[Stein] Handleiding tot het Schaakspel

E. Stein. Naar het Fransch door D. Broedelet, Dz. Tweede herziene en verbeterde druk. Met toelichtende tabellen. Amsterdam, J.C. van Kesteren, 1851. 8vo, halfcloth with marbled boards, half title and title, X,192 pp., complete with 3 (A-B-C) folding tables each with 32 diagrams with chess positions.

Before the title a short publisher's catalogue with (chess) games. Waterstained, else good. Elias Stein was chess teacher to the sons of stadtholder William V, among whom the future king William I. He used chess strategy with the strategy of war and treated both subjects as a game. Additionally, Stein created a response to d2-d4 with f7-f5, thus creating the Dutch Defence. Cf. LN 556. See also lot 2310.