De Natura Novi Orbis Libri duo, et de Promulgatione Evangelii, apud Barbaros, sive de Procuranda Indorum salute Libri sex

by Acosta, Jose de (1539-1600)

[i-xx] [title, Dedication to Philip II, "Tassa" signed Christoual de Leon, "Erratas"]+1-640 pages [title to de Procuranda Indorum... dated 1588, Colophon dated 1588] Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 4 1/4") bound in contemporary full limp vellum with leather ties still intact. (Sabin 118) A reissue of the 1588 edition.Jose de Acosta (September/October 1539 - February 15, 1600), was a Spanish 16th-century Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America. Born at Medina del Campo in Spain, he became a novice in the... Read More

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White to Play. A Collection of Complete Block Two-Movers

by Alain Campbell White (1880-1951)

123 pages with diagrams and indexes. Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. A C White's Christmas series with Christmas greetings tipped in. (Betts: 35-3) First edition.100 examples of blocks by various composers, classified in 4 main sections: Block (sub-divided by king key, queen key, etc. Changed-mate blocks (sub-divided by type of key). Added-mate blocks (sub-divided by type of key). Block-threats (sub-divided by type of key). There is... Read More

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Les Mille et un Mats Inverses

by Alain Campbell White (1880-1951)

2 volumes: 510 pages with diagrams; lx+231 pages with diagrams and index. Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration to cover and gilt lettering to spine. A C White's Christmas series (Betts: 40-7) (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 2589) First edition.Volume one contains a collection of 1001 self-mates by various composers, mainly in 2, 3 and 4 moves, but also including some with longer solutions up to 8 moves. Volume... Read More

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Sketchbook of American Chess Problematists

by Alain Campbell White (1880-1951), Edgar William Allen and Burney Means Marshall

2 volumes. [4]+138 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and index; [4]+163 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and index. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine in original onion skin wrappers with original slipcase. Overbrook Chess Series number 2. (Betts: 32-32) First edition limited to 250 copies.The two volumes contain 166 problems (mainly direct mates in 2 or 3) by 84 American composers, accompanied by short accounts of their lives and their work... Read More

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Historia de México, desde los primeros movimientos que prepararon su independencia en el año de 1808, hasta la época presente

by Alaman y Escalada, Lucas Ignacio (1792-1853)

5 volumes. 495 pages with frontispiece, six plates, plan and appendices; 536 pages with appendices and index; 567 pages with appendices and index; 675 pages with appendices and index; 840 pages with appendices, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in quarter calf with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. (Palau 4576) Second edition.Lucas Ignacio Alamán y Escalada Alamán studied at the Real Colegio de Minas de la Nueva España, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain... Read More

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Das internationale Schachmeisterturnier im Ostseebad Niendorf vom 6 bis 14 August 1927

by Alfred Brinckmann (1891-1967)

59+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece, diagrams, and tables. Octavo (8 1/2" 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5416) First edition. Eight players traveled to Bad Niendorf in 1927 to compete in a small round robin tournament. They were Aron Nimzowitsch, Savielly Tartakower, Edgar Colle, Hans Kmoch, Borislav Kostic, Alfred Brinckmann, Karl Ahues, and Lajos Steiner. Nimzowitsch and Tartakower shared first place, both having gone undefeated. The final standings: =1st Nimzowitsch 5.5/7 * ½ ½ ½... Read More

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Brentano's Chess Monthly Volume 1

by Allen, Henry Clay (1836-1905), Gustavus Charles Reichhelm, Joesph Ney Babson (editors)

One volume in two parts. viii+308 pages with color frontispiece chess problem, black and white frontispiece chess problems, tables, diagrams, drawings and index; [309]-644 pages with color frontispiece problems in front of each number, tables and drawings. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in brown modern cloth with gilt lettering to spine. G Reichelm was the editor of the "Game Department"; J N Babson editor of the "Problem Section". Art work and drawings by R. Halm. (Betts: 7-28) First... Read More

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The Chess Amateur Volume I

by Chess Amateur

viii+382 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Volume I, twelve issues, published from October 1907 to September 1908. (Betts: 7-54) First edition.No principal editor is given in the text; various regular contributors. The Chess Amateur ran for 24 volumes from October 1906 to June 1930, each volume running from October until the following September except the final volume 24 which ceased after... Read More

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A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery of the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands

by Amsa Delano (1763-1817)

