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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

First Edition - The copy of king Louis Philippe I
Exceedingly rare hunting treatise on Bird trapping (pipée ) AS A METHOD TO protect and preserve bush animals from birds of prey
Simon, Jean-Baptiste. Moyens de conserver le Gibier, par la destruction des oiseaux de rapine ; Et les Instructions pour y parvenir. Traité de la pipée, Chasse amusante, & divertissante, très-convenable aux Dames. Paris, Veuve Prudhomme, 1738.
12° (16,3 x 10 cm), contemporary full leather binding, gilt decoration and title at compartments, pp. [4 – first blank, recto of second page engraved frontispiece], xxvii, [3], 84, [4], engraved handcoloured frontispiece, original silk bookmark perfectly preserved, red edges.
Hand coloured full page engraving at frontispiece, representing a birds trap, with the Latin motto "Silentio Decipiuntur (Deceived in Silence)"
Only three complete copies of this first edition recorded in worldwide libraries (WorldCat)
Extremely rare treatise on Birds Trapping (pipée) which, as the author… Read More