[GAME WITH WORLD MAP]. VERNE, Jules.

Het Spel van de Reis om de Wereld.Leiden, P. van Santen (printed by G.J. Thieme, Arnhem), [1876]. Circular board game in a square ornamental border with advertisements in the corners (57.5 x 58 cm), printed (the text in letterpress) on a single sheet of thin newsprint. With 80 wood-engraved illustrations (one for each day) arranged in two circles around a circular map of the world (23 cm diameter), with instructions in two panels at the poles, and the title and name of the publisher at the head. Mounted on cloth and framed.

Buinsters, Papertoys, p. 269 (1 copy); information from the Dutch Jules Verne Society.First Dutch edition of a very rare board game, published by P. van Santen in Leiden to promote his Dutch Verne editions, which began in 1875 with Around the World in Eighty Days (with 52 engraved illustrations), first published in French in 1872 (in book-form 1873). The literature records only one other copy, at the Open Air Museum in Arnhem. The board game consists of 80 numbered wood-engraved scenes, most with the engraver's monogram, arranged in two circles. The title of each scene is printed letterpress above the outer or below the inner circle. A third circle inside them gives the Dutch title: "J. Verne. De Reis om de Wereld in 80 Dagen." In the centre is the world map that was also included in the book. Panels capping the poles explain the rules of the game, describing the obstacles players will meet while travelling around the world. The publisher filled the space outside the playing field with advertisements. In the top corners he briefly summarizes the forthcoming first eight volumes (in 40 parts) of his illustrated Dutch edition of Verne's collected novels, Wonderreizen (Voyages Extraordinaires, first published in French in 1874) and sets out the conditions for subscription. The bottom corners contain advertisements and announcements for other Van Santen publications, including five separately published Verne novels, some in press.The world map showing the route followed by Verne's leading character Phileas Fogg is based on a German example, probably by Adolf Stieler. Verne (1828-1905) was very impressed by Stieler's cartographical works and refers to his atlases in several of his novels. The game must have been published in 1876, for it notes the existing prospectus (published in 1876) of the collected novels, but notes the 1876 Kinderen van Kapitein Grant as in press. It also advertises the third Dutch edition (still 1875) of Around the World in Eighty Days. Buinsters dates it 4 August 1876, two months before a very different game on the same subject that had been announced earlier. A French board game based on Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours had appeared in 1875.With some tears expertly repaired, mostly along the former folds, but otherwise in very good condition. A Jules Verne board game, published four years after the first (French serial) publication of Around the World in Eighty Days.

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