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1. The Kinora.

The Kinora.
Date:
[1911?]
Physical Description:
1 mutoscope : mahogany, steel, glass ; 16 cm wide x 32 cm deep x 27 cm high (unfolded)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The Filoscope : skirt dance by the Sisters Hengler.

No cover image available
Date:
[1897?]
Physical Description:
1 flip book ; 7 x 9 x 3 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Unterhaltendes Mosaic-Spiel = Jeu amusant mosaique = Mosaic amusement.

No cover image available
Date:
[circa 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 game ; in box 9 x 9 x 2 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Pierce Egan's book of sports, and mirror of life : embracing the turf, the chase, the ring, and the stage / interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc.

No cover image available
Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
iv, 414 pages : illustrations. ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The complete sportsman, or, Country gentleman's recreation : containing the whole arts of breeding and managing game cocks, with the best methods of fighting them : of rearing and backing colts : of managing race-horses, hunters, &c. : of horse-racing : of bowling : of hare-hunting : of fox-hunting : of buck-hunting : of otter-hunting : of coursing : of breeding and ordering dogs for the gun or chase, &c. : of angling in all its various branches : of breeding pigeons, rabbets, canary birds, &c. : of finding the haunts of partridges, pheasants, and all manner of game : of shooting, and of shooting flying, &c. : together, with several other equally curious articles, too numerous to be mentioned in this title page / by Thomas Fairfax, Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Fairfax, Thomas, Esq.
Date:
[1760?]
Physical Description:
vi, [1], 8-240, [1], 2-24 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Spotter Card Trick.

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1930]
Physical Description:
1 card game : illustrations ; 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. How we fought the enemy.

No cover image available
Date:
[approximately 1898]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([6] panels) : color illustrations 12 x 46 cm, folded to 12 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

8. The Toy merchant.

No cover image available
Date:
1884
Physical Description:
[11] pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957

9. The Oracle of the arts; or, Entertaining expounder of the wonders of science. A series of amusing experiments, useful receipts, and interesting essays on popular arts and sciences. Illustrated by engravings on steel.

No cover image available
Date:
1824 [i.e. 1825]
Physical Description:
2 p.., iv, [5]-212 p. front., 2 plates. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The amusements of old London; being a survey of the sports and pastimes, tea gardens and parks, playhouses and other diversions of the people of London from the 17th to the beginning of the 19th century. By William B. Boulton, with 12 illustrations from contemporary sources, all coloured by hand ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Boulton, William B. (William Biggs)
Date:
1901
Physical Description:
2 v. col. front., col. pl. 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library