Antiquarian Chess Books and Publications

There are some interesting chess books in my collection.  I have managed to acquire some important antiquarian chess books, including the very rare first-edition Ruy López (1561), the very rare Horatio Gianutio (1597), the first Ruy López Italian edition (1584), the rare Ercole del Rio (1750), de Cessolis (1534), Ringhieri (1551), Salvio (1604), two copies of Selenus (1616), Greco (1656), Severino (1690) and others.  The collection also has all-time classic books such as the first edition of Philidor's L'Analyze des E'checs (1749), the rare Essays on Chess by Trevangadacharya Shastree (1814, Bombay), and an original copy of Ben Franklin's famous essay The Morals Of Chess (1786).

I will put detailed photos of these rare books on the web as time permits.  Meanwhile, click on the appropriate icon below for detailed photos for The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, a first-edition book from 1656 by Greco, the famous Italian.

Click on any of the photos below for more detailed information on each book.

   
         
    1500's (Sixteenth century)    
  Ruy Lopez - Libro de la Invencion Liberal y Arte del Juego del Axedrez - 1561 Ringhieri - Cento Giuochi Liberali - 1551 Cosmographia Chess Leaf - 1561 Marci Hieronymi Vidae Cremone - Le Jeu Des Echecs - 1558 Ruy Lopez - Il giuoco degli scacchi de Rui Lopez - 1584  
  de Cessolis - Opera Nuova - 1534 Gianutio - 1597 Actius - 1583      
         
    1600's (Seventeenth century)    
  Selenus - Das Schach oder Konig-Spiel - 1616 Saul - The Famous Game of Chesse-Play 1640 Greco - The Royall Game of Chesse-Play - 1656 Divertissmens Innocens - 1696 Severino -  La filosofia overo il perche degli schacchi - 1690  
  Thomas Hyde - 1694 Salvio - Trattato dell inventione et arte liberale del gioco di scacchi - 1604 Selenus - 1616 Ducchi - Il Giuoco de gli Scacchi - 1607    
         
    1700's (Eighteenth century)    
  Greco - The Game of Chess - 1713 Hoyle's Games - 1755 - signed Hoyle's Games - 1796 Academie Universelle Des Jeux - 1770 Nouvel Essai Sur Le Jeu Des - 1789  
  Greco - Chess Made Easy - 1750 Stamma - Nouvelle Maniere De Jouer Aux Echecs - 1777 Philidor - Analysis of the Game of Chess - 1777 Lambe - History Of Chess - 1764 Philidor - Analysis of the Game of Chess - 1790  
  Philidor - Chess Analysed - 1750 Stamma - Essai sur le Jeu des Echecs - 1737 Ponziani - Il Giuoco Incomparabile Degli Scacchi - 1782 Chess Prints from the 18th Century Twiss - Chess - 1787  
  Bertin - The Noble Game of Chess - 1735 Philidor - L'analyze des e'checs - 1749 Lolli - Osservazioni teorico-pratiche sopra il giuoco degli scacchi - 1763 Diderot Engravings - 1776 Hoyle's Book of Games - 1770  
  Philidor - Analysis of the Game of Chess - 1790 Philidor - Le Jeu des Échecs - 1792 Philidor - Analysis of the Game of Chess - 1790 Philidor and Stamma - Schachspiel - 1754 Franklin - Chess Made Easy - 1797  
  Stamma - Nouvelle Maniere De Jouer Aux Echecs - 1777 Il Gioco degli Scacchi, Poema Latina di Marco Girolamo Vida - 1791 Benjamin Franklin - The Morals Of Chess - 1786 Hoyle - 1760 Antique Board Games Print - 1784  
  Stamma - The Noble Game of Chess - 1745 Traité Des Amateurs - 1775 Twiss - A History of Chess - 1787 Hoyle - The Polite Gamester - 1766 Twiss - Chess - Volumes I and II  
  Ercole del Rio - Sopra il giuoco degli scacchi - 1750 Philidor - Praktische Anweisung Zum Schachspiel - 1771 Gentleman's Magazine - July 1787 Das Neue Königliche L´Hombre-Spiel Hamburg - 1743 Vierschach / Chess for 4 Persons - 1784  
  Bertin - The Noble Game of Chess - 1735          
         
