Null 1584. BOOK: (CHESS). RUI LOPEZ: IL GIUOCO DE GLI SCACCHI... TRADOTTO DA M. …

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1584. BOOK: (CHESS). RUI LOPEZ: IL GIUOCO DE GLI SCACCHI... TRADOTTO DA M. GIO. DOMENICO TARSIA. Venetia: Presso Cornelio Arrivabene, 1584. 8º larger. 4 h. + 214 p. + 1 h. Woodcut capitals, contains woodcuts of the board and each of the pieces. Enc. in half parchment of the period. Title page with some old ink stains and former owner's name. First Italian edition of this distinguished work on chess, where the Spaniard Rui Lopez establishes the bases of the strategy game that will govern until today. This is the FIRST ITALIAN EDITION of this rare work.

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1584. BOOK: (CHESS). RUI LOPEZ: IL GIUOCO DE GLI SCACCHI... TRADOTTO DA M. GIO. DOMENICO TARSIA. Venetia: Presso Cornelio Arrivabene, 1584. 8º larger. 4 h. + 214 p. + 1 h. Woodcut capitals, contains woodcuts of the board and each of the pieces. Enc. in half parchment of the period. Title page with some old ink stains and former owner's name. First Italian edition of this distinguished work on chess, where the Spaniard Rui Lopez establishes the bases of the strategy game that will govern until today. This is the FIRST ITALIAN EDITION of this rare work.

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[Chess]. Columbus, Michael. The game of chess made easy for beginners. Parma, Giuseppe Paganino, 1821. In 8° (193 x 123 mm);[10], V, [1], 130, [2] pages. Engraved frontispiece. Rear hardback binding. Specimen with beards and autograph dedication by translator Colombo. First edition that was actually printed by Giambattista Bodoni's widow. Also in the lot are Colombo's Il giuoco degli scacchi in the 1832 and 1857 editions, Ulysse Desroches' Trattato elementare del giuoco degli scacchi of 1837, Franco Sacchetti's Delle novelle of 1724, which in novella LXVIII discusses the "giuoco delli scacchi," and Arrighetto ovvero Trattato of 1730, the second Italian document in which the game of chess is mentioned. (6)

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[Bibliography - Chess]. Numerous Hoepli manuals devoted to the game of chess, also in various editions, with among others Il giuoco degli scacchi by L. Miliani of 1922, Il giuoco degli scacchi by Seghieri and Orsini of 1907, A.B.C. del gioco degli scacchi by Pasquinelli, to name a few. Also in the lot among many others are Salvioli's Teoria e pratica del giuoco degli scacchi from 1885 and F. Gamage, An artist in chess problems by Alain White from 1941. (Quantity)

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