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CHESS HYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem celeberrismus... De ludis Orientalium [-Historia Nerdiludii], 2 works in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1694 image 1
CHESS HYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem celeberrismus... De ludis Orientalium [-Historia Nerdiludii], 2 works in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1694 image 2
CHESS HYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem celeberrismus... De ludis Orientalium [-Historia Nerdiludii], 2 works in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1694 image 3
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HYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii... De ludis Orientalium, FIRST EDITION, Oxford, 1694

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
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HYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem celeberrismus... De ludis Orientalium [-Historia Nerdiludii], 2 works in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title with imprimatur on verso, text in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese, 3 engraved folding plates (one in Chinese, two of chessboards), woodcut and engraved illustrations in the text, occasional toning and light foxing, later vellum, title inked on spine [ESTC R1348; Cordier, Sinica 3142], 8vo, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1694

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One of the first scholarly works devoted to Chess, and other Oriental games including backgammon, draughts and dice. Includes texts in Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew. The author, Thomas Hyde (1636-1703), was Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford and Librarian at the Bodleian Library.

Provenance: Charles Bathurst, Sydney Park, bookplate.

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