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• A Briefe and pleasaunt treatise, intituled: Naturall and artificiall conclusions: written firste by sundry schollers of the Vniuersitie of Padua in Italie, at the instant request of one Bartholmew a Tuscane: and now Englished by Thomas Hyll Londoner, as well for the commoditye of sundrye artificers, as for the matters of plesure, to recreat witts at vacant times.. (Imprinted at London : by Edward Allde., 1586.), by Saint Albertus Magnus, Anglicus Batholomaeus, Girolamo Cardano, Thomas Hill, Antoine Mizauld, and Johann Jacob Wecker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri VIII (per Ioannem Oporinum., 1555), by Joannes Oporinus, Eusebius of Caesarea, Lactantius, Sixt Birck, and Sébastien Castellion (page images at HathiTrust)
• An achrostickal epitaph on Sir Edward Sprague ([London : s.n., 1673]), by E. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anagram and acrostick on His sacred Majesty, K. James II. Relating to the late triple conjuction of Saturn & Jupiter in Leo, which began in October 1682. and still continues ([London] : Printed byr N.T. at the entrance into Old Spring-garden near Charing-cross, 1685), by Robert Scamler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Carolo Secundo Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regi, acrostichis ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Philip Woulfe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Carolo secundo Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ regi, acrostichis. ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Philip Woulfe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Gratamur geminos rudi achrostichide fratres ad natale solum reduces Regemque Ducemque Celsissimum Eboracensem Jacobum Stuartum ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Philip Woulfe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great Britains beauties, or, The female glory epitomized, in encomiastick anagramms, and acrostiches, upon the highly honoured names of the Queenes most gracious Majestie, and the gallant lady-masquers in her Graces glorious grand-masque. Presented at White-Hall on Shrove-Tuesday at night, by the Queenes Majestie and her ladies. With disticks, and illustrations, upon their severall anagramms, being in number fifteene, whose names ensure in order on the next side. Published by authoritie. Framed, and formed, by the humble pen of Francis Lenton, the Queenes poet. (London : Printed by Marmaduke Parsons, for Iames Becket, at the Inner Temple Gate, 1638), by Francis Lenton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To his higness Oliver Cromwell, Lord High Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. ([London : s.n., 1655]), by John Lineall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An acrostick upon the name of Mrs Elizabeth Ball. ([S.l. : s.n., 1700?]), by James Seguin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Epigrammata Guilielmi Blanci albiensis iurisconsulti in obeliscum (Ex Officina Bartolomaei Grassij, 1586), by Guillaume Blanc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anagram of his Excellency the Lord Generall George Monck, king come ore ([London : s.n., 1660]), by William Drummond (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anagram and acrostick on His sacred Majesty, K. James II. Relating to the late triple conjuction of Saturn & Jupiter in Leo, which began in October 1682. and still continues ([London] : Printed byr N.T. at the entrance into Old Spring-garden near Charing-cross, 1685), by Robert Scamler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great Britains beauties, or, The female glory epitomized, in encomiastick anagramms, and acrostiches, upon the highly honoured names of the Queenes most gracious Majestie, and the gallant lady-masquers in her Graces glorious grand-masque. Presented at White-Hall on Shrove-Tuesday at night, by the Queenes Majestie and her ladies. With disticks, and illustrations, upon their severall anagramms, being in number fifteene, whose names ensure in order on the next side. Published by authoritie. Framed, and formed, by the humble pen of Francis Lenton, the Queenes poet. (London : Printed by Marmaduke Parsons, for Iames Becket, at the Inner Temple Gate, 1638), by Francis Lenton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Innes of Court anagrammatist: or, The masquers masqued in anagrammes Expressed in epigramique lines, upon their severall names, set downe in the next page. Composed by Francis Lenton Gent. one of her Majesties poets. (London : Printed [by T. Harper] for William Lashe, 1634), by Francis