Sold for:
$100

[Playing Cards] Two nineteenth century books on playing cards. Including Les Cartes a Jouer et la Cartomancie (London: John Hotten, 1859), later red cloth with title label in black and gilt, top edge gilded, illustrated with forty woodcuts, ex-libris J.B. Findlay; and Manuel de Cartomancie ou L’Art De Tirer Les Cartes (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1875), later red cloth with buckram spine, with 132 illustrations. 8vos. First volume with some spotting to cloth, with scattered light browning internally in both, else good.


Potter & Potter

Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2015-06-27

Archived auctions similar to [Playing Cards] Two nineteenth century books on playing Down arrow


Sold for:
$100

[Playing Cards] Two Books on Playing Cards. Including Old and Curious Playing Cards (1931), quarter cream-color cloth over grey cloth with jacket, frontispiece, illustrations, 4to; Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2014-05-31


Sold for:
$50

[McComb, Billy] Two Gaffed Decks of Playing Cards. Two specially-prepared Bicycle decks owned and used by McComb, with his annotations on the boxes, including the Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2016-08-27


Sold for:
$300

[Crime] Two nineteenth century dictionaries of criminal slang and vulgarity. Including Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon (New York: Matsell, 1859); and Dictionary of Modern Slang, Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2015-06-27


Sold for:
$150

[Chemical Magic] Two nineteenth century books on chemical magic. Including Secrets of Wise Men: Chemists and Great Physicians (Philadelphia: Wm. K. David, 1896), blue cloth Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2015-04-04


Sold for:
$764

Deck of Fifty-two Reynolds & Sons Printed and Hand-colored Playing Cards, mid-19th century, duty one shilling. Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2006-04-13


Sold for:
$275

Aluminum Mfg. Co. Pan American Aluminum Playing Cards. Two Rivers, Wisc., 1901. 52 + J + Original Slipcase. This is the first aluminum deck known. Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2016-05-21


Sold for:
$90

Four Porcelain Liqueur Decanters with Playing Cards. Two French, ca. 1940. 9 ½”, Exc; one French, Garnier (Crème de Menthe) ca. 1960; one French (Napoleon Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2014-05-31


Sold for:
$90

Five Decks of Gaffed Playing Cards. Two Straight Red Bee Decks, one Stripped Blue Bee deck. One Paulson Deck with edge work. One Juiced Blue Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2013-05-18


Sold for:
$150

Collection of Nineteenth Century Lithographs and Hand Colored Engravings. Various engravers, lithographers, and publishers. All either hand colored or full color lithographs, including “Now Bring Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2015-06-27


Sold for:
$88

(Playing Cards, History), Old Playing Cards from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century , Budapest, 1940, original boards with cloth spine, with eighty colored Read more…


Auctioneer:
Skinner

Date:
2005-10-30