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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... 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 Tailpiece: Ma-jong Flower tile Chapter Steven:
... 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 Tailpiece: Ma-jong Flower tile Chapter Steven:
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... discs of shell with red or blue centres set in bitumen which covered the wood and formed a background. The more elaborate board is completely covered with an incrustation of shell plaques inlaid with lapis lazuli and red limestone and ...
... discs of shell with red or blue centres set in bitumen which covered the wood and formed a background. The more elaborate board is completely covered with an incrustation of shell plaques inlaid with lapis lazuli and red limestone and ...
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... discs of pottery about 1 in. in diameter, plain for one side and and with a hole drilled through the centre for the other. The object of the game was to cross over and take the opponent's place, capturing as many men as possible on the ...
... discs of pottery about 1 in. in diameter, plain for one side and and with a hole drilled through the centre for the other. The object of the game was to cross over and take the opponent's place, capturing as many men as possible on the ...
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... discs of wood, ivory, or other material, all alike in size and shape. The ranks are written on the upper face, one side in red and the other in green or black. Some of the green characters differ from those of the red on pieces of the ...
... discs of wood, ivory, or other material, all alike in size and shape. The ranks are written on the upper face, one side in red and the other in green or black. Some of the green characters differ from those of the red on pieces of the ...
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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