CHRISTIE, James. An Inquiry into the Antient Greek Game supposed to have been invented by Palamedes, London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1801, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 3 aquatint and 5 engraved plates (2 plates slightly wormed at lower margins), contemporary marbled boards (rebacked in sheep, extremities rubbed). [VDL Geschichte I, p.12; Schachlitteratur 547; KB 184; Lowndes II, p. 443]

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CHRISTIE, James. An Inquiry into the Antient Greek Game supposed to have been invented by Palamedes, London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1801, 4°, FIRST EDITION, 3 aquatint and 5 engraved plates (2 plates slightly wormed at lower margins), contemporary marbled boards (rebacked in sheep, extremities rubbed). [VDL Geschichte I, p.12; Schachlitteratur 547; KB 184; Lowndes II, p. 443]

拍品专文

PROVENANCE: BL (stamp on verso of title and final leaf).

'By James Christie, the celebrated auctioneer ... held in much esteem by the learned' (Lowndes). Illustrated.