Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) European Travellers, an Instructive Game, folding hand-coloured aquatint pictorial map of Europe, dissected and mounted on linen, c.500 x 670mm., colouring rather crude, soiled and lightly worn, some pencil scribblings and scorings (partly erased causing abrasion), creased at edges, folding into original blind-stamped green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, lacking ties, rubbed, a few stains, spine faded, E.Wallis, [c.1845] § Wallis (J. & E., publishers) The Panorama of Europe, a New Game, hand-coloured engraved sheet with 39 engraved city views in anti-clockwise spiral around title and larger central view of London, dissected and mounted on linen, c.475 x 630mm., rather soiled and browned, one or two stains, some sections creased at corners, lacking slip-case, J. & E.Wallis and J.Wallis Junr., 1815, [Whitehouse pp.16 & 37], small 4to & tall 8vo (2) ⁂ The first is a scarce race game from the Arctic Sea to London via the Urals, depicting polar bears and whales, Cossacks, sledging and troikas in Russia, camels in the Holy Land, porcelain-making in Germany, bull-fighting, wine-making and various city views.
Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) European Travellers, an Instructive Game, folding hand-coloured aquatint pictorial map of Europe, dissected and mounted on linen, c.500 x 670mm., colouring rather crude, soiled and lightly worn, some pencil scribblings and scorings (partly erased causing abrasion), creased at edges, folding into original blind-stamped green cloth, upper cover titled in gilt, lacking ties, rubbed, a few stains, spine faded, E.Wallis, [c.1845] § Wallis (J. & E., publishers) The Panorama of Europe, a New Game, hand-coloured engraved sheet with 39 engraved city views in anti-clockwise spiral around title and larger central view of London, dissected and mounted on linen, c.475 x 630mm., rather soiled and browned, one or two stains, some sections creased at corners, lacking slip-case, J. & E.Wallis and J.Wallis Junr., 1815, [Whitehouse pp.16 & 37], small 4to & tall 8vo (2) ⁂ The first is a scarce race game from the Arctic Sea to London via the Urals, depicting polar bears and whales, Cossacks, sledging and troikas in Russia, camels in the Holy Land, porcelain-making in Germany, bull-fighting, wine-making and various city views.
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