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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R. C. Bell. - - BOARD and TABLE GAMES From Many Civilizations by R.C. BELL Revised Edition Two volumes boundas one Dover Publications, Inc. New York Copyright © 1960, 1969 by Oxford University Press. Copyright ©
R. C. Bell. - - BOARD and TABLE GAMES From Many Civilizations by R.C. BELL Revised Edition Two volumes boundas one Dover Publications, Inc. New York Copyright © 1960, 1969 by Oxford University Press. Copyright ©
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... edition, first published in 1979, is a revised and corrected republication in a single volume of the work originally published by Oxford University Press, London, in two volumes. Board and Table Games 1 was first published in 1960 ...
... edition, first published in 1979, is a revised and corrected republication in a single volume of the work originally published by Oxford University Press, London, in two volumes. Board and Table Games 1 was first published in 1960 ...
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... EDITION THE author wishes to thank the many readers who have written to him over the last seven years; and whose comments and criticisms have brought about the changes and improvements in the present text, or have been incorporated into ...
... EDITION THE author wishes to thank the many readers who have written to him over the last seven years; and whose comments and criticisms have brought about the changes and improvements in the present text, or have been incorporated into ...
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... EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO SECOND EDITION ILLUSTRATIONS GLOSSARY Chapter One: RACE GAMES 1. CROSS AND CIRCLE RACE GAMES NYOUT Culin, S., Korean Games, Philadelphia 1895, pp. 66-73. Ruiz, Alberto, Anales del Institutio Nacional de ...
... EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO SECOND EDITION ILLUSTRATIONS GLOSSARY Chapter One: RACE GAMES 1. CROSS AND CIRCLE RACE GAMES NYOUT Culin, S., Korean Games, Philadelphia 1895, pp. 66-73. Ruiz, Alberto, Anales del Institutio Nacional de ...
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... edition of 1842, Minerva Library, 1890, p. 315. Petrie, F., Objects of Daily Use, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1927, p. 55. Parker, H., Ancient Ceylon, London, 1909, pp. 224,594. PALLANGULI Mohandas, S., personal ...
... edition of 1842, Minerva Library, 1890, p. 315. Petrie, F., Objects of Daily Use, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1927, p. 55. Parker, H., Ancient Ceylon, London, 1909, pp. 224,594. PALLANGULI Mohandas, S., personal ...
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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