STAMMA, PHILIP. Essai sur le Jeu des Échecs, The Hague, chez Antoine van Dole, 1741, sm. 12°, second edition, title printed in red and black, 2 folding diagrams (pp. 17 and 18), with 10pp. manuscript notes in German in a late 18th-century hand tipped in at end, contemporary sheep-backed boards (some wear to spine). [VDL Geschichte I, 379; Schachlitteratur 3024; KB 422]
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STAMMA, PHILIP. Essai sur le Jeu des Échecs, The Hague, chez Antoine van Dole, 1741, sm. 12°, second edition, title printed in red and black, 2 folding diagrams (pp. 17 and 18), with 10pp. manuscript notes in German in a late 18th-century hand tipped in at end, contemporary sheep-backed boards (some wear to spine). [VDL Geschichte I, 379; Schachlitteratur 3024; KB 422]
Lot Essay
The notes are an analysis of the differences between the first and the second edition.