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MARCOLINI, FRANCESCO. Le Sorti . . . intitolate Giardino di Pensieri. Large woodcut of "garden of thinkers" on title by Giovanni Porta; 50 woodcut illustrations depicting abstract qualities, virtues, and vices, and 46 (of 50) of ancient Greek philosophers; small woodcuts of playing cards throughout; colophon and printer's woodcut device within large woodcut cartouche on last page; without the woodcut portrait of marcolini on title verso, possibly through a printer's error. 206 [i. e., 207], [1] pages; lacks 2B4 (with illustrations). Folio, 323x230 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century blind-tooled sheep in pseudo-period style, spine and cover edges rubbed; numerous leaves remargined not affecting text or illustrations, varying dampstaining and soiling throughout, large hole in O3 restored with text loss. (Venice: Francesco Marcolini, October 1540)
First edition of an elaborate and profusely illustrated treatise on the use of playing cards for fortune-telling and divination. Hargrave, A History of Playing Cards, pages 242-43; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 279.
