Listing # 32216
| Listing Format: | Auction |
| Current price : | €130,00 |
| Starting bid: | €10,00 |
| # of bids: | 18 |
| Closes: | Auction is closed |
| Location: | Sweden |
| Started: | 2022-06-01 01:00:00 |
| Ended: | 2022-06-10 19:27:00 |
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| High Bidder(s): | Rain Man (1141) |
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Sarratt, J.H. The works of Gianutio, and Gustavus Selenus.
The works of Gianutio, and Gustavus Selenus on the game of chess. Translated and arranged. 2 volumes. London, Ebers, 1817. XXI, 233 pages, 240 pages, 1 leaf with ads. L/N 375. v. d. Linde I, 357. Schmid p. 305.
The English chess player and theorist J. H. Sarratt (d. 1821) was a teacher in London and translated the great work into English. He was considered one of the most witty and strongest players in England of his time. Horatio Gianutio's work was first published in Italian in 1597. Gustavus Selenus, pseudonym for Duke August II, wrote the first German textbook on chess.
"Sarrat si qualifico fu probabilmente il primo professore scacchistico dell'età moderna." (Chicco / Porreca)
Condition: Privately bound in two volumes, No text on spine. Paper yellowed. Title page for volume two is missing. Exlibris/stamps Frantisek Moucka, Jan Dobrusky, Cesky spolek sachovni, Sachovni club Dobrusky.
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