[CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

A$5,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher s imprint Bussière, Ed. Paris , framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at margins of the lid, not affecting the superb illustration); the box houses 12 playing boards (150 x 210 mm) each with a coloured lithographic illustration and a section of a world map with accompanying printed text, which when placed together form a large dissected map of the world; two original silk pouches, one containing 90 numbered wooden pieces (as called for) and the other 23 dyed bone (or shell?) discs; aside from the loss of some of the discs, the game is complete, with the contents and box in excellent condition. A beautifully designed mid nineteenth-century French children s game of geographical lotto. The map of the world is divided into a numbered grid. If the number on the wooden piece drawn from one of the pouches matches one of the numbers on a player s section of the map, the player covers the corresponding number on the map with a bone disc. Australia is labelled as New Holland on the map. The wonderfully evocative illustrations by B. Coudert, lithographed by H. Jannin, tell the story of a journey around the world made by Alfred, an intrepid young Frenchman who visits many exotic locations on his travels. The twelve illustrations

• Binding: Hardcover

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