Games Played in the International Chess Tournament, 1883
by Minchin, James Innes (1825-1903) [editor]
lvi+371 pages with two tables and diagrams. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to spine and embossed chess board, pieces and lettering on cover. Edited with the assistance of the English Masters, Zukertort, Steinitz, Mason and Bird. Annotated by Zukertort, Steinitz, Mason and Bird. (Betts 25-16) (Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 5216) First edition.The London 1883 chess tournament was a strong chess tournament among most of the leading players of... Read More
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Neunte Rheinische Schachcongress abgehalten zu Crefeld am 4 bis 7 August 1871
by Minckwitz, Hans (Johannes) von (1843-1901)
50 pages with diagram and table. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5199) First edition. The German Chess Championship has been played since 1861, and determines the national champion. Prior to 1880 three different federations organized chess activities in Germany: the Westdeutscher Schachbund (WDSB), the Norddeutscher Schachbund (NDSB) and the Mitteldeutscher Schachbund (MDSB). Each one organized its own championship. In 1880, the nation-wide Deutscher Schachbund was founded, so afterwards only one German championship was... Read More
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Der vierte Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes. Hamburg 1885
by Minckwitz [Jr], Hans (Johannes) [1843-1901]
[ii]+256 pages with diagrams and tables. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5220) First edition.The fourth meeting of the Deutschen Schachkongresse took place in Hamburg in 1885. It was the fourth master's tournament (Deutschen Schachbund) organized since its inception six year's previously at Leipzig in 1879. As in the previous three editions, the round robin tournament was an international event, pitting German masters against the best of Europe at the time. Germany was... Read More
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Les stratagèmes des échecs, ou collection des cours d'échecs les plus brillans et les plus curieux, tant dans la partie ordinaire que dans les différentes parties composées; tirés des meilleurs auteurs, et dont plusieurs n'ont point encore été pub
by Alfred de Montigny
2 volumes in one: 93+[1 blank] pages with tables, engraved plate in the text volume; 122 page of color diagrams. Sextodecimo (4 3/4" x 4") bound in period leather with gilt stamping to spine and red spine label. First chess book to be published in color. Date reads X after the French revolution started publishing with the date I in 1792.(Schaakboekerij Niemeijer 1788); (Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:2152); (Rimington-Wilson 991-994); (Anton Schmid, Lit. des Schachspiels, page 325) First edition.First edition of a... Read More
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Stratagems of Chess, or, A Collection of Critical and Remarkable Situations selected from the Works of eneminent masters
by Montigny, Sieur de
v+150+69 pages with illustrations and diagrams. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 1/4") bound in half leather over marbled boards with raised spine bands and gilt lettering. Taken from the 1802 French edition Stratagemes des echecs. First English edition published in 1817. (A van der Linde: 2157; Whyld and Ravillous: 1817:14) Third edition.Published anonymously. Unchanged from the first edition published in the same year, except the first edition had only 64 additional pages at end.Condition:Recased with original spine laid on, marbled... Read More
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Stratagems of Chess, or, A Collection of Critical and Remarkable Situations selected from the Works of eneminent masters, illustrated on plates, describing the ingenious moves by which the game is either won, drawn, or stalemate Obtained
by Montigny, Sieur de
v+150+69 pages with frontispiece, illustrations and diagrams. Duodecimo (6 31/2" x 4") bound in three quarter leather with marbled boards, and gilt lettering. Taken from the 1802 French edition Stratagemes des echecs. First English edition published in 1817. (A van der Linde:2156; Whyld and Ravillous: 1817:13) Second edition.Published anonymously. Unchanged from the first edition published in the same year, except the first edition had only 64 additional pages at end.Condition:New three quarter leather and end papers with original marbled boards... Read More
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Chess Digest; Containing the Opening Moves of Over Fifteen thousand Games ... 1850-1902
by Mordecai Morgan (1862-1931)
4 volumes: Volume I: 472 pages with diagrams, tables and appendix; Volume II: 446 pages with tables and diagrams; Volume III 518 pages with diagrams and tables; Volume IV: 693 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, tables, appendix and index. Quarto (11" x 7 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt lettering to cover with pictorial chess board in gilt. (Betts: 49-51) First edition. Volume 1 published in 1901; volume 2 published in 1902; volume... Read More
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Entretenimientos de un prisionero en las provincias del Rio de la Plata
by Moxo y de Lopez, Luis Maria De (1776-1843)
Two volumes: [8]+viii+334 pages with engraved dedication in script, engraved supplemental pictorial title page and two plates; [6]+391+16 pages with engraved supplemental pictorial title page, appendix and one engraved plate. Octavo (8" x 6") bound in brown leather with gilt lettering to spine. Plates by J. Amillo. (Sabin 51215, Palau 183810) First edition.An important work on the Indians of Mexico, especially the Tarascans of Michoacan, written in Mexico by Benito Maria de Moxo and printed here by his nephew Juras... Read More
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The Life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson: Traveller to India, Written by himself and completed about 1661 AD with a continuation, by Another Hand, up to his Death in 1679
