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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... century cribbage board in the author's collection is shown in fig. 16. The resemblance to the earlier boards is striking. Cribbage was invented by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) and was an improvement on an older card game, Noddy. There ...
... century cribbage board in the author's collection is shown in fig. 16. The resemblance to the earlier boards is striking. Cribbage was invented by Sir John Suckling (1609–1642) and was an improvement on an older card game, Noddy. There ...
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... century A.D. and belonged to the kings and nobility of a race known to archaeologists as the X-group people. They were probably the Blemyes, a powerful nation who lived south of the First Cataract. Between A.D. 250 and their final ...
... century A.D. and belonged to the kings and nobility of a race known to archaeologists as the X-group people. They were probably the Blemyes, a powerful nation who lived south of the First Cataract. Between A.D. 250 and their final ...
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... century. They prevented cheating by sleight of hand. The Qustul board, pieces, dice, and box were used for a game probably similar to those played by their ancestors, the Ancient Egyptians. LUDUS DUODECIM SCRIPTORUM There are frequent ...
... century. They prevented cheating by sleight of hand. The Qustul board, pieces, dice, and box were used for a game probably similar to those played by their ancestors, the Ancient Egyptians. LUDUS DUODECIM SCRIPTORUM There are frequent ...
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... century A.D. A raised moulded border surrounds the playing area which consists of two outer rows of twelve roughly inscribed ivy leaves, separated into groups of six by a central geometrical pattern. The middle row consists of twelve ...
... century A.D. A raised moulded border surrounds the playing area which consists of two outer rows of twelve roughly inscribed ivy leaves, separated into groups of six by a central geometrical pattern. The middle row consists of twelve ...
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... century later by Agathias, a scholastic of Myrine in Asia (A.D. 527–67). The position has been recovered by M. Becq de Fourquière and this sixth-century record enables us to reconstruct the game of Tabula with a fair degree of certainty ...
... century later by Agathias, a scholastic of Myrine in Asia (A.D. 527–67). The position has been recovered by M. Becq de Fourquière and this sixth-century record enables us to reconstruct the game of Tabula with a fair degree of certainty ...
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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