Morphy's Games: Selection of the Best Games Played

by the Distinguished Champion, in Europe and America. With Analytical and Critical Notes by J. Löwenthal by Chess, Johann Jacob Löwenthal

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Illustrations. 473pp. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, minor chip at top of spine. Provenance: L. M. Sargent Jr. signature on title . Item #369131 The stunning achievements of Paul Morphy in Europe in 1858 established him as the reigning world champion, and one of the greatest chess players of all time. Those games were first published in America in 1859. The following year the grand master Johann Jacob Löwenthal seized upon his friend's

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