- Creator:
- Humphreys, James Y., 1783?-1850, playing card maker
- Published / Created:
- [1800?]
- Call Number:
- USA204
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN USA204: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Ace of Spades., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: AS: [eagle] / E. PLURIBUS UNUM / [pip] / J.Y. HUMPHREYS., and CourtCards: KS: Andrew Jackson; QS: Athena; JS: King Phillip; KH: George Washington; QH: Venus; JH: Red Jacket; KD: John Quincy Adams; QD: Justice; JD: Gy-ant-wachia; KC: Thomas Jefferson; QC: Ceres; JC: Joseph Brant.
- Publisher:
- J.Y. Humphreys
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States
- Subject (Topic):
- Playing cards
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > E pluribus unum
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- Creator:
- Waite, Arthur Edward, 1857-1942, conceptor
- Published / Created:
- [1937?]
- Call Number:
- ENG38
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- BEIN ENG38 : From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system, modified (swords, wands, pentacles, cups), Type: Cartomancy., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., CourtCards: Cavaliers are called knights; jacks are labelled pages., Pipcards and Jokers: Pip cards numbered X-II., Trumps: Single figure trumps; II: THE HIGH PRIESTESS; V: THE HIEROPHANT., The cards appeared originally with Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910. All cards bear the designer's monogram. Suits of batons and money are labelled wands and pentacles., and Label indicates that the pack was printed in Great Britian and distributed by the Church of Light, Los Angeles.
- Publisher:
- Arthur Edward Waite and Church of Light
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Divination cards
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > English deck of single figure cartomancy cards
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- Creator:
- Campbell, Colen, 1676-1729, author, illustrator
- Published / Created:
- MDCCXV-MDCCLXXI [1715-1771].
- Call Number:
- JJr25 31 1
- Container / Volume:
- v. 1
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Vitruvius Britannicus, ou l'architecte britannique, contenant les plans, elevations, & sections des bâtimens reguliers, tant particuliers que publics de la Grande Bretagne
- Description:
- The title pages are engraved in volumes 1-2, 4-5., Vol. 3 contains "The geometrical plans of the most considerable gardens and plantations.", Vols. 4 and 5 are a continuation by Woolfe and Gandon., and BAC: British Art Center copy is a large paper copy, with volumes IV & V larger than volumes I to III. All volumes are first issues with lists of subscribers and volumes IV & V with the bookplate of Edward Harbord, Lord Suffield. Bound in contemporary calf; rebacked.
- Publisher:
- Sold by the author over against Douglas-Coffee house in St. Martins-Lane : John Nicholson in Little Britain : Andrew Bell at the Cross-Keys in Cornhil : W. Taylor in Pater-Noster -Row : Henry Clements in St. Pauls Church-yard : and Jos. Smith in Exeter Change
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Architecture, Architecture, Domestic, and Gardens
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Vitruvius Britannicus, or, The British architect : containing the plans, elevations, and sections of the regular buildings, both publick and private in Great Britain, with a variety of new designs : in 200 large folio plates : engraven by the best hands : and drawn either from the buildings themselves, or the original designs of the architects