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A Nintendo Game and Watch (Manhole) handheld game, (serial number 19115667), with CGL badge on the front decalTo be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

A Nintendo Game and Watch (Donkey Kong Jr,, Model DJ-101) handheld game, together with a Mini Classics key chain (Donkey Kong), made by Stadlbauer (2)To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

Two Nintendo Game and Watch (Snoopy Tennis) handheld game, together with a Nintendo Game and Watch (Super Mario Bros.), missing battery cover (serial number 24803529) (2)To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

Two Nintendo Game and Watch (Super Mario Bros.) handheld game (serial number 24728010, together with a Nintendo Game and Watch (Mario's Cement Factory), missing battery cover (serial number 25046168) (2)To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

Two Nintendo Game and Watch (Snoopy Tennis) handheld game (serial number 21519788), together with a Nintendo Game and Watch (Popeye), missing battery cover (serial number 07449827) (2)To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

Two Nintendo Game and Watch (Super Mario Bros.) handheld game (serial number 24970853), together with a Nintendo Game and Watch (Snoopy Tennis), missing battery cover (serial number 21034141) (2)To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

A Nintendo NES bundle (Mattel), with console, two Nintendo controllers, power and AV cables, aerial switch box, warranty card, polystyrene insert and original box, also including a Nintendo Zapper, with manual, polystyrene insert and original box, The Adventures of Rad Gravity, with club Nintendo card, insert and original box, with Game Genie Playthrough cartridge and codebook (4)

A Nintendo Gameboy Tetris bundle, including console, EXT connector cable, Tetris cartridge, Tetris instruction booklet, owners manual, poster, Game Pak Catalogue 1991/92, polystyrene insert with protector and original box

Five electronic hand held games, including Casio Soccer (SG-11) with original box and manual, Bambino Soccer (ET-1001) with manual, Grandstand Ten Pin Bowling (5018-8) with manual, Casio Alarm clock (DA-204) and a Nintendo Parachute Game and Watch (11495674) (5)

Three Nintendo licensed Game Watches, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Bros and Zelda (3)To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

Two Nintendo licensed Game and Watches, Tetris and Zelda plus game watch Castlevania II Simon's Quest by Tiger Electronics (3)To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

Three Nintendo licensed Game Watches, two Super Mario Bros. 3, and Zelda, also including a Tetris Jr. keychain game, missing battery cover (4)To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

A Nintendo Game Boy Pocket (model MH17961129), transparent, with Nintendo branded clear storage case with fitted interior, also including ten Gameboy games including Game and Watch Gallery, Super Mario Land, Tetris (cased), Super Hunchback (cased), Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (cased), Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 (cased), Game and Watch Gallery 2 (cased), Kirby's Pinball Land (cased), Game Boy Gallery (cased) and Batman (cased)

Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror for Commodore 64, with original case, instructions on loading the game in four languages, briefing booklet for the Rijan Mission, icon chart, Rijan Mining complex map, key card in original case and assistance leaflet with instructions on how to distract a Madrag To be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

A collection of twenty games for the Spectrum, to include :Ultimate Play the Game, original box and plastic insertBrian Clough's Football Fortunes, original box and manualStar Reader, original box and manualJungle Maths, original box and manualThe Hobbit, plastic insert and manualHigh Level User Friendly Real Time Games Designer, plastic insert and manualGyron, original box, competition form to win a Porsche 924 and manualThunderbirds, cased with manualJack the Ripper, cased with inlayManchester United, original box and manualRex, cased with inlayLeapfrog, cased with inlayPerils of Bear George, cased with inlaySpectipede, cased with inlayPool, cased with inlayAlien, cased with inlayDynamite Dan, cased with inlaySheer Panic, cased with inlayKP Skips Action Biker : Clumsy Colin, cased with inlayHorizons : Software started pack, cased with inlayTo be sold on behalf on Monkey World, Dorset

Collection of Japanese Pokemon Trading Game Cards, from various series to include Base Set, Neo, Jungle, Gym Heroes and others, examples to include Kingdra Holographic, Typhlosion, Ferraligator, and others, all in protective pockets, 70 cards in total all in excellent condition

