Pollock Memories: A Collection of Chess Games, Problems
by Mrs Thomas B Rowland nee (Frideswide F Beechey (1843-1919) [editor]
[6]+159+iii pages with frontispiece portrait, diagrams and index. Octavo (8 7/8" x 6") bound in original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine and cover and decorative knight on cover. (Betts: 29-120) First edition.Part 1: Portrait, biography and 70 games played in England, Ireland and Holland; selected annotated and illustrated by the late W E K Pollock before his death in 1896. Includes, in all, 145 games, 8 end games, and 4 problems. Part 2: A selection... Read More
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La Nouvelle Régence, Revue Spéciale des Échecs
by Paul Journoud (1821-1882) [editor]
384 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") with original wrappers. From the library of James Barrett. Volume 3. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6016). First edition.Volume one was published as La Régence and Nouvelle was added to the title starting with volume two. First published in 1860 and discontinued in 1864. Edited by Paul Journoud, who was a member of the Café de la Régence Chess Club of Paris. He was an editor of several chess periodicals: La... Read More
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The Two-Move Chess Problem in the Soviet Union, 1923-1943
by Albrecht Buschke (1904-1986) etal (editors)
[9]+71 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt stripe to front cover in original lain shipping wrapper. Edited by Albrecht Buschke, Richard Cheney and Alain White. Introduction by Alain White. Title page decoration by Vera Bock. Limited to 300 copies. Title page decoration by Vera Back. Errata tipped in. (Betts: 36-7). First edition.A Collection of 120 problems by Russian composers, with notes on... Read More
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The Chess Monthly Volume I
by Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Paul Morphy (editors)
v+402 pages with diagrams. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine with black labels and original wrappers bound in. From the library of Jsames J Barrett. Volume I. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6389) (Hagedorn: 36) First edition.Fiske's Chess Monthly, launched when he was just twenty five years of age, was an outstanding periodical when first published between 1857 and 1861, probably the best in the English language up to that time, and for... Read More
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The Chess Monthly Volume IV (4)
by Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Paul Morphy (editors)
v+402 pages with diagrams. Octavo (9" x6 1/4") bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine with black labels and original wrappers bound in. Volume IV. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6389) (Hagedorn: 36) First edition. Fiske's Chess Monthly, launched when he was just twenty five years of age, was an outstanding periodical when first published between 1857 and 1861, probably the best in the English language up to that time, and for a long time thereafter; (John Keeble wrote in... Read More
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The Chess Monthly Volume II (2)
by Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904) and Paul Morphy (editors)
viii+398 pages with diagrams. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in half leather with three raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine.From the library of James J Barrett. Volume II. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6389) (Hagedorn: 36) First edition.Fiske's Chess Monthly, launched when he was just twenty five years of age, was an outstanding periodical when first published between 1857 and 1861, probably the best in the English language up to that time, and for a long time thereafter;... Read More
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Tidskrift för Schack, Volume 35
by Gustaf and Ludvig Collijn [editors]
280 pages with diagrams, plates and tables. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") issued in wrappers. Volume XXXV (35). (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6345). First edition. This is one of the world's oldest chess magazines still published. Official organ of the Nordic Chess Federation from 1895 to 1922; since 1923 of the Swedish Chess Federation. No index was published for the volumes 1926 to 1934. Ludvig was President of the Swedish Chess Association from 1917 to 1939. Condition:... Read More
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Tidskrift för Schack, Volume 22
by Gustaf and Ludvig Collijn [editors]
iv+362 pages with index, diagrams, plates and tables. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") issued in wrappers. Includes numbers 8 & 9 Nordiska Schackforbundets Sjunde Kongress Med Turneringar Kipenhamn 2-16 Juli 1946. Volume XXII (22), 12 issues. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6345). First edition. This is one of the world's oldest chess magazines still published. Official organ of the Nordic Chess Federation from 1895 to 1922; since 1923 of the Swedish Chess Federation. No index was published for the... Read More
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Tidskrift för Schack, Volume 46
by Gustaf and Ludvig Collijn [editors]
