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51 pages with diagrams. Duodecimo (5 3/4" x 4") bound in original publisher's pectoral rappers. First edition.
Vasily Nikolayevich Platov (1881-1952) and Mikhail Platov (1883-1942) were two Latvian endgame study composers who followed Troitzky's steps.
They collaborated with the great magazines of their time - Shakhmaty, 64. They published two collections of their studies: Sammlung der Endspielstudien (1914) and Сборник шахматных этюдов (1928). Vasily also published a selection of contemporary studies 150 избранных современных этюдов"(1925).
Condition: Light edge wear else better than very good.

24 unpaginated pages with tables and photographs. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. Signed by the following contestants: Mikhail Tal, Jan Timman, Bent Larsen, Artur Pomar, Anatoly Karpov, Sergio Cabrera and on the back wrapper by Vasily Smyslov. First edition.The sixth Torneo Internacional Ciudad de Las Palmas was organized in Las Palmas, Spain in May of 1977. Sixteen chess masters and grandmasters, including the world champion, competed in the round robin format. The participants were (in order of ELO): Anatoli Karpov (2690), Mikhail Tal (2620), Bent Larsen (2615), Jan Timman (2590), Anthony Miles (2555), Walter Shawn Browne (2545), Andras Adorjan (2530), Stefano Tatai (2480), Roman Hernandez (2435), Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez (2415), Roberto Debarnot (2405), Fernando Visier Segovia (2355), Gabriel Cabrera (unrated), Jose Garcia-Padron (unrated), Angel Martin-Gonzalez (unrated), and Arturo Pomar-Salamanca (unrated). The average of the combined… Read More

117 pages with diagrams and tables. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5821) First edition.he inaugural Hungarian Chess Championship was held in the city of Győr in 1906. Initially, there was no governing body responsible for its organization, until the formation of the Hungarian Chess Federation. The HCF first appeared in 1911, but failed to establish itself properly until 1923. The regularity of the Championship was patchy prior to 1950, due in part to the two world wars and inadequate funding. Since 1949 however, the HCF has been integrated with the Hungarian Sports Federation and so receives state support. Consequently, the Championship has since been held on an annual basis, with only the occasional omission. Exceptionally two consecutive events have occurred in the same year, due to the event being held at the year end. The VII championship, held in 1951, attracted twenty-one contestants. Gedeon Barcza was the clear winner with… Read More

One leaf.
Augustín Rubio engraver, Mexico: Calle de Tacuba, c1732-1748. The title mentions that Bishop Anzelmo Sanchez de Tagle gives 40 days of indulgence to those who contributed with donations to the construction of the Church were the image is. Tagle was bishop of Durango from 1732 to 1748.
Ten other prints by Rubio are known, five identified by Romero de Terreros and five new. Unique watermark to the paper.
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Very good.

115-158 pages with cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. Volume 3, Number 2 complete issue. First edition. The method of dating the separation of cognitive languages on the basis of the percentage of common basic vocabulary was inspired by radiocarbon-dating of organic matter, and was based upon the alleged discover of "the fact that fundamental vocabulary changes at a constant rate." Condition: Some damp staining to head edges, previous owner's name to front wrapper, corners, edge wear else good to very good.

485 pages with diagrams, plates and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") issued in grey cloth with black and white cover and black lettering to spine and white and red lettering to pictorial cover. signed First edition.Paul Keres was born in Narva on 7 January 1916. At the University of Tartu, he studied mathematics from 1938 to 1941. In 1935, he became the Estonian chess champion for the first time. In the years 1936-1940, Keres was the editor-in-chief of the journal "Estonian Chess". Paul Keres first appeared in the international chess arena in the mid-1930s, and remained a prominent figure there for years. In 1938, he shared the first place with Fine in the memorable AVRO tournament, but after additional calculations Paul Keres was announced the winner.
However, the title match with Alekhine did not follow. After the war, he was eclipsed by Botvinnik, though still retaining his place among the world's top class players. By the end of the 1950s, he was the strongest chess player in the world (at least, as… Read More

260 pages with maps (two folding) and color plates. Royal octavo (9 1/r" x 6 1/2") bound in original yellow cloth with red lettering to spine and front cover. First edition limited to 500 copies.This production is a vast bibliography: over one hundred titles, including books, essays, documentaries compilations, book reviews and articles. In the newsletter of the General Archive of the Nation which published twenty historical documentaries, geographic studies of colonial Mexico. But also includes the revolution of independence and the formation of the Mexican state.Condition: A touch of rubbing to extremities. Jacket spine sunned, rubbing to extremities with some light chips to spine ends else a very good copy in like jacket.