Pokemon Trading Card Game "Fossil" Series Card Group, 47 cards from the set, some duplicates, to include rares, uncommons, commons and holographics, examples to include Gengar, Ditto, Hitmonlee, Aerodactyl, Lapras and others

Pokemon Trading Card Game Base Set 2 Card Group, 41 examples, to include rares, un-commons, commons, and holographics, some duplicates, examples include Poliwrath, Venomoth, Fearow and others

Pokemon Trading Card Game Promo Card Group, 7 cards in total to include Power of One Movie 3 piece Legendary Bird Collection No.21,22 and 23, Ancient Mew with details card, No.8 Mew Promo, No.5 Dragonite Promo and No.2 Electabuzz

THREE COLD PAINTED BRONZE GAME BIRDS,comprising two pheasants and a grouse, each modelled upright, the largest 29cm wideCondition report: One has lost both feet and one leg, currently fitted with crude replacements, left leg including foot present but separate, this will need attention, general overall wear with rubbing tomdecoration in places, surface scuffs, the tip of the tail of grouse has either been restored or replaced quite crudely, the two pheasants both stamped 'Austria' to undersides, smaller pheasant also appears to have lost part of tail end section, further casting imperfections and inconsistencies, additional images available

20+ British Quads including Interview with a Vampire, Dark River, Unsane, Westwood, You were Never Really Here, Finding Your Feet, Red Sparrow, Game Nights and others, rolled, (20+).

20 British Quad film posters, Game of Death / The Big Boss, The Goodbye Girl, A Twist of Sand, Von Ryan's Express (text), Absolute Beginners, 40 Pounds of Trouble, The Devil Never Sleeps, 80,000 Suspects, Heroes Island, Johnny Cool, Murder he Says, My Blood Runs Cold, Home Before Dark, Rome in Flames, The Count Jester, The Sea Wall, Follow the Boys, China Sky, Jewel of the Nile, Another 48 Hours, folded, 30 x 40 inches (20).

A late Victorian silver photograph frame, decorated game birds, by William Comyns & Sons, London 1901, 15cm high.

Oz magazine.- Neville (Richard) Playpower, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Here - at last! - the great Australian Gone with the Wind - for John "V.D." Peel, With embarrassingly genuine affection - Richard" to endpaper, folded "Headopoly" game in pocket at rear, original boards, dust-jacket, light creasing to head and foot, near-fine otherwise, 8vo, 1970.⁂ A superb association copy. Richard Neville was the editor of Oz magazine. His reference to "V.D." is a nod to the controversy that arose from John Peel's divulging during his Night Ride programme that he had been treated for an STD earlier that year. This confession was subsequently raised during Peel's appearance for the defence at the 1971 Oz obscenity trial.

Daglish (Eric Fitch).- Dewar (Douglas) Game Birds, number 46 of 50 special copies on hand-made paper and with an additional signed wood-engraving, signed by the author and artist, 19 tipped-in wood-engraved plates by E. Fitch Daglish on japon, illustrations, additional plate tipped to loosely-inserted leaf, original morocco-backed cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly faded, 4to, 1928.

An unused Zebco game fishing bag

Nelson, William. The Laws Concerning Game, Of Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, and Fowling, Savoy: Henry Lintot, 1753. Full contemporary calf with raised bands and oxblood morocco title label lettered in gilt. Contents generally good and clean; appears to be lacking a blank leaf at rear, front free endpaper detached; armorial bookplate for Jno. Dovaston, owner inscription for the same on title, dated 1771; one page of manuscript notes on rear blank in a contemporary hand; calf binding worn. This work has sections devoted to 'Fish', 'Guns and Cross-Bows', 'Pond', 'Swan', 'Game-Keeper', 'Nets', 'Tunnels', 'Hare', and others

A GOOD PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE GAME DOGS with open legs, probably Irish Setters, with dead game at their feet. 9ins high Illustrated page 216, Staffordshire by A & N Harding.

A SUPERB PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY BRONZE CLASSICAL FIGURES of a man and a woman, chickens and dead game at their feet, on circular bases. 22ins high.

