Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards..... More
Turn-of-the-century German Jugendstil tabletop game using elements of shuffleboard or billiards, the contents comprising two hinged pieces of wood which are connected to form the play area, a wooden cue with curved piece of wood for pushing at one end, and two sets of color-coded wooden disks with felt bottoms..... More
Špilberk Castle, Brno: between 1841 and 1855. Wooden box, measuring 27 × 18.5 × 10 cm. A contemporary manuscript paper ticket (3 × 7 cm), mounted to interior of lid, reads: “Eine Sträflings-Arbeit von dem berühmten Räuber Babinskӱ (früher Wachtmeister bei den Uhlanen) verfertigt. Er wurde wegen seinen Mordthaten und..... More
Chicago, Illinois: Aldric H. Worswick Co., 1909. Oblong 8vo. (19.7 x 35.3 cm). Original dark blue paper wrappers, title printed to front cover in black lettering and with decorative border, punch-sewn in the Japanese style with brown silk ribbon. 28 leaves, unpaginated. Color printed and illustrated throughout, with large folding..... More
[Berlin]: Sala, [circa 1890]. Duodecimo (15.5 x 10.3 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; unpaginated (78 pp.), a mix of introductory text pages in various languages, silhouette-style illustrations, and chromolithographed plates. Some light soiling and handling wear or creasing to wrappers, binding coming loose, some light soiling and handling wear to interior..... More
[Moscow]: Izd. MKV-PNR; Tipo-litografiia Gosplanizdata, 1943. Cardboard box with pictorial lid, measuring 6 × 7.5 × 10.5 cm, housing one leaf of rules and 28 tiles made of cardboard, each measuring 6 × 3 cm and with chromolithographs to rectos. The box somewhat worn and rubbed, with old tape repair;..... More