1 "A.D." | Manuscript of Le Piquet..., Paris, 1772, contemporary French red morocco gilt

2 Automaton Chess Player | A group of 10 rare volumes on the purported Enlightenment precursor to modern-day artificial intelligence

3 Francesco Barozzi | Il nobilissimo et antiquissimo giuoco Pythagoreo nominato Rythmomachia, Venice, 1572, eighteenth-century morocco gilt for Doge Marco Foscarini

4 Filippo Beroaldo | Ein hüpsche subtyliche Declamation, Strassburg, 1513, a satire against vices including gambling

5 Claude de Boissière | Nobilissimus et antiquissimus ludus Pythagoreus, Paris, 1556

6 Sebastian Brant | Varia carmina, Basel, 1498, containing a poem about life as a chess game versus Death

7 Ibn Butlan | Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt, Strassburg, 1533

8 Ivan Butrimov | O shakhmatnoy igrye, St. Petersburg, 1821, inscribed by the author to the poet Nikita Ivanovich Butyrsky

9 Castiglione | Il cortegiano... Nuovamente stampato, Venice, 1546, contemporary limp vellum, Baron Christoph von Wolkenstein's copy

10 Jacobus de Cessolis | Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy

11 Jacobus de Cessolis | Libro di Givocho di Scacchi, [Florence,] 1493, the Dyson Perrins copy

12 Jacobus de Cessolis | De ludo scachorum, Toulouse, [c.1494], the Syston Park-von der Lasa copy

13 Jacobus de Cessolis | Tractatus de Scachis, 1505, the Zass-Blass copy

14 Jacobus de Cessolis | Opera nuova..., Venice, 1534, the Walker-Rimington-Wilson copy

15 Jacobus de Cessolis | Dechado de la Vida humana, Valladolid, 1549, first Spanish edition, von der Lasa-Robert Blass copy

16 Pedro de Cobarrubias | Remedio de jugadores, Salamanca, 1543

17 Stephanus Costa | De ludo, Pavia, 1489

18 [Charles Cotton] | The Compleat Gamester, 1674, 19th-century crushed morocco

19 Carlo Cozio | Nuova Idea per lo Il Giuoco degli Scacchi, manuscript, 1766

20 Artemidorus Daldianus | Oneirokritikön biblia pente, Venice, 1518

21 Pedro Damiano da Odemira | Libro da imparare giocare a scachi, Rome, 1524, third edition of the first Italian chess book, 19th-century red morocco, Giovan Battista Cini's copy

22 Pedro Damiano da Odemira | Libro da imparare giocare a scachi, Rome, undated, fourth edition, the Rimington Wilson copy

23 Pedro Damiano da Odemira | Libro da imparare giocare a scachi, [?Rome, after 1524], fifth edition, Niemeijer copy

24 Pedro Damiano da Odemira | Libro da imparare giocare à scachi, Rome, von der Lasa copy

25 Pedro Damiano da Odemira | Le plaisant jeu des eschecz renouvelle, Paris, 1560, [bound with] Xenophon, Le Mesnagier, 1562, contemporary limp vellum gilt

26 Pedro Damiano da Odemira | Libro da imparare a giocar à scachi, [Venice, ?1564], Carl Jaenisch's copy

27 Jean Pierre Elme Leduc [Saint-Elme-le-Duc] | Two manuscript volumes

28 Benjamin Franklin | Chess Made Easy, 1797, first edition

29 Benjamin Franklin | Chess Made Easy, Philadelphia, 1802, the earliest recorded chess book printed in America

30 Johannes Gallensis | Summa collationum, 1489

31 José Carlos Garcés y de la Sierra Boil de Arenós | Libro nuevo, juego de damas, 1684, a rare early Spanish work on checkers

32 Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geißler and Johann Georg Richter | Spiele und Belustigungen der Russen aus den niedern Volks-Klassen, Leipzig, [c.1802–1805]

33 Martin Gosky | Arbustum vel Arboretum, Wolfenbüttel, 1650

34 Karl Gottlieb von Windisch | Lettres sur le joueur d'echecs..., 1783, authorial presentation copy, bound with 2 further works, nineteenth-century armorial red morocco gilt

35 Gioachino Greco | Presentation manuscript of Trattato gioco de scacchi, Rome, 1620

36 Gioachino Greco | Manuscript of Trattato del nobilissimo essercicio de’ Scacchi, 1624, contemporary calf

37 Gioachino Greco | The royall game of chesse-play, 1656, first printed edition, Bridgewater Library duplicate

38 Emanuel Lasker | ‘The ancient game of chess’, autograph manuscript in English

39 Emanuel Lasker | Three autograph manuscripts, including "Die Elemente des Schachs [The Elements of Chess]"

40 Emanuel Lasker | Three autograph notebooks, including for the St. Petersburg 1914 tournament, 1914 and later

41 [Giambattista Lolli] | Manuscript of Sinopsi de sei capitoli componenti il Trattato dSinopsi de sei capitoli componenti il Trattato della difesa dell’Anonimo Modanese, 1762

42 Ruy López de Sigura | Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez, Alcalá de Henares, 1561

43 Ruy López de Sigura | Il giuoco de gli scacchi di Rui Lopez, Venice, 1584, first edition in Italian

44 Ruy López de Sigura | Le royal jeu des eschets avec son invention, science et practique, Paris, 1636

45 Ruy López de Sigura | Le jeu des eschecs, Bruges, 1655

46 Johann Jacob Löwenthal | Two autograph manuscript volumes, c.1860s

47 Luis Ramírez de Lucena | Repetición de amores y arte de ajedrez, [Salamanca, 1497], the oldest surviving book on the game of chess

48 Philip Marinelli | Triple chess, London, 1826, contemporary red morocco gilt