[Chess]. Colombo, Michele. The game of chess. Venice, Giuseppe Orlandell, 1824. In 8° (148 x 90 mm); 174 pages. Engraved frontispiece (sporadic spotting.) Coeval vellum binding with gold title on orange gusset to spine (renewed sguards). Ex libris. New edition of the little treatise on the "Game of Chess" published by Giuseppe Paganino in Parma in 1821. Translation of the work Chess made easy of 1797. Also in the lot is theDissertation of the ch. signore d. Benedetto Rocco napoletano sul giuoco degli chess by Francesco Bourlié from 1817. (2)

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