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The Chess & Games Cabinet

100 Vintage Books

A curated PDF reference collection on a physical USB drive

Explore a carefully organised historical library devoted to chess, card games, puzzles, parlour games. ZipMyBook is a UK-based seller. This is a tangible product: one USB drive will be posted to you; it is not an email or download link.

Contents100 historical books in PDF format
DeliveryPhysical USB posted from the United Kingdom
OrganisationClearly named folders plus a title index
CompatibilityWindows, macOS and Linux computers with a USB port and PDF reader

Subjects inside the collection

  • Chess
  • Card games
  • Puzzles and parlour games

A selection of included titles

  • Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama β€” Westminster Chess Club, London
  • A handbook of chess β€” George Frederick Pardon
  • Elements of the Game of Chess β€” William Lewis
  • Ajeeb, the chess player
  • The minor tactics of chess β€” Young,Franklin K; Howell,Edwin C
  • Chess sparks : or short and bright games of chess
  • Chess rendered familiar by tabular demonstrations of the various positions and movements β€” Pohlman, J.G.
  • History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Du[t]chess county β€” Huntting, Isaac

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One tested physical USB drive containing the organised PDF collection and title index, securely packaged and dispatched by ZipMyBook from the UK.

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Books in this Collection (100 titles)
  • Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama β€” Westminster Chess Club, London
  • A handbook of chess β€” George Frederick Pardon
  • Elements of the Game of Chess β€” William Lewis
  • Ajeeb, the chess player
  • The minor tactics of chess β€” Young,Franklin K; Howell,Edwin C
  • Chess sparks : or short and bright games of chess
  • Chess rendered familiar by tabular demonstrations of the various positions and movements β€” Pohlman, J.G.
  • History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Du[t]chess county β€” Huntting, Isaac
  • A treatise on the game of chess; containing an introduction to the game, and an analysis of the various openings of games, with several new modes of attack and defence; to which are added, twenty-five new chess problems on diagrams β€” Lewis, William, 1787-1870
  • A Treatise on the Game of Chess: Containing an Introduction, and an Analysis of the Various ... β€” William Lewis
  • The games of the match at chess played by the chess players of the Athenaeum, Philadelphia, and the New-York chess club between the years 1856 and 1857, with variations and remarks by the Athenaeum committee β€” Athenaeum of Philadelphia
  • The Art of Chess β€” James Mason, Leopold Hoffer
  • Chess Exemplified in a Concise & Easy Notation ... β€” Charles Pearson
  • Chess β€” David Andrew Mitchell
  • Chess At Radnor High β€” The Suburban - Wayne Times Edition
  • The chess tournament. A collection of the games played at this celebrated assemblage, illustrated by copious diagrams, and notes, critical and explanatory β€” Staunton, Howard, 1810-1874
  • Chess Rendered Familiar by Tabular Demonstrations of the Various Positions ... β€” FranΓ§ois Danican Philidor
  • the book of the new york international chess tournament 1924 β€” hermann helms
  • The game of chess : a play in one act β€” Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918
  • The household oracle : a popular referee on subjects of household enquiry : including: - house building, buying and renting; house furnishing and decoration; housekeeping and domestic cookery; plain and fancy needlework; home farming, gardening, medicine; law; an epitome of the history of the world and the growth of the human family; the formation of our mother tongue and the rules of English grammar; a dictionary of religions; stepping stones of English history and a sketch of the English constitution setting forth the rights, privileges and duties of the English householder parochial, municipal, imperial; the story of the calendar, standards of weights and measures; arithmetical tables and tables of interest and a ready reckoner; household amusements, games, chess, cards and other indoor games, dancing, swimming, etiquette, ... β€” ['Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848-1929', 'University of Leeds. Library']
  • A Second Series of Lessons on the Game of Chess β€” William Lewis
  • A selection of games at chess actually played in London by the late ... β€” Alexander McDonnell