    1800's (Nineteenth century)    
  Philidor book 1817 First Staunton Chess-Men advertisement 1849 Walker Treatise on Chess - 1841 Chess Players Textbook - 1850 Triumphs of Paul Morphy - 1859  
  Philidor book by Amateur 1804 Philidor book by Pohlman 1819 Littell chess article 1849 Morphy book by Lowenthal 1886 Hoyle's Games Book - 1868  
  Staunton's Chess Players Handbook - 1848 Chess Players Companion 1849 Signed 1857 Waifs and Strays 1862 Practical Chess Grammar 1818 Souvenir of the Bristol Chess Club 1845  
  The Chess Openings by Gunsberg 1896 Pardon - A Handbook of Chess 1862 Green - Chess - 1890 Horwitz - Chess Studies and End-games - 1884 Stopford - Practical Chess Grammar - 1818  
  Lewis - Chess for Beginners - 1846 Agnel - A Book of Chess - 1859 Staunton - Chess Players Chronicle - 1842 Mr. Blackburne's Games At Chess - 1899 Appleton - Chess Players Handbook - 1849  
  Lewis - The Game Of Chess - 1822 Staunton - Chess Praxis - 1860 Chess Players Handbook 1849 Marache's Manual of Chess - 1890 Gossip - Chess Pocket Manual - 1899  
  The Hastings Chess Tournament 1895 Paul Morphy article ILN 1858 Chess Player's Companion 1849 Staunton Chess Player's Companion 1849 Sarratt book 1813  
  Stamma book 1819 Kenny - Manual of Chess 1847 Philidor - Studies of Chess - 1804 Gossip - The Chess Players Vade Mecum - 1891 Gossip - Chess Players Textbook - 1889  
  Freeborough - Chess Endings - 1891 Edge - Triumphs of Morphy - 1859 Cook - Synopsis Of Chess Openings - 1876 Philidor - Studies Of Chess - 1814 Steinitz - Modern Chess Instructor - 1892  
  Wormald - Chess Openings - 1875 Edge - Exploits and Triumphs of Paul Morphy - 1859 Howard Staunton - Chess Players Handbook - 1848 Philidor - Studies of Chess, Volume 2 - 1814 Philidor - Studies of Chess - 1817  
  Staunton - Chess Players Chronicle - 1851 Staunton - Chess Players Companion - 1892 Staunton - Chess Players Handbook 1848 Harry Nelson Pillsbury Autograph - 1899 Agnel's Book of Chess - 1855  
  Staunton - Chess Players Chronicle, vol III - 1843 De Montigny - Stratagems of Chess - 1817 Fiske - First American Chess Congress - 1859 Stratagems of Chess - 1818 Hoyle's Games - 1800  
  Staunton - The Chess Tournament - 1873 Stanley - Chess Players Instructor - 1859 Marache's Manual of Chess - 1866 Philidor - Analyse de jeu de Echecs - 1821 Sarratt - A Treatise on the Game of Chess - 1808  
  Staunton - Chess Players Handbook - 1848 Fiske - 1st American Chess Congress - 1857 Cunnington - Modern Chess Primer - 1899 Philidor - Anilise de Juego de Ajedrez - 1898 Staunton Handwritten Letter - 1867  
  Bird - The Chess Openings - 1880 Hazeltine - Brevity and Brilliancy in Chess - 1866 Walker - The Chess Player - 1841 Hastings Chess Tournament 1895 The Chess Primer 1887  
  Lewis - The Games of the Match at Chess Played by the London and Edinburgh Chess Clubs - 1828 Kling and Horwitz - Chess Studies; or Endings of Games - 1851 Lewis - Chess Board Companion Kling and Horwitz - The Chess Player - 1852 Pardon - Beeton's Handy Book of Games - 1860  
  Bird - Modern Chess - 1885 Jaenisch's Chess Preceptor 1847 Hoyle's Games Improved - 1808 Zukertort and Hoffer - Modern Chess Monthly - 1881 Sarratt - Works of Damaino, Ruy Lopez, and Salvio - 1818  
  Philidor - Studies of Chess - 1808 Bird - The Chess Openings - 1878 Cook - Synopsis of the Chess Openings - 1888 Portius - Katechismus der Schachspielkunst - 1879 DeWitt - The Chess Players - 1859  
  La Bourdonnais - Nouveau Traite du Jeu des Echecs - 1833 The Philidorian Magazine Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1843 Staunton -  Chess Players Handbook - 1884 Illustrated London News - 1843 through 1875  
  Allgaier - Neue theoretisch-praktische Anweisung zum Schachspiele - 1811 Boden - A popular introduction to the study and practice of chess - 1851 The American Chess Code - 1897 K Enderlein, Theoretisch - Praktische Anweisung zum Vierschachspiele - 1837 Alfred Binet - Das Gedächtnis der Schachspieler - 1896  
  Trevangadacharya Shastree - Essays on Chess - 1814 Chess Made Easy - 1802 Chess Made Easy - 1802 An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess - 1806 Philidor - The Elements of Chess - 1805  
  Alexandre - Encyclopédie de Échecs - 1837 Lewis - Oriental Chess - 1817 American Chess Magazine - 1897 - Vols I, II, III International Chess Magazine - 1889-1890 Jeu d'Echecs - 1855  
