Author: MANDOS, KEES (CORNELIS ANTONIUS MARIA, 1913-2001),
Title: Het Insulinde Spel. [Originele uitgave; Original edition]. Helmond,
Description: Helmond, Uitgeverij Helmond, 1941. Large square folio (490x620 mm.). In-Plano centre folded. Original partly chromolithographed/printed elaborately illustrated boards table-game featuring the voyage from Amsterdam Central Station via Paris and Genua to the Dutch East Indies. Illustrations featuring trains, Eiffeltower, passengerships and all Islands of the Indonesian Archipelago. Gamers have to pass 68 numerical stations before arriving the final destination. Together with rules of the game on 4pp. and tourist information on 3pp. Elaborately illustrated table game with rather complicated rules and touristinfo. about the Dutch East Indies. Drawn and designed by Kees Mandos, dutch painter, draughtsman and graphic artist, copy signed and dated in the stone at tail margin. Very fine copy of this tablegame published under nazi oppression of Holland 1940-1945. Rare in such condition and completeness.

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