Lenton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Remaines concerning Britain (At London : Printed by G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, 1605), by William Camden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The triumph of wit, or, Ingenuity display'd in its perfection. Being the newest and most useful academy, in three parts. Part I. Containing variety of excellent poems, pastorals, satyrs, dialogues, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, choice letters with their answers, ... and exactest collection of choice songs. Part II. Containing the whole art and mystery of love in all its nicest intreagues and curious particulars, ... with the description & anatomy of perfect beauty. Part III. Containing the mystery and art of wheedling and canting, with the original and present management thereof, and the ends to which it serves and is employed. Illustrated with poems, songs and various intreagues in the canting language, with the explanation, &c. To which is added, Instructions for dancing with musical notes. ([n.p.] : Printed for Nicholas Bodington at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane, 1688), by fl. 1680-1702 J. S. (John Shirley) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Royall anagrams expressed in English. (London : Printed by Anne Griffin, 1635), by John Pyne and Arthur Pyne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• I giochi numerici fatti arcani, palesati (B. Borghi, 1747), by Giuseppe Antonio Alberti and Giovanni Antonio Andrea Castelvetri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thaumaturgus mathematicus (Apud Constantinum Münich, 1651), by Gaspar Ens, E. Frederick Lang, and Constantin Münich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathematiques : contenant toutes celles qui ont été découvertes & imaginées dans ces derniers temps, sur l'aiman, les nombres, l'optique, la chymie, &c., & quantité d'autres qui n'ont jamais été rendues publiques : ou l'on a joint leurs causes, leurs effets, la maniere de les construire, & l'amusement qu'on peut en tirer pour étonner agréablement ... (Chez Gueffier, au bas de la rue de la Harpe, à la Liberté, 1769), by M. Guyot, Guillaume Germain Guyot, Edme-Gilles Guyot, and Pierre-François Gueffier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques, contenant ce qui a été imaginé de plus curieux dans ce genre et qui se découvre journellement; : auxquelles on a joint les causes, leurs effets, la manière de les construaire, et l'amusement qu'on en peut tirer pour étonner et surprendre agréablemment. (A la Librairie, rue S. André-des-Arcs, 1786), by M. Guyot, Guillaume-Germain Guyot, and Edme-Gilles Guyot (page images at HathiTrust)
• New recreations or A rare and exquisite invention, for the exercising of acute wits, and industrious dispositions. Replenished with mysteries, secrets, and rarities, both arithmeticall and mathematicall. Whereby any one of mean capacitie, may readily and infallibly finde out the Christian names of men and women, their titles of honour, ages, offices, trades or callings of life, places of birth, houses of residence appertaining to scholars, either in the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, or the inns of court and chauncerie. ... By Nich. Hunt, Mr of arts[.] (London : printed by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for Luke Fawn, at the Parrot in Pauls Church-yard, 1651), by Nicolas Hunt (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez (in Spanish; Salamanca: Leonardo Hutz y Lope Sanz, 1497), by Luis Ramírez de Lucena
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• Caxton's Game and Playe of the Chesse, 1474: A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, With an Introduction (London: Elliot Stock, 1883), by Jacobus de Cessolis, ed. by William E. A. Axon, trans. by William Caxton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The game of the chesse (J. R. Smith, 1860), by Jacobus de Cessolis, Vincent Figgins, 14th century Jean de Vignay, and William Caxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neue Mittheilungen aus Konrads von Ammenhausen Schachzabelbuch : zum ersten Mal gedruckt nach der Luzerner (Berner) Handschrift, mit Vergleichung der Zofinger und Heidelberger, und des Originals von Jacobus de Cessolis (H. R. Sauerländer, 1877), by von Ammenhausen Konrad, de Cessolis Jacobus, and Ferdinand Vetter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das goldene spiel von Meister Ingold. (K.J. Trübner; [etc., etc.], 1882), by Meister Ingold and Edward Schröder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of chess; containing, Caïssa, a poem (S. Bagster, 1814), by Peter Pratt, F. D. Philidor, and