmestry or Prognostication by the Lines of the Hand. IV. A brief Prognostication concerning Children born on any Day of the Week. V. Explanations to the following among many other Questions, viz. Contracting Marriage, getting into Place, recovery of Health and lost Goods, return of absent Lovers, and the succeeding of almost every undertaking in Life. VI. Several other valuable things equally useful, and entertaining; too numerous to be mentioned in a Title Page, adorn'd with proper Cuts. By Mrs. Bridget, who followed the above Art upwards of 60 Years, and the Manuscript was found conceal'd in an old Rag, in the Thatch of her Hut in Norwood. To which is added another valuable manuscript, written by the noted Dr. Guthrie, (commonly called the Old Bailey Fortune Teller.)
Bridget, Mrs.Date: [1790?]- Books
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The nature and laws of chance. Containing, among other particulars, the solutions of several abstruse and important problems. The doctrine of combinations and permutations clearly deduced. A new and comprehensive Problem of great Use in discovering the Advantage or Loss in Lotteries, Raffles, &c. A curious and extensive Problem on the Duration of Play. Problems for determining the Probability of winning at Bowls, Quoits, Cards, &c. A Problem for finding the Trials wherein it may be undertaken that a proposed Event shall happen or fail a given Number of Times. A Problem to find the Chance for a given Number of Points on a given Number of Dice. Full and clear Investigations of two Problems of Mr. De Moivrt's; one of them allowed by that Author to be the most useful on the Subject, but their Demonstrations omitted by him. Two new Methods for summing of Series. The Whole After a new, general, and conspicuous Manner, and Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.
Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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Aristotle's legacy: containing. 1. The fortune teller; or the knowledge of good and bad fortune, by throwing Dice on the wheel of fortune. II. By Palmestry, as in the lines and marks in the hand. III. Physiognomy, as in the eyes, nose, chin, &c. Metroposcopus, as the several lines or marks in the forehead and other parts; likewise several other marks relative to long or short life, love, business, humours and dispositions. IV. Dreams and their interpretations more exact than ever. Observations on Valentine's and St. Agnes's Day, and the first hearing of the Cuckow, as they relate to love or marriage; by which any woman may know whether her sweetheart be true or false, and whether fortunate or unfortunate in wedlock: As also to know a pure virgin and how to make an inchanted ring, so as to make any one fall in love with you: Also the most powerful receipt for making love powder. V. Moles and their signs on the face, or any part of the body. Translated by Dr. Boreham, astrologer.
Date: [1790?]- Books
[Circular, Aug. 1827. Begins] El Sr. Secretario de Estado y el Despacho de Gracia y Justicia con fecha 14 de julio próximo pasado me dice de orden de S.M. lo siguiente.
Spain. Ministerio de la GuerraDate: [1827]- Books
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Iohn Hadlands advice: or a warning for all young men that have meanes : advising them to forsake lewd company cards, dice, and queanes, to the tune of the bonny bonny broome.
Crimsal, RichardDate: [1635?]- Books
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A guide to the lottery; or, the laws of chance laid down in a plain and intelligible manner, wherein is shewn the probabilities arising from any proposed circumstance of play; applied to the Solution of a Variety of curious Questions relating to Cards, Dice, Lotteries, &c. Likewise The whole Business of insuring Tickets in the State Lottery clearly explained, the several Advantages taken by the Office-Keepers pointed out, and an easy Method given, whereby any Person may compute the Probability of his Success upon purchasing or insuring any particular Number of Tickets, with a Table of the Price of Insurance for every Day's drawing in the ensuing Lottery, another Table, containing the Number of Tickets a Person ought to purchase to make it an equal Chance to have any particular Prize; with several other curious Tables. To which is added a companion for the draught-player, Containing Thirty select Games of Draughts, shewing the Manner of moving the Pieces to the best Advantage; together with several critical Situations to win Games, and fine Strokes, never before published: being the Result of the Practice and Observations of some of the first Players. By W. Painter.
Painter, W.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- 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