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CARD GAME - ASTRONOMY
The Court Game of Astronomy, William and Henry Rock, Publishers of Scientific Games, [c.1835]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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CARD GAME - ASTRONOMY

The Court Game of Astronomy, a complete deck of fifty-two engraved pictorial playing cards, comprising four suits of thirteen, the suits hand-coloured (blue, red, green and yellow), one card torn, one with small stain but generally clean; 32-page rule book in original green watered silk wrappers; together in gilt-lettered publisher's morocco slipcase (lacking ends), 12mo (95 x 62mm.), William and Henry Rock, Publishers of Scientific Games, [c.1835]

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COMPLETE SET, WITH RULE BOOK, of a card game intended to "impart considerable information on the sublime Science of Astronomy". The four suits represent the four seasons, and "the pip cards are divided among the Signs and Constellations according to the period of the year over which they preside". Numbers 8, 9, and 10 of each suit depicts the signs of the Zodiac, the others figures of the Roman pantheon of constellations.

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