Barry (David Thomas) A Travelling Game of India Designed to Afford

Barry (David Thomas) A Travelling Game of India Designed to Afford Instruction and Amusement in the Home Circle, game map of the Indian subcontinent, tracing a course through 110 points from Pointe de Galle in Ceylon to Calcutta, lithographed map by T. Welch, with full original hand-colouring, and with 34 (?of 36) wood-engraved cards with illustrations of scenes in India, printed on sheets of blue paper, the game map 630 x 485 mm (24 3/4 x 19 in), the cards each approx. 110 x 190 mm (4 1/4 x 7 1/2 in), the cards loose, the map dissected and linen-backed, folding into contemporary cloth boards, some splitting to folds, marginal nicks, surface dirt and some abrasions, pictorial label mounted on upper cover, lower cover detached, scuffed and worn, oblong 8vo, Liverpool, Arthur Newling, Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, also Thomas Hatchard, and Simpkin, Marshall & Co., [1858]

Estimate:£800

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