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This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details.Extremely rare XVIII century hand-painted deck of 55 (out of 97) cards of "Minchiate Fiorentine"
a game derived from tarots and born in Florence in the 16th century
One example of this deck is present in the collections of the British museum, # 1896,0501.40
Minchiate Fiorentine. Bologna, Al Soldato – Alla Fama, XVIII century.
55 (out of 97) cards [10,5 x 6 cm], hand-coloured woodcuts on stiff laid paper, inscription "Carte Fine Al Soldato" at 4 of coins, on the 3 of cups is "Carte Fine in Bologna", round corners, backs printed with a diagonal pattern of fleurs-de-lis in black, and "Alla Fama" on lower border. The deck is formed by: 14 Money cards (complete); 14 Cups cards (complete); 13 Sword cards (missing Ace); 13 Clubs cards (Missing Nine); The unnumbered Fool (all other trumps are missing)
most playing cards from 18th-century are scarce, but a Minchiate deck of the same period is exceptionally rare.
Tarot is a deck of… Read More

An early incunabulum in superb copy with wide margins printed on thick, strong paper, clean and crisp throughout, in a beautiful contemporary binding

Turrecremata, Johannes de. Expositio super toto psalterio. [Augsburg]: Johann Schüssler, 6 May 1472.

Super-chancery Folio (304 x 210 mm). 136 leaves (112, 2-1310, 144: 1/1 blank, 1/2r text, 14/2v colophon, 14/3-14/4 blank). 35 lines. Printed in gothic type, Two- to six-line initial spaces. Rubricated with two large Lombard initials in red, small red Lombards and paragraph signs. Contemporary Augsburg blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, two clasps (lightly restored). Traces of contemporary manuscript paging in upper right corners of rectos (occasional very slight foxing to blank margins.).

Third incunable ed. (1st Rome 1470) of the famous exegetical commentary on the 150 Psalms by the Spanish Dominican Juan de Torquemada.
This edition was a reprint from an undated edition published by Schüssler not after 1471. The present text corrects the… Read More