[CRIMEAN WAR.]

Jeu d'attaque de Sébastopol / Attack Game of Sébastopol.

After 1855. 2 boardgames: one (340 mm square) chromolithographed by Pellerin of Epinal, the other (380 mm square) a lithograph by Paulon for Jullien in Paris; both divided into four sections and mounted on folding card; some wear to folds but generally in good condition, housed in an original box, repaired, printed label to lid, printed rules of the game, in French and English (printed by Boisseau et Cie of Paris), pasted inside, some chipping to edges with slight loss. These French boardgames are the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern video games which appeared after the Gulf War. Devised to cash in on contemporary military events, the Jeu d’attaque may be a little tame for modern tastes (it is effectively a version of draughts in which one player, the besieging army, outnumbers the other, the besieged, 12 to 1), but must have been popular at the time, as the two versions offered here show. And not just in France: the bilingual rules, albeit with some errors in the English, point towards French producers targeting the British market.

• GBP 550.00 > otras divisas
• nº de pedido: F1016

• librero: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (GREAT BRITAIN)