Captain Joseph Bertin (1 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First and only edition 1735. Later half leather, endpapers renewed, blind tooled with raised bands and leather spine label, marbled endpapers. viii 78pp 12mo. Title with tipped in manuscript note verso (see provenance below), with leeching to top half of title, else a Fine clear and bright copy. RareProvenance : Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE (28 September 1746 ?Äì 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages. Holographic quotation, signed to verso of title.This rare work by Bertin (1690s ?Äì c. 1736) was one of the first about the game of chess in English. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld in The Oxford Companion to Chess call this book "the first worthwhile chess book in the English language". B. Goulding Brown, writing in the December 1932 British Chess Magazine, called it the first original English chess book.More photographs or a Whatsapp video available on request.