Le voyage autour du monde en 80 jours : d'apres le roman de Jules Verne : jeu de société. - Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.; Roche Frères (Paris) (Paris : Imp: Roche Frères, 1880)
A four-paneled, chromolithographed pictorial game board playing, measuring 49 x 58 unfolded cm (folding to 25 x 29 cm), mounted on hinged red cardboard backing sheet with a small folio 3 page instruction and rules booklet, captioned "description et règles du jeu" (measuring 24 x 16 cm); last page of booklet is blank; in addition to rules, the booklet outlines special actions or token penalties/rewards incurred by players from landing on certain spaces.
Caption title from rules booklet; imprint from lower left of playing sheet.
"Jeu du société très amusant" --After title at head of instruction booklet.
Date suggested by the "Collection Jules Verne" for game with this title variation.
Issued under various titles including, "Le tour du monde en 80 jours"; PUL also has a later (ca. 1915) version of the game, including the box, which is titled: "Tour du monde en 80 jours : d'après le roman de Jules Verne."
The game board has a central cut-away view of the globe (centered on the Pacific Ocean between "Amérique" and "Asie") surrounded by some "exotic" animals (tiger, snake, and crocodile preying on smaller animals), in turn surrounded by a track of 76 landing space segments, with spaces 1-42 running around the sheet's perimeter and spaces 43-76 inside, arranged around the globe; spaces 77-80 occupy "corner pieces" between the two sequences; depicted are events from the story and people and places from the travels, including a number depicting scenes and people from Japan and China; square 77, "Vue de Londres," is signed with a "JJF" monogram (Jeux et Jouets Francaise).
Lacks publisher's box (with chromolithographed top), 6 lead playing pieces (based on characters in the novel) currency tokens, dice, and dice cup.
Keywords: Board games -- Specimens -- 19th century; Travel -- Juvenile literature; China -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature; Japan -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature; Tiger -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature; Ephemera -- 19th century; Puzzles and games; Maps; Games