Chess.- Severino (Marco-Aurelio) La Filosofia Overo il Perche de gli Scacchi [and] Dell' Antica Pettia Overo che Palamede non è stato I'Inventor de gli Scacchi, 2 vol. in 1, first editions, engraved portrait frontispiece to both vol., first work with full-page engraved illustration, second work with marginal worming towards end, not affecting text, both works some spotting and staining and mostly light browning, contemporary half vellum, small split in spine, rubbed and scuffed, [LN 171 and 4147], small 4to, Naples, Antonio Bulifon, 1690.

⁂ Severino was a skilled surgeon, holding the chair in surgery and anatomy at Naples University from 1615 until his death from plague in 1656.

Provenance: André Muffang, sale of his library, Drouot, 6th June, 1991, lot 200). Muffang was French chess champion in 1931 and competed in the chess Olympiads in the 1920s and 1930s.