Le Palamede de revue mensuelle des Echecs et Autres Jeux (Volume III, second Series)

Author: Saint-Amant, Pierre Charles Fournier de (1800-1872)Year: 1843Publisher: Au Breau de la RevuePlace: ParisDescription576 pages with diagrams and wood cuts in text. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") bound in three-quarter red leather with gilt lettering over paisley boards. Second Series, Volume III. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6013) First edition.In 1836, fans of Cafe de la Regence at the French Place du Théâtre in Paris, and friends of Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais, decided to create a magazine, named Le Palamède, which would show the beauty on the game of chess. The French, recognized as the best players in the world; since, in 1834 La Bourdonnais met Irish master Alexander MacDonnell in a series of six matches, with La Bourdonnais winning (+45, =13, -27) overall, and created a fervor for the game not only in England but France as well. The publication began in 1836 and the premature death of the Bourdonnais in 1840, interrupted for two years the publication