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Greco (Gioachino.): Le Jeu des Eschets. Paris, 1714.
Greco (Gioachino.): Le Jeu des Eschets. Paris, 1714. 
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Greco (Gioachino.): Le Jeu des Eschets. Traduit de l'Italien de Gioachino Greco, Calabrois. Paris, Denis Mouchet, 1714. The 5th French Edition, translated from the Italian. Nice copy. 12mo (85 x 150mm). Bound in contemporary vellum, darkened on the spine. pp(xx), 343. Without the privilege leaf. Move numbers have been added in the margin of first 67 pages in an early hand. With the 1689 edition "it rapidly established itself as the standard book on chess in the French language, and remained so until the mid-eigtheenth century." (Eales,History,p.98.) LN 404.
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