After Hardy, a Victorian colour print, hunting dogs and dead game in landscape, 15ins x 26ins

C H C Baldwyn, watercolour, landscape with waterfall and game birds, 12ins x 18ins

Two mixed boxes of dvds to include lord of the rings various box sets and game of thrones in blu-ray

Total of ten antique coloured etchings of game birds, in later matching frames

Set of 6 antique coloured etchings of game birds in matching frames

Retro grandstand firefox f-7 handheld space action game

Carrom game, painted square board with counters

20th C JC & Sons decorative plates by W. Birbec hand painted with game birds; California Partridge (D639), Snipe (D638), Quail (D639), Capercaillie (D639) and American Partridge (D639) (diameter 22cm) manufactured for Harrods ltd, Bronson Rd, London S.W.

* Indian mica paintings. A transformation game, mid 19th century, together 58 mica paintings, each of a single male or female figure engaged in an activity, including dancing, playing a musical instrument, carrying a hookah, basket weaving, grinding with a pestle and mortar, sewing, selling fruit, writing with a quill pen, weighing out grains, reading, nursing a baby, etc., some chipping and cracks to edges (a few adhesive repairs), mostly not affecting image, surface rubbing in places, each with small hole in one corner (usually one of the top corners), plus 6 watercolours on card, 3 depicting a male head and patterned floor with balustrading below, the other 3 depicting 2 male heads and landscape below (1 with some paper adherred), to be used as a backdrop for each transformation cell, each approximately 11 x 8cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/8ins), together with 14 other mica paintings, 6 mountedQty: (78)Footnote: Indian myrioramas such as these rarely come onto the market and, when they do appear, are usually in sets of 10 or 12.

* Playing cards and games. Max und Moritz card game, Nuremberg: Franz Schmidt, circa 1940, complete deck of 31 chromolithographed playing cards, comprising 30 numbered cards each with illustration and text, plus an unnumbered pictorial 'Max [und] Moritz' card, and with printed instructions card, pale blue pictorial versos, each 102 x 66mm, contained in original card box (rubbed with a little wear), pictorial label to lid (dust-soiled and toned), ink manuscript ownership name to underside of lid, together with: Monopoly, John Waddington, 1930s, a boxed Monopoly set (without board), comprising paper money (with 'Pat. App. for ...' printed on notes), Community Chest, Chance & title deed cards, wooden houses & hotels, metal tokens (hat, car, ship, iron, thimble, boot), dice, Rules leaflet, Rules for Playing the New Short Game paper slip, and red paper advertising slip, housed in modern box to imitate original box, original pictorial paper label (dust-soiled, rubbed & slightly edge-chipped) adhered to lid, with 'Pat. App. for No. 3796-36' on label, 19.7 x 16.7cm, plus: Lott's Bricks [and] Lott's Tudor Blocks, 3 boxes of artificial bricks plus a box of artificial Tudor-style blocks, two of the boxes of bricks with inserted modern paper slip 'box 1' and 'box 1A', some replacement parts (mainly roofs), with accompanying booklets 'Lott's Tudor Blocks Illustrations of Models' and 'Lott's Bricks Plans and Illustrations' (some damage, loss and repairs), with an early set of 'Pit' playing cards in original card box, comprising the original 7 commodities (including flax and hay), the Bull and Bear cards, rule leaflet, and 'Bull and Bear Edition' instructions slip, also a metal and moulded plastic Fearless Freddie, and a few other game pieces or incomplete games, most early-mid 20th century, plus an 1848 copy of a Swedish book of Psalms (Swenska Psalmboken) in a decorative vellum binding with metal clasps (rubbed and dust-soiled)Qty: (a carton)

