First Edition. 12mo.
Not in Sabin.
Not in Evans.
Not in Clayton-Torrence.
Not in Wroth,
William Parks, Printer & Journalist of England & Colonial America.
John Carter Brown Library, Report for 1927, page 18.
Edward Blackwell, d. 1734, was probably the son of Henry Blackwell, author of the
English Fencing-master
, on which
A complete System of Fencing was based and provided with an American preface.
Only two copies of this book are now known, one in the British Museum and the other in the John Carter Brown Library, acquired
after the publication of Dr. Wroth’s monograph on William Parks.
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Legerdemain.
1
Amusemens Physiques de Pinetti.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 53. no. 68, as above, with the reading
Amusements.
PINETTI,
Giuseppe.
Amusemens physiques, et différentes expériences divertissantes, composées & exécutées, tant à Paris que dans les diverses
Cours de l’Europe; par M. Joseph Pinetti de Willedai . . . Nouvelle Édition, augmentée par l’Auteur de six nouvelles expériences physiques, & de nouvelles gravures.
A
Paris: chez
Hardouin,
Gattey [de l’Imprimerie de
Laporte],
1785.
GV1547 .P64
8vo. 54 leaves, plates by Thiery, one with a bust of Pinetti, advertisement on the back of the half-title.
Entered on Jefferson’s undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
3.13.
Giuseppe Pinetti, 1750-c. 1800, Italian conjuror, was at one time a professor of physics. He appeared in Paris, Berlin, London and other towns,
and eventually retired to Russia, where he lost his fortune experimenting in aeronautics. Pinetti used several names, including
Pinetti Willedai.
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Games.
1
Le jeu des Echecs de Gioachimo Greco.
24
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 52. no. 15, as above, with 16s. for 24s.
GRECO,
Gioachino, Calabrese.
Le Jeu de Eschets traduit de l’
Italien de Gioachino Greco, Calabrois.
A
Paris: chez
Denis Mouchet,
1714.
GV1442 .G76
12mo. 184 leaves.
Quérard III, page 458.
Lasa, 988.
Schmid, page 187.
Van der Linde, page 364.
Gioachino Greco, Calabrese, fl. 1640, Italian, was the most outstanding chess player of the seventeenth century. His book was frequently reprinted,
and translated into several languages. The first translation into French was published in 1669.
[1170]
2
Maniere de jouer aux echecs de Stamma.
12
mo.
This book is not listed in the 1815 Library catalogue, though Stamma’s name is in the Index with reference to chapter 15.
The title is omitted from the later catalogues.
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3
Lambe’s history of Chess.
}
Philidore analyse des echecs
}
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 52. no. 67, Lambe’s History of Chess, and Philidore Analyse des Echecs, 8vo.
These two tracts were bound together.
