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  • Neuvieme JEU DE CARTES INSTRUCTIVES, Contenant un Abregé DE L'HISTOIRE DES ANIMAUX, avec des gravures. Ouvrage destine à l'instruction de la jeunesse des deaux sexes. by JOUY, E. [Victor-Joseph Etienne de].
    JOUY, E. [Victor-Joseph Etienne de].
    Neuvieme JEU DE CARTES INSTRUCTIVES, Contenant un Abregé DE L'HISTOIRE DES ANIMAUX, avec des gravures. Ouvrage destine à l'instruction de la jeunesse des deaux sexes.

    Paris: Chez. A. A. Renouard, 1808. Rule card and 'Avis' card, plus 48 depicting the animal inhabitants of the globe; each card bearing text and a small oval or round wood-engraved illustration. Each card measures: 105 x 67 mm. All contained in the original card slipcase, covered in marbled paper, with a printed label, decorated with a wood-engraved illustration, to the front face. Box: 108 x 76 mm. Box a little rubbed; else an excellent set of a rare and early nineteenth century game.

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  • Neuvieme JEU DE CARTES INSTRUCTIVES, Contenant un Abregé DE L'HISTOIRE DES ANIMAUX, avec des gravures. Ouvrage destine à l'instruction de la jeunesse des deaux sexes. by JOUY, E. [Victor-Joseph Etienne de].
    JOUY, E. [Victor-Joseph Etienne de].
    Neuvieme JEU DE CARTES INSTRUCTIVES, Contenant un Abregé DE L'HISTOIRE DES ANIMAUX, avec des gravures. Ouvrage destine à l'instruction de la jeunesse des deaux sexes.

    Paris: Chez. A. A. Renouard, 1817. Rule card and 'Avis' card, plus 46 depicting the animal inhabitants of the globe; each card bearing text and a small oval or round wood-engraved illustration. Each card measures: 104 x 70 mm. All contained in a facsimile card slipcase, covered in marbled paper, with a facsimile label, decorated with a wood-engraved illustration, to the front face. Box: 110 x 80 mm. An excellent set of a rare and early nineteenth century game.

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  • No. 247. EISENBAHN-MOZAIK. Chemins de Fer en Mosaïque. Railway Picture Blocks.
    No. 247. EISENBAHN-MOZAIK. Chemins de Fer en Mosaïque. Railway Picture Blocks.

    No obvious manufacturer, but of German origin, circa 1910, and bearing the trademark: BC jr. A full-colour mosaic of a steam engine, numbering over 100 wooden pieces, which can be arranged to form five pictures of the train and its carriages. Contained in the original cardboard box with pictorial lid showing one scene; loosely laid in is a sheet showing the four other scenes. Box a little worn, else excellent. Mosaic games of this size are rarely found complete.

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  • NODDY Junior Outfit with 'Pres'to Shapes.' by BLYTON, Enid.
    BLYTON, Enid.
    NODDY Junior Outfit with 'Pres'to Shapes.'

    Bathampton: Harbutt's Plasticine Ltd, 1959. Original box with pictorial lid, contained 8 coloured plasticines, and four moulds featuring characters from the 'Noddy' books. Original instructions inside. A fine set, unused.

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  • OPTIQUE No. 4. Promenade de Longchamp.
    OPTIQUE No. 4. Promenade de Longchamp.

    No date or imprint. But Paris, circa 1820. Peepshow of six hand-coloured lithograph sections. Original slipcase with mounted label. Case worn and beginning to split at sides; else an excellent example from this fine series.

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  • PAUL ET VIRGINIE. by [Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de.]
    [Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de.]
    PAUL ET VIRGINIE.

    Epinal: Olivier-Pinot, 1870. A boxed set of three jigaws, each being a finely hand-coloured lithograph with text beneath, dissected and mounted on wood, backed with paper. A fourth view serves as the box label. Olivier-Pinot. Epinal. No date [circa 1870]. Some expert restoration to the box; else fine.

