Word: juego
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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Included in the collection is also a very interesting copy of the first edition (1564) of Ruy Lopez' "Libro del Juego del Axedrez" which was given the College by Buckingham Smith, 1836, who evidently found it at Saint Augustine, Florida, when he was there in the 1840's. There is also a copy of a treatise in Latin written by an Italian lawyer, Tomasso Azzio, and printed in 1583 and a rather amusing work published in Boston in 1805. This last work, the "Elements of Chess", was the second book on the subject published in America and reflects the revolutionary...
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