Picture Gallery: "Chess in Wolfenbüttel"

Title Page of Duke August's Chess Book
Duke August Junior (on the right) playing chess (copperplate engraving from his chess book)
Dedication by Duke August in his chess book:

Wir, Augustus der Jüngere,
Herzog zu Braunschweig und
Lüneburg, verwahren dießes
Schach-Buch, auß genehmigter Affe-
ction, zum Gedechtniß, dem Neffen,
unserem Lieben Besonderen, Sa-
muel Beeren, sz. Mecklenbur-
gischer Rath und Hofmeister
Zu Schwerin: den 25. Januar 1617
Unterschrift

Moses Mendelssohn (on the left) and Johann Kaspar Lavater playing chess. Lessing is watching. (Painting by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1856)
Table for board games being located in the "Lessinghaus"
Restaurant "Zum Löwen" at about 1870 on Breite Herzogstrasse
Chess set of Duke August (Brunswick, Anton-Ulrich-Museum)