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Origine des Cartes a Jouer, Recherches Nouvelles sur les Naïbis, les Tarots et sur les Autres Espèces de Cartes
by Merlin, Romain
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Westbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: L'Auteur Rapilly, [1869]. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. A rare Large Paper copy with half-title, 73 plates (complete, no plate 58 as always due to a numbering error), including 23 double-page, 1 folding (with handling tear), and 4 illuminated chromolithograph plates (2 double-page) which are only found in this Large Paper edition. Occasional minor off-setting, original printed blue wrappers bound in. Untrimmed, early 20th century green half morocco, slight rubbing. 4to. This copy scarce as a Large Paper but also as complete with the colour and gilt plates 8 & 9 and 60 & 61 missing from most other copies.
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- Bookseller
- finecopy ltd
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110108
- Title
- Origine des Cartes a Jouer, Recherches Nouvelles sur les Naïbis, les Tarots et sur les Autres Espèces de Cartes
- Author
- Merlin, Romain
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Paris: L'Auteur Rapilly, [1869]
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Westbury, Wiltshire
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
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