William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Académie universelle des jeux. Avec des instructions faciles pour aprendre à les bien jouer. (Amsterdam, 1758) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Schachzabelbuch Kunrats von Ammenhausen ... (J. Huber, 1887), by von Ammenhausen Konrad, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Ferdinand Vetter, Jakob Mennel, and de Cessolis Jacobus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analyse du jeu des échecs. (Londres, 1777), by F. D. Philidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chess analysed ; or, instructions by which a perfect knowledge of this noble game may in a short time be acquired (Printed for J. Nourse, and P. Vaillant, in the Strand, 1750), by F. D. Philidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praktische anweisung zum schachspiel (C.W. Ettinger, 1779), by F. D. Philidor, S. H. Ewald, and Schack Hermann Ewald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das schach des herrn Gioachino Greco Calabrois, und Die schachspiel-geheimnisse des Arabers Philipp Stamma (G. Löwe, 1784), by Gioachino Greco, Philip Stamma, and Moses C. M. Hirschel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of the game of chess. (P. Elmsley, 1777), by F. D. Philidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• De les costumes dels homens e dels oficis dels nobles sobrel joch dels eschachs (LʾAvenç, 1900), by Jacobus de Cessolis and Joseph Brunet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi sviluppato con nuovo metodo per condurre chiunque colla maggior facilità dai primi elementi fino alle finezze più magistrali : opera d'autore modenese divisa in tre parti ... (presso Simone Occhi, 1782), by Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Simone Occhi, and Friedrich Ludwig Benz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gesetze des schachs zu vieren. (Gedruckt mit Reyherischen schriften, 1779), by Ludwig Ernst II (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le jeu des eschets. (D. Mouchet, 1714), by Gioachino Greco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das dreyseitige Schachbrett, oder, Art und weise : auf demselben sich Selbdritte zu unterhalten, aus dem Italiänischen mit verschiedene Hauptsätzen, auch selbander... (E.F. Bader, 1765), by Filippo Marinelli and Cheremone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praktische Anweisung zum Schachspiel, (in der Ettingerschen Buchhandlung, 1797), by F. D. Philidor and Schack Hermann Ewald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch über das schachspiel, worin einige regeln, um es gut zu spielen, und den vortheil durch feine und schlaue züge, welche man die geheimnisse des spiels nennen kann, davon zu tragen, enthalten sind; durch einen gebornen Alepper aus Syrien. (Mit Manneschen schriften, 1812), by Philip Stamma (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité théorique et pratique du jeu des échecs (Chez Stoupe., 1786) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Volgarizzamento del libro de' costumi e degli offizii de' nobili sopra il giuoco degli scacchi di frate Jacopo da Cessole, tratto nuovamente da un codice Magliabechiano. (Tip. del dottore G. Ferrario, 1829), by Jacobus de Cessolis and Pietro Marocco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das schachspiel (H. J. Hölscher, 1822), by Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani and V. Mosler (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. H. Vida's Lehrgedicht über das schachspiel (F. Kupferberg, 1826), by Marco Girolamo Vida and Joh. Jos. Ign. Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro che insegna giocar a scachi nel qual li sono alcune suttilita belissime per guadagnar li giochi, et giochi de partido molto belli, et ingieniosi cussi al'antiga, come alla moderna cossa bellissima. (1630), by de Odemira Damiano and John G. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le royal et nouveau jeu des eschets, avec son invention, science, et practique, où par un tres docte & intelligible discours, sont amplement déscrits les moyens d'ordonner son ieu, tant pour l'offensive que defensive. (Chez A. de Raffle, 1674), by Ruy López de Segura (page images at HathiTrust)
