<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="2">(CHESS) Alfonso, King of Castile and Leon. THE SPANISH TREATISE ON CHESS-PLAY Written by Order of King Alfonso the Sage, in the Year 1283. Manuscript in the Royal Library of the Escorial (j.T. 6 fol.). Complete Reproduction in 194 Phototypic Plates. Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann. 1913. 2 vols. Large folio (19” tall). ff.(5),96;(2),(97)-194. Preliminary text (by John G. White) and title-pages in English & Spanish. Orig. green calf over heavy boards, spines a bit rubbed. $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times" FAMILY="SERIF" SIZE="2"><I>Very scarce and important facsimile. This manuscript is “the most important book on games which has descended to us from the Middle Ages” (preface). It is also the most important early illuminated manuscript (well over 100 large illuminations of chess play and the players) on chess, here reproduced entirely for the first (and only?) time. The N.U.C. only records 1 copy. The set weighs 31 lbs!<BR>
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