Windisch, Carl Gottlieb von | Automaton chess player

Auction Closed

October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500 - 4,000 USD

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Windisch, Carl Gottlieb von

Lettres de M. Charles Gottlieb de Windisch sur le joueur d'échecs de M. de Kempelen. Traduction libre de l'allemand, accompagnée de trois gravures en taille-douce qui représentent ce fameux Automate, and publiée par Chrétien de Mechel. Basel: Chez l"Editeur, 1783


8vo (203 x 127 mm). Half-title, 3 engraved folding plates by G. Pintz after W. de Kempelen; scattered foxing on half-title. Contemporary marbled wrappers; front and rear wrappers detached.


The work contains three folding engraved plates of the automatic chess player. Scarce: Rare Book Hub records only a copy offered by Maggs in 1934. Worldcat locates six copies in the United States and Canada and two in Europe.

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