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Aubrey’s Miscellany – Folklore, Superstition & Curious Events
1 AUBREY, John. Miscellanies, Viz. i. Day-Fatality. ii. Local-
Fatality. iii. Ostenta. iv. Omens. v. Dreams. vi. Apparitions.
vii. Voices. viii. Impulses. ix. Knockings. x. Blows Invisible. xi.
Prophesies. xii. Marvels. xiii. Magick. xiv. Transportation in the
Air... London, Edward Castle, 1696. £1,800
8vo (180 x 105 mm), pp. [viii] including initial blank, 179, [1] blank,
4 illustrations in the text; very crisp and clean with only a few spots to
outer margins; contemporary panelled calf, red morocco lettering-piece
with gilt lettering, expert repairs to joints and head and tail of spine;
bookplate of Robert S. Pirie and small ownership label of Anthony Fair
to front pastedown; a very good copy.
First edition (with the front blank present) of John Aubrey’s highly entertaining
collection of folk history, superstition and gossip, the only one of
his works to be printed in his lifetime. Just like his better-known Lives, this
collection is based on a lively and heterogeneous mixture of anecdote, firsthand
observation, folklore and erudition, an open-minded, valuable and
entertaining portrait of an age.
Aubrey frames seventeenth century accounts of apparently supernatural
or prodigious events with material drawn from classical authors. He
covers ill-omened dates and places, prophetic dreams, and sightings of, or
conversations, with apparitions. There are also some apparently miraculous
cures, such as Mr Evans’ ‘fungous nose’, rubbed on the hand of Charles II,
‘which disturb’d the King’, but cured Mr Evans.
John Aubrey (1626–97), antiquary and biographer was born in Malmesbury,
educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and familiar with many of the
distinguished men of his time.
Wing (2nd ed.), A4188.
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2 [AUCTION CATALOGUE – JESUITS.] Catalogue des livres
choisis dans les différentes bibliothèques des ci-devant Jésuites des
Pays-Bas, contenant un grand nombre d’ouvrages rares & curieux
en tout genre, dont la vente se fera à Bruxelles ... le 4 du mois
septembre 1780, etc. Brussels, Jos. Ermens, [1780.] £1,250
8vo, pp. [iv], x, 302, [2]; contemporary half sheep over sprinkled
boards, spine gilt, quite dried and beginning to crack at foot; head and
tail of spine worn.
Interesting auction catalogue of books removed from a number of Jesuit
collections in the Low Countries and put up for auction. Over three and
a half thousand titles are listed, covering a wide range of subjects, from
theology to law, science, mathematics, to philosophy and history. Many
sixteenth and seventeenth century books are included, as are many which
had been put on the index.
Until its suppression in the second half of the eighteenth century,
the Society of Jesus had a profound impact on the cultural, religious and
political life of the Low Countries, and significantly shaped the educational
curriculum, the sciences and the arts. Their influence can be seen in the
large numbers of books printed by and for Jesuits, which can be found in
this auction sale.
A printed note to the verso of the title indicates that an alphabetical list of
authors was available from the publishers; this is not present, as usual.
Blogie I, 26; Pollard & Ehrmann 305; Vandenhole 348.
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Meissen Porcelain
3 [AUCTION CATALOGUE – PORCELAIN.] Verzeichniss
von Meissner Porzellänen verschiedener Art, als weisse, blaue, buntgemalte
und vergoldete Kaffee-, Tafel- und andere Geschirre, welche
vom 28. Januar 1842 und folgende Tage nachmittags von 2 Uhr
an, in Pirna, gegen sofortige baare Bezahlung im 14-Thalerfusse
öffentlich verauctioniret werden sollen. Die jeden Tag zu versteigernden
Geschirre, sind des Vormittags von 10 bis 12 Uhr zum
Ansehen bereit. [Pirna, n.p.], [1842]. £420
Small 8vo (150 x 90 mm), pp. [40]; stitched with contemporary spine
covering; dust-soiled and with some damp-staining, stronger to title
and final leaf; last leaf with crayon rulings, one resulting in light paper
damage.
Very uncommon auction catalogue of Meissen porcelain or china offered
for sale in an eight-day auction in Pirna, a small town near Meissen and
Dresden. 800 lots were offered, ranging from Meissen tableware, both
plain and hand-painted to specialty dishes, numerous lots of pipes, a desk
pen set, tea- and coffee pots, cocoa cups, children’s tumblers, wash-basins,
etc. No auctioneer’s name is given, but the title page gives details of viewing
times.
Very rare, no copy listed in any of the databases; similar auction catalogues for
April 1831 and November 1861 are held by the Dresden library.
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Whewell’s Library
4 [AUCTION CATALOGUE – WHEWELL.] The valuable
and extensive Library of Books; large quantity of printed music,
water colour drawings, fine engravings, mathematical instruments,
grand piano forte and the choice cellar of wine, the genuine property
of the late Rev. William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge ... to be sold by auction, by Charles Wisbey ... on
Monday, April 30, 1866 and five following days. Cambridge, W.
Metcalfe, printer, 1866. £1,400
8vo, pp. 64, 4 (addenda: valuable books), 65–107; late nineteenthcentury
cloth-backed boards; corners rubbed; from the collection of the
science historian Sydney Ross with his red and gold book-label to front
paste-down.
Auction catalogue of the library of the scientist and science educator
William Whewell. The library, arranged in 1615 lots, contained some
12,000 volumes. The lots are arranged by subject area, including 150 lots
of mathematics and some mathematical instruments, 140 of philosophy,
sections of medicine and chemistry, mineralogy, meteorology, but also
divinity, philology and history. General literature features prominently, as
does an extensive section of Whewell’s own works. In his will Whewell had
arranged that Trinity College could select a number of volumes from his
library before it went to auction.
William Whewell (1794–1866) was arguably one of the most important
and influential figures in nineteenth-century British science. He is best
remembered today for his important contributions to the philosophy of
science, history of science, and moral philosophy, but a true polymath,
he wrote extensively on mechanics, mineralogy, geology, astronomy,
political economy, theology, educational reform, international law, and
architecture, too. From 1841 until his death he was master of Trinity
College, Cambridge.
Not found in OCLC, apparently not in Newton; the provincial auction
house presumably accounts for the rarity of this catalogue, see Todhunter
p. viii.
Three Plates Printed in Red
5 BAURENFEIND, Michael. Vollkommene Wieder-
Herstellung der bissher sehr in Verfall gekommenen gründlich
und zier lichen Schreib-kunst. Nuremberg, Adelbulner for Weigel,
1716. £1,500
Oblong 4to, engraved title, pp. [iv], 39, [1] blank, with six engravings
in the text and letterpress table inserted at page 30; 59 engraved plates
(versos blank) arranged in three suites: 24 plates lettered A-Z, 14 plates
numbered 1–14, and 21 plates lettered A–X); with three duplicate plates
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(V from series one, I from series two and K from series three) printed
in red; title strengthened in gutter margin, occasionally a little browned
and dust-soiled; still in all a well-preserved copy, in contemporary half
vellum over paste-paper covered boards; preserved in a contemporary
slipcase.
First edition of Baurenfeind’s manual of calligraphy – with three of the
engraved plates repeated and printed in red.
Baurenfeind (1680–1753), the last of the great Nuremberg writingmasters,
gives a thorough introduction to calligraphy and introduces the
main Latin, German, French, Italian, and Dutch cursives, followed by Greek,
Hebrew and some exotic alphabets. All of the specimens are discussed in the
prefatory text. The author also gives advice on the correct position of the
hand, the proportions of capital and lower case letters, height of the script,
etc. His manual contains the most elaborate Baroque penmanship.
Twenty years later a second part was published, which is not present
here.
Bauer (Weigel), 38, 2; Doede 126; Bonacini 157; Berlin 4871; Hoefer 166,
Doede and Hoefer refer to three apparently contemporaneous issues of the edition,
differentiated by the tail-piece on p. 39 only.
The Spirit of the Italian Enlightenment –
Journal based on ‘The Spectator’
6 [BECCARIA, Cesare and Pietro VERRI et al.] Il Caffè ossia
Brevi e Vari Discorsi distribuiti in Fogli Periodici. Dal Giugno,
1764 a tutto Maggio 1765. Tomo I [Dal Giugno 1765 per un
Anno Seguente, Tomo II.] Brescia, Giammaria Rizzardi, Galeazzi,
1765, 1766. £4,500
Two volumes, 4to, pp. vii, [i] blank, 288; viii, 302, [2] advertisement;
title vignette, and decorated initials and head- and tail-pieces; some light
browning to paper; recently bound in calf backed marbled boards.
First collected edition of this highly important Italian enlightenment journal,
founded by Beccaria, the Verri brothers and others, and one of the most
important documents of Italian eighteenth century thought. The periodical
was short-lived and reached just seventy-four numbers in the course of two
years, before it was discontinued in 1766. Influenced by the great English
examples, especially Addison and Steele’s Spectator, but also by the French
Encyclopédie, Il Caffè differed greatly from its predecessors. It came out
of the intellectual circle of the Accademia dei Pugni and was published in
Brescia to avoid censorship. The periodical concentrated on law, economics,
agriculture, medicine, and the natural sciences. It epitomized the spirit of
reform and was encyclopaedic in its range. In it many of the subjects dealt
with by Verri and Beccaria found a broader forum and a link with the public.
Verri’s contributions (on luxury, trade etc.) anticipate the arguments which
were to lead to his Meditazioni sull’economia politica. Beccaria contributed
numerous articles: particularly noteworthy are his introduction on the
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nature of periodicals (De’ fogli periodici), but also his contributions to
social statistics, such as his remarkable Tentativo analitico sui contrabbandi
(An Attempt at an Analysis of Smuggling), his second contribution to
mathematical economics (where he analyses the connection between tariffs
and smuggling), and his calculation of the odds at the game of faro.
A second edition was published in Venice, 1766 and a further collected
edition followed in 1804.
Manuppella 305, 306; Einaudi 6161; Hünersdorff I, p. 250; Melzi I, p. 160;
Ukers, All about coffee, pp. 30; this edition not in Kress or Goldsmiths’ where
only the 1804 collected edition is listed; see Dioguardi, Attualità dell illuminismo
milanese: Pietro Verri e Cesare Beccaria, 1998.
Frankfurt’s Population Analysed
7 BEHRENDS, Johann Adolph. Der Einwohner in Frankfurt
am Mayn in Absicht auf seine Fruchtbarkeit, Mortalität und
Gesundheit geschildert. Mit zweyn Kupfern. Frankfurt, Johann
Gottlieb Garbe, 1771. £1,500
8vo, folding engraved map of Frankfurt, bound as frontispiece, pp.
[xvi], 23 (mostly tables, some folding, some printed and numbered on
one side only), folding engraved map, 248; some faint damp-staining
to lower margin; contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, spine
with gilt-lettered red morocco label; a very good copy.
First and only edition of this in-depth study of population figures and
development in Frankfurt. Behrends gives extensive population statistics
for the last century (i.e. from 1670) with details of births and deaths, and
male-female distribution, with greater details for the final decade. These
figures are then analysed with reference to social hygiene, location within
the city, water supply, concentration of various professions, such as dyers
and tanners, food processing, etc.
Behrends is particularly concerned with medical and hygiene questions
and analyses the water supply in different parts of the city in an attempt
to identify the healthier districts of the city. He comments on the high
population density in the Jewish part of town (Judengasse), with some 7000
people crammed into a small area, with resulting health problems.
Behrends concludes with some interesting observations on various professions
that thrive in the city, the influence both of natural location and
climate, but also local products, such as beer, wine, cider etc. Throughout
he presents a fascinating overview of the demographic, social, and cultural
situation of Frankfurt, a multi-faith, republican and generally open city. His
work is of particular importance, as there was no official census in Frankfurt
until the early nineteenth century. The two engraved plates show a map of
the city and the surrounding area.
OCLC: BL, Hagley Museum, Johns Hopkins, NY Acad. of Medicine & German;
for further information on the importance of Behrends’ study see Ralf Roth, Stadt
und Bürgertum in Frankfurt am Main, 1996.
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8 BERTHAULT-DUCREUX, Alexandre. Mémoire sur la
nécessité d’une liberté illimitée dans les charges du roulage, et sur les
moyens de maintenir les routes en parfait état, avec cette liberté, sans
accroitre la dépense. Paris, Carillian-Goeury, 1833. £450
8vo, pp. [iv], 82; uncut in the original blue printed wrappers, title
within decorative border; presentation inscription by the author, dated
1833.
First and only edition of this pamphlet on procedural aspects of French civil
engineering. Berthault-Ducreux argues for the liberalization of the planning
process in French public works, and exemplifies this in his proposals
for improved road-building by the early adoption of macadamization, a
simplified road-building technique introduced by the Scotsman John
Loudon MacAdam in the 1820s. Berthault-Ducreux, himself a distinguished
engineer, has been described as ‘le plus resolu partisan de la liberté ...
esprit independent et liberal intransigent’ (F. Etner, ‘Note sur Dupuit’ in
Revue Economique, vol 34, no 5 (Sept 1983), pp. 1021–1035). He greatly
influenced the economist and policy maker Dupuit, who adopted these
revolutionary methods of road-building some ten years later, and who
famously developed marginal utility theory in the process of determining
optimum monopolistic pricing in public works. Like Berthault-Ducreux,
he was a firm adherent of laissez-faire principles. Together with Dupuit he
was highly successful in shaping road-construction in France for years to
come.
It is rather appealing that this plea for the reduction of red tape in civil
engineering and public works is presented by the author to a Monsieur
Canal, vice president of the tribunal civil.
OCLC lists copies at Angers and the National Library of Mexico.
Scientific Population Statistics – in Tables
9 BERTILLON, Louis-Adolphe. La Démographie figurée de
la France ou étude statistique de la population Française. Avec
tableaux graphiques traduisant les principales conclusions. Mortalité
selon l’age, le sexe, l’état-civil, &, & en chaque Département et pour
la France entière comparée aux pays étrangers. Paris, G. Masson,
1874. £2,500
Folio, pp. [iv], 4; 58 tables on 29 double-page lithograph plates,
mounted on guards, [lix]-lxiv; carte XLV shaved along left margin
obscuring some numbers, occasional light browning and soiling; in
black morocco backed pebble-grained cloth, ruled in blind, with title
in gilt on spine and upper cover, spine in compartments with raised
bands, light soiling and marking to covers with some minor cockling,
otherwise an attractive copy.
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First edition of this uncommon, highly visual, and important contribution
to the emerging scientific study of demography, by the French physician,
statistician and one of the founders of the Paris School of Anthropology,
Louis-Adolphe Bertillon (1821–1883).
The extensive re-evaluation of French society after the Revolution of
1789, the military defeat to Germany in 1870 and resulting fall of the
Second Empire and emergence of the Third Republic, inevitably led to
much academic and political debate, thus creating new opportunities for
Republican social scientists. ‘Published in 1874, La Démographie figurée is
a good example of how Bertillon’s formulation of demography post 1873
combined his earlier projects for promoting statistics in medicine with
his new commitment to discipline formation, his new holistic concept of
population, and his new political concerns for the strength of the French
nation’ (Schweber p. 77–78). The work consists of 39 maps and eighteen
tables each with detailed analyses. The maps indicate the mortality rates by
département, shaded to indicate areas with particularly high or low rates.
The tables then analyse mortality figures in relation to age, sex, social
status and other measures. ‘While the use of graphic representations had
been introduced into French statistics in the first half of the century, the
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technique was rarely used ... Bertillon himself provided two explanations
for his use of maps. The first was that they allowed the reader to process
a great deal of information quickly and that they fixed that information in
the observer’s mind more effectively than a complicated table would have
done. The second was that they revealed an otherwise invisible underlying
reality ... to seize distant unexpected relations, which jump at the eyes ... this
notion of the power of statistical analysis to identify previously unsuspected
relations can be related to Bertillon’s newly acquired belief in the existence
of constant causes’ (ibid p. 78).
A practicing doctor for many years, after the revolution of 1870, Bertillon
was appointed inspector-general of benevolent institutions. He was one of
the founders of the school of anthropology of Paris, and was appointed a
professor there in 1876.
Libby Schweber, Disciplining statistics: demography and vital statistics in France, (ff.
74); Catherine Rollet-Echalier, La Politique à l’égard de la petite enfance sous la IIIe
République, pp. 37–44.
Influenced by Adam Smith
10 BINDER, Christian Heinrich. Der Patriotische
Menschenfreund oder Practischer Versuch zur wahren Aufnahme
der Länder, besonders der Mecklenburgischen Lande, und zur
Beförderung des Wohlstandes gesammter Landes-Einwohner. Nach
der Natur, Vernunft, Geschichte, Erfahrung und Beobachtung
mit patriotischer Freymüthigkeit entworfen. Erster Theil [Zweiter
Theil]. Auf Kosten des Verfassers. [colophon:] Leipzig, Joh. Gottl.
Imman. Breitkopf, 1780–81. £1,150
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [xxxviii], 415, [1]; [iv], [417]- 791, [1]; title
vignette, contemporary pale blue boards, spines lettered in manuscript,
joints chipped and spines a little discoloured, remains of shelf label to
spines, from the library of the Society of Pomeranian history in Stettin, with
circular stamp to front free endpaper and title pages; else a good copy.
First edition, published by subscription, of this topographic, statistical and
economic survey of one of the poorest parts of Germany, the duchy of
Mecklenburg, on the Baltic coast, where feudalism lasted longer than in
any other German state. Binder was a local merchant, and therefore ideally
suited to take on the task of describing the economy, largely agrarian and
fishing, with a few Hanseatic towns on the coast. The introduction, taking
up the first 80 pages of the work, reflects upon the relations between
subjects, the Duke and the ministers and how this influences the economic
development of the country, all written from a progressive point of view.
Binder ascribes the lack of manufacturing in Northern Germany, and in
particular in Mecklenburg, to serfdom, which he condemns as one of the
main obstacles of economic development. It took over 130 years and two
revolutions – 1848 and 1918 – to fully liberate the peasants of Mecklenburg.
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Development of manufacturing is Binder’s main concern; he declares that
manufacturers should be able to buy their raw materials wherever they
can get them at the best price, be it in Mecklenburg or abroad, a position
certainly derived from the free trade movement and Adam Smith (volume I,
p. 147). In other chapters he concentrates on international trade, especially
with Britain and North America, clearly a sign that the author was familiar
with Adam Smith, whose name, however, is never mentioned. In volume
two Binder deals with the corn trade, projects for a bank owned by
shareholders or the state itself, bills of exchange, insurance companies and
even recommends the Genoese lottery as way of increasing state funds.
Heess 5543; Commerz-Bibliothek Hamburg, 1864, c 212/13; Humpert 8992;
not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; OCLC locates no copies outside of Germany except
the Danish and Swedish Royal Libraries.
First Illustrated Trade Directory
11 BISSET, James. A Poetic Survey round Birmingham: with
a brief description of the different Curiosities and Manufactories
of the place. Intended as a Guide to Strangers. Accompanied by a
magnificent Directory: with the Names, Professions, &c. superbly
engraved in emblematic Plates. Birmingham, Swinney & Hawkins,
1800. £1,600
8vo, (238 x 146) frontispiece map, pp. viii, [9]–62, [2], with 27
engraved emblematic plates, in all 28 engraved plates; royal paper
copy (with Watman 1794 papermark), top edge gilt, others uncut, late
nineteenth century half red morocco, gilt; a good copy.
First edition of what appears to be one of the earliest illustrated trade directories.
On the finely engraved plates Bisset lists more than three hundred
merchants, bankers, tradesmen and manufacturers operating in and around
Birmingham. Manufacturers are grouped together by trade, with illustrations
of the most prominent factories or industrial tools in the background.
The most famous of the factories is of course Matthew Bolton’s Soho Works,
which in addition to the steam engine business includes his button works, his
mint, and various other metal manufactories. The Soho Works was a complete
system of manufactories, where each worker had only a limited range of work
without any need to change position and tools constantly.
The letterpress section contains Bisset’s poetry which takes the reader
on an enthusiastic tour of the city, with the express purpose of attracting
visitors and trade to the city of Birmingham.
The advertisement bound at the end indicates that manufacturers and
tradesmen were invited to subsidise its production by paying either for a
single line mention or for half page and full page display advertisements.
Thus the overall cost of the directory was kept low.
James Bisset (1762? – 1832) was an artist, publisher and popular poet.
At the age of fifteen he became an artist’s apprentice in Birmingham, and
later established a museum and shop for the sale of curiosities in New
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Street, Birmingham. ‘He had great facility in composing amusing and
grandiloquent verses on the topics of the day so as to hit the popular fancy,
and, while he obtained a considerable profit from their sale, they served to
attract customers to his ‘museum’ and to advertise his medals’ (DNB).
