Live veiling - Lot 602
[Board games]
Jeu géographique des LXXXIII. departemens présenté à la Convention Nationale.
Paris, Basset, 1792
€ 150 / 250
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Beschrijving lot
8vo (11 x 16,5 cm): 47 ff. (ms. notes, sl. us.).
Cardboard covered with blue paper (sl. us.).
Scrapbook with 83 fields cut out of an original goose board and pasted on papier vergé. The original game board consists of maps of the departments of France in a spiral arrangement, as well as of 3 inset maps: "La France divisiée en LXXXIII départemen[t]s avec les chefs-lieux", "Isle St. Domingue" and "Comtat Venessain avant sa réunion à la France". Includes text of game rules and indexed table of administrative divisions. Engraved by Chamouin and C.J. Chaumier.
Ref. Library of Congress