[Chess] Handleiding tot het Schaakspel door E. Stein

Naar het Fransch door D. Broedelet, Dz. Tweede herziene en verbeterde druk met toelichtende tabellen. Amsterdam. J.C. van Kesteren. 1851. Cased wrapper with paper spine, title on front board, X,192 pp., complete with 3 folding tables; wrapper tender, reinforced with Japanese paper.

Elias Stein was chess teacher for the sons of Stadtholder William V, amongst them the future king William I. He related chess strategy to the strategy of war and treated both subjects as a game. He also came up with the Dutch Defence chess opening.