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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... Tailpiece: Antique Chinese Tableman in filigree ivory Chapter Two: WAR GAMES 38.Alquerque board (Ancien Egypt) 39.Alquerque 40.Stone Warriors 41.Fighting Serpents 42.Sixteen Soldiers 43.Ashtapada board 44.Moves in Shaturanga 45 ...
... Tailpiece: Antique Chinese Tableman in filigree ivory Chapter Two: WAR GAMES 38.Alquerque board (Ancien Egypt) 39.Alquerque 40.Stone Warriors 41.Fighting Serpents 42.Sixteen Soldiers 43.Ashtapada board 44.Moves in Shaturanga 45 ...
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... Tailpiece: English dicing cup Chapter Three: GAMES OF POSITION 76. Noughts and Crosses 77.Three Men's Morris 78.Three Men's Morris (another form) 79.Six Men's Morris 80.Nine Men's Morris 81.Board from the Gokstad ship 82.Dara 83.Go-Moku.
... Tailpiece: English dicing cup Chapter Three: GAMES OF POSITION 76. Noughts and Crosses 77.Three Men's Morris 78.Three Men's Morris (another form) 79.Six Men's Morris 80.Nine Men's Morris 81.Board from the Gokstad ship 82.Dara 83.Go-Moku.
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... Tailpiece: Wooden Wei-ch'i bowl filled with tze Chapter Four: MANCALA GAMES 104. Mankala'h 105. Mancala, Ancient Egypt 106. Wari 107. Awari 108. Chisolo Tailpiece: Antique Pallanguli board (redrawn from Durai) Chapter Five: DICE GAMES ...
... Tailpiece: Wooden Wei-ch'i bowl filled with tze Chapter Four: MANCALA GAMES 104. Mankala'h 105. Mancala, Ancient Egypt 106. Wari 107. Awari 108. Chisolo Tailpiece: Antique Pallanguli board (redrawn from Durai) Chapter Five: DICE GAMES ...
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... Tailpiece: Antique Chinese dicing cup of ivory Chapter Six: DOMINO GAMES 126. Chinese Dominoes 127. Domino wood-pile 128. Wood-pile for Collecting Tens Ma-jong tiles and counters Plate VIII. Lorry drivers playing Chinese chess Figure ...
... Tailpiece: Antique Chinese dicing cup of ivory Chapter Six: DOMINO GAMES 126. Chinese Dominoes 127. Domino wood-pile 128. Wood-pile for Collecting Tens Ma-jong tiles and counters Plate VIII. Lorry drivers playing Chinese chess Figure ...
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R. C. Bell. 134.Domino Crib 135.Matador 136.Cyprus Tailpiece: Ma-jong Flower tile Chapter Steven: MAKING BOARDS AND PIECES Tailpiece: Bell and Hammer mallet, dice and cup 137.Poker work.Fighting Serpents 138.Wood carving. Wari 139 ...
R. C. Bell. 134.Domino Crib 135.Matador 136.Cyprus Tailpiece: Ma-jong Flower tile Chapter Steven: MAKING BOARDS AND PIECES Tailpiece: Bell and Hammer mallet, dice and cup 137.Poker work.Fighting Serpents 138.Wood carving. Wari 139 ...
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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