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An extremely rare 18th-century forerunner of the wonderdisc

[OPTICAL GAME].
Ecrans gravés au Feuilles.

With 27 engraved circular "screens" with 65 illustrations of plants, flowers, animals, birds, a dolphin, a Triton, fire, clouds, a rainbow, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, astronomical  constellations, etc., arranged around a small central rosette  and set within wide ornamental borders with blank spaces at regelar  distances with the number and title of the illustration underneath, all finely and very beautifully coloured by hand.

With 27 engraved circular "screens" with 65 illustrations of plants, flowers, animals, birds, a dolphin, a Triton, fire, clouds, a rainbow, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, astronomical  constellations, etc., arranged around a small central rosette  and set within wide ornamental borders with blank spaces at regelar  distances with the number and title of the illustration underneath, all finely and very beautifully coloured by hand.

With 27 engraved circular "screens" with 65 illustrations of plants, flowers, animals, birds, a dolphin, a Triton, fire, clouds, a rainbow, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, astronomical  constellations, etc., arranged around a small central rosette  and set within wide ornamental borders with blank spaces at regelar  distances with the number and title of the illustration underneath, all finely and very beautifully coloured by hand.

With 27 engraved circular "screens" with 65 illustrations of plants, flowers, animals, birds, a dolphin, a Triton, fire, clouds, a rainbow, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, astronomical  constellations, etc., arranged around a small central rosette  and set within wide ornamental borders with blank spaces at regelar  distances with the number and title of the illustration underneath, all finely and very beautifully coloured by hand.

With 27 engraved circular "screens" with 65 illustrations of plants, flowers, animals, birds, a dolphin, a Triton, fire, clouds, a rainbow, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, astronomical  constellations, etc., arranged around a small central rosette  and set within wide ornamental borders with blank spaces at regelar  distances with the number and title of the illustration underneath, all finely and very beautifully coloured by hand.



(Paris, ca. 1750). Oblong 4to. Contemp. boards, with ms. title-label on spine. With 27 engraved circular "screens" with 65 illustrations of plants, flowers, animals, birds, a dolphin, a Triton, fire, clouds, a rainbow, the twelve signs of the Zodiac, astronomical  constellations, etc., arranged around a small central rosette  and set within wide ornamental borders with blank spaces at regelar  distances with the number and title of the illustration underneath, all finely and very beautifully coloured by hand. 27 lvs. with explanatory text on engraved circular plates of the same size as the "screens".

An extremely rare 18th-century forerunner of the Phenacistiscope, Stroboscope, Phantascope, or "Wonderdiscs", which would become very popular in the 19th century. The present plates were intended to be cut, the text-plates mounted on the back, and the plates with the rosette in centre set on a sort of spindle, so each part of the plate could be shown separately and the text read from the back. Our set of movable plates was meant to teach the children classical mythology and especially to explain Ovid's "Metamorphoses". The transfigurations could be made to happen really by means of the present optical game.

Fine, unused set of plates, finely coloured by hand.
Cf. Georg Füsslin, Optisches Spielzeug, Stuttgart 1993, chapter 2; Roger Kaysel, Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Montessori. Zur Entwicklung des  Lern-  und Beschäftigungsspiels, Baden 1996, p. 32.

Related Subjects: Children's Books  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Optics 

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