Piacenza, Francesco. The camps of chess, or new... Lot 19

Piacenza, Francesco. The camps of chess, or new discipline of attacks, defenses, and parties of the game of chess. Turin, Antonio Beltrandi, 1683. In 8°(194 x 143 mm); 132, [4] pages. Portrait of the author on the antiporta, arms of the dedicatee, figures of chessmen on pages 29 and 112, 2 figures depicting two pawns added on pages 124 and 127 (spots.) Coeval vellum binding, manuscript title to spine. Monogram and note of ownership. Rare first and only edition in which the author sets out after covering the history of traditional chess in antiquity and in various countries the rules and various tactics.