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Chess. Barbeyrac, Jean. Traité du jeu. Amsterdam,...

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[Chess]. Barbeyrac, Jean. Traité du jeu. Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1709. In 8° (155 x 97 mm); [2], LXV, [1], 370; 371-646, [24] pages. Engraved frontispiece in the first volume, frontispiece printed in red and black (slightly browned.) Coeval bindings in bazzana with friezes and title in gold on gusset on spine, marbled edges. Also in the lot Nouveau manuel complet des jeux de calcul et de hasard by Lebrun, 1840, and Vida's Opera in the Lyon edition by Gryphius, 1547, which contains the famous poem "Scacchia Ludus." (4)