Games & Toys

  • The National Draught Board

    # 46597

    NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

    The National Draught Board

    Melbourne : National Game Co., [c.1920]. Thick board, 370 x 370 mm, folding, recto with printed chequerboard design (very good condition), verso with pictorial title label (some loss), outer boards with surface and edge wear.

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  • A rare cased atlas of eight large folding maps of the world

    # 46577

    BRUÉ, Adrian Hubert

    A rare cased atlas of eight large folding maps of the world

    Paris : Chez J. Goujon et J. Andriveau, 1827. A large book-form box made of stiff card, 250 mm tall, gilt-decorated papered sides, silk draw ribbon, the ‘spine’ made of crushed morocco styled in compartments, with gilt ornamentation and the lettering ‘Atlas par H. Brué’, listing the eight maps contained within: ‘Mappemonde; Europe; Asie; Afrique; …

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  • [BOARD GAME] Boy scouts. For any number of players.

    # 46025

    NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

    [BOARD GAME] Boy scouts. For any number of players.

    [Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., c.1920]. “Copyright no. 3273”. Thick board, 310 x 475 mm, folding, original cloth backstrip, fold-out game board printed in colour, small split to fold, exterior sunned, edges rubbed, title label perished, a good copy. The design features the Australian Red Ensign with seven-pointed Commonwealth star. The Red Ensign was …

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  • [GAME] Crazy Post.

    # 44525

    G. N. RAYMOND PTY. LTD. (Melbourne)

    [GAME] Crazy Post.

    Indoors or out, a kind of treasure hunt! For young & old. Collingwood, Vic. : G. N. Raymond Pty. Ltd., by arrangement with Universal Publications Ltd., London, [1941]. Publisher’s box with pictorial lid, 180 x 120 x 35 mm, containing 12 destination cards each printed with the detachable names of 32 Australian towns including Bunbury, …

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  • Game of Round the World with Nellie Bly, the World's Globe Circler

    # 41839

    McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS

    Game of Round the World with Nellie Bly, the World’s Globe Circler

    A novel and fascinating game with plenty of excitement by land and sea. New York : McLoughlin Brothers, [c.1890]. Chromolithograph game board, 415 x 400 mm, in two sheets, folding, with vignettes of Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, a steam ship and a steam train; in fine condition, housed in a modern box in period style with …

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  • Race round Australia : an instructive, educational game for two to four players

    # 44482

    MACKINTOSH, Jessie; G.N. RAYMOND

    Race round Australia : an instructive, educational game for two to four players

    [Collingwood, Vic. : G.N. Raymond, c.1945]. Board game, 410 x 475 mm, folding to 410 x 238 mm, offset printed paper onlay, accompanied by the loose rules sheet (creased); outer boards (lightly marked) with pictorial paper onlay. Scarce. An educational board game designed by the talented Melburnian Jessie Mackintosh, who was also the creator of …

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  • Visionaire 30 : the game. Australia edition

    # 41030

    MOFFATT, Tracey et alia

    Visionaire 30 : the game. Australia edition

    [New York] : Visionaire Publishing, 1999. Limited to 6000 numbered copies. A fine example. Issue 30 of the avant garde photography magazine, presented in the form of a game, featuring photographs by Australian artists and sitting in a box designed by Louis Vuitton. “30 GAME is not only a collection of art but also a …

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  • Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d'un Voyage Autour du Monde.

    # 40288

    LETAILLE, Charles

    Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.

    Récreation instructive. Dédiée à la jeunesse par Chles. Letaille. Paris : chez les Principaux Mds. de nouveautés pour Etrennes et Cadeaux [Charles Letaille, 30 rue Saint-Jacques], [ca. 1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographic onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the …

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  • Photograph album containing portraits of a Belgian Lazarist missionary to China, and including a group of late Qing traditional paper and silk Chinese dolls. Circa 1903-1964

    # 18893

    [JAMAR, Jacques]; [COMET, Rita]

    Photograph album containing portraits of a Belgian Lazarist missionary to China, and including a group of late Qing traditional paper and silk Chinese dolls. Circa 1903-1964

    Photograph album, circa 1900. Small oblong quarto (165 x 235 mm), half morocco with ornamental gilt rule over faux crocodile papered boards, original floral-patterned lining papers, front pastedown with binder’s ticket of bookseller and stationer Gilon, Verviers (Belgium); [20] leaves of thick card, containing 4 cabinet card format portrait photographs of Lazarist missionary Father Jacques …

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  • [BOARD GAME] A Journey by Air

    # 37845

    SPEAR'S

    [BOARD GAME] A Journey by Air

    Brimsdown, U.K. : Spear’s Games, [1939]. Folding game board of thin card, 210 x 310 mm, in excellent condition; in the original box, 250 x 180 x 25 mm (lid with child owner’s name and some pen marks, some minor edge and corner wear); the underside of the box lid has the printed rules; lacking …

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  • [BOARD GAME] A Motor Ride For 2, 3 or 4 Players.

    # 37843

    NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

    [BOARD GAME] A Motor Ride For 2, 3 or 4 Players.

    [Ballarat and Melbourne], The National Game Company, [ca. 1940]. Folding game board printed directly onto thin card, 250 x 250 mm; in fine condition. A very good example of one of the later editions of this game. A scarce Australian-made and designed board game which reflects what it was still like to drive on Australian …

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  • Missionary lotto.

    # 35151

    CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LONDON)

    Missionary lotto.

    London : Church Missionary Society, [circa 1900]. “Second series. (Revised)”. Original card box, 235 x 115 x 21 mm, with title and imprint to lid (light marks and handling wear, but sturdy and without any edge or corner splits); the inside lid with printed Missionary Lotto Rules (mild foxing); the interior of the box is …

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  • Studio portrait of a young boy posing next to a rocking horse. Adelaide, South Australia, late 1870s.

    # 36856

    PARIS PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY (W. J. LOTT)

    Studio portrait of a young boy posing next to a rocking horse. Adelaide, South Australia, late 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm; verso with gilt imprint of ‘Paris Photo. Compy. W. J. Lott, Manager. Photographers, Miniature & Portrait Painters. 164 Rundle St., opposite York Hotel, Adelaide’; both the print and mount in fine condition.

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  • Bowles's new one sheet map of Asia, divided into its Empires, Kingdoms, States, and other subdivisions; laid down from observations of the most celebrated geographers.

    # 28901

    BOWLES AND CARVER

    Bowles’s new one sheet map of Asia, divided into its Empires, Kingdoms, States, and other subdivisions; laid down from observations of the most celebrated geographers.

    London : Bowles and Carver, 1801. Engraved map with original hand colouring, laid on wood and dissected, three blank replacement pieces (the lost pieces in the regions of Java, Sumatra and Hokkaido), the assembled map measuring 485 x 582 mm, housed in the original cedar box with sliding lid, letterpress title label. A fine early …

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  • Mappe-monde 1833

    # 34602

    MONIN, Charles V.

    Mappe-monde 1833

    Paris : Charles V. Monin, 1833. Engraved map, 204 x 275 mm, with hand colouring, laid on wood and dissected to form a jigsaw puzzle, original backing card and paper wrapper with title in manuscript copperplate, some scattered foxing, complete. A charming puzzle map of the world. The maps were usually unbound sheets from an atlas.

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  • [CHILDREN'S GAME] Histoire naturelle

    # 34046

    Maker unknown.

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Histoire naturelle

    [France : s.n., circa 1900]. Wooden box with hinged lid, 400 x 350 x 60 mm, original decorative paper covering with chromolithographed onlay to lid, with the title ‘Histoire naturelle‘ lettered in gold on red; the box contains 72 wooden puzzle cubes with chromolithographed paper surfaces, from which the child can potentially create a total …

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