  • Consult me, to know how to cook : ... on household management and economy ... on diseases and their remedies ... on the games of chess, draughts, &c. .. β€” William Nicholson and Sons,
  • The Book of the first American Chess Congress: Containing the Proceedings of that celebrated Assemblage, held in New York, in the Year 1857 ... : By Daniel Willard Fiske β€” Fiske, Daniel Willard
  • The book of the Sixth American Chess Congress : containing the games of the international chess tournament held at New York in 1889. β€” American Chess Congress (6th : 1889 : New York)
  • The Chess player's chronicle
  • Souvenir of the Bristol chess club; containing one hundred original games of chess, recently played, either between the best players in that society, or by them with other celebrated players of the day; β€” ['Bristol Chess Club', 'Williams, E., d. 1855']
  • Chess made easy: or, The games of Gioachino Greco, the Calabrian: β€” Greco, Gioachino
  • Scacchia ludus: or, the game of chess. A poem. Written originally in Latin by Marcus Hieronymus Vida, ... Translated into English by Mr. Erskine. With a short introductory essay on the game of chess; and a translation of Vida's three pastoral eclogues. By Mr. Craig. ... 1736 β€” Vida, Marco Girolamo
  • The polite gamester: containing short treatises on the games of whist, with an artificial memory, quadrille, backgammon, piquet and chess. Together with an essay towards making the doctrine of chances easy to those who understand vulgar arithmetick only. To which are added, some useful tables on annuities ... By Edmund Hoyle, ... 1761 β€” Hoyle, Edmond
  • The Chess player's chronicle
  • A popular introduction to the study and practice of chess, by an amateur S.S. Boden. β€” Samuel S. Boden
  • The chess player's chronicle
  • Digby: chess professor
  • The chess players companion β€” Howard Staunton
  • Chess Gems: Some of the finest examples of chess strategy β€” John Augustus Miles
  • Japanese chess (sho-ngi); the science and art of war or struggle philosophically treated β€” Cho-yo. [from old catalog]
  • The game at chess, ... 1474
  • Benjamin Franklin: The Morals of Chess β€” baroque.and.blue
  • A History of Chess β€” H.J R Murray
  • A new treatise on chess: containing the rudiments of the game explained on ... β€” George Walker
  • A new treatise on chess: containing the rudiments of the game explained on ... β€” George Walker
  • Analysis of the Game of Chess β€” FranΓ§ois Danican Philidor
  • The Official Rules of Card Games Hoyle Up-To-Date β€” albert h. moregead
  • Analysis of the game of chess. By Mr. Philidor. A new edition, improved and greatly enlarged. To which is added, several parties, played by the author blindfold, against three adversaries. 1790: Vol 1 β€” Philidor, F. D. (FranΓΈcois Danican)
  • Elements of the Game of Chess, Or A New Method of Instruction in that Celebrated Game, Founded ... β€” William Lewis
  • Magic Squares and other Problems Upon a Chess-Board1
  • Chess: A Christmas Masque β€” Louis Tylor
  • Chess strategics illustrated; β€” Young, Franklin Knowles, 1857- [from old catalog]
  • The chess-player's text book; β€” Staunton, Howard, 1810-1874
  • Chess β€” Leopold Hoffer
  • Chess Openings β€” Frank James Marshall
  • The chess player's chronicle β€” Howard Staunton, Esq .
  • The chess player's chronicle β€” H. Hurst.
  • The book of the first American chess congress β€” Fiske, Willard, 1831-1904
  • Chess fundamentals β€” Capablanca, JosΓ© RaΓΊl, 1888-1942
  • Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama β€” Westminster Chess Club, London
  • Common Senses in Chess β€” Emanuel Lasker
  • An epitome of Hoyle with Beaufort and Jones's Hoyle improved; or, Practical treatises on the following games, hazard, backgammon, chess, draughts β€” Edmond Hoyle
  • Chancellor chess; β€” Foster, Benjamin R. [from old catalog]
  • A bibliography of card-games and of the history of playing cards β€” Horr, Norton Townshend, 1862-1917
  • Consult me : how to cook... on confectionery... how to brew... on household management and economy... on diseases and their remedies... on games of cards, chess... how to dye... consult me as to married women's property... on the cold water cure, and on a thousand other things β€” ['Philp, Robert Kemp, 1819-1882', 'Philp, Robert Kemp, 1819-1882. Enquire within upon everything', 'University of Leeds. Library']
  • The noble game of chess; or, a new and easy method to learn to play well in a short time: ... By Philip Stamma, ... 1745 β€” Stamma, Philip
