MAP GAME - SOUTH AMERICA


Wallis's New Game of Wanderers in the Wilderness, hand-coloured aquatint pictorial map of South America (populated with animals and sea creatures, fauna and peoples), with decorative title cartouche incorporating a tiger, snake, parrot, monkey and crocodile designed by J.H. Banks, dissected and laid on linen, together with the 16-page book of rules as issued in publisher's patterned cloth slipcase gilt lettered on upper cover, the map 670 x 510mm., Edward Wallis, [c.1844]
|An attractive map game, with the scarce original instructions, depicting South America populated with lively scenes of wildlife and local industries. The players are led through the continent, with an estate owner ("I employ here about two hundred negroes, who were formerly slaves, but I now pay them regular wages...") as guide, pointing out exciting features, "... a Bird of Paradise... What would some ladies of England give for his skin, to adorn their heads!", "Copiapo.. of the Chilean Andes. It consists almost entirely of an immense assemblage of fossil teeth".Provenance: Agnes Davis, ownership stamp on upper wrapper of the rule book.