Playing card with map of Asia including Australia

A$280 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[London : William Henry Rock, 1839]. Single playing card (from the deck of 52), 97 x 65 mm, verso blank, recto with engraved map of Asia stretching fro the Arctic Ocean to Van Diemen s Land, the Australian continent divided between New Holland and New South Wales, with coloured diamond in the centre. From the rare Court Game of Geography (1828, 1839), this is the only card with Australian content.

• Binding: Hardcover

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