PHILIDOR, François-André Danican. L' Analyze des Echecs, contenant une nouvelle methode pour apprendre en peu de tems à se perfectioner dans ce noble jeu, London, 1749, 8°, second or third edition, title with woodcut ornament of two pecking birds (lacking a4-11, X5-6, these leaves supplied in contemporary manuscript facsimile, preliminaries repaired at inner margins), modern vellum-backed boards [VDL Geschichte I, p. 391; Schachlitteratur 1987; KB 446]; and 6 others by Philidor with 19th-century imprints, 5 in French, one in Spanish. (7)

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PHILIDOR, François-André Danican. L' Analyze des Echecs, contenant une nouvelle methode pour apprendre en peu de tems à se perfectioner dans ce noble jeu, London, 1749, 8°, second or third edition, title with woodcut ornament of two pecking birds (lacking a4-11, X5-6, these leaves supplied in contemporary manuscript facsimile, preliminaries repaired at inner margins), modern vellum-backed boards [VDL Geschichte I, p. 391; Schachlitteratur 1987; KB 446]; and 6 others by Philidor with 19th-century imprints, 5 in French, one in Spanish. (7)

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