240+[iii] pages with diagrams, plates, tables and index.. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in bluce cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Volume XXXXVI (46). (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6345). First edition. This is one of the world's oldest chess magazines still published. Official organ of the Nordic Chess Federation from 1895 to 1922; since 1923 of the Swedish Chess Federation. No index was published for the volumes 1926 to 1934. Ludvig was President of the Swedish Chess Association... Read More
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The Chess Monthly Volume I (1)
by Leopold Hoffer (1842-1913) and Johannes Hermann Zukertort (editors)
iv+384+[4 review] pages with illustrations, diagrams, tables, and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in quarter black leather with gilt lettering to spine and blue marbled boards. From the library of Dino Ruggieri. Volume I (1). (Betts: 7-25). First edition.The Chess Monthly of Great Britain was one of the first to give properly annotated games. The principal editor, Leopold Hoffer, was helped enormously by having Johannes Hermann Zukertort as co-editor until his death in 1888. There were... Read More
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The Chess Monthly Volume IV (4)
by Leopold Hoffer (1842-1913) and Johannes Hermann Zukertort (editors)
iiv+380 pages with illustrations, diagrams, tables, and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in quarter brown leather with gilt lettering to spine over blue marbled boards. From the library of Dino Ruggieri. Volume IV (4). (Betts: 7-25). First edition.The Chess Monthly of Great Britain was one of the first to give properly annotated games. The principal editor, Leopold Hoffer, was helped enormously by having Johannes Hermann Zukertort as co-editor until his death in 1888. There were four... Read More
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The Chess Monthly Volume VI (6)
by Leopold Hoffer (1842-1913) and Johannes Hermann Zukertort (editors)
iiv+380 pages with illustrations, diagrams, tables, and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in quarter brown leather with gilt lettering to spine over blue marbled boards. From the library of Dino Ruggieri. Volume VI (6). (Betts: 7-25). First edition.The Chess Monthly of Great Britain was one of the first to give properly annotated games. The principal editor, Leopold Hoffer, was helped enormously by having Johannes Hermann Zukertort as co-editor until his death in 1888. There were four... Read More
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The Chess Monthly Volume III (3)
by Leopold Hoffer (1842-1913) and Johannes Hermann Zukertort (editors)
iv+380 pages with illustrations, diagrams, tables, and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in quarter black leather with gilt lettering to spine over blue marbled boards. From the library of Dino Ruggieri. Volume III (3). (Betts: 7-25). First edition.The Chess Monthly of Great Britain was one of the first to give properly annotated games. The principal editor, Leopold Hoffer, was helped enormously by having Johannes Hermann Zukertort as co-editor until his death in 1888. There were four... Read More
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Nordisk Skaktidende Volume VII (7)
by Oskar Theobald Malmqvist and Søren Anton Sørensen (editors)
xi+280 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") in individual numbers. Volume 7. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5999) First edition. The Nordisk Skaktidende was the first Danish periodical founded (in 1873) and edited by two strong Danish players, Oskar Theobald Malmqvist and Søren Anton Sørensen. It lasted until 1881 with volume 9. In the May, 1881 edition there appeared two games that had been conducted by Prince Dadian during the St. Petersburg amateur tournament in which... Read More
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Nordisk Skaktidende Volume IX (9)
by Oskar Theobald Malmqvist and Søren Anton Sørensen (editors)
xi+[3]-294 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 9. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5999) First edition.The Nordisk Skaktidende was the first Danish periodical founded (in 1873) and edited by two strong Danish players, Oskar Theobald Malmqvist and Søren Anton Sørensen. It lasted until 1881 with volume 9. In the May, 1881 edition there appeared two games that had been conducted by Prince Dadian during the St.... Read More
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Deutsches Wochenschach und Berliner Schachzeitung Volume 29
by Reinhold "Max" Blumich (1886-1942) and Heinrich Ranneforth Heinrich and J Halumbirek (editors)
498 pages with plates, diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 29. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6054). First edition.The Deutsches Wochenschach was a weekly German chess magazine devoted to current events around the world, but with a focus on happenings in Germany. It was first published in 1884 and had a continuous run through 1927. Occasionally some weekly issues were combined. It incorporated Berliner Schachzeitung in 1898,... Read More
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The Huddersfield College Magazine, Volume VIII
by William John Clarke Miller (1832-19030 and John Watkinson Editors
