Das astronomische Kartenspiel, das ist : Kunstrichtige Abbildung aller Gestirne am Himmel ober und unter der Erden zu Behuf der lehrgierigen Jugend, gleich den geographischen und historischen Spielkarten verfasset

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Title: Das astronomische Kartenspiel, das ist : Kunstrichtige Abbildung aller Gestirne am Himmel ober und unter der Erden zu Behuf der lehrgierigen Jugend, gleich den geographischen und historischen Spielkarten verfasset
Alternative Title: Kunstrichtige Abbildung aller Gestirne am Himmel
Creator: Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp, 1607-1658, conceptor
Contributor: Endter, Wolfgang Moritz, 1653-1723, playing card maker.
Bayer, Johannes.
Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published / Created: MDCLXXIV [1674]
Publication Place: Nürnberg and Germany Nuremberg
Publisher: In Verlegung Wolfgang Moritz Endters und Johann Andreas Seel. Erben
Description: BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 2: Imperfect: partial loss of text due to worming. Formerly owned by James Wilson Rimington-Wilson and Captain H.E. Rimington-Wilson. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Title and imprint from booklet.
German suit system.
Composition of deck: 52 (A, K, O, U, 10-2).
Comprises twelve court cards with the signs of the Zodiac and forty pip cards numbered one to ten for each suit.
Engravings are derived from illustrations in Johannes Bayer's Uranometria (1603).
Provenance: Marlborough Rare Books Ltd.; 2008-07-09;
Extent: 52 cards : 106 x 55 mm + 1 booklet (60 pages, 1 leaf of plates ; 104 mm)
Language: German

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: PLAYING CARDS GEN 2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
Specimens
Playing cards
Educational games
Engravings
Letterpress works
Material: hand colored ;, engraving, and letterpress printing
Resource Type: text
still image
Subject (Geographic): Germany
Subject (Topic): Constellations
Zodiac
Playing cards
Subjects: Constellations > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
Zodiac > Early works to 1800
Zodiac > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
Playing cards > Germany > Specimens > Early works to 1800
Rimington-Wilson, James Wilson, 1822-1877 > Ownership
Rimington-Wilson, H. E., 1899-1971 > Ownership

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Access: Public
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Identifiers

Catalog Record: 15768100
Object ID (OID): 2039622