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265 - [Games & Cards]. Set of 6 volumes comprising: -VUILLIER (Gas…
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[Games & Cards]. Set of 6 volumes comprising: -VUILLIER (Gaston). Plaisirs et jeux depuis les origines. Paris, Rothschild, 1900. In-4, paperback with illustrated cover and protective cardboard slipcase. Frontispiece based on a watercolour by the author, 19 plates in a continuous sequence printed in heliogravure, 279 plates and vignettes. A fine copy, one of those numbered on deluxe tinted paper. -SEGUIN (Jean). One hundred reprints of old woodcuts from printing works in Avranches, Coutances and Saint-Lô, and two large plates of playing cards. Paris, 1930. Quarto, paperback, n.p., 100 illustrations and two fold-out plates. Printed in a run of 120 copies. -NICOLAI (Alexandre). History of playing cards in Guienne. With a preface-study on the Master Cardmakers of Guienne. Bordeaux, Lille, 1911. In-4, 67–128 pages. 37 plates, single, double or fold-out, in black and white or in colour, paperback (spine broken and worn). -HOFFMANN (Detlef). The World of Playing Cards. Leipzig, 1972. In-4, 98 pp. + 48 ff., featuring 98 reproductions, publisher’s full cloth binding, illustrated dust jacket preserved, slipcase. -Catalogue of the exhibition ‘Five Centuries of Playing Cards in France’. National Library, 1963 (Bulletin 205 of *Le Vieux Papier*). -The Playing Card. Donation made to the National Library by Mr Paul Marteau, master cardmaker. June 1966, 44 pages, ill.
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Auction time 07/09/2026 at 2:00 PM
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