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Prophetical, educational and playing cards (1912)

Author: Van Rensselaer, John King, Mrs., 1848-1925

Publisher: London : Hurst & Blackett

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Congress playing cards in miniature. (1903)


Author: U.S. Playing Card Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Publisher: The Company

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Entertaining with cards (1900)

Author: U.S. Playing Card Co

Publisher: Cincinnati, O., The United States playing card co

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Facts and speculations on the origin and history of playing cards (1848)

Author: Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864

Publisher: London, Smith

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The invention of printing : a collection of facts and opinions descriptive of early prints and playing cards, the block-books of the fifteenth century, the legend of Lourens Janszoon Coster of Haarlem, and the work of John Gutenberg and his associates (1878)

Author: De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914

Publisher: New York : F. Hart

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Curios and relics. Toys & games (1953)

Author: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Playing cards

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Card tricks; (1900)

Author: Stanyon, Ellis, 1870-1951

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company

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New era card trick (1897)

Author: Roterberg, A. (August)

Publisher: London : W. & F. Hamley

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Sealed mysteries : explaining the latest card mysteries and spirit tricks made public for the first time : with directions for constructing trick cards (1911)

Author: Hull, Burling, 1889-1982; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Publisher: [Brooklyn, N. Y.] : Master Technic Publishing Co.

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Cinch or Pedro and how to play it. (1900)

Author: United States Playing Card Co.

Publisher: The Company

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Talk of Uncle George to his nephew about draw poker : containing valuable suggestions in connection with this great American game : also, instruction and directions to clubs and social card parties, whose members play only for recreation and pastime : with timely warnings to young players (1883)


Author: Uncle George, 19th cent; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Publisher: New York : Dick & Fitzgerald

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A bibliography of card-games and of the history of playing cards (1892)


Author: Horr, Norton Townshend, 1862-1917

Publisher: Cleveland C. Orr

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Explanatory notes of a pack of Cavalier playing cards, temp. Charles II. forming a complete political satire of the commonwealth (1886)

Author: Goldsmid, Edmund

Publisher: Edinburgh, E. & G. Goldsmid

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The American card player: containing clear and comprehensive directions for playing the games of euchre, whist, bezique, all-fours, pitch, commercial pitch, French fours, all fives,cassino, cribbage, straight and draw poker, and whiskey poker:together with all the laws of those games (1866)

Author: Dick, William B. (William Brisbane), 1827-1901

Publisher: New York : Dick & Fitzgerald

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Patience a series of games with cards (1869)

Author: Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, 1824-1904

Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard

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Games of patience for one or more players second series (1898)

Author: Jones, Mary Whitmore

Publisher: London : L. Upcott Gill

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The laws of piquet : adopted by the Portland and Turf clubs with a treatise on the game (1892)

Author: Cavendish, 1831-1899

Publisher: London : T. De La Rue

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Card fortune telling; a lucid treatise dealing with all the popular and more abstruse methods (192-?)

Author: Platt, Charles, 1865-

Publisher: London : W. Foulsham

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Pahlavi cartomalcy or card reading; a new and complete method adapted to the Pahlavi cards (1904)

Author: [Mounton, Sarah Adelaide] [from old catalog]; Moulton, Luther Vanhorn, [from old catalog] joint author

Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich., Pahlavi card co.


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