Game wallis edward pub (1 Ergebnisse)

Hand-coloured engraving, in 16 compartments, backed on linen; expert repair to one fold not affecting image. With the 12pp rules booklet, sewn as issued in orig. printed pink paper wrappers. Both are in orig. green embossed moiré cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt; small nick with loss to front cover, sl. faded. A very nice example. Whitehouse p.16; BL, Oxford and Cambridge only in U.K.; Yale, Princeton, UCLA and Indiana only in the U.S. A companion game to The Star-Spangled Banner; or, Emigrants to U.S.A. The game is a single large map of South America illustrating its geography, wildlife and people, on land and off shore. The board is numbered 1 to 84, each number being explained in the accompanying booklet. Number 1 begins: 'Demarara. Welcome, gallant friends, to the shores of South America. I shall soon be ready to attend you on your journey to explore this land of wonders, for such you will indeed find it to be. 5. Here we stop a little, and gather a quantity of the leaves of this vine. See, our Indians are already at work. It is the Wourali, the juice of which furnishes the principal ingredient in the poison with which they anoint the tips of their darts. 22. Hark at the horrid sounds which proceed from the forest close by! It is the death roar of a Jaguar, which an immense Boa Constrictor is in the act of crushing to a jelly. 52. Juan Fernandez. This is the Island where Robinson Crusoe lived so many years. 82. Observe that Macoushi Indian; he is blowing a dart through his blow-pipe ten feet fong [sic], at a Toucan two hundred feet above him.' A rare and beautifully produced game.…