Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue
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Lot 235
A Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide. To Which are Added (as Being Closely Connected with the Subject) Two Treatises on Duelling and Gaming.
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Moore, Charles. A Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide. To Which are Added (as Being Closely Connected with the Subject) Two Treatises on Duelling and Gaming. London: J. F. and C. Rivington,?[et al.], 1790. First edition. Two volumes in one, modern quarter leather, retaining both title pages and subscriber lists. 4to. Occasional minor spotting; very good. The most significant work on suicide of the eighteenth century. Together with dueling, the author devotes a separate treatise to suicide?s relationship to gambling. A ?most frequent source of suicide,? writes the author, gambling is ?often the last stage and completion of a vicious character.? The second chapter of the treatise deals with the universality of gambling, with histories of play in China, Sumatra, American Indians, Africans, and ancient civilizations.
