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HYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem celeberrismus... De ludis Orientalium [-Historia Nerdiludii], 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1694
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HYDE (THOMAS)
Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem celeberrismus... De ludis Orientalium [-Historia Nerdiludii], 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title, 3 folding engraved plates (one of Chinese text, 2 of chessboards), woodcut and engraved illustrations (including chess pieces and a giraffe) in the text, later vellum, soiled [Wing H3877, H3875; Cordier, Sinica 3142], 8vo 156 x 97mm.), Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1694
Footnotes
One of the first scholarly works devoted to Chess, and other Oriental games including backgammon, draughts and dice. Includes texts in Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew.
Provenance: J.H. Lewin (1831), inscription on title.
