Bowles's geographical game of the world: in a new complete and elegant tour through known parts thereof, laid down on Mercator's projection

Resource Type:: Object/Artifact
Publication:: 1803 to 1821
Printing:: London : Printed for the proprietors Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, [between 1803 and 1821]
Serial Holdings:: Housed in Weaver Collection.

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Contributors:: Bowles & Carver
Friends of the University of North Texas Libraries , donor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/dnr
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Subjects:: Geographical recreations — England — 19th century
1800-1899
Geographical recreations
England
Genres:: Games — 19th century — England
General Notes:: Date range determined from the territories on the map, dates in the Directions for playing, and dates for Bowles & Carver. Cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, p. 75.
Hand colored engravings mounted in 16 sections on linen.
Directions for playing printed and pasted along the East-West borders of the map.
In slip-case; paper labels pasted on with title and publication information on front, advertisements on back.
Whitehouse, F.R.B. Table games of the Georgian and Victorian days, p. 71, 96.
Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the UNT Libraries.
6/96/297
Physical Description:: 1 game : color map (paper mounted on canvas) ; 49 x 65 cm, in case 18 x 14 cm
Physical Characteristics:: paper; canvas
Call Numbers:: GV1485 .B69
OCLC Numbers:: 43878050