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Backgammon - Early works to 1800

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    Mr. Hoyle's treatises of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon

    Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769. | Date: 1748]
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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]

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