Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 438
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(GAMES.) Lambe, Robert. The History of Chess, together with Short and Plain Instructions by which any one may easily play at it without the help of a Teacher. Plate with chess board diagrams on recto and verso (outer half torn off). 148 pages. 8vo, 224x124 mm, contemporary wrappers, missing backstrip and lower outer corner of front cover; varying browning or foxing, opening leaves dog-eared; uncut. London, 1764

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first edition of the first English-language book on the history of chess.