Filosofia cortesana de Alonso de Barros
Etching/engraving made by Mario Cartaro in Venice in 1588. The game squares, numbering up to 63, lead to the ships sailing in the centre of the board on the 'sea of suffering'.
The new beautiful and enjoyable game of apes
Etching published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi between 1640 and 1690. The game board has numbered pictorial compartments of animals, objects and characters, repeated in smaller equivalent squares below the rules of the game.
1680s. The Imperial Eagle, surrounded by medallions depicting commanders, holds chains in its talons attached to defeated Turks.
Simplistic spiral arrangement of game squares in an anonymous board produced in the 1700s.
Hand-coloured etching from the 1790s
Great game of the New Testament with 120 figures
The Noble Game of the Swan
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