* Schenk (Peter). Das Festung Baues Spiel, Amsterdam, circa 1700, uncut sheet etched in sepia on laid paper, with French suited playing cards numbered sequentially in a spiral, depicting plans and views of fortifications with descriptions, plus two double-sized sections, one with an image of a fort and the other with imprint, printed with rules at head of sheet and index down left-hand side, central vertical fold, trimmed to platemark at left-hand side and almost to platemark at right-hand side, very small mark to edge lower right, verso with brown ink annotation in an early hand, 52.2 x 61.1cmQty: (1)Footnote: Hoffmann, p.43; Mann, All Cards on the Table, p.148; Schreiber, Dutch, 3 (British Museum 1896,0501.1338). An unusually crisp and well-preserved copy of a scarce early sheet of playing cards designed for educating players in the basics of defensive fortification. Apparently copied from Gilles de la Boissière's Jeu des Fortifications, the sheet could be dissected for use as a traditional deck of cards or left intact for use as a board game, using the rules printed at the top. Another version after Boissière bears the imprint of Johann Ulrich Stapf the Elder of Augsburg.

* Schenk (Peter). Das Kriegs-Spiel, Amsterdam, circa 1700, uncut sheet etched in sepia on laid paper, with French suited playing cards, depicting military fortifications and manoeuvres with descriptions, plus two double-sized sections, one illustrated with a victorious general being rewarded by his monarch and the other with imprint, printed with rules at head of sheet and index down right-hand side, central vertical fold, trimmed to platemark at lower left-hand side, verso with brown ink annotation in an early hand, 52.2 x 62cmQty: (1)Footnote: Mann, All Cards on the Table, p.148; Schreiber, Dutch, 2 (British Museum 1896,0501.1337), printed in black ink. A remarkably crisp and well-preserved copy of a scarce early sheet of playing cards designed to educate young persons in the various elements of conducting a military campaign, from enlistment and training to the onslaught of battle and final conquest of a fortified citadel. The sheet could be dissected for use as a traditional deck of cards or left intact for use as a board game, using the rules printed at the top. Amsterdam engraver Peter Schenk based this game on a French edition designed by Gilles de la Boissière, published by J. Mariette in 1692 under the title Jeu de la Guerre.

[Alliette, Jean-Baptiste]. Manière de se Récréer avec le Jeu de Cartes Nommées Tarots. Pour servir de troisiéme [-quartrieme] Cahier à cet Ouvrage, par Etteilla, 1st edition, Amsterdam & Paris: Segault, Legras, 1783[-1785], comprising: the third cahier of Manière de se Récréer avec un Jeu de Cartes; the Supplement to the third cahir (title missing?); Fragment sur les Hautes Sciences; and the fourth cahier (without the Supplement), 7 engraved plates, including folding plate at rear titled 'Horloge Planetaire', 3 engraved diagrams mounted on letterpress, occasional early marginalia, some minor light toning and marks, intermittent worming to lower blank margin, bound with Jeu des Tarots, ou le Livre de Thot, ouvert à la Maniere des Égyptiens, Memphis [i.e. Paris, 1788], worming as before, edges untrimmed, contemporary blue wrappers, spine chipped with loss, slightly frayed to edges, 12moQty: (1)Footnote: The Manière was originally published as four cahiers in 1783, with supplements to each of the cahiers being added in 1785. The Fragment sur les Hautes Sciences, present here, and a fifth cahir designed to precede the others, titled Philosophie des Hauts Sciences ..., meant that the final work consisted of a total of 10 parts. All combinations of the parts are scarce. The frontispieces to Cahiers III and IV are of Temperance and Prudence, presumed to illustrate designs from the author's cartomantic tarot packs. French occultist Jean-Baptiste Alliette was one of the first to popularise tarot cards as a means of divination and to make a living from the same. His work, linking tarot cards to the mythical Egyptian Book of Thoth, was published hard on the heels of Court de Gébelin and Comte de Mellet's 1781 hypothesis linking tarot cards with Egyptian mysticism, Alliette arguing a claim of priority over the two authors whose work had beaten his to the press. Alliette's Jeu des Tarots, with the spurious imprint of Memphis, has been described as "no more than a prospectus for his professional services." (Dummett, The Game of Tarot, pp.107/8)

