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An enquiry 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 : I. On the Athenian Skirophoria ; II. On the mystical meaning of the bough and umbrella, in the Skiran rites.
Christie, James,author 1801