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A short treatise on the game of whist containing the laws of the game: and also some rules, whereby a Beginner may, with due Attention to them, attain to the Playing it well. Calculations for those who will bet the odds on any Point of the Score of the Game then playing and depending. Cases stated, to shew what may be effected by a very good Player in Critical Parts of the Game. References to Cases, viz. at the End of the Rule you are directed how to find them. Calculations, directing with moral Certainty, how to play well any Hand or Game, by shewing the Chances of your Partner's having 1, 2, or 3 Certain Cards. With variety of cases added in the appendix. By Edmund Hoyle.

Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769.

London : Printed by John Watts for the author, M DCC XLII [1742]

PML 79483

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Printed Books

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Three drawings for Crowquill's "Tales Of Magic and Meaning"

Alfred Crowquill

1856?

1956.28:58g-i

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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Memo to Stevie Wonder (from the series A Secretary to the Spirits [for Ishmael Reed])

Betye Saar

1975-1978

2017.306:7

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Collage

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Modern and Contemporary Drawings

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Order for payment to John Leigh, gentleman usher to the Duke of York : document signed : Whitehall, to David Cunningham, receiver of the revenue for the prince, 1641 Dec. 1.

Devereux, Robert, Earl of Essex, 1591-1646.

1641 Dec. 1.

MA Unassigned

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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THE MORGAN ANNOUNCES WINTER 2020 EXHIBITION PROGRAM

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Friday, November 8, 2019

Featuring Works by Al Taylor, Alfred Jarry, Jean-Jacques Lequeu, and a Presentation of the Book of Ruth

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The life and character of Jane Shore : collected from our best historians, chiefly from the writings of Sir Thomas More, who was her contemporary, and personally knew her : humbly offer'd to the readers and spectators of her tragedy written by Mr. Rowe : inscrib'd to Mrs. Oldfield.

London : Printed: and sold by J. Morphew ... and A. Dodd ..., 1714.

PML 6300.1

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Un ballo in maschera : melodramma in tre atti / musica di G. Verdi ; riduzione per canto con accompo. di pianoforte di L. ed A. Truzzi.

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Ballo in maschera.

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Milano : Tito di G. Ricordi, [1859?]

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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

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Printed Material

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Music for brass choir, op. 45 (album leaf) : autograph manuscript, 1955 Mar. 4.

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Music, brasses, percussion, op. 45. Album leaf

1955 Mar. 4.

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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

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Highlight

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PICTURING NATURAL HISTORY: FLORA AND FAUNA IN DRAWINGS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND PRINTED BOOKS OPENS FEBRUARY 12
FINAL EXHIBITION BEFORE MORGAN CLOSURE

Press release date

Tuesday, December 24, 2002

The wonder and beauty of nature, richly documented for over nearly a thousand years, is the subject of Picturing Natural History: Flora and Fauna in Drawings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books, the Morgan Library's first exhibition devoted to natural history illustration. Picturing Natural History is the last major exhibition before the Morgan closes to the public for approximately two years to undergo an extensive expansion project.

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Proof of a leaf for "The knight's tale", designed by William Morris and illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones, comprising pages [15]-16 of the Kelmscott edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

[Upper Mall, Hammersmith, Middlesex] : [Kelmscott Press], [1896]

PML 198158

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Printed Books

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