"LE JARDIN DES PLANTES"
Les Quadrupèdes
French, circa 1845
Original cardboard box
containing hand colored paperlitho scene of a zoo, with the quadruped animals, cages, gates, trees and bushes. Elephant is missing its trunk, box slightly damaged, part of gold trim missing.
24 x 17 x 3,5 cm
PAPER TOYS
SOLD
"ABSENCE OF MIND"
G.N., German, circa 1860
Original box with the title in German, English and French on the cover, containg a folded board game, lithographed paper with spot egg-shell varnish accompanied by the instruction manual.
20 x 17 x 2,5 cmSOLD
"COMPONIUM PITTORESQUE"
M. Brès, Paris, Lefuel Librairie, circa 1925
Original cardboard box with a lithographed illustration on the lid, containing 35 engraved and hand colored cards and a frame to put three fragments in to form separate pictures. One card #10 of 36, is missing. A rare example of the Myriorama game.
20.5 x 15 x 2,3 cmSOLD
"GRAPPIG EN VERMAKELIJK GEZELSCHAPSPEL"
C. Goos, Amsterdam 1856
Question- and answer cards packed separately in original slip-case. Hand colored engraved illustrations with "sentimental" questions and "naive" answers. Purpose is to hand the questions to the ladies who answer to the gentlemen in order to bring laughing muscles in motion... 57 of 60 cards, slip-case damaged.
8 x 6 x 1,3 cmSOLD
"LA CHASSE"
STAND-UP FIGURES
French, circa 1840
Hand colored engraved card cut-outs of animals and hunters with wooden bases. Consists of fifteen pieces. Original cardboard box. I don't know if the set is complete.
19,5 x 13 x 3 cm€ 550
"MIROIR D'URANIE"
First edition, circa 1824
Illustrations based on "A Celestial Atlas" by Alexander Jamieson, engraved by Sidney Hall.
A complete set of 32 cards, engraved and water colored, of the 79 constellations. The stars are perforated thus when held up to the light, the constellations are visible. Cards with French title, the stars indicated by Latin and Arabic. On the cover "Urania", the muse of Astronomy.
22 x 16 x 4 cmSOLD
A LOTTERY GAME
Dutch, ca.1780
A marbled paper box containing 50 illustrated engraved cards, 50 cards with texts and various "classe" cards. Text cards #23 and 44 replaced by later versions. Note #7 a man with a magic lantern and #37 a man with a peepshowbox.
9 x 7,5 x 6 cmSOLD
"OMBRES CHNOISES"
Illustrated by B. Coudert, Paris, circa 1870
Original box with on the cover an lithographed illustration of a Chinese theatre, containing a stage and several black paper silhouettes. Added a booklet with several stories.
28 x 22 x 3 cmSOLD
"DE WAARD EN DE PACHTER"
Amsterdam, Gebroeders van Arum circa 1822?
Based on the English game "The White Lady". A complete game in original slip-case, consisting of seven hand colored cards, twelve dice and the instruction manual.
17 x 13 x 1,5 cm
SOLD
"HUIT MILLE METAMORPHOSES, FEMMES"
Ambroise Tardieu, Paris, circa 1830
Original box surrounded by gold and silver embossed paper, the title is printed on the cover. The interior is divided into three compartments containing the hand colored engraved cards cut into three parts, silk extraction cords. 57 of 60 cards.
10 x 8 x 2,2 cmSOLD
"NIEUW VERMAKELIJK
JAN-KLAASEN SPEL"
J.L. Zeehuijsen, Zwolle circa 1820
Original slipcase containing a folded colored litho board game and twelve cards with song texts. Paper damaged due to folding, slip-case lacks underside.
9 x 7 x 1 cmSOLD
"FLORA, THE GAME OF FLOWERS"
German, circa 1860
Original paper over wooden box with sliding lid, on the cover the title in German, French and English. Containing 99 colored mosaic tiles and six paper examples.
12 x 12 x 1,2 cmSOLD
"LE JEU DU CHEVAL BLANC"
French, dated 1837 and l'octroi de Paris
Orginal box with a colored litho of a mother and four children paying the game at a table, containing five hand coloured cards, a wooden hammer and six dice.
23 x 15 x 3 cmSOLD
"LA PETITE ÉLÉGANTE"
PAPER DOLL
Rousseau édit, Jannin lith, Paris, circa 1860
Illustrated by Bommier. The original box contains four dresses, two headdress and a basket, a doublesided paper doll and its wooden base. The neck of the doll is restored, i.e. painted over with a necklace and hair at the back.
16 x 11,5 x 1,7 cmSOLD
