Playing cards--Palmistry cards

52 cards, each 123 x 62mm., woodcuts with letterpress text beneath, suit symbols hand-coloured, plain versos, 8 mounted in a frame, the rest in a folder attached to the back of the frame, many repaired tears or wormholes, some resulting in slight loss of text, a few cards shaved at head

Ortiz-Patiño 86; cf. Fournier, Germanic countries 38 (a later palmistry set from the eighteenth century)

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An uncommon set of cards with instructions on how to read palms. The layout and design are very similar to a set of astronomical cards issued by Endter in Nuremberg in 1674 (All cards on the table 270, which also mentions a palmistry set by a Nuremberg maker dated c. 1659).