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PHILIDOR, François-André Danican. Praktische Anweisung zum Schachspiel, [translated from French by S.H. Ewald], Gotha, bey Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, 1779, 8°, first edition of this translation, engraved portrait of Philidor by G.A. Liebe after Bartolozzi, contemporary half calf (lightly rubbed) [VDL Geschichte I, p. 398; Schachlitteratur 811; KB 479]; and 8 others by Philidor, most in German, later 18th- and early 19th-century; the lot sold not subject to return. (9)