An inquiry into the antient Greek game, supposed to have been invented by Palamedes, antecedent to the siege of Troy; with reasons for believing the same to have been known from remote antiquity in China, and progressively improved into the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European chess : also, two dissertations: I: On the Athenian Skirophoria; II: On the Mystical meaning of the bough and umbrella, in the Skiran rites / James Christie.

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  • ID: Sz 315
  • Author: Christie, James (1773-1831)
  • Title: An inquiry into the antient Greek game, supposed to have been invented by Palamedes, antecedent to the siege of Troy; with reasons for believing the same to have been known from remote antiquity in China, and progressively improved into the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European chess : also, two dissertations: I: On the Athenian Skirophoria; II: On the Mystical meaning of the bough and umbrella, in the Skiran rites / James Christie.
  • Publishing remarks: London : T. Becket, 1801.
  • Physical description: XVI, 169, [1] s., [5] tabl. : il. ; 28 cm
  • Binding: Tektura marmoryzowana, 19 w.
  • Patron: Marsac Christie, James (1773-1831)
  • Subject keywords: Szachy historia
  • Remarks: Przed k. tyt. dedykacja: "To Marsac with the respects the Author".
  • Bibliography: He *547
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  • 260 a London : b T. Becket, c 1801. e (London ; f W. Bulmer and Co. ; f Cleveland Row, St. James's)
  • 300 a XVI, 169, [1] s., [5] tabl. : b il. ; c 28 cm
  • 340 e Tektura marmoryzowana, 19 w.
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  • Signature: Sz 315
  • Copy location: Magazyn Druków Nowych