Excerpt from Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum: Published Quarterly by the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art; July, 1913 The three carved ivory sets are beautiful examples of Chinese work manship. The finest and largest set mounted on carved balls, the property of Mr. John Culin, is especially worthy of careful inspection. The chess books range in date from 1525, Rome, down to the first book of the kind printed in America, Philadelphia, 1802, reproduced from medieval chess manuscripts, the oldest, Arabic ...
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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum: Published Quarterly by the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art; July, 1913 The three carved ivory sets are beautiful examples of Chinese work manship. The finest and largest set mounted on carved balls, the property of Mr. John Culin, is especially worthy of careful inspection. The chess books range in date from 1525, Rome, down to the first book of the kind printed in America, Philadelphia, 1802, reproduced from medieval chess manuscripts, the oldest, Arabic 1140. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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