• Giuoco de gli scacchi (Presso Cornelio Arriuabene, 1584), by Ruy López de Segura and Giovanni Domenico Tarsia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The buke of ye chess (Auchinleck Press, 1818), by Joannes Sloane, Jacobus de Cessolis, and Alexander Boswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marci Hieronymi Vidae Scacchia ludus, a Cosmo Grazino emendatus ... (apud C. Iuntam, 1604), by Marco Girolamo Vida and C. Grazino (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mss. XIX.11.87, membr., 24mo or 32mo, saec. XV. (1890), by Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The royall game of chesse-play. Sometimes the recreation of the late king, with many of the nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred gambetts. (Printed for Henry Herringman, 1656), by Gioachino Greco, Grenville Kane, Peter Stent, and Francis Beale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le royal ieu eschets, avec son invention, science, et practique, où par un tres-docte & intelligible discours, sont amplement descrits les moyens d'ordonner son ieu, tant pour l'offensive que ladefensive. (Chez C. de Govravlt, 1636), by Ruy López de Segura (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il gioco de gli scacchi : diviso in otto libri, ne' quali s'insegnano i precetti, le uscite, e i tratti posticci del gioco, e si discorre della vera origine di esso : con due discorsi, l'uno del Padre D. Gio. Battista Cherubino, l'altro del Dottor Mario Tortelli : opera non meno utile à professori del gioco, che diletteuole à gli studiosi per la varietà della eruditione cavata dalle tenebre dell'antichità : all'Illustriss. & Eccel. Sig. D. Francesco Branciforte, Principe di Pietrapertia, e Marchese di Militello (Per G. de' Rossi da Trento, 1617), by Pietro Carrera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Giuoco degli scacchi renduto facile a' principianti. (G. Paganino, 1821), by Michele Colombo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schachpartieen und Endspiele des Portugiesen Damiano, nebst der Kunst, aus dem Gedächtnisse zu Spielen (Veit & comp., 1857), by Damiano, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, and Robert Franz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die schaakpartijen. (A. Blomhert, 1865), by Gioachino Greco and Antonius van der Linde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libre de bones costumes dels homens e dels oficis dels nobles. Sermʹo d'en Jaume Cessulis en latʹi preycat, sobre lo joch dels scachs, trelladat en lo XVen segle a la lenga catalana (Stampa de F.X. Altʹes, 1902), by Jacobus de Cessolis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The game of the chesse; a moral treatise on the duties of life (F. Pitman; [etc., etc.], 1872), by Jacobus de Cessolis, J. De Vignay, and William Caxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libre de bones costumes dels homens e dels oficis dels nobles. Sermʹo d'en Cessulis en latʹi preycat, sobre lo joch dels scachs, trelladat en lo IVen segle a la lenga catalana (Stampa de F.X. Altʹes, 1902), by Jacobus de Cessolis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The game of the chesse (V. and J. Figgins, 1855), by de Cessolis Jacobus, William Caxton, Vincent Figgins, de Vignay Jean, and William Caxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi. English (Printed at London : By Roulande Hall, for Iames Rowbothum, and are to be sold at hys shoppe vnder Bowe churche in Cheape syde, 1562), by da Odenara Damiano and James Rowbothum (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Libro da imparare giocare a scachi. English. Selections (Printed at London : By [Valentine Simmes for] H. Iackson, dwelling beneath the Conduite in Fleetstreet, 1597), by da Odenara Damiano, fl. 1592-1597 G. B., and Marco Girolamo Vida (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Trattato del nobilissimo giuoco degli scacchi. English (London : Printed for Henry Herringman ..., 1656), by Gioachino Greco and Francis Beale (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The famous game of chesse-play truely discouered, and all doubts resolued; so that by reading this small booke thou shalt profit more then by the playing a thousand mates. An exercise full of delight; fit for princes, or any person of what qualitie soeuer. Newly published by A.S. Gent. (Printed at London : [By Thomas Snodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be sould at his shop neere Fleetstreet-Conduit, 1614), by Arthur Saul (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• De ludo scachorum. English ([Bruges : Printed by William Caxton and Colard Mansion, 1474 (31 March)]), by de Cessolis Jacobus and William Caxton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Holy appostle and doctour of the peple saynt Poule sayth in his epystle. Alle that is wryten is wryten unto our doctryne and for our lernyng. ([Westminster : Printed by William Caxton, 1483]), by Jacobus de Cessolis and William Caxton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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