Games & Toys

# 49774

[THEOBOLD & CO.]

The Emigrants’ Voyage [to Australia]. (Complete set of 12 magic lantern glass slides)

[London : Theobold & Co, c.1900]. Complete set of twelve magic lantern glass slides, uniform 82 x 82 mm format, illustrated by the chromolithographic transfer process; numbered printed caption labels to top edges of mounts; one slide is lacking its label, another has a diagonal hairline crack across the front glass, otherwise the set is …

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# 49788

PARKER SISTERS; TOM OF FINLAND

Gay Monopoly : a celebration of gay life!

West Hollywood, CA : The Parker Sisters, Division of Fire Island Games, Inc., [1983]. Board game in the original box, 26 x 51 x 4 cm, as new in shrink-wrap, complete as issued; the contents (of which our images show components from an already opened example of the game) include the illustrated game board, card …

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# 13747

KLINGER, Johann Georg; MULLER, Johann Wolfgang

Relations de divers voyages curieux

Also titled: Description de differens peuples remarquables des cinq parties du monde. Nuremberg : J. G. Klinger, 1805-1807. Second edition. Original box of red paper over card, 114 x 100 x 105 mm, with gilt embossed decoration, the lid lettered in gilt Jeu de voyage des cinq parties du monde (corners bumped); the box in three compartments: …

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# 35516

BUSSIÈRE (publisher); MATENET, Jules Xavier (designer); COUDERT, B. (illustrator); JANNIN, H. (lithographer)

[CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Bussière, Ed. Paris’, framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at …

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# 45944

A. LION (publisher)

[GAME] Nouveau jeu de Loto Géographique et Universel, ou Tableaux des capitales de l’univers.

[Paris] : [A. Lion], n.d. [c.1845]. Original box of thick card, 230 x 290 x 40 mm, the lid with paste-down chromolithograph; containing 18 sections of playing board (each 125 x 215 mm), each with a paste-down lithograph illustrating five different locations, mostly major cities (all 90 locations illustrated are briefly described in an accompanying …

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# 46866

NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

[BOARD GAME] A Motor Ride : for 2, 3 or 4 players.

[Ballarat and Melbourne], The National Game Company, [c.1935]. Folding game board printed directly onto thin card, 250 x 250 mm; verso plain; in fine condition. A very good example of one of the later editions of this game.

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# 46857

NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

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

[Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., c.1920]. “Copyright no. 3273”. Game board, 310 x 475 mm, folding, with pasted-down chromolithographed design; outer boards with pictorial title label to front; original cloth backstrip; an extremely good example. The design features the Australian Red Ensign with seven-pointed Commonwealth star. The Red Ensign was used as the national …

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# 46859

NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

[BOARD GAME] The National Yacht Race.

Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co., [between 1912 and 1915?]. “Copyright no. 2607”. Thin board with original cloth backstrip, 310 x 480 mm, folding; chromolithographed game board in red, blue, yellow and black; pictorial onlaid title label to outer board; an extremely god example. This appears to be an early version of the Yacht …

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# 46863

NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

[BOARD GAME] Ludo

[Ballarat and Melbourne] : National Game Co., [c.1910]. Thick board, 365 x 370 mm (folding, with cloth backed spine); fold-out colour-printed game board, front board with pictorial colour onlaid title label with an early gift inscription; game board in very good condition, outer boards lightly foxed and with one bruised corner; a good example. Scarce …

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# 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’, with a list of the eight maps contained within: ‘Mappemonde; …

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# 46651

NATIONAL GAME COMPANY

A motor ride : a jolly game for 2,3, or 4 players

Melbourne : National Game Co., [c.1916]. Thin board, 310 x 475 mm, folding, recto with colour printed design, a few stains and scuffs, verso with pictorial title label, spine repaired, a very good example of this game. A copy of this board game is held in the National Archives of Australia; the Powerhouse Museum holds …

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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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