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Nice pocket-atlas View picture(s) 1 (MAPS FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL GRAMMAR). Edinburgh, for Alexander Kincaid, 1790). Modern half grey calf, with old title-label mounted on spine. With 33 folding engraved maps, by McIntyre, T. Conder, and some by J. Fraser after A. Kincaid. 1 leaf with manuscript index. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Atlases  Discovery & Exploration  England  English  Games & Pastimes  Maps  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A hieroglyphical bible for children View picture(s) 2 BEELDENBIJBEL, DE KLEINE-. Woorden in beelden uit  de H. Schrift en de Apocriefe Boeken. Voorburg, D.J. van der Lee, 1895. Sm.8vo. Half cloth. With wood-engraved emblematic device on title, and 144 wood-engraved plates, each with a biblical rebus. 6, 19 pp. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bibles  Children's Books  Education  Games & Pastimes  Print Series  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare booklet on the art of the rebus and playing rebus-games View picture(s) 3 CLEF DES RÉBUS, NOUVELLE, Ouvrage propre à faciliter la lecture des petits symboles, ou figures parlante qui accompagnent, dans les festins, les bonbons offerts pour l'amusement des convives. Suivi de la Règle du Jeu des Rébus. Paris & Lille, Blocquel (Lille) for Delarue, (ca. 1820). 12mo. (11,5 x 7 cm). Original wrappers, uncut. With a woodcut rebus for frontispiece, woodcut dictionary of rebus-pictures on 38 pages, 65 woodcut rebus plates or picture puzzles on 57 pages, and some woodcut rebus-pictures in the added "rules of the game of rebus". (64) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Education  Games & Pastimes  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An extremely rare 18th-century forerunner of the wonderdisc View picture(s) 4 ECRANS gravés au Feuilles. (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". Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Optics  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to pass your spare time methodically View picture(s) 5 ENCYCLOPÉDIE MÉTHODIQUE. Dictionaire des Jeux avec les planches relatives, Faisant suite aux Amusemens  des Sciences Mathématiques &c. Padova, 1800. 4to. Contemp. wrappers. With engraved allegorical vignette on title, and numerous illustrations of all sorts of table and party games on 13 engraved plates, 5 double-page, by P. Scattaglia. IV, 247, (1 blank) pp. in 2 columns Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  French  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming game inspired by Darwin View picture(s) 6 GAME OF PEOPLE'S TRANSFORMATION. (Probably Paris, 19th century). Half cloth portfolio. 20 strips of paper with colour-printed lithographed full-length portraits of circus-people, costumes and professions on front side, and 6 small parts of similar people, also in colour-printed lithographs, on the back side. Full description >> Related Subjects: Colour Printing  Darwin  France  Games & Pastimes  Lithographs  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare late 17th century Dutch miniature prayer book View picture(s) 7 GEBEDE BOECK. Amsterdam, 1683. 64mo., bookblock measuring 35 x 25 mm. Contemporary dark brown calf. With letterpress title headpiece in the shape of 5 acorns and letterpress title-vignette, repeated at the end of the first and second prayer. (32) lvs. (collation: (A)-D8). Full description >> Related Subjects: Amsterdam  Games & Pastimes  Miniature Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Popular text book on a game of cards View picture(s) 8 JEU DE L'HOMBRE, LE-, augmenté des decisions nouvelles sur les difficultez et incidens de ce jeu. Paris, Pierre Ribou, 1709. 12mo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title-label, binding edges gilt decorated, red marbled edges. With a finely etched frontipiece showing three card players at a table, a women, a nobleman and a clergyman, by Jean Baptist Bonnart, some woodcut figures in text, and woodcut illustrations of card games and problems on 21 pages, with the cards showing charming figures of jacks, queens and kings. (12), 166; (12), 33, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Games & Pastimes  Manuals  Playing Cards  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Original watercolours View picture(s) 9 JEU DU CHEVAL BLANC. Explication. (Paris, 1836). Large 8vo. Contemp. box, covered with flowered gilt-printed and red and green coloured paper, and with large lithographed plate of a lady with four children playing the present game, richly coloured by hand and glazed with egg-white, on top of the box and put within double borders of decorative gilt strips, printed in relief. With 5 large playing cards in original watercolours on strong white boardpaper, showing a cupid with hammer as a customs house officer, two gentlemen weighing boxes on a huge pair of scales with a signpost reading "Octroi de Paris", a large clock and hammer with coat-of-arms, a large clock without a hammer dated 1836, and a beautiful white horse held in check by a groom, all beautifully designed and richly coloured by hand in fresh and bright colours; and with 8 little dice of bone in a charming wooden cup, a small wooden hammer, and over one hundred red and white counters, cut of bone. 1 leaf with printed rules of the game. Full description >> Related Subjects: French  Games & Pastimes  Horses & Horsemanship  Watercolours  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The marvels of a fair and street performances View picture(s) 10 KERMIS-TAFEREELTJES in geëtste Kunstplaatjes, op Boert- en ernstige dichttrant beschreven. Tot nut en vermaak voor kinderen van allerlei ouderdom. Derde druk. Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, (1810). Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With vignette of a little angel on engraved title, and 8 full-page engraved plates by K.F. Bendorp, depicting all kinds of attractions at a Dutch fair, all finely coloured by hand. 24 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Dutch  Games & Pastimes  Picture Books  Professions  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A playful way of learning the history of France View picture(s) 11 LOTTO for children on French costumes, coats-of-arms and regional history. (France, ca. 1870). 7 games. Large 8vo. Seven strong playing boards for a lotto game, each with a lithographed plate showing regional coats-of-arms above, views of castles, dances or games in regional costume, and large historical scenes, all finely coloured by hand, and each containing 9 loose movable parts with numbers and titles printed in the open spaces underneath. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Education  French  Games & Pastimes  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Colourful set of three jigsaw puzzles depicting scenes from the life of Napoleon View picture(s) 12 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - "La veille d'Austerlitz". "La Nuit de Lodi". "Clémence de l'empéreur." Series of three coloured jigsaw puzzles. Paris, Ulysse, (ca. 1815). Each measuring 195 x 245 mm. Kept in the original board box (!), cover with contemporary hand coloured etched and engraved example plate (with caption "Équité de l'empereur") laid down, with mounted embossed gilt paper border, each puzzle with the original pink paper wrap-around-slip preserved. Each of the three puzzles consisting of a contemporary handcoloured engraved plate laid down on thin wood, with engraved caption and short description below the image. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Games & Pastimes  Napoleon  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Collection of New Year's gifts for the children of Zurich View picture(s) 13 NATIONAL-KINDERLIEDER für die Zürchersche Jugend.  I. - XVII. und letztes Stück. Zurich, David Bürkli, 1784-1800. 17 parts in 1 vol. Oblong large 8vo. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt, red painted edges. With large engraved illustrations on 17 titles by I.H. Freüdweiler, I. Heinrich Meyer, H. Lips and D. Beijel, and with musical scores to all songs. 136 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Games & Pastimes  German  Songbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A playful way to learn about Dutch history View picture(s) 14 SPEL VERBEELDENDE DE HISTORIE VAN HOLLAND. 's Gravenhage, Pieter Paupie, 1742. 8vo. Contemporary wrappers. 15 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Games & Pastimes  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Tricks for the whole family View picture(s) 15 TONEEL, HET GROOT-, van behendigheden, te zien in de Italiaansche, Fransche, Engelsche, Poolsche, Hoog- en Nederduitsche tasschen-speelers en goochelaars; vervattende alles wat 'er aartigs door de meest bekende natiën tot heden toe is uitgevonden; zulks het behelst al 't geen tot een natuurlyk tover-boek behoord, het welk door meer dan zestig kunstige afbeeldingen word aangeweezen, in 't licht gebragt door den vermaarden kunstmeester J.V.Z. Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, (ca. 1760). Small 8vo. Contemporary colour-printed flowered boards. With engraved frontispiece of a magician at work with little children playing around and people watching, and numerous illustrations of magician's tricks on 7 full-page  engraved plates. (16), 318, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Children's Books  Dutch  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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With moveable plates View picture(s) 16 TOOVER prentenboek. (No place, ca. 1865). 4to. Orig. coloured lithographed wrappers. With 8 movable colour-printed lithographed plates, each with 3 folding parts, offering the children a quite different view each time one of these parts is turned, nicely guiding them through the story. (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Children's Books  Colour Plate Books  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Robinson Crusoe  Volvelles  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Conjuring tricks for the long winter evenings View picture(s) 17 TOVERBOEK, NATUURLYK-, Behelzende de verbaazendste geheimen van natuur en konst, opgehelderd met plaaten. Amst., Harlingen, Allart Van der Plaats, 1791-1794. 8 parts in 4 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt, with red and green title-labels. With fine engraved frontispiece by P.H. Jonxis after J. Buys, and numerous illustrations and figures on 12  engraved plates, 9 large folding, and including one with musical scores. (2), 174; 104; (2), 159, (1 blank); 176; (2), 164; 123, (1 blank); (2), 130; 243, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  Education  Encyclopædic Works  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming set of illusionist cards View picture(s) 18 ZAUBER BILDER. (Germany, ca. 1890). 9 x 6 cm. Printed slipcase with a magician with a green hat. Set of 8 cards printed in red and blue and one card with the same size with horizontal cut outs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Games & Pastimes  Germany  Magic & Conjuring  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic chess manual View picture(s) 19 (MONTIGNY). Les stratagèmes des échecs, ou collection des cours d'échecs les plus brillans et les plus curieux, tant dans la partie ordinaire que dans les différentes parties composées; tirés des meilleurs auteurs, et dont plusieurs n'ont point encore été publiés. Par un amateur. Paris, Strasbourg, Jean-André Fischer, for Amand König, An X (= 1802). 2 vols., one text and one plate vol. 16mo. Contemp. half red morocco, spines ribbed and gilt. With engraved plate in the text volume of a chess board with all chess pieces set up in the starting position, the fields coloured in white and gold and the pieces in red and black, the gold and red coloured by hand, and 120 engraved plates with similarly handcoloured chess boards depicting chess problems in the plates volume. 93, (1 blank); 122, (6) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chess  Education  Games & Pastimes  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extremely rare 'flyer', or souvenir, of the first amusement park in the city of Amsterdam View picture(s) 20 (PASSE the YOUNGER, Crispijn de & Jan VOS). Verklaringe van verscheyden kunst-rijcke wercken en hare beweginghe, door orlogie-werck ghedreven, benevens een seer schoone fonteyn, zijnde een triumph van Bachus en Ariadne. Noch eenige aerdighe beelden, levens-groote, van vermaerde koninghen en princen deser eeuw. Alles te sien in 't Oude Doolhof tot Amsterdam, op de hoeck van de Loyers-gracht/ 't welcke jaerlijcks meer en meer verbetert wordt. Amsterdam, Tymen Houthaeck, 1648. Small 4to. Modern marbled wrappers. Engraved title vignette with labyrinth, 1 folding engraved plate with David & Goliath outside text, 1 full-page engraved plate of Bachus & Ariadne surrounded by spouting fountains by P. Holsteyn after A. Vinckenbrinck and 3 engravings in text. (8) lvs. A-B4. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Games & Pastimes  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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