[Gibbs, Henry Hucks]. The Game of Ombre, London: printed for private circulation, 1874, half-title, 2 hand-coloured plates (including frontispiece), armorial bookplate of Samuel Chichester, Baron Carlingford (Irish MP), front free endpaper with ink inscription from the author 'Carlingford. From the Author May 1874 Henry Hucks Gibbs', top edges gilt, original green cloth gilt, 8vo, together with a second and a third edition of the same book, both in original cloth, privately printed, 1878 & 1902, 2nd edition inscribed on front free endpaper, 'Henry Lloyd Gibbs, Xmas 1878', and: Cadogan (Lady Adelaide). Illustrated Games of Patience, First & Second Series, 2 volumes, 5th and 1st edition respectively, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885/1887, coloured plates to each, decorative green and blue cloth respectively, lightly rubbed and marked, Second Series with faded spine, 4to, Steinmetz (Andrew). The Gaming Table: its Votaries and Victims, in all Times and Countries, especially in England and in France, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1870, volume 1 with half-title, and with circular embossed library stamp on front free endpaper, scattered foxing (including to edges), front pastedowns with book ticket of John Standring, hinges split, and rear cover and spine of first volume detached at rear hinge, original blind-blocked red cloth, spines faded and slightly frayed at ends, 8vo, plus 4 others relatedQty: (9)Footnote: Gibbs: Jessel 637, 639 & 640: "a full and lucid description of this excellent game". The first edition ran to 200 copies, and the second to 100 copies. Cadogan: Jessel 205; Horr 253. Steinmetz: Jessel 1539; Horr 1223; Hargrave, p.388.

Hoyle (Edmond). Traité du Jeu de Whist. Traduit de l'Anglois d'Edmond Hoyle, Turin, Italy: Reycends & Guibert, 1765, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut head and tail-pieces and initial letters, final page with Imprimatur of François Antoine Mairesse, dated 24th November 1764, partly uncut, original star-patterned wrappers, lacking spine and with some staining, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Depaulis 99. Believed to be the first edition of this translation; and the third translation into French of Hoyle's Short Treatise on the Game of Whist. The first French translation was published in Brussels in 1761.

[Jones, Henry.] Patience Games with Examples Played Through, illustrated with numerous diagrams, by "Cavendish", 1st edition, London: Thomas De La Rue & Co., 1890, half-title, printed in red and black, frontispiece and diagrams on letterpress, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, all edges gilt, original bevel-edged brown cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, some faint spotting and marks, oblong 4to, together with: [Hogg, James, editor]. The Whist Table. A Treasury of Notes on the Royal Game, by "Cavendish," C. Mossop, A. C. Ewald, Charles Hervey and other distinguished players ... To which is added Solo Whist and its Rules by Abraham S. Wilks, the whole edited by "Portland", 1st edition, London: John Hogg, [1894], half-title, 3 photographic portraits, including frontispiece, 1 plate, 1 full-page illustration, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, upper hinge split, original bevel-edged maroon cloth, lavishly blocked in gilt, red and black, spine faded, 8vo, [Pettes, George William]. American or Standard Whist. By G. W. P., 1st edition, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1880, half-title, blank preceding half-title torn out, toned throughout, ink ownership stamp on final leaf of text and verso of rear free endpaper, upper hinge split, bookplate of James Constantine Webster, original grey-blue pictorial cloth, blocked in red and black, darkened spine frayed at ends with loss, covers lightly spotted and marked, lower corner of upper cover bumped, 8vo, and a quantity of 68 other late 19th and early 20th century books relatedQty: (71)Footnote: Jessel 982; 752; 1321.