176 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. A C White's Christmas series volume XXXVIII with Christmas greetings tipped in. From the library of Kenneth S Howard with a letter from Alain White laid-in. (Betts: 31-16) First edition.White's introduction discusses this area of problem strategy (Valve: where a move, made by black, opens one line and closes another, both affected lines being black; bi-valves: where the lines affected radiate from two black pieces instead of one). 139 examples follow (51 two-movers, 85 three-movers, 3 four-movers) with full solutions. Includes and index of composers.Kenneth Samuel Howard (1882-1972) one of the founders of the Marshall Chess Club and chess problem composer. He wrote several books about chess composition: The enjoyment of chess problems (1943), How to solve chess problems (1945), and One hundred years of the American two-move chess problem; a… Read More

176 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. A C White's Christmas series volume XXXVIII with Christmas greetings tipped in. (Betts: 31-16) First edition.White's introduction discusses this area of problem strategy (Valve: where a move, made by black, opens one line and closes another, both affected lines being black; bi-valves: where the lines affected radiate from two black pieces instead of one). 139 examples follow (51 two-movers, 85 three-movers, 3 four-movers) with full solutions. Includes and index of composers.Condition:Corners bumped, spine and edges sunned. A very good copy issued without jacket.

v+21 pages with plates, figures, maps, plans, tables and bibliography. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. Technical Series Bulletin number 10. First edition. The following account gives the results of excavation of three sites in Chaves County, New Mexico, by the Laboratory of Anthropology. The three sites are habitation sites of the same general cultural type. These sites bring to attention a unsubscribed variant of Pueblo culture. The sites are situated in the valley of the Rio Pefiasco, a tributary of the Pecos River, in Chaves County, New Mexico. Condition: Corners bumped else a very good copy.

x+133 pages with frontispiece, plates, bibliography and index. Quarto (10 1/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and insignia to cover. Academy of American Franciscan History Monograph Series Volume Seven. First edition.

Vasco de Quiroga (1470/78-1565), one of the truly great figures sent from Spain to New Spain in the sixteenth century, stands out for his contributions to the political ecclesiastical, and social development of Mexico. He was sent to the New World by the Spanish crown as a member of the Second Audiencia of Mexico in an effort to straighten out the confusion and turmoil which had resulted from ten years of struggling factionalism in the young colony and from the disastrous regime of Nuflo de Guzman and his companies of the First Audiencia.

In 1536 De Quiroga was appointed the first bishop of the newly established diocese of Michoacán. He was nominated by the President of the Second Audiencia, Bishop of Santo Domingo, Sebastián Ramírez… Read More

342-358 pages. Quarto (10" x 7") bound in original publisher's wrappers. The Hispanic American Historical Review Volume XX, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Other articles include: Portugal Celebrates Eight Centuries of Existence, 1140-1940 by Joao de Bianchi; The Collection of the Fifth in Brazil, 1695-1709 by Manoel S Cardozo; Jose Silvestre Rebello: The First Diplomatic Representative of Brazil in the United States by Arthur P Whitaker; Some Foreign Influences in Contemporary Brazilian Politics by Bailey W Diffie; A Queen's Letter by Roscoe R Hill. Condition: Edge wear with some chips, spined sunned, soiled else about very good.

ix+103 pages with frontispiece, appendices and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original white cloth with black and chartreuse lettering to spine and black lettering to front cover. [inscribed by the author] First edition. Jose Vasconecelos lawyer, politician, writer, educator, philosopher, prophet, and mystic - was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the intellectual life of twentieth century Mexico. Vasconcelos was driven by the desire to gain a complete and comprehensive vision of reality, employing his own aesthetic emotive method and a poetic mode of expression The complex philosophical system that resulted is what he called "aesthetic monism." But this is only one side of the man. Don Jose was also vitally interested in both the proximate realities and remote possibilities of Mexico, in the character of the "cosmic race" of his homeland, and the relations between his own country and others of this hemisphere. Soon after Vasconcelos' death in 159, Eduardo Garcia… Read More

226 pages with diagrams, tables and photographs. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The IBM international chess tournament was a series of very strong chess tournaments held in the Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 1961 to 1981, and was sponsored by IBM. Parallel there was quite often a tournament IBM-B, always with (future or former) strong grandmasters - and local Dutch players to play against foreign titleholders, apart from the major "A" section. By 1963, there were 120 participants in the IBM Amsterdam tournament, broken down to grandmaster group, master group, reserve master group, etc. It was a real festival, connected with the idea to promote (chess) programming by sponsor IBM. This is the 14th edition of the tournament. With a field of sixteen contestants. Vlastimil Jansa, Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov and Borislav Ivkov vying for first with scores of 10 of 15. A full point behind was Zoltan Ribli. In fifth was Hans Ree at 8 1/2. Sixth… Read More

228 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with green gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original jacket. First edition. Set around a haunted house hemmed in by a restive, starving populace, The Veil weaves Ireland's troubled colonial history into a transfixing story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time. May 1822, rural Ireland. The defrocked Reverend Berkeley arrives at the crumbling former glory of Mount Prospect House to accompany seventeen year-old Hannah to England. She is to be married off to a marquis in order to resolve the debts of her mother's estate. However, compelled by the strange voices that haunt his beautiful young charge and a fascination with the psychic current that pervades the house, Berkeley proposes a seance, the consequences of which are catastrophic. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.

