ERNELINDE, Princesse de Norvege: Tragedie Lyrique. Paroles de Poinsinet (& Sedaine)... Reduite pour PIANO et CHANT par CESAR FRANK. (CHEFS-D'EUVRE CLASSIQUES DE L''OPERA FRANCAIS 27) by Francois-Andre Danican Philidor - 1971

Delhi: Pranava Books, 2007. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 208pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A careful examination of the subject suggested the idea of numbering the squares on the board, and mark mg such of the pieces as are liable to be mistaken. He accordingly made the experiment by playing over one of Philidor's games on a board, and with pieces, distinctly marked, carefully noting the numbers of the squares to correspond with Philidor's directions. The result encouraged him to proceed, and new model the whole of the games upon this plan with such alterations in the style of the notes as appeared to him necessary for general use. The work thus prepared, is now present ed to the public, under a strong impression that the method proposed, though extremely simple, and easily put in practice, will be found to answer the wishes and expectations of those who are desirous of learning… Read More

LULU BOOKS, 2015. Paperback. New. 258 pages. French language. 8.35x5.91x0.39 inches.

London: Boosey & Hawkes [PN B. & H. 20295], 1978. Large octavo. Original publisher's ivory wrappers with illustration in mid-tan after Cruikshank. 1f. (recto half title, verso title in French), 1f. (recto title in English, verso copyright statement), v-vii (editor's note), [viii] (blank), ix (notes on first performance, cast list, orchestration, and act settings), x (contents), 185, [i] (publisher's catalogue) pp. Small price handstamp to upper margin of half-title. Wrappers slightly worn. First performed in Paris at the Comédie Italienne on 22 February 1765. The first performance of the present version was given in Cambridge at the ADC Theatre by the Cambridge University Opera Society on 27 October 1971.

Pendragon Pr, 1993-06-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: T & J Allman. Worn condition. Cover rubbed with cracked hinges and loss to spine. Fep and prelims missing. Loss to corner of title page. Slight foxing, but content in overall good condition. 1824. Second Edition. Maroon hardback half-leather cover. 190mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). xvi, 264pp. .

London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, 1803. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. ix, 271, iv, 267pp, appendix, single page of ads at rear, engraved frontis of chess board with pieces arranged, full tree calf with marbled pastedowns and endpapers, ornate gilt spines, front board detached volume I, front board lacking at volume II, gift inscription in old ink at front fly volume I -- on verso of engraving --, old ink signature at top edge of title-page at volume II, light general wear, corners worn, contents clean and bright. .

2 parts bound as one. 314+3 rules pages with frontispiece portrait. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5") bound in full leather with four raised spine bands with leather labels in compartments lettered in gilt. Translated by Schack Hermann Ewald. From the Lothar Schmid chess library. With handwritten dedication to Jens Enevoldsen by the Russian-German grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow. (van der Linde 479) Rare German edition.François-André Danican Philidor was a French composer and chess player. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique. He is regarded as the best chess player of his age; his book Analyse du jeu des Échecs was considered a standard chess manual for at least a century. Philidor started playing regularly around 1740 at the chess Mecca of France, the Café de la Régence. It was also there that he famously played with a friend from New England, Benjamin Franklin. The best player in France at the time, Legall de Kermeur, taught him. At first, Legall could give Philidor rook odds, a… Read More

London: Samuel Bagster, 1805. Occasional mild browning otherwise a very good copy.. Edition: New Edition, Binding: recent ¼ calf with marbled boards, flat spine with black morocco label., Size: 8vo, Illustration: Frontis piece image of a chess board., Volume: 2 in 1, Pages: P. frontis, title, printer’s imprint, (1), blank, iii-x, 1-264; title, printer’s imprint, iii-iv, 1-272, Category: ; Book Pastimes, Games & Amusements

For J. Nourse, and P. Vaillant. London. 1762. [Second edition in English]. Small 4to.. pp. viii, 80, 83-146. [This mispagination is an original error, the text and register are continuous and complete]. Original calf, spine with raised bands and original label, the first gathering is protruding a bit from the book-block, with some early signatures relating to the PROBY family - 'Martha Proby the gift of her beloved mother. This book belonged once to my dear father', subsequently - 'A. W. Edmonds from her dear sister Martha, Feby. 1864', trifling wear at the spine ends and edges, overall a very good copy. *ESTC T120495 - The first edition, in French, was probably published in Paris in 1749, though using the false imprint of London. It was issued in a run of 443 copies, paid for by subscription and was translated into English and published in the following year by Nourse and Vaillant. These same publishers issued the second edition, offered here, in 1762. Philidor was a musical prodigy, enrolled with… Read More