I've recently found that some important and obscure texts on knight's tours are now available in Google Books. The following are links to four of them:
Warnsdorf 1823
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=w5FZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=h.+c.+von+warnsdorf&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2QZmU9-jJIaXO8-hgKgL&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=h.%20c.%20von%20warnsdorf&f=false
Kafer 1842
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=si1RAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Kafer+1842&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3nfbU9PFO8PE7AbEooGYDA&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Perenyi 1842
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jf0UAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=perenyi+1842&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dvtlU7fFNcGJPdbZgPgK&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Jaenisch's Treatise 1862
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UMpUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11&dq=Jaenisch+Traite&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lfLKU-O-O-Se7Aau6YCwDA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Jaenisch%20Traite&f=false
A problem with the Warnsdorf and Kafer books is that the Google versions do not reproduce the figures!
However I found a copy of the Kafer sheet of diagrams elsewhere on the web, and I was able to obtain a copy of the Warnsdorf tours through the kindness of Cleveland Public Library, Ohio.
More on this subsequently.
There are probably may other titles to be found by a search in Google Books.
Kafer details added in update of this page 1 Aug 2014.
Tuesday, 29 July 2014
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