ESTC t143270; Goldsmiths’–Kress 17921.1 and 17827; Johnson 96; Norton
716.
Bibliography of Incunables
12 [BONI, Mauro.] Lettere sui primi Libri a Stampa di alcune
Città e Terre dell’Italia superiore parte sinora sconosciuti parte
nuovamente illustrati. Venice, Carlo Palese, 1794. £1,250
4to, pp. CXXXII (132); three separate title pages, finely engraved title
vignettes by Novelli to two of them; contemporary half vellum over
black paste-paper boards, mss note with author’s name to verso of front
free endpaper; a crisp and clean copy.
First and only edition of a detailed study of early printing in Genoa, Pavia
and Brescia, and northern Italy in general by Mauro Boni (1746–1817).
The work is divided into three parts, each with its own title page, and
concentrates on little known incunables from Genoa, Brescia, Savona,
Voghera, Turin, Brixen, Treviso, and some other northern Italian cities.
Particularly appealing is the first title vignette showing putti setting type
and inspecting books under the supervision of the queen.
Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 70; Bonamici p. 27; Graesse I, p. 487.
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13 [BOOK CATALOGUE – SAVIGNY, Friedrich Carl v.]
Verzeichniss der von dem verewigten Herrn Staatsminister Carl
Friedrich von Savigny mittelst Legats vom 26. Mai 1852 der
Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin vermachten Werke. Berlin,
Gustav Schade, 1865. £750
8vo, pp. [iv], 95, [1] blank, and half page errata tipped in; original pale
blue wrappers with printed title and Prussian coat of arms to upper
wrapper and title; a very crisp copy.
First edition of the catalogue of Carl Friedrich v. Savigny’s legal library,
donated by him to the Berlin Royal Library. Amongst the approximately
five hundred titles are numerous incunables and other important juridical
works. A separate section lists forty-six legal manuscripts which are described
in great detail. Savigny’s general library was inherited by his son, and was
later sold to Bonn University in 1959.
Savigny (1779–1861), one of the founders of the historical school of
jurisprudence, taught Roman law first in Marburg, then in Landshut and
finally in Berlin (1810–1842). He was elected the first rector of the new
Berlin University, which had been founded as a place of scientific research
according of the principles of German idealistic philosophy.
Uncommon, OCLC lists copies at Harvard, Northwestern, Columbia and the
Library of Congress; see Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 1103.
The Catalogue that Sold the Collection fit for a King
14 [BOOK CATALOGUE – SMITH, Joseph.] Bibliotheca
Smithiana, seu Catalogus librorum D. Josephi Smithii angli per
cognomina authorum dispositus. Venice, Jo. Baptist Pasquali,
1755. £3,000
Two parts in two volumes, 4to, pp. [viii], xliii, [1] blank, 520;
348 [vere] 352, [4]; title vignette with finely engraved coat of
arms; contemporary calf-backed paste-paper boards; spine with gilt
decoration, gilt-lettered spine labels; small worm trace to foot of spine
of volume I, head of spine of volume II chipped; a very clean and crisp
copy, conveniently bound in two volumes.
First complete edition of Smith’s library catalogue, listing his superb
collection which in 1765 was sold in its entirety to George III, and thus
became the ‘nucleus’ of the King’s library and thus the British Museum,
now British Library.
Smith’s initial interest had been manuscripts and early printed books, and
he had issued two earlier catalogues, one in 1724, listing 218 incunables and
a later one listing 246 incunables. The present catalogue, however, records
Smith’s entire library as it stood in 1751, consisting of an enormous variety
of books, prints, atlases, and a few manuscripts and totaling over 12000
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items. Having first concentrated on Venetian or at least Italian items, from
the mid–1720s, Smith (1682–1770), British Consul at Venice, covered the
international book market. In the 1730s he opened a bookshop with the
printer publisher Pasquali entitled Felicità delle Lettere, which became the
greatest importer of foreign books into Venice.
‘The Bibliotheca Smithiana was rich in Latin, classical Greek, Italian,
French and English works, with occasionally works in Spanish. Classical
authors are well represented in early as well as in modern text editions, but
the main texts of European literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries can also be found, and there is particularly interesting coverage of
theatrical texts in English, French and Spanish. A focus of collecting, noted
by Paquali in his preface, were famous publishing houses: the Estiennes,
Elzeviers and the Imprimerie Royale in Paris. Other strong subjects are architecture,
topography, some natural history and science, and there is much
that we would term reference material to support Smith’s wide-ranging
collecting interests, especially those of coins and gems’ Hellinga, p. 265).
Brunet, Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique, c. 125; De Ricci, pp. 54 ff.; Taylor,
Book Catalogues, pp. 261 ff.; for a full study see Lotte Hellinga, ‘The Bibliotheca
Smithiana’, in G. Mandelbrote ed., Libraries within the Library. The Origins of the
British Library’s printed Collections, 2009.
Spa Treatments in San Casciano Illustrated
15 BOTTARELLI, Giovanni. De Bagni di San Casciano,
Osservazioni del Dottor Giovanni Bottarelli, Medico fisico di
Foiano. Florence, Vincenzio Vangelisti, [1688]. £2,200
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12mo, pp. 308 [310], with four etched plates bound in; decorative
initials and head- and tail-pieces; some very light browning, else clean;
contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink; early purchase note by
Alexandro Benadici (?) to front free endpaper.
First and only edition of this detailed account of the medical benefits of the
hot springs of San Casciano, one of the preeminent Italian thermal baths
of classical antiquity and up to the eighteenth century. The baths of San
Casciano consisted of a number of different springs, which were used for
a variety of treatments and taken both internally and externally. The four
engraved plates give a vivid illustration of the various applications, from full
immersion in the bath, to the famous head shower, the external application
to stomach and uterus, and diuretic purging on the ‘shower stool’.
Bottarelli gives details of historical treatises on the hot springs and, with
his detailed index, allows easy access to relevant treatments.
Vinciana 1845; Krivatsy 1607; Waller 1338; Wellcome II, p. 210.
Battle of Words – Printed on Yellow Paper
16 [BOZE, Claude Gros de or Gilles-Augustin BAZIN.] Le Livre
Jaune contenant quelques conversations sur les Logomachies, c’està-dire
sur les Disputes de mots, abus de termes, contradictions,
double entente, faux sens, que l’on employe dans les Discours, et
dans les Ecrits. Basle,[n.p.], 1748. £1,750
8vo, pp. [xxiv], 184; contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards,
spine in compartments, with double blind fillets; some scratches to
spine and extremities rubbed, but a very attractive copy, printed on
bright yellow paper.
First edition, privately printed on yellow paper (limited to thirty or fifty
copies only) of this philosophical discussion of logic and semantics.
The work consists of a series of dialogues between an English gentleman
and a German doctor, in which they explore the areas in which semantic
controversies, misunderstandings, illogic or deliberate verbal trickery can
wreak havoc, such as politics, religion, law, philosophy, but also ‘geometry’
or applied mathematics. This ‘battle of words’, or logomachia, has been
attributed both to the numismatist Gros de Boze and the natural historian
and physician Gilles Augustin Bazin.
In the preface, the author comments on the reasons for having the book
printed on coloured paper. He argues that coloured paper is not only easier
on the eye, but also offers economic advantages, coloured paper could be
produced locally rather than having to be imported from Holland. Peignot
describes the paper as plant-based (papier végétal jaune), but it appears to be
regular laid rag paper dyed yellow.
[Provenance:] engraved eighteenth century bookplate of Comte C.F. de
Wartensleben, engraved nineteenth century booklabel of Joseph Schlemmer,
with (his) ms notes on the text on front free endpaper; twentieth century
bookplate of Chuard-Corcelles.
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Barbier II 1331; Brunet III 1129 (50 copies); G. Peignot & A.A. Renouard,
p. 25 (30 copies); Chaudon, Dictionnaire Universel, I, p.245: ‘imprimé à trente
exemplaires seulement sur papier végétal’.
12mo, frontispiece, title, pp. [122], ll. 32 of blank leaves, and a printed
calendar for 1821 pasted in; bound in original green crushed morocco,
sides elaborately green, with matching silver stylus.
A charming perpetual calendar diary, which includes substantial economic
and financial information. Following the calendar part, attractively laid out
by month and day, exchange rates and interest rate tables are given, together
with a list of bankers in Paris (over 60 of them, including Rothschild).
Currency changers and business brokers are listed too, with their respective
business addresses. The final section is taken up with some blank pages, and
four erasable coated pages, which allow for note-taking. Apart from two
pages in the notes section, which have been filled with details of ‘La messe
du mariage’, the diary is untouched.
17 BRÜNNER, Johann Jacob. Vorschrift zu nützlicher
Nachahmung und einer fleissigen Übung zu Gutem vorgestellt
und geschrieben. Bern, Carl Gottlieb Guttenberger, 1766. £1,200
Oblong folio (272 x 382mm, plate mark ranging from 214 x 314 mm
to 230 x 368mm) ll. 17 engraved plates including engraved title page;
plates signed by artist and engraver; early nineteenth century roanbacked
boards; a very good copy.
First edition of an attractive writing manual by Brünner, who worked in
Bern, but originated from Basle and dedicated the work to the youth of
both cities. Brünner gives a detailed introduction to calligraphic writing,
with information on different strokes and complete alphabets of varying
complexity. He is clearly concerned with practical writing styles and the
elegant arrangement of letters. One plate also shows multiplication tables
and arithmetic, followed by one on ‘financial writing’. Both title and
dedication show more elaborate and figurative calligraphy styles, clearly to
demonstrate what can be achieved.
The engraver was Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg (1743–1790). Despite the
date on the title, two plates are in fact dated 1767.
Becker 173; Berlin 4912; Bonacini 286; Doede 190.
18 [CALENDAR.] Agenda Perpétuel. A l’usage des Négocians,
Banquiers, Agens de Change, Courtiers de Commerce, Gens
d’Affaires & &. Suivi de différents Tableaux utiles à tel genre de
Commerce que ce soit. Paris, Caillot, ca. 1820. £600
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Choosing the Right Course of Study at University
19 CAMPANUS, Giovanni Antonio. De ingratitudine
fugienda ad Pandulfum Balionium libri tres. Eiusdem Oratio de
scientiarum laudibus Perusiae initio studii habita 1455. Eiusdem
Libellus de dignitate atque fructu matrimonii ad Franciscum
Max. civem Romanum. Mainz, [colophon:] Ivo Schoeffer,
January 1532. £1,250
8vo, pp. 222, [1] imprint, [1] blank, with large decorative initial,
rubricated throughout in red; with seven fine decorated initials by Hans
Lützelburger with plant ornamentation; printer’s mark to last leaf;
recent full calf, spine with raised bands, sides blindstamped.
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First edition of this compilation of three rare texts by Giovanni Antonio
Campano (1427–1477). They deal with ingratitude and disgrace, the
difficulties of the right choice of a course of study at Perugia University,
and finally marriage – its importance, moral stance and its role in society
within different cultures. Campanus, churchman, humanist and orator, had
studied with Lorenzo Valla. He had a varied career which included stints
at Naples and Perugia as a teacher of rhetoric, scholar-editor at the press
of Ulrich Han in Rome, before his election as Bishop of Crotone in 1463.
From 1472–74 he was Papal Governor of Todi, and as an important figure
at the time, he was the subject of a Latin epitaph by Poliziano.
It is an indication of the importance of his poems and essays that a
selection was published as late as 1707 in an edition by J.B. Mencke and reissued
by his son F.O. Mencke in 1734. The essays included in this edition
were first published in Campanus’ Opere in 1495.
VD16 C 607 (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Zwickau); Index Aureliensis
130.768; not in Adams or Buisson, no further copies in OCLC.
Innovative Map-Making
20 [CARTOGRAPHY.] Vorschriften für topographische
Zeichnungen in der Königlich Bayerischen Armee. Mit 42 Tafeln.
Munich, Georg Franz, 1845. £750
Ten parts, 8vo, pp. vi, 47, and 42 plates, mounted on buff cloth, in
nine sections, with printed section titles, some with original colouring;
original wrappers, preserved within protective wrapper in the original
slipcase – designed to resemble a map case.
First edition of this attractive introduction to the production and colouring of
topographical maps and charts for the Bavarian army. The first section gives
an overview and theoretical explanation of the forty-two plates, beginning
with cartographic projection and map scales, followed by illustrations of
the various symbols to be used to indicate settlements, churches, villages,
towns, castles, etc. Further sections deal with the representation of natural
topographical phenomena such as mountains, hills, forests, and rocks, with
contour lines, maps in various scales, and the use of typography in maps etc.
A number of sample maps in different scales are included.
The work is clearly meant to be used in the field and the introductory
volume and the plates mounted on cloth are housed in a map case.
OCLC records 3 copies in Bavaria, Swiss National Library, Den Haag, French
National Library and BL.
Mathematics for Economists, Insurers and Lawyers
21 CHASSOT DE FLORENCOURT, Carl. Abhandlung aus der
juristischen und politischen Rechenkunst ... Nebst einer Vorrede
Herrn Hofrath Kästners. Mit einem Kupfer. Altenburg, Richter,
1781. £1,250
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4to, pp. [ii], vi, 292, [1] plate on guard; engraved vignette on title by
J.D. Philippi, engraved head- and tail-pieces, numerous tables in the
text; paper lightly but evenly browned throughout; contemporary
pastepaper boards, extensive surface abrasions to boards, head and
tail of spine chipped and corners bumped, but sound; with library
shelf label to front pastedown and purchase note in ink to front free
endpaper.
First edition of this interesting practical textbook on the application of
mathematics to economics and political economy, very much based on
practical experience. In his preface Kästner briefly reviews previous contribu
tions to this field.
Chassot de Florencourt begins with interest calculations, including
those with changed payment terms, those where part of the interest due
is compensated for by use of other facilities, and compound interest. He
then proceeds to the calculation of probability, illustrated with examples
from lotteries and gambling. The most extensive part of the work deals with
population figures, calculation of life expectancy and average death rates, in
its different applications for insurance.
The last section deals with a variety of calculations which might prove
useful in legal disputes, such as the calculation of legal portions in inheritance
questions, legacies, insurance disputes etc. In this chapter he also discusses
a variety of insurance schemes, which he deems impracticable, such as
Justi’s proposal of a kind of agricultural mutuality scheme and Schreber’s
suggestion that every livestock farmer join an insurance scheme, whereby
in the event of an epidemic, the remaining livestock will be re-distributed
proportionally. This, he claims, only benefits large agricultural estates, but
not the small farmer.
The very last section shows interest tables (for simple and compound
interest) and mortality tables (both in general and male and female separately)
with an additional table for mortality calculation for retirement
funds.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, OCLC list copies at Cornell, New York Public
Library, Harvard and Syracuse.
Century of Women
22 CHIARI, Pietro. Il Secolo Corrente. Dialoghi d’una Dama
col suo Cavaliere. Scritti da lei medesima pubblicati dall’abbate
Pietro Chiari. Venice, Bassaglia, 1783. £750
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. iv, 180; title with faint dampstain and
remains of book label; some light foxing; uncut in contemporary paperbacked
limp buff boards, spine label.
First edition, uncommon, of this charming dialogue between a lady and
her ‘cavalier’ about eighteenth century mores, customs and failings, with
particular reference to the situation in Venice. The discussion centers on a
comparison between the relative merits of the ‘enlightenment’ in contrast
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to classical antiquity, but also in comparison with Chinese society, Spain,
America, and Russia.
This work is of particular interest in musical history, as it gives a vivid
picture of the musical scene in Venice at the end of the eighteenth century.
The two protagonists pillory the decadence and incompetence of musicians,
and the sliding standards of the performances (dialogue seven). This is one
of the last works published by the prolific writer Chiari, who here clearly
returns to questions discussed in earlier works, such as Il Genio ed i Costumi
del Secolo Corrente (1761). Particularly appealing is the charming engraved
frontispiece.
OCLC lists Harvard and Kent State University only; for a detailed analysis of the
musical theme see Francesco Malpiero, ‘The History of Music and the Music of
History’ in The Musical Quarterly, vol. IV, Jan 1923, no. 1.
Translation by Chiari
23 [CHIARI, Pietro, translator?] ARNOUD, Francois T. M.
Clary, Istoria Inglese del Signor d’Arno. Tradotta in Italiano.
[bound with:] [ARNOUD, Francois T. M.] Lucia e Melania os sia il
Vero Amore. Istoria Francese.
[bound with:][BRUMENT, de.] Enrichetta ovvero la Madre Gelosa
di sua Figlia. Istoria Francese tradotta in Italiano. Venice, Luigi
Pavini, 1768, 1768, 1769. £600
Three works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece &
engraved title, 67, [1] blank; [iv] engraved frontispiece & title, 60,
[2] blank; [iv] engraved frontispiece and title, 109, 3 advertisements;
contemporary sprinkled boards, spine label lettered in manuscript;
corners bumped, with armorial bookplate to verso of first title-page.
A charming Sammelband collecting together first Italian editions of three
novels translated from the French to feed a rising demand for fiction in
Italy.
I. First edition in Italian of Clary où la retour à la vertu recompense, a perfect
example of the ‘roman sentimental’, by the French playwright Arnoud.
Clary is the daughter of a peasant who is pursued by Mévil a nobleman
who wishes to marry her. When he threatens suicide if she refuses to join
him in London, Clary is torn between loyalty to her parents and love for
Mévil. Eventually she follows Mévil and leads a life of opulence, but remains
riddled by guilt for having abandoned her parents. Arnoud wrote a number
of plays and novels which popularised the gothic form in France. There was
possibly a 1767 translation published in a journal.
II. First edition in Italian of Arnoud’s gothic novel Lucie et Melanie.
III. First edition in Italian of Brument’s Henriette, the sequel to Rousseau’s
Nouvelle Heloise, and presenting a complicated love triangle, with the
mother expressing jealousy of her daughter’s love interest. The translation
is by Chiari (1712–1785), one of the most prolific Italian playwrights and
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authors, who was influenced by Richardson, Fielding, Voltaire and Swift,
and is known for introducing the novel into Italian literature.
All three are uncommon; I. Marchesi p. 383, Zambon, Bibliographie du Roman
Français en Italie en XVIII Siècle, 1962, 15; II. Marchesi p. 396, Zambon 28; III.
see Marchesi p. 387 for other edition, Zambon 473; the Bodleian holds a copy of
Arnoud’s Clary, but none of the other titles are listed in OCLC.
The Art of Nagging
24 [COLLIER, Jane.] Die Kunst sinnreich zu quälen in
practischen Regeln, zum Unterricht aller derjenigen, welche die
Neigung haben, diese öconomische Wissenschaft im menschlichen
Umgange zum weitern Aufnehmen zu bringen. Aus dem Englischen
der Frau Lenox. Hamburg and Leipzig, Georg Christ Grund and
Adam Heinrich Holle, 1754. £650
8vo, pp. 180, with title vignette, decorated initials and typographic
head- and tail-pieces; contemporary half tan sheep over pattern paper
boards, extremities a little rubbed, else a good copy.
First edition in German of Jane Collier’s well-known Essay on the Art of
Ingeniously Tormenting, first published in English the previous year. This
first guide to the art of nagging, a wickedly funny and bitingly satirical
comedy of manners, gives insights into eighteenth-century behaviour as
well as the timeless art of emotional blackmail. Collier describes methods for
‘teasing and mortifying’ one’s acquaintances in a variety of social situations
by taking advantage of their affections and goodwill. Directed primarily at
a female audience, i.e. wives, mothers, and mistresses of servants, Collier
illustrates the difficulties women experienced directly exerting their influence
in private and public life – and the ways they managed to do so indirectly.
In anatomizing the art of emotional abuse Collier forces her readers into
acknowledging their own faults, and persuades them that tormenting is a
useful skill, even as she censures its effects.
Holzmann/Bohatta II, 12639 (1793 edition); Newberry Checklist of Courtesy Books
391 (English edition); Price & Price, English Literature, 199; uncommon.
25 [COMENIUS, Johann Amos.] Janua Linguarum Trilinguis;
sive, Johannis-Amos Comenii Janua Linguarum novissime ab ipso
Authore Recognita, Aucta, Emendata: adjunctis Metaphrasi Graeca
et Anglicana Versione. Omnes Linguae laudate Dominum. London,
Roger Daniels, 1662. £1,800
8vo, pp. [xvi], ll. 16 of engraved plates, pp. 274, [2] index, [4] blank;
printer’s vignette to title; contemporary full English sheep, blind double
fillets to sides and spine; extremities a little rubbed, but a very attractive
copy; with late eighteenth century ownership inscription to front free
endpaper ‘J. Wigley, 31 March, 1785’.
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Later edition of Comenius’ innovative and revolutionary Janua Linguarum,
one of the most successful educational works of the seventeenth century.
