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Hand-colored engraving with aquatint, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into original green cloth covers, blind tooled with title gilt, with original ties. This Victorian-era game aimed to teach an English audience about their European neighbors. 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 Arctic sea, to bull fighting in Spain, Russians travelling by horse-drawn troikas, and Germans producing porcelain.
Each location is numbered.
Text below the map reads, "Pubd. by E. WALLIS, 42 Skinner Street_Also Games of the Produce of England._The United States._South America._Historical Pastime. &c. &c. on a similar Plan."


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1823-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Wallis, Edward
colored ink; paper; gilt; linen; cloth
19 3/4 in x 26 1/4 in
Britain: London