Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

66 c   (GAMES — JAPANESE.) Tomioka, Eisen. Shina Seibatsu Sugoroku. Color- tinted lithographed Sugoroku game board on 4 sheets joined. 29x40 1 / 4 inches, ample margins; very fine; retains the original printed outer envelope (10 1 / 4 x7 1 / 2 inches). Japan, Meiji 27 (1894) [700/1,000] Sino-Japanese War propaganda sugoroku game made up of 34 spaces depicting military and naval battle scenes. The game finishes at the final space of a map of Asia. An excellent example made even more desirable with the original pictorial envelope. 67 c   (GAMES — JAPANESE.) World map sugoroku game board. Offset color-printed pictorial game board map. 21x30 1 / 2 inches; folded with only minute separations at a few fold intersections, else very nice. Japan, (Showa 9) 1934 [700/1,000] This unusual and rare manga game board map was published for young women in Japan in 1934. It is played with dice and as a player makes the trip around the world she encounters a variety of international sites, cultures and contemporary cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Groucho Marx, Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler. The cartography is practically fantasy, but overall it is a rich and compelling composition.