Author: Allemagne, Henry-René d'.
Title: Les cartes à jouer du XIVe au XXe siècle.
Description: Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1906. 2 vols. XVI,504,640 pp. 3200 ills. (956 col.), 12 col. plts (coloured en pochoir), 25 b./w. phototypies, 116 images of cards & 340 figs. Decorated half vellum bindings with pictorial boards. - First 3 pp. of vol. I small waterstain in lower margin. & front. waterstain in margin. Small waterstain in margin of last free endpaper. Backcovers of both volumes a bit soiled and vol. 1 with red spot in lower left corner..* Rare original edition; in spite of the small damages an actractive bound copy of this standwork with many attractive plates of playing-cards.

Keywords: Playing cards Speelkaarten