Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: A Catalogue of the Chess Collection in the Royal Library, The Hague

Author: Koninklijke BibliotheekYear: 1988Publisher: L'EspritPlace: The HagueDescription:342pp with index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") issued in brown with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Foreward L Brummel. Adviser, Christiaan M Biji. Volume 1 Bibliotheca Tschaturanga-vidja. Limited to 750 copies. 1st published in 1955. reprint.This catalog is a record of several collections which have at widely varying periods enriched the Royal Library. The chess library of the well-know Netherlands scholar and publicist Dr Antonios van der Linde was acquired by the Royal Library in 1876. Van der Linde, who spent the first period of his life in his native Holland, was in 1876 appointed Librarian of the Landesbibliotek at Wiesbaden. This he remained till 1895, being accorded the style of Professor in 1887. He published studies and bibliographies on the most widely varying subjects, in the first place on the invention of printing, but also on Antoinette Bourignon, David Jorisz, Balthasar Bekker and Spinoza