BEYER, August. Memoriae Historico-Criticae Librorum Rariorum, Dresden and Leipzig, apud Fridericum Hekel, 1734, 8°, FIRST EDITION (some browning of later leaves), modern vellum-backed boards. [VDL Geschichte II, p. 427; Schachlitteratur 303; KB 3]

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BEYER, August. Memoriae Historico-Criticae Librorum Rariorum, Dresden and Leipzig, apud Fridericum Hekel, 1734, 8°, FIRST EDITION (some browning of later leaves), modern vellum-backed boards. [VDL Geschichte II, p. 427; Schachlitteratur 303; KB 3]

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cf. "Biblioteheca Scriptorum de Ludis", pp. 78-93. Apart from Thomas Hyde's De Ludus Orientalibus (1694), which includes a listing of books in vol. I, pp. 182-84, this is the earliest printed bibliography of chess books.

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