Board & Table Games - Volume 2: From Many Civilizations

Bell, R. C.

ISBN 10: 0192175254 / ISBN 13: 9780192175250

Edité par Oxford University Press, London, 1969

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No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or rubbed or creased with minor traces of storage. 155pp. A study of Race games, War games, games of Position, Mancala games, Dice games Domino games, Number games, Manual Dexterity games, Word games and Card games. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inches.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Board & Table Games - Volume 2: From Many Civilizations
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, London
• Date de parution: 1969
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0192175254
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780192175250
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good (+)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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  • Games - Chess / Cards

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Synopsis

Bell, R.C. Board and Table Games from many Civilizations - Volume 2 (Complete in itself). Drawings by Barbara Ann Biles. Photographs by Kenneth Watson. Diagrams by the author. London, Oxford University Press, 1969. 8°. XX, 155 pages. Heavily illustrated with 26 plates and 113 text-figures. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition of this wonderful publication. Chapter One: I.Cross and Circle Race Games [Mentions the Game and references for the Game]: Pancha Keliya (Parker - Ancient Ceylon and Marin - An Ancestor of the Game of Ludo) / Edris A Jin (Culin - Chess and Playing Cards) / Kerala ( Commonwealth houseman) / Totolospi (Culin - Games of the North American Indians) / II. Spiral Games: Jubilee / III. Square Race Games: An eccentric Excursion to the Chinese Empire Snakes and Ladders / IV. Oval and Round Race Games - The Game of the Race / V. The Backgammon Group - Bttle Game, English Game, Lombard Game, Imperial Game, Provincial Game, Queen's Game / Mylis / Icelandic Backgammon / Chapter Two: War Games - I. The Alquerque Group - Fanorona / II. The Chess Group - Burmese Chess, Siamese Chess, Japanese Chess, Kriegsspiel / III. The Draughts Group - Turkish Draughts, Four Field Kono, Tigers and Oxen / IV. The Tafl Group - Throw-Board, Fithcheall, Asalto, The Tiger Game / V. The Latrunculorum Group - Sixteen Soldiers / VI. Running-Fight Games - Tab / VII. Lost Games - Chuki, Totolospi / Chapter Three - Games of Position - I. Morris Games - Achi / II. Blocking GAmes - Pong Hau K'I, Mu Torere / III. Five in a Row Games - Mulinello Quadruplo / IV. Replacement Games - Pyramid, Salta / V. Games of Territorial Possession - Wei CH'I, Agon / VI. Patience Games - French Solitaire, Seven-Piece Tangram, Fifteen-Piece Tangram / Chapter Four: Mancala Games - I. Two Rank Mancala - Ba-Awa, Lontu-Holo II. Four Rank Mancala - Hus / Chapter Five - Dice Games - I. Two-Sided Dice - Lu-Lu, Mon Shi Mo Ut, The Walnut Game, Pitch and Tos..

Présentation de l'éditeur

Perhaps the most authoritative work on the subject, this encyclopedic volume is a basic reference to board and table games from around the world. It provides the rules and methods of play for more than 180 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'i (Go), Backgammon, Pachisi, and many others. Over 300 photographs and line drawings.