Sold for:
$4,113
$4,113
Italian Heraldic and Historical Tarocchi, Lelio della Volpe, Bologna, 1725, edited by Luigi Montier, wood block with hand-tinted accentings, comprising forty cards with suits spade, coppe, denari, and bastoni, each with one through six, and F, D, C, R (ten each suit), and twenty-two numbered tarot with division of Europe, Asia, Africa and the American, 62 cards total, (excellent). Schreiber III, p. 13-15, plates 74-79, and Cary no. ITA 96; together with the original booklet for the set, (disbound). Bologna: 1725, Bianchi. Note: These cards were banned by Pope Benedict XIII in 1725.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-10-30
