Wallis' Locomotive Game of Railroad Adventures Author(s)_Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Wallis' Locomotive Game of Railroad Adventures Author(s)_Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)Britannia sits in the central panel of this cartographic board game, contemplating possibilities for commerce and the arts opened up by the new railways The 48 squares around the board depict locomotives, rolling stock, and some principal stations of the growing rail network. Also illustrated are the hazards of early rail travel some more catastrophic than others (floods, derailment, pigs on the line etc). Condition & Materials Engraved folding race

scenery and – of course – postage stamps

old tape marks on verso

both mentally and in his actions'

from the Cotton collection

By the 1850s the railway carried fresh Grimsby fish to Billingsgate and beyond

Estienne device to titles

This is Santini’s edition of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the Indian subcontinent and mainland southeast Asia

He published the first edition in Greek of Euclid's Elements (1533) and other works

original projects led many of Rocque's contemporaries into financial difficulties

The insets

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