Bibliography – (6) Playing-cards with various themes
AIRLINE
- Davis, Trev & Fred Chan
Airline Playing Cards. An illustrated reference guide. 2nd edition - Australian Playing Card Collectors Society, 1987
ISSN 0818-4666
text in English. 201pp fully illustrated in b/w.
(6: Airline)
- Davis, Trev & Fred Chan
Airline Playing Cards. An illustrated reference guide. Supplement to 2nd edition - Australian Playing Card Collectors Society, 1988
ISSN 0818-4666
text in English. 12pp fully illustrated in b/w.
(6: Airline)
ART
- Cremers, Filip
Kunst in de hand: kaarten als speelgoed en kijkstuk - Nat. Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout, 1983
text in Dutch.
(6: Art)
- Graak, Karl
Kuenstler-Spielkarten des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunst zum Spielen - Dumont taschenbucher, Cologne, 1985
ISBN 3 7701 1704 2
Description of (modern) cards designed by artists.
text in German. 177pp, many illustrations.
(6: Art)
- Hoffmann, Detlef
Gemalte Spielkarten - Insel, Frankfurt, 1985
ISBN 3 458 32612 X
A description of hand-painted playing-cards.
text in German.
(6: Art)
- Hoffmann, Detlef, and Kroppenstedt, Erika
Französische Spielkarten des 20. Jahrhunderts - Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, Bielefeld, 1966
(6: Art)
- Segeth, Uwe-Volker
Spielkarten Jugendstil und Art Deco - Edition Christian Brandstatter, Vienna, 1994
ISBN 3 85447 447 4
text in German.
(4) (6: Art)
EROTICISM
- Denning, Trevor
Translucent Playing-Cards - Birmingham, 1976
text in English.
(6: Erotic)
- Hoffmann, Detlef, et Dietrich, Margot
Pikante Blätter - Harenberg, Dortmund, 1982
(Die bibliophilen Taschenbücher, 323)
text in German. 123 pp., over 100 ill.
(6: Eroticism)
- Jensen, K. Frank
Eroticism on playing cards. 1940-1990 - Ouroboros, Roskilde (DK), 1990
text in English. 225 pp. xeroxed
(6: Eroticism)
HERALDRY
- Palasi, Philippe
Jeux de cartes et de l’oie héraldiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: une pédagogie ludique en France sous l’Ancien régime - Picard, Paris, 2000
ISBN 2-7084-0583-7
text in French. 298 pp. many illustrations, some in colour
(6: Heraldry)
GENERAL
- Berry, John
The Lore of Playing-Cards - Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Volume 60, 1988
text in English. 9pp. unillustrated.
(6)
MINING
- Pienn, Hans
Spielkarten mit Bergmannsdarstellungen - Montan-Verlag, Wien, 1973
A description of cards with motifs from mining.
text in German.
(6: Mining)
POLITICS
- Cremers, Filip
Politiek op de kaarttafel - Nationaal Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout, 1992
text in Dutch. 72pp. illustrated.
(2) (6: Politics)
- Depaulis, Thierry
Les Cartes de la Révolution. Cartes à Jouer et Propagande. - Musée français de la Carte à jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1989
ISBN 2 905060 10 7
Catalogue of exhibition of French revolutionary cards, 17 November 1989-12 February 1990
text in French.
(2) (6: Politics)
- Kunzle, David
The Early Comic Strip - U of California Press, Berkeley, 1973
ISBN 0-520-01865-6
text in English
(note: this book has twenty pages on the British black and whites, the artist, Barlow, and at least 250 reproductions of cards.)
(6: Politics)
- Martin, Enrique Garcia
La Baraja Politica Moderna - Martin, Madrid, 1991
text in Spanish.
(6: Politics)
- Whiting, J.R.S.
A Handful of History - Alan Sutton, Dursley, Gloucestershire, 1978
ISBN 0 904387 21 6
text in English.
(4) (6: Politics)
RAILROAD
- Bollhagen, Phil
The New Pictorial Guide to Railroad Playing Cards - Self-published, 1987
text in English. 83pp fully illustrated in b/w.
(6: Railroad)
SPORT
- Cremers, Filip
Goal! Sport en kaarten - Nat. Museum van de Speelkaart, Turnhout, 1985
text in Dutch.
