BEIN GER553: Imperfect: DA, DL; OB; KA; K, UL; 6H; 8A; 10, 8L wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., German suit system., Composition of deck: 36 [D, K, O, U, 10-6]., Aces: DB, balloon., CourtCards: Courts in contemporary dress; Ks seated in chairs; KB with double suit signs., and Pipcards: 10s indicated by "X"; 8H: Cajetan Göbl / in / München.
BEIN GER548: Imperfect: wanting all except DH, DA, DL; UH; UL; 7H; 9, 7B; 7L. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., German suit system., Composition of deck unknown., Aces: DH, basket of flowers; DL, phoenix., Courts in genteel costume., and Pipcards: 7H, air balloon; 7L: München / Joseph Fetscher.
BEIN GER547: Imperfect: Daus of Hearts wanting. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., German suit system., and Composition of deck: 36 [D, K, O, U, 10-6].
Habitus praecipuorum populorum, tam virorum quam foeminarum singulari arte depicti and Trachtenbuch
Description:
BEIN 1976 +75: Imperfect: some plates slightly mutilated or bled. Manuscript annotations on spine. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. Number 1 of 2 titles bound together., Title in red and black within illustrative border., Signatures: )(⁴A-A-Iii⁴., and Plate ccxvii hand colored.
BEIN 1977 1657: Binder's stamp: C. Nederveen. Unidentified inscriptions on )(3 and following leaf. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Signatures: )(⁴ A-2O⁴., Last leaf blank., Publisher's name from colophon., T.p. in red and black with woodcut., and Foreword signed Carl Sigmund Feyrabend.
Publisher:
in Verlegung Johann Feyrabends
Subject (Topic):
Art, Study and teaching, Figure drawing, Horses in art, and Tournaments, Medieval, in art
Two small manuscript fragments said to have been removed from a sixteenth-century German binding. Bound with a speculative partial transcript, typed, which interprets the fragments as having formed part of a "love letter" (Liebesbrief). The transcript is preceded by an account of the removal of the fragments from the binding of an unidentified sixteenth-century volume held by an unidentified German library
Description:
In German., Bookseller description available., Script: German cursive., and Binding: bound with a typed partial transcript/reconstruction of the text of the fragments in twentieth-century half machine-grained morocco over marbled calf. "Liebesbriefe. Handscrift, Um 1528" in gold tooling on upper morocco.