Jeu des Cosaques.

£1,250 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A rare and interesting tabletop game played with dice where the aim is to get to the Cossack camp on the Champs-Élysées. The text in the middle explains the rules of the games and the consequences of landing on certain numbers. The illustrations include cossacks from the Don, Siberia, the Black Sea as well as Tatar, Kalmuk and Bashkir tribesmen. Engraved broadsheet (48 x 64 cm); rubbed, some small holes repaired with losses, closed marginal tears.

• Binding: Hardcover

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