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• Title:The royal geographical amusement, or, The European traveller / designed from the grand tour by Dr. Nugent.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1770.
  
• Physical Description:1 sheet : map ; 50 x 69 cm. folded to 18 x 13 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GV1199 .R69 1770
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy In marbled paper envelope, probably not as issued.
  
• Notes:Multi-player game requiring movement across an engraved map of Europe, with 102 cities briefly described.
  Game is mounted on linen.
  
• Variant and related titles:Royal geographical amusement
  European traveller
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Educational games--Great Britain--19th century.
  Voyages and travels.
  Grand tours (Education)
  Geographical recreations--Specimens.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1770.
  Engraving, Colored--Specimens--1770.
  Bowles, Carington--Publisher.
  
• Genre/Form:Games--Great Britain.
  Recreations--Great Britain.
  
• Also listed under:Nugent, Thomas, 1700?-1772.
  Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.