Auction 026
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Dec 22, 2020
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LOT 210:
"The Game of Chess" – Game Manual – Two Editions – Vilnius, 1879-80
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"The Game of Chess" – Game Manual – Two Editions – Vilnius, 1879-80
Sehok HaShach [The Game of Chess], by Joseph Judah Löb Sossnitz. Vilnius, 1879, 1880. Two editions.
Two copies of the book "The Game of Chess," bound together.
"Explained herein are its ways, its rules and details […] its moves, its stratagems, and its maneuvers […] based upon the learned one, Alfons Von Breda, and collected from other books and from various periodicals, from those scholared in [the art of] this battle game."
Instruction manual for the game of chess, with a lengthy introduction, presenting the rules of the game and various stratagems.
VIII, 102 pp.; VIII, 102 pp., 16.5 cm. Folded plate missing (in both editions; this plate is missing in many copies of this book). Good-fair condition. Stains and wear, mostly to first and last leaves. Minor worming. Inked stamps, ownership notations and inscriptions. Stains, especially to first and last leaves. Tears to first and last leaves (some mended with adhesive tape). Handwritten notations. Minor worming. Strips of adhesive tape to edges of first leaf and last leaf.
