This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/30/2019
Group of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Works Pertaining to Gambling and Gaming. Including Five Years in a Lottery Office (Boston, 1841) by Doyle; The Road to Ruin. A Comedy (New York, n.d., ca. 1792) by Holcroft; Ruinous Consequences of Gambling (Tract Society, n.d.); Discourse on Gambling, Delivered in the Congregational Meeting-House at Dartmouth College (1852) by Richards; The American Eagle Magazine (New York, 1847), with Schoolcraft’s explanation of the American Indian game “Pugasaing”; The Gamester: A Tragedy (London, 1771); an 1827 Washington, D.C./Virginia newspaper listing lotteries; “New York Weekly Museum” (1808), with the column “Thoughts on Gaming”; plus a Morgan Town Road Lottery ticket (ca. 1800s).