 An inquiry into the antient 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: 1. On the Athenian Skirophoria. 2. On the Mystical meaning of the bough and umbrella, in the Skiran rites / [James Christie]
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