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Complete pack of 52 educational playing-cards giving instruction in astronomy, with booklet of explanation.The suit-marks are coloured red, green, yellow and blue. The pip cards each have a single figure overlapping the stars in its constellation. The aces all have three signs of the zodiac. The court cards have full length figures of Roman gods. Etching, hand-coloured suit-marks. Backs plain. In original box Circa 1820
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