Games - Early works to 1800
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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]- E-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]- E-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]- E-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]- E-books
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Mr. Hoyle's treatises of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon
Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.Date: 1748]