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267 pages with diagrams and color photographs. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6")bound in original publisher's pictorial covers. First edition in Russian. The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2010. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. In an event attended by most… Read more about this item

55 pages with photographs. Duodecimo (6" x 4 3/4") bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In Russian. From the library of Meindert Niemeijer. First edition. During the 1930s a series of tournaments were organised in the Soviet Union, the aim of which was to test the new generation of Soviet masters against the best professionals of the… Read more about this item

x+398 pages with frontispiece and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition. Comprising more than 65,000 printed works, 4,000 catalogued manuscript collections, tens of thousands of vintage photographs, and hundreds of prints, watercolors, and paintings, the Yale Collection of Western Americana documents the indigenous communities of North America,… Read more about this item

218 pages. Octavo (9" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over dark grey boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. After eight hard years in San Quentin prison, Runyan is out and ready to lead a quiet life - an honest life. But certain people have been planning for the day of… Read more about this item

196 pages. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. This novel tells the story of Adrian Cancienne, a man of the marsh, who was born during leechtime and who as a wild teenager was placed under a leechtime curse by his great-aunt, a maker… Read more about this item

[10]+125+33+[1] leaves. Quarto (8 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in contemporary vellum. (Medina, Mexico 1312; Palau 143969n) 7th edition. A report on a 1679 papal bull by Pope Innocent XI which condemned (among other things) a more liberal approach to abortion. Condition: Stamp to head end pages, lacking lower ties, hand written title to spine, edge wear with some small chips to… Read more about this item

Printed portrait, in black and white. (7 3/4" x 10") with Vishy Anand adjusting the chess pieces. Signed on the portrait. The 31st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting took place in the Dortmunder Schauspielhaus in Dortmund, Germany 31 July - 10 August 2003. Rest day: August 5. Games started at 3 pm, Round 10 at 12:30 pm local time. Time control: "Standard" (FIDE).… Read more about this item

viii+803 pages with facsimiles. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 7") bound in leather with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and cover. Reprint of the second edition of 1899. limited to 250 copies. Forms, with García Icazbalceta's Bibliografía Mexicano del Siglo XVI (1886) and Nicolás León's Bibliografía Mexicana del Siglo XVIII (1902- ) a continuous bibliography of Mexican literature, 1539-1800. 1,228… Read more about this item

[xx]+179 pages with foldout panel, facsimiles and bibliography. Quarto (11 3/4" x 9") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Limited to 1000 copies. First edition. The Third Mexican Provincial Council of 1585 discussed the foundation of a conciliar seminary for Mexico. In 1592 Philip II of Spain issued a royal decree which ordered seminaries to be founded in all of New… Read more about this item

Tinted one sheet printed representation of Kramnik with chess scene during competition games. (11 1/4" x 7 3/4") Signed and dated at the bottom. The 33rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting took place in the Dortmunder Schauspielhaus in Dortmund, Germany 8-17 July 2005. Rest day: July 13. Games started at 3 pm, Round 9 at 1 pm local time. Time control: 100 minutes… Read more about this item

xxi+179 pages. Octavo (8" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Selected with a prologue and notes by Manuel Romero de Terreros. Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora was one of the first great intellectuals born in the New World - Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico City). He was a criollo patriot, exalting New Spain over Old. A polymath and… Read more about this item

Printed portrait, in color. (8" x 11") with Vishy Anand over looking the chess board. Signed on the portrait. The 31st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting took place in the Dortmunder Schauspielhaus in Dortmund, Germany 31 July - 10 August 2003. Rest day: August 5. Games started at 3 pm, Round 10 at 12:30 pm local time. Time control: "Standard" (FIDE). Viktor Antonovich… Read more about this item

505 pages with maps, illustrations, facsimiles, tables, errata and index. Quarto(11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's dark grey with black labels to spine and gilt lettering in original pictorial jacket. First edition, Joaquín Galarza, Chargé de Recherches to the National Center of Scientific Research of Paris, Assistant of the Museum of Man and of the French Archaeological and Ethnological… Read more about this item

312+[1 ad] pages with six inserted plates, including frontispiece, by John Coleman Burroughs. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's royal blue pebbled cloth lettered in red, red top edge. Inscribed dand signed. (The present inscription is illustrated in Zeuschner's Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography (2016) on page 50) Accompanied by a letter of authenticity… Read more about this item

1 sheet black and white representation of Kramnik at the chess board 1975. Size 8" x 7". Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007. He has won three team gold… Read more about this item

Autograph sheet (8" x 6 1/2") signed on front by Alexander Alekhine, Frank James Marshall, Lajos Steiner and Hermann Steiner, and on the verso by Jacob Bernstein. Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine (1892-1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. Alekhine is known for his fierce and imaginative attacking… Read more about this item

[6], 134, 137-8, [4] leaves as issued with large woodcut coat of arms of father Fernando Alonso Gonzalez, general commisionar of Nueva-España.. Quarto (8" x 6") bound in contemporary vellum from a different volume. (Medina, Mexico 3205; Palau 309782; Pilling 3572) Second edition. Text in Latin, Spanish and Tarascan and this work was known as "The Trilingual Manual", a semi-official… Read more about this item

111 pages with diagraphs, tables and photographs. Duodecimo (7" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Signed by Efim Bogoljubow. First edition. Book owned by Efim Bogoljubow, with his ownership signatures; the book has a transcription of two of his games from 1946 as well as notes on the rear cover. Efim Bogoljubow also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (1889-1952) was… Read more about this item

iv+120 pages with diagrams. Duodecimo (5 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Signed by Efim Bogoljubow .First edition. Efim Bogoljubow also known as Efim Dimitrijewitsch Bogoljubow (1889-1952) was a Russian-born German chess grandmaster. In 1911, Bogoljubow tied for first place in the Kiev championships, and finished 9–10th in the Saint Petersburg (All-Russian Amateur) Tournament, won by Stepan Levitsky.… Read more about this item

Color one sheet printed representation of Kramnik with chess scene during competition games. (7 3/4" x 11 1/4") Signed in the upper left hand corner. The 33rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting took place in the Dortmunder Schauspielhaus in Dortmund, Germany 8-17 July 2005. Rest day: July 13. Games started at 3 pm, Round 9 at 1 pm local time. Time control:… Read more about this item