AMMAN, Jost and Johann Heinrich SCHRÖTER. Charta Lusoria. Künstliche un wolgerissene Figuren in ein new Kartenspiel... Allen und jeden der Kunst liebhabenden zu besonderm nutz, lust und wolgefallen jetz und erst new an tag geben. Und mit kurtzen lateinischen und teutschen Versslein illustrirt. Nuremberg: Heuler, 1588.
AMMAN, Jost and Johann Heinrich SCHRÖTER. Charta Lusoria. Künstliche un wolgerissene Figuren in ein new Kartenspiel... Allen und jeden der Kunst liebhabenden zu besonderm nutz, lust und wolgefallen jetz und erst new an tag geben. Und mit kurtzen lateinischen und teutschen Versslein illustrirt. Nuremberg: Heuler, 1588.] 52 (of 64 leaves) WITH ALL 52 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS OF PLAYING CARDS FINELY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS presumably by a contemporary artist. (Lacks title, preliminary leaves A 4 and A(:) 4 with woodcut arms, and last four leaves P 4 with 2 unrelated woodcuts, some light browning and staining.) 19th-century boards (some rubbing and splitting); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Silvian S. Brunschwig (morocco bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF AMANN'S BOOK ON PLAYING CARDS FINELY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS. The woodcuts of playing cards are printed on rectos only with Latin verses above and German below. The four suites of cards They represent printer's dabbers; books (in splendid bindings), drinking cups, and glass bowls and drinking vessels. Subjects include: a printing press in operation; a fox teaching geese from a horn-book; musical instruments; goldsmiths and their tools etc. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no copy of this work has sold at auction in at least 35 years. Brunet I:236 ("Cet ouvrage, le plus rare de tous ceux auxquels a pris part J. Amman, contient un jeu complet de cartes allemandes on ne connait que 2 ou 3 exemplaires complets"); Fairfax-Murray German 35.
AMMAN, Jost and Johann Heinrich SCHRÖTER. Charta Lusoria. Künstliche un wolgerissene Figuren in ein new Kartenspiel... Allen und jeden der Kunst liebhabenden zu besonderm nutz, lust und wolgefallen jetz und erst new an tag geben. Und mit kurtzen lateinischen und teutschen Versslein illustrirt. Nuremberg: Heuler, 1588.
AMMAN, Jost and Johann Heinrich SCHRÖTER. Charta Lusoria. Künstliche un wolgerissene Figuren in ein new Kartenspiel... Allen und jeden der Kunst liebhabenden zu besonderm nutz, lust und wolgefallen jetz und erst new an tag geben. Und mit kurtzen lateinischen und teutschen Versslein illustrirt. Nuremberg: Heuler, 1588.] 52 (of 64 leaves) WITH ALL 52 WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS OF PLAYING CARDS FINELY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS presumably by a contemporary artist. (Lacks title, preliminary leaves A 4 and A(:) 4 with woodcut arms, and last four leaves P 4 with 2 unrelated woodcuts, some light browning and staining.) 19th-century boards (some rubbing and splitting); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Silvian S. Brunschwig (morocco bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF AMANN'S BOOK ON PLAYING CARDS FINELY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND COLORS. The woodcuts of playing cards are printed on rectos only with Latin verses above and German below. The four suites of cards They represent printer's dabbers; books (in splendid bindings), drinking cups, and glass bowls and drinking vessels. Subjects include: a printing press in operation; a fox teaching geese from a horn-book; musical instruments; goldsmiths and their tools etc. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , no copy of this work has sold at auction in at least 35 years. Brunet I:236 ("Cet ouvrage, le plus rare de tous ceux auxquels a pris part J. Amman, contient un jeu complet de cartes allemandes on ne connait que 2 ou 3 exemplaires complets"); Fairfax-Murray German 35.
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