by Jón Ólafsson (c1594-1679) edited by Bertha Surtees (Dame Bertha Newall)
2 volumes: xxxiv+238pp with frontispiece and 2 other plates, 3 maps of which 2 are foldouts,1 chart and index, list of works by the society at end; xxx+290pp with frontispiece and 2 other plates and index. Octavo (9" x 6") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover, decorative blind stamp to covers. Translated and edited from the Icelandic edition of Sigfus Blondal by Betrtha S Phillpotts. Works issued... Read More
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Reflexiones imparciales sobre la humanidad de los Españoles en las Indias, contra los pretendidos filósofos y políticos. Para ilustrar las historias de MM Raynal y Robertson
by Nuix y de Perpiñá, Juan de (1740-1783)
lii+315 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Translated with notes by Pedro Varela y Ulloa. (Palau 196692.) First Spanish edition.A text that engaged the well-studied debates about the natural history of the Americas and Spain's colonial history. In 1780, in Venice, Juan Nuix published Riflessioni imparziali supra l'umanita degli spagnuoli nell' Indie contro i pretersi filosofi e politici. Nuix, a Catalan living in Italy since the expulsion of the Jesuits, wrote... Read More
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Historia de la conquista de Mejico, poblacion y progresos de la America septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva Espana with Historia de la Conquist a de Mexico . . . Sengunda Parte
by Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra (1610-1686) and Ignacio de Salazar y Olarte
2 volumes. [xvii]+548+[16 index] pages. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/4") bound in old velum with original string ties still in place. With Historia de la Conquiesta de Mexico, Poblacion, y Progressos de la merica Septentrional, Conocida por el nombre de Nueva Espana, Segunda Parte [38 of 40]+474 pages. Folio (11 1/4" x 8") bound in contemporary tree calf with six raised spine bands in gold leaf and red label in gilt lettering, edges tinted red. From the library of... Read More
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Historia Antigua y del las Conquista Mexico
by Orozco y Berra, Manuel (1816-1881)
5 volumes: Volume 1, ix+584 pages; Volume 2, 603 pages; Volume 3, 527 pages; Volume 4, 694 pages, Volume 5 is the scarce atlas unpagintated with 18 plates and large fold out map. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4"). Bound in half leather with marbled boards. First edition. Orozco y Berra entered the College of mines, and in 1834 was graduated as a topographical engineer. He afterward studied jurisprudence in the seminary at Puebla, and was admitted to the bar in... Read More
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Der Jubiläums Schachkongress zu Dresden Ostern 1926
by Palitzsch, Friedrich Martin (1889 - 1932) and Georg Jakob Wiarda
99 pages with diagrams, two plates and index. Octavo (8 12" x 5 3/4") bound in original wrappers. Festschrift des Dresdner Schachvereins, volume II. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5393) First edition. The Chess Club at Dresden, Germany held a 50th anniversary celebration in 1926. Among the events was a masters tournament, the Paul Schellenberg Memorial, which was held from April 4th to the 14th. Three contenders for the world championship, Alexander Alekhine, Akiba Rubinstein, and Aron Nimzowitsch, were among the... Read More
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Historia de la Antigua o Baja California with Relacion Historica de la Vida del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra
by Francisco Javier [Clavigero] (1731-1787) and Francisco Palou
[vi]+123+[3] pages. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7") Bound in quarter leather with marbled paper boards. Clavijero's History of Baja California, which was first published in Italian, then in English, then a Madrid edition and then the Mexican edition. [Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13, page 293] First Mexican edition. Clavijero, a Mexican native, was exiled with the other Jesuits in the 1760s, and lived in Italy thereafter. His history of Mexico is considered one of the best of the... Read More
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Papeles de Nueva Espana. Segunda Serie
by Paso y Troncoso, Francisco del (1842-1916)
37 volumes. Volume I Suma de Visitas de Pueblos por Orden Alfabetico: 332+xi pages with index. Volume II Relaciones Geograficas de Michoacan Peticiones de Conquistadores Corregimientos de la Nueva Espana: 50 pages. Volume II Relaciones Geografricas de Michoacan Comision que dio Don Luis de Velasco, virrey da la Nueva Espana, al licenciado Lebron de Quinones, para visitor pueblos de indios, 1553: [51]-98 pages. Volume II Relaciones Geograficas de Michoacan Relacion: Memoria de los pueblos de la provincial de Colima: [99]-144... Read More
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A true and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake wich happen'd at Lima, the Capital of Peru, and the neighbouring Port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746. With an account likewise of every thing material that passed there afterwards to the end of november following. Published at Lima by Command of the Viceroy, and translated from the original Spanish ... To which is added, a description of Callao and Lima before the destruction ; and of the kingdom of Peru in general
by Pedro Lozano (1697-1752)
xxiii[1]+341+[3 ad] pages with frontispiece foldout map, 3 folding copper engraved plans, 5 folding copper engraved plates. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") rebound in buckram and tanned leather, spine with raised bands, title and author in gilt on spine. Translation byo Henry Johnson. [Cox II:p.272, not having seen the first edition; Sabin 42593] 2d edition printed the same year as the first. The subject of this title is the most deadly earthquake in Peru's history prior to 1970, the so-called... Read More
