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(GAMES) CULIN, STEWART Chess and Playing-Cards: Catalogue of Games and Implements for Divination Exhibited by the United States National Museum in Connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895. From the Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1896. Washington: government printing office, 1898. 8vo, in wrappers. One of the most important works on the origins of chess and playing cards. Wear to the edges of wrappers; chipping to edges of texts; otherwise sound.
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