Gambling Memorabilia Featuring the Collection of Tom Blue
Fri, Mar 1, 2019 04:30AM EST
Lot 168
The History of Playing Cards, with Anecdotes of their use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping.
Estimate: $200 - $300
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Taylor, Rev. Ed. S., and Others. The History of Playing Cards, with Anecdotes of their use in Conjuring, Fortune-Telling, and Card-Sharping. London: John Camden Hotten, 1865. First edition. Publisher?s green cloth stamped in gold. Colored frontispiece under tissue. Forty-eight plates. Thick 8vo. xiii, 529pp., [16] pub.?s catalog. Spine ends rubbed, some light spotting, otherwise a very good copy. Toole Stott 657. Jessel 1571.