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Heavy Weather
by Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
314 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover in pictorial jacket. (First's January 2003 pg 45) First American edition limited to 12,000 copies.Heavy Weather is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on July 28, 1933 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and in the United Kingdom on August 10, 1933 by Herbert Jenkins, London. It had been serialized in... Read More
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Mulliner Nights
by Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
312 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in publisher's orange cloth with black lettering and pictorial to spine and black lettering to spine. Dust wrapper illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg. (APG: 52b; McIlvaine A48) First edition.Mulliner Nights is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. First published in the United Kingdom on 17 January 1933 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the United States on 15 February 1933 by Doubleday, Doran. It is the third collection... Read More
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Blandings Castle
by Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
312 pages with deckle fore edge. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with dark green lettering to spine and pictorial emblem to front cover corner in pictorial jacket. (Jasen: 53a; McIlvaine: pages 68-69) First American edition.Blandings Castle and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 12 April 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and, as Blandings Castle, in the United States... Read More
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Young Men in Spats
by Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
297 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with dark green lettering to spine and pictorial cover in original jacket. (APG: 062b) First American edition.Young Men in Spats is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 3 April 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, then in the United States with a slightly different selection of stories on 24 July 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. The... Read More
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The Luck of the Bodkins
by Pelham Grenville "P G" Wodehouse (1881-1975)
298 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in green cloth with dark green lettering to cover and spine in original pictorial jacket. (First's January 2003 pg 45) First American edition. The Luck of the Bodkins first published in the United Kingdom on October 11, 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the United States on January 3, 1936 by Little, Brown and Company. The two editions are significantly different, though the plot remains the same. The novel was... Read More
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Orfebreria Prehispanica de Colombia: Estilos Quimbaya y Otros
by Pérez de Barradas Álvarez de Eulate, José (1897-1981)
2 volumes. xxiv+355 pages with figures, charts, tables, drawings, color plates, bibliography and index. 22+[298 plate] pages with index to plates. Folios (12 1/2" x 9 1/2) bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine and cover with pictorial to cover in original pictorial jackets. First edition limited to 3000 copies.These two volumes should be brought to the attention of archaeologists interested in the development of New World metallurgy, since the represent the culmination of a significant... Read More
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1981 United States Chess Championship and Zonal Qualifier (Score Sheets)
by Peters, John (1951- ) signed
Complete set of original score sheets in John Peter's hand, including the award winning "most interesting game" between him and Lein. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2) All games signed by all his opponents exceipt the game with Kudrin.The 28th U S Championship and Zonal Qualifier was a hard fought contest which ended with a tie for first place and two co-champions, Grandmasters Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan. Since the top three finishers automatically qualify for the Zonal, a playoff... Read More
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Analyse du jeu des échecs: avec une nouvelle notation abrégée, et quarante-deux planches où se trouve figurée la situation du jeu pour les renvois et les fins de partie. Nouvelle Édition. A laquelle on a joint la figure et la marche des différentes pièce
by Philidor, A[ndre] D[anican] (1726-1795)
150 pages with 42 color imprints in green, black and red and one wood cult illustrations of chess piece. Small octavo (7" x 4 1/2") bound in quarter leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine. (Hagedorn: 6; Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:457) Later edition of Philidor's work first published in 1749.Fiske noted that the paper, typography and general appearance of the work prove to have been printed in Europe and probably Belgium. But despite its spurious imprint, Hagedorn... Read More
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Die Kunst im Schachspiel ein Meister zu Werden: Das ist: ein neuer Unterricht, wie man in kurzem dieses so edle und beliebte Spiel nach seiner Vollkommenheit erlernen könne. Gewiesen nach den neuesten Mustern des berühmten und itztlebenden grossen Schachs
by Philidor, François Danican (1726-1795)
351+[errata] pages with fold out diagram. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 1/4") bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:476) First German edition.François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique. He was also regarded as the best chess player of his age; his... Read More
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