Le Palamede de revue mensuelle des Echecs et Autres Jeux, Volume III and IV

Author: Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais (1795-1840) from the library of Lothar SchmidYear: 1838-1839Publisher: Bureau de la Revue au Cercle des Echecs Place: Paris Description: 2 volumes in one. 336 pages with pictorial title, tables and diagrams, bound with volume 4 131 pages with diagrams. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") bound in half leather with six raised spine binds with labels in gilt lettering over marbled boards. Volume 3 and 4. From the library of Lothar Schmid. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6013) First edition.In 1836, fans of Cafe de la Regence at the French Place du Theatre in Paris, and friends of Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais, decided to create a magazine, named Le Palamede, which would show the beauty on the game of chess. The untimely death of La Bourdonnais in 1840 interrupted the publication of the Palamède for two years, before it was relaunched by Pierre Saint-Amant, his successor in supremacy at the Café de la Régence. The magazine would live fo