The Venus Quintet Series
Pirates of Venus: 314+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's blue pebble cloth with red letting to spine and cover. Lost on Venus: 318+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue pebble cloth with red letting to spine and cover. Carson of Venus: 312+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece and illustrations. . Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's royal blue pebbled cloth lettered in red, red top edge, Escape on Venus: 347 pages with frontispiece and illustrations.. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with red lettering to spine and cover. The Wizard of Venus: 205-282 pages illustrated by Roy G Krenkel, all with illustrated endpapers of map of Amtor; all in original pictorial dust jackets. Included a signed typed letter from Burroughs. one page, (8. 1/2" x 11"), Edgar Rice… Read More

1 sheet folio (17" x 11 1/4"), engraving (12" x 8 1/2") Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600-1659) was a Spanish politician, administrator, and Catholic clergyman in 17th century Spain and a viceregal of Mexico. Palafox was the Bishop of Puebla (1640−1655), and the interim Archbishop of Mexico (1640−1642). He also held political office, from 10 June 1642 to 23 November 1642 as the Viceroy of New Spain. He lost a high-profile struggle with the Jesuits in New Spain, resulting in a recall to Spain, to the minor Diocese of Osma in Old Castile.He was embroiled in a major controversy with the Jesuits over ecclesiastical jurisdiction that eventually cost him his post as Bishop of Puebla de los Ángeles. The Spanish crown was moving to displace mendicant orders from their populous and lucrative doctrinas in central Mexico, and replace them with parishes staffed by secular (diocesan) clergy with benefices rather than mendicants. He was largely successful in doing so in Puebla.
He then targeted the Jesuits as… Read More

12+[80] pages. Slim small quarto (10 1/2" x 7") bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Jose Torbio Medina. 80 upaginated pages facsimile of the original 1549 publication. Second edition. First published in 1549.

Very little is known about Albenino (b. 1514?), other than that he was an Italian exile from Florence, where he had been associated with the Medici family. In June of 1548 he wrote a private letter about the most recent developments during the Perúvian civil war–the arrival in Perú of Viceroy Nuñez Vela to pacify the country and his defeat and death at the hands of the rebel Gonzalo Pizarro, Francisco's brother; the war between Pizarro and captain Diego Centeno; and finally, the successful campaign by the new governor, Pedro de la Gasca, who put an end to Gonzalo Pizarro's rebellion. The letter was privately addressed to Fernán Xuárez, a churchman living in Seville, who upon realizing the importance of the news it contained, gave it immediately to… Read More

unpaginated with photographs by Jacques Dubois. Oblong quarto (11 1/2" x 15 3/4") bound in original publishers' white cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Daniel Wheeler. Introduction by Jean d'Ormesson, Introduction by Gerald Van der Kemp and post script by Pierre Lemoine. Inscribed by Gerald Van der kemp. First American edition limited to 1250 copies. The sumptuous palace and gardens of Versailles represented both Louis XIV’s celebration of himself and a perfectly balanced integration of art and nature. Millions of tourists have long admired the gardens for their inexhaustible source of new life and enduring mystery. The allées and parterres resonate with memories of pomps and promenades, feasts and follies. As a monument to the Sun King, the solar symbolism of Apollo reigns over both architecture and ornament at Versailles, yet French classicism dominates the gardens, imposing a strict geometrical order on the forest, shaping the flowerbeds and… Read More

xvii+379+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") issued in beige with red lettering spine and front cover. Studies in Anthropology. First edition.Contents: Variant Usage in American Kinship: The Nomenclator Effect by Gary Combs; The Uses of Kinship: Kwaio, Solomon Islands by Roger M Kessing; Incest and Kinship Structure by Karl H Schwerin; The Hopi-Tewa System of Mating of First Mesa, Arizona: Some Biological, Linquistic, and Cultural Aspects by James N Spuhler; Navajo Exogamic Rules and Preferred Marriages by David F Aberle; The Kpelle Negotiation of Marriage and Matrilateral Ties by Caroline H Bledsoe and William P Murphy; Kinship and Descent in the Ethnic Reassertion of the Eastern Creek Indians by J Anthony Paredes; Kinship Ties and the Preferred Adaptive Strategies of Urban Migrants; by Theodore D and Nancy B Graves; Kin Networks and Family Strategies: Working Class Portuguese Families in New England; by Louise Lamphere, Filomena M Silva and John P Sousa;… Read More