Handbuch des Schachspiels

Published by Verlag von Veit & Company, Leipzig, 1916

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xi+1040 pages with frontispiece, tables and diagrams. Small quarto (10 3/4" x 7 1/4") bound in half green leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Foreword by Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa and Carl Schlechter. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 720) Eighth edition. Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess, often simply called the Handbuch) is a chess book, first published in 1843 by Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa. It was one of the most important opening references for many decades. The Handbuch had been the project of Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, who was with von der Lasa a member of the Berlin Chess Club and the influential group of chess masters later called the Berlin Pleiades. Bilguer died in 1840, with the work still in the early stages. Von der Lasa completed the project and saw it published, with his friend von Bilguer alone named as author. It contained comprehensive analyses of all opening variations then known, plus a section on the history and literature of chess. Von der Lasa prepared four further editions (1852, 1858, 1864, and 1874). The sixth edition (1880) was by Constantin Schwede; and the seventh edition (1891) was by Emil Schallopp, with the assistance of Louis Paulsen. Carl Schlechter, who had drawn a match for the World Championship with Emanuel Lasker in 1910, prepared the eighth and final edition. Published in eleven parts between 1912 and 1916, it totaled 1,040 pages and included contributions by Rudolf Spielmann, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Richard Teichmann. International Master William Hartston called it "a superb work, perhaps the last to encase successfully the whole of chess knowledge within a single volume." Condition: Typed page tipped in between frontispiece and title else very good.…

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Title
Handbuch des Schachspiels
Author
Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815-1840) and Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa
Publisher
Verlag von Veit & Company, Leipzig
Publication year
1916
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
5th or later Edition
Dimensions
Small Quarto
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We are one of the American leaders of out of print chess literature. We also specialize in anthopology, Colonial America, exploration and discovery. We deal in select literature. We consign in our area of specialty and are always interested in buying quality material from single titles to entire collections. Trade offers gladly considered. We have a large selection of rare and collectable chess literature and ephemera. We are exhibitors at both the Texas book fairs in Arlington in November and Austin in January.…

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