(Tschaturangavidjâ.): Literatur Des Schachspiels
by Schmid, Anton (1787-1857)
x+402 with name index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 16) First edition. Anton Schmid, after receiving his first music lessons from the village school teacher Ferdinand Scholz, he came to the Augustinian monastery in Böhm as a choirboy in 1798. He attended the gymnasium there and received further music lessons. From 1804 he lived in Prague, where he continued his studies and earned his living as a music teacher... Read More
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Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach-und Alterthumskunde
by Seler, Eduard Georg (1849-1922)
3 volumes; xxviii+862 pages with two fold out plates and numerous illustrations; xxxvi+1107 pages with numerous illustrations; xxx+729 pages with four maps including frontispiece, 43 plates which one folds out and numerous black and white illustrations. Royal octavo (9 7/8" x 6 3/4"). Bound in half leather with marbled boards. Three of five volumes. First edition. A few general observations on the contents of Gesammelte Abhandlungen are in order. Altogether, the set includes 127 separate articles. Most were originally published... Read More
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1981 United States Chess Championship and Zonal Qualifier (Score Sheets)
by Shamkovich, Leonid Aleksandrovich (1923-2005) signed
Complete set of score sheets in octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2) hand written by Shamkovich and signed by his opponent except the games with Browne, Lein and Reshevsky. The games with Byrne and Fedorowicz include the carbon copy.Complete set of score sheets in octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2) hand written by Shamkovich and signed by his opponent except the games with Browne, Lein and Reshevsky. The games with Byrne and Fedorowicz include the carbon copy.he 28th U S... Read More
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Turkey: Being a Description of the Manners, Customs, Dresses and Other Peculiarities Characteristic of the Inhabitants
by Antoine Laurent Castellan (1772-1838) translated by Frederick Shoberl
3 Volumes. xii+139 pages lacking frontispiece; 168 pages lacking frontispiece with 6 color plates of 10; 141 pages lacking frontispiece with 9 color plates of 11. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 1/2") bound in half red leather with gilt lettering and stamping to spine and along edge of half leather. First American edition. Antoine-Laurent Castellan was a French painter, architect, and engraver. After having studied landscape painting under Valenciennes, he visited Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland, and published several... Read More
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The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages
by Silveira de Braganza, Ronald Louis (1933- ) etal (editors)
3 volumes: xv+333 pages with 12 facsimile reproductions, including frontispiece; xviii+290 pages with 11 facsimile reproductions, including frontispiece; xii+140 pages. Small quarto (10 1/2" x 7 /14") issued in blue sailcloth. Volume one limited to 100 copies which are numbered (this is 59) and signed by the former owner Kenneth Hill. Volume II is limited to 750 unnumbered copies and volume III, the index to the first two volumes, is limited to 900 copies. Annotations by Jonathan A Hill. 1st... Read More
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The Stray Lamb
by Smith, James Thorne (1892-1934)
303 pages with illustrations. Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original black publisher's cloth with pink lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. Laid-in is the humorous bookplate provided by the publisher with legend, "Kleptomaniac's Edition." First edition.This gem of a book tells the tale of Mr. Lamb, an ordinary man who leads an ordinary life, until a chance encounter leads to him experiencing the world through the eyes of various animals. Thorne Smith again shows... Read More
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Dream's End
by Smith, James Thorne (1892-1934)
342 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with front board and spine lettered in gilt in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Meandering labyrinth of a story about a New York advertising executive who leaves his job in the city to write poetry in a hut by the sea. Although entranced by the ocean and the miles of sand and the salt marshes, David finds himself caught in the coils of his attraction... Read More
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The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards
by Solis y Ribadeneyra, Antonio de (1610-1686)
2 volumes. x+479 pages with foldout frontispiece portrait of Hernan Cortez, four foldout plates and two fold out maps. xii+475+[1 ad] pages with two foldout plates. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original full leather with with gilt fillet borders on covers, the spine in six compartments separated by six raised bands, black morocco gilt lettering piece in one and the rest gilt-ruled (Field 1465, Sabin 86490, Palau: VI 530) First octavo edition.Originally published in Spanish in 1684,... Read More
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Politica Indiana
by Solórzano Pereira, Juan de (1575-1655)
2 volumes: xvii+[14]+438+21; [1]+522+[1-132] including index. Folio (14 1/2" x 10") issued in beige with brown lettering to spine and front covers. Limited to 1000 copies. Reprint of the 1648 edition.Juan de Solorzano Pereira studied jurisprudence in Salmanca and in 1609 was appointed judge in the Audiencia of Lima, a position that he held until 1627. He wrote a number of books on legal matters, but his most important was De Indianorum jure disputatione (Madrid, 1629). He subsequently adapted and... Read More
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The Kidnap Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
by S. S. Van Dine [PSEUD Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939)]
