Rare Game Map of South America

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Wallis's New Game of Wanderers in the Wilderness.

WALLIS, Edward
London,
Edward Wallis, 42 Skinner Street,
[c1844].
Engraved map with aquatint, dissected and mounted on linen, fine original hand-colour, folding into original red cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt, with original 16pp. instruction booklet.
680 by 500mm. (26.75 by 19.75 inches).
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This scarce and beautiful instructional game was to be played as a lotto, each player moving around the finely detailed map which is crowded with vignettes of South American life and wildlife. The game aims to teach an English audience about Latin America.

The game starts at Demarara, one of the three colonies that made up British Guiana. The intrepid traveller is welcomed by the local plantation owner. He offers the player a tour of this estate where he employs ...

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