GIACOMETTI, François. Nouveau Jeu d' Echecs, ou le jeu de la guerre invention du Cit. François Giacometti, Genes, Jean Barthelemy Como, 1801, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, engraved frontispiece (blank section torn from F1), contemporary blue diced calf, flat gilt spine (rubbed, covers slightly discoloured). [Schachlitteratur 942; KB 4778]

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GIACOMETTI, François. Nouveau Jeu d' Echecs, ou le jeu de la guerre invention du Cit. François Giacometti, Genes, Jean Barthelemy Como, 1801, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, engraved frontispiece (blank section torn from F1), contemporary blue diced calf, flat gilt spine (rubbed, covers slightly discoloured). [Schachlitteratur 942; KB 4778]

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PROVENANCE: George Innes (bookplate); J.W. Rimington Wilson (autograph on front free endpaper).

The Italian edition was published at Genoa in 1801.

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