Ivan Butrimov | O shakhmatnoy igrye, St. Petersburg, 1821, inscribed by the author to the poet Nikita Ivanovich Butyrsky

Ivan Butrimov

О шахматной игрѣ [O shakhmatnoy igrye]. St. Petersburg: Senatskaya Tipografiya, 1821

8vo (212 x 116 mm), numerous full- and half-page engravings of chess boards, annotations to title page in a contemporary hand, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt with black morocco gilt lettering piece, marbled endpapers, slight spotting throughout, one marginal wormhole, a few marginal tears with loss, not affecting text; extremities rubbed and bumped

FIRST RUSSIAN CHESS INSTRUCTIONAL MANUAL, VERY RARE AT AUCTION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO NIKITA IVANOVICH BUTYRSKY.

PROVENANCE:

Nikita Ivanovich Butyrsky (1783–1848), poet and one of the first professors of St Petersburg University, inscription from the author