Farming-Game 19th century / Spiel 19.Jahrhundert /

Rural Economy – Stamped Figures for colouring / Die Landwirthschaft – Figuren zum Ausmalen / La Economia Rustica – Figuras recortados para colorear / L’Economie Rurale – Figures decoupees pour colorier. – Game No./ Spiel No. 1849 – Serie III. Deponiert.

Bilingual Cover for children in England, Germany, Spain and France. [Deutschland / Allemagne / Germany], [c. 1890]. 26 cm x 17 cm x 1,5 cm. 30 figures / 30 figuren. With original flexible metal – stands. Some of the figures painted with the original colour palette. Original Hardcover with lithographed cover (Farmer bringin in the hay). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare agricultural children’s game ! / Shows farming scenes: Making butter, milking cows, Priest visiting, children playing, chicken, goats etc.

Himmelheber, Georg / Schneider, Ulrich.

Schönes Schach. Die Spiele des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums in München und des Germanischen Nationalmuseums in Nürnberg. Mit Leihgaben aus dem Münchner Stadtmuseum und dem Spielzeugmuseum der Stadt Nürnberg Museum Lydia Bayer.

Nürnberg, Verlag GNM, 1988. 27 cm x 22 cm. 113 seiten. Mit zahlreichen schwarz-weißen Abbildungen. Original Softcover. Sehr guter, nahezu neuwertiger Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

[May, Karl] Wolf, Harry.

Wir reisen mit Karl May ‘Durch die Wüste’.” [Original Spiel] Spielidee und Bearbeitung von Harry Wolf. Herausgegeben mit Genehmigung des Karl-May-Verlages.

[München], Schmidt, [1950]. Quer-Folio. Mit gefaltetem, farbigem Spielbrett auf Karton – Doppelseitiger Spielplan, 6 kolor. Zinnfiguren und einem Würfel. Original illustriertes Hardcover. Nur minimale Gebrauchsspuren. Sehr guter Gesamtzustand dieses seltenen Brettspiels.

Walker, George.

A Selection of Games at Chess, Actually Played by Philidor and his Contemporaries – Now first published from the original Manuscripts with Notes and Additions by George Walker.

First Edition. London, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1835. Duodecimo. Frontispiece, XVI, 110 pages plus 2 pages with advertising (List of Works by George Walker). Hardcover / Original cloth with original printed label to frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front free endpaper missing. Very Rare !