Written in 1628 and first published in 1631, his Latin primer was a
guide to learning languages as well as teaching the basics of all arts and
sciences. Arranged in one hundred lessons, covering a thousand subjects,
it revolutionized seventeenth century education. This attractive edition
teaches English, Latin and Greek printed in three columns in Roman,
Italic and Greek type respectively. ‘His ‘Open Door to Languages’, Janua
Linguarum Reserata secured the fairly uniform teaching of Latin throughout
the continent’ (PMM 139).
Wing C5518.
26 COMENIUS – GAILER, J. E. Neuer Orbis Pictus für
die Jugend, oder Schauplatz der Natur, der Kunst und des
Menschenlebens in 322 lithographirten Abbildungen mit genauer
Erklärung in deutscher, lateinischer, französischer und englischer
Sprach nach der früheren Anlage des Comenius bearbeitet und dem
jetzigen Zeitbedürfnisse gemäss eingerichtet. Reutlingen, Johann
Conrad Mäcken, 1835. £1,500
Tall 8vo, frontispiece, pp. x, 706, [3] index, [1] imprint, and 320
lithograph illustrations on 160 plates illustrating professions, etc., [1]
final lithograph; contemporary half roan over marbled boards, flat
spine gilt, red gilt-lettered spine label; label with central crease, but an
unusually attractive copy.
Third Gailer edition (the first published in 1832) and the first to include
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English, of this nineteenth century re-working of Comenius’ Orbis Pictus.
In his interesting preface Gailer mentions that the religious content has
been toned down, and that he has attempted to include information on
recent scientific discoveries, such as electricity and the air pump. Apart from
that the basic structure of the Orbis Pictus has not changed since Comenius.
Images are accompanied by titles and numbers that point to words that are
set in short sentences.
Pilz, Die Ausgaben des Orbis Sensualium Pictus, pp. 363–66.
Adulterers Consoled
27 [COMMODE, Baron. pseud. – BLOCQUEL, Simon.]
Manuel consolateur des cocus, code pacifique des ménages; ouvrage
éminemment utile J. ... Cornopolis: chez tous les marchands de
nouveautés, [Lille, Simon Blocquel], [ca. 1830]. £650
16mo, folding coloured frontispiece, pp. [iii]–107, [1]; printed entirely
on yellow paper; contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, spine
decoratively gilt.
First edition, uncommon, of this playful manual of adultery, more
specifically for the consolation of the deceived husbands. The woodcut
frontispiece shows three cuckolded men, with the cuckold’s horns attached
as a sign of public humiliation, and the note that cuckoldry knows no class
distinctions. The volume consists of a number of adulterous anecdotes, some
anthropological observations on the value of virginity in different cultures,
followed by anecdotes on concubines and courtesans. Also included is one
of Voltaire’s earliest works, the poem Le Cocuage, written in 1716.
The work has been attributed to the printer and publisher Simon Blocquel
(1780–1863), but is not included in Roger D.J. Collins’ bibliography.
Bibliographie Jaune, p. 69; Gay-Lemonnyer, III, 25; see Collins Roger D. J.,
‘Simon Blocquel, imagier et éditeur lillois’. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes.
N°81, Tome 41, 1985. pp. 235–240.
28 CONDORCET, Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat. Lobrede
auf Herrn Daniel Bernoulli der Naturlehre ordent[licher] und
der Arzneyk[unst] ausserord[entlicher] Prof. zu Basel. Aus dem
Französischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Daniel
Bernoulli. Basle, Johann Schweighauser, 1787. £850
8vo, pp. 80; printed on strong paper; modern boards.
First edition in German of Condorcet’s eulogy of Daniel Bernoulli, translated,
annotated and corrected by Bernoulli’s nephew, also called Daniel
Bernoulli. Condorcet’s original was first published in the Hist. Acad. Royale
Science for 1782 (1785, pp. 82–107).
The Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli (1700–82) was the son of the
mathematician Johann Bernoulli. After studying medicine and mathematics
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he spent eight years at the St. Petersburg Academy of Science, where he
wrote important texts on the theory of mechanics, including a first version
of his famous treatise on hydrodynamics. In 1733 he became a professor
of anatomy and botany in Basle, later, in 1750 professor of physics at the
same university. His most lasting success was the combination of Newton’s
physics with methods of Leibniz’s infinitesimal calculus.
DSB II pp. 36ff; OCLC lists copies at Hannover, Harvard, Munich, and Bern.
Astronomy at Copenhagen
29 [COPENHAGEN – ASTRONOMY.] Acta jubilaei quo
memoriam primae inaugurationis suae post tria inde delapa secula
celebravit Universitas regia Hafniensis d. XI. Maji MDCCLXXIX.
Copenhagen, Gyldendahl, 1779. £850
Folio (370 x 230 mm); pp. [iv], 81; contemporary full mottled sheep,
sides ruled in blind, spine decoratively gilt in compartments, giltlettered
spine label; a couple of insignificant worm holes to spine, an
attractive copy.
First and only edition of this program on the history of astronomy produced
on the 300th anniversary of the foundation of Copenhagen University.
Information on Brahe, but also Copernicus, Hevelius, Flamsteed, Halley,
and Bradley is included, as is an account of the astronomical collections at
Greenwich.
The second half is taken up with the graduation details of various doctoral
candidates, and the orations by the heads of the faculty.
Uncommon, OCLC records copies at Hannover, Göttingen, Berlin and Tübingen;
no copy found in the US.
30 DELALEIN, Jules. Catalogue de Livres Classiques,
d’Education et de Littérature, Français, Latins, Grecs, Anglais,
Italiens, Allemands, Espagnols, etc. ... Année Scolaire 1837–38.
Paris, Delalain, 1838. £350
8vo, pp. 96; printed in double columns, original printed wrappers; a
fine copy.
A fine copy of a bookseller’s catalogue specialising on school books for all
levels. In separate sections all manner of French books are offered, covering
the whole of the school curriculum, followed by Latin and Greek books,
both textbooks and literature. A brief section deals with modern languages,
including copies of Goldsmith’s History of England, Johnson’s Rasselas,
Sterne’s Sentimental Journey in addition to grammars and dictionaries. The
catalogue concludes with prize books for exemplary students.
In all some 1200 titles are offered, giving author, title, edition statement,
net price, together with cost of binding. Delalain had been one of the
leading French publishers since the eighteenth century.
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A Scandal Publicised – Starting the French Revolution
31 [DIAMOND NECKLACE AFFAIR.] Twenty-two printed
depositions relating to the affair, extra-illustrated with 20 aquatint
portraits of the principal parties.
1. Mémoire pour Dame Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois, Epouse du
Comte de la Motte. (Paris, L. Cellot, 1785). pp. 46; aquatint portrait.
2. Mémoire pour le Comte de Cagliostro, accusé; contre M. le
Procureur-Général, Accusateur; en présence de M. le Cardinal de Rohan,
de la Comtesse de la Motte, & autres Co-Accusés. Paris, 1786. pp. [iv],
51; aquatint portrait.
3. Requête au Parlement, Chambres Assemblées, par le Comte de
Cagliostro, signifiée à M. le Procureur Général le 24 février 1786; pour
servir d’Addition au Mémoire distribué le 18 du même mois. (Paris,
Lottin, 1786). pp. 7.
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4. Requête à joindre au Mémoire du Comte de Cagliostro. (Paris,
Lottin, Mai 1786). pp. 11.
5. Réponse pour la Comtesse de Valois – La Motte, au Mémoire du
Comte de Cagliostro. Paris, L. Cellot, 1786. pp. 48.
6. Mémoire pour la demoiselle le Guay d’Oliva, fille mineure émancipée
d’âge, accusée. Paris, P. G. Simon & N. H. Nyon, 1786. pp. [iv], 46.
aquatint portrait
7. Requête au Parlement, les chambres assemblées, par le Cardinal de
Rohan, signifiée à M. le Procureur Général. Paris & Bruxelles, E. Flon,
1786. pp. 8.
8. Requête introductive au Parlement, les chambres assemblées, par le
Cardinal de Rohan, signifiée à M. le Procureur Général. Paris & Brussels,
E. Flon, 1786. pp. 40.
9. Mémoire pour Louis-René-Edouard de Rohan, ... Accusé, contre
M. le Procureur-Général; en présence de la Dame de la Motte, du sieur
de Villette, de La Delle d’Oliva, & du sieur Comte De Cagliostro, Co-
Accusés. Cette Edition est entièrement conforme à la premiere. Paris,
Hardouin & Gattey, 1786. pp. 110, aquatint portrait; large headpiece
including royal arms, closing note: ‘N.B. Quoique ce Mémoire n’ait que
110 pages, il est aussi complet que celui qui en a 158; les Editeurs ayant
supprimé les interlignes, allongé & élargi les pages pour le rendre moins
volumineux.’
10. Pièces Justificatives pour M. le Cardinal de Rohan, Accusé.
Déclarations authentiques selon la forme Angloise. (Paris, Hardouin &
Gattey, [1786]). pp. 24, reimposition of the first impression: the table at
the foot of the final page (24) gives variant pagination continuing from
the last page (156) of the first printing of Rohan’s Mémoire.
11. Sommaire pour la Comtesse de Valois – La Motte, Accusée; contre
M. le Procureur-Général, Accusateur; en présence de M. le Cardinal de
Rohan, & autres co-Accusés. Paris, L. Cellot, 1786. pp. 62.
12. Réflexions Rapides pour M. le Cardinal de Rohan; sur le Sommaire
de la dame de la Motte. (Paris, Hardouin & Gattey, [1786]). pp. 24.
13. Second Mémoire pour la demoiselle Le Guay d’Oliva, fille mineure
émancipée d’âge, accusée; contre M. le Procureur-général, accusateur;
en présence de M. le cardinal prince de Rohan, de la dame de la Motte-
Valois, du sieur Rétaux de la Villette, du sieur de Cagliostro, & autres;
tous co-accusé. Analyse et Résultat des récolemens confrontations. Paris,
P. G. Simon & N. H. Nyon, 1786. pp. 56.
14. Requête pour le sieur Marc-Antoine Rétaux de Villette, Ancien
Gendarme, Accusé; contre M. le Procureur Général, Accusateur; en
présence de M. le Cardinal-Prince de Rohan, ... Paris, P. G. Simon & N.
H. Nyon, 1786. pp. 19, aquatint portrait.
15. Défense à une Accusation d’Escroquerie. Mémoire à consulter pour
Jean-Charles-Vincent de Bette d’Etienville, Bourgeois de Saint-Omer en
Artois, détenu ès Prisons du Châtelet de Paris, Accusé, contre le sieur
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Vaucher, Marchand Horloger, & le sieur Loque, Marchand-Bijoutier à
Paris, Plaignans. (Paris, L. Cellot, 1786). pp. [ii], 30, aquatint portrait.
16. Second Mémoire à Consulter et Consultation, sur la Défense
à une Accusation d’Escroquerie, pour Jean-Charles-Vincent de Bette
d’Etienville, Accusé. Paris, Cailleau, Libraire, 1786. pp. [ii], 29; with
(authentication?) stamps to pp. 16 and 20.
17. Mémoire pour le Sr de Bette d’Etienville, servant de Réponse à celui
de M. Fages. Paris, Cailleau, 1786. pp. [ii], 30.
18. Mémoire pour M. Le Bon. de Fages-Chaulnes, Garde-du-Corps
de Monsieur, Frère du Roi, Accusé; contre les sieurs Vaucher et Loque,
Marchands Bijoutiers, Accusateurs. Et encore contre Monsieur le
Procureur-Général. Paris, Prault, 1786. pp. [ii], 30; aquatint portrait, 12-
line errata at close.
19. Mémoire pour les Sieurs Vaucher, Horloger, & Loque, Bijoutier,
Accusateurs; contre le Sieur Bette d’Etienville, le Baron de Fages-
Chaulnes, & autres Accusés; en présence de Monsieur le Procureur-
Général. Paris, Prault, 1786. pp. 88, aquatint double portrait.
20. Supplément et Suite aux Mémoires du sieur de Bette d’Etienville,
ancien Chirurgien Sous-Aide-Major, pour servir de Réponse aux différens
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Mémoires faits contre lui. Paris, Cailleau, Libraire, 1786. pp. [ii],69,
Royal arms to title and at head of text; authenticated in MS by Bette
d’Etienville at foot of p. 1.
21. Réponse de M. le Comte de Précourt, Colonel d’Infanterie,
Chevalier de l’Ordre Royal & Militaire de Saint Louis; aux Mémoires des
sieurs d’Étienville, Vaucher & Loque. Paris, L.F. Prault, 1786. pp. 42,
aquatint portrait.
22. Mémoire à Consulter, et Consultation, pour F. François-Valentin
Mulot, Docteur en Théologie de la Faculté de Paris, Chanoine régulier de
l’Abbaye Royale de Saint-Victor, accusé; contre le sieur Loque, Bijoutier,
& le sieur Vaucher, Horloger, accusateurs; en présence du Baron de
Fages, du sieur Bette d’Etienville, & autres; et encore en présence de M. le
Procureur Général. Paris, Demonville, 1786. pp. 48, aquatint portrait.
With ten further acquatint plates (see below). £6,500
Large 4to, contemporary calf-backed paste-paper boards, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; a fine copy; MS collective title
on recto of front free endpaper and ownership inscription of Gustav
Bonde dated 1796 in same hand on verso, and engraved bookplate of
the Säfstaholm library, (Gustav Bonde inherited Säfstaholm in 1797).
A very fine collection of documents and related prints on the Diamond
Necklace Affair – ‘a remarkable archive of the most famous and important
trial of the Ancien Régime’, which Mirabeau, Napoleon and many others
including Goethe (who was in Paris at the time), regarded as a major
influence on the revolutionary dynamics of the 1780s. The Diamond
Necklace Affair was a spectacular scandal in which the cardinal de Rohan
was arrested for trying to win the queen’s favour by giving her a necklace
of diamonds worth millions. Although the queen had no part in this, and
Rohan had been duped too by a confidence trick – the affair and ensuing
trial provided the press with an irresistible subject and fatally undermined
the Parisians’ respect for the monarchy.
In Private Lives and Public Affairs, Sarah Maza discusses in detail the
revolutionary form and impact of the year-long trial, noting in particular
(pp. 189–205) how Bassett’s series of separately-issued prints of the
main characters (here the complete set) and the sequence of printed legal
submissions to the Paris parliament (again, a comprehensive collection)
embodied a new expression of ‘public interest’ in the avidly followed
royal soap-opera, focusing, symbolizing, and indeed developing the gap
between the old order and new ideas and aspirations, reinforcing the public
perception of social division. In the trial details of court life and the dealings
of the court with other decadent and corrupt beneficiaries of the old order
came out in open court and the printed judicial mémoires document this
over the following year.
The year-long soap-opera this collection documents draws its historical
significance from the way ‘ordinary people’ could engage with this symptomatic
melodrama as an illustration of the state of France on the eve of the
Revolution. The appeal was Europe-wide, as is evidenced by this collection
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put together and extra illustrated by a Swedish nobleman, Gustav Bonde
of Säfstaholm.
Whereas the printed depositions are to be found in a number of institutional
libraries, such as the Bibliothèque Nationale or Harvard, only few of
the accompanying prints are preserved. This collection not only has the full
set of prints, but also adds ten further aquatint portraits of other players in
the affair who did not issue printed submissions to the Parliament or whose
submissions were not printed: these portraits include Mle De la Tour,
the Comte de la Motte, Seraphinia Felichiani, Comtesse de Cagliostro,
Monsieur Augeard, Madame Mella de la Courville Sulbark, Le Père Loth,
Mr. Marcilly, Monsieur Bassanges, Monsieur Bohemer, La Femme de
Chambre de Mme. la Comtesse de la Motte.
32 [DOUCE, Francis ed.] The Dance of Death; painted by
H. Holbein and engraved by W. Hollar. [n.p., n.p.], [London?,
James Edwards, ?1794]. £1,000
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, frontispiece portrait of Hollar, pp. [ii]
title-page, 81, [1] blank with 30 engraved plates; 8vo in 4s, 1 folding
engraved plate, frontispiece portrait of Holbein, ll. 23; some light
foxing, plates clean and in strong impressions; contemporary tree calf,
sides with double gilt fillet, spine in compartments, ruled in gilt, giltlettered
spine label, with faded urn and lyre designs to spine, extremities
a little rubbed, but overall a good copy from the Easton Neston Library,
with shelf label and engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown.
First edition with the commentary of the antiquarian Francis Douce
(1757–1834) of Wenceslaus Hollar’s etchings based on Holbein’s original
fifteenth century designs of the Dance of Death. Hollar’s plates were first
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printed in London in 1647, a later edition from the same plates followed
in 1651. Over a hundred years later the bookseller Edwards obtained these
same plates and proceeded to print a further edition. There were in fact two
late eighteenth century issues of the book, both without place, printer or
date on the title page.
The final part ‘The daunce of Machabree: wherein is lively expressed and
shewed the state of manne, .. made by Dan John Lydgate’ is preceded by an
introduction by Francis Douce.
ESTC t201228; Douce Legacy, Bodleian Library, 1984, 110; Lowndes p. 1083;
Brunet Suppl. II, p. 182.
spine label chipped, else a good copy, with release stamp from the Berlin
Public Library system.
First edition of this interesting account of libraries with an early, though
incomplete, bibliography of libraries and their catalogues. This is bound
together with a listing of early dictionaries, prefaced by an essay on dictionaries
by Bellet entitled ‘Question sur les Dictionnaires’. Durey de Noinville
(1683–1768) provides a listing of all manner of dictionaries, mostly but not
exclusively language based.
I. Besterman 783; Barbier I, 1081; Peignot p. 38; II. Besterman 4806; Peignot,
p. 251.
33 DUCHATEAU, G. F. J. Tarif des Droits de l’Octroi municipal
et de Bienfaisance de la Ville de Bruges. Et Réduction très-aisée,
pour recevoir tous les objets compris au meme Tarif, calculée au
plus juste que possible en monnaie décimale et en argent courant
de Brabant, tel que la perception doit se faire aux interets de la Ville
et du contribuable. [Taryf der Rechten van Octroi munipael en van
Weldaedigheyd der Stad Brugge]. Bruges, van Praet, [c. 1806]. £650
Tall narrow 4to (272 x 116mm), pp. [2], 43, [3] with final blanks,
facing title-pages in French and Flemish; printed within double border,
tables throughout; uncut and partly unopened in the original blue
wrappers; a little dust-soiled and dog-eared, but a good copy.
Unlocated printing of tariffs for the city of Bruges after the introduction
of metric weights and measures under the French. Of particular interest
is the list of ‘luxury’ items attracting local tax to pay for local expenses and
for the provision of charity. These include beer and wine, hard liquor, but
also olive oil, meat and fish, some fruit and spices, oysters, but also coal,
firewood and building materials.
A list of types of currency in circulation in the territory is also given,
together with its decimal, i.e. French franc equivalent.
Not in Kress and Goldsmiths’; no copy found in OCLC.
34 DUREY DE NOINVILLE, Jacques Bernard. Dissertation sur
les Bibliothèques avec une Table Alphabétique, tant des Ouvrages
publiés sous le title de Bibliothéque, que des Catalogues imprimés
de plusieurs Cabinets de France & des Pays étrangers. Paris, Hug.
Chaubert, and Herissant, 1758.
[Bound with:] Table Alphabétique des Dictionnaires en toutes sortes
des Langues & sur toute sortes des Science & d’Arts. Paris, Hug.
Chaubert, and Herissant, 1758. £450
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [vi], 156, [3],[1] blank; [iv], 90;
some light browning, else clean and crisp; contemporary mottled calf,
spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; corners worn and
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Enlightenment Encyclopaedia for Children
35 EBERT, Johann Jacob. Naturlehre für die Jugend.
Erster Band [– Dritter Band.] Mit Kupfern. Leipzig, Weidmann
and Reich, 1776–1778. £3,500
Three volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], xxvi, 384 with 22
engraved fold-out plates; xxii, 342 with 12 engraved fold-out plates;
xvi, 368, with 15 engraved fold-out plates; in all 49 hand-coloured
plates; a fine copy in contemporary full calf, spine in compartments,
elaborately gilt, from the library of the dukes of Anhalt-Dessau, with
armorial book plate to front pastedown; a very fine set.
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First edition of this enlightenment encyclopaedia for the young, printed
on fine paper with particularly striking illustrations. In two hundred and
seventy-five ‘letters’ Ebert covers all aspects of natural history, especially
botany, biology and mineralogy, but based on a foundation of the sciences,
such as physics and astronomy, to explain natural history within the general
structure of the world, the ‘Einrichtung des Weltgebäudes’. He specifically
addresses his encyclopaedia to older children, aged 10 to 12, from the
upper middle classes and the aristocracy, a clientele which is also targeted
by the high price, resulting from the fine printing, and high quality of paper
and illustrations.
