Theatro Americano, descripción general de los reinos y provincias de la Nueva España y sus jurisdicciones
by Villaseñor y Sánchez, José Antonio (1703-1759)
2 volumes. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in facsimile velum with title printed in red and black on covers and horizontally ink lettered. Introduction by Francisco Gonzalez de Cossio. From the library of George M Foster. Second edition limited to 500 copies of which this is number 13.José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez was an 18th-century geographer, historian, and mathematician in New Spain. He was born in San Luis Potosí, México and studied at San Ildefonso in Mexico... Read More
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Zur Geschichte und Literatur des Schachspiels, Forschungen
by von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Tassilo (1818-1899)
viii+260+[ii ad] pages with diagrams and figures. Small quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 242) 1st edition.Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as "Baron von der Lasa" was an important German chessmaster, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades). His name... Read More
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The Celebrated Analysis of the Game of Chess, Translated from the French of A D Philidor; with Notes and Considerable Additions, including Fifty-Six New Chess Problems
by Walker, George (1803-1879)
xxxiii+[2]+251 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7" 4 1/2") bound in original pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:495) First edition.George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor (London, 1832), The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess (London, 1832), A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor (London,... Read More
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Selection of Games at Chess, Actually Played in London, by the late Alexander M'Donnell, Esq
by Walker, William Greenwood (?-1834)
vii+280 pages with appendix. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in three quarter leather with marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. (Whyld: 1836-13) 1st edition.Alexander McDonnell (1798-1835) was the son of a Belfast doctor and the strongest player from either Britain or Ireland before the rise of Staunton. In contemporary publications his name was sometimes printed as M'Donnell and he is not to be confused with the Dublin-born Rev G.A. MacDonnell (1830-1899) who had some good results in... Read More
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Handbook of Middle American Indians
by Wauchope, Robert and Victoria Reifler Bricker (editors)
22 volumes: volume 1, Natural Environment and Early Cultures: viii+570 pages with maps, tables, plates, illustrations and index with some foldouts; volume 2 and 3, Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica: [viii]+[560]-[viii]+[561]-1084 pages with illustrations, plates tables, maps and index with some foldouts; volume 4, Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections: viii+367 pages with plates, illustrations, tables, maps and index, some foldouts; volume 5, Linguistics: 402 pages with maps, some fold out and tables; volume 6, Social Anthropology: viii+597 pages with illustrations, maps,... Read More
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Tobacco, Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Indians
by West, George Arbor (1859-1938)
2 volumes: 477 pages with one plate, maps, figures and index; 257 pages including maps. Quarto (10 3/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee, Volume XVII. First edition.Tobacco was smoked in the Americas long before its organized cultivation began somewhere around 5000 to 3000 BC. Tobacco use was ceremonial and ritualistic for the natives with the leaf not only being smoked, but also chewed, drunk, taken as snuff and... Read More
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Alain Campbell White Letters to Frederick Gamage
by White, Alain Campbell (1880-1951) signed
Alain Campbell White letters to Frederick Gamage cover the years from April 4, 1935 to September 15, 1944. For this ten year period there are 364 dated letters and 28 incomplete letters (lacking front date page). The letters are an ongoing correspondence between White and Gamage which covers all aspects of problem chess. The letters show a development of mentor (White), encouraging ad occasionally prodding his protégé (Gamage) in developing skills in problem construction. As the letters progress over this... Read More
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The Codex Perez: An ancient Mayan Hieroglyphic book
by Willard, Theodore Arthur (1962-1943)
10+[1 ad] pages with fold out facsimile of the codex at the back. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original wrappers. Limited to 250 copies. The Codex Peresianus, or Codex Mexicanus, no. ii better known as the Codex Perez, a rare Mayan volume and reproduced here. It was discovered in 1859 Leon de Rosny, among a mass of old papers in the national library of France. It consists of eleven leaves, twenty-two pages, each 9 inces long... Read More
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Voyage dans les parties sud de l'Amerique Septentrionale; Savoir: les Carolines septentrionale et méridionale, la Georgie, les Florides orientale et occidentale, le pays des Cherokées, le vaste territoire des Muscogulges ou de la confédération Creek, et le pays des Chactaws
by William Bartram (1739-1823)
First French edition of Bartram's Travels, which chronicled his explorations of the southern British colonies in North America from 1773–17772 volumes. 457 pages with frontispiece engraved portrait by Bovinet Mico Chlucco Grana, King of the Seminoles and one folding plate; 436 pages without title with large folding map by J.B. Poirson engraved by Alexandre Blondeau and folding plate. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in half leather with six spine compartments with red and black labels in gilt over... Read More
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Selection of Games at Chess, Actually Played in London, by the late Alexander M'Donnell, Esq
by William Greenwood Walker (?-1834)
vii+280 pages with appendix. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") issued in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped cover. (Whyld: 1836-13) First edition.Alexander McDonnell (1798-1835) was the son of a Belfast doctor and the strongest player from either Britain or Ireland before the rise ofStaunton. In contemporary publications his name was sometimes printed as M'Donnell and he is not to be confused with the Dublin-born Rev G.A. MacDonnell (1830-1899) who had some good results in the... Read More
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A Treatise on the Game of Chess; containing an introduction to the game, and an analysis of the various openings of games, with several new modes of attack and defence; to which are added, twenty-five new chess problems on Diagrams
by William Lewis (1787-1870)
xx+531+[1 add] pages with diagrams, illustrations and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with decorative embossed covers, respined with new label. (Whyld: 1844:6) First edition.Published in 4 parts, paged continuously. As published, part 4 incorporated a title page for the set, and title-pages for volumes 1 and 2, with slip "To the Binder" inserted containing instructions for binding the parts in either one or two volumes. Includes contents list, index to the games,... Read More
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The Book of the Sixth American Chess Congress, containing the games of the International Chess Tournament held at New York in 1889
by William Steinitz (1836-1900)
xxxviii+490 pages with table and diagrams. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and black chess pictorial to both covers. Limited to 500 copies. This is copy 88 issued to F M Teed of Brooklyn New York. (Betts: 25-26). First edition. Contains the report of the Congress Committee and all 432 games with notes by Steinitz. This was a 20-man Double Round Robin Tournament. One of the longest tournaments in history. In... Read More
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Practical Chess Exercises; intended as a Sequel to the Practical Chess Grammar; containing various Openings, Games and Situations with Instructions and Remarks of the Principal moves of Each Party
by William Stopford Kenny (1788-1867)
239+[1 ad] pages with diagrams and engraved frontispiece. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (van der Linde: 631) First edition.Kenny (1788-1867) was an accomplished chess player and teacher, as well as the author, editor, or compiler of numerous instructive books, including this popular manual and its companion, Practical Chess Grammar (1818).Condition:Spine faded spine new spine with old spine laid on, corners bumped and slightly frayed, new end papers and... Read More
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