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• Prophetical, educational and playing cards (Hurst & Blackett, 1912), by John King Van Rensselaer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das kupferstich-kartenspiel der K. und K. Hofbibliothek zu Wien aus der mitte des XV. jahrhunderts (Heitz, 1918), by Max Geisberg and Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (page images at HathiTrust)
• The devil's picture-books. A history of playing cards (Dodd, Mead and company, 1890), by John King Van Rensselaer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prophetical, educational, and playing cards (Hurst & Blackett, 1912), by John King Van Rensselaer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards, by John King Van Rensselaer (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Tabletop: Analog Game Design (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Greg Costikyan and Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Das älteste gestochene deutsche kartenspiel vom Meister der spielkarten (vor 1446) (J. H. E. Heitz, 1905), by Max Geisberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Hoyle; standard games (Laidlaw brothers, 1929), by Paul Henry Seymour and Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Card essays, Clay's decisions, and Card-table talk. (T. De La Rue & co., 1879), by Cavendish and James Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's hand-book of games. Containing all the games played in the United States, with rules, descriptions, and technicalities adapted to the American methods of playing. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1885), by William B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Hoyle, or, Gentleman's hand-book of games, containing all the games played in the United States, with rules, descriptions, and technicalities adapted to the American methods of playing (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1894), by William B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games. America's complete hand-book of games, containing all the card games played in the United States, with their rules, regulations, technicalities, etc., adapted to the American mode of playing, from the text of Hoyle, and the best modern authorities ... (Crawford & company, 1890), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Repertorio completo de todos los juegos ... (Bailly-Bailliere e hijos, 1897), by Luis Marco and Eugenio de Ochoa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle up-to-date (Cincinnati., between 1000 and 1999), by U.S. Playing Card Co and United States Printing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games modernized. (George Routledge and Sons, 1909), by Edmond Hoyle and Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cassell's book of in-door amusements, card games, and fireside fun. (Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881), by Cassell & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports (H. Holt and company, 1899), by John Denison Champlin and Arthur Elmore Bostwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Danger in the cards (Ziff-Davis, 1943), by Michael MacDougall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's hand-book of games: containing all the games played in the United States, with rules, descriptions and technicalities, adapted to the American methods of playing. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866), by William B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whist, or, Bumblepuppy? : ten lectures addressed to children / by Pembridge. (Roberts Bros., 1883), by Pembridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laws and practice of whist (Appleton, 1859), by Edward Augustus Carlyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Académie des jeux, contenant les principaux jeux de cartes et de combinaisons. (Guillaume, 1821), by F. D. Philidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelle académie des jeux; ou, Règles des jeux du wisth, du boston, de la bouillotte, de l'ecarte, du reversis, du piquet, de la comète, du commerce, de l'ambigu, etc.; précédées d'un nouveau traité sur le jeu de billard ... (G.C. Hubert, 1818), by B. C. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explication morale du jeu de cartes; anecdote curieuse et intéressante, sous le nom de Louis Bras-de-Fer, engagé au service du roi. (Bruxelles, 1778) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games, improved and enlarged by new and practical treatises : with the mathematical analysis of the chances of the most fashionable games of the day : forming an easy and scientific guide to the gaming table and the most popular sports of the field (Longman, 1847), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hana-awase, game of (Seishi-bunsha, 1892), by Rossetsu Uchiyama (page images at HathiTrust)
• Académie universelle des jeux, contenant les règles des jeux de quadrille & quintille, de l'hombre à trois, du piquet, du reversis, des échecs, du trictrac, & de tous les autres jeux. (T. Legras, 1730), by G. C. Greco (page images at HathiTrust)
• La plus nouvelle académie universelle des jeux; ou divertissemens innocens, contenant les regles des jeux de cartes permis, du billard ... & des echecs ... (Arkste's & Merkus, 1752), by F. D. Philidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Académie des jeux. ([s.n.], 1763) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Académie universelle des jeux, avec des instructions facile pour apprendre à les bien jouer. ([s.n.], 1760) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games improved : containing practical treatises on whist, quadrille, piquet ... (G. Long, 1829), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's improved edition of the rules for playing fashionable games, containing copious directions for whist, quadrille, piquet, draughts, hazard, chess, together with an analysis of the game of chess. (Thomas, Cowperthwait & co., 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neuestes