Bilguer, Paul Rudolph. Handbuch des Schachspiels. Entworfen und angefangen von P. R. Bilguer. Fortgesetzt und herausgegeben von seinem Freunde v. d. Lasa. Berlin, Veit, 1843. Two volumes in one book. XI, 376 and 124 pages. In German. LN 712.

First edition of a famous German book. Rudolph Bilguer began work on the book, but after his untimely death in 1840 it was completed by his friend Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa. Eight editions and one reprint appeared until 1922.

Condition - Good: nice new private half-leather binding with gold lettering on spine, handwritten name of the previous owner and some handwritten inscriptions on the first and last leaf, stamps of Chess club Smichov, some foxing.