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Ludus scacchiæ: = chesse-play : A game, both pleasant, wittie, and politicke: with certain briefe instructions therevnto belonging; translated out of the Italian into the English tongue. Containing also therein, a prety and pleasant poeme of a whole game played at chesse. Written by G.B.
LIBRA STC 6216
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Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 493:6.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Damiano, de Odemira, approximately 1480-approximately 1544.
- Vida, Marco Girolamo, approximately 1485-1566. Scacchia ludus, author.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 493:6.
- Standardized Title:
- Libro da imparare giocare a scachi. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chess--Early works to 1800.
- Chess.
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages, 30 pages, 2 unnumbered pages
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Other Title:
- Libro da imparare giocare a scachi.
- Chesse-play.
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at London : By [Valentine Simmes for] H. Iackson, dwelling beneath the Conduite in Fleetstreet, 1597.
- Notes:
- Slightly modernized extracts from the anonymous 1562 English translation of "Libro da imparare giocare a scachi" by Damiano da Odenara, with "Scacchia ludus" by Marco Girolamo Vida, in verse, translated by G.B.
- Actual printer's name from STC.
- With a final leaf of verse "To the reader".
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1952. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 493:06). s1952 miun a
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 6216.
- OCLC:
- 27692417
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