Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections

Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections

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From the chess collection of Lothar Schmid

Ruy López de Sigura | Le royal jeu des eschets avec son invention, science et practique, Paris, 1636

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Ruy López de Sigura


Le Royal jeu des eschets avec son invention, science et practique. Où par un tres-docte & intelligible discours sont amplement descrits les moyens d'ordonner son jeu, tant pour l'offensive que la defensive. Paris: Claude Gourault, 1636.


8vo (159 x 102 mm), title-page with woodcut device, nineteenth-century red morocco gilt for Harry Vane Milbank, with his coat of arms stamped at corners of boards, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, title-page with small repair at lower margin


Translated from López's original work in Spanish. This copy was owned by William Harry Vane Milbank, a notorious libertine. See lots 42–43 and 45.


PROVENANCE:

William Harry Vane Milbank of Thorp Perrow, Yorkshire (1848–1892), armorial bookplate and and coat of arms stamped to boards


LITERATURE:

USTC 6031152

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