A Bibliography of Card-games and of the History of Playing Cards |
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Page 32 - Idée générale d'une Collection complète d'Estampes, avec une dissertation sur l'origine de la gravure et sur les premiers livres d'images...
Page 18 - 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.
Page 72 - The Correct Card; or, How to Play at Whist ; a Whist Catechism.
Page 17 - Cribbage, Backgammon. By Major A. New Edition ; to which are added. Precepts for Tyros, by Mrs. B. Fcp. 8vo. 3s. Sinclair. —The Journey of Life.
Page 8 - Chatto, William Andrew. Facts and speculations on the origin and history of playing cards.
Page 76 - 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.
Page 68 - History of Playing Cards. With Anecdotes of their Use in Conjuring. Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping.
Page 25 - ALBERT: Bibliographia Antiquaria sive Introductio in Notitiam Scriptorum qui Antiquitates Hebraicas Graecas Romanas et Christianas Scriptis illustrarunt. Editio tertia.
Page 65 - SHUFFLING, cutting, and dealing, in a game at pickquet : being acted from the year, 1653. to 1658. By OP [Oliver, Protector] and others ; with great applause.
Page 35 - Quadrille, showing the odds of winning or losing most games that are commonly played ; either by calling a king or by playing Sans Prendre. To which is added the Laws of the Game.