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The history of playing cards

with anecdotes of their use in conjuring, fortune-telling, and card-sharping.

by Edward Samuel Taylor

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English

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None of the 1 source behind this record supplied a summary of The history of playing cards (1865). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Divination and oracles

Subjects: History, fortune-telling, Playing cards

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles.

  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fortune-telling”. Retained metadata contains “Fortune-telling” in the subtitle, “Fortune-telling” in the subject metadata, and “Fortune-telling” in the edition subtitle.

    • Fortune-telling· via Open Library
    • Fortune-telling· in subtitle
    • Fortune-telling· in subject
    • Fortune-telling· in edition subtitle

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Editions

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with anecdotes of their use in conjuring, fortune-telling, and card-sharping.

Open Library record

1973Brand: C. E. Tuttle; C. E. TuttleEnglish
  • 9780804810265
  • 0804810265
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Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL149630W
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