World - Rare Hand-colored World Map Board Game; Jacques Lacombe - Double-Hemisphere Map with Spiral Track, Encyclopédie Méthodique (18th C.) - 18th century

"World Map Board Game" is a hand-coloured engraved game board built around a double-hemisphere map of the world, with the continents, oceans and main countries named. Numbered playing spaces run in a spiral round the map, in the manner of the Game of the Goose, so that players travel across the world square by square.

The plate comes from the volume of games of the Encyclopédie Méthodique, edited by Jacques Lacombe and published in Paris by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, which described and illustrated card games, board games and games of skill.

Jacques Lacombe (1724-1811) was a French lawyer, man of letters and bookseller in Paris, who edited several volumes of the Encyclopédie Méthodique, among them the dictionaries of games.

Artist or Maker: Jacques Lacombe
Dimensions: Approximately 39 cm x 25 cm (15.4 in x 9.8 in)
Medium: Hand-coloured copperplate engraving
Date: 18th Century
SKU: LADHC3010

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