[Jones, Henry]. The Principles of Whist Stated and Explained, and its Practice Illustrated on an Original System, by means of hands played completely through. By Cavendish, London: Bancks Brothers, 1st edition, [1862], all edges gilt, original plum cloth, covers blind-panelled, upper cover titled in gilt, spine and margins of covers faded, small square 8vo, together with: Quanti (Q., pseudonym). Quadrille Elucidated. Being a Historical, Critical and Practical Treatise on that Admired Game, 1st edition, Cheltenham: printed for G. A. Williams, 1822, half-title, original printed blue wrappers, small 8vo, [Coles, Charles Barwell]. Short Whist: Its Rise, Progress, and Laws. Together with Maxims for Beginners, and observations to make any one a whist player. By Major A***, London: Longman et al, 1837, engraved frontispiece depicting card playing on the tops of carriages (attributed to George Cruikshank), title-page toned from tissue guard offset, all edges gilt, original green limp cloth, covers blind-stamped, upper cover lettered in gilt, small 8vo, plus 19 other 19th century books on the subject of card games, including an annotated copy of The Laws, Rules, and Regulations, of the Union Whist Society, 1st edition, Chiswick: from the Press of C. Whittingham, 1815, contemporary tan calf gilt, small 8voQty: (22)Footnote: Jessel 928; Hargrave, p. 430 - "extremely rare". The Principles of Whist is one of only 250 copies printed of this famous treatise. Henry Jones, better known by his nom de plume 'Cavendish', was part of 'The Little Whist School' comprising a group of Cambridge students in the 1850s. When William Pole suggested that whist was worthy of the sort of scientific analysis given to chess, Henry Jones contacted him to let him know that he had built up a collection of data on actual whist games and analysed the principles of play. With Pole's encouragement, Jones published this seminal treaty on whist, which would run to over 20 editions in the space of 30 years. His fame and popularity as a writer on card games equalled that of Hoyle. Jones was interested not only in the methods of play, but also in the history of card games, and contributed introductions to many of Hoyle's books on individual games.

Manuscript. Rules for the game of whist, circa 1820s, 196 leaves, written throughout in a neat legible hand in sepia and red ink, Contents at front with step index, some marginal toning, marbled endpapers, hinges splitting, armorial bookplate of Joseph Tasker, Middleton Hall, Essex, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grained red morocco by Frank Murray of Derby, Leicester & Nottingham, with his label to front pastedown, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt 'Game of Whist', spine rubbed and darkened, upper cover re-jointed, gilt single fillet on covers and edges, gilt roll on turn-ins, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Bearing the bookplate of Joseph Tasker whose library was sold at auction in 1862 and 1868. A beautifully-written manuscript comprising rules for the game of whist, containing references throughout to Hoyle and Payne, and with a list of contents included at the front.

[Payne, William]. Maxims for Playing the Game of Whist; with all necessary calculations, and laws of the game, 1st edition, London: sold by T. Payne, 1773, title-page a little dusty, armorial bookplate of Sir Harry Stapley Bart. on preliminary blank, front free endpaper with horizontal tear repaired with archive tape, and with ink inscription 'Chas. Ellis His Book June 1st 1813' above a further inscription dated 1863, front pastedown with repetition of name Charles Ellis, contemporary half calf, rebacked, 8vo, together with a new edition of the same work, 1778, and 3 others related, comprising A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, by Edmond Hoyle, 10th edition, 1750, Mr. Hoyle's Games, 15th edition, circa 1770, and a defective copy of The Humours of Whist. A Dramatic Satire, As Acted every Day at White's and other Coffee-Houses and Assemblies, 1773, lacking F3-G4, and with lower outer corner of title-page torn away (with slight loss of imprint), disbound, 8vo in 4sQty: (5)Footnote: See Hargrave, p.427 (1778 edition); Jessel 1303. Little is known of mathematics teacher William Payne, except that he was acquainted to Samuel Johnson, who assisted Payne with his treatises on draughts (1756), geometry (1767), and trigonometry (1772). According to William Courtney, Payne's "directions are marked by an acute perception of the principles of Whist, and their author should be remembered as the second of the great students of the game." (Courtney, English Whist and English Whist Players, 1894, p.360)