316+[6 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. Has the "A" on the title verso. First edition. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because... Read More
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The Third Violet
by Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
203 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's tan buckram with red and black lettering to spine and cover with red ornaments to both. (Stallman: 13) First edition.Stephen Crane was an American author. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. At the time... Read More
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Bréviaire des échecs
by Tartakower, Savielly Grigorievich (1887-1956)
xii+318 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7" x 4 3/4") bound in orange cloth with gilt lettering in black label to spine and black lettering to red label to front cover. Inscribed to Julius du Mont. First edition. This work is an introductory book on chess written by Xavier Tartakover and published in 1934 and now considered a classic. Tartakover drafted the Breviary after its best period of activity, which has earned him the title of International Grand Master in... Read More
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Jennie Gerhardt
by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (1871-1945)
433 pages with frontispiece. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover with black design in original jacket. First edition in first state binding and second state text.Jennie Gerhardt was Theodore Dreiser's second novel and his first true commercial success. Today it is generally regarded as one of his three best novels, along with Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. As submitted to Harper and Brothers in 1911,... Read More
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Travels in America, Performed in 1806, for the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of their Banks and Vicinity
by Thomas Ashe (1770-1835)
ix+366 pages. Small octavo ( (7 1/4" x 4 1/4") in the original leather binding with black label in gilt to spine. (Howes:354) First printed in 1806 in London in three volumes. Second printing.Thomas Ashe (1770-1835), was born in Dublin, Ireland and was a soldier and memoirist. Much of his life was checkered with intrigue and fraud. His Memoirs and Confessions (1815) is an autobiographical account of 'criminal and delinquent' escapades beginning with the seduction of a girl in France.... Read More
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Memorial Edition; Containing his Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, etc
by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
20 volumes. Volume 1: xxiv+492 pages with plates, tables and two foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence. Volume 2: xlxii+450 with plates and tables. Volume 3: xx+494 pages with plates, tables and three foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's inaugural address. Volume 4: xxvi+458 pages with plates and foldout facsimiles signatures of the signers of Declaration of Independence. Volume 5: xxviiii+472 with plates. Volume 6: xxxiii+460 pages with plates. Volume 7: xxiv+486 pages with photoengraving foldout of Richard... Read More
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České melodie. Eine Sammlung von 202 Schachaufgaben von Josef Pospíšil
by Josef Pospíšil (1961-1916) Selected by A C White and W H Thompson
lxxviii+errata+229+[3 ad] pages with diagrams. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Introduction by B G Laws and J W Allen. Translated by M Henneberger. (Betts:33-68) Volume six in the A C White Christmas series. First edition.A general introduction on "The Bohemian theory of the Chess problem" and "The work of Josef Pospíšil, by Laws and Allen, is given both in German (translated by M Henneberger), pages vi-xliii,... Read More
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The Night Life of the Gods
by Thorne Smith (1892-1934)
311 pages with illustrations. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with pictorial jacket. First edition.Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultra-respectable relatives. He likes to experiment and, best of all, he likes to experiment with explosives. His garage-cum-laboratory is a veritable mine field replete with noxious fumes. But with the help of Megaera, a fetching 900-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art (if not... Read More
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Travels in New-England and New York
by Timothy Dwight (1752-1817)
4 volumes. xxxii+483 pages with frontispiece, folding map and tables. x+504 pages with frontispiece folding map and tables. xii+514 pages with frontispiece folding map and tables. xii+514 pages with tables. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in decorative leather with gilt lettering to spine labels. ()Howes D620) First British edition. First published in New Haven (1821-22). American divine, writer, and educationalist, was born at Northampton, Massachusetts, on the 14th of May 1752. His father, Timothy Dwight, a graduate of... Read More
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Libro Primero de Cabildos de Lima
by Torres Saldamando, Enrique (1846-1896)
3 parts: xxviii+445 pages with engraved color title, portrait and facsimile plates of original documents. 426 pages with engraved colored coats of arms, facsimile manuscript productions, family trees, maps and appendices. 220 pages with tables and engraved coat of arms plates. Folio ()13 3/4" x 9") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine and four raised spine bands over burgundy pebbled boards. With collaboration by Pablo Patro and Nicanor Bolona. Signed by the author on the dedication page... Read More
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Theoretisch-praktischer Unterricht im Schachspiele von einer Gesellschaft von Liebhabern. Aus dem Französ. übersetzt und mit den hundert Spielen des Philipp Stamma vermehrt.
