Ruy López de Sigura | Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez, Alcalá de Henares, 1561

Ruy López de Sigura

Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del Axedrez. Alcalá de Henares: Andres de Angulo, 1561

FIRST EDITION, 4to (185 x 133 mm), woodcut initials, extensive early modern annotations, calf elaborately gilt (plausibly contemporary), spine with raised bands in 6 compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, slight spotting and soiling to title-page, inkstaining to A8, slightly shaved at top margin with (minor loss of text on some leaves), endpapers renewed, rebacked retaining some of original spine and covers

FIRST EDITION of this important text on the theory of chess. Translations were published in Italian (1584), French (1609) and German (1616). See lots 43-45.

LITERATURE:

USTC 339481; Linde 1608; Palau 141990; VDL Geschichte I, 347; Schachlitteratur 1608; KB 363; Lasa 1608