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Cards and Works of Arts and Sciences Instructive Decks
A late 17th or early 18th century advert describes Twenty two Packs of Cards with engraved copper plates illustrating Heraldry, Travel, Navigation, Astronomy, Geography, Mathematics, Geometry, Cosmography, Mapping, Carving, Fortune telling, and Lose Cards. Also advertised are books explaining the sciences taught by these cards included in price. Stationer John Leothall offers a catalogue from the Talbot London. Additional notes list Practical Arithmetick, Whist, Piquet, Ombre cards, and Surveyors Warrants. Also announced are editions of The Independent Whig and works by Rev Dr John Tillotson, with forthcoming works and sermons.
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Publisi
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John Leothall
St. Dontino’s
Fiectstreet
London