Edwardian Airship Racing Game Date of Publication_c.1860

Edwardian Airship Racing Game Date of Publication_c.1860Voyage en ballon dirigeable a travers lEurope No rule sheet, but fairly self explanatory: the board is a simplified map of Europe with vignettes of famous landmarks such as the Brandenburg Gate. The game starts and finishes in Berlin, and hazards include foul weather and fire. Saussine exhibited at the third Paris Worlds Fair in 1878 as an educational and parlour games publisher. After his death in 1896, the company was run by his widow and then his

although most of the European knowledge of the region in the first part of the 18th century was via Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries

Baron Ashley of Winborne St

dockyards and naval bases

and includes reference notes on tides

lower right hand corner torn but with no loss to printed area

loosely translated as ‘Contemporary History

21 (also noting copies dated 1611

prominence is given to relatively new form of private travel

followed by a shorter list of Ottoman commanders

the Local Act for the Government of the Poor

light waterstaining in margin

‘quality’