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[Illuminated manuscripts]. Specimen no. 243 of theGoodCompanion(Bonus Socius), 13th Century Manuscript Collection ofChessProblems edited by James F. Magee in the Florentine edition of 1910, with colored antiporta and38 full-page reproductions of the original manuscript over 27 plates, some double-page, within hazel-colored leather editorial binding with studs and clasp. The volume also contains two short biographies of Philidor andLa Bourdannais. Also in the lotStatuts de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit in the Paris edition of 1853; The Castle of Monselice in the Venice edition of 1940; Les arts mineurs en Roumanie of 1934; La Cronaca figurata di Giovanni Villani - Ricerche sulla miniatura fiorentina del Trecento by Luigi Magnani of 1936;Il messale miniato del Card. Nicolò Roselli, known as the Cardinal of Aragon in the Turin edition of 1906; Livre du cuer d'amours espris by Herzog René von Anjou in the Vienna edition of 1926. (7)

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[Illuminated manuscripts]. Specimen no. 243 of theGoodCompanion(Bonus Socius), 13th Century Manuscript Collection ofChessProblems edited by James F. Magee in the Florentine edition of 1910, with colored antiporta and38 full-page reproductions of the original manuscript over 27 plates, some double-page, within hazel-colored leather editorial binding with studs and clasp. The volume also contains two short biographies of Philidor andLa Bourdannais. Also in the lotStatuts de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit in the Paris edition of 1853; The Castle of Monselice in the Venice edition of 1940; Les arts mineurs en Roumanie of 1934; La Cronaca figurata di Giovanni Villani - Ricerche sulla miniatura fiorentina del Trecento by Luigi Magnani of 1936;Il messale miniato del Card. Nicolò Roselli, known as the Cardinal of Aragon in the Turin edition of 1906; Livre du cuer d'amours espris by Herzog René von Anjou in the Vienna edition of 1926. (7)

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