[Pisarri, Carlo]. Istruzioni Necessarie per chi Volesse Imparare il Giuoco Dilettevole delli Tarocchini di Bologna, 1st edition, Bologna: Ferdinando Pisarri, 1754, engraved vignette on title-page, engraved headpiece depicting a group of men and women playing cards, ink library stamp on verso of title covered with portion of paper, scattered foxing, B8 with long vertical tear and associated stain, paper repair at lower margin on recto slightly encroaching on engraved tail-piece (repair itself with short worm trail), front free endpaper glued to pastedown, lacking rear free endpaper, and lower hinge with paper repair, contemporary boards, sometime crudely rebacked with paper, spine torn, with adhesive tape repair and loss, 8vo, together with: Attributed to Antonio Rodrigues Veloso de Oliveira. Tratado do jogo do Voltarete, com as Leis Geraes do Jogo, 1st edition, Lisbon: Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1794, first few leaves lightly water-stained at head of gutter, without index leaves bound at rear, red sprinkled edges, contemporary mottled sheep, rubbed and with some ink marks, rear cover bowed and joint splitting, upper joint split at head, 8vo, Tarot. Regole Generali del Giuoco delle Minchiate, Con diverse istruzioni brevi, e facili per bene imparare a giuocarlo, Florence: Stamperìa Vanni e Tofani, 1781, scattered foxing, and some toning, contemporary cream wrappers, dust-soiled, ink markings on front cover, small 8voQty: (3)Footnote: Carlo Pisarri's work is one of the earliest books describing the Italian trick-taking Tarot card game of Bolognese Tarocchini, played with 62 cards.

[Préchac, Jean de]. La Noble Venitienne, ou La Bassette, Histoire Galante, Lyon: Thomas Amaulry, 1679, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut head and tail-pieces and initial letters, occasional toning or spotting, red sprinkled edges, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated rubbed, title 'Venitienne' written in black ink in an early hand at head of upper cover, 12moQty: (1)Footnote: An uncommon novelette centred around the notorious Italian gambling game of Basset, first published in Paris by Claude Barbin in the same year as this edition. A key to the work is included at the end, together with an 8-page account of how to play the game. Seymour, in his Court gamester of 1725 described Basset as a game fit only for kings, queens and noblemen "by reason of such great losses, or advantages, as may be possible on one side or another, during the time of play".

Wells (Carolyn). The Rubáiyát of Bridge. With illustrations by May Wilson Preston, 1st edition, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1909, printed in black and orange, full-page illustrations throughout, original green cloth (slightly marked), with colour illustration mounted on upper cover (dust-soiled and with a couple of faint stains), 8vo, together with: Silva (Henriques da). Tratado do Jôgo do Boston, com a História das Cartas de Jogar em prefácio de Egas Moniz, 1st edition, Lisbon: Editorial Ática, 1942, errata slip (offset to last page of index), numerous black & white and colour illustrations, many full-page, original printed wrappers detached, spine stained and toned, 4to, Bray (Jean). How to Play Mah Jong, second edition revised and much enlarged. With an added chapter on Special Bonus Scores and "Limit Hands", London and New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924, half-title, numerous illustrations on letterpress, some full-page original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket, toned, with tear to lower portion of spine, 8vo, with folding colour Mah Jong score card loosely inserted, and 38 other early and later 20th century books relatedQty: (41)Footnote: The first item contains charming illustrations accompanying a poem about the game of Bridge: "Alas, how Subtle Bridge alluring Woos!/And robs me of my Nightly Beauty-Snooze./I often Wonder what Bridge Players gain/One-half so Precious as the Sleep they Lose."

Martin (George R.R.) A Game of Thrones, 1st UK edition, London: HarperCollins, 1996, 2 maps, textblock with light marginal toning (as often), original cloth, dust jacket, 8voQty: (1)

Martin (George R.R.). A Feast For Crows, Signed Limited Edition, London: HarperVoyager, 2005, sealed as new, original cloth boards, original slipcase, 8vo, together with: Fire and Blood, 1st UK edition, London: HarperVoyager, 2018, signed by the author, original boards, dust jacket, 8vo, with Game of Thrones, Preview Edition, signed by author & illustrator, London: Harper Collins, 1996, original paper wrappers, 12mo, with other Game of Thrones books & related ephemeraQty: (3 shelves)

