AMANDA HALL RARE BOOKS TEFFONT 41 RECENT ACQUISITIONS AMANDA HALL RARE BOOKS Home Farmhouse Teffont Evias Wiltshire TEFFONT 41: SP3 5RG England RECENT ACQUISITIONS Tel: + 44 (0) 1722 717944 Fax: + 44 (0) 1722 717959 Email:
[email protected] Cover design taken from item 35, Tadini; title illustration from item 15, Harris. All books are sent on approval and may be returned for any reason within ten days of receipt. Any items returned must be insured for the invoiced value. All books remain the property of the seller JULY 2019 until payment has been received in full. EC customers who are registered for VAT should quote their VAT number when ordering. VAT number GB 685 384 980 1. [ARCHITECTURAL TOY.] SCHOLZ, J.A.? Verbesserter Griechischer Baukasten oder Architectonische Enterhaltung für Jung und Alt. Zweiter Theil. Divertissement de l’Architecture Grecque instructif pour la jeunesse. Germany, circa 1830. Boxed architectural game (160 x 128 x 45), comprising a sheet of instructions (83 x 100 mm), printed in German on one side and French on the verso, signed ‘J.A.S.’, 8 engraved cards with architectural designs (103 x 128), both the cards and the individual constructions numbered, the pictures printed in black and yellow with black hatching for shadow, each card backed with thick pink card, with 24 ‘mathematical shapes’ or wooden blocks in the main section of the box, a divider marks off a narrow section where there are 9 (of 10?) pieces of turned wood, made out of a paler wood, comprising two tall columns and various smaller pieces, the wooden box covered in red paper with black rules along the top rim, a sliding top acting as a lid, this is covered with an engraved title, with lettering in German and French and with a coloured engraving: a little worn and the title engraving a bit dusty, but still in good shape ready for construction practice.