Overall Ebert (1737–1805), who taught mathematics at the University
of Wittenberg, is particularly concerned with giving a systematic overview
filled with scientific detail, while presenting the material in a readable and
attractive way. He addresses his young readers directly, includes entertaining
anecdotes from laboratory and science, and gives striking examples.
Scientific apparatus and procedures are explained in detail so that students
can repeat them. ‘Curious cases’ and freaks are discussed and illustrated,
frequently to debunk popular myths or superstitions, such as the mythical
bird the Phoenix etc.; however other curious cases, such as the ‘talking dog’
proposed by Leibniz in 1715 are accepted as truth.
Ebert’s natural history encyclopaedia was very successful indeed, and
went through three editions by 1790. However, the illustrations in the
cheaper reprint issued by Trassler in Troppau in 1785, are of much inferior
quality.
Poggendorff I, c 641; Rümann 95; Wegehaupt 515; Brüggemann-Ewers III, p.
1010 ff. (with just 48 engraved plates); outside of Germany OCLC records copies
at BL, NYPL, Princeton (Cotsen Library), Florida, Oklahoma, and Strasbourg.
Bibliography of Syriac Publications
36 [ECCHELENSIS, Abraham.] Ope Domini Nostri Iesu
Christi Incipimus scribere Tractatum continentem Catalogum
Librorum Chaldaeorum, tam Ecclesiastorum, quam Profanorum.
Auctore Hebediesu Metropolita Sobensi. Rome, Propaganda Fide,
1653. £1,850
8vo, pp. 29, [3] blank, 270, [2] blank, [32]; text in Syriac and Latin
on facing pages; some browning and spotting, due to paper stock;
contemporary full vellum, spine lettered and decorated in ink, with
shelfmark in ink to front pastedown; a good copy.
First edition of this bibliography of Syriac publications, prepared by the
learned Maronite, Abraham Ecchelensis (1600 – 1664). He studied at the
Maronite College in Rome, published a Syriac grammar (1628), and taught
Syriac and Arabic at the College of the Propaganda Fide. The Maronite
College had been established in Rome in 1584, and numerous Syriac works
were published by the Propaganda Fide.
Ebert 9349; Graesse III 227; Ottino-Fumagalli I, 750; Petzholdt p. 428.
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Legal Maxims and Proverbs for the Law Student
37 EISENHARDT, Johann Friedrich. Grundsätze der deutschen
Rechte in Sprüchwörtern mit Anmerkungen erläutert von D. Johann
Friedrich Eisenhardt öffentlichen Lehrer der Rechte auf der
Julius Carls Universität. Helmstädt, Christian Friederich Weygand,
1759. £820
8vo, pp. [xxiv], 614, [17], [1] blank; title vignette, head- and tailpieces;
occasional light damp-staining to lower margin; contemporary
half vellum over marbled boards, gilt-lettering directly to spine; a good
copy, with contemporary private ownership inscription in ink to front
free endpaper, of the law student Joh. Ha[i]ger.
First edition, uncommon, of Eisenhart’s comprehensive introduction to the
principles of German law in the form of proverbs and maxims. Eisenhart’s
legal manual is well-organised and covers all aspects of the law, beginning
with generalities, civil law (including property, inheritance, and contract
law), but also criminal law, and state law.
Eisenhardt was part of a long German tradition of fashioning legal
maxims in the form of proverbs or striking sentences, and his collection is
based on Conradi’s earlier compilation. However, while earlier collections
of this kind had largely antiquarian character, Eisenhardt’s is of considerable
importance, not just because it was in German, but also because of his clever
and scientifically well-founded legal explanations.
Johann Friedrich Eisenhardt (1720–1783), professor of law at Helmstädt,
became head of the legal faculty there in 1763. He published extensively on
the law, but this remained his most popular and lasting contribution.
Goed. II, 18.44; Stintzing-L. III, I 244; NDB IV, 41; for a full study of the genre,
see David Murray, Lawyers’ Merriments, 2005.
38 [EMBROIDERY DESIGNS.] Vaghi lavori delle donne
presentati alla virtuosa e nobile Leonora Vigoleno la qual opera
dissegnata da mi Lunardo Bergamin potrà dar gran fruto alla degna
et ingegnosa signora col suo pronto ingegno et potra essere di suo
servitio al bisogno. Brixia, October 1538. [n.p. ?1780s.] £1,800
4to, [252 x190mm], manuscript in coloured ink, pp. [22], with illustrations
on both sides, title page within floral border and with finely
drawn crane motif, stitched into eighteenth-century paste-paper boards,
spine chipped, extremities rubbed, and corners bumped, remains of ties,
small circular hole to spine, touching endpaper, but not affecting main
text block.
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Last Wills in Mexico City
A fine manuscript embroidery or needle-work pattern book, hand-coloured
and according to the title based on a sixteenth century pattern. Designed
by Lunardo Bergamin and presented to the able ‘Leonora Vigoleno’ the
charming designs show borders, mostly floral but also including abstract
and classical repeat patterns, together with some corner patterns and
individual motifs. They are well executed and elegantly coloured. They are
apparently inspired by early pattern books by Tagliente etc., and are similar
in design to those of Elisabetta Catanea Parasole (1565–1625), the most
famous Italian lace designer and wood engraver of her time.
The drawings are sketched in ink outline with colour wash.
Similar patterns are found in A. Lotz, Bibliographie der Modelbücher, but
I have not been able to find an exact match.
A Dictionary of Enlightenment Characteristics
39 [ENLIGHTENMENT MOTTOS – ANON.] L’Uomo
onesto, ed accorto, formato con cento massime in versi Martelliani
da un Cittadino di Bergamo. Verona, Eredi Carattoni, 1782. £480
8vo, pp. [ii] blank, [3] –59, [5] blank; original brown wrappers; some
light damp-staining, mostly to wrappers.
Unrecorded light-hearted enlightenment mottos in ‘versi Martelliani’, a
ponderous rhyme favoured by Chiari and Goldoni. In one hundred verses
the anonymous author describes the honest and correct personality. From
‘abiti’ and ‘accortezza’, to ‘vizi’, ‘volontà’ and ‘volubilità’ he is characterised
in alphabetical order.
Not found in ICCU, KVK, or OCLC.
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40 [ESCOBAR, JOSÉ SÁENZ de or ZURITA, JUAN
ANTONIO.] Dificultad imaginada, Facilidad verdadera. En la
practica de testamentos, reducida â ocho documentos, en que
se manifesta la facilidad, conquer se pueden tener en sana salud
otorgados los testamentos: se ponen patentes las tentaciones
diabolicas, que los retardan... Mexico, M. de Ribera Calderon,
1714. £1,400
8vo, pp. [xviii], 72; woodcut end-piece; contemporary limp vellum,
edges sprinkled red; a very fine crisp copy.
First edition, rare, of this treatise on wills, published anonymously by the
Congregacion de la Buena morte, but ‘attributed by Beristain and Victorica
to José Sáenz de Escobar, although the Cadiz reprint (1770) ascribes the
authorship to Zurita’ (Sabin, XXIX, 297).
José Sáenz de Escobar was attorney of the Mexico City and Guadalajara
Royal audiencias. The Congregacion de la Buena morte, founded by the Jesuits
in the sixteenth century, gathered citizens of status and wealth. It enshrined
practices of piety and devotion as a paragon of the good life, the notion
of and ultimate aspiration towards the ‘good death’ informing its ethics.
Later in the eighteenth century the Congregation spread from the cities to
colonial settlements and indigenous villages. The treatise remained valid for
years to come and reprints were issued in 1726 and 1738.
Beristain, I, 412; Diaz, Bibliografia de la literature hispanica, 4521; Medina, Biblioteca
Hispano-Americana, 7697; Medina, Imprenta en Mexico, 2391; Sabin, XXIX, 297;
uncommon, OCLC lists copies at Berkeley, New York, Texas, Harvard, and the
National Library of Mexico.
Extensive Publisher’s Catalogue
41 [ESTEVE, Pierre.] L’esprit des beaux arts. Tome premier
[– tome second.] Paris, C.J. Baptiste Bauche, 1753. £580
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], 252, [3] contents and errata, [1] blank;
[iv], 231, [8] contents, errata and privilege, 17 publisher’s catalogue;
engraved title vignettes; uncut in contemporary carta rustica boards,
spines with later labels lettered in ink, and remains of shelf labels; head
of spine of volume I chipped, else a good copy.
First edition of this general study of aesthetics and taste. In addition to
language and literature Estève concentrated in particular on music, with
special chapters on modern taste in music, French opera, and dance and
ballet. The final part covers architecture, especially theatre architecture.
The section on music is of particular importance, because here his
mechanistic theory of harmony on the basis of the classification of sound
intervals which are aesthetically pleasing, finds more wide-ranging application.
The same principles are applied to architecture and other fields.
Estève (1720–1790) trained as a medical doctor in Montpellier and was a
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member of the local scientific society. He published on astronomy, music
and the arts.
The final section is taken up with an extensive catalogue listing around
three hundred titles, mostly science, law, history and philosophy, of which
multiple copies are available at the publishers. Noticeable is the large
number of translations of English authors.
Barbier II, 179; Cohen 363; Cioranescu 27897.
him in audience in order to listen to his fables in Leipzig in 1760. Gellert
was ‘best known for his verse fables, written with charm and with the moral
clearly pointed’ (Oxford Companion to German Literature).
Not in Büggemann, Wegehaupt, Bodemann or Fabula docet; OCLC lists Berlin
and Freiburg; in 1780 a bi-lingual edition with illustrations by Bernhard Rode
was published.
43 [FABLES.] Les Fables et la Vie d’Esope composée par Planudes
le Grand. Traduites du Grec en Français selon la version Grecque,
avec le sens moral. Caen, T. Chalopin, n.d., ca. 1820. £820
8vo, pp. 79, [1]; illustrated with a woodcut portrait of Aesop and 81
small woodcuts in the text; printed on cheap paper; stitched as issued in
the original wrappers, spine a little worn, but holding firm.
Attractive popular edition of Aesop’s fables, with a portrait and eightyone
woodcuts in the text, the final woodcut is signed Godard d’Alençon.
This chapbook edition in the tradition of the Bibliothèque Bleue was sold by
itinerant vendors in France from the 17th until the early 19th centuries.
René Hélot, La Bibliothèque bleue en Normandie, Rouen, 1928, n° 84; A. Sauvy, ‘La
librairie Chalopin: livres et livrets de colportage à Caen au début du XIXe siècle’, in
Bulletin d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 11 (1977), p. 117; uncommon OCLC
lists a copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Side Effects of Make-Up and Perfume
42 [FABLES – GELLERT, Christian Fürchtegott.] Fünf und
zwanzig auserlesene Fabeln mit fünf und zwanzig darzu gehörigen
Kupfern, zur Bildung eines edlen Herzens in der Jugend. Berlin,
Arnold Wever, 1772. £1,200
8vo, pp. 14, 17–48 (apparently thus complete ), with twenty-five
engraved plates mostly inexpertly coloured; contemporary full calf,
spine with raised bands, extremities a little rubbed.
First edition thus of this uncommon early illustrated selection from Gellert’s
popular fables for children. Gellert (1715–1769), a German enlightenment
poet and writer, was much appreciated as a children’s author, and his Fabeln
und Erzählungen were first published in 1746–48.
He was one of the few German authors approved by Friedrich II, who
termed him ‘le plus raisonnable de tous les savants allemands’, and received
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44 FANTINI, Giuseppe. De danni che arreca alla salute del bel
sesso l’uso continuo de’ belletti e l’abuso degli odori nelle toilette.
Lettera ... a Myledi Pembrok Baronessa di Kersey. [Seconda
edizione]. [colophon:] Macerata, Bartolommeo Capitani, 1781. £850
8vo, pp. 62, [2] imprint; original buff wrappers, creased; a little
spotted, else a fine, wide-margined copy.
Second edition (according to the dedication first published in Latin) of
Fantini’s study of the detrimental effects of the use of beauty products and
cosmetics, such as make-up and perfume.
Although the title page indicates second edition, no earlier edition seems
to be recorded, neither in Italian nor in Latin.
Not in Montesquiou, Pays des Aromates, or Wiggishoff; Libreria Prandi cat. 132
(La donna nelle storia, ecc.), 527; OCLC: Chicago, Harvard, DNLM, Minnesota.
45 FANTONI, Pio. Relazione della visita fatta per ordine di
sua maesta imperiale Leopolodo II dal matematico canonico
Pio Fantoni nel mese di Giugno MDCCXC al Canal Maestro di
Valdichiana e considerazioni sopra il nuovo progetto di abbassare il
regolatore di Valiano. Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1791. £1,350
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Folio, pp. 52, with 6 plates (3 engraved, 3 printed, one with engraved
elements, one folding); some faint damp-staining to last plate; a good
copy in the original carta rustica, spine lettered in ink.
First edition of Fantoni’s resolution of the dispute concerning the draining
and reclamation of the swamp area of the Chiana valley between Arezzo and
Siena. The draining of the valley had been a project over centuries and at
various times Galileo, Viviani and Torricelli had all been asked to come up
with solutions, but no-one had succeeded.
Fantoni (1721–1804), who was considered the most important Italian
hydraulic engineer of his time, assesses the merits of two different proposals
by Fossombroni and Ferroni. He supports the assessment of Vittorio
Fossombroni (1754–1844) who argued for changing the incline of the
valley and moving the watershed, and the project finally got off the ground
in 1816. The work is elegantly produced by the ducal printer of the recently
elected Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany until
1790.
The folding plates show side sections of the valley illustrating the incline,
accompanied by extensive calculations.
Moreni, Bibliografia storico-ragionata della Toscana I, 358; Riccardi I, 446.
Oblong 4to, (197 x 250 mm), ll. 30 of numbered engraved plates; front
free endpaper creased and with tear at foot; early eighteenth-century
vellum-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in manuscript; from the
Macclesfield library with blindstamp to title and first few leaves, and
North Library book plate to front pastedown; a fine, large and widemargined
copy, with an acquisition date of January 7, 1727/28 on front
pastedown.
First edition of a very appealing series of engravings by Abraham Bosse after
designs by the Italian artist and draughtsman Paolo Farinati (1524–1606).
Farinati’s chiaroscuro drawings were often used as ‘modelli’. The plates
depict small cupids and angels (22 plates) and the remaining eight plates
show masks.
Paolo Farinati was a highly productive painter and draughtsman from
Verona, whose paintings are preserved in many churches. Bartsch XVI 164
ff also records engravings by him, and many of his drawings on coloured
paper are in institutional collections. The suite was republished in 1736 by
Jombert (see Berlin Katalog 4355).
Blum, L’Oeuvre gravé d’Abraham Bosse. no. 940–943; Cicognara 2028; see Berlin
4355; Saur XXXVII, pp. 53–54; OCLC lists copies at Harvard, Getty, New York
Public Library, Princeton, Winterthur and University of Arizona in the US.
In Praise of Venice
Engraved by Bosse
46 FARINATI, Paolo. Diverses Figures a l’eau forte de petits
Amours, Anges vollants, et Enfans, propre a mettre sur frontons
portes et autres lieux. Ensemble plus.rs sortes de Masques de
l’invention de Paul Farinaste Italien. Paris, A. Bosse, 1644. £5,800
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47 [FARSETTI, Giuseppe Tommaso.] La Trasformazione
d’Adria al Serenissimo Doge Pietro Grimani. Venice, Gianbatista
Albrizzi, 1752. £650
4to, pp. xxviii, [2], with four small and one full-page engravings;
original buff stiff wrappers.
First edition, of this finely illustrated poem in praise of Venice. The narrative
poem traces the origin of Venice as a powerful city to the love of the marine
nymph Adria, who fell in love with the god Neptune, and eventually was
transformed into a small island, Venice. (F.A. Zaccaria, Storia Letteraria
d’Italia, p. 50), accompanied by some literary notes by Farsetti outlining
Venice’s exploits and grandeur. The work was praised by Foscarini in his
Letteratura Veneziana, and later republished in Morelli’s Componimenti
Poetici di varii autori, etc. 1792.
A fine example of eighteenth century Venetian book production, with
elegant unsigned engravings.
Morazzoni, Libro illustrato veneziano del settecento, 229; Cicogna, Saggio di
bibliografia veneziana, 1848 and 2452; not in Gamba; OCLC records copies at
NYPL, Boston College, University of Rochster, BL and Bavarian State Library.
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Pension and Investment Calculations
48 FATIO, Alexandre. Tables d’Intérèts simples et composeés
à diverses rates, suivies de celles de Mrs. de Buffon & Halley sur la
mortalité dans les diffèrents âges de la vie, de divers calculs relatifs
aux annuités sur des vies, etc. Vevey, the Author, Chenebié &
Lörtscher, 1778. £1,200
Folio, pp. [iv], 220, tables throughout; uncut in the original pink
wrappers, a little dog-eared, rebacked; a number of stamps to title, from
a Franciscan Convent library in Brussels, and the collection of Gelin,
with stamps to title page.
First and only edition of this compilation of interest tables and life
insurance calculations. The first part contains interest calculations at various
percentages, showing pay-outs after a fixed number of years, for a fixed final
sum, or for the maintenance of the capital invested.
The second more interesting part deals with mortality rates, first in a
comparative table according to the calculations of Halley and Buffon. This
is followed by life insurance calculations and annuities, again according to
various different tables and using a variety of interest rates. Fatio illustrates
the use of his calculations by presenting the data in different practical
scenarios, such as a widow’s pension, fixed annuities, tontines etc.
Conlon 78:929; Querard III, p. 67; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Mansutti;
OCLC lists just one copy in the US, at Trinity College, Ct.
Capital Punishment Abolished
49 FELSECKER, Franz Joseph. Worte an Bayern betreffend
die Abschaffung der Todesstrafe. Eine Kritik der vor Kurzem
erschienenen Schrift: Die Todesstrafe von dem Verfasser des Geistes
der peinlichen Gesetzgebung Deutschlands, Nürnberg 1831; nebst
einem Versuche der Feststellung einer Strafrechtstheorie. Fürth,
Friedrich Korn, 1831. £650
8vo, pp. 92; contemporary blue boards, with silver band around sides,
mostly removed from front board, remains of shelf label to spine; a very
good copy.
First edition of this strident rejection of the death penalty. In addition to
arguing that the death penalty is inhumane and contrary to popular belief
does not act as a deterrent in most crimes that would result in capital
punishment, Felsecker cites Italian and French jurists in support of his
arguments against the death penalty.
Felsecker (1805–1886) was born in Bamberg and studied law and
philosophy in Erlangen, where he later taught as an adjunct professor. In
the 1850s he emigrated to America, became editor of a German newspaper
in Milwaukee and took part in the American Civil War.
Enslin-E. 105.
Fencing Manual for the Infantry
50 [FENCING.] Regulations and instructions for the infantry
sword exercise. Adjutant-General’s Office, Horse-Guards, 10th
September, 1819. London, William Clowes, 1819. £480
8vo, large folding engraved plate bound as frontispiece (560 x 420
mm), pp. 63, [1] imprint; plate entitled ‘Angelo’s sword exercises’; early
pebble-grain red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; some signatures loose.
First edition of one of the earliest fencing manuals specifically for the British
infantry. According to General Order no. 368, signed by Harry Calvert,
Adjutant General, this is meant to supersede earlier regulations. The clearly
arranged manual covers preparatory movements, positions, attack and defense
and practice drills. This is accompanied by the necessary commands.
The large engraved plate is drawn by Henry Angelo, Jr. (1780–1852)
the last of the famous dynasty of English fencing masters, founded by
Domenico Angelo Malevolti who established a fencing academy in London
around 1760. In 1833 Henry Angelo became superintendent of sword
exercise to the army.
Thimm, p. 239.
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The Closed Commercial State
51 FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb. Der geschlossene Handelsstaat.
Ein philosophischer Entwurf als Anhang zur Rechtslehre, und
Probe einer künftig zu liefernden Politik. ... Tübingen, J. G. Cotta,
1800. £2,000
8vo, pp. [xxii], 290; title lightly browned and occasional spotting
throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine
ruled and decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; boards with
decorative gilt panelling; extremities a little rubbed; an attractive
copy with manuscript notes to endpapers, and ownership cipher
to title page.
The philosopher Fichte, though not an economist in the strict sense,
has indirectly exercised great influence on economists. In Der geschlossne
Handelsstaat, he presents the first modern socialist concept of the state. His
‘closed commercial state’ is a corporate one, with a controlled economy and
autarchy. To ensure the efficacy of domestic controls and maintain the value
of money, the state must also regulate international economic relations.