Spielbuch; enthaltend: l'hombre, whist, Boston, piquet, tarok (C. Haas'schen Buchhandlung, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's hand-book of games, containing all the games played in the United States, with rules, descriptions, and technicalities adapted to the American method of playing (Fitzgeraled publishing corporation, 1918), by William B. Dick and Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The devil's picture-books. A history of playing cards (Dodd, Mead and company, 1890), by John King Van Rensselaer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games improved : being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. ... : in which are also contained the method of betting at those games upon equal, or advantageous terms : including the laws of the several games... (Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [etc.], 1779), by Edmond Hoyle and Charles Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games : improved and enlarged by new and practical treatises, with the mathematical analysis of the chances of the most fashionable games of the day ; forming an easy and scientific guide to the gaming table and the most popular sports of the field (Longman, 1853), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games improved and enlarged by new and practical treatises : with the mathematical analysis of the chances of the most fashionable games of the day : forming an easy and scientific guide to the gaming table and the most popular sports of the field (Longman, Brown, 1842), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Hoyle : containing easy rules for playing the games of whist ... with tables of odds, calculated for betting equitably and advantageously, with the laws of the several games. (G. Walker, 1817), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Academie universelle des jeux, contenant les règles des jeux de cartes permis; celles du billard, du mail, du trictrac, du revertier, etc. etc. (Chez B. Cormon et Blanc, 1805), by Edmond Hoyle, F. D. Philidor, and abbé Bellecour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Round games at cards (T. De La Rue & Co., 1877), by Cavendish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das grosse Buch der Kartenspiele. Leicht verständlicher praktischer Leitfaden zur schnellen erlernung der beliebtesten Kartenspiele mit einem anhange: "Kartenkunststücke und Patiencen." (H. Steinitz, 1900), by Ernst Lange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holye' games. (Crawford & company, 1890), by Henry G. Bohn, Edmond Hoyle, and John H. Braceland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mystic test book ([The Temple publishing company], 1893), by Olney H. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual teórico-práctico, cientifico, literario, artistico, alegórico para inteligencia de los jugadores á los naipes, ilustrados, simbolicos, por medio de barajas mitológicas en sustitución de las comunes ó vulgares, con una reseña general de las diversiones y juegos de los primitivos tiempos del paganismo y gentilismo y de su idolatria. (Estab. tip. de R. Pujol, 1901), by Vicente Viñola y Lardies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carte da giuoco in servigio dell'istoria e della cronologia (G. Romagnoli, 1871), by Francesco Bianchini, Niccolò Tommaseo, Giovanni Battistia Carlo Giuliari, Giambattista Carlo Giuliari, and Niccolò Tommaseo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Académie universelle des jeux, contenant les regles de tous les jeux, avec des instructions faciles pour apprendre à les bien jouer. (aux dépens de la comp., 1777), by Edmond Hoyle, F. D. Philidor, and F. D. Philidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern pocket Hoyle; containing all the games of skill and chance as played in this country at the present time ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1868), by William B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social games. A collection of 31 games with cards. (Lee & Shepard;, 1871), by Ednah Dow Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Hoyle, or Gentleman's hand-book of games, containing all the games played in the United States, with rules, descriptions, and technicalities adapted to the American methods of playing. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de gagner aux cartes (Imp. Humbert-Droz, 1904), by F. Cordelier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Académie universelle des jeux : contenant les règles de tous les jeux, avec des instructions faciles pour apprendre à les bien jouer. (Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1773), by Edmond Hoyle and F. D. Philidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire anecdotique et psychologie des jeux de cartes, dés, échecs (Delagrave, 1919), by Victor Du Bled (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeu des trente-six bêtes : sur la loterie Hua-Hoey (Société anonyme d'édition et de libraire, 1920), by Léon Charpentier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated, by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards. (Printed for L. Davis [etc.], 1787), by William Hooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foster's complete bridge (Musson, 1905), by R. F. Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bridge in Canada (Morang, 1910), by W Forsyth Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whist developments: American leads and the unblocking game (Thomas De La Rue & co., 1891), by Cavendish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chess and playing cards. Catalogue of games and implements for divination exhibited by the United States National Museum in connection with the Department of archæology and palæontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895. (Govt. Print. Off., 1898), by Stewart Culin, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum, and United States National Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern pocket Hoyle; containing all the games of skill and chance as played in this country at the present time. