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1892 GAMES ANCIENT AND ORIENTAL AND HOW TO PLAY THEM
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Current price : €165,00
Starting bid: €100,00
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# of bids: 7
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Location: Spain
Started: 2017-05-26 16:46:48
Ended: 2017-05-28 20:16:00
Seller: victorneus (878)  
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1892 "GAMES ANCIENT AND ORIENTAL AND HOW TO PLAY THEM"

Falkener, Edward: "GAMES ANCIENT AND ORIENTAL AND HOW TO PLAY THEM". Being the games of the ancient Egyptians, the hiera gramme of the Greeks, the ludus latrunculorum of the Romans, and the oriental games of chess, draughts, backgammon and magic squares. By Edward Falkener.

London and New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. Beautiful original grey cloth with blind stamped borders, gilt lettered spine, gilt lettering and portrait of Queen Hatasu in gilt on the front cover, with Ludus Latrunculorum vignette in gilt on the back cover. IV + 336 pages. In English. Printed on paper of very good quality.

 

Good to very good: Binding something frayed, and with some tiny spot. In very good condition, with sporadic and tiny spots, and some foxing on safeguards, and in the first and last pages (very few). Slight dirt on the outside edge of the pages. Small ink stain (a kind of deletion) in the photo after page 44. Light cracking between pages 128-129.

 

Linde - N. 235.

 

SPECTACULAR WORK ON DIFFERENT VARIANTS OF CHESS (MAINLY), AND OTHER BOARD GAMES.

 

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Item weight 1044g

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