GAMES & SPORTS
GAMES & SPORTS
Let's Play Doctor! —
Or, El Juego del Gato!
“Aficionado, Un.” Licito recreo casero, ó coleccion de cincuenta juegos conocidos comunmente con el nombre de juegos de prendas.... México: Oficina de Doña Maria Fernandez Jauregui, 1806. Small 8vo. 111, [1] pp.
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the first Mexican edition of a work that was first printed in Spain in 1798. All told there are fifty games with good, easy to understand instructions on playing them. The compiler's object is to offer “entretenimiento para pasar divertidas las largas noches del Invierno.”
Very uncommon: We trace
no copies of this to any U.S. library.
• Medina, Mexico, 9842. Sewn, in original marbled paper wrappers, lacking the rear one. Last few leaves with light waterstains and final page with light dust-soiling and a very few red ink spots.
With
aJAUNTY Woodcut
Bull at Top(Bullfight Program). [drop-title] Programma. Domingo 18 de fevereiro...em a nova bem construida praça no largo de Santo Antonio de Bomjardina.... [Porto: Imprensa Constitucional, 1838]. 4to (20.4 cm, 8"). [2] ff. 
Rare. No copies traced via the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal’s online catalogue, nor via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, and RLIN.
• A little light spotting and soiling. Inked numeral on first page.
WHISTCavendish. The laws and principles of whist stated and explained and its practice illustrated on an original system by means of hands played completely through. American edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, & London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., 1895. 8vo. Frontis., x, 318 pp.; illus.
• Publisher's cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities lightly rubbed, spine darkened with gilt dimmed. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated [18]96. Pages clean, two with lower corners dog-eared. All edges gilt. (13988)
Magic MalletStandish, Burt L. 
Dick Merriwell's polo team. Or, the magic mallet. New York: Street & Smith, (1906). 8vo. [4], 311, [7 (adv.)] pp. 
• Publisher's printed paper wrappers, edges chipped and corners lost. Being a "pulp" novel, this is on pulp paper — pages therefore age-toned, brittle, and breaking off where the corners are sharply dog-eared. (12422)
Two-MoversWhite, Alain, et al. A century of two-movers.
Stamford, CT: The Overbrook Press, 1941. 8vo. [4], 213, [3] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's maroon cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in original glassine dustwrapper; back cover with very faint, almost invisible scratch and dustwrapper with small edge chips and one larger chip to outer fold. A clean, solid copy. (14777)
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