VERGILIUS, Polydorus. De Inventoribus Rerum libri VIII et De Prodigis libri III, Amsterdam, apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1671, 12°, engraved frontispiece, contemporary mottled calf, flat gilt spine (wormed at foot). [Willems 1464; cf. VDL Geschichte I, p. 11; Schachlitteratur 3111]

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VERGILIUS, Polydorus. De Inventoribus Rerum libri VIII et De Prodigis libri III, Amsterdam, apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1671, 12°, engraved frontispiece, contemporary mottled calf, flat gilt spine (wormed at foot). [Willems 1464; cf. VDL Geschichte I, p. 11; Schachlitteratur 3111]

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Lib. II, Cap. XIII, of De Inventoribus Rerum alludes to a game of chess played between Xerxes and Alexander the Great.

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