599 pages with frontispice, plate, tables and map. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/4") Bound in leather, respined with gilt. (HOWES D233. SABIN 19349. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 40635. HILL 463. RICH, pp.92-93. FORBES 463. NAYLOR 64.) First edition.Amasa Delano, whose Voyages and Travels (1817) was the source for Herman Melville's Benito Cereno (1855), was born in Massachusetts. After serving briefly in the Continental army during the American Revolution, Delano began a lifelong career as sailor, ship captain, and occasional shipbuilder,... Read More

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An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: containing one hundered Examples of Games, and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions; including the whole of Philidor's Analysis, with copious selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c. Arranged

by Anonymous

[26 ad]+282+[2 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original stiff boards with spine label in black lettering. (Hagedorn: 3. 1817) First American edition.This is the third chess book published in the United States and was not noted by Fiske in his bibliographical work. A revised edition was also published in 1817. Fisk first notes this in 1824, as a reprint of the London 1806 edition and notes that it was reprinted in England in 1809,... Read More

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Manual compendio de el regio Patronato Indiano: Para su mas facil uso en las materias conduncentes à la practica

by Antonio Joachin de Ribadeneyra Barrientos (1710-1773)

[24]+531 pages with engraved allegorical frontispiece and index. Small folio (11 1/2" x 8 1/2") bound in original full leather with raised spine bands and decorative gilt lettering. (Palau 266572. Sabin 70785) First edition.Full of original documents respecting the establishment of the Church in the Indies, and the protection of the Indians, together with all the bulls referred to, from that of Alexander VI to the time of publication. With the additional 24 preliminary leaves, not in all printings.The ancestors... Read More

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One Hundred Chess Problems

by Arthur Cyril Pearson (1837?-1916)

Unpaginated with color frontispiece diagram, numerous black and white diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to cover. [inscribed] (Betts: 33-64). Third edition.This edition contains four additional problems (2 four-movers, 1 three-mover and 1 two-mover) in addition to the 12 two-movers, 73 three-movers, 14 four-movers, 1 enigma and 1 retractor (frontispiece) with solutions at the end. Inscribed with the following "to Edward J T Woodward from A Cyril Pearson October 1900"... Read More

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Chess Lyrics: A Collection of Chess Problems

by Arthur Ford Mackenzie (1861-1905)

xciv+476 with frontispiece, portrait plate and diagrams. Thick octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in half leather with six raised spine bands with gilt lettering in brown spine label over marbled boards. Edited by Alain c White. (Betts: 33-55) First edition of White's first Christmas book.In his introductory essay, "Some thoughts on problem Matters," the author first gives an account of his own career in problem composition, with examples of his work; he goes on to deal with aspects... Read More

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Book of the Second American Chess Congress held at Cleveland, Ohio

by No author

112 pages with 2 portraits and diagrams. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in quarter brown cloth with marbled boards. (Betts: 25-8, (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5198) First edition.The second American Chess Congress was held in Cleveland on December 4–15, 1871 and won by George Henry Mackenzie. The first prize was $100 ($1,500 today) and the total prize fund was $290 ($5,000 today). The entry fee was $10 ($150 today). It was a double round robin tournament with... Read More

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Analysen Van AVRO's Wereld-Schaak-Tournooi

by Machgielis "Max" Euwe (1901-1981) signed by the author

146 pages with diagrams, tables and 8 plates of the participants. Octavo (8 7/8" x 6"). bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red boards with a black and white pictorial cover. [signed by Max Euwe] Dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Max Euwe Chess Club of Amsterdam tipped on front paste down. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5574) First edition.The A.V.R.O. 1938 was a double-round tournament held in November 1938 under the sponsorship of the Dutch wireless company,... Read More

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Basic Chess Endings

by Rueben Fine (1914-1993) signed by the author

xiv+573 pages with diagrams. Small Octavo. bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and stamping to spine and cover issued without jacket. Signed and limited to 500 copies of which this is number 26. (Limited edition not in Betts) First edition.Fine had an exceptionally brief but fruitful international career before changing from grandmaster to psychiatrist. Within three years, 1935-8, he developed from an unknown American master into co-winner of AVRO 1938, one of the highest-rated events ever held.... Read More

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Seven Hundred Chess Problems

by Baird, Mrs William James (Edith Elina Helen Wood) [1859-1924]

unpaginated (418) with frontispiece portrait and column diagrams. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative gilt cover, page ends in gilt, decorative flower gilt end papers, beveled edges. The text is printed in blue, the diagrams in blue and red. (Betts: 33-5) First edition.630 direct mates (286 two-movers, 315 three-movers, 24 four movers, 5 five-movers) and 70 self-mates, with solutions at the end. 2 large diagrams are given to each page.... Read More

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Il Libro del Cortegiano del conte Baldassar Castiglione

by Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)