Once the state is ‘isolated’, production and trading, prices and wages can
be fully regulated. The state guarantees the existence of the individual and
his right to work, but there is no free choice of occupation. Fichte is a
socialist, but not a communist – private property, family life, and even the
accumulation of riches are an accepted part of his concept.
Fichte (1762–1814) was a main representative of idealist philosophy in
Germany and was clearly influenced by Kant. In 1794 he became professor
at Jena, but was dismissed in 1799 on a charge of teaching atheism. In 1810
he became professor at the new University of Berlin.
Fichte’s ideas can be traced in Proudhon and in syndicalist and socialist
doctrine. State socialism in Germany, not only of Lassalle but also of
Rodbertus, has also claimed the authority of Fichte (Gurvitch in ESS).
[See no. 65.]
Baumgartner & Jacob, J.G. Fichte – Bibliographie, A1 50x; Goldsmiths’–Kress
17957; Humpert 7668; Menger c. 163; Ziegenfuss I, 342.
Paris Population Figures Analyzed
52 [FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron de.] Recherches
Statistiques sur la Ville de Paris et le Département de la Seine,
Recueil de tableaux dressés et réunis d’après les ordres de Monsieur
le Comte de Chabrol, Conseiller d’État, Préfet du Département.
Paris. Lithographie de l’Ecole Royale des Ponts et Chaussées. Paris,
C. Ballard 1821. £1,000
8vo, pp. x, 114, [32] interleaved with tables, [5] numération générale,
[2] errata, [1] blank, 2 lithographed plates facing page 94, and 62
lithographed tables on 38 sheets, mostly folding; original buff coloured
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boards, spine with printed label, extremities slightly worn, otherwise a
fine copy, with a presentation inscription to the Rector of the Académie
de Paris, and an 1829 ownership inscription of Pierre Claray.
Prepared for the Comte de Chabrol (1778–1843), the prefect of the
Département de la Seine, this impressively detailed statistical work collects
a wealth of information on the French capital after Napoleon’s reign. Baron
Fourier, director of the Bureau of Statistics and noted mathematician, had a
decisive part in the preparation of the figures, and is the author of the ninety
page essay on the collection and importance of vital statistics. Gathered
together here are tables on population statistics, Fourier’s programmatic
essay, Comte de Chabrol’s comments on the findings, and sixty-two
lithographed tables. In these tables the data is presented and organized in
a variety of ways. In addition to basic population statistics (i.e. number
of live births, deaths &c.), the tables indicate the various causes of death
(natural, accidents, suicides), and the personal circumstances of the
deceased (married, widowed, etc.). Also included are specific medical and
social statistics, giving, for example, information on the number of poorhouses
and hospitals in every district, or the number of people vaccinated.
A particularly curious table even lists the number of free entertainments
for the poor, according to district and attendance. Most of these tables are
based on figures from the 1817 and 1818 censuses, with some comparisons
to earlier data. The importance of statistical information for policy decisions
of civil administrations had been noted before, and the first publication of
such figures on Paris had already appeared under Colbert. However, it was
not until the nineteenth century that this data was regularly collected and
published. Following this publication, which marked the beginning of the
new emphasis on social statistics, a whole series was issued by the Paris
Bureau of Statistics between 1826 and 1860.
Uncommon, Goldsmiths’ 23140; Einaudi 1961; Kress records only the second
edition C3488; Perrot p. 213.
53 [FRENCH COLONIES – ANON.] Exposé de la situation
actuelle des Colonies françaises aux Indes occidentales. [n.p., n.p.],
1822. £350
8vo, pp. 31; portrait vignette to title; uncut, stitched as issued in the
original wrappers.
The anonymous author explains the detrimental economic effects of the
revolution on Guadeloupe and Martinique. He distinguishes between the
problems of the civil administration and the economic problems of the
colonies.
Sabin 14711 (another issue printed the same year by Moreau in Bordeaux).
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Pretty Women of the Revolution
54 [FRENCH REVOLUTION – WOMEN.] Hommage aux
plus jolies et vertueuses femmes de Paris, ou, nomenclature de la
classe la moins nombreuse. [n.p, n.p., 1789?] £480
8vo, pp. 7, [1] blank; uncut, folded sheet, as issued.
A curious and satirical anonymous publication praising ‘pretty women’ of
the revolution. After drawing up necessary characteristics, such as pretty
mouth, beautiful white teeth, pretty legs or vivacous spirit, ‘professional
prostitutes’ or those who advertise their beauty too openly are excluded;
a list of 139 beauties is given. This includes well-known figures such as
Olympe de Gouges.
Conlon 89:2736; Hayden, French revolutionary pamphlets, 579; OCLC: Bryn
Mawr, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley & British Library.
Small 8vo, pp. [xii], 172, with typographic fleurons throughout; title
page a little dust-soiled; nineteenth-century green crushed morocco
by Koehler, triple fillets to sides, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., spine in six
compartments, decoratively gilt, gilt lettering directly to spine; purchase
note in ink to front pastedown, dated 1859.
First edition, rare, of this manual of French wit and humour, of bagatelles
and literary absurdities (bêtises, sottises et fadaises) in prose and verse. This
jest book includes aphorisms and apothegms of an arguably racy nature,
although the nineteenth century owner was apparently disappointed, as he
records in his manuscript note.
Brunet V, c 461; Gay-Lemonnier III, c 1138; OCLC: Munich, Leipzig, Amsterdam,
and Princeton.
Tarot and other Card Games
French Wit and Humour with Bawdy Verse
55 [FRENCH WIT – ANON.] Sotisier ou Recueil de B. S.
& F. Sunt mala, sunt bona quaedam. Paris, [Amsterdam],[n.p.],
1717. £2,200
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56 [GAMES – ANON.] Die beste und neueste Art das in den
vornehmsten Gesellschaften heutiges Tages so beliebte Taroc-Spiel,
sowol in drey Personen zum König, als in viel wirklichen Personen
mit zweyerley Karten recht und wohl zu spielen; Nebst einigen
Betrachtungen über dieses Spiel und moralische Gedanken über die
Spiele überhaupt. Nuremberg, George Bauer, 1763.
[bound with:] [ANON.] Die neueste Art, das Kaiser-Spiel recht
und wohl zu spielen. Nuremberg, George Bauer, 1763. £1,800
Two works in one volume, 8vo, engraved frontispiece showing two
gaming tables with a black servant in attendance by G.P. Nurbiegel,
pp. [1]–14, 17–64 (so complete); 16; contemporary half sheep, over
sprinkled boards, some surface wear to paper covering, head and tail
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of spine chipped, binding firm but very rubbed, from the library of
the noted collector of chess books, J.W. Rimington-Wilson, with his
signature to front paste-down.
Two rare works on games and gambling bound in one volume.
I. Second edition (first 1756), enlarged by a preface, of this detailed
eighteenth-century introduction to the game of Tarot. Following ‘An Ode
to Tarot’, the rules of the game are explained. An extensive chapter discusses
both the morality and legality of gambling, with a specific discourse on
playing for money. The chapter concludes with various edicts relating to
gambling for money issued under Maria Theresa, prohibiting a number
of banking games. Card games played with the Tarot pack originated in
Italy in the first half of the fifteenth century. It marked an important point
in the development of card games, as it introduced the idea of trumps or
‘triumphs’ into the card game. The use of Tarot cards in fortune telling is in
fact a later use of the cards
II. First edition of the rules of the Kaiserspiel, a card game played with a
pack of 32 conventional cards (ace through seven).
Particularly attractive is the frontispiece engraving of the first work,
showing two gaming tables with a number of participants and a black
servant serving drinks.
Both works are rare, I. OCLC records one copy of the first edition (Munich), one
of the third of 1769 (Göttingen) and none of this; II. OCLC lists just one copy of
the later edition of 1770 (Sachsen-Anhalt).
57 GOSSE, Pierre. Bibliothèque ancienne & moderne, ou
catalogue des livres choisis, curieux & rares, en toutes facultés &
langues, qui se trouvent à La Haye, chez Pierre Gosse, libraire,
janvier, février, mars, 1743. The Hague, Pierre Gosse, 1743. £2,200
8vo in 4s, pp. [vi], 50, 48, 10, 15, [1] blank, 16, with advertisement to
verso of final leaf; some browning and damp-staining to gutter margin;
attractively bound in contemporary full polished calf, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt lettered spine label; an attractive copy.
First edition of this comprehensive rare books catalogue from the firm
of Pierre Gosse (1676?–1755), one of the most important of modern
booksellers’ and publishers’. Together with his son of the same name he
was amongst the leading bookdealers of the Netherlands, with connections
in Geneva, Paris, London, Dublin and Liege.
The first three sections list antiquarian books, beginning with the 1462
Bible, printed by Fust and Schoeffer, arranged by size and then by subject,
and covering literature, theology, law, science and medicine, but also
Americana and Far Eastern books. There is a separate printed price list of
fifteen pages following these parts. A final section is entitled ‘Catalogue
des Livres en Blanc’, i.e. newly published books. In all approximately two
thousand books are described, most of them sixteenth century.
Gruys & de Kooker, p. 52; Catalogues de libraires 1473–1810, 1346.
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58 GOUDAR, Ange. Lettre de Monsieur le Chevalier Goudar à
un académicien de Paris au sujet de la nouvelle charrue à semer. Ou
l’Auteur fait voir le danger qu’il y auroit pour l’Etat Politique & le
Gouvernement Civil d’abandonner l’ancien usage d’ensemencer les
terres. Avignon, n.p., 1758. £880
8vo in 8s and 4s, pp. 59, [1] blank; uncut in original grey stiff
wrappers; paper spine label.
First edition, uncommon, of Goudar’s response to l’abbé Soumille’s
proposals, expressed in a number of pamphlets, on the mechanisation of
agriculture, especially the introduction of multiple seeding machinery.
Goudar argues against it because this would lead to depopulation of the
land.
Mars 48; OCLC lists just a microform copy.
59 [GOUDAR, Ange.] Memorie che servono alla vera Storia
di Madama Poissons-d’Estiolles Marchesa di Pampadour. Quarta
edizione. Venice, Gatti, 1789. £200
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 224 (including frontispiece); title
vignette; faint damp-stain at head of title and in gutter margin; uncut
in the original buff limp boards; spine lettered in manuscript; some
discolouring to lower board; private ownership stamp to title.
Straight reprint of the fourth and last edition (also published by Gatti) of
Goudar’s tendentious account of the true story of Madame de Pompadour,
well-known courtesan and mistress of Louis XV of France. The work was
first published in French in 1763 and the first Italian translation appeared in
1765. Some letters were exchanged between Casanova and Lamberg about
the attribution of this anonymously published work to Goudar.
The engraved portrait is a copy of the one done by Louis Durand for the
1765 edition.
Mars 63; see Marchesi p. 399 without attribution to Goudar; uncommon; OCLC
lists Harvard.
Famous Swabians and their Books
60 GRADMANN, Johann Jacob. Das gelehrte Schwaben: oder
Lexicon der jetzt lebenden schwäbischen Schriftsteller: voraus
ein Geburtstags-Almanach und Hintennach ein Ortsverzeichniss.
Ravensburg, the Author, 1802. £550
8vo, pp. [xvi], xxiv, 872, 30; contemporary half vellum over paste-paper
boards, spine lettered in manuscript; a very good copy.
First and only edition of this bio-bibliographical dictionary of noteworthy
Swabian authors of the late eighteenth century. More than one thousand
authors are included. Different from Hamberger and Hörner, Gradmann
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combines biographical information with a detailed and annotated listing
of publications.
As Petzholdt notes, the comprehensiveness of the list of publications
varies, but the work still provides an unparalleled wealth of information,
especially on minor authors and compilers who are not covered elsewhere.
Petzholdt 318.
From Venetian Grandee to Adventurer
61 GRATAROL, Pier Antonio. Narrazione Apologetica.
Stockholm, Enrico Fougt, 1779. £1,800
Small 4to, pp. [iv], 146, [2]; contemporary marbled calf, marbled
edges, sides blindstamped, spine in compartments, ruled in gilt, and
with gilt urn motif; head of spine chipped, else a very attractive copy
with early 20th century ownership stamp of Granziotto to front free
endpaper.
First edition of this exposition of the corruption and intrigues at the Council
of Ten in Venice. Gratarol demonstrates how he has become a victim of
the draconian laws of the Venetian Government, revealing government
corruption and underhand dealings – his revelations were reprinted a
number of times before the end of the century.
Gratarol (1730–1785), a Venetian noble and Secretary of State, had been
pilloried on stage by Carlo Gozzi for an illicit affair in his Le droghe d’amore
(The Love Potions), which resulted in a public scandal. Gratarol left Venice
without authorisation fell into disgrace and had to escape to Stockholm,
where he published this defence, his ‘Narrazione Apologetica’. His later
peripatetic life led him to England, Portugal, North America, Brazil and
Madagascar, and he died in poverty in 1785.
Gratarol begins his revelations with three prefaces, first for his enemies,
then his supporters and finally those who are impartial. The affair was clearly
of Europe-wide interest, which is evidenced in the title note that copies are
available through Téron in Geneva and the Adress Comptoir in Hamburg.
Apparently published in an edition of 600 copies only (Harvard); uncommon,
OCLC lists copies at Harvard, BL, Danish National library, in addition to some
copies in Germany.
Art Dealer Catalogue – with Sumptuous Aquatints
62 GUATTANI, Giuseppe Antonio. Paesaggi in tavola guidicati
di Claudio Gelée con il testo di Giuseppe Antonio Guattani. Rome,
Filippo and Nicola de Romanis, 1826. £2,200
Folio (470 x 325mm), ll. 13 (title, introduction, 10 text leaves
describing plates, and imprint leaf), and 10 aquatint plates, printed in
sepia by L. Caracciolo; a fine wide-margined copy in contemporary blue
paste-paper wrappers, spine repaired with matching paper.
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First edition of this rare and sumptuously produced catalogue by the Roman
art dealer Carlo Trebbi. As he writes in the preface, he acquired a series
of ten wash drawings by Claude Lorrain, uniquely evocative as landscape
depictions with figures, and because of their ‘lucentezza, e trasparenze di
tinte’ decided to have them printed accompanied by notes by Giuseppa
Antonio Guattani. According to Guattani nine of the ten illustrations are
based on themes from Tasso’s ‘Gerusalemme liberata.’
OCLC locates two copies in the US, National Gallery of Art and Trinity College
at Hartford, in addition to a copy in Munich, and copies at the BL, V & A and
Oxford.
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hide egoism behind loftier moral ideas, but in fact clearly pursues his
political goals. His judgment of political motives is devastating; even those
politicians who publicly declare their love of liberty and democracy are
usually just moved by the desire of power. His contemporaries accused
him of cold opportunism, whereas modern historians see him as a typical
politician of his day, who eloquently summed up common practices.
This first edition of Guicciardini’s political maxims is very rare indeed;
it was later reprinted in various excerpts and is generally known under the
title ‘Ricordi’.
Guicciardini began his political career in 1512 as a diplomatic representative
from Florence to the Spanish court, and was later in the employment
of the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII. He is best known for his
l’Historia d’Italia, the first history of Italy within the larger context of the
European system of states.
Adams G 1528; Gamba 1444; OCLC lists copies Cambridge, BL, and Harvard
only.
Selling Books to Keep the Creditors at Bay
The Printer’s Gift
63 GUICCIARDINI, Francesco. Piv consigli et avvertimenti di
M. Fr. Gvicciardini gentilhvomo fior. in materia di Repvblica et de
privata nuouamente mandati in luce; et dedicati a la Regina Madre
del Re. Paris, Federigo Morello, 1576. £3,500
4to, pp. [viii] (last blank), 88, [3] comments and errata; decorative
initials, head- and tail-pieces; some light even browning, due to
paper stock; eighteenth century full calf, spine gilt in compartments,
gilt-lettered spine label; head and tail of spine discretely repaired; a
good copy with crowned stamp from the Galletti collection, and mss
presentation inscription by the printer ‘dono typographi’, dated 1576.
First edition, rare, of the political maxims and reflections by the great Italian
historian and statesman Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), edited and
annotated by Jacobo Corbinelli. His aphorisms are wide-ranging, and cover
politics but also the traits and ways of humanity in general. Guicciardini’s
Consigli represent a modified form of Machiavellianism – his contemporary
– but are in fact even more striking for his consistently realistic or even
cynical point of view. Different from Machiavelli, Guicciardini does not
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64 [HERBERT, Claude Jacques.] Catalogue des Livres de feu
M. Herbert. Dont la Vente se fera en détail le Lundi 3 Juillet 1758.
& jours suivans de relevée, rue Saint André des Arcs. Paris, Pissot,
1758.
[bound with:] Catalogue de Livres. [colophon:] La Vente sera
indiquée par Affiches. Le présent catalogue se distribue chez
G. Martin, Libraire, [Paris,] 1753. £3,200
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. viii, 199, [3] blank; 32; second part
slightly browned, due to paper stock; contemporary mottled calf, spine
gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; head and tail of spine
chipped, old repair to upper corner of upper board, and piece of leather
missing to lower board; extremities rubbed; both catalogues with prices
in ink, second catalogue with ownership inscription of M. Herbert, rue
S. André.
First edition of both catalogues of the extensive library of the French
economist and government official Claude-Jacques Herbert (1700–1758),
who is best known for his defense of free trade, as expressed in his Essai sur
la police des grains. Not much is known about Herbert’s life, just that he was
in straightened financial circumstances, exacerbated by the bankruptcy of
his son-in-law, and eventually committed suicide in 1758. His extensive
library of more than 12000 books was put up for auction the same year.
It is not widely known, however, that due to financial problems, Herbert
was forced to sell part of his collection already five year before his death,
in 1753. This was in fact arguably the most valuable part of the library,
consisting of over three hundred lots of manuscripts, some illuminated
and with miniatures, incunables, illustrated books, canon law, but also
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geography and plate books. These books are listed in the second catalogue,
here present in Herbert’s own copy, with his name and address on the title
page and with annotations, prices and totals. Amongst the treasures listed
one can also find a copy of Columna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, still sought
after as one of the most beautiful incunables ever printed.
In the main auction catalogue over 2200 lots are listed (priced in manuscript
up to lot 1200). The books are listed by subject under the headings
theology, law, arts & science, and history with a predictably extensive
section on commerce and finance. This includes a copy of Cantillon’s Essai
sur la nature du Commerce en général, with the indication that despite its
false imprint ‘Londres’ it was really published in Paris. This is arguably
the first instance where the true place of publication has been stated, and
where Cantillon’s work is listed together with other works of the emerging
economics literature.
I. Blogie II, VII, 3 (c.8); not in Lugt; Conlon VIII 58:83; OCLC: Bibliothèque
Nationale, Lewis & Clark College, OR; National Library of Spain; II. not in Blogie
or Lugt; OCLC lists just one copy at Lyon.
With Adam Smith against Fichte
65 HESTERMANN, Ludwig. Der offene Handelsstaat. Ein
philosophischer Entwurf. Stuttgardt, Erhard, 1802. £1,450
8vo, pp. [xii], 299, [1] errata; uncut as issued in contemporary blue stiff
wrappers, modern bookplate of Anderhub library to front pastedown; a
very good copy.
First edition of this rare discussion of the different economic concepts available
at the beginning of the nineteenth century; i.e. mercantilism, physiocracy
and Adam Smith’s liberalism, thus establishing the tripartite view of
economic schools. In response to Fichte’s 1800 Der geschloßne Handels staat,
‘Hestermann claimed that Fichte’s approach ... presented an important
challenge to a third school of political economy, which he hinted was linked
to Adam Smith. This school had not yet gained much influence outside the
academy, but Hestermann noted that it had been growing steadily since
its birth twenty-five years earlier – namely, in 1776, the year the Wealth of
Nations was published’ (Isaak Nakhimovsky, The Closed Commercial State,
p. 135). [See number 51.]
Humpert 10153; Menger 195, not in Kress or Goldsmith’s; OCLC lists just Yale,
and Michigan in addition to some German libraries.
Fire-Proof Houses
66 HEYNE, Franz Adolf. Die sehr leichte Kunst unsere
Wohnungen feuerfest zu machen und unsere Waldungen vom
Untergang zu retten. Nebst 2 Kupfern. Freyberg, Craz u. Gerlach,
1803. £950
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8vo, pp. [viii], 240, with two fold-out engraved plates, one outline
coloured; a most attractive copy in contemporary half vellum over red
pastepaper boards, with discrete library discard stamp to verso of title.
