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Bidding Information
Lot #    7250
Auction End Date    4/27/2004 2:24:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shahiludium
Title (Hebrew)    [מעדני מלך או מליצת הראב'ע]
Author    [First Ed. - Chess]
City    Oxonii [Oxford]
Publisher    Theatro Sheldoniano
Publication Date    1694
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [4], 184; 71, [2 folout charts] pp., 161:100 mm., usual age staining. A very good copy loose in contemorary leather boards, detached and rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Attributed to R. Abraham ibn Ezra, the work is an instruction manual of the chess game. Includes two foldout charts of chess position, and many woodcut illustrations of the game. Latin and Arabic translator - Thomas Hyde.
          
Reference
Description		    Ben-Jacob p. 334; Friedberg p. 640
        
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Chess
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Latin, Hebrew,
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica