Games & Toys
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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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# 44480
NATIONAL GAME COMPANY
[HORSE RACING] Steeple-chase
Melbourne : National Game Co., [between 1920 and 1930]. “Copyright no. 2013”. Game board, 370 x 370 mm, folding, recto with colour-printed design, split along spine, cloth repair to spine, outer side with publisher’s pictorial label titled ‘The Race Game’.
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# 42759
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, 26 x 51 x 4 cm, illustrated (light edge wear, one corner split), containing illustrated game board and card tray housing instruction booklet, 6 tokens, 2 dice, 30 Ollie’s Bar tokens, 12 bathhouses, 21 Family Pride cards, 16 Manhipulation …
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# 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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# 40132
B. K. ÉDITIONS [BLOCK, Adolphe]
[EROTICA] Nos Mondaines. Une Bicycliste. Vues pour le stéréoscope.
[Title from box lid]. Paris : B. K. Éditions [Adolphe Block], [ca. 1900]. Publisher’s carton box, 185 x 95 x 20 mm, the hinged lid with lithographic title label including publisher’s imprint lower left, containing the complete set of six hand-coloured tissue stereoscopic albumen print photographs entitled ‘Une Bicycliste’, from the series ‘Nos Mondaines’, in their …
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# 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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# 40459
DARTON, William
[KANGAROO]. British and foreign animals : a new game, moral, instructive and amusing. Designed to allure the minds of youth to an acquaintance with the wonders of nature.
London : William Darton, [1820]. Board game, engraved sheet (495 x 405), hand-coloured, dissected and laid on linen (some offsetting), publisher’s advertisement label, in original publisher’s card slipcase, marbled paper (edges worn), publisher’s label and large illustrated title label with images of the animals; without the printed rule book. ONE OF THE EARLIEST CHILDREN’S GAMES TO …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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 …