Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[BERNI, FRANCESCO.] Capitolo del Gioco della Primiera col Comento di Messer Pietropaulo da San Chirico [pseud.]. [40] leaves. Small 8vo, old vellum, contents loose in binding; margins trimmed close without text loss, defect along bottom edge of title caused by oxidized inscription on next leaf, small hole in lower outer corner of last leaf affecting last word. Np, after 1526
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Poem on the Italian card game of primiera first published in 1526, with satiric commentary containing the apparent earliest printed reference to tarocchi. Kaplan, Encyclopedia of Tarot I, 28.