![Les Cris de Paris. Amusement de Société. [Paris: c.1800-1835.] 49 cards, consisting of 24 hand-coloured engraved cards depicting 12 male and 12 female street vendors offering a variety of goods like vegetables, fruits, cheeses, cakes, fish, eggs, umbrellas, and flowers, 23 text cards with small rhymes that correspond to the picture cards (of 24, lacking that to accompany 'MD de Légumes'), a 'Carte blanche' card and a 'Le Commissaire' card, which features a hand-coloured engraved card of a judge declaring 'Peace, peace' and serves to stop the game. The game includes the instructions printed on a single folded leaf within border, and is contained within its original paper board box with paper label (lacking top flap, extremities rubbed and a couple of joins starting to split, top section glued to main body of box).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_06332_0110_000(les_cris_de_paris_amusement_de_societe_paris_c1800-1835_49_cards_consi121817).jpg?w=1)
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Les Cris de Paris. Amusement de Société. [Paris: c.1800-1835.] 49 cards, consisting of 24 hand-coloured engraved cards depicting 12 male and 12 female street vendors offering a variety of goods like vegetables, fruits, cheeses, cakes, fish, eggs, umbrellas, and flowers, 23 text cards with small rhymes that correspond to the picture cards (of 24, lacking that to accompany 'MD de Légumes'), a 'Carte blanche' card and a 'Le Commissaire' card, which features a hand-coloured engraved card of a judge declaring 'Peace, peace' and serves to stop the game. The game includes the instructions printed on a single folded leaf within border, and is contained within its original paper board box with paper label (lacking top flap, extremities rubbed and a couple of joins starting to split, top section glued to main body of box).
VERY RARE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY CARD GAME IN THE ORIGINAL BOX. A set (complete, with 14 of the text cards illustrated in watercolour) in the Stuart and Marilyn R. Kaplan sale of Historic Cards and Games at Christie's New York, 21 June 2006, lot 299, sold for $9600.
VERY RARE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY CARD GAME IN THE ORIGINAL BOX. A set (complete, with 14 of the text cards illustrated in watercolour) in the Stuart and Marilyn R. Kaplan sale of Historic Cards and Games at Christie's New York, 21 June 2006, lot 299, sold for $9600.
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