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1880), by William B. Dick, Edmond Hoyle, and Dick & Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games : containing all the modern methods of playing the latest and most fashionable games (De Wolfe, Fiske, 1875), by Thomas Frere and Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Card essays, Clay's decisions, and card-table talk. (H. Holt and company, 1880), by Cavendish and James Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuevo manual de juegos (Librería de Ch. Bouret, 1887), by Karl Krespel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Standard Hoyle. A complete guide and reliable authority upon all games of chance or skill now played in the United States, whether of native origin or foreign introduction. (Excelsior Publishing House, 1887), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neuestes Spielbuch : enthaltend: l'hombre, whist, piquet, tarok, Boston, sasino, rapouse, tresett, Deutsch-solo, brandeln, alliance, connection-and imperialespiel, préférence, eilfern, commercespiel, le refersy, bassadewitz, tatteln, patience, cabale, hundertspiel, écarté, reunion nebst den nothwendigen anstands und klugheitsregeln, so wie als anhang : warnende winke über die künstlichen mischungen unredlicher Spieler. (Wien : Carl Haas'schen Buchhandlung, 1839., 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American card-player : containing clear and comprehensive directions for playing the games of whist, ... : including all the modern varieties of those games and their revised laws. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1881), by William B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Card sharping exposed. The tricks of the Greeks unveiled: or, The art of winning at every game. (J.W. Lovell Company, 1882), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Card-sharpers, their tricks exposed; or, The art of always winning. (C.t. Powner, 1912), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ausgewa hlte Kartenspiele. In kurzgefasster Darstellung. (P. Reclam, 1908), by Albert Stabenow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de l'imagerie populaire et des cartes à jouer à Chartres : suivie de recherches sur le commerce du colportage des complaintes, canard et chansons des rues. (Imprimerie de Garnier, 1869), by Jacques Marie Garnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Card-sharpers, their tricks exposed, or, The art of always winning (Spencer Blackett, 1891), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin and Joseph Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Absolute key to occult science. The tarot of the Bohemians. The most ancient book in the world. For the exclusive use of initiates. (Chapman and Hall, 1892), by Papus and A. P. Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games: containing the rules for playing fashionable games. With copious directions ... (illus., 1882), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cyclopædia of card and table games (Routledge, 1891), by Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoyle's games; America's complete hand-book of games, containing all the card games played in the United States, with their rules, regulations, technicalities, etc., adapted to the American mode of playing (Donohue, 1919), by Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Hoyle; standard games, including new laws of contract bridge and new scoring rules, gin rummy, Michigan rum, pinochle, backgammon, bowling, billiards, ping pong (A. Whitman & Co., 1943), by Paul Henry Seymour and Edmond Hoyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cassell's Book of in-door amusements, card games and fireside fun : 1881 (Cassell, 1973), by Cassell & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern pocket Hoyle : containing all the games of skill and chance as played in this country at the present time ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1868), by William B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to a gentleman on the sin and danger of playing at cards and other games. ([Boston, 1941) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Official rules of card games. (U.S. Playing Card Co., between 1000 and 1999), by U.S. Playing Card Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Academie universelle des jeuz, contenant les règles de tous les jeux. Avec des instructions faciles pour apprendre à les bien joüer. (Chez Theodore Le Gras, 1743) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Card sharping exposed ... tr. and ed., with notes by Professor Hoffmann [pseud.] .. (New York [etc.] G. Routledge and sons, limited, 1881), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin and Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Official Rules of Card Games. Hoyle up-to-date. Publishers' fifteenth edition of rules of popular games. (Edited by R.F. Foster.). (Cincinnati, 1911), by Edmond HOYLE and Robert Frederick FOSTER (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun (Gutenberg ebook)
• Telling Fortunes by Cards: A Symposium of the Several Ancient and Modern Methods as Practiced by Arab Seers and Sibyls and the Romany Gypsies, by Mohammed Ali, ed. by Carleton B. Case (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hoyle's Games Modernized, by Professor Hoffmann and Edmond Hoyle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Round Games with Cards: A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice, by W. H. Peel (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fireside games for winter evening amusement (New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1859), by Wiljalba Frikell and Dick & Fitzgerald (page images at Florida)
• A Letter to a gentleman on the sin and danger of playing at cards and other games. (Boston, : Printed; and sold by D. Fowle in Ann-Street, and by Z. Fowle in Middlestreet., [1755]) (HTML at Evans TCP)

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