First and only edition of this treatise on the methods of constructing fire
proof dwellings, with the additional advantage of making more efficient
use of timber and preserving the forests of Germany. Heyne (1760–
1826) begins with a comparative study of different regional roof designs,
describing gabled, hip, cross-gabled, gambrel and mansard roofs, with
some information where they are most prevalent, and then gives details
of various roof coverings, ranging from slate to clay, wooden tiles, and
thatched roofs. For each of these he comments on relative advantages, such
as price, longevity, and fire resistance.
He recommends a modified mansard roof, and gives details of its
economical construction, which saves timber, and as a fire-proof covering,
well-fired clay tiles. Detailed calculations accompany his outline. Heyne
makes some interesting comments on the most likely causes for house fires,
which appear to be caused by lightening in the summer, rather than by
faulty chimneys in the winter. He gives a comparative table of money paid
out by fire insurance in the years 1793 to 1802 – documenting the large
number of houses destroyed by fire, and recommends his findings.
OCLC records copies at Halle, Göttingen, Greifswald and in the Danish Union
Catalogue.
German Furniture Pattern Book
67 HOFMANN, Friedrich Gottlob. Neues Verzeichnis und
Muster-Charte des Meubles-Magazin von Friedrich Gottlieb
Hofmann. Leipzig, [printed for the author], 1795. £9,000
Folio (365 x 235 mm), pp. 8 (including engraved title-page), and
36 engraved plates (one folding) illustrating 51 designs of furniture;
contemporary marbled boards, a fine copy.
First edition of the very rare second German furniture pattern book and
the second trade catalogue of a German cabinetmaker, following on from
Hofmann’s earlier Abbildungen der vornehmsten Tischlerarbeiten. A wide
variety of designs are illustrated and accompanied by a detailed explanatory
text.
Whereas his first patternbook had concentrated on household furniture
inspired by the Louis XVI style, in his second catalogue offered here
Hofmann concentrates on English-influenced furniture. There are designs
for a variety of dining room chairs (19 designs, offered in Mahogany, pear,
cherry, other fruitwood, acorn, or redwood) with the option of gilding,
painting or brass furniture fittings and advice on upholstery colours and
material. He illustrates a daybed, a sofa, an armchair, a wine cooler, a
traveling bidet, tables, mirrors, folding tables, a wash table with fold-out
bidet and chamber pot, a book case and eight designs for elaborate secrét aires
with ingeniously concealed drawers, one with a fold-out chair, the other
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OCLC locates just 2 copies, Winterthur and Redwood Library & Athenaeum;
KVK locates two copies in German libraries, both in Dresden (the Hannover copy
lacks the title-page and 6 plates); not in the BL; see H. Kreisel & G. Himmelheber,
Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, III, Munich 1983, pp. 47ff.
Teach Yourself – Travel Companion
with a concealed drawer containing a spittoon. Most of these are presented
in two plates, one showing the piece in total, the other with drawers and
concealed fixtures exposed. In the introduction Hofmann emphasizes that
all these are new designs, introduced for the first time for a wider audience
at the Leipzig fair.
Friedrich Gottlob Hofmann (1741 – c.1806) was, together with David
Roentgen, the most accomplished and influential cabinetmaker in Germany
in the second half of the eighteenth century. By 1770 he was established as
a master cabinetmaker in Leipzig and counted the art dealer Karl Christian
Heinrich Rost (1742–98) among his early important patrons. Rost commissioned
furniture closely based on French and English models. By
1788 Hofmann’s business had grown to such an extent that he employed
sixteen craftsmen and had fitted out a subsidiary workshop at Eilenburg.
In 1789 he was caught up in a vicious dispute with the Leipzig guild of
cabinetmakers and in response published his first pattern book designed as
a trade advertisement.
‘From 1788 to 1795 Hofmann supplied furniture to the German courts in
Weimar, Dresden, Brunswick and Dessau and to Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna
and as far afield as Constantinople and St Petersburg’ (Grove Dictionary of
Art). By 1797 he was employing 42 workmen, and his name appeared in
Leipzig directories until 1806.
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68 HOHE, Friedrich. Der Begleiter. Wissenschaftliche Tabellen
und Notizen. Eine Gedächtnißhilfe für Jedermann. Munich, the
Author, 1857. £750
Small 8vo, pp. [viii], 240, with four hand-coloured lithograph doublepage
plates; contemporary blindstamped red cloth, with gilt lettering to
upper board, with tabs and pencil holder; with bookshop stamp A. L.
Schaefer’s Antiquariat to front pastedown.
First and only edition of this charming handbook of general knowledge
in geography, history, natural history, etc. meant as a handy traveling
companion. The work was originally compiled for his personal use by
Friedrich Hohe, a painter and lithographer, but then published due
to popular demand. Hohe, who describes himself as lacking in formal
education, features in his ‘Begleiter’ an atlas, a gazetteer, a list of prominent
people (past and present), a miniature encyclopaedia of general information,
and a chronological list of events. Neatly arranged in individual sections,
easily findable with the help of tabs, and illustrated with four hand-coloured
lithograph plates showing a world map, geological strata, the planetary
system and a map of world migrations. He suggests that any spare moment
can be used to improve one’s knowledge.
The painter and lithographer Friedrich Hohe (1802 – 1870) specialised
in lithographic reproductions of old and modern masters (Thieme & Becker
XVII, p. 11).
OCLC Munich, BL, University of Illinois.
Music at Vauxhall Gardens
69 HOOK, James. A collection of Favorite Songs Sung by Mr
Dignum, Mr Taylor, Mrs Franklin, Miss Milne, Master Phelps, &
Mrs Mountain. At Vauxhall Gardens. Composed by Mr Hook.
Book 1st, 1794.
[bound with:] HOOK, James. The Favorite Songs sung a Vauxhall
Gardens by Mrs Mountain, Mrs Franklin, Miss Milne, Master
Phelps, Mr Taylor & Mr Dignum. Book II. London, A. Bland &
Weller’s, [Preston & Son], 1794. £980
Two parts in one volume, folio, engraved title, pp. 17, [1] blank;
engraved title, pp. 17, [1] blank; entirely engraved, first title with halfpage
vignette of Vauxhall music stand, above musical instruments and
advertisement of Bland & Weller Piano Forte Makers; part two with
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of a Carmelite order; contemporary full vellum, a little creased, spine
lettered in manuscript; a good copy.
An interesting edition of the index, issued under Innocenz XI (1611 –
1689). The first ‘modern’ Roman index had been published in 1557 and
was divided into three classes, which were to be maintained in the Trent
Index. Banned were: some authors with all their writings; prohibited books,
whose authors are known and pernicious books by anonymous authors.
After the council of Trent a revised version was prepared and brought up
to date, and its ‘ten rules’ underwent further revisions and explanations,
which are included in this index. The banned books, by this time some ten
thousand of them, are listed in alphabetical order
All classes of books are affected, not only books of theology and philosophy
(Hobbes, Bacon, and Bodin) but also science (Cardano, Galileo, Kepler and
Kircher), history and law (Grotius, Damhouder), and of course literature (a
late addition here Aretin’s Carte Parlanti).
Reusch, Index der verbotenen Bücher I, pp. 38 ff; Petzholdt p. 149 (without the later
issued appendix).
Health Insurance for Domestic Staff
full page advertisement of New Musical Publications, engraved, printed
& sold by Preston, Son in London; very clean and crisp; contemporary
half mottled calf over marbled boards, spine in compartments with gilt
rule; a fine copy.
First edition of both parts, containing sixteen popular songs, mostly
arranged on two staves for voice and keyboard; some with versions for the
flute or guitar.
James Hook (1746 –1827), was a prolific English composer and organist
at Marylebone Gardens between 1769 and 1773 and at Vauxhall Gardens
between 1774 and 1820. He wrote oratorios, concertos, sonatas, cantatas
and over 2000 songs, the best-known of which was Sweet Lass of Richmond
Hill. ‘Hook wrote over 2000 songs, the majority of which were composed
for specific singers at the London pleasure gardens, notably Vauxhall. Their
catchy melodies would have been immediately appealing to the Vauxhall
crowds. Annual collections and single copies were published.’ (Grove
Music Online).
OCLC records copies at the University of Chicago, Oxford, and the BL; RISM
A/I; H 6580.
Banned Books
70 [INDEX.] Index Librorum prohibitorum Innocentii XI,
Pontificis Maximi Iussu editus. Rome, Typographia Camera
Apostolica, 1681. £750
8vo, pp. xxvi, 296, a number of leaves misbound, but complete; large
papal arms to title; with manuscript note to title indicating study use
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71 [INSURANCE.] Statut betreffend die Krankheitskosten-
Versicherungskasse für das Katharinen-Hospital in Stuttgart.
Stuttgart, Cotta, [1827.] £240
4to, pp. 12; original green wrappers.
An early example of German statutory health insurance, a Stuttgart hospital
health insurance scheme, compulsory for all domestic staff, artisans and
other workers, some fifty years before statutory health insurance was
generally introduced. The statutes cover the purpose of the insurance,
impact and cost for the hospital, and its organisation.
See H. Salm, ‘Das Spital zum heiligen Geist als Dienstbotenkrankenhaus (1849–
1871) – ein Vorläufer des Städtischen Krankenhauses Kaufbeuren’, in: Kaufbeurer
Geschichtsblätter 6 (1974), S. 188–196.
72 JEAN, Alexandre. Arithmetique au miroir. Par laquelle on
peut (en quatre vaccations de demie heure chacune) pratiquer les
plus belles regles d’icelle. [Paris?, n.p. 1649]. £1,750
8vo, two parts in one volume, second title page dated 1637, pp. 15,
[1] blank and 17 engraved plates; [3] blank, pp. 55 of engraved tables;
contemporary limp vellum, title a little dust-soiled, with purchase price
in ink ‘ce livre coute 18 sols reliez’, some sample calculations to final
paste-down.
Second enlarged edition of Alexandre Jean’s elegantly engraved multiplication
tables, first published in 1639. In a number of lessons, various types of
calculations are explained, such as multiplication, interest calculations and
currency conversions. Jean gives practical examples from the textile trade,
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eader to find his way around. The work is clearly meant to be ‘up-to-date’,
containing according to Jeze’s preface ‘details most subject to variation’, a
book ‘for use, for research and for commodity’. The aim is to present the
information systematically, to provide a rational system of the city, and as
such to represent the aims of the royalist government. Jeze’s Etat de Paris is
a comprehensive guide to the economic, financial, intellectual and practical
life in the city.
In nine sections the following topics are discussed: the distribution of
Paris, Government, Jurisdiction, Religious organisations, Scientific and
Liberal Arts Institutions, Financial Structure, Commerce, Manufacturing
and Art & Crafts, Transport Links. In each part information is given on
prices, locations, addresses, taxes and tariffs, libraries and their holdings,
educational institutions, etc.
From 1760 onwards Jeze also published another illustrated guidebook
under the title État ou tableau de la ville de Paris: considérée relativement au
necessaire, à l’utile, à l’agréable, & à l’administration, which was reprinted
repeatedly.
See K. Stierle, J. Starobinski, La capitale des signes: Paris et son discours, 2001, and
Priscilla Parkhust Ferguson, Paris as revolution: writing the nineteenth-century city;
very rare, OCLC records just one copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Time Management – Live Life to the Full
such as determining the cost of cloth in livres, solz (sous), and deniers. But
the basic idea is to provide the reader with handy conversion tables for
commercial transactions, elegantly engraved in the palm-like tables.
Jean (1580–1670), a Paris writing master and arithmetic tutor was active
in the first half of the seventeenth century. The calligrapher Paillasson
credits him with having popularized thickening strokes in writing and
calligraphy.
See Honeyman IV 1756.
Handbook for Parisians
73 JEZE, avocat. Etat de Paris, contenant sa distribution par
quartiers, ses gouvernemens civil et militaire, l’état ecclésiastique,
ses institutions pour les sciences et arts libéraux, la finance, le
commerce, les manufactures, arts et métiers, voitures publics, etc.
Paris, Claude Herissant, 1757. £880
8vo, pp. x, 486; with numerous tables and statistics in the text;
contemporary sheep, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label.
First edition of this innovative guidebook to Paris, representing a new urban
genre, the guidebook as a source of practical and by its nature transient
information, a forum to celebrate and glorify the city, and to allow the
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74 JULLIEN, Marc-Antoine. Biomètre, ou Mémorial Horaire,
servant a indiquer le nombre des heures données par jour a chacune
de divisions. 1. De la Vie Intérieure et Individuelle, considérée
sous les rapports, physique et intellectuel; 2. De la Vie Extérieure
et Sociale; pour l’Année 182.. ou tablettes destinées a procurer
le moyen de recueillir, en une minute et sur une seule ligne, pour
chaque intervalle du vingt-quatre heures, les divers emplois et les
principaux résulats de la vie, pendant la meme espace de temps.
Paris, Dondey Dupre, 1824. £650
8vo, pp. 99, [1] contents; contemporary red crushed roan, a little dustsoiled,
but in all an attractive copy, with contemporary inscription in
pencil to front free endpaper, dated 1824.
First edition of Jullien’s Biomètre calendar, published to coincide with the
third enlarged edition of his Essai sur l’Emploi du Tems, a method of life
and time management for the nobility, based on the educational principles
of Locke and Bacon, and foreshadowing modern business management
schemes. The Biomètre first gives an introduction to his method of time
management and explains the different categories to be recorded, such as
sleep, diet, work, intellectual stimulation, family life, education, games and
entertainment, social life, cultural appointments, travels etc. Pages 42–91
are taken up with monthly time sheets.
Jullien stresses the importance of time management, both for individual
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happiness and for achieving one’s full potential. All decisions should be
guided by utilitarian principles, and be accompanied by the question:
‘why and to what end?’ With the help of the Biomètre all activities, be they
physical or mental, can be recorded and analysed, providing an account of
physical and mental progress.
OCLC lists one copy at Bloomington.
75 [JUVENILE.] Les Quatre Elémens. L’air; L’eau; Le feu;
La terre. [Paris, Maulde and Renou], ca. 1830. £450
Four volumes, 12mo (82 x 52mm); each pp. 24 with two handcoloured
steel-engraved plates; embossed in gold ‘cartonages de papier’
in pink, pale blue, pale green and white; a fine set.
A charming set of children’s miniature books with instructive text on the
four elements. Each volume is illustrated with two intricate plates, the
one for ‘air’ shows the launching of an air-balloon, the ones for ‘fire’ show
the eruption of a vulcano and fireworks. A similar series was published by
Emery, but with colour lithography illustrations (see Gumuchian 4074).
Gumuchian 4662–5; OCLC lists copies at the Pierpont Morgan, Bloomington,
Indiana, UCLA and the University of Virginia; in The Charlotte M. Smith Collection
of Miniature Books, University of Iowa Libraries.
Educational Reform – Printed by Dupont de Nemours
76 [LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent.] Réflexions sur l’Instruction
Publique, présentées à la Convention Nationale par le Bureau de
Consultation des Arts et Métiers. [Paris, Imprimerie Du Pont,
father and son, 1791.] £650
8vo, pp. 22, [2] blank; stitched as issued, preserved in a cloth wrapper;
paper somewhat browned and title dust-soiled; a good copy.
First edition of Lavoisier’s proposals on educational reform, while he
was president of the Bureau de Consulation des Arts et Métiers, which had
been established in 1791. ‘The first and larger part deals with the general
economic and sociologic advantages to be derived from having a better
educated population. It then passes on to some considerations as to the
best methods of achieving this and, among other remedies, suggest the
desirability of decentralizing the schools and colleges. Lavoisier was in line
with modern concepts and recognized the differences in individual talent,
the useful place that science should have in the curricula, the necessity of
providing all with an equal opportunity for obtaining education, etc. He
also devoted some thought to the question of punishment for children.’
(Duveen & Klickstein 274).
This pamphlet was printed by Dupont de Nemours – Lavoisier had
previously lent him money to buy the printing press of the ‘Hôtel de
Bretonvilliers’.
Duveen & Klickstein 274.
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National Art Register for Italy
77 [LAW – ART PROTECTION.] Chirografo della Santità di
nostro Signore Papa Pio VII in data del primo Ottobre 1802. sulle
Antichità, e Belle Arti in Roma, e nello Stato Ecclesiastico. Con
editto dell’ Eo, e Rmo Signor Cardinal Giuseppe Doria Pamphili
pro-Camerlengo di Santa Chiese. Rome, Lazzarini, Camera
Apostolica, 1802.
[Together with:] Editto dell’ Emo e Rmo Sig. Cardinal Pacca,
Camerlengo di S. Chiesa sopra le Antichità, e gli Scavi, publicato
li 7. Aprile 1820. Rome, Vincenzo Poggioli, Camera Apostolica,
1820. 1802. £6,500
Two works; folio, pp. 16; 14, [2] blank; both with papal arms to title
page; uncut and folded, as issued; wrap-around title a little spotted (no.
I) and stained (no. II), but clean and crisp on the inside.
First edition, very rare, of these two highly important documents, which
constitute the first attempt to regulate the exportation of works of art and to
protect national heritage. In 1802 Pope Pius VII enacted new regulations
for the Vatican in order to protect the heritage in art. He requested that an
art registry of all kinds of immovable and movable pieces of art, belonging
either to the church or to private citizens be listed, and their export
prohibited. This formed the first step toward cultural heritage planning
and was the beginning of a comprehensive body of law preserving national
heritage.
The first comprehensive body of laws on this subject was the edict
produced by Cardinal Pacca and promulgated on 7th April 1820. It was
intended to regulate the licenses for digging (which despite all the attempts
paid in the past, were still out of the control of the authorities); it aimed at
checking the exportation of fine goods by introducing heavy taxes; and it
formed the foundation for an inventory map of the fine arts that had to be
strictly controlled by the Vatican.
It also drafted a system of administrative bodies appointed to guarantee
the preservation of the heritage through a permanent committee based in
Rome and other representatives spread across the territory.
This legislation was copied by other countries, and was the basis of the
famous law 1089 of 1939.
Montorsi 28.1.24 and 28.1.43; Andrea Emiliani, Leggi bandi e provvedimenti per
la tutela dei beni artistici e culturali negli antichi stati italiani (1571–1860), Bologna,
1978; Beatrice Mirri, La Cultura del bello. Le Ragioni della tutela. OCLC lists copies
at Louisiana State, the Uffizi in Florence and University of Leiden; for further
information see Christoph M.S. Johns, Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage,
2003; F. Bottani, L’Italia dei Tesori, Legislazione dei beni culturali, p. 73; A. Emiliani,
Leggi bandi e provvedimenti per la tutela dei beni artistici e culturali negli antichi stati
italiani (1571–1860), Bologna, 1978.
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78 LAWRENCE, Richard. An inquiry into the structure and
animal oeconomy of the Horse. Comprehending the diseases to
which his limbs and feet are subject, with proper directions for
shoeing, and pointing out a method for ascertaining his age until
his twelfth year. To which is added, an attempt to explain the laws
of his progressive motion, on mechanical and anatomical principles.
The whole illustrated by eighteen copper plates. Birmingham, for
the Author, T.A Pearson’s Printing Office, 1801. £2,000
4to, pp. xxiv, [2], 212, [30], with 18 engraved plates, several folding,
of which 15 have a facing leaf of explanation; uncut in the original pale
blue boards, buff spine; a very fine copy from the library of the family of
James Watt.
First edition, a very fine copy in original condition from the family library
of the celebrated engineer James Watt. Lawrence, a veterinary surgeon from
Birmingham, gives a comprehensive though basically practical account
of the horse, covering structure and diseases of the limbs, shoeing and
management of the stable, with some information on how to tell the age of
horses and their training. The numerous illustrations are based on his own
drawings, and provide the main appeal of the work. ‘The illustrations in his
works are generally from his own pencil and are charming in their accuracy.
It was his study of horse portraiture which awakened in him the desire to
study locomotion; he ridiculed the conventional attitude of the gallop and
described very faithfully what subsequently was proved by instantaneous
photography to be the correct position’ (Smith, Early History of Veterinary
Literature III, p. 107.)
[Provenance:] From the family library of the engineer James Watt. The
four-page subscribers’ list includes the name of James Watt together with
that of his eldest son, James Watt, jun., and another son from his second
marriage, Gregory Watt. In the absence of a signature it is impossible to
tell to whom this copy belonged. (Sotheby’s ‘The James Watt Sale, 20
March 2003.) Other subscribers include two of Watt’s friends in the Lunar
Society, Matthew Boulton and Josiah Wedgwood.
Dingley, Historic books on veterinary science and animal husbandry: the Comben
Collection in the Science Museum Library, 390; Huth, F.H. Horses, p. 67.
