Geographical game
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Author: Gaultier, Abbé Aloisius Edouard Camille
Title: A Complete Course of Geography, by means of Instructive Games, invented by the Abbé Gaultier...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for, and sold by Didier and Tebbett
Date Published: 1806
Description:
50 pp. With 13 double-page copper-engraved maps hand-colored in outline. (folio) 38x24 cm (15x9½"), original leather-backed marbled boards. Fifth Edition (so stated).
The course consists of two geographical games, with the ruled detailed in the text, and the maps are two maps each of Great Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and the World - one of the maps in each set is outline only (called a Plain Map), the other with place names added. There is also a map of Central Europe with place names added, though it is titled a Plain Map. Oddly, the plain of the world is on Mercator's projection, the detail map is a double-hemisphere.
The title, explaining the games in more detail, continues:
The Fifth Edition Corrected, Improved, and Divided into Two Parts. The First Part, containing The Game of Simple Geography, viz. That which teaches the Names and Situations of the different Countries and Places of the Earth. The Second Part, containing A Geographical Game, illustrative of Ancient and Modern History, to which is prefixed, A Treatise, or Short Account of the Artificial Sphere. Nota.--The following Things are necesary for the first Game, viz. I. A Set of Common Maps, and another containing merely the Outlines of Kingdoms, Provinces, Course of Rivers, Situation, Principal Towns, Islands, Mountains, &c. II. A Set of Counters, having the Names of Kingdoms, Provinces, Islands, Seas, Rivers, &c. marked on them; that the Pupils may themselves explain and point out their Situation on the plain Map.
The counters called for are not present.
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