(6: Sport)
TAROT
- Berti, Giordano & Vitali, Andrea (editors) et al.
Le Carte di Corte. I Tarocchi. Gioco e magia alla corte degli Estensi - Nuova Alfa Editoriale, Bologna,1987
ISBN 88 779 016 4
text in Italian. 234pp illustrated.
(2) (6: Tarot)
- Depaulis, Thierry (Editor)
Tarot, Jeu et Magie. - Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1984
ISBN 2 7177 1699 8
text in French.
(2) (6: Tarot)
- Dummett, Michael
Il Mondo e l’angelo. I Tarocchi e la loro Storia - Bibliopolis, Naples, 1993
ISBN 88 7088 272 1
text in Italian. 489pp, few illustrations.
(6: Tarot)
- Dummett, Michael
The Game of Tarot - Duckworth & Co., London, 1980
ISBN 0 7156 1014 7
text in English, 600 pp, 36 b/w plates.
(4) (6: Tarot)
- Dummett, Michael and McLeod, John
A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack - The Game of Triumphs, Volume One
The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004
ISBN 0-7734-6447-6 (v. 1)
text in English, 401 pages, 13 colour plates
(6: Tarot)
- Dummett, Michael and McLeod, John
A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack - The Game of Triumphs, Volume Two
The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004
ISBN 0-7734-6449-2 (v. 2)
text in English, 509 pages, 12 colour plates
(6: Tarot)
- Hoffmann, Detlef and Dietrich, Margot
Tarocke mit französischen Farben - Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 1984
text in German.
(2) (6: Tarot)
- Hoffmann, Detlef & Margot Dietrich
Tarot Tarock Tarocchi: Tarocke mit italienischen Farben - Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 1988
ISBN 3 9801979 1 3
text in German. 228pp illustrated in b/w + 16 colour plates.
(2) (6: Tarot)
- Kaplan, Stuart R.
The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Volume I - U.S. Games Systems, Inc., New York 10016, U.S.A., 1978
(Sixth printing 1988)
ISBN 0 913866 11 3
(8) (6: Tarot)
- Kaplan, Stuart R.
The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Volume II - U.S. Games Systems, Inc., New York 10016, U.S.A., 1986
ISBN 0 913866 36 9
(8) (6: Tarot)
- Kaplan, Stuart R.
The Encyclopedia of Tarot, Volume III - U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902, U.S.A., 1990
ISBN 0 88079 122 5
(8) (6: Tarot)
- Kaplan, Stuart R.
Tarot Classic - Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1972
ISBN 0 448 01223 5
text in English. 240pp, some illustrations.
(8) (6: Tarot)
- Moakley, Gertrude
The Tarot Cards Painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza Family. An Iconographic and Historical Study by Gertrude Moakley. - The New York Public Library, 1966
Library of Congress CCN 65-18551
text in English.
(6: Tarot)
- O’Neill, Robert V.
Tarot symbolism - Fairway Press, Lima, Ohio, 1986
ISBN 0 89536 936 2
text in English. 392pp. unillustrated.
(8) (6: Tarot)
- Radau, Sigmar
Tiertarock - MGM Munzgalerie Munchen, 1989
ISBN 3 926195 00 2
text in German.
(6: Tarot)
- Reisinger, Klaus
Tarocke: Kulturgeschichte auf Kartenbildern - Self-published, Vienna, 1996 + 1999
text in German. 5 vols. (1996) + vol. 6 (1999).
(6: Tarot)
- Haas, Walter (ed.), Depaulis, Thierry, & McLeod, John
Das Tarockspiel in der Schweiz / Tarocke des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts im Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen. (Schweizer Spielkarten 2) - Sturzenegger Stiftung Schaffhausen / Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, 2004.
catalogue by Max Ruh
text in German, French and English. English and French summaries.
222 pp. profusely illustrated in colour
(6: Tarot)
WAR
- Braun, Franz
Schriftenreihe “Spielkarten”; Band 1, Die Altenburger Kriegs-Spielkarten im 1. Weltkrieg - Braun, Cologne, 1988
text in Germany with synopses in English and French.
(3) (6: War cards)
- Cary, Melbert B.
War Cards. A Prolusion by Melbert B. Cary - The Press of the Woolly Whale, New York, 1937
text in English.
(6: War cards)