An Inquiry Into the Ancient Greek Game, Supposed to Have Been Invented by Palamedes, Antecedent to the Siege of Troy: With 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 RitesT. Becket, 1801 - 169 páginas |
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