Mathematical recreations

• Amusements
• Puzzles
• Scientific recreations

• Magic squares

• Chess

• Number games
• Recreations, Mathematical

• Amusements in Mathematics, by Henry Ernest Dudeney (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Mathemagician and the Pied Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to Martin Gardner, ed. by Elwyn Berklekamp and Tom Rodgers (PDF at g4g4.com)
• The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections, by Stewart T. Coffin (illustrated HTML at johnrausch.com)
• Recreations in Mathematics (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, c1917), by H. E. Licks (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Scrap-Book of Elementary Mathematics, by William Frank White (page images at Cornell)

• The Blue Book of Chess, Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings (revised edition; Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., c1910), contrib. by Howard Staunton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Chess and Checkers: The Way to Mastership, by Edward Lasker (Gutenberg text)
• Chess History and Reminiscences, by H. E. Bird (Gutenberg text)
• Chess Strategy, by Edward Lasker, trans. by J. Du Mont (Gutenberg text)

• Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse, 1474: A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, With an Introduction (London: Elliot Stock, 1883), by Jacobus de Cessolis, ed. by William E. A. Axon, trans. by William Caxton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Chess History and Reminiscences, by H. E. Bird (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Magic Squares and Cubes (second edition), by W. S. Andrews, contrib. by Paul Carus, Lorraine Screven Frierson, and Charles Albert Browne (PDF at djm.cc)
• Mathematical Essays and Recreations, by Hermann Schubert, trans. by Thomas J. McCormack (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at Cornell)

• Entertainments for Home, Church and School, by Frederica Seeger, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)
• Healthful Sports for Boys, by Alfred Rochefort (Gutenberg text)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)

• The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Rollo at Play: or, Safe Amusements (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Public Dance Halls: Their Regulation and Place in the Recreation of Adolescents, by Ella Gardner (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Popular Amusements: An Appeal to Methodists, In Regard to the Evils of Card-Playing, Billiards, Dancing, Theatre-Going, Etc., by Hiram Mattison (page images at MOA)

• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1869), by J. T. Crane (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Carlton and Lanahan, 1870), by J. T. Crane (page images at MOA)
• Tired Church Members, by Anna Bartlett Warner (Gutenberg text)

• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Open Sesame: One Hundred Answers in Rhyme to William Bellamy's Century of Charades (Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896), by Harlan Hoge Ballard (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)

• Dogland (prepublication version, 1997), by Will Shetterly (multiple formats at manybooks.net)

• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow
  • multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com
  • Gutenberg text

• The Ball-Room Guide, With Coloured Plates (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Masquerades, Tableaux and Drills, by Butterick Publishing Company (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Doctor Dolittle's Circus (1924), by Hugh Lofting (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Mr. Stubbs's Brother: A Sequel to "Toby Tyler" (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1882), by James Otis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mr. Stubbs's Brother: A Sequel to "Toby Tyler" (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1910), by James Otis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Toby Tyler: or, Ten Weeks With a Circus, by James Otis (Gutenberg text)
• The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Friendship, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Godolphin, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Northumberland, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Pastorall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Princess, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Rigadoon Royal, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Ann, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royal Portuguez, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)
• The Royall Galliarde, by Mr. Isaac and James Paisible (page images at LOC)

• Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, by Charles Godfrey Leland (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)
• Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup, by Cicely Kent (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.