Playing Cards, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Solesio (Faustino, publisher) Four sheets of uncut playing cards, with full-length figure cards, coins, swords, clubs, and a decorative publisher'...

Solesio (Faustino, publisher) Three sheets of uncut playing cards, with full-length figure cards, coins, vases, swords, batons, and a decorative p...

Solesio (Faustino, publisher) Two duplicate sheets of uncut playing cards, 40 cards per sheet, with full-length figure cards, coins, swords, clubs...

Pictorial cards.- Solesio (Faustino, publisher) 20 duplicate uncut sheets of illustrated cards, several in variant states, with depictions of anim...

Playing cards.- Solesio (Faustino, publisher) Six sheets of uncut court cards, two designs with two duplicates of each sheet, both with Kings, Que...

Solesio (Faustino, publisher) and others. A good mixed group of 25 uncut sheets of playing cards, including court cards, pictorial playing cards, ...

Solesio (Faustino) A pack of 97 minchiate cards, metalcut, plaid backs, Genoa, 1929; A pack of 78 double-ended tarocchi cards, plaid backs, rounde...

Solesio (Faustino, publisher) Nine duplicate sheets of uncut court cards, each sheet with four Kings, four Queens, four Jacks, and four decorative...

Solesio (Faustino, publisher) Twelve sheets of uncut playing cards, 24 cards per sheet, with full-length figure cards, double-ended court cards, c...

Solesio (Faustino, publisher) Seven sheets of uncut playing cards, with full-length figure cards, coins, swords, clubs, antique vases, and a decor...

Minchiate.- Solesio (Faustino, publisher) a pack of 97 Minchiate cards, stencil coloured, plaid backs, Genoa, [c.1895].

Miniature tarot packs.- Solesio of Genoa, publishers. A large group of packs of minature tarot cards, in original packing material, Geneva, [c.195...

Printing.- Solesio (Faustino, publisher) and others. A good group of 15 original engraved copper printing plates of playing cards, including court...

Printing.- Anonymous (circa 1800) Woodblock cut with 12 miniature playing cards, consisting of four Kings, four Queens, and four Jacks, woodblock ...

Tarocchi cards.- Mitelli (Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718) Gioco di carte con nuovo forma di Tarocchini, five plates (of six), consisting of 51 cards (o...

Tarocchi cards.- Murari (Guiglielmo, publisher) An incomplete tarocchi pack, with 62 of 78 cards, including that bearing tax stamp, metalcut, sten...

Tarocchi cards.- French publishers.- Grimaud (P., publisher) A pack of 40 Tarocchi cards, printed in colours, patterned backs, gilt corners, origi...

Tarocchi cards.- Armanino (Fratelli) A good group of tarocchi and other cards from this publisher, Genoa and Rome, [1915 and later] (20)⁂ Includes...

Tarocchi cards.- Cassini (Guido, publisher) A pack of 40 tarocchi cards, stencil coloured, patterned backs, rounded corners, Brescia, 1920; and 2 ...

Tarocchi cards.- Beghi (Giuseppe, publisher) A pack of 77 Tarocco Lombado, lithographed, patterned backs, rounded corners, original red and blue b...

Tarocchi cards.- Italian publishers.- Finazzer (G., publisher) A pack of 52 tarocchi cards, metalcut, colour stenciled, patterned backs, Trieste, ...

Tarocchi cards.- Anonymous (Italian, 20th century) Six duplicate uncut sheets of tarot cards, 15 cards per sheet, woodcuts, on thick wove paper, e...

Anonymous (probably Spain, circa 1780-1810) Seven duplicate sheets of playing cards with cups, swords, and coins, each card numbered and with 'pin...

Anonymous (possibly Italian, late 19th century) Four duplicate uncut sheets with double-ended court cards, 12 cards per sheet, working proof plate...

Anonymous (possibly Italian, late 19th century) Six duplicate uncut sheets with double-ended court cards, 12 cards per sheet, working proof plates...

Anonymous (possibly Italian, late 19th century) Three duplicate uncut sheets with double-ended court cards, 12 cards per sheet, working proof plat...

Liberty & Beef (publisher) Four uncut sheets of playing cards, 8 cards per sheet, with double-ended court cards, and decorative publisher's cartou...

Piatnik (Ferdinand, publisher) a pack of 41 playing cards, one of which blank verso, no.171, plaid backs, rounded corners, original printed paper...

Pignalosa (Raffaele, publisher) A pack of 40 playing cards, lithographed, patterned backs, original printed paper wrappers, creased, Naples, 1924;...

Small & miniature packs.- A group of small and miniature packs, including a pack of 'Mignon Armanino' and Pokerin (No. 104) by Solesio, v.d., v.p....