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  • PICTURESQUE ROUND GAME OF THE PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES.
    PICTURESQUE ROUND GAME OF THE PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURES OF THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

    London: Edward Wallis, No date [Circa 1830]. A hand-coloured lithographed sheet cut into sixteen sections and mounted on linen; contained, when folded, in a cloth gilt slipcase together with 20 page book of rules and explanation. Unfolded: 20 x 6 inches. Covers of book restored at spine, lower blank corner of game worn; else a very good and clean copy One of the most attractive table games of the period and possibly the first to replace the conventional map with a pictorial representation of the counties. Whitehouse page 14.

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  • PIERRE L’EBOURIFFÉ. Jeu de cartes amusant pour les enfants.
    PIERRE L’EBOURIFFÉ. Jeu de cartes amusant pour les enfants.

    Paris: Dondorf No. 314, No date [circa 1900]. Comprising 36 pictorial cards featuring scenes from Struwwelpeter, all contained in the original pictorial cardboards box. Small rub on the box lid; lacks the sheet of rules which is sometimes loose in the box and sometimes glued to the underside of the box lid. However, in this copy the rule sheet appears to have been glued the wrong way around. A very good copy nevertheless.

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  • RACE GAME.
    RACE GAME.

    London: Woolley & Co, No date [circa 1910-20]. Folding board with paper label to upper board, 21.2 x 20.3 cm, opening to 21.2 x 41.6 cm. Very nice copy.

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  • ROULETTE: Being a precise record of seven days play at Monte Carlo for the use of Roulette players.
    ROULETTE: Being a precise record of seven days play at Monte Carlo for the use of Roulette players.

    London: "Vanity Fair" Office, No date [circa 1896]. [4] 44 pages. Illustrated advertisement on the verso of the preface. Original wrappers; cover title: 'A Week's Record at Monte Carlo.' 25 x 18 cm. Name on cover' wrappers browned and chipped; else very good. Scarce.

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  • SCENES IN LONDON. A New Game.

    London: E[dward] Wallis, No date [circa 1825]. An engraved sheet divided into twelve and mounted on linen, bearing 18 hand-coloured engraved scenes of London, with printed rules to the central section. Unfolded: 485 x 605 mm. Contained, when folded, in a slipcase with mounted hand-coloured engraved title label to upper panel. Slight wear to folds and to slipcase; else a very good copy of a scarce game. Whitehouse page 39.

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  • Sixième JEU DE CARTES GEOGRAPHIQUES, Orné de figures gravées avec soin et représentant les différens peuples de la terre dans le costume particulier à chacun d’eux; destiné à l’instruction et à l’amusement de la jeunesse des deux sexes. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée. by JOUY, E [Victor-Joseph Etienne de].
    JOUY, E [Victor-Joseph Etienne de].
    Sixième JEU DE CARTES GEOGRAPHIQUES, Orné de figures gravées avec soin et représentant les différens peuples de la terre dans le costume particulier à chacun d’eux; destiné à l’instruction et à l’amusement de la jeunesse des deux sexes. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée.

    Lille : Vanackere, Paris : H.Nicolle: No date [map dated 1806]. Contained in the original box (112 x 78 x 33 mm.) of marbled paper over thick card with paste-down illustrated label on one surface. Containing 48 cards (103 x 68 mm) with engraved cartouche and text (each card representing a different region; a folding copper-engraved map of the world (299 x 185 mm) by Tardieu, ‘Planisphère ou Carte réduite du Globe Terrestre. A l’usage du Jeu de Cartes Geographiques. Lacks the single sheet of rules. Box expertly restored; cards and map excellent. Card XLVI is dedicated to Nouvelle-Hollande, but also mentions New Guinea. It is decorated with an engraving of a fierce some looking warrior wearing a headdress and…

