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J. de Cessolis. Dat scaecpel]. Hier beghint die prologus of die voirsprake van der bedudinghe op dat scaecspel. Manuscript in Dutch second half 15th century. 147 Folia. Shelf-number 70 H 33. Fol. 1r. L/N 4246.
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J. de Cessolis. Libro di givocho di scacchi. Firenze 1493. Shelf-number 171 F 34. Title-page. L/N 4241.
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J. Publicius. Ars memoria. Venetiis 1482. Shelf-number 225 J 57. Last page.
First printed image of a chessboard.
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P. Damiano de Odemira. Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scacchi. Tercera edicion. Rome 1524. Shelf-number 225 J 43. Title-page.
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All eight 16th-century editions of Damiano's Questo libro de da imparare giocare a scacchi.
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R. Lopez. Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez. Alcala 1561. Shelf-number 972 G 71. Title-page. L/N 363.
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G. Selenus (= August, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg). Das Schach- oder König-Spiel. Lipsiae 1616. Shelf-number 59 C 7. Plate opposite p. 30. L/N 364. 364.
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G. Greco. Trattato sopra la nobiltà des gioco di schacchi. 270 fol. 160 x 110 mm. Manuscript written between ± 1625 and ± 1634. Dedication and introduction are written by a copyist, the chess problems supposedly by Greco himself. With printed title-page. Shelf-number 135 G 5. Title-page and fol. 37r and 38v.
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A.D. Philidor. Lanalyze des échecs. Londres 1749. Shelf-number 972 E 51. Title-page. L/N 444. First edition with the list of subscribers and the fruit bowl title ornament. A.D. Philidor. Analyse du jeu des échecs. Nouvelle édition considérablement augmentée. Londres 1777. Shelf-number 972 E 60. Title-page and frontispiece. L/N 450.
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[E. del Rio]. Sopra il giuoco degli scacchi . Modena 1750. Shelf-number 972 D 15. Title-page. L/N 515.
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J. Strutt. Glig-gamena angel-deod, or, The sports and pastimes of the people of England. London 1801. Shelf-number 973 N 25. Frontispiece.
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G.H. Verney. Chess eccentricities. London 1885. Shelf-number XSE 147. Title-page. L/N 4792.
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Mrs. W.J. Baird (E.E.H. Winter-Wood). The twentieth century retractor, chess fantasies and letter problems. Being a selection of three hundred problems. London 1907. Shelf-number 363 A 12. Title-page and frontispiece. L/N 2577.
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A.C. White. The solving of sui-mat. From: The Problem n° 16 (1914). A tale suggested by G. Meredith's "Shaving of Shagpat". Manuscript offered to Alain C. White by the Good Companions. Washingtons Birthday, 1919, Hamilton Court, Philadelphia. Shelf-number 135 G 14. Fol. 5r. L/N 2653.
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M.G. Vida. The game of chess. Translated & printed by R.S. Lambert & introduced by R.C. Lambert & decorated with woodcuts by N. Lambert. [Wembley Hill], The Stanton Press, 1921. Shelf-number 363 A 17. Plate opposite p. 30. L/N 4605.
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V. Sirin’ (= V. Nabokov). Zaščita Lužina. Berlin’ 1930. Shelf-number 360 F 179. Cover. L/N 4512.
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M. Duchamp et V. Halberstadt. Opposition et cases conjugées. Paris, Bruxelles 1932. Shelf-number 64 C 75. Title-page and p. 78. L/N 2273.
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A. Aljechin en M. Euwe. Aljechin-Euwe 1935. De strijd om het wereldkampioenschap schaken, gespeeld in Nederland in 1935. Leiden 1936. Shelf-number 360 D 127. Half-title. L/N 5103.
With autograph dedication of Aljechin and Euwe to H. Strick van Linschoten.
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S. Gawlikowski. Pojedynki szachowych gigantów. Warszawa 1973. Shelf-number XSN 677. Cover.
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S. Zweig. Schachnovelle. Farbholzschitten von E. Rehder. Hamburg 1996. Shelf-number 973 N 38.
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