Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.

After losing their money through gambling and killing their father in an accident, one brother kills himself with poison while another shoots himself in the head with a pistol. Etching, 179-.

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion ; glass approximately 21.5 x 16.5 cm (8½ x 6½ in.)

xiv, 249 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Cardano, the gambling scholar / With a translation from the Latin of Cardano's Book on games of chance, by Sydney Henry Gould.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 14 x 9 cm

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Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.

Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Cardano, the gambling scholar / With a translation from the Latin of Cardano's Book on games of chance, by Sydney Henry Gould.

After losing their money through gambling and killing their father in an accident, one brother kills himself with poison while another shoots himself in the head with a pistol. Etching, 179-.

Gamblers

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Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.

Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Cardano, the gambling scholar / With a translation from the Latin of Cardano's Book on games of chance, by Sydney Henry Gould.

After losing their money through gambling and killing their father in an accident, one brother kills himself with poison while another shoots himself in the head with a pistol. Etching, 179-.

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