Martin (George R.R.). A Game of Thrones, 1st edition, London: Voyager Harper Collins, 1996, signed by the author to title page, original cloth, slightly bumped to base of spine, dust jacket, fine condition, 4to together with: Martin (George R.R.). A Game of Thrones, Collector's Preview Edition, London: Voyager Harper Collins, 1996, signed by the author to title page, Waterstones Geroge R.R. Martin book signing card enclosed, original paper wrappers, spine faded, joints rubbed, extremities bumped, 12mo with: Martin (George R.R.). A Feast For Crows, 1st edition, London: Voyager Harper Collins, 2005, signed by the author to title page, original cloth, dust jacket, a couple of closed tears to front panel, small portion of rubbing with loss to base of spine, 4to with first editions of the remaining books in the series plus first editions of the Ice Dragon and Fire and Blood, 8vos and 4tosQty: (8)

* Webb Ellis (William, 1806-1872). English Anglican clergyman and the supposed inventor of rugby football while a pupil at Rugby School. A very rare Autograph Letter Signed, ‘W.W. Ellis’, Brasenose College, [Oxford], 2 July 1827, written while a student at Oxford University, to George Harris, Rugby [School], acknowledging receipt of £60 from the Trustees of Rugby School ‘for the whole of my Exhibition’, some slight toning, 1 page with integral address leaf with Brasenose College seal (and tear), postmark of the same date, a few small stains to blank area above address panel and some adhesion remains to blank recto, 4toQty: (1)Footnote: Provenance: Norris McWhirter (1925-2004), by family descent. Norris McWhirter was a British writer, political activist and television presenter, known most famously for founding, with his brother Ross, the Guinness World Records, which they wrote and annually updated together between 1955 and 1975. George Harris, Rugby School clerk, 1801-1857; members of the Harris family held this post continuously from 1740 to 1949. William Webb Ellis is widely but mistakenly believed to be the founder of the game of rugby, the legend being that in 1823 he picked up the ball during a game of football and ran with it. It was in 1987 that the first rugby world cup occurred and the William Webb Ellis trophy was born. Webb Ellis came up to Brasenose College in 1825, aged 18 and was awarded his BA degree in 1829. He then entered the church, becoming Rector of Magdalen Laver in Essex from 1855. The place of his death remained a mystery until 1959 when Ross McWhirter traced his grave to caveau no. 957 in the cemetery of Vieux Chateau in Menton, France. A copy of a sheet of computer-printed background notes about Webb Ellis which Norris McWhirter submitted to the Daily Telegraph sports editor on 17 November 2003, plus a photograph of the gravestone, is included with the lot. An autograph of extraordinary and mystifying rarity. Only two or three Webb Ellis autograph letters seem to be known, including one held by Rugby School and one at The World Rugby Museum online.

Vinyl - 16 Queen LPs to include Queen, II, Sheer Heart Attack, The Game, Greatest Hits, A Day at The Races, A Kind of Magic, The Miracle, The Works, Hot Space, Flash Gordon, A Day at the Races, News of the World, Live Killers, Jazz, and a Night at the Opera, vg

Vinyl - 14 Queen LPs to include II, Queen, Sheer Heart Attack, The Show Must Go On, The Game, Greatest Hits, A Kind of Magic, The Miracle, The Works, Hot Space, A Day at the Races, News of the World, Live Killers, Jazz, and a Night at the Opera, vg

Vinyl - Queen collection of 16 LP's to include The Miracle, At The Beeb, Live Magic, A Kind Of Magic, The Works, Hot Space, Greatest Hits, The Game, Live Killers, Jazz, News Of The World, A Day At The Races, A Night At The Opera, Sheer Heart Attack, Self Titled and Two. Sleeves & Vinyl at least Vg+ better in many cases

Vinyl - Queen & Freddie Mercury collection of 17 LP's including A Kind Of Magic, A Day At The Races, Greatest Hits, Live Magic, A Night At The Opera, The Miracle, Hot Space, The Game, At The Beeb, Queen 2, Sheer Heart Attack, Jazz x 2 (one US pressing), and Mr Bad Guy. Sleeves & Vinyl Vg overall

Vinyl - Collection of 11 Punk & New Wave LP's including Buzzcocks Love Bites, Jilted John True Love Stories (including game insert), Talking Heads Remain In Light (in shrink), Dr Feelgood, Graham Parker x 4, Elvis Costello x 2, Ian Dury. Condition varies