10-30-200510-30-2005
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2300Boston
October 30, 2005 11:00 AMCalender
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Italian Heraldic and Historical Tarocchi

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$4,113$3,500
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2300Location: BostonDate / Time: October 30, 2005 11:00AM

Description:

Italian Heraldic and Historical Tarocchi, Lelio della Volpe, Bologna, 1725, edited by Luigi Montier, wood block with hand-tinted accentings, comprising forty cards with suits spade, coppe, denari, and bastoni, each with one through six, and F, D, C, R (ten each suit),and twenty-two numbered tarot with division of Europe, Asia, Africa and the American, 62 cards total, (excellent). Schreiber III, p. 13-15, plates 74-79, and Cary no. ITA 96; together with the original booklet for the set, (disbound). Bologna: 1725, Bianchi.

Note: These cards were banned by Pope Benedict XIII in 1725.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

Keywords

Luigi Montier, Lelio della Volpe