How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX
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[PLAYING CARDS]. [POILLY, François de (1623-1693)]. An uncu...
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[PLAYING CARDS]. [POILLY, Fran?ois de (1623-1693)]. An uncut sheet of a partial Minchiate tarot deck. [Paris, ca. 1660]. 5 uncut engraved cards with one blank space, hand-coloring, sheet 194 x 184 mm. Includes five plain suits which represent a different continent (spades for Africa, clubs for the Americas), of which the America cards show EARLY IMAGES OF NATIVE AMERICANS. De Poilly?s tarot decks, originally consisting of 97 cards, are the oldest known French-suited tarot decks, predating the Animal Tarots that appeared around 1740.
