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050 0 $aGV1319$b.C46 1801 Rosenwald Coll
082 0 $a794.1$219
100 10 $aChristie, James,$d1773-1831.
245 13 $aAn inquiry into the antient Greek game, supposed to have been invented by Palamedes, antecedent to the siege of Troy :$bwith 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.
260 0 $aLondon :$bT. Becket,$c1801.
300 $axvi, 169 p., iv, [1] leaves of plates :$bill. ;$c28 cm.
500 $aPublished anonymously. By James Christie. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.
500 $aThree of the illustrations are by Henry Tresham. Cf. Pref.
500 $aSpecial illustrated title pages for parts of the main work read: [p. 1] Of the antient games of skill. Of the [petteía, triódion], and ludus latrunculorum; [p. 27] Of the mixed games of chance annd skill. Of the alveus and [plinthíon]; [p. 53] Of the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European Chess. Of the [petteía], as known among the Chinese.
500 $a"Appendix" contains: Of the Scythian rites (p. 89-95); A dissertation upon the Athenian Skirophoria ... (p. [97]-122); A second dissertation upon the mystical signification of the bough and the umbrella ... (p. [123]-169, including "Postscript": Of the religion of the Pelasgi)
650 0 $aChess$xHistory.
651 0 $aGreece$xReligion.
651 0 $aAthens (Greece)$xReligious life and customs.
700 10 $aTresham, Henry,$d1749?-1814.