Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

CHESS SALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante, FIRST EDITION, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634 image 1
CHESS SALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante, FIRST EDITION, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634 image 2
CHESS SALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante, FIRST EDITION, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634 image 3
Lot 5

CHESS
SALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, FIRST EDITION, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,462.50 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

CHESS

SALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante, FIRST EDITION, second impression; Trattato dell' Inventione et Arte Liberale del Gioco di Scacchi, second edition, 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut device on titles, historiated initials, some foxing and light toning, contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine, some soiling, 4to, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634

Footnotes

Alessandro Salvio (1575-1640) was an Italian lawyer and acclaimed chess-player. He started a chess academy in his native Naples and was one of the most successful players of his time, excelling also in blindfold chess.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]

ARCHITECTURE - STUART (JAMES) AND NICHOLAS REVETT The Antiquities of Athens, 4 vol. bound in 2, 1825-1830

ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]

ARMENIAN - HISTORY, THEOLOGY AND PRINTING. Group of books/a map in Armenian, c.1825-1901 (12)

MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]

BANK NOTES - MANUFACTURING BRADBURY (HENRY) On the Security and Manufacture of Bank Notes, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury and Evans, 1856