Board and Table Games from Many CivilizationsCourier Corporation, 2012 M04 30 - 464 páginas There are many authoritative books on card games and chess, but only a handful on the dozens of other games known to mankind. This excellent handbook by R. C. Bell is a basic reference to board and table games from around the world, and one of the two or three finest books ever written on the subject. Originally published in two volumes in the 1960's, it is now available for the first time in a corrected, one-volume edition. Mr. Bell's encyclopedic work provides the rules and methods of play for 182 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'I (Go), backgammon, Wari, Continental draughts, Pachisi, Japanese chess, Bidou, Domino Loo, Cribbage, and many others. Volume one is divided into chapters devoted to race games, war games, games of position, Mancala games, dice games, and domino games; volume two follows the same arrangement and then proceeds to games with numbers, card games requiring boards, and games requiring manual dexterity. Additional information is furnished on making boards and pieces, and on gaming-counters. Game players, toymakers, and historians of culture will welcome this guided tour of games from Egypt, Meso-America, the Orient, India, Persia, Rome, Africa, Victorian England, and many other societies. Over 300 illustrations, both photographs and line drawings, add an illuminating counterpoint to the text. |
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... Plate I. Royal and pleasant game of Goose IIa. Shaturanga IIb. Indian chess Figure 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Thaayan Board from Thebes Board from Megiddo Board from Ur Cribbage Board from Royal Tombs of Ur Diagram of Movement ...
... Plate I. Royal and pleasant game of Goose IIa. Shaturanga IIb. Indian chess Figure 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Thaayan Board from Thebes Board from Megiddo Board from Ur Cribbage Board from Royal Tombs of Ur Diagram of Movement ...
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... Plate III. 'The Chess Players' (Van Leyden) Pl.IV, Fig.52. Blind player's chess set Figure 53.Maharajah and the Sepoys 54.Chinese chess board 55.Chinese chess pieces 56.Jungle game 57.English draughts 58.Draughtsmen 59.Diagonal draughts.
... Plate III. 'The Chess Players' (Van Leyden) Pl.IV, Fig.52. Blind player's chess set Figure 53.Maharajah and the Sepoys 54.Chinese chess board 55.Chinese chess pieces 56.Jungle game 57.English draughts 58.Draughtsmen 59.Diagonal draughts.
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... Plate V. Hnefatafl in tenth-century manuscript Plate VI. Two consecutive pages from De Ludis Orientalibus Figure 69.Cows and Leopards 70.Seega 71.Multiple custodian capture 72.High Jump 73.Stone Ludus Latrunculorum board 74.Tablan 75 ...
... Plate V. Hnefatafl in tenth-century manuscript Plate VI. Two consecutive pages from De Ludis Orientalibus Figure 69.Cows and Leopards 70.Seega 71.Multiple custodian capture 72.High Jump 73.Stone Ludus Latrunculorum board 74.Tablan 75 ...
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... Plate VIII. Lorry drivers playing Chinese chess Figure 129. Ma-jong: Wind discs and Tong 130.Ma-jong: Dead Wall 131.Ma-jong: Change of direction 132. Development of Dominoes 133.The Block game 134.Domino Crib 135.Matador 136.Cyprus ...
... Plate VIII. Lorry drivers playing Chinese chess Figure 129. Ma-jong: Wind discs and Tong 130.Ma-jong: Dead Wall 131.Ma-jong: Change of direction 132. Development of Dominoes 133.The Block game 134.Domino Crib 135.Matador 136.Cyprus ...
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... Pieces for Game of Thirty Squares 159. Gambling sticks 160.Ivory billiard balls. Sundry dice 161.Wood-turning. All-tes teg-enuk 162. Cypher of Charles Cotton 163.Signature of Charles Cotton 164.Signature of Edmond Hoyle (?) Plates.
... Pieces for Game of Thirty Squares 159. Gambling sticks 160.Ivory billiard balls. Sundry dice 161.Wood-turning. All-tes teg-enuk 162. Cypher of Charles Cotton 163.Signature of Charles Cotton 164.Signature of Edmond Hoyle (?) Plates.
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Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, Volúmenes1-2 Robert Charles Bell Vista previa limitada - 1979 |
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Alquerque alternately as-Suli Author’s collection Awari backgammon banker Black Board and pieces called capture cards centre century Chess in Iceland Chinese dominoes circle colour count counters cowries cribbage Culin diagonally Diagram disc discard Domino Whist double draughts drawing edition eight empty enemy piece English draughts face Fiske gambling hand Hasami Shogi History of Chess Hnefatafl hole Iceland illustrations Initial position ivory jump king lifted London loses Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum Ludus Latrunculorum MANCALA marked markers Men’s Morris nine opening player Opening position opponent orthogonally pair passes Patolli pawn pays pieces move pips Plate player throws player’s pieces players place pool position of pieces Queen quong RACE GAMES rajah round Rules Scarne score seeds sequence Shatranj shown in fig side Squails stake sticks stones tailpiece takes tallies tangram teetotum three dice tiles trick turn of play Wei-ch’i winner wins the game