- Bib ID:
- 3279222
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Wallis, John Samuel, 1825-1897
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1:43,000,000]
- Printer:
- Printed for Wallis & Son, 42, Skinner Street, Snowhill ; by F. Vigurs, 14 York Street, Covent Garden.
- Description:
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- London : Published ... by John Wallis at his Map Warehouse, 166 Ludgate Street, 1796
- 1 map: col. , mounted on linen ; 2 hemispheres each 30 cm. in diam., on sheet 50.3 x 61.9 cm.
- Summary:
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The game consists of the single sheet on which is printed two global views of the world--North and South America on the left, and Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia on the right--with numbered locations on each of the continents. On the bottom third of the sheet are printed the directions for how to play the game "Directions for making a tour round the world", the rules, and the locations numbered 1-100 with one sentence descriptions of each place.
The "new geographical pastime" is a game for 2-3 players. Beginning in Portsmouth and ending in London, England, the players spin the totum marked 1-8 [not supplied] and advance their pyramids [not included] to the numbered location on the map until circumnavigating the world from number 1 to 100.
- Notes:
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231169848
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- Also Titled:
- Complete voyage round the world
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1897
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1796
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