by Traité des Amateurs: Leger, Bernard, Carlier and Verdoni from the library of Borje Borjesson
[i-viii]+430 pages. small octavo (7" x 4 1/2") bound in contemporary half leather with marbled boards. Foreword by Friedrich Nicolai, Translated by K F Trost. First published in French (Paris) in 1775 as Traite Theorique et Pratique du Jeu des Eches. From the library of Borje Borjesson. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 414) First German edition. Le Traite des Amateurs is a chess treatise composed, by a "Society of Amateurs" contemporaries of Philidor; who all frequented the Cafe de la Regence, in... Read More
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Mémoires philosophiques, historiques, physiques, concernant la découverte de l'Amérique : ses anciens habitans, leurs mœurs, leurs usages, leur connexion avec les nouveaux habitans, leur religion ancienne & moderne, les produits des
by Ulloa, Antonio de (1716-1795)
2 volumes: 576+xv pages; 499+xv pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in 3/4 period leather. Translated from the first German edition (1781) which includes a chapter entitled: "Observations and additions to by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider". Translated with additional notes and reviews by Jean Baptiste Lefebvre Villebrune. First Spanish edition published in 1772 (Madrid). (Sabin 36805) First French edition.Antonio de Ulloa (12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795) was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and... Read More
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Chess Eccentricities
by Verney, George Hope (afterwards Lloyd-Verney) [1842-1896]
[4]+xvi+196p with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") issued in cream stiff boards with black lettering to spine and red and black lettering and pictorial to cover. (Betts: 55-3). First edition.Contents: Chess for four players (rules; correspondence resulting from the publication of the author's "Four Handed Chess", 1881, concerning points of play; varieties of Four Handed Chess with rules varying from those given by him 1881). Chess for three players (varieties of Three Handed Chess with descriptions, rules... Read More
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Extraits des auteurs et voyageurs qui ont ecrit sur la guyane
by Victor Brillard de Nouvion (1810-1861)
xcii+616 pages with bibliography. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in contemporary half calf with black spine label and gilt lettering. Publications de la Societe d'Etudes pour la colonisation de la Guyane francaise, Number 4. The bibliographical catalogue occupies pages 579-616, and contains descriptions of 240 works on Guiana. Sabin 56097. First edition.French Guiana (French: Guyane française, officially Guyane) is an overseas department (French: département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located on the northern coast of South America. It... Read More
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Scacchia ludus: a Poem on the Game of chess
by Vida, Marco Girolamo [Bishop of Alba] (c1485-1566)
vi+95 pages with one diagram. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Translated into English verse by the Rev. Samuel Pullein. (Whyld and Ravillous 1750:4)Parallel Latin and English texts. Royal Dublin Society award for the "Best book written and printed in Ireland" for 1750.Marco Girolamo Vida or Marcus Hieronymus Vida was an Italian humanist, bishop and poet. Vida wrote a considerable amount of Latin poetry, both secular and sacred, in classical... Read More
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Marci Hieronymi Vidae Cremonensis, Albae Episcopi, Opera
by Vida, Marco Girolamo (c1490-1566)
575 pages. Duodecimo (5" x 3 1/2") bound in original vellum. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 4564)Marco Girolamo Vida was an Italian Humanist. He came to Rome under Julius II; as a priest and canon regular, he presented, in the rather lax Court, the greatest example of severity of morals. The Humanists were called upon to produce a great Christian epic. Vida undertook it, and in order that he might work at it Leo X gave... Read More
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