May 11, 2010 - Sale 2214

Sale 2214 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SINGER, SAMUEL WELLER. Researches into the History of Playing Cards; with Illustrations of the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood. 11 engraved and 8 color woodcut plates. xvi, [1], 373, [3] pages, including half-title and final leaf with plate list and errata. 4to, contemporary tree sheep, badly worn, covers detached; scattered foxing variously affecting the engraved plates, those facing pages 16 and 45 dampstained at bottom, woodcut plates clean. London, 1816

Additional Details

first edition, limited to 250 copies. Bigmore & Wyman II, 362; Hargrave, page 368; Jessup 1513; Levis, page 472.