[Chess]. Ponziani, Domenico Lorenzo. The Incomparable Game of Chess. London, Stockdale, 1820. In 8° (202 x 125 mm); 340 pages. Antiporta, numerous diagrams in text (antiporta badly bound, light browning.) Modern half-leather binding with friezes and title in gold on spine. Work "developed after a new method of the greatest facility from the first elements to the most scientific artifices of thegame, translated from the Italian of Dr. ErcoleDalRio, prefixed with an essay on the origin of thegameby Eyles Irwin, Esq." Also in the lot is An EasyIntroductionto theGameofChess; containing one hundred examplesofgames, and a great varietyofcritical situations and conclusions; including the wholeofPhilidor's Analysis, with copious selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, etc. by Pratt of 1820 with 1 engraved and folded table several times, Chess problems of 1873, The History of Chess by Duncan Forbes of 1860, and Arthur Saul, The Famous Game of Chess-Play of 1614 in the 1974 anastatic. (5)