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Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards

Note 154 — Chapter III · THE PROGRESS OF CARD-PLAYING.

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This engraving is preserved in a collection of Proclamations, Ballads, &c., formed by the late Joseph Ames, and now in the library of the Royal Society of Antiquaries. For the part played by Bethlem Gabor in the affairs of Europe, between 1618 and 1628, the reader is referred to Schiller's History of the Thirty-Years' War.

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