  American Chess Magazine - 1898 and 1899 Forbes - History of Chess - 1860 Ponziani - Il Giuoco Incomparible Degli Scacchi - 1812 Christie - An Inquiry into the Antient Greek Game... 1801 Christie - An Inquiry into the Antient Greek Game... 1801  
  Greenwell - Chess Exemplified - 1890 An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess - 1816 Chess Players Annual Club Directory - 1882 Edgar - The Liverpool Chess Club, 1837-1893 Vogt - Letters on Chess - 1848  
  Penn - Maxims and Hints for Anglers and Chessplayers - 1833 La Bourdonnais - Nouveau Traite du Jeu des Echecs - 1833 Check - An Easy Guide to Chess - 1818 Williams - Horae Divanianae - 1852 von der Lasa - Leitfaden für Schachspieler - 1857  
  Alexandre (A.L.H.L. Deschapelles) - Encyclopédie des Échecs - 1837 Steinitz - Sixth American Chess Congress - 1891 Heideloff Chess Prints - 1851 Stopford - Practical Chess Grammar - 1817 International Cable Match - 1899  
  Figgins - The Game of Chesse by William Caxton - 1855 Cruikshank - The King the avowed enemy of the Queen - 1820 Tomlinson - Amusements in Chess - 1845 Walker - Chess and Chess Players - 1850 Cochrane - Treatise on the Game of Chess - 1822  
  The Chess Handbook - 1859 Bilguer - Handbuch Des Schachspiel - 1852 Bingham - The Incomparable Game of Chess - 1820 Kling - The Chess Euclid - 1849 Steinitz - International Chess Magazine, Vol. 1 - 1885  
  Ludus Scacchiae Reprint - 1869 Marocco - Cesole 1493 Reprint - 1829 Christie - An Inquiry into the Antient Greek Game... 1801 The Chess Player's Magazine - Volume 1 - 1863 The Chess Player's Magazine - Volume 2 - 1864  
  The Chess Congress of 1862, London Newnes - "Conditions of the Anglo American Chess Trophy" - 1896 William Lewis - Oriental Chess - 1817 Gilberg - Fifth American Chess Congress - 1881 John Everett Millais - Chess Sketch - circa 1850  
  Lewis - Traite Jeu Des Echecs - 1846 Kling & Horwitz - Chess Studies and Endgames - 1889 Steinitz - International Chess Magazine, Volumes 3 and 4 - 1887/1888 Steinitz - International Chess Magazine, Volume 6 - 1890 The Chess Players Magazine - 1865  
  Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1841 Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1844 Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1846 Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1847 Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1848  
  Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1849 Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1853 Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1855 Stanley - American Chess Magazine - 1846-1847 Second American Chess Congress - 1871  
  Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1846 Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1850 Walker - Chess Studies - 1844 Walker - A Selection of Games at Chess - 1835 Staunton - Chess Player's Chronicle - 1841  
  Sarratt - The Works of Gianutio and Gustavus Selenus - 1817 L’art de jouer et de gagner au jeu des echecs - 1828 Bird - Chess History and Reminisces - 1893 Grieg - One Hundred Pitfalls of the Chessboard - 1914 Long - Positions In The Chess Openings - 1874  
  Steinitz - International Chess Magazine - 1886 Steinitz - International Chess Magazine - 1889 Steinitz - International Chess Magazine - 1890 Vazquez - El Ajedrez De Memoria - 1895 The Household Chess Magazine - 1865  
  Brentano's Chess Monthly Magazine - 1882 Third American Chess Congress - 1874 Fourth American Chess Congress - 1876 Vienna Tournament - 1898 London International Chess Tournament - 1883  
  London International Chess Congress - 1899 Moritz Retzsch - "The Game of Life or The Chess-Players" - 1837 Le Palamede French Chess Magazine - 1842-1847 Forbes - History of Chess - 1860 Catalog of the George Allen Chess Book Collection - 1878  
  George Allen - Life of Philidor - 1863 Binet - Grands Calculateurs et Joueurs d'Echecs - 1894 De Riviere - Jeu Des Echecs - 1860 Montigny - Les Strategemes Des Echecs - 1801 Reichhelm - Chess in Philadelphia - 1898  
  Preti - Traite Au Jeu Des Echecs - 1858 Staunton - Chess Praxis, 1860 - signed by Bobby Fischer Madden - Ancient Chess-men Discovered - 1832 Van der Linde - Geschichte und Litteratur des Schach-spiels - 1874    
         
