DAMIANO DA ODEMIRA (fl. early 16th century). Le Plaisant Jeu des Eschecz Renouuellé, auec instruction pour facilement l' apprendre, & le bien iouer [translated from Italian by Claude Gruget], Paris, par Guillaume le Noir, 1560, sm. 8°, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, publisher's device on title repeated on verso of final leaf, 46 woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials and ornaments (title and A2 affected by ink from the Blass library stamp), later 19th-century crimson morocco, gilt, sides with 3-line gilt rule and centrally-placed baronial armorial with motto 'Je le Tiens', elaborate gilt inner dentelles, vellum endpapers, g.e. [VDL Geschichte I, p. 343 (variant imprint); KB 356]