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Click here to subscribeA Quantity of Predominantly Circa 1970's TV Themed Jigsaws and Games, including Whitman Six Million Dollar Man jigsaw puzzle, Waddingtons Star Wars 'Entering the City' jigsaw puzzle, Denys Fisher Rod Hull's Emu game, Buddy L Knight Rider telephone intercom set, plus six Radica cube world games, playworn.
Chess.- Greco (Gioachino) The royall game of chesse-play· Sometimes the recreation of the late King, with many of the nobility. Illustrated vvith almost an hundred gambetts. Being the study of Biochimo the famous Italian, translated by Francis Beale, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles I by P. Stent, title with woodcut typographic border, woodcut illustration of a chess board, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, errata to verso of final f., a1&2 bound after title, lacking initial blank, portrait frayed at foot affecting caption, trimmed to within border and laid down, trimmed at head affecting headlines, a1 short tear to inner gutter affecting 2 or 3 letters, some staining, 19th century green mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, [LN 395; Whyld & Ravilious 1656:2; Wing G1810], small 8vo, Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1656.⁂ The first work on chess in English to note that the rook was sometimes depicted as a castle. This is a translation of Gioachino's Trattato del nobilissimo giuoco degli scacchi. Greco was a native of Calabria, the same province of Naples that had produced the chess masters Giovanni Leonard and Michele di Mauro. A5r has a poem by Richard Lovelace.Provenance: William Forbes Morgan (engraved bookplate).
Chess.- Philidor (François-André Danican) Chess analysed: or instructions by which a perfect knowledge of this noble game may in a short time be acquir'd, title with woodcut floral ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, a little soling to lower corners at beginning and end, occasional spotting, 19th century half morocco, gilt, [LN 486; Whyld & Ravilious 1750:2], 8vo, printed for J. Nourse, and P. Vaillant, in the Strand, 1750.⁂ First edition in English. Provenance: 'J.W. Rimington Wilson, Chess Library' (ink inscription to front free endpaper); Brooklyn Public Library (ink stamps to lower edge and modern rear endpaper).
Chess.- Philidor (François-André Danican) Analysis of the game of chess; a new edition, greatly enlarged, engraved portrait frontispiece (not called for), half-title, the 3 ff. of 'Rules of the Game' have been bound in twice, some spotting and staining, ink inscription ' to half-title, modern half calf, [LNN 489; Whyld & Ravilious 1777:4], Printed for P. Elmsley, in the Strand, 1777; and the 1790 London edition [LNN 491; Whyld & Ravilious 1790:8], 8vo (2)⁂ Provenance: 'Lieutn. Thom, Royal Navy' (contemporary ink inscription to half title); Michael Macdonald Ross, his sale, Phillips, 26th March, 1987, lot 469.
Chess.- [Twiss (Richard, editor)] Chess, 2 vol. in 1, engraved titles and 2 plates, errata f., offsetting, some light foxing, contemporary russia, gilt, rebacked, [LN 4543; Whyld & Ravilious 1787:7], 8vo, printed for G. G. J & J. Robinson, and T. & J. Egerton, 1787-1789.⁂ Includes 'The Morals of Chess' by Benjamin Franklin (pp.141-148 in vol.1), first published in The Columbian Magazine in December 1786. As one of the first Americans to play chess he advocates playing the game to develop skills, 'The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions...'.Provenance: Sir George Douglass (engraved armorial bookplate). Douglass was a subscriber to the 1790 edition of Philidor.
Chess.- Philidor.- Pratt (P.) Studies of chess; containing Caissa, a poem, by W. Jones, a systematic introduction to the game; and the whole analysis of chess by A. D. Philidor, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, vol.1 water-stained, both vol. occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, spine ends chipped, joints starting, but holding firm, [LN 601, this vol.1 only, vol.2 not in LN; Whyld & Ravilious 1805:4], scarce, 8vo, 1805.
Chess.- Ponziani (Domenico) The Incomparable Game of Chess, developed after a new method of the greatest facility from the first elements to the most scientific artifices of the game, translated from the Italian of Dr. Ercole Dal Rio, to which is prefixed, an essay on the origin of the game by Eyles Irwin, Esq., engraved frontispiece and diagrams, endpapers spotted, original boards, sympathetically rebacked, corners little worn, spotted, [LN 535; Whyld & Ravilious 1820:14], 8vo, 1820.⁂ With an ms. note by Sir Frederic Madden to front free endpaper on the 1769 and 1782 editions of this work and the erroneous attribution of it to Ercole del Rio. Provenance: Sir Frederic Madden (signed note); 'J.W. Rimington, Chess Library' (ink inscription to front pastedown); Richard Ford, his sale Phillips, 3rd October, 1985, lot 28).