320 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine. Subscription to The New Chess Magazine, which became the publication of the British Chess Magazine laid in. Volume 8. (Betts: 7-15) First edition.The Huddersfield College Magazine chess section was superseded by the British Chess Magazine after 1880 with no more published. First published as volume one in October 1872 and issued monthly until September 1880, it was edited by... Read More
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Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach-und Alterthumskunde
by Eduard Georg Seler (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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The Last of the Arctic Voyages, being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, DB in Search of Sir John Franklin, During the Years 1852-53-35 with Notes on the Natural History
by Edward Belcher (1799-1877)
2 volumes. xx+383 pages with hand colored frontispiece, 3 maps in pockets, plates (many colored); vii+419+[23 ad] pages with color frontispiece and plates (some colored). Small quarto (10 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial brown cloth with blind-stamped cover with gilt pictorial in gilt. Notes on the Natural History by John Richardson. (Abbey, Travel 645; Arctic Bibliography 1241; Books on Ice 5.8a; Hill 106; Sabin 4389; TPL 3409) First edition.Belcher's five-ship 1852-54 expedition in search of Franklin... Read More
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Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Memoirs Volume 1
by Edward Herbert Thompson (1857-1935), George Byron Gordon etal
iv+[187]-194. Number 1 Prehistoric Ruins of Copan, Honduras: A Preliminary Report of the Explorations by the Musueum 1891-1895. iv-48 pages figures, plates and appendix; Number 2 Cave of Loltun, Yucatan: Report of Explorations of the Museum, 1888-89 and 1890-91. 22 pages with maps, figures and plates; Number 3 The Chultunes of Labna, Yucatan, Report of Explorations by the Museum, 1888-89 and 1890-92 20 pages with figures and plates; Number 4 Researches in the Uloa Valley, Honduras, Report on Exploration by... Read More
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Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs avec des reflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu
by Elias Stein (1748-1812)
viii+x+254 pages with illustrations. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine Page ends marbled. This first edition was not for sale and intended for subscribers only, of which an interesting list is added with 196 names. The princes themselves subscribed for 24 copies. With some copies for the author about 250 copies would have been printed. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 547) First edition.Elias Stein was a Dutch chess master, born... Read More
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Loza Blanca y Azulejo de Puebla
by Enrique A Cervantes (1898-1953)
2 volumes: xi+305 pages with tipped in colored and monochrome plates; 333 pages with tipped in colored and monochrome plates and reproduced signatures. Quarto (11 1/4" x 9") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine with original wrappers bound in. From the library of George M Foster. Copy 992 of 2000. Fist edition.For over four centuries,the city of Puebla has been praised for its production of quality tin-glazed earthenware. The use of ceramic as a utilitarian and artistic... Read More
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La Araucana de D. Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga Edición del centenario, ilustrada con grabados, documentos, notas históricas y bibliográficas y una biografía del autor
by Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de (1533–1594)
5 volumes: volume 1 Texto: xx+607 pages with frontispiece, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, maps and plates; volume 2 Documentos: 552 pages; volume 3 Vida de Ercilla: 337 pages with portraits, illustrations and index; volumes 4-5 Illustrations: 512 pages with facsimile titles to the first publications; 559 pages with facsimile signatures, plates and index. Folio (15" x 10 3/4") with original wrappers bound in to cloth binding. Compiled and arranged by Jose Toribio Medina. First edition.La Araucana is an epic poem in... Read More
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Origen e Historia de los Reyes Mixtecos. Libro Explicativo del Llamado Codice Vindobonenis. Codex Vindobonenis Mexcianus I
by Ferdinand Anderes, Maarten Jansen, Gabrina Aurora and Perez Jimenez (text)
2 Volumes. 357 pages+52 leave pages in a folding screen fold.1st Thus Boxed Quarto Reports the creations of the world and the Mixtec rulers, especially of the Tilantongo dynasty. Pictorial Mexican manuscript. First printed edition was by Kingsborough 1831-1848..
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The Book of the First American Chess Congress: containing the procedings of that celebrated assemblage, held in New York, in the Year 1857, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the p
by Fiske, Willard Daniel (1831-1904)
xii+[13]-563+[15 ad] pages with frontispiece, diagrams and bibliography. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped logo to front and back covers and ruled edges. (Betts:1-1; Betts:5-2; Betts:25-3) First edition.Includes 67 games from the first American tournament. The first American Chess Congress was held in New York City from October 6th to November 10th, 1857. Organized by Daniel Willard Fiske, the tournament was designed as a knockout format similar to the... Read More
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