Nouveau cadran de la montre geographique [game] : indiquant l'heure qu'il est au même instant dans toutes les parties du monde.

Accession number: 
PML 88578
Published: 
[Paris? : s.n., 18--]
Description: 
1 sheet : ill. (engraving) ; plate mark: 34 x 29 cm; sheet: 38.5 x 34 cm
Credit: 
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes: 

"(Cè Cercle représante la Terre, qui tourne autour du Soleil toutes les) [title] (24 Heures lorsqu'il est Midi à Paris, il est Minuit à lile des Amis)"--top of sheet.
"Nota. Assortimt. de Jeux de Société instructifs et amusans.-.Cartes de France et autres découpées par Départemens et par Royaumes en forme de Jeux de Patience"--bottom of sheet.
Educational game that shows the time differences in various parts of the world.
The game board is a non-colored engraved sheet, arranged in four concentric tracks, listing the hours (I-XII, I-XII), the zodiac signs, and the months of the year, all counter-clockwise. Two of the concentric tracks depict the inhabitants dressed in the typical fashion of their region from four continents and the various nations within. The innermost circle depicts the sun and four angles, symbolizing the cardinal directions.
In each of the four corners, enclosed in a circular frame, are featured four regions: Orient, Midi, Septentrion, and Occident.
The rules of the game are printed in the lower margin of the sheet, and the game is played counter-clockwise.

Provenance: 
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Classification: 
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