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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [A charming book on chess, heavily illustrated] Two parts in one volume. 32mo. Bound in contemporary red morocco. Gilt ruled and lettered. All edges gilt. Marbled end sheets. 80 pp.; (2)-122 pp. Engraved plates of chess charts. The first part with one plate, the second part with 120 color chess diagrams printed in ochre, red and black. The chess pieces are represented by various letters printed in red and black. Ex libris book plate of Eug. V. Wattenwyl. Manuscript notation on rear end sheet. First German edition (first French edition was published the same year). German edition of Stratagems of chess; Les Stratagemes Des Echecs Ou Collection Des Coups D'Echecs les plus brillans et les plus curieux.…