The Beginning of Colour Printing
79 LE BLON, Jacques-Christophe. L’Art d’imprimer les
Tableaux. Traité d’après les Ecrits, les Opérations & les Instructions
verbales. Paris, P.G. Mercier, Jean-Luc Nyon, & Michel Lambert,
1756. £6,800
8vo, pp. xi, [1] blank; vi, [2], [xiii] – xxv, [26]–180, with one
hand-coloured sepia mezzotint (possibly very slightly shaved at
foremargin) and two black and white folding plates, bound without
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The Island of Matrimony
the final Privilege du Roy, which was clearly never present in this copy;
contemporary full calf, flat spine in compartments, with gilt-lettered
spine label; joints a little rubbed and corners bumped, a good copy.
Second edition of Le Blon’s landmark introduction to the three-colour
process of printing mezzotints, generally regarded as the foundation
of modern colour printing – and the first edition to include practical
information on the printing process.
‘LeBlon’s invention was based on Newton’s theory of light, which held
that a few (originally seven but later modified to three) primary colours
in various combinations composed all the visible colours, and together
formed pure white light. Le Blon’s process consisted of printing three
mezzotint plates, each in one of the primary colours of red, blue and yellow,
on the same sheet of paper, thereby reproducing all the compound colours
visible in an original picture. ... Le Blon made his first colour prints after
his own designs in Amsterdam, c. 1704. In 1715, hoping to be granted
a royal privilege of monopoly for his process, he visited the Hague and
Paris, and eventually settled in England. There, under the patronage of
Colonel Sir John Guise and the Earl of Halifax, a company was formed
to employ LeBlon to make inexpensive colour prints.’ (Friedman, 13). It
was during this time, that he published details of his process in the virtually
unobtainable Coloritto, or the Harmony of Colours in Painting, (1723), which
explained the theory but not the practice of his process.
Coloritto, with text both in English and French, is incorporated in
this book, which was published after Le Blon’s death by A. Gautier de
Montdorge, one of his French followers. Montdorge tried to establish Le
Blon as the inventor of the three-colour mezzotint against the claims of
another follower, Gautier d’Agoty, and therefore added text on the practical
application of Le Blon’s technique.
Franklin, Early Colour Printing, p. 40; J.M. Friedman, Color Printing in England
1486–1870, 13; Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 67.
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80 [LE NOBLE, Eustache.] Carta Topografica dell’Isola del
Maritaggio di Monsieur Le Noble per la prima volta tradotta dal
Francese in Italiano. Cosmopoli, n.p., 1765. £1,450
8vo, pp. 43, [1] folding engraved map (platemark 250 x 365 mm)
bound at the end, with early annotation; clean and crisp; early
nineteenth century half red roan over marbled boards, spine decorated
and lettered in gilt, sides with gilt corner fleurons, from the library of
the count Sperello Aurel, with book plate to front paste-down.
Rare first edition in Italian of this satire on love and marriage, with an
allegorical map of the ‘Island of Matrimony’. The work is arranged like
a travel book, describing and illustrating in detail the journey to wedded
bliss, passing through the ports of ‘love’, ‘bad advice’, or ‘self-interest’. The
travellers are invited to make their home in the ‘province of jealousy’, the
‘county of the cuckolds’, or the mountain range of the ‘in-laws’. Once on the
island it becomes impossible to leave, though a transfer to the peninsulas
of ‘widowhood’ and ‘divorce’ is still possible, as is a relocation to the ‘island
of bigamy’.
The island is illustrated on an attractive large folding map, bound at the
end. Giving the title of the work enclosed in a small cartouche, one of the
recurring themes of the work is also illustrated: the cuckold, the deceived
husband. On the map the three main islands are illustrated, with many
‘natural’ features, such as the various provinces, as mentioned above, ‘secret’
and ‘capricious’ rivers.
The work appears to be adapted and translated from the ‘Carte de l’Isle de
Marriage’ by the prolific Eustache La Noble de Tennelière (1643–1711),
first published in 1705.
See Cioranesco II, 42504 (French first edition of 1705) Fromm IV 14905 (German
edition of 1736); OCLC lists copies at McGill, UCLA, Kansas and Princeton.
Interleaved and Annotated Copy
81 [LEGAT, August Christian Friedrich von.] Hausordnung
des Königlichen grossen Militair-Waisenhauses in Potsdam.
Potsdam, Decker, 1838. £2,400
Tall 8vo, pp. 156, interleaved copy with extensive annotations and
corrections to the text; contemporary half sheep over black paste-paper
boards, extremities quite rubbed and corners bumped, with shelf label
to spine, and three stamps of the Potsdam Waisenhaus library to title
and front pastedown – see below.
First edition thus, unrecorded, of the rules of the Potsdam Royal Military
Orphanage School, meant for internal use only and subsequently very rare
indeed. Founded by Frederick William I in 1724 and based on the example
of the Francke foundation in Halle, the Militair-Waisenhaus in Potsdam was
a military educational institution for the children of fallen, impoverished,
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or disabled soldiers. The present rule book, or house code, regulates every
aspect of school and boarding-school life and covers in separate sections, the
‘boys’ house’, the music school, the artisan’s school, and the school hospital.
Each section begins with a daily timetable (Sunday to Saturday), followed
by detailed instructions for teachers, administrators, and finally medical
personnel. The final section contains the rules of conduct for the students,
which cover general maxims of social behaviour just as much as day-today
conduct, and regulate every minute of the school-day, behaviour both
within the institution and outside, during lessons, military practice, etc.
The first part contains extensive annotations, cancellations and changes
in manuscript – presumably with the intention of simplifying the highly
regimented daily routine.
The work was meant for internal use only, which was stressed in the
manuscript note and annotation to the section on musical education.
It has clearly remained within the institution, documented by the mid
nineteenth-century stamp, the second one from the late nineteenth century,
and the final one from the 1930s during National Socialism. After 1945
the Military Orphanage was used as a children’s home and later became a
teacher training college.
Not found in OCLC or KVK; on the Potsdam military orphanage school see
A. Corvisirer and I. Childs, A dictionary of military history and the art of war, and
Bernhard R. Kroener, ‘Bellona und Caritas. Das Königlich-Potsdamsche Große
Militär-Waisenhaus. Lebensbedingungen der Militärbevölkerung in Preußen im
18. Jahrhundert’, in: Potsdam. Staat, Armee, Residenz in der preußisch-deutschen
Militärgeschichte, im Auftrag des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes, Frankfurt/
Main, Berlin 1993, pp. 231-252.
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Catalogue of Scientific Instruments
82 [LEREBOURS, Jean-Noel.] Notice des Principaux Instrumens
de Physique, d’Optique; et de Mathématiques, qui se trouvent
et s’exécutent dans les Magasin et Atelier de M. Lerebours, Opticien
de Sa Majesté l’Empereur, et de la Marine; breveté du feu Roi, sur
le rapport de l’académie des Sciences. Deuxième Edition. [Paris,
Lerebours], 1809. £1,650
8vo, pp. 16; a few items discretely marked in ink; recent marbled
wrappers.
A very rare comprehensive catalogue of scientific instruments prepared by
Jean-Noël Lerebours (1761–1840), the best French producer of optical
instruments of the first half of the 19th century.
The catalogue is divided in to Instrumens d’optique et de physique (pages
3–12) – including glasses, monocles, optical glasses, telescopes, magic
lanterns, phantasmascopes, microscopes, prisms, parabolic mirrors, camera
lucida and other optical equipment. Clearly Lerebours made not only perfect
and powerful scientific instruments, but also optical toys (magic lanterns,
lanterns for phantasmagoria, tableaux transparens et mouvans) and optical
devices for artists and draughtsmen (camera lucida, physionotrace).
The second half covers Instrumens de Mathématiques (pages 12–16),
including compasses, compass needles, set squares, mathematical instrument
sets, goniometers, rulers, pantographs, octants and sextants, graphometers,
sundials, magnets, etc. Additionally, in the last two pages of the catalogue,
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contain a list of some special items made in London by important British
manufacturers (Schort, Martin, Headt, Adams, Troughton and Nairn) of
which Lerebours was reseller.
Lerebours began his career as a mathematical-instrument maker, but soon
became famous for the perfection of his lenses. He managed to produce
better achromatic lenses than the English, and increasingly specialized in
the production of large objectives. He was the first of the great French
opticians who rendered the French optical industry competitive with the
English in the early nineteenth century.
After 1800 he was optician of the French Navy, of the Paris Observatory
and the Bureau des Longitudes, as well as official supplier of the emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte. The so-called ‘Lunette de l’Empereur’ was a Lerebours
field glass or surface telescope used by Napoleon in 1803–1804 at the camp
in Boulogne-sur-Mer where he prepared for the invasion of Britain; it is
now part of the scientific instruments collections of the Paris Observatory.
Early catalogues of Lerebours instruments are very rare.
OCLC lists one copy of this catalogue at the Bibliothèque Nationale, two copies of
a later edition at Harvard and Dresden, and an undated one at Bowdoin College;
for further information see P. Brenni, ‘19th Century French Scientific Instrument
Makers: III-Lerebours et Secretan’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, No.
40 (1994), 3–6.
Aide-Memoire for the Confessional
83 LEUTBREWER, Christophe. La Confession Coupée, ou la
Methode facile pour se préparer aux Confessions particulières et
générales. Dans laquelle est renfermé l’Examen général de tous les
pechez qui se commettent par les personnes de toutes sortes d’etats
& conditions; lesquels sont tous coupez, & disposez de maniere
que sans rien écrire on leve chaque article don’t on se veut confesser:
& à l’instant ou après la Confession, le tout se remet & confond
avec les autres pechez, comme il estoit auparavant, sans que d’autres
personne puissant connaitre les pechez, don’t on s’est accusé...
Revuë & corrigé en cette dernier Edition. Paris, Danys Thierry
1677. £1,500
12mo, pp. [lii] including two full-page engravings, 188; printed
throughout within typographic border; pp. 1–80 printed on one side
only, pasted together in the margins and pre-cut; contemporary calf,
quite rubbed and corners worn, but holding firm.
Popular aide-mémoire for the confessional first published in 1658 and
frequently reprinted. The book is of great interest in book history, and
with its ‘loose leaf’ arrangement has been regarded as an ancestor of the
reference card in knowledge management, and, as such, of the modern
computer. A list of sins for the confessional is given, arranged in the order
of the Ten Commandments. Each leaf consists in fact of two leaves, printed
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on one side only, pasted together at the edges, with the right-hand margin
removed and re-pasted, allowing access to the lists of sins. It is printed and
pre-cut by the bookbinder in a way that the little slips of paper with the
‘individual sin’ can easily be torn out, or folded over. They can then be taken
to confession as an aide-mémoire. After confession it can be reinserted, and
no one needs to be any wiser.
See Graesse IV, 188 for the edition of 1688; see ‘Reparages et Navigation dans
l’Espace du Livre Ancien’ 17.
The French Revolution Library
84 [LIBRARY CATALOGUE.] Bibliothèque Révolutionnaire.
[spine title], Manuscript library catalogue. [n.p, n.d., 1790s].
£1,800
Two volumes, ll. [656], each leaf recto giving bibliographical details
of eight titles, in double columns, with shelf marks; contemporary half
cloth, a little faded, over marbled boards, labels with gilt-lettering;
from the library of La Rochefoucauld Duc de Bisaccia, with armorial
bookplate to front pastedown of both volumes.
Fascinating manuscript library catalogue of a collection of works from the
French Revolution, published from 1787 up to and throughout the 1790s.
In all over five thousand titles, predominantly of political, historical and
economical interest, are listed, each with title, author, mostly with number
of pages, and shelf mark. Of particular interest arre the large number of
pamphlets which are listed individually, despite being bound up in large
pamphlet volumes.
The catalogue is written in a very legible hand and allows a fascinating
overview of French Revolutionary literature as it was arranged on the
shelves of the Rochefoucauld library.
85 LOCKE, John. Elements of Natural Philosophy. Glasgow,
R. Urie, 1758. £600
12mo in 6s, pp. [ii], v, [1] contents, 110, with one large folding
engraved plate bound after C1; prelims and plate lightly browned due
to paper stock, else clean and crisp, contemporary mottled calf, spine
gilt in compartments.
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Rare Glasgow printing of Locke’s Elements of Natural Philosophy, which was
first published in the posthumous collection of Several pieces of Mr. Locke,
never before printed, or not extant in his works in 1720, and first separately
printed in 1750. It has been suggested that Newton wrote much of this
draft of an elementary textbook, found among Locke’s papers and written
sometime after 1698, presumably composed while Locke supervised the
education of young Francis Masham at Oates. The finely engraved folding
plate illustrates the Copernican System.
ESTC t112642 (British Library, Glasgow University, National Library of Scotland,
Science Museum Library and Royal Society of Medicine; Yolton 323; Attig 796.
A Fine Copy from the Macclesfield Library
86 LOMEIER, Johannes. De bibliothecis liber singularis. Editio
secunda, priori multo auctior, & addito rerum indice locupletior.
Utrecht, Johannes Ribb, 1680. £1,400
8vo, pp. [xvi] including engraved title (specially engraved for this
edition), printed title with printer’s mark, 414; [20] index, [1] errata,
[1] blank; contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, gilt lettered
spine label; from the Macclesfield library with North Library book plate
to front pastedown and blindstamp to title; a fine copy.
Second much enlarged edition of this comprehensive survey and history
of libraries (first edition 1669). Lomeier (1636–1699), professor of
belles-lettres at the academy at Zutphen, studies the origin of libraries,
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conservation of records in Biblical times, the most celebrated collections
of Europe, with especially detailed information on the great libraries of the
seventeenth century. Lomeier is also of great interest for information on
the responsibilities of librarians, library locations and buildings, and library
fittings. His work proved a great sourcebook for Le Gallois’ Traité des plus
belles bibliothèques de l’Europe.
The fine engraved title was specially engraved for this second edition.
Petzholdt p. 26 (with a discussion on the order of books in libraries).
Unification of Italy – Populariser of Vico
87 LOMONACO, Francesco. Discorsi Letterari e Filosofici.
Milan, Gio. Silvestri, 1809. £950
Tall 8vo, engraved frontispiece after Giuseppe Eranto, pp. [iv],
359, [1]; occasional light foxing and spotting, due to paper quality;
contemporary calf backed mottled boards; flat spine ruled in gilt,
decorated in gilt with urn device, gilt lettered spine label, a few wormholes
to joints, head of spine chipped, and corners a little worn.
Rare first edition of the final political works of the Neapolitan intellectual
and revolutionary Francesco Lomonaco (1772–1810), who was an early
populariser of Giambattista Vico. This work was confiscated by the French
authorities on publication for extreme democratic tendencies, which
resulted in the author’s suicide, and accounts for the rarity of this book.
After studying law and then medicine at Naples University, Lomonaco
became involved in the Neapolitan revolution. After a brief exile in France
he returned to Italy and taught history at the military college at Pavia,
where he introduced Foscolo, Ortis and Manzoni to Vico’s ideas.Together
with his fellow revolutionary Cuoco he testified to the fact that the
Enlightenment theories of a small group of intellectuals were not enough to
change a complex reality. In his teachings he familiarised Lombard culture
with Giambattista Vico’s ideas. With his profound sense of the process of
history and the need to trace the facts of human history to a single principle
that makes sense of them, Vico provided an antidote for abstract idealism.
Croce p. 421–2; OCLC lists copies at the BL, Montpellier and St. Gallen only.
Luyken’s Emblems Revised
88 [LUYKEN.] MOENS, Petronella. ’S Menschen, Begin,
Midden en Einde. Door Petronella Moens en W. H. Warnsinck Bsz.
met platen. Amsterdam, Ten Brink and de Vries, 1824. £950
8vo, pp. [2], x, 68, title vignette and 26 engravings, accompanied
by six line verse, and explanatory text on the opposite page; strong
impressions; original printed buff board; a very good copy.
First edition of this free adaptation of Luyken’s classic emblem book first
published in 1712, and one of the most popular children’s picture books
of the 18th century. The book illustrates all stages of a child’s life and
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especially all the various activities of children from the cradle to the grave.
Even though this version follows Luyken’s general plan, and is arranged like
an emblem book with an image accompanied by verse, it is entirely original
both in text and illustration. Instead of Luyken’s religious verse and Bible
citations, Petronella Moens’ explanations (turned into verse by Warnsinck)
are amusing and only faintly moralistic. The illustrations are by Jacobus van
Meurs (1760–1824), painter of genre pieces, and show children at home
and at play, learning to walk, going to school, blowing bubbles, playing
with toys, but also in their future professions and provide a fascinating
visual image of children’s life in the early nineteenth century.
Petronella Moens (1762–1843) was a famous Dutch children’s author.
Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books, 516, note; Ten Brink & De Vries, Catalogue
1785–1885, p. 44;
Pay Reform in the French Army
89 [MILITARY.] Instruction sur la Solde et le Traitemens
Militaires. [colophon:] Paris, L’Imprimerie de la République, An VI,
[1798]. £900
4to, pp. viii, 96, interleaved copy; contemporary full calf, flat spine
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed and
chipped, but a good copy.
First edition, very rare indeed, of this detailed proposal on pay and military
salaries, as part of a general reform of the French army at the end of the
eighteenth century.
This blueprint of chargeable salary for all levels of the military was
proposed by Desrez, Lemonnier, Gombault, Defermon and Oberlin, and
was clearly sent out to the relevant departments for discussion. This is
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indicated in the concluding remarks, and also obvious from the fact that
this copy is interleaved, allowing ample opportunity for comments.
Rather than just giving specific figures, the authors set out to codify the
general principles, which regulate pay, and who will benefit from it. This
is backed up throughout by detailed reference to edicts, circulars of the
treasury etc. The pay discussion concerned not only all ranks of the military,
but also staff members, veterinary surgeons, but not the wives or children of
officers. Pay rates vary depending on whether the soldiers are in barracks or
on military mission, whether they are treated in field hospitals or convalesce
at home.
Whereas the army during the ancien regime had been characterised by
privilege and inequality, the French Revolutionary Army was a national
conscript army, and at least in principle a professionally organised and
highly disciplined arm of the state. Problems, however, remained: pillage
and looting was a continuing problem, especially because pay was often in
arrears. This was one of the reasons for the reform proposals contained in
the present publication.
Very rare, possibly for internal circulation only; OCLC records just the British
Library copy.
Paris Trades and Professions Illustrated – In Miniature
90 [MINIATURE.] Les Cris de Paris. Paris, Marcilly, n.d.,
ca 1825?. £1,200
28 cards, measuring 40 x 27 mm, lithograph calligraphic title & 27
costume plates with legend, nice contemporary handcolouring, in the
original slipcase.
A set of finely executed coloured lithographed miniature cards illustrating
Paris street vendors, both male and female. ‘One of the most charming
miniature items of extreme rarity. The pictures show sellers of sugared
wafers, milk, water, umbrellas, cooked pears, coal, matches, peas, ink,
etc. and ambulant tailors, glaziers, knife grinders, boot polishers, chimney
sweeps, cleaners of walls, etc.’ (The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of
Miniature Books). Gumuchian, 4071: ‘...illustrées de fines lithographies
coloriées consacrées aux personnages de la rue et aux cris de Paris. De ces
cris, combien sont oubliés, le marchand d’eau et le marchand d’encre datent
d’une autre epoque.’
Bondy p. 76; Gumuchian 4071; Welsh 2082.
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Student Life Illustrated
91 [MINK, Heinrich Emanuel.] Der Tugend- und Lasterhafte
Studente poetisch und moralisch entworfen. Das Studentenleben
in 30. Kupfern vorgestellet. Verlegt und in Kupfer gebracht von
Adam Wolffgang Winterschmidt in Nuremberg. Frankfurt, Leipzig,
[n.p.], 1764. £2,500
8vo, pp. 64, with 30 engravings including title vignette; late
eighteenth century half roan, flat spine decorated in gilt; with stamp of
Mainfränkisches Museum to front free endpaper.
First edition with the text of this charming illustrated guide to student life.
Thirty half page copperplate engravings by Adam Wolffgang Winterschmidt
show the typical stations of a student, be it leaving home, or arriving in his
‘digs’, praying or godless and adverse to religion, studying hard or lazily
resting on his bed, enjoying himself or homesick and depressed. We see him
boasting and in love, but also succumbing to typical student problems of
ending up in debt, partying excessively, gambling and getting into trouble
with women. Some of the little scenes are surrounded by cartouches, and
most give a vivid insight into eighteenth century student life, accompanied
by explanatory poetry.
The plates had previously appeared without the text in 1760.
Hayn-Gotendorf VII 472 and VIII 549, see Lipperheide 2025 (lost), Rümann
753; OCLC lists copies at Harvard, New York Public Library, Newberry Library,
and Madison, Wisconsin, in addition to holdings in Germany.
Early Lobbying against Fisheries’ Legislation
92 [MONOPOLY LEGISLATION.] Observations on the
fishermen’s attempt to render ineffectual an act, passed in the
twenty-second, and another in the twenty-ninth, year of His
Majesty’s reign, to prevent the forestalling and monopolizing
of fish. [London, House of Commons, prob. 1760.] £480
Folio, bifolium (420 x 265 mm), pp. 3, [1] title; uncut as issued, folded.
