Wichmann, Hans; Wichmann, Siegfried. Schach: Ursprung und Wandlung der Spielfigur in zwölf Jahrhunderten. München: Georg D. W. Callwey, 1960. [7956]
Blue cloth with silver titles to spine, chess piece in blind on the front, 10 x 11 1/4 inches, 332 pp. total which includes 196 plates, many are tipped-in color plates. Clean, tight. Dust jacket near fine, in a new clear wrapper. German text. Very good in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
A fully-illustrated history of the development of chess pieces over 12 centuries.