Lopez de Segura, Ruy. Il giuoco de gli scacchi.... Lot 17
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Lopez de Segura, Ruy. Il giuoco de gli scacchi. Venice, Cornelio Arrivabene, 1584. In 4°(202 x 142 mm); [8], 214 pages. Typographical mark to title page (upper margin of last papers restored, outer margin of a few papers integrated). Contemporary vellum binding with manuscript title on spine gusset (new guards). Ex libris.
First run Italian edition with "elbow," "Gobito," and "Gombito" on lines 1, 3, and 6 on page 133. Fundamental treatise on chess by the Spanish monk RuyLopezde Segura, a great chess player and advisor to Philip II, who in this manual provides, among other things, for the first time a complete picture of the openings then known.
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