Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
February 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/727
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    289 Chess Problems, transcribed from early MSS., 11 vol. half calf, g.t. binding of vol. I defective 4to. XIX CENT. *90 Chess World (The), 4 vol. in 2, cloth, 1866-9—Chess Player’s Chronicle, vol. I-VI, cloth, 1841-6; unbound periodicals, ete. 2 parcels 291 Ciccolini (T.) Del Cavallo degli Scacchi, half russia, Paris, 1836 —Madden (Sir F.) Remarks on the Introduction of Chess into Europe (extracted from the Proceedings of Roy-Soc. of Anti- quaries), with the author's MS. additions, unbound, 1832; and others 4to. (12) 292 Cobarrubias (Pedro de) Remedio de jugadores, gothic fetter, royal arms on title, wanting £8, a few leaves torn, title and many leaves defaced with pen-scrawls, old limp vellum; sold not subject to return sm. 4to. Burgos, Alonso de Melgar, 1519 293 Cobarrubias (P. de) Institutione de’ Givocatori, stained, inscrip- tions on title, vellum, Venice, 1562—I[ Bargagli (S.)] Dialogo de Givochi che nelle vegghie sanesi di fare, calf, 1b. 1581— Boccaccio (G.) Il Philocopo, title within woodcut border, vellum, vb. 1538; and others sm, 8v0. (9) 294 CocHRANE (JAMES) Games played by James Cochrane against Indian Players, with an Analysis of the Evans Gambit by Ghulam Kassim, autograph manuscript by Cochrane, 10 vol. half leather, rubbed folio 295 Cochrane (J.) A Treatise on the Game of Chess, half calf, 1822— Sarratt (J. H.) Treatise on Chess, boards, 1822—The Works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio, translated by J. H. Sarratt, boards, 1813; and others 8v0. (20) 296 CoLuMNA (I. DE) HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI, FIRST EDITION, 170 WOODCUTS, FINE IMPRESSONS, unmutilated, minute hole between two lines on a4 and a few faint pen-strokes on wood- cuts on e1 and £1, contemporary inscription on title: “ Ex libris Ant. Contu Turis doctoris in unwersitate Brturigt [i.e. Bourges|” XVIIIth Century French calf, 3-line fillet round sides, tooled back, g.e. J. F. Vandevelde’s copy, with his im- scription on fly-leaf, and bookplate, A VERY FNE COPY folio. (291mm. by 190 mm.). Venice, Aldus, 1499 [See ILLUSTRATION. | 29% CotumNna (F. pE) HypNnerotomacuig, ov Discours du songe de Poliphile . . . Novvelement traduict de langage Italien en Francois, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, woodcuts, unmutilated, D
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