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Rare complete series of the "instructive recreations" from a French periodical, from the library of Carl Egon, Prince of Fürstenberg View picture(s) 21 [CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. Les récréations instructives, tirées de l'éducation nouvelle, journal des mères et des enfants. Recueil publié sous la direction de Jules Delbrück. (1e) - 4e Série. Paris, G. Borrani, L. Hachette, (ca. 1860-1865). 4 vols. Folio. Contemp. half calf, spine gilt and blind-stamped in relief, marbled edges. With 4 richly illustrated wood-engraved titles, 48 double-page colour-printed lithographed plates, all beautifully finished by hand, 12 in each vol., and each plate with one large illustration in centre and 12 to 16 smaller illustrations around it, all on one specific subject, and with 48 pieces of music on two facing pages, all with full musical scores, for the children to sing, dance and play games on, and all followed by a charming full-page wood-engraved plate of children in a meadow dancing in a circle. VII, (1), 252; VIII, 250; VIII, 246, (2); (4), 249, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Children's Books  French  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Charming game inspired by Darwin View picture(s) 22 [DARWIN - GAMES - PASTIMES]. 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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Writing and drawing without hands in Malines. Drawing made by an unusual and peculiar artist View picture(s) 23 [DRAWING]. EVERT, Jacobus Joannes. [Devotional drawing with text].- Geschreven van my, dien die wyse voorzienighyt Godts als een verwonderens waerdigs exempel van der natuer den 7:de meert 1735 zonder handen of voeten al soo heeft laeten ter waereld gebooren worden. Soo hebbe ik dit schrijfstuk alhier, met de korte armen, die maer tot aen die ellenboogen zijn  geschreven, en ook geteekent, in die tijt van tien daegen. [Malines, ca. 1770]. [Ca. 50 x 28 cm] Pen drawing with text on vellum, signed. One leaf. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cabinet of Curiosities  Games & Pastimes  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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How to pass your spare time methodically View picture(s) 24 [GAMES - PASTIMES]. 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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Original watercolours View picture(s) 25 [GAMES - PASTIMES]. 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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Popular text book on a game of cards View picture(s) 26 [GAMES - PASTIMES]. Le jeu de l'hombre 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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Extremely rare booklet on the art of the rebus and playing rebus-games View picture(s) 27 [GAMES - PASTIMES]. Nouvelle Clef des Rébus, 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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A playful way to learn about Dutch history View picture(s) 28 [GAMES - PASTIMES]. 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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A playful way of learning the history of France View picture(s) 29 [JIGSAW PUZZLE - FRENCH]. 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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Tricks for the whole family View picture(s) 30 [MAGIC - CONJURING]. Het groot toneel 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 half cloth. 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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Conjuring tricks for the long winter evenings View picture(s) 31 [MAGIC - CONJURING]. Natuurlyk toverboek 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) 32 [MAGIC - CONJURING]. 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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With moveable plates View picture(s) 33 [MOVEABLE PLATE BOOK]. 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 Platebooks  Games & Pastimes  Magic & Conjuring  Robinson Crusoe  Volvelles  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) 34 [NAPOLEON BONAPARTE]. 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 puzzle measures 19.5 x 24.5 cm. Kept in the original cardboard box (!) with an etched and engraved sample plate for a fourth puzzle (with caption «Équité de l'empereur») on the top, coloured by a contemporary hand, and an embossed gilt-paper border, each puzzle with the original pink paper wrap-around slip preserved. Each  puzzle with an engraved plate mounted on thin wood, coloured by a contemporary hand and cut to form a jigsaw puzzel, 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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An extremely rare 18th-century forerunner of the wonderdisc View picture(s) 35 [OPTICAL GAME]. 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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Extremely rare souvenir of the first amusement park in Amsterdam View picture(s) 36 [PASSE THE YOUNGER, Crispijn de and Jan VOS]. Verklaringe van verscheyden kunst-rijcke wercken en hare beweginghe, door orlogie-werck ghedreven,… Alles te sien in 't Oude Doolhof tot Amsterdam, op de hoeck van de Loyers-gracht. Amsterdam, Tymen Houthaeck, 1648. Small 4to. Modern marbled wrappers. With engraved title-page vignette with labyrinth, 1 folding engraved plate with David & Goliath outside text, 1 full-page engraved plate by P. Holsteyn after A. Vinckenbrinck and 3 engravings in text. [8] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Games & Pastimes  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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To amuse and instruct youth View picture(s) 37 [PHILIDOR, André Danican]. Élémens théoriques et pratiques du jeu des échets, avec des réflexions morales, politiques, historiques et militaires, relatives a ce jeu. Paris, Madame veuve Hocquart, 1810. Sm.8vo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine with orange title-label, orange painted edges. With stipple-engraved frontispiece-portrait of Philidor, full-page engraved plate showing the chessmen, and two woodcut playing boards in text, one with the letters and numbers used for the game-notations, and the other showing all possible moves of the horse on the chess board, numbered on the fields from 1 tot 64. XXIV, 266, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chess  Education  French  Games & Pastimes  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Verses, anecdotes and wordplays of which Potier was not the author View picture(s) 38 [POTIER, Charles]. Potieriana, recueil complet des calembourgs, jeux de mots, naïvétés, couplets, pointus, rebus, niaiseries, monologues, bêtises, etc, etc. Paris, for the author, Dentu, Delaroque, 1814. 16mo. Contemporary boards, with title in ink on spine. Folding handcoloured engraved plate with boxing match. VII, 5-212 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: France  Games & Pastimes  Poetry  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Amusements for a polite society View picture(s) 39 [REBUS COLLECTION]. Paris, Michelet, Martinet, [ca. 1770]. Folio. Modern Boards. With 15 full-page engraved plates, each with an ingeniously designed rebus, all finely coloured by hand, versos blank. 15 ll. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Collections  Education  Games & Pastimes  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Enlarged second edition of a thorough course on theatre acting View picture(s) 40 [SERVANDONI dit D'HANNETAIRE, Jean Nicolas]. Observations sur l'art du comédien, et sur d'autres objets concernant cette profession en général. Avec quelques extraits de différens auteurs & des remarques analogues au même sujet: ouvrage destiné a de jeunes acteurs et actrices. Seconde édition, corrigée, & augmentée. (Paris), Aux dépens d'une Société Typographique, 1774. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt with red title-label, red edges, marbled endpapers. With woodcut vignette on title and several charming woodcut vignettes in text. XVI, 348, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Games & Pastimes  Teaching  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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