[Rarebooks] FS: On the origin of playing cards & paper made from linen. Leipzig: 1784

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(PRINTING HISTORY) Breitkopf, Johann Gottlob Immanuel. VERSUCH, DEN 
URSPRUNG DER SPIELKARTEN, die Einfuhrung des Leinenpapiers, und den Anfang der 
Holzschneidekunst in Europa Zu Erforschen. Erster Theil, Welker die Spielkarten 
und das Leinenpapier Enthalt. Leipzig: Joh. Gottl. Imman Breitkopf. 1784. 
First edition. 4to. (4),136pp. Index. Illustrated with 14 copper engraved 
plates (on 12 sheets, some folding). Woodcut device on title page. 19th c. gilt 
decorated black calf over mottled blue paper covered boards (some light 
rubbing). A lovely copy.     $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
On the origin of playing cards and the introduction of paper made from 
linen into various countries of Europe. A second part was published 17 years 
later, in 1801. All 3 copies recorded in the auction records are "Vol. I" only. 
  See Bigmore & Wyman, A Bibliography of Printing, p.81, calling this work 
"a learned and practical treatise".

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