Ludus Scacchiae: Chess-play: a game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke: with certain brief instructions therevnto belonging, translated out of the Italian into the English tongue: containing also therein, a prety and pleasant poem of a whole game playe
by Contributors: Odemira de Damiano; Marco Girolamo Vida; James Rowbothum; G. B.; G. W. B.; Claude Gruget; G Blochimo
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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[16]+30+[2] pages with illustrations and diagram. Small quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/2") in original boards and paper spine. 50 copies printed. Also appears as an appendix to the reprint of The paradise of dainty deuices by Richard Edwards (1810). (Whyld and Ravilious:1806:6) Reprint of the 1597 edition, variously dated 1806, 1809 and 1810.
Slightly modernized extracts from the anonymous 1562 English translation of Questo libro da imparare giocare a scachi by Damiano of Odemira (signed G B), together with "Sacchia ludus" (English translation of the poem by Marco Girolamo Vida, signed W. [G] B) and a final leaf of verse "to the reader" (signed: G B) Some authorities have identified GB as G Blochimo, but this is an error (See "Chess bibliography", Chess Monthly volume 5, 1861 pages 134-6. The true identity of G B is unknown.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C0685
- Title
- Ludus Scacchiae: Chess-play: a game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke: with certain brief instructions therevnto belonging, translated out of the Italian into the English tongue: containing also therein, a prety and pleasant poem of a whole game playe
- Author
- Contributors: Odemira de Damiano; Marco Girolamo Vida; James Rowbothum; G. B.; G. W. B.; Claude Gruget; G Blochimo
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harding and Wright
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1806?
- Pages
- [16]+30+[2] pages with illustrations and diagram
- Size
- Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
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