[CARD GAMES]. Bezique Cased Set, and two other card games. Circa 1860s. Original gilt-stamped cloth-covered box, with two cardstock gilt-stamped markers, two Table of Scores cards, and “Pocket Guide to Bezique” booklet (1869), De La Rue label under lid, plus two 32 card decks, blue backs, gilt edges (slightly rubbed), by the Union Playing Card Company (New York). 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, 1889. Deck of 100 printed cards, with biographies (in the form of questions to players) of notable historical figures, in original box.