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Chess.- Tennis.- Billiards.- Divertissemens innocens, contenant les regies du jeu des echets, du billard, de la paume, du palle-mail, et du trictrac, first edition, engraved frontispiece by Adrian Schoonbeck, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, V6 small part of lower corner torn away, affecting part of catchword, lightly foxed, contemporary limp boards, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, [LN 3473], 12mo, The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1696.
*** Pages 1-324 contain an early edition of Greco.
Provenance: Francesco di Pietro (18th century ink signature to front pastedwon); Richard Ford, his sale, Phillips, 3rd October, 1985, lot 94.](https://am-s3-bucket-assets.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/forum/prod/lot_images/xlarge/46e122f3-9a90-ee11-b864-d4548b6f1f2f/524dc647-e591-ee11-817a-7c1e5204c008.webp "130
Chess.- Tennis.- Billiards.- Divertissemens innocens, contenant les regies du jeu des echets, du billard, de la paume, du palle-mail, et du trictrac, first edition, engraved frontispiece by Adrian Schoonbeck, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, V6 small part of lower corner torn away, affecting part of catchword, lightly foxed, contemporary limp boards, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, [LN 3473], 12mo, The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1696.
*** Pages 1-324 contain an early edition of Greco.
Provenance: Francesco di Pietro (18th century ink signature to front pastedwon); Richard Ford, his sale, Phillips, 3rd October, 1985, lot 94.")
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Chess.- Tennis.- Billiards.- Divertissemens innocens, contenant les regies du jeu des echets, du billard, de la paume, du palle-mail, et du trictrac, first edition, engraved frontispiece by Adrian Schoonbeck, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, V6 small part of lower corner torn away, affecting part of catchword, lightly foxed, contemporary limp boards, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, [LN 3473], 12mo, The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1696.
⁂ Pages 1-324 contain an early edition of Greco.
Provenance: Francesco di Pietro (18th century ink signature to front pastedwon); Richard Ford, his sale, Phillips, 3rd October, 1985, lot 94.
Lot 130
Chess.- Tennis.- Billiards.- Divertissemens innocens, contenant les regies du jeu des echets, du billard, de la paume, du palle-mail, et du trictrac, The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1696.
Hammer Price: £480
Description
Chess.- Tennis.- Billiards.- Divertissemens innocens, contenant les regies du jeu des echets, du billard, de la paume, du palle-mail, et du trictrac, first edition, engraved frontispiece by Adrian Schoonbeck, title in red and black and with woodcut printer's device, V6 small part of lower corner torn away, affecting part of catchword, lightly foxed, contemporary limp boards, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, [LN 3473], 12mo, The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1696.
⁂ Pages 1-324 contain an early edition of Greco.
Provenance: Francesco di Pietro (18th century ink signature to front pastedwon); Richard Ford, his sale, Phillips, 3rd October, 1985, lot 94.
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