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European Travellers an Instructive Game.
London,
Pub[lishe]d By E. Wallis, 42, Skinner Street,
[c1845].
Hand-coloured engraving with aquatint, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into original green cloth covers, blind tooled with title gilt, with original ties.
500 by 660mm (19.75 by 26 inches).
1223
notes:
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 European life and wildlife.
The game aimed to teach an English audience about their European neighbours. The game abounds with details of Europe's cultures, industries, topography, and natural history, from paddle steamers plying their trade in the Mediterranean and Atlantic; whales and polar bears in the ...
The game aimed to teach an English audience about their European neighbours. The game abounds with details of Europe's cultures, industries, topography, and natural history, from paddle steamers plying their trade in the Mediterranean and Atlantic; whales and polar bears in the ...
bibliography:
BL Maps 60.b.29.
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