  • Hoyle's games improved. Being practical treatises on the following fashionable games, viz. whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, back-gammon, draughts, cricket, ... In which are also contained, the method of betting at those games ...including the laws of the several games, ... Revised and corrected by Charles Jones, Esq. 1779 β€” Hoyle, Edmond.
  • Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back gammon. Complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and betting, at those games, ... Including the laws of the several games. 1760 β€” Hoyle, Edmond
  • Mr. Hoyle's games of whist, quadrille, piquet, chess, and back-gammon. Complete. In which are contained, the method of playing and betting, at those games, ... Including the laws of the several games. The thirteenth edition. To which is now first added, two new cases at whist, also, the new laws of the game at whist, ... 1763 β€” Hoyle, Edmond
  • Synopsis of chess openings, a tabular analysis β€” ['Cook, William, d. 1917', 'Miller, Joseph W., 1838-']
  • A Selection of Games at Chess Actually Played in London by the Late Alexander M'Donnell: The ... β€” Alexander MacDonnell
  • The hand-book of games : comprising new or carefully revised treatises on whist, piquet, ecartΓ©, lansquenet, boston, quadrille, cribbage, and other card games : faro, rouge et noir, hazard, roulette : backgammon, draughts : billiards, bagatelle, American bowls, etc. etc. β€” ['Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884, editor', 'Harrison & Sons, printer']
  • The science of music, comprised in a series of amusing and instructive card games β€” J G. Ritchie
  • Studies of chess; containing Caissa, a poem β€” Philidor, F. D. (FrancΜ§ois Danican), 1726-1795
  • The British Chess Magazine Volume 12 1892
  • The British Chess Magazine Volume 15 1895
  • A Bibliography of Card-games and of the History of Playing-cards β€” Norton Townshend Horr
  • Studies of chess; containing, CaΓ―ssa, a poem β€” ['Pratt, Peter, fl. 1799-1822', 'Jones, William, Sir, 1746-1794', 'Philidor, F. D. (FranΓ§ois Danican), 1726-1795']
  • The British Chess Magazine Volume 13 1893
  • The British Chess Magazine Volume 30 1910
  • The Book of parlour games: comprising explanations of the most approved ...
  • Fifty Games at Chess: Which Have Actually Been Played, Most of which Occurreed Between the ... β€” William Lewis
  • Fireside Card Games 1899 β€” Fireside Card Games
  • The works of Gianutio, and Gustavus Selenus on the game of chess β€” ['Gianutio, Orazio, 16th cent', 'August II, duke of Braunschweig-Lüneberg, 1579-1666', 'Sarratt, J. H., tr']
  • Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama β€” Westminster Chess Club, London
  • The grand international centennial chess congress, held in Philadelphia, in August, 1876, during the celebration of the American centennial β€” Sayen, W. Henry, [from old catalog] ed
  • The Grand Tactics of Chess: An Exposition of the Laws and Principles of Chess Strategetics, the ... β€” Franklin Knowles Young
  • The works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio on the game of chess β€” Sarratt, J. H
  • The Works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio on the Game of Chess β€” J. H. Sarratt
  • An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: Containing One Hundred Examples of Games, and a Great ... β€” William Jones , Benjamin Franklin
  • Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama β€” Westminster Chess Club, London
  • The American supplement to the "Synopsis" containing American inventions in the chess openings β€” Miller, Joseph W
  • The British Chess Magazine Volume 19 1899
  • The British Chess Magazine Volume 33 1913
  • Studies of Chess: Containing CaΓ―ssa, a Poem β€” Sir William Jones , FranΓ§ois Danican Philidor
  • Studies of Chess: Containing CaΓ―ssa, a Poem β€” William Jones , FranΓ§ois Danican Philidor
  • Stamma on the game of chess; containing numerous openings of games, and one hundred critical situations, illustrated on colored diagrams β€” Stamma, Philip
  • The works of Gianutio, and Gustavus Selenus on the game of chess β€” ['Gianutio, Orazio, 16th cent', 'August II, duke of Braunschweig-Lüneberg, 1579-1666', 'Sarratt, J. H., tr']
  • Waifs and Strays: Chiefly from the Chess-board β€” Hugh Alexander Kennedy
  • Modern Chess Instructor Pt. 1 β€” Steinitz, W.
  • Japanese chess (sho-ngi) : the science and art of war or struggle philosophically treated : Chinese chess (chong-kie) and i-go β€” Cho-yo
  • Westminster Papers: A Monthly Journal of Chess, Whist, Games of Skill and the Drama β€” Westminster Chess Club, London
  • Chess generalship β€” Young, Franklin Knowles, 1857-

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