Listing Format: | Auction |
Current price : | €34,34 |
Starting bid: | €10,00 |
# of bids: | 10 |
Closes: | Auction is closed |
Location: | Sweden |
Started: | 2022-06-01 |
Ended: | 2022-06-10 18:31:51 |
Seller: | LSAK (4867) |
High Bidder(s): | wenders (116) |
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Lewis, William. A second series of lessons on the game of chess,
containing several new methods of attack and defence for the use of the higher class of players; to which is added fifty games at chess actually played ... also, an account of the village of Stroebeck, in Germany, and of the game as practised there. London, Simpkin and Marshall, 1832. X, 1 leaf with errata, 424, 2 pages with ads. L/N 663. van der Linde II, 4 f. Kieler Schachkatalog 2864.
Schmid, p. 224: "But by name it is his two Series of Lessons ... since these two works are the most excellent that have ever been written about the game. (Bilguer.)" One of 250 copies.
From the content: First opening or the King's Bishop's Game. Second opening or the King's Knight's Game. Third opening, or the Queen's Bishop's Pawn's Game. Fourth opening or the King's Gambit. Fifth opening, or the Queen's Gambit. Irregular openings. Method of winning with a Queen against a Rook. Fifty games at chess. Journey to Stroebeck.
Condition: Privately bound in new brown cloth. Paper yellowed. With a completed address label on the first leaf, so we can see that the book was sent by Francis Edwards from London to František Mouček in Prague on 18 July 1896. Exlibris/stamps Frantisek Moucka, Jan Dobrusky, Cesky spolek sachovni, Sachovni club Dobrusky.
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