Game.- Wallis (Edward, publisher) Wallis's New Game of Wanderers in the Wilderness, folding pictorial map of South America with pictorial cartouche of tiger, snakes, parrot, monkey and alligator by J.H.Banks, etching and aquatint with full hand-colouring, 672 x 508 mm (26 1/2 x 20 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some small losses to edges and corners of sections, handling creases, surface dirt and surface abrasion, notably to the lower seas surrounding the cartouche, some sections starting to lift up from linen, with the very rare booklet of rules and descriptions, original printed green wrappers, slightly soiled and faded at edges, spine split and pages held together with old tape, presented together in original embossed cloth slip-case, upper cover titled and with decorations in gilt, rubbed and a little faded, edges worn, [Whitehouse p.16], small 4to, [circa 1844]

⁂ Charming game depicting scenes, geography, flora & fauna of South America including a jaguar, tapir, anacondas, llamas, condor, rhea, whales, collecting juice from an agave tree, washing margin diamonds in troughs, panning gold, a gaucho lassooing wild cattle, the towns of Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Valparaiso, Lima & Quito, and Alexander Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe) on the island of Juan Fernandez. It is a companion game to Wallis's Game of the Star-Spangled Banner, or Emigrants to the United States of c.1842, a copy of which was sold in these rooms in November 2019 (lot 275). Library Hub records 3 UK copies of the present game (BL, Cambridge and Oxford) but only the British Library copy is complete with the rules booklet. Another example was sold in these rooms, September 2020.