Chess. Lambe, Robert. The History of Chess, together... Lot 710

[Chess]. Lambe, Robert. The History of Chess, together with Short and Plain Instructions. London, Wilkie, 1765. In 8° (205 x 118 mm); 148 pp. 1 fold-out engraved plate (browning, reinforcement to inner margin.) Rear leather binding. Ex libris and possession note by William Dansey. Second edition published one year after the princeps. Also in the lot among others Chess of 1789,A Treatise on theGameof Chess by J.H. Sarratt of 1808 and the text in the 1822 edition, Gioachino Greco on the Game of Chess of 1819, The Works of Gianutio and Eustabus Selenus edited by Sarratt of 1817, and A New Treatise on the Game of Chess also by Sarratt of 1821. (10)