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    Lille : Vanackere, Paris : H.Nicolle: No date [map dated 1806]. Contained in the original box (112 x 78 x 33 mm.) of marbled paper over thick card with paste-down illustrated label on one surface. Containing 48 cards (103 x 68 mm) with engraved cartouche and text (each card representing a different region; a folding copper-engraved map of the world (299 x 185 mm) by Tardieu, ‘Planisphère ou Carte réduite du Globe Terrestre. A l’usage du Jeu de Cartes Geographiques. Lacks the single sheet of rules. Box expertly restored; cards and map excellent. Card XLVI is dedicated to Nouvelle-Hollande, but also mentions New Guinea. It is decorated with an engraving of a fierce some looking warrior wearing a headdress and animal skins and brandishing a spear. This illustration does not accord with the description of Australian Aborigines printed on this card, which alleges that the indigenous inhabitants of New Holland are, 'Without clothing, without industry, without habitation, they have nothing for a bed but the earth and nothing for nourishment except for shellfish which they gather at the edge of the ocean'. The text also mentions the English settlement at Botany Bay and the transportation of convicts. Card XLVIII is dedicated to Terres Polaires et Australes, and is decorated with an engraving of a bare-breasted maiden (possibly inspired by illustrations of Tahitian women). The text states that New Zealand is inhabited by cannibals and that the savages of New Guinea and New Holland live in a primitive state owing to their lack of intelligence; 'Some geographers consider New Holland to be a continent.... Considered as an island, it is the largest on earth, approximately 300,000 square leagues.' A rare children’s game from the first decade of the nineteenth century and one of the very first to feature the peoples of Australasia.

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  • THE AREAORAMA. A View in the Regents Park.
    THE AREAORAMA. A View in the Regents Park.

    Publd. May 1st 1825 by S. & J, Fuller [London]. An eight section (Including front and rear boards) peepshow, made from hand-coloured engraved scenes cut and shaped and separated by bellows, so as to form a perspective view of the park. Original slipcase with engraved label. Some minor repairs to the bellows and the case restored; else a very good example of an early issue.

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  • THE BOOK OF GAMES; or, A History of Juvenile Sports, Practised at a Considerable Academy Near London. Illustrated by twenty-four copper plates.

    London: Tabart & Co. 1810. Price three shillings and six pence, half-bound. [4], [1], 2-168, 8 ad's pages. Illustrated with copper-plate frontispiece and twenty-three copper-plates throughout, additional to pagination. Original pictorial printed boards with red roan spine, gilt, being an unrecorded issue of the book by Knevett, Arliss, and Baker. 12mo. One plate with a clean tear without loss; another plate a little browned; some occasional marking; binding rubbed; else a very good copy of a scarce title. Moon 14(2). First published in 1805. Mrs. Moon does not record a copy bound in pictorial boards, with this variant imprint. Games included are cricket, blind-man’s buff, archery, leap frog, marbles, foot-ball, etc.

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  • THE HANDBOOK OF REVERSI. Also Fanorona, Invasion, Halma.
    THE HANDBOOK OF REVERSI. Also Fanorona, Invasion, Halma.

    London: F. H. Ayres, No date [1889]. 76, [3 ad’s] pages. Original green cloth gilt. Octavo. A near fine copy.

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  • The Laughable Game of WHAT D’YE BUY? For large and small parties. By Professor Punch.
    The Laughable Game of WHAT D’YE BUY? For large and small parties. By Professor Punch.

    London: E. Wallis, 42 Skinner Street, No date [circa 1847]. Comprising of, 12 finely hand-coloured engraved cards illustrating a variety of trades; 72 letterpress cards; a 12 page book of explanation; all contained in the original wooden box with a sliding lid bearing a hand-coloured pictorial label. The box lid bears the imprint of J. Passmore, who took over Edward Wallis’s business in 1847. Slight wear to lid; else a very nice example.

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  • THE MASQUERADE. A Collection of new Enigmas, Logogriphs, Charades, Rebuses, Queries and Transpositions.
    THE MASQUERADE. A Collection of new Enigmas, Logogriphs, Charades, Rebuses, Queries and Transpositions.

