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[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

Autograph sheet with handwritten signature and dated June 18, 1935 of William Ewart Napier. Sheet size ( 5" x 6 1/2"). Verso blank. William Ewart Napier was an American chess master of English birth. He had his first successes with simultaneous games, among other things winning in December 1894 versus the acting United States Chess Champion Jackson Whipps Showalter. At the… Read more about this item

80 pages with diagrams, illustrations, photographs, tables and drawings. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial rappers. Chessworld Volume 1, Number 3. (Betts: 7-131) First edition. Chessworld edited by Frank Brady was a bi-monthly publication, published in New York. Only three numbers published before in ceased. Chessworld served as a valuable source of information and entertainment… Read more about this item

292 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4) bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with red lettering to spine over brow boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Autumn Maze is a 1994 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was the eleventh book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone and centers on the murder of the police minister's son. Condition:… Read more about this item

430 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with silver lettering to spine over maroon boards with original pictorial jacket. First edition. An attractive and highly intelligent police detective, Christine Boland, forms the brilliant centerpiece of William D. Pease's explosive novel of psychological suspense. Detective Boland is assigned to investigate the death… Read more about this item

155–173 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XLI Number 2 complete issue. First edition. The article explores the Iraqw people's forms of identity and personhood, and how ideas of personhood have changed since the precolonial era. The Iraqw are a Cushitic ethnic group who live in northern Tanzania, and are thought… Read more about this item