4 books in 2 volumes: [8]+xvi+255 pages with frontispiece; 205 pages with index and errata. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4) bound in stiff wrappers with labels to spines and deckle edges. This edition not in Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana; however, there are a number of listings for this title in the bibliography (4315 through 4330), listing 16 editions of various dates and publishers. First published in 1528.Baldassare Castiglione, count of Novilara was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent... Read More

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Der fünfte Kongreß des Deutschen Schachbundes. Frankfurt a.m. 1887

by Bardeleben, Curt von (1861-1924), Herman von Gottschell and Jacques Mieses

288 pages with table and diagrams. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5223) First edition. This was the Fifth German Chess Congress of the Deutschen Schachbund (DSB - German Chess Federation). It took place in Frankfurt am Main in 1887, the venue being the Assembly Rooms of the Zoological Gardens. German chess benefitted from the rapid expansion of the economy after 1880, the period known as "Gründerzeit" (Founding... Read More

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Der fünfte Kongreß des Deutschen Schachbundes. Frankfurt a.m. 1887

by Bardeleben, Curt von (1861-1924), Herman von Gottschell and Jacques Mieses

288 pages with diagrams and tables. Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in quarter red cloth with purple stiff boards and gilt title to spine. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5223) First edition.This was the Fifth German Chess Congress of the Deutschen Schachbund (DSB - German Chess Federation). It took place in Frankfurt am Main in 1887, the venue being the Assembly Rooms of the Zoological Gardens. German chess benefitted from the rapid expansion of the economy after 1880, the period... Read More

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Brvtvm fvlmen: or The bull of Pope Pius V. concerning the damnation, excommunication, and deposition of Q. Elizabeth : as also the absolution of her subjects of their oath of allegiance, with a peremptory injunction, upon pain of an anathema, never to obe

by Barlow, Thomas [Lord Bishop of Lincoln] (1607–1691)

[a2-a6]+[b-b7]+[c-c7]+[d-231]+[5] pages. Small square octavo (7 ¾" x 6 ¼") bound in full leather. Second edition. Thomas Barlow (1607-1691) was an English academic and clergyman, who became Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford and Bishop of Lincoln. He was considered, in his own times and by Edmund Venables writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, to have been a trimmer, a reputation mixed in with his academic and other writings on casuistry. His views were in fact Calvinist and... Read More

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Crónica de Michoacán

by Beaumont, Pablo de la Purísima Concepción (c1710-c1780)

3 volumes. xxix-574 pages with 4 folding maps; 466 pages with folding coats of arms, 6 folding native illustrations and map; 469 pages with 2 coats of arms (one folding) and 6 folding native illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") bound in three quarter blue leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Rafael Lopez. From the library of George Foster. Publicaciones del Archivo General de la Nacion volume XVII, XVIII and XIX.There are only... Read More

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Voyage de Mr Le Chevalier de Chastellux en Amerique

by Beauvoir, François Jean de [Marquis de Chastellux] (1734-1788)

228 pages. Royal Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original stiff wrappers. (Howes C324, "aa." Sabin 12226. Monaghan 4048) Reprint of the unauthorized edition.One of the great French travel accounts including visits to the American army in the last stage of the Revolution, debating political science with Sam Adams, First hand description and evaluation of Washington, extensive visit with Jefferson at Monticello, and highly intelligent descriptions and analysis of American character at a crucial moment in the nations' formative... Read More

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Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, Performed in her Majesty's Ship Sulphur, During the Years 1836-1842, Including Details of the Naval Operations in China, from Dec 1840 to Nov 1841

by Belcher, Edward (1799-1877)

2 volumes. xxxvii+[2]+387+[8 ad] pages with frontispiece, woodcuts in text and 7 steel-engraved plates; vi+[2]+474 pages with frontispiece, woodcuts in texts and 10 steel-engraved plates. Royal octavo (9¼x5½") in publisher's original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt covers decorative blind stamped. First Edition.In 1825, Edward Belcher accompanied Frederick William Beechey's expedition to the Pacific and Bering Strait as a surveyor. In 1836. he commanded a surveying ship on the north and west coasts of Africa and in the British seas.... Read More

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Rahvusvaheline Paul Kerese Malestusturniir Tallinn 1977 (International Paul Keres Memorial Chess Tournament 1977)

by signed by Mihail Tal, Laszlo Vadasz, Boriss Gulko, Axel Ornstein, Pertti Poutiainen, Harry Pohla, David Bronstein, Josef Pribyl, Tivo Nei, Dragoljub Velimirovic, Oleg Romanisin, Hillar Karner, Alvar Gipslis, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Valter He