    London: G. & T. Wilkie… J. Bell, [1797 – 1800.]. Four volumes [of five], bound together as one. These volumes were issued annually, in a total of five volumes, the last[ not present] issued in 1801. Each has a title-page with an engraved vignette; the fourth volume has a folding plate entitled, 'Enigmatical Dinner.' Fairly recent half calf, gilt over marbled boards. 16 x 10 cm. Very slight fading of spine; folding plate worn at fold and repaired from the blank verso; else very good.

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  • The New and Diverting Game of “GOLLIWOGG” consisting of Forty-eight Pictorial Cards Depicting the most famous characters and scenes in the above works. Adapted, drawn in facsimile and elaborately rendered in Colours from Florence K. Upton’s original designs. by [UPTON, Florence and Bertha.]
    [UPTON, Florence and Bertha.]
    The New and Diverting Game of “GOLLIWOGG” consisting of Forty-eight Pictorial Cards Depicting the most famous characters and scenes in the above works. Adapted, drawn in facsimile and elaborately rendered in Colours from Florence K. Upton’s original designs.

    London: Thomas De La Rue & Co. Ltd, No date [circa 1900]. Four page rule card, plus 48 full-colour pictorial cards, all contained in the original cardboard slipcase with mounted pictorial label. Very slight wear to the box; else a fine set.

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  • THE NEW & FAVORITE GAME of MOTHER GOOSE and the GOLDEN EGG.
    THE NEW & FAVORITE GAME of MOTHER GOOSE and the GOLDEN EGG.

    London: Published 30th Nov. 1808 & Sold by John Wallis Senr. 13 Warwick Square and Retail by John Wallis Junr. 188 Strand, London. A hand-coloured engraved sheet, with letterpress ‘Rules’ beneath, divided into nine and mounted on linen. Unfolded: 560 x 385 mm. Folded: 190 x 130 mm. Later card slipcase. Little soiled; some light wear at joints and corners; else a very good copy of the first printing of this scarce game. See Whitehouse page 62/63. The game shows episodes and characters from the pantomime of the same title, including Clown and Harlequin as well as Mother Goose herself. The game was published at the height of Grimaldi the Clown's career, and he appears in playing space number…

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    London: Published 30th Nov. 1808 & Sold by John Wallis Senr. 13 Warwick Square and Retail by John Wallis Junr. 188 Strand, London. A hand-coloured engraved sheet, with letterpress ‘Rules’ beneath, divided into nine and mounted on linen. Unfolded: 560 x 385 mm. Folded: 190 x 130 mm. Later card slipcase. Little soiled; some light wear at joints and corners; else a very good copy of the first printing of this scarce game. See Whitehouse page 62/63. The game shows episodes and characters from the pantomime of the same title, including Clown and Harlequin as well as Mother Goose herself. The game was published at the height of Grimaldi the Clown's career, and he appears in playing space number 21. Since much of the playing surface is taken up with the rules, the number of spaces is reduced to 33. Of these, 17 are illustrated, each with its own story and reward or forfeit. Half the remaining spaces show a golden egg, which, if landed on, has a reward of one counter. The other half, which are blank, carry a forfeit of one counter.

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  • THE NEW GAME of VIRTUE REWARDED and VICE PUNISHED, For the Amusement of Youth Of both Sexes. By T. Newton, inventor of the New Game of the Mansion of Bliss.
    THE NEW GAME of VIRTUE REWARDED and VICE PUNISHED, For the Amusement of Youth Of both Sexes. By T. Newton, inventor of the New Game of the Mansion of Bliss.

    London: Wm. Darton. 58, Holborn Hill, No date [circa 1818]. A hand-coloured engraving, divided into twelve and mounted on linen. Unfolded: 568 x 440 mm. Folds into a paper-covered slipcase with a mounted title label top the front panel and another, smaller label, to the lower. Lacks the original eight-page book of rules, which are supplied in manuscript. Some wear to the slipcase with a small loss of paper; else very good. The book of rules states, ‘It is designed with a view to promoting progressive Improvement of the Juvenile Mind, and to deter them from pursuing the dangerous Paths of Vice.’

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