Sossnitz, Joseph. Sechok Ha-Schach [The Game of Chess]

AUCTION 36 | Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books & Manuscripts

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Sossnitz, Joseph. Sechok Ha-Schach [The Game of Chess]

FIRST EDITION. With chess diagrams ff. 8, 102, (1). Usual browning, previous owner’s stamp on first leaf. Contemporary boards with original wrappers pasted in. 8vo

Vilna : 1879

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $550

Containing both instructions and master games, this is one of the earliest practical chess manuals in Hebrew. The grand-master Akiva Rubinstein is said to have gained the rudiments of chess from this book