Author: Alexandre, Aaron [Albert] (1766-1850)
Year: 1846
Publisher: S Dufour et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs
Place: Paris
Description:
vii+344+[68 solutions] with pictorial title page and diagrams. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/4") bound in half leather with pebbled leather with five raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Head end pages in gilt. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 2382) First edition.
Aaron (Albert) Alexandre was a Jewish German-French-English chess player and writer. Aaron Alexandre, a Bavarian trained as a rabbi, arrived in France in 1793. Encouraged by the French Republic's policy of religious toleration, he became a French citizen. At first, he worked as a German teacher and as mechanical inventor. Eventually, chess became his primary occupation. He tried to make a complete survey of the chess openings, publishing his findings as the Encyclopedie des echecs (Encyclopedia of Chess, Paris, 1837). In this book, he used the algebraic notation and the castling symbols 0-0 and 0-0-0. He spent a large part of his life in France and England In Paris he opened a hotel with coffee house (1795), which he had closed in 1836. He continued with a survey of endgame analyses and a compilation of nearly two thousand chess problems, which he published in 1846 as Collection des plus beaux Problemes d'Echecs, Paris, and simultaneously in English and German translations: MBeauties of Chess, London, and Praktische Sammlung bester Schachspiel-Probleme, Leipzig.
Condition:
Book block uncut on tow side, some foxing, predominately to end papers. Raised spine bands rubbed else a very good copy of a rare work.
Year: 1846
Publisher: S Dufour et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs
Place: Paris
Description:
vii+344+[68 solutions] with pictorial title page and diagrams. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/4") bound in half leather with pebbled leather with five raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Head end pages in gilt. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 2382) First edition.
Aaron (Albert) Alexandre was a Jewish German-French-English chess player and writer. Aaron Alexandre, a Bavarian trained as a rabbi, arrived in France in 1793. Encouraged by the French Republic's policy of religious toleration, he became a French citizen. At first, he worked as a German teacher and as mechanical inventor. Eventually, chess became his primary occupation. He tried to make a complete survey of the chess openings, publishing his findings as the Encyclopedie des echecs (Encyclopedia of Chess, Paris, 1837). In this book, he used the algebraic notation and the castling symbols 0-0 and 0-0-0. He spent a large part of his life in France and England In Paris he opened a hotel with coffee house (1795), which he had closed in 1836. He continued with a survey of endgame analyses and a compilation of nearly two thousand chess problems, which he published in 1846 as Collection des plus beaux Problemes d'Echecs, Paris, and simultaneously in English and German translations: MBeauties of Chess, London, and Praktische Sammlung bester Schachspiel-Probleme, Leipzig.
Condition:
Book block uncut on tow side, some foxing, predominately to end papers. Raised spine bands rubbed else a very good copy of a rare work.