Consisting of original stories and sketches. Skeet, London, 1850. In-16 gr. (mm. 196x120), tela edit. rossa con decoraz. oro e a secco ai piatti, pp. (4),II,384. Interessante raccolta di storie sul gioco degli scacchi in its infancy: The Chess automation - Deschapelles the Chess king - Chess without the Chess-board - The Caf de la Rgence - Ruy Lopez the Chess Bishop: a legend of Spain - Mated and Checkmated: an Oriental sketch - A game of Chess with Napoleon - Vincenzio the Venetian - The light and lustre of Chess - Battles of La Bourdonnais and Mc Donnell. "Edizione originale". George Walker (1803-1879) was an English author and chess organiser who did a great deal to promote chess. He founded both the Westminster Chess Club in 1831 and the St. Georges Club in 1834 and, as an author, wrote about the game in his chess columns in 'The Lancet' and 'Bell's Life' .Solo 4 cc. con picc. macchia marginale, altrim. esemplare ben conservato.
Walker and Son, London, 1832. In-16 gr. (mm. 186x112), tela edit., pp. (4),80, con 1 tav. in tinta che riporta la situation of the Pieces, and names of the Squares. Il trattato contiene: The rudiments of the science, with an analysis of the best methods of playing the different openings and ends of games; including many original positions, and a selection of fifty Chess problems, never before printed in this country.Ben conservato.
Walker Louis Edward Quintrell Ballentyne Denis William George
Reference : ARH35AP
ISBN : B0014O32YM
Chapman and Hall Broché D'occasion bon état 01/01/1961 234 pages
2. Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, (1978), 25 x 25 cm, 99 pp, sewn, orig.wrapper, numerous b.w. + coloured ills, bibliography.
- Botsford George,Cantwell Johnug,Walker Reta - Cantwell Johnug,Walker Reta
Reference : 26893
(1919)
Partitions sur la Première guerre Mondiale Salabert 1919
Bon état Grand format Piano
GOMBRICH Ernst - Anthony BLUNT - T.S.R. BOASE - D.P. WALKER - Frances YATES - George ZARNECKI (editors) :
Reference : 25912
" London, the Warburg Institute, University of London, 1974, in-4°; 397 pp, index, sewn, original stiff wrapper, ex-library copy, stamp on title, label on lower end of spine. Volume XXXVII. Contains e.g.; Buschhausen H. The Klosterneuburg Altar of Nicholas of Verdun, Art, Theology and Politics. Julian Gardner; The Stefaneschi Altarpiece, a Reconsideration. Gereth M. Spriggs; Ther Nevill Hours and the School of Herman Scheerre. Sandra Hindmann; Fifteenth-century Dutch Bible Illustration and the Historia Scholastica. Mark Weil; The Devotion of the Forty Hours and Roman Baroque Illusions ...and other articles."