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Seven Hundred Chess Problems

Seven Hundred Chess Problems by Baird, Mrs William James (Edith Elina Helen Wood) [1859-1924]

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Title
Seven Hundred Chess Problems
Author
Baird, Mrs William James (Edith Elina Helen Wood) [1859-1924]
Seller
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
unpaginated (418) with frontispiece portrait and column diagrams. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative gilt cover, page ends in gilt, decorative flower gilt end papers, beveled edges. The text is printed in blue, the diagrams in blue and red. (Betts: 33-5) First edition.630 direct mates (286 two-movers, 315 three-movers, 24 four movers, 5 five-movers) and 70 self-mates, with solutions at the end. 2 large diagrams are given to each page. In the mid 1880s, Baird started composing chess problems and within a few years had gained a reputation in the field. In 1888, she took third prize in a Sheffield chess-composition tournament, the first of over two dozen subsequent prizes. Her most celebrated success came in 1893 when she won an international chess-composition tournament against a number of the most notable chess composers of the day. She became the most prolific composer of chess problems in the world, with over 2000 problems to her credit. These were published in newspapers such as the Times of London. Some of these are still considered sound, many are considered elegant, and some are novelties such as letter problems, in which chess pieces have to form the shapes of letters. Baird published two books of her problems: Seven Hundred Chess Problems (1902) and The Twentieth Century Retractor (1907). The first book took her 14 years to complete.Condition:Points and spine ends rubbed through else about a very good copy of a scarce chess item issued without jacket..
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Surgical Observations on Injuries of the Head; [Bound with:] Surgical Observations on Tumours and on Lumbar Abcesses by ABERNETHY, John

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Title
Surgical Observations on Injuries of the Head; [Bound with:] Surgical Observations on Tumours and on Lumbar Abcesses
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ABERNETHY, John
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: Strahan and Preston for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811. FIRST EDITION OF EACH WORK. First work lacking the preliminary blank. Full-page stipple engraved plate of the veins in the upper limb. Modern marbled boards; title chipped, minor foxing; old library stamp on the title, title verso, and final text leaf, ownership inscription dated 1858 on the title. First edition of each work, two practical medical treatises by a pioneering English surgeon. The first addresses lesions, defects and injuries to the head as well as emphysema, bladder disease, water on the knee, and hemorrhoids, and anal fistulae. The second classifies tumors and expounds on their treatment. Both works are based on case studies that the author describes in detail then explains his approach. Abernethy (1764-1831) was a renowned physician whose published work far exceeded his clinical prowess in accuracy and success. He is best remembered for inventing a digestive biscuit to aid indigestion. Heirs of Hippocrates, 1194 (second work only); Wellcome, II, p. 4 (both works).
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The First Demographic Portraits of Russia, 1951-1990

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Title
The First Demographic Portraits of Russia, 1951-1990
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McBlain Books (United States)
ISBN
9780963288349
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Shady Side, Md: New World Demographics, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine. maps, tables, x, 129p. Original wrapper. 28cm.

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