[Sri Lanka] VII. Isole Mariane o de Ladroni.
Isola di Ceylan.
Stock Code 104142
[Florence, Aniello Lamberti, 1779].
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Rare playing card map. Designed to play the Florentine version of the tarot game, the 'Minchiate'.
The card features a miniature map to its upper part with a table of towns and rivers below.
Engraved playing card map, fine original hand-colour, cut to or slightly outside platemark, laid down on thin writing paper and tipped-in to contemporary laid paper.
Mann Collection, 1125; Mann, Sylvia & Kingsley, David, 'Map Collectors' Circle No. 87: Playing Cards Depicting maps of the British Isles, and of English and Welsh Counties', p. 23, No.11; King, Geoffrey, 'Miniature Antique Maps', p.160.
The card features a miniature map to its upper part with a table of towns and rivers below.
Engraved playing card map, fine original hand-colour, cut to or slightly outside platemark, laid down on thin writing paper and tipped-in to contemporary laid paper.
Mann Collection, 1125; Mann, Sylvia & Kingsley, David, 'Map Collectors' Circle No. 87: Playing Cards Depicting maps of the British Isles, and of English and Welsh Counties', p. 23, No.11; King, Geoffrey, 'Miniature Antique Maps', p.160.
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