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A41975 The royall game of chesse-play sometimes the recreation of the late king, with many of the nobility : illustrated vvith almost an hundred gambetts / being the study of Biochimo, the famous Italian.; Trattato del nobilissimo giuoco degli scacchi. English Greco, Gioachino.; Beale, Francis. 1656 (1656) Wing G1810; ESTC R23418 37,590 146

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