| Goo | Google books |
| BnF | Bibliotheque Nationale de France (French National Library) |
| Arc | Archive.org |
| GMW | Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games, University of Waterloo |
| Prs | Persee.fr : Scientific journals |
| Author | Date | Title | Pages | Language | Link | Comments | Preview | |
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| Pehr Osbeck, Olof Torén, Carl Gustav Ekeberg |
1771 | A Voyage to China and the East Indies (volume 2) | 423 | English | ! Goo | page 247:dice, chess, playing cards | ||
| Jean Baptiste Bullet | 1757 | Recherches Historiques sur les Cartes à Jouer | 189 | French | ! Goo | |||
| Mr Gough | 1775 | Some Observations on the Invention of Cards and their Introduction in England Archaeologia : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity |
152-172 | English | ! Goo | pages 171-172:30 cards, 9 cards with faces and dominoes | ||
| Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf | 1784 | Versuch den Ursprung der Spielkarten, die Einführung des Leinenpapieres, und den Anfang der Holzschneidekunst in Europa zu erforschen |
179 | German | ! Goo | pages 160-164 |
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| Samuel Weller Singer | 1816 | Researches into the History of Playing Cards and Printing | 453 | English | ! Goo | pages 59-63 | ![]() |
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| Abbé Grossier | 1819 | De la chine, volume 5 | 485 | French | ! Goo | pages 413-420 | ||
| Gabriel Peignot | 1826 | Recherches sur les Danses des Morts et sur l'Origine des Cartes à Jouer | 199-306 | French | ! Goo | |||
| Paul Lacroix | 1835 | L'origine des Cartes à Jouer | 12 | French | ! BnF | |||
| W.A. Chatto | 1848 | Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards | 427 | English | ! Goo | pages 55-59 : chinese cards (pictures from Breitkopf...) | ||
| T.J. Pettigrew | 1853 | On the Origin and Antiquity of Playing Cards The Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol IX |
121-154 | English | ! Goo | |||
| P. L. Jacob | 1858 | Recherches sur les Cartes a Jouer Curiosités de l'histoire des arts |
17-74 | French | ! Goo | pages 17-20:chinese origin of playing cards | ||
| Joseph Strutt | 1868 | Sports and Pastimes of People of England | 499 | English | ! Goo | 322-336 dominoes and cards | ||
| R. Merlin | 1869 | Origine des Cartes à Jouer | 233 | French | ! BnF | pages 24-25: chinese origin of playing cards | ||
| W. Hugues Willshire | 1876 | A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum | 526 | English | ! Arc | pages 57-58: Discussion pages 333-335 :Descriptions page 513: picture |
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| Theo. L. de Vinne | 1878 | The Invention of Printing | 570 | English | ! Arc | pages 98-99 : chinese cards (pictures from Breitkopf...) pages 109-121: The Chinese method of printing |
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| Abbé Rive | 1880 | Eclaircissements Historiques et Critiques sur l'Invention des Cartes à Jouer | 67 | French | ! Goo | |||
| Edward Falkener | 1892 | Games Ancient and Oriental and How to Play them | 408 | English | ! Arc | pages 143-154:Chinese chess | ||
| Stewart Culin | 1893 | Chinese Games with Dice and Dominoes Annual report of the board of regents of the smithsonian institution |
489-538 | English | ! Arc | Lots of pictures | ||
| Stewart Culin | 1893 | Exhibit of Games in the Columbian Exposition The Journal of American Folk-lore Vol. VI |
205-227 | English | ! Arc | Descriptions | ||
| W.H. Wilkinson | 1895 | Chinese Origin Of Playing Cards The American Anthropologist, Volume VIII, January 1895 |
61-78 | English | ! GMW | Lots of pictures | ||
| Stewart Culin | 1895 | Korean Games, with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan | 268 | English | Arc | Lots of pictures | ||
| Stewart Culin | 1896 | Chess and playing cards Annual report of the board of regents of the smithsonian institution |
665-942 | English | ! Arc | Lots of pictures | ||
| John Grand-Carteret | 1896 | Vieux Papiers, Vieilles Images | 579 | French | ! BnF | pages 222-223:chinese cards | ![]() |
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| Karl Himly | 1896 | Die Abteilung der Spiele im `Spiegel der Mandschu-Sprache' T'oung Pao, Series II, Vol. 7 |
155-146 | German | ! Arc | Chinese chess | ||
| Georges Edward Mauger | 1915 | Quelques considérations sur les jeux en Chine et leur développement synchronique avec celui de l'Empire chinois Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Volume 6, Numéro 5 |
238-281 | French | ! Prs | lots of pictures | ||
| Victor Du Bled | 1919 | Histoire Anecdotique et Psychologie des Jeux de Cartes, Dés, Échecs | 309 | French | ! BnF | pages 132-135 | ||
| Stewart Culin | 1924 | The Game of Ma-Jong Brooklyn Museum Quarterly, Volume XI, October 1924 |
153-168 | English | ! GMW | Lots of pictures | ||
| Anonymous | 1962 | Jottings on Cardbacks Duffy's Hibernian magazine Vol.1 |
484-489 | English | ! Goo | pages 485-486:Chinese cards |