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Gambling

Images

  • The cross bearing Christ is hoisted up before a multitude of lamenters and soldiers. Engraving by N-H. Tardieu after B. Audran after C. le Brun.
  • Playing cards with a condom and a warning gambling games are dangerous when it comes to AIDS; an advertisement by the Lions Club of Bombay Hilltop and the HIV/AIDS Information and Guidance Centre in Bombay. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Two episodes about Mr. Muff and Mr. Randle at the races and being swindled out of some money. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • A pack of black spade cards spread out to spell the word AIDS representing a warning not to gamble with your life; an advertisement by the National AIDS Committee and Hecopab. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
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Catalogue

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    Le jeu des 36 bêtes / André Demaison ; dessins de Jacques Darcy.

    Demaison, André, 1885- | Date: 1935
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    A complete history and development of all the extraordinary circumstances and events connected with the murder of Mr. Weare : together with the trial at large, including speeches of counsel, examination of evidence, defence, &c. &c. : a faithful picture of all the fashionable "modern hells" and "black-legs" of the metropolis with sketches of the principal individuals who frequent them, whether in the character of "Greeks" or "pigeons" : an exposition of the frauds practised, the immense sums won and lost, and the calamitous events to which this system of nefarious villany has in many instances led : comprising most curious and highly interesting details, furnished from original and authentic sources, with a view to deter the young and unwary novice from this vortex of vice and misery : the whole forming a genuine series of gambling biography.

    | Date: 1824
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    Final report / Royal Commission on Gambling.

    Great Britain. Royal Commission on Gambling. | Date: 1978
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    Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

    Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921. | Date: 1869 | Reference: 19628i
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    Compulsive gamblers / Mark G. Dickerson.

    Dickerson, Mark G. | Date: 1984
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