[Chess]. Rio, Hercules of the. Sopra il giuoco degli scacchi. Milan, Sonzogno, 1831. In 8° (163 x 104 mm); 110 pp. Engraved frontispiece (small hole in white margin of frontispiece.) Woodcut paper binding. Ex libris. Specimen with beards. Also in the lot a specimen with barbs of The Subtleties of Chess Exposed in a Collection of 160 Parties Chosen by the Best Authors with Tables from 1831 in 2 volumes, a specimen of The Incomparable Game of Chess ... a work by a Modenese author divided into three parts from 1792, and the text in Domenico Ercole's 1829 edition. (5)

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