Category: Toys and Games

CHINESE GAMES WITH DICE AND DOMINOES

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Ann Rept, Wash, DC : 1895

Seller ID: k190114f

Offprint “from the report of the U.S. National Museum for 1893, pages 489-537 with plates 1-12, and figures 1-33.” 8vo, stitched paper wrappers. Condition: covers present but detached; text block clean and tight.
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Our Darling's Surprise Pictures (movable children's book)

By: Ernest Nister

Price: $550.00

Publisher: London / New York, Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton : 1895

Seller ID: k210121f

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good-

1st edition, 4to. Red cloth spine; light green paper over boards with chromolithographed title and illustrations on front board. Floral endpapers. A Victorian “dissolving window” picture book from the golden age of the moveable book. A tab is pulled at the lower edge, which animates and completely changes the illustration above. Artwork by Nister, who also served as publisher. The facing pages have accompanying poems by English poet and songwriter Frederic Weatherly. A charming, and scarce, item with 8 chromolithographic color transformations, all in Very Good working order. CONDIT...
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Image for PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of POPULAR TOYS AND SPORTS

PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of POPULAR TOYS AND SPORTS

By: [Paris, John]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Longman Rees Orme Brown And Green : 1827

Seller ID: k200801f

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor

First Edition, 1827. 3 Volumes. 8vo, boards. Vol. (1). xviii, 316pp, Vol. (2). vii, 314pp [2]. Vol. (3). vi, 207pp. Woodcut chapter headings by George Cruikshank. ##### Chapters on balls and motion, marbles, popguns, the kite, ancient music, optical illusions, the swing. Also, an important book in the history of moving pictures since Vol 3 discusses the Thaumatrope, a pioneering device for displaying images in motion. Other topics covered include momentum, geometry, elasticity and the collision of bodies; the science behind these is demonstrated using a yo-yo, a jack-in-the-box, marbles and...
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The Animal World with Cut out and Stand up Pictures.
Children's book with chromolithographic illustrations.

By: [Toy Book] Saalfield

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Akron, Ohio:, Saalfield : 1905

Seller ID: dg210501a

Condition: Fair

4to. Scarce early color lithographic children's stand up book by Saalfield, rarely found with all the animal figures fully intact #####Each illustrated stand up page is accompanied by a page of text, printed in 2 columns, with verse relating to the animals pictured. All 62 figures and stands attached to stiff paper color embossed plates are un-punched and in fine condition. #####CONDITION:Fair: All of the figures and stand-ups are still attached and in fine condition, printed on 8 stiff paper pages. Covers are poor: Stiff pictorial wrappers are detached with 3.5" corner missing at lower right ...
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Category: Toys and Games

CHINESE GAMES WITH DICE AND DOMINOES

Our Darling's Surprise Pictures (movable children's book)

PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of POPULAR TOYS AND SPORTS

The Animal World with Cut out and Stand up Pictures. Children's book with chromolithographic illustrations.

The Animal World with Cut out and Stand up Pictures.
Children's book with chromolithographic illustrations.