    1900's (Twentieth century)    
  Fischer Handwritten Moves Chess Tales 1912 A History of Chess 1913 Reuben Fine - Basic Chess Endings - autographed - 1941 Thirteenth Century Chess Problems - 1910  
  Cunnington - Chess Openings for Beginners - 1900 Homage to Capablanca book Havana Tournament Book 1913 Torneo de las Naciones 1939 Match por el Campeonato de Ajedrez (1927)  
XVII World Chess Olimpiade, Cuba 1966, Signed by Larsen
Freeborough & Ranken - Chess Openings Ancient & Modern - 1910
Mason - Chess Openings - 1915
Williams - The Modern Chess Problem - 1902
The Chess Amateur Magazine
  Ellis - Catalog of Rare and Valuable Early Chess Books - 1928 The Yearbook of Chess - 1907 The Yearbook of Chess - 1908 The Yearbook of Chess - 1910 Lasker's Chess Magazine - 1907  
  Botvinnik, Tal, Spassky Autographs - 1962 Life of Paul Morphy - 1926 Klahre - Early Chess in America - 1934 Chess Magazine - Oct-1942 - Sept-1944 Barmen Tournament - 1905  
  Teplitz Schonau Chess Congress - 1922 The Problem Magazine - 1914 British Chess Magazine - 1886 to 1890 and 1912 to 1921 Reuben Fine - Psychoanalytic Observations - 1956 Mordecai Morgan - Chess Digest 1901-1904  
  Willard Fiske - Chess in Iceland - 1905 Rinck - 300 Fins De Partie - 1919 Yearbook of Chess - 1908-1916 British Chess Magazine Annual Volumes, 1897-1909 Lucena Reprint - 1953  
  Alfonso El Sabio Reprint - 1913          
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