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Lady Godina’s Rout – or – Peeping Tom Spying out Pope Joan – James Gillray – 1847

A special satirical print Lady Godina is a play on Lady Godiva. Pope-Joan is a card game and Lady Godina is holding the nine of diamonds which represents Pope Joan (the Pope that was said to be a lady). Note Voyager have an original Georgian Pope Joan Board for sale … see our Curiosities Section.

A fashionable crowd, with two card tables, a round table in the foreground at which four persons play Pope-Joan. The most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left who is Lady Georgiana Gordon the Duchess of Bedford (1781-1853). Her semi-transparent draperies revealing her person leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool is Albinia Countess of Buckinghamshire, a little girl, and an elderly man (Dr John Sneyd 1763-1835) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched for the background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban

James Gillray first produced this comic caricature in 1796. This issue in 1847 was published by Henry Bohn in London and whilst later is on a grander scale than the original. Expertly coloured.

Price unframed … ask for recommended framing options.

A popular card game and the exotic Lady Godina

$140.00

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The Modern Openings in Theory and Practice – A.P. Sokolsky

Published by Pitman, London in 1973. 238 pages plus index of players all in pretty good condition with an intact bright dust jacket.

Sokolsky new his beginnings … capable of thinking outside the central square. Original thinking is the key to this essential work.

Get it right from the start

$25.00

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Larsen’s Selected Games of Chess (1948-1969) – Bent Larsen

Published by Bell, London a First English edition 1970. 181 pages all in very good condition with a complete dust jacket.

The Danish Chess Grandmaster Bent Larsen was an aggressive player using every piece in full force. A man who thought there was forever a better game in him. Sought after edition

Have you played your best game yet?

$50.00

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Karpov’s Collected Games – David Levy

Published by RHM, New York in 1975 a First Edition of this must have chess book. Just over 300 pages of Karpov delight all in very good condition

A childhood chess genius and a champion of the Fischer/ Spassky era. This collection compiled with the co-operation of Karpov and includes 150 games from his own records along with many additional annotations provided by the great man himself.

Chess champagne or is it best Vodka

$40.00

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Tasmanian Invention – 1909 Patent – Fred Dando (of Beaconsfield) Game of Skill

British Patent no 19,390 by Fred Dando of Beaconsfield, Tasmania. Lodged 1908 and accepted ‘as patented” in 1909 – four pages of text and one double page with excleent drawings showing how the invention is constructed.

The invention relates to an improved game of skill and apparatus for playing same the game being played preferably by two persons one against the other, from each end of a race or box whereat is located a compound lever designed when quickly depressed to project a marble or ball to the desired distance and height to strike and, if possible, displace one of a series of marbles or balls of similar size arranged centrally one each on a tier located transversely at about midway of the said race or box [Long sentences patented also!]

The compound lever near each end of the box is designed to be struck by the players finger and thus cause its inner part upon which the marble is placed to project it forward with the object of striking on the before mentioned shelves and which latter are numbered 1 to 5 representing the players count when a marble is struck or displaced

The apparatus is made in the form of a two part box hinged together under the tier of shelves and capable of being folded together while also pockets or recesses are provided at each end for the players marbles and further the edges of the box are perforated and numbered to receive count pins etc etc…

Voyager considering making this device although probably not meet modern safety standard (hum) or have many digital application (ho hum) … but good marble chucking fun!

Games ingenuity in Beaconsfield in 1909

$70.00

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Lady Godina’s Rout – or – Peeping Tom Spying out Pope Joan – James Gillray – 1847

The Modern Openings in Theory and Practice – A.P. Sokolsky

Larsen’s Selected Games of Chess (1948-1969) – Bent Larsen

Karpov’s Collected Games – David Levy

Tasmanian Invention – 1909 Patent – Fred Dando (of Beaconsfield) Game of Skill

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