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Les tables de geographie, reduites en un jeu de cartes / par P. Du-Val ... ; Cordier sculp.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619-1682.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Geographical recreations--Early works to 1800.
- Geographical recreations.
- Card games--Early works to 1800.
- Card games.
- Geography--Early works to 1800.
- Geography.
- Playing cards--Specimens--Early works to 1800.
- Playing cards.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations, color maps ; 44 x 60 cm
- Other Title:
- Tables de geographie, reduites en vn ieu de cartes
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez l'auteur ..., [1669]
- Notes:
- Sheet of 52 cartographic playing cards, i.e. 13 each of 4 suits (hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs). Each suit is assigned to a continent or continents (hearts to Europe, diamonds to Asia, spades to Africa and clubs to the Americas) and contains 3 face cards, each with medallion portrait, and 10 numbered cards (ace through ten), each with a list of facts about a nation or region on that continent. At head of sheet are four small continental maps: "L'Afrique" and "L'Amerique" flanking a dedication to Louis, Dauphin of France (1661-1711); "L'Europe" and "L'Asie" flanking the title.
- "A Paris. Chez l'Auteur sur le Quay de l'Orloge, pres le Palais; Avec privilege de Sa Maïesté, pour 20. Ans. 1669."
- Engraved broadside (vertical chain lines).
- Red suits (hearts and diamonds) hand-colored; hand-colored maps.
- "Cordier" is Robert Cordier. Cf. Yasha Beresiner, "Cartographic and map playing cards 1590-1798," InterCol London (intercol.co.uk) [Internet resource].
- "A Monseigneur le Dauphin, Par son tres-humble, tres-obeissant, et tres-fidele serviteur, P. du Val, Geographe du Roy."
- Online version available via Colenda https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3b56db2h
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy disbound from a nonce volume.
- Penn Libraries copy has ms. numeral ("6") in head outer corner of sheet.
- Penn Libraries copy shelved with ephemera and bookseller's description.
- OCLC:
- 802060790
- Online:
- Unique at Penn blog post
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