ANCIENT GAME - "NEW HISTORICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL GAME OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY". In the spirit of the Game of the Goose. c. 1820. Etching, on laid paper. In Paris, at Basset, Md d'estampes, Rue St Jacques, n°64. Copper margins. Game board with 63 numbered compartments aligned in a spiral; each containing an event in the life of a French king with an explanatory note and a portrait in medallion with the date of his coronation, detailed rules in the centre; the last compartment shows the entry of Louis XVIII into Paris. 49 x 65 cm. Condition B (Small lack at the lower left corner, some tears in the margins sometimes reaching the subject, some stains and freckles and traces of handling).
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ANCIENT GAME - "NEW HISTORICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL GAME OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY". In the spirit of the Game of the Goose. c. 1820. Etching, on laid paper. In Paris, at Basset, Md d'estampes, Rue St Jacques, n°64. Copper margins. Game board with 63 numbered compartments aligned in a spiral; each containing an event in the life of a French king with an explanatory note and a portrait in medallion with the date of his coronation, detailed rules in the centre; the last compartment shows the entry of Louis XVIII into Paris. 49 x 65 cm. Condition B (Small lack at the lower left corner, some tears in the margins sometimes reaching the subject, some stains and freckles and traces of handling).

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ANCIENT GAME - "NEW HISTORICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL GAME OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY". In the spirit of the Game of the Goose. c. 1820. Etching, on laid paper. In Paris, at Basset, Md d'estampes, Rue St Jacques, n°64. Copper margins. Game board with 63 numbered compartments aligned in a spiral; each containing an event in the life of a French king with an explanatory note and a portrait in medallion with the date of his coronation, detailed rules in the centre; the last compartment shows the entry of Louis XVIII into Paris. 49 x 65 cm. Condition B (Small lack at the lower left corner, some tears in the margins sometimes reaching the subject, some stains and freckles and traces of handling).
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