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Les Tour Des Cartes Les Plus Amusans. Paris and Lille, Delarue Librarie/Castiaux Librarie, ca. 1796. Original brown printed wrappers, lower bearing a woodcut of the card caught by a pistol shot. Hand-colored frontispiece, illustrated with 49 charming woodcut figures. 8vo. Gatherings unopened. Bookplates of Stanley Collins and Edwin Dawes. Wraps quite chipped, text foxed, tear to page 84, binding intact but fragile. See Fechner p. 542, where the entry calls for 88 pages.