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Mr. Hoyle's treatises of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: 1748]- Books
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The accurate gamester's companion: containing infallible rules for playing the game of whist To Perfection In all its Branches. Treated in an easy Manner, and illustrated with Variety of Cases. Also the laws of the game, Calculations relative to it, &c. The ninth edition improv'd. To which are added, the games of quadrille, piquet, chess and back-gammon, fully explain'd. Likewise a dictionary for whist, and an artificial memory. The whole founded on the experience of Edmond Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: [1748] [1750]- Books
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A treatise on the game of cribbage: Shewing the laws and rules of the game, as now played at St. James's, Bath, and Newmarket. With the best methods of laying out your cards, and exposing all the unfair arts practised by Sharpers. Composed by several sporting gentlemen of the first celebrity; and digested By Anthony Pasquin, Esq.
Pasquin, Anthony, 1761-1818.Date: [1791]- Books
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The polite gamester: containing, short treatises on the games of whist, with an artificial memory, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess. 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 Edmund Hoyle, gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The polite gamester: containing short treatises on the games of whist, with an artificial memory, quadrille, backgammon, piquet and chess. Together with an essay towards making the doctrine of chances easy to those who understand vulgar arithmetick only. To which are added, some useful tables on annuities for Lives, &c. &c. &c. By Edmund Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- 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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Wits interpreter: the English Parnassus. Or, A sure guide to those admirable accomplishments that compleat our English gentry, in the most acceptable qualifications of discourse or writing : In which briefly the whole mystery of those pleasing witchcrafts of eloquence and love, are made easie in the following subjects: viz. 1. Theatre of courtship, accurate complements. 2. The labyrinth of fancies, new experiments and inventions. 3. Apollo and Orpheus, several love-songs, epigrams, drollerys, and other verses. 4. Cyprian goddess, description of beauty. 5. The muses Elizium, severall poetical fictions. 6. The perfect inditer, letters a la mode. 7. Games and sports now us'd at this day among the gentry of England, &c. 8. Cardinal Richeleiu's key to his manner of writing of letters by cyphers. As also an alphabetical table of the first devisers of sciences and other curiosities; all which are collected with industry and care, for the benefit and delight of those that love ingenious enterprises. The 3d edition with many new additions, by J.C.
Cotgrave, John, active 1655Date: MDCLXXI. [1671]- 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
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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]- 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 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]- Books
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The polite gamester: containing, short treatises on the games of whist, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess. Together with An artificial memory, or, an easy method of assisting the memory of those that play at the Game of whist. By Edmund Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LII. [1752]- Books
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The court gamester. In two parts. Part I. Containing, full and easy instructions for playing the games now in vogue after the best Method; as they are played at Court, and in the Assemblees, viz. Ombre, in all its Branches. Picquet. And, the Royal Game of Chess. Part II. Containing, the knowledge of play, written for Publick Benefit, and the Entertainment of all Fair Players, wherein the Frauds in Play are detected, and the Chances of the Games of Hazard, Pharao, and Basset, are calculated and determined. To which is added, the journal of a gameing lady of quality, a Tale. In a Letter to a Friend. By Dr. Swift.
Seymour, Richard, Esq.Date: [1732]- 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- Books
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The polite gamester: containing short treatises on the games of whist, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess. Together with an artificial memory, or an easy method of assisting the memory of those that play at the Game of whist. By Edmund Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: 1745- Books
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The polite gamester: containing, short treatises on the games of whist, with an artificial memory, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess. 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. By Edmund Hoyle, Gent.
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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A guide to the lottery, cards, dice, draughts, &c. &c. applied to The Solution of several curious Questions and Circumstances which occur in Play: laid down in the plainest Manner: and calculated to prevent the Practice of such Frauds as are frequently resorted to by professed Gamblers. 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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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]