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HELLER (Joseph). Geschichte der Holzschneidekunst von den ältesten bis auf des neuesten Zeiten, nebst zwei Beilagen, enthaltend den Ursprung der Spielfarten and en Berzeichniß der sämmtlichen xylographischen Werke.1823

Bamberg: Kunz, First edition, xii, 457, [3]pp., a very good ex-library copy, illustrs., in the text, 11 engraved plates (some folding), nineteenth-century half vellum. "One of the best German works on xylography, with a history of the origin of playing cards."—Bigmore and Wyman. Bigmore and Wyman I, p. 322.

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