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GAMES AND PASTIMES -- Al gioco cinese chiamato il rompicapo appendice di figure … Milan: Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi, 1818.
8° (222 x 144mm). Title with engraved vignette, 12 hand-coloured plates. (Light soiling and spotting, lower margin of 4 plates cut down.) Modern wrappers, original printed wrappers cut down and pasted onto sides (lightly rubbed, new endpapers), uncut.
A satirical work on a game of tanagrams called 'Rompicapo' (Broken head), and on the craze it provoked in Italy. Two editions of were published in 1818, one in Florence and this one in Milan. There is no copy in Worldcat with the Milan imprint and only four copies with a Florence imprint are listed in America (Harvard, Cleveland, Princeton and University of Utah). Only two copies are listed to have sold at auction on RBH, both with the Florence imprint.
8° (222 x 144mm). Title with engraved vignette, 12 hand-coloured plates. (Light soiling and spotting, lower margin of 4 plates cut down.) Modern wrappers, original printed wrappers cut down and pasted onto sides (lightly rubbed, new endpapers), uncut.
A satirical work on a game of tanagrams called 'Rompicapo' (Broken head), and on the craze it provoked in Italy. Two editions of were published in 1818, one in Florence and this one in Milan. There is no copy in Worldcat with the Milan imprint and only four copies with a Florence imprint are listed in America (Harvard, Cleveland, Princeton and University of Utah). Only two copies are listed to have sold at auction on RBH, both with the Florence imprint.
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