Chess Books of the 18th Century

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  Greco - The Game of Chess - 1713 Hoyle's Games - 1755 - signed Hoyle's Games - 1796 Academie Universelle Des Jeux - 1770 Nouvel Essai Sur Le Jeu Des - 1789  
  Greco - Chess Made Easy - 1750 Stamma - Nouvelle Maniere De Jouer Aux Echecs - 1777 Philidor - Analysis of the Game of Chess - 1777 Lambe - History Of Chess - 1764 Philidor - Analysis of the Game of Chess - 1790  
  Philidor - Chess Analysed - 1750 Stamma - Essai sur le Jeu des Echecs - 1737 Ponziani - Il Giuoco Incomparabile Degli Scacchi - 1782 Chess Prints from the 18th Century Twiss - Chess - 1787  
  Bertin - The Noble Game of Chess - 1735 Philidor - L'analyze des e'checs - 1749 Lolli - Osservazioni teorico-pratiche sopra il giuoco degli scacchi - 1763 Diderot Engravings - 1776 Hoyle's Book of Games - 1770  
  Philidor - Analysis of the Game of Chess - 1790 Philidor - Le Jeu des Échecs - 1792 Philidor - Analysis of the Game of Chess - 1790 Philidor and Stamma - Schachspiel - 1754 Franklin - Chess Made Easy - 1797  
  Stamma - Nouvelle Maniere De Jouer Aux Echecs - 1777 Il Gioco degli Scacchi, Poema Latina di Marco Girolamo Vida - 1791 Benjamin Franklin - The Morals Of Chess - 1786 Hoyle - 1760 Antique Board Games Print - 1784  
  Stamma - The Noble Game of Chess - 1745 Traité Des Amateurs - 1775 Twiss - A History of Chess - 1787 Hoyle - The Polite Gamester - 1766 Twiss - Chess - Volumes I and II  
  Ercole del Rio - Sopra il giuoco degli scacchi - 1750 Philidor - Praktische Anweisung Zum Schachspiel - 1771 Gentleman's Magazine - July 1787 Das Neue Königliche L´Hombre-Spiel Hamburg - 1743 Vierschach / Chess for 4 Persons - 1784  
  Bertin - The Noble Game of Chess - 1735 Walter Jones - Dissertations - 1792 Hoyle Books Hoyle's Games - 1748 Hoyle Books  
  Brunetti - Giuochi delle minchiate, ombre, scacchi, ed altri d'ingegno - 1747 Antique Print of Turkish Chess Game, 1732 Testimonial to Paul Morphy, 1859 Alexandre - Problemes d'échecs - 1846 Nouvelle Academie Universelle des Jeux - 1721  
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