Les Carte a Jouer et la Cartomancie
by P. Boiteau D'Ambly
Price: $300.00
- Bookseller: John Michael Lang Fine Books
- Seller Inventory #: 10259
- Format: Hardcover
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: L. Hachette & Co.,
- Place: Paris:
- Date published: 1854.
Book Description
Paris: L. Hachette & Co., 1854. Hardcover 6.5" x 4". 388pp. Rebound in a custom designer binding with light brown calf, with a black bordered red diamond panel in the middle of the front board, embossed with fleur-de-lis patterned. Top edge gilt; red leather spine label with gilt lettering. This French language work on playing cards features many illustrations of antiquarian cards. The book is housed in a custom clamshell box, to which someone has added a set of hand drawn playing cards.
Not sure what some of these terms mean? Look it up in our glossary.