Miscellany.- , A very good group of incomplete packs from various publishers, including Solesio, v.p., c.1930s-1950s (Sm.Qty.)

Promotional material.- A small group of promotional material and samples for various manufacturers, including Solesio, Piatnik, Dondorf, Vindobon...

Playing card ephemera.- A comprehensive scrap album of over 160 adverts, card designs, uncut sheets of playing cards, pack designs, and other item...

Playing card ephemera.- A good group of adverts, card designs, uncut sheets of playing cards, pack designs, and other items related to Faustino So...

Paper.- Zuber, Rieder & Cie. A booklet of paper samples, along with a letter quoting prices and 5 full sheets of backing paper, v.s. Rixheim, 1892...

Games.- Bravin (Angelo, publisher) Il novo e piacevole gioco del pela il chiu (recto); [Roman Catholic religious calendar for 1831] (verso), recto...

Games.- Nuovo e dilettevole giuoco Chinese, engraved title with half-page hand-coloured illustration, 28 plates of tanagrams, spotted, some stain...

Miniature cards.- A collection of c. 35 packs, cards 45 x 30 mm. (1 3/4 x 1 1/4 in), presented in box, worn, [early 20th century]

Suffolk.- Charter, grant by John Otelby of Chelmondiston to Thomas Brandiston of the said village two pieces of land in the field called Napton Fi...

Medieval.- Farnham [?Surrey], John Bekyngton surrenders half of the land lying in Deryspath to the benefit of Robert Fitzwalter and his heirs, man...

Chertsey Abbey.- Parker (John, Abbot of Chertsey Abbey, 1504-29).- Bargain and sale to Henry Wykes of Chertsey of a tenement and adjoining garden...

Commonwealth.- Warriner (Edward, yeoman, of Above Park, Selside, near Kendal, Westmorland) Deed of transfer to his son John Warriner "my Costimary...

License to fell timber at Windsor.- Stanhope (Philip, second earl of Chesterfield, courtier and politician, 1633-1714) License issued by the Earl ...

NO RESERVE Hertfordshire.- Collection of documents and letters of wills, leases, mortgages etc., relating to Ware and other places in Hertfordshir...

NO RESERVE Porlock, Somerset.- 3 documents relating to the Manor of Porlock, (1 referring to Alexander Popham), manuscripts in Latin, on vellum, y...

Pedigree.- Généalogie Péronaises, manuscript in French, 66pp., 50pp. of genealogies with names in rondels, incomplete at beginning and end, first...

Account Book.- Account book, a few manuscript entries at beginning, several hundred pages of blank paper, ruled in red, some ff. excised at beginn...

NO RESERVE Cape Colony.- Tulbagh (Ryk, Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony under the Dutch East India Company, 1699-1771) Freedom granted to Johan H...

Dewse (Robert, Clerk of the Vestry of York Cathedral, died in his 88th year, of High Melton, near Doncaster) Commonplace book, manuscript, title a...

NO RESERVE London Burial Register.- [Burial Register], manuscript, 83pp. numerous other pages of register, all obscured under newspaper cuttings, ...

NO RESERVE Music.- Martin (Vincenzo) Duettino Occhiello furbello ..., music manuscript, 24 pp., original printed and decorated wrappers, ink signa...

Fighting against Tippoo Sultan.- Deare (Charles Russell, Lieutenant-Colonel Bengal Artillery, killed in action commanding the Bengal Artillery aga...

NO RESERVE Mathematics.- Du Complément Arithmetique [&] Géométrie Analytique, 2 students exercise books, manuscript in French, together 86pp. excl...

NO RESERVE Optics.- Optique, manuscript in French, c. 160pp., numerous pen and ink diagrams, browned, original paper wrappers, ink stained, sm. 4t...

Austen Leigh (Rev. James Edward, Vicar of Bray, Berkshire, Jane Austen's favourite nephew and author of """The Memoir of Jane Austen", 1798-1874)....

Lithotrity.- White (Anthony, surgeon, 1781-1849) Autograph Letter signed to the Secretary of the College of Surgeons, 1p. with conjugate blank, 8v...

Royal coat of arms, oil on wooden board, a few small cracks, framed, oil 420 x 490mm., [19th century, after 1837].

Medical & Social.- Cooper (Oswald Beale, surgeon, 1760-1836 & Thomas Beale Cooper, doctor, of Bengeworth, Worcestershire, 1774-1854. Surgical Case...

Sheridan (Richard Brinsley, playwright and politician, 1751-1816).- Suffolk & Buckinghamshire.- Grubbe Family.- Grubbe (John Eustace, magistrate, ...

St. Paul's Cathedral.- Parris (Edmund Thomas, architect and painter, 1793-1873) Autograph Letter signed to James Dafforne, 1p., 8vo, Notting Hill,...