Author: Phillips Son & Neale (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Antique & Later Chess Sets and Related Items
Author: Phillips Son & Neale (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Antique and Later Chess Sets, and Related Items
Author: Antique & Later Chess Sets and Related Items
Author: Phillips (London).Antique & Later Chess Sets and Related Items to be Sold by Auction Monday 16 May 1994 at 2 Pm ...
Author: Phillips Son & NealePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess sets
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Antique & Later Chess Sets and Related Items to be Sold by Auction Monday 15 November 1993 at 2 Pm ...
Author: Phillips Son & NealePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess sets
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Antique and Lates Chess Sets and Related Items
Author: Ivory Vikings
Author: Nancy Marie BrownPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137279370
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
Antique & Later Chess Sets and Small Works of Art, Including a Collection of Toothpick Cases
Author: Pawn Power in Chess
Author: Hans KmochPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319695
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Profoundly original book demonstrates how basic relationships of one or two pawns constitute winning strategy. Multitude of examples illustrate theory. 182 diagrams. Index of games.
Vintage Chess Sets of the United States
Author: Duncan PohlPublisher:
ISBN: 9781537640846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A detailed record of vintage chess sets produced or designed by American companies, artists and designers.