Encyclopédie des échecs ou résumé comparatif en tableaux synoptiques des meilleurs ouvrages écrits sur ce jeu par les auteurs français et étrangers, tant anciens que modernes,mis à l'usage de toutes les nations par le langage universel des chiffres

Author: Aaron (Albert) Alexandre (1765?-1850)Year: 1837Publisher: d'Urtubie & Worms, Causette, Café de la Régence and  Thomas HurtPlace: Paris and LondonDescription: [viii]+[104] pages with 52 tables of chess openings. Oblong folio (12 ¾" x 18 ¾") bound in original publisher's wrappers with elaborately engraved front wrapper. Preliminary text in French, English, German and Italian, with list of subscribers. (Van der Linde, Geschichte und Literatur des Schachspiels, II, p. 11; Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 1790; Hoefer I, 934) First edition. Aaron Alexandre was a Jewish German–French–English chess player and writer. He trained as a rabbi. He arrived in France in 1793 and taught German and was a mechanical inventor. He later became a full-time chess player. He wrote a book of all the known chess openings, the Encyclopédie des échecs (Encyclopedia of Chess), Paris, 1837. In the book, he used the algebraic notation and the castling symbols 0–0 and 0–0–0. His next book was about the endga