Abrégé de l'histoire de France

Description

Title: Abrégé de l'histoire de France
Contributor: Marchands de nouveautés, playing card maker.
Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published / Created: [1820?]
Publication Place: Paris and France Paris
Publisher: Marchands de nouveautés
Description: BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 1211: Imperfect deck of 9 cards (13-21); case wanting. Square corners. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 1368: Square corners. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
BEIN PLAYING CARDS GEN 1369: Imperfect deck of 22 cards (1-11, 13-20, 23-25); case wanting. Round corners. Pencil drawings on verso of cards 6 and 15. Ms. annotation in ink on verso of card 17: [undeciphered] agostino / Milano / Felicea. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards.
Title from case.
Date of publication from Keller.
Each numbered card describes the reign of three former rulers of France, whose portraits are at the top.
Backs: plain.
Issued in illustrated slip case.
"St. Louis rend la justice sous un arbre à Vincennes"--Case.
Provenance: Librairie Thierry Corcelle; 2020-11-06;
Extent: 25 cards : 107 x 69 mm, in case 114 x 75 x 15 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French

Genre: Specimens
Portraits
Game cards
Educational games
Engravings
Annotations 19th century
Material: hand colored ; and engraving
Resource Type: text
still image
Subject (Geographic): France
Subject (Topic): Playing cards
History
Kings and rulers
Subjects: Playing cards > France > Specimens
France > History
France > Kings and rulers > Portraits
19th century
Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941 > Ownership
Cary, Mary Flagler > Ownership

Access: Public
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