A pair of rare game maps of the world

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Walker's Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Eastern Hemisphere, or Old World. An Amusing and Instructive Game. [and] Walker's Geographical Pastime, or Tour Through the Western Hemisphere, or New World. An Amusing and Instructive Game.

DARTON, William Junior
London,
Published by W. Darton & Son, Holborn Hill, of whom may be had by the same Author various other Instructive Games,
1834
Two engraved maps (each measuring 500 by 940 mm), both with fine original full-wash colour, each dissected and mounted on to a single piece of linen with the rules on each side, folding into original brown cloth slipcase, with publisher's label.
each: 500 by 940mm. (19.75 by 37 inches).
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Two companion geographical games of the eastern and western hemispheres.

The player begins his journey of the eastern hemisphere in Ireland, travelling through Europe, then on through Asia to China, the East Indies, and Australia. The player then crosses the Indian Ocean and visits the east coast of Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Middle East, where the traveller visits Mecca, whose temple is said to "resemble the Royal Exchange in shape, but is nearly t...

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