Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Morphy, Paul (1837-1884)
Paul Morphy Skizze aus der Schacwelt. Zweiter Theil. Schachkämpfe in Paris, Dr. Max Lange's Copy, with Notes.

Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Comp., 1859.

Octavo, with illustrated frontispiece; ex libris German chess player and writer of chess problems Dr. Max Lange (1832-1899), with his rubber stamp on verso of title page, noting his Leipzig Gellerstrasse address, along with extensive notes in pen and pencil most intensely in the 108th part of the first game (the Evans gambit) on pages forty-seven through fifty; with additional scattered notes on several other pages; bound in original pebbled cloth spine with marbled paper boards; signs of use to leaves, 9 x 6 in.