ƟA.S. Byatt, Works including complete set of novels, first editions, signed by the author [London, 1964-2011]a group of 23 volumes, comprising: Shadow of a Sun (1964, author’s first work, endpapers a little spotted, spine of dust-jacket a faded), Degrees of freedom (1965, small closed tear to lower edge of dust-jacket upper cover, spine faded), The Game (1967, dust-jacket spine darkened, extremities chipped with slight loss), Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time (1970), The Virgin in the Garden (1978), Still Life (1985), Sugar and other Stories (1987), Possession, a Romance (1990), The Djimm in the Nightingale's Eye (1990), Passions of the Mind (1991), Angels and Insects (1992, dust-jacket spine faded), The Matisse Stories (1993), Imagining Characters (1995), Babel Tower (1996, spine faded), English Sort Stories (1998), Elementals, Stories of Fire and Ice (1998), On Histories and Stories, selected essays (2000), The Biographer's Tale (2000), Portraits in Fiction (2001), A Whistling Woman (2002), Little Black Book of Stories (2003), The Children's Book (2009), Ragnarok (2011), all signed by the author, original cloth or boards and dust-jackets present, overall fine set, 8vo Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟIan McEwan, the Complete Novels and early Short Stories, all first or limited editions, signed by the author [most London, 1975-2016]a group of 28 volumes, comprising: First Love, Last Rites (1975, author’s first work, an exceptionally clean copy), In Between the Sheets (1978, dust-jacket spine faded, edges a little spotted), The Short Stories (1978), The Cement Garden (1978), The Imitation Game... (1981), The Comfort of Strangers (1981), Or Shall we Die (1983, small stain to lower cover of dust-jacket), The Ploughman's Lunch, an original screenplay (1985, original printed wrappers), The Child in Time (1987), The Child in Time (1987, number 97 of 150 limited edition copies, cloth-backed boards, glassine wrapper), Somerset (1988, original printed wrappers), The Innocent (1990), Black Dogs (1992), The Daydreamer (1994), Enduring Love (1997), Amsterdam (1998), Other Minds (2001, number 31 of 100 numbered copies, original blind stamped cloth), Atonement (2001), Saturday (2005, one of 1500 signed copies, slip-case), On Chesil Beach (2007, number 88 of 100 numbered copies, cloth-backed boards, slip-case), Solar (2010, number 27 of 100 copies, original decorated morocco, slip-case), For You, the libretto (2008, signed limited edition, original printed wrappers), Sweet Tooth (2012), Sweet Tooth (2012, number vi of 25 copied in full leather, top edges stained yellow, slip-case), The Children Act (2014, number xxiii of 25 copied bound in full morocco, top edges stained red, together with a portfolio containing 4 facsimile sheets of McEwan manuscripts, with original slip-case), The Children Act (2014, number 30 of 150 copies in quarter morocco, top edges stained red, slip-case), Nutshell (2016, number 7 of 25 copies bound in full morocco, together with a copy of My Purple Scented Novel, in slip-case), Nutshell (2016, number 2 of 150 copies bound in quarter morocco, slip-case), all signed by the author, all original cloth or boards unless specified, all with original dust-jackets where applicable, an exemplary and fine set, 8vo Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Mixed Lot Of Childrens Games And Puzzles And Collectables To Include Giant Floor Puzzle Nursery Rhymes, ELC Softown Puzzle And Book, The Corner Shop Brian Eden Jigsaw, The Original Peter Rabbit And Friends Collection By Beatrix Potter, Thomas The Tank Engine Throwing Game, Early Learning Centre Alphabet Game, Copper Foil Engraving Set, Frustration Board Game, Marble Maze, Spell A Puzzle Game, VHS Toon Town, The Leonardo Collection Little Rascals By Christine Haworth, The Leonardo Collection Mondays Child By Christine Haworth, Stood Up Novelty Golfer Etc Please See Accompanying Image.
M.G. The Luck of the Game - Again Being the Story of the 1934 TT Race by Barré Lyndon. 24pp including the cream cover, well-illustrated and packed with information about the International Race, including an almost minute-by-minute, page-by-page bulletin of the event, accompanied by sepia photographs and a double-page impression, by Bryan de Grineau, of the winning Magnette. Intact spine, the front a little soiled with an agency stamp, but editorial good.
A Good Collection of Collector's Toys A pair of boxed Schuco Bugatti assembly models; also two smaller Bugatti Type-35; two metal Harley Davidson WL45 (1:18-scale?) models; two smaller boxed models; and a Schylling Speedway game. All in good condition, with original delivery boxes where appropriate. (9)
A boxed Airfix 'Filmoscope' and four boxed Airfix 8mm Filmstrips together with a boxed 'Vista-Screen' 3-D Viewer and a box containing 'Vista-Screen' views of the Cheddar Caves. Also included as part of this lot is a boxed Agfa 'Gucki' slide viewer, a quantity of Weetabox 3-D View Cards, a boxed Britex Univeral Microscope Accessory kit, a boxed MB 'Robotix' set and a Waddingtons 'Scoop' Game. Items unchecked for completeness. (12)
Bunny dressed as a Knight From Arthurian Legends Collection. A Knight of King Arthur's round table. Late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance story. Axe and head part of the beheading game and the exchange of winnings. Hand painted yellow, maroon, red, green and brown. Artist: Caroline Dadd Issued: 2004-Present Dimensions: 3.5"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
PAUL PETER PIECH unmounted limited edition (12/23) linoprint - of poem by Welsh poet Harri Webb 'HEAR IN THE HOUSE. WE ENGLISH ALWAYS PLAY THE GAME, BUT PLEASE DON'T THINK WE'RE FOOLS, FOR IF WE FIND WE'RE LOOSING, WE SIMPLY CHANGE THE RULES', signed, dated 1994, 63.5 x 46cms Provenance: to be sold with a copy of a handwritten letter from the artist to the owner.
NORFOLK: THETFORD: POSTCARD COLLECTION IN AN ALBUM, TANK WEEK RP, WAR MEMORIAL CEREMONY RP, SMITHY RP, GODDARD GAME DEALER SHOPFRONT, BELL HOTEL YARD RP, WHITE HART ST RP, MILL RP, FUNERAL PROCESSION RP, SEVERAL 1911 CAMP RP, RIVER, TOWN VIEWS, 1910 PROCLAMATION RP (2), 1908 PARK OPENING RP (2), CROXTON RP ETC. (151)
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