Manuscript Parlor Puzzle Guessing Game Of Famous Moments In History

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Bordeaux: ca. first quarter of the 19th century? . Oblong octavo album with 58 tipped-in pen & ink drawings, 55 of them using a combination of detailed landscapes, architecture, interiors, and stick figures to depict various scenes from classical times, the Bible, and European history, accompanied by 8 pages of a manuscript, titled Explications des dessins-Énigmes,” being a key to the illustrations and describing the moments depicted, in French. Contemporary cloth backed

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