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[CARD GAMES]. De La Rue Bezique Cased Set. London: Thos. De La Rue, ca. 1869. Original gilt-stamped cloth-covered box, with two cardstock gilt-stamped markers, two Table of Scores cards, and “Pocket Guide to Bezique” booklet (1869), plus two 32 card decks, blue backs, gilt edges (slightly rubbed). Guidebook cover detached, otherwise very good. – Scherzando. Theo Presser, 1915. Game deck, directions card, and original box. – (and) A Game of Characters. Foreign. Buffalo: F.G. and O.F. Decker, 1869. Deck of 100 printed cards, with biographies (in the form of questions to players) of notable historical figures, in original box.