First and only edition of this early example of lobbying literature, printed by
Parliament in a small print run for use of its members. This circular relates
to the attempt to regulate the fish market and halt the practice of sending
the best fish exclusively to Billingsgate Market at high fixed prices. Bills to
that effect had been passed earlier by parliament, but had been opposed by
a petition (according to Higgs dated January 26, 1760) signed by just seven
fishermen who were presumed to be in collusion with middlemen.
The Observations, presumably encouraged by retailers in London, give
detailed information on the fish trade and its regulation in the port of London.
Monopoly, forestalling and scheming middle-man were becoming
common complaints against increasing market capitalism and laissez-faire.
Higgs 2170; Kress 5887; not in ESTC.
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Presentation Copy
93 MORELLI, Jacopo. Catalogo di Storie generali, e particolari
d’Italia. Venice, Pietro Savioni, 1782. £1,750
Tall 8vo, pp. xii (including initial blanks), 293, [3] blank; uncut in the
original pale yellow boards, with presentation inscription by Morelli to
front free endpaper ‘L’Abate Morelli à Mr de Villoison’.
First edition of this bibliography of the important collection of books on
Italian history by the Venetian aristocrat, poet and bibliophile Tommasso
Gisueppe Farsetti. The catalogue was prepared by the well-known librarian
of the Marziana and bibliographer Jacobo Morelli (1745–1819). This copy
was presented by Morelli to the French Hellenist Jean Baptiste Gaspard
d’Anse de Villoison (1750–1805), with presentation inscription to front
free endpaper. The work is still a recognised reference work on Italian
historical works.
See Brunet III, 1899; Taylor, Book Catalogues Their Varieties & Uses, p. 106 et al.
Guide to the Stock Market
94 MORTIMER, Thomas. Every man his own broker; or, a
guide to the Stock-Exchange. In which the several classes of the
public funds, commonly called the Stocks, are distinctly explained;
and the Mode of Transferring, or of Buying and Selling them, is
rendered intelligible for Persons desirous to transact their own
Business. The Mystery and Iniquity of Stock-Jobbing is laid Open.
The twelfth edition, considerably improved. London, W.J. and
J. Richardson, 1798. £1,150
12mo, pp. xxii, [2], 257, [1] blank, [18] appendix, errata and
publisher’s advertisement, with one folded printed table bound after
prelims; contemporary full sheep, flat spine ruled in gilt, joints cracking,
but cords firm; extremities a little bumped, else a good copy with
contemporary ownership inscription of J. Bateson.
Later edition, much improved, of this popular guide to dealing on the
stock exchange, which went through some thirteen editions between 1761
and 1810. ‘As the title suggests, the author’s object was to encourage
members of the public to buy and sell for themselves, without employing
brokers. His attacks upon the brokers, though often amusing, are obviously
exaggerated, but on technical matters he is accurate .... Legally, only licensed
brokers could deal on behalf of others, but there was nothing to prevent
any member of the public from dealing on his own account’ (Morgan &
Thomas, p. 58). ‘Mortimer is invaluable if only as a source of information
about the stock market in the latter half of the eighteenth century’ (Jenkins,
The Stock Exchange Story, p. 45).
ESTC t130497; Goldsmiths’–Kress 17381.15; see E. Victor Morgan & W. A.
Thomas, The Stock Exchange: its history and functions, 1962.
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95 [NAPLES – ACADEMY.] Statuti della Real Accademia
delle Scienze e delle Belle Lettere eretta in Napoli dalla Sovrana
Munificenza. Naples, Stamperia Reale, 1780. £950
Tall 8vo, pp. [2], 164; fine engraved crowned vignette to title
contemporary stiff pattern paper wrappers; a very good copy.
First edition of the rules and regulations of the Naples Academy of Science
and Literature founded in the spirit of the Neapolitan enlightenment under
the patronage of Ferdinand IV. The Academy covers mathematics, medicine,
chemistry, botany, volcanology, mineralogy, and mechanics, and, on the
literature side, ancient history and antiquities. In each case special research
emphasis is outlined, for full members, students, and ‘pensionati’. A full list
of local and foreign members is given, including many foreign scientists,
such as Banks, Lagrange, d’Alembert, Bonnet, Spallanzani, and, of course,
Sir William Hamilton. The second half contains a thoughtful analysis of the
legal organisation, with a suitable separation of the financial, academic, and
political leadership, and with separate financial management.
Naples had actually been the home of the Accademia Secretorum Naturae,
or Accademia di Segreti, founded by Della Porta around 1560 and generally
regarded as the earliest scientific society. However, when Della Porta
was persecuted for practicing the black arts, his academy was disbanded,
although he was later acquitted.
OCLC list copies at the University of Chicago and the Getty Library only.
Liberal Arts Education
96 NEUHAUSER, Franz Anton. [pseud. F. A. G. Casanuova.]
Was hindert die Aufnahme und Ausbreitung der Wissenschaften.
Nehcnüm, [Munich], Hpesoi Syola von Ztärc [Lindauer], 1778.
£850
8vo, pp. 79; finely engraved title vignette by Seckler, showing a winged
god with a book in hand in front of a view of Munich; spine with
pattern paper covering.
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First and only edition of a forceful plea for universal and liberal arts education,
and especially education for its own sake rather than as professional training.
Neuhauser stresses the importance of thinking for oneself rather than being
the recipient of preconceived ideas, or reviewers’ opinions. He deplores
the frivolous use of education, the fact it is merely used to impress rather
than for deeper understanding, and makes some interesting comments on
schools and their failings, and on the influence of reviewers, who define
popular taste more than actual readers. He argues against the prevalent
fashion of using Antiqua typefaces for German books, rather than the more
customary black letter.
Neuhauser (1744–1834), a former Jesuit, was tutor to the young count
von Pappenheim.
Hamberger-Meusel V, 406; De Backer-S. V, 1651, 6; Weller, Druckorte I, 113;
Weller, 99; OCLC and KVK locate just two copies in Augsburg and Dillingen, no
copies outside of Germany.
A Masterpiece of Scientific Wood Presentation
97 NÖRDLINGER, Hermann von. Collection de 60 Sections
transversales de Bois des Essences forestières les plus importantes
a l’Usage des Élèves de l’École imperiale Forestière de Nancy.
Destinée à accompagner la Description des Bois des Essences
Forestières les plus importantes par Auguste Mathieu. Nancy,
N. Grosjean, 1855. £1,800
12mo, ll. 60 samples of different woods, each mounted within a
folded sheet and displayed through an oval cutout; pp. [iv], [iv] title,
preliminary text and list of samples, together with 8vo, pp. 40, in the
original green printed wrappers; preserved within the original box of
red leather-backed black boards, spine decoratively gilt, upper joint
repaired, with stamp to first section ‘Nördlinger. Preismedaille IV. Ldn.
Ausst. 1851’, indicating that this was a price-winning exhibit at the
London Great Exhibition.
First edition of a highly innovative aid for the training of wood identification,
a collection of sixty thin cross sections of genuine wood mounted on sheets
of paper. These were invented and developed by Hermann von Nördlinger
(1818–1897), forestry professor in Hohenheim, Germany. The sections
are of a quality high enough to observe microscopic details. Their technical
perfection is remarkable: unlike today’s thin sections fixed on glass slides,
they are large and thick enough to show characteristics that can be seen on
a polished wood surface, for instance, its colour and arrangement of growth
rings. On the other hand, they are thin enough that arrangement of vessels
and rays are visible.
Nördlinger collaborated here with a French botanist on forestry
research and this collection, aimed at forestry students and craftsmen
working with wood, was accompanied by a pamphlet by Auguste Mathieu
(1814–90), professor of natural history at the forestry school at Nancy,
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8vo, pp. 232; printer’s cipher to title; some foxing and browning due to
paper quality; contemporary full vellum over boards; early ownership
inscription in ink, ‘De Marinis’.
First edition thus of this important work on the reform of penal law, by
Francesco Maria Pagano, together with extensive annotations based on
Pagano’s lectures in Naples and a treatise on the Principi del Codice di Polizia
by Felice Stavalone, not published separately until the following year.
Pagano (1748–1799), proposes the wholesale reform of penal law and
the criminal justice system, centering on the liberty of the individual, in
line with enlightenment thinking. Pagano pays particular attention to the
proportionality of crime and punishment in Roman law, the treatment of
the condemned, and the competence of judges, before studying the nature
of testimony, the role of confession, and the concerns over confessions
extracted under torture.
The second half entitled Logica de’ Probabili has extensive footnotes
mostly referring to and citing John Locke, but also Genovesi and Filangieri
amongst others. Felice Stavone, about whom not much seems to be known,
also adds a separate treatise on the ‘Code of the Police’, their role within
society, their function in securing public safety and personal property, and
the police as an organ of the justice system. Stavone voices concerns about
the role and power of the police. The brief treatise was printed separately
the following year.
OCLC lists just one copy, at Tübingen.
On Women and Marriage
entitled Description des Bois des Essences forestières les plus importantes (1855).
Nördlinger apparently took the cross-sections to the Great Exhibition in
London in 1851, as some of the cross-sections have a stamp ‘Nördlinger.
Preismedaille IV. Ldn. Ausst. 1851’.
Nördlinger later also published a more comprehensive Querschnitte
von hundert Holzarten (Cross Sections of One Hundred Wood Species,
Nördlinger 1852–1888) in eleven volumes covering woods from all over
the world and including 1100 samples.
ADB LII, 654 ; see Mantel II, 51 u. 52; for a full assessment see Ben Bubner, ‘The
Wood Cross Sections of Hermann Nördlinger (1818–1897)’, IAWA Journal, Vol.
29 (4), 2008: 439–457.
Very Rare Annotated Edition with Original Treatise by
Felice Stavalone
98 PAGANO, Francesco Mario. [Felice STAVALONE.] Principi
del codice penale e logica de’ probabili per servire di teoria alle
pruove nei Giudizii Criminali ... Opera postuma con alcune note:
Ed aggiuntovi in fine un trattatino sui Principi del Codice di Polizia.
Naples, Domenico Sangiacomo, 1806. £1,200
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99 PASSI, Giuseppe. Dello Stato Maritale tratto di Giuseppe
Passi Ravennate nell’Academie de’ Signori Informi di Ravenna
L’Ardito. Nel quale con molti essempi Antichi, e Moderni, non solo
si dimostra quello, che una donna maritata deve schivare, ma quello
ancora, che fare le convenga, se compitamente desidera di satifare
all’officio suo. Opera non meno utile, che dilettovele à ciascheduno.
Con una Tavola copiosissima delle cose più notabili, che nell’Opera
si contengono. Venice, Antonio Somascho, 1602. £2,200
4to, pp. [xvi], 176; printer’s mark to title, decorative initials and
head- and tail-pieces; title dust-soiled, and staining to verso of b4;
contemporary full vellum, spine lettered and numbered in ink; title with
presentation inscription dated 1692.
First edition of this tendentious treatise on women and marriage by
Giuseppe Passi, who a few years earlier had published a thoroughly
misogynist treatise I donneschi diffetti (1599), which had been received very
critically, and had prompted Lucrezia Marinella’s refutation and thus the
famous debate on the nature of women. Here Passi appears to have had a
complete change of heart and has written a general defense of women. He
begins with a listing of illustrious women, those praised for their beauty,
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military accomplishments or exceptional learning. He concedes equality in
creation and even the superiority of women over men, with the aim of
proving that women are worthy companions and marriage is worthy of
men’s attention.
The main point of the treatise is to praise the institution of marriage, but
clearly as a means of social control. Within marriage, women fulfill their
traditional role within the home, predestined to procreation, with a life
revolving around their husbands. Passi does not accept the ideal of equality,
and instead develops a thoroughly conservative view of marriage.
Not in Vinciana; for a detailed study see Stephen Kolsky, ‘Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia
Marinella, Giuseppe Passi: An Early Seventeenth-Century Feminist Controversy’,
The Modern Language Review, Vol. 96, No. 4 (Oct., 2001), pp. 973–989.
Commerce and Trade in Italy
100 PEDROCCHI, Cristofero. Lettere amichevole che trattano
di politica economica, d’arti e commercio. [n.p., n.p.] 1802. £750
8vo, pp. 124; printed on light-blue paper; bound in contemporary
calf-backed boards, attractive pattern paper endpapers; a very crisp and
attractive copy.
First edition, rare, of this very attractive series of letters on trade, commerce,
manufacturing and political economy, written by a Venetian merchant
op er ating (and writing) from Bergamo. After a dedication to the people
of Venice and all Italians, Pedrocchi begins with a brief outline of the
commercial cycle and the interdependence of markets. He maintains that a
healthy manufacturing industry is the most important factor in the economic
success of a state, and cites Great Britain as a glowing example. He makes
extensive reference to the Tuscan reform projects initiated under Leopold II,
which resulted in greater freedom of trade, the abolition of guild restrictions,
and various initiatives to promote manufacturing industry. Though not a
scientific treatment of political economy or the Tuscan reforms, this work
testifies to the wide-ranging effect the reforms had had all over Italy.
Kress Italian 706; not in Einaudi; OCLC records copies at Harvard, Rochester and
Lawrence, Kansas.
Travelling Museum
101 PITZER, Martin. Verzeichniss der Gegenstände und Arbeiten
eines Indianer-Stammes im nördlichsten Amerika nebst einer
Charakteristik desselben. Munich, J.G. Weiss, 1854. £400
8vo, pp. 36, [4], last three blank; stitched with paper spine; a little dustsoiled
and lightly foxed.
First edition, uncommon, of this catalogue of a travelling exhibition
illustrating life and worship of the American Ottawa Indians. The collection
was assembled by the Austrian church painter and missionary Martin Pitzer,
and exhibited to raise money for the mission.
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Nearly fifty artifacts are described, giving both their German and Indian
name (Ottawa or Ojibwa). The objects range from metal and stone tools,
items of clothing, bow & arrow, kitchen objects, to a medicine bag and
objects of worship. Pitzer adds some interesting comments on social structure
and daily life of the Ottawa Indians. The collection, now in the Museum für
Völkerkunde in Vienna, is one of the most important nineteenth century
holdings of Ojibwa crafts because it has retained its historical integrity as a
collection (Ruth B. Phillips, Trading Identities, pp. 182, 301).
See OBL XII, p. 108; not in Sabin or Murray, Museums.
In Defense of Free Trade
102 PLESSEN, Leopold E. H.von. Über das natürliche Verhältniss
und die Beschränkungen des Handels zwischen verschiedenen
Staaten in Beziehung auf die gegenwärtigen Zeitvorfälle. [colophon:]
Regensburg, Heinrich Augustin, (Hamburg, Perthes und Besser),
1806. £520
8vo, pp. [iv], 82, [1] imprint, [1] blank; original printed green
wrappers; mss inscription at head, dated 19 July 1806.
First edition of this discussion of the economic importance of free trade and
the impact of trade restrictions, published during the time of the continental
blockade by Leopold von Plessen (1769–1837).
In the first part Plessen discusses the free development of trade, the impact
of any state intervention, be it taxation or regulation, and the development
of powerful trading nations. The second part deals more specifically with
the impact of the Continental Blockade, instituted by Napoleonic France
to defeat England. Plessen argues that some parts of trade and industry
might be improved by greater reliance on home production, that alternative
supply routes might be developed, but in general maintains that a proper
blockade is unsustainable and ultimately ineffective.
Plessen (1769–1837), a Mecklenburg economist and politician, later
represented Meckenburg at the Congress of Vienna.
This publication was apparently the first and only contribution to a
projected series entitled Staatswirthschaftliche Ansichten.
ADB XXVI, 272; Goldsmiths’ –Kress 19244.15; Humpert 10163.
Polhem’s Inventions and their Models of the Swedish Museum
of Science and Technology
103 POLHEM, Gabriel. Chrisopher Polhems Patriotiska
Testamente, eller Anderraettelse om Järn, Stål, Koppar, Mässing,
Tenn och Bly för dem som wilja begynna Manufacturer i dessa
ämnen. Jemte en Förtekning på alla dess Mechaniska Inventioner.
Stockholm, Lars Salvii, 1761. £1,000
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8vo, pp. [xxiv], 128, a few woodcut diagrams in the text; some light
browning, due to paper quality; contemporary stiff marbled wrappers,
spine strengthened; a little dog-eared, but still a good copy.
First edition, rare, of Gabriel Polhem’s account of the most significant
inventions of his father, Christopher Polhem (1661–1751), the important
Swedish inventor and industrialist. After studying engineering techniques
used in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and England, Polhem set
up a mechanical laboratory that gave considerable impetus to Swedish
technology. He constructed water-powered machines such as rollers and
shearing machines employed in the fabrication of metal products. Polhem’s
major contributions to the mining industry were put into practice when he
collaborated with Gabriel Stierncrona and founded the Stiersunds Bruk, a
factory for the mass production of metal goods in iron, steel and bronze.
Simple mass-market articles such as pans, trays, bowls, knives, scissors and
mirrors were made there, together with the more sophisticated Polhem
lock. Polhem himself published an account of some of his inventions,
Kort Berattelse om de Fornamsta Mechaniska Inventioner, in 1729, but this
publication, ten years after his death, gives a far more comprehensive
account of his inventions. The list of inventions (pp. 115–128) is not
included in the German edition.
In this publication his inventions using sheet metal, steel, copper, brass,
tin, and lead for industrial productions are described in greater detail, some
illustrated with woodcut diagrams. Most impressive, however, is the final
listing of over one hundred inventions, including textile machinery (a special
loom for producing stockings), and a printing press. Those inventions
which are included in his collection of wooden models of mechanisms for
educational purposes (now housed in the National Museum of Science and
Technology in Stockholm) are marked with an asterisk.
Just two copies found, in the Swedish National Library, and the Bavarian State
Library; not in NUC, not found in OCLC, but two copies recorded at Stanford
and Harvard.
Poor-House Management
104 [POOR LAW – WORKHOUSE.] GRUNDT, Johann
Andreas. Neuen Armen-Buches erstes Heft, von der Stiftung,
Verfassung und Erhaltung des neuen liebauschen Armen- und
Arbeits-Hauses einer Hochlöblichen Kaufmannschaft der
Kayserlichen See- und Handels-Stadt Liebau zur Belehrung des
Publicums und zur Rechtfertigung über Einnahme und Ausgabe
herausgegeben. Mitau, Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen, 1796 –
1809. £1,250
Nine parts bound in one volume, 8vo, pp. 72; 32; 32; 30; 23; 32; 24,
4; 36; 44; contemporary blue boards, extremities quite rubbed and
spine chipped, but firm.
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Complete run of annual reports of the Liebau Poor House, starting in 1796
and going up to 1809. Because of an increase in vagrants and beggars, the
merchant’s guild, together with that of artisans of the city of Liebau, the
Latvian trading and port city (located on the Baltic coast some 200 km
south-east of Riga) had decided in 1795 to finance the building of a new
work- and poor-house. An earlier one had apparently fallen into disrepair.
The first issue recounts the foundation of the institution, together with
a listing of the financial support offered by close to two hundred members
of the merchant guilds, the local priest, who was also to be the head of
the institution, and other local figures. This is followed by the rules and
regulations, especially on the poor-house legislation (mostly to be resolved
internally), and the criteria for admission to the workhouse. No foreign
vagrants are to be admitted, nor will it be open to impoverished members
of the middle classes. This is followed, however, by a listing of recipients
which includes a small hand-out to some six hundred foreign beggars,
accommodation and a stipend for some aged and decrepit members of the
community, and some financial help.
All material contributions to the running of the poor-house are listed,
ranging from food to clothing. The yearly or biannual reports contain a
wealth of social information with detailed case histories, the fate of the
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inmates, extensive listings of contributors and recipients of the charitable
contributions, together with financial and administrative accounts. The
inhabitants of the poor-house contribute to their upkeep by spinning,
weaving, and sewing items, which are then offered for sale. The ninth issue
ends with an appeal to all those who have let their subscription lapse to
renew their contribution. The reports (at first yearly) were edited by the
director Johann Andreas Grundt; from 1802 they are issued irregularly,
possibly because of the disruptions of the Napoleonic Wars, and are edited
by his successor Christian Alexius Fehre.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not found in OCLC or KVK, one copy located in
Tartu.
Postal Stamps for the Papal States
106 [POSTAL SERVICE.] GALLI, Angelo. Regolamento
per l’applicazione dei bolli franchi alla corrispondenza epistolare.
Rome, Camera Apostolica, 1851. £1,000
Folio broadside, measuring 820 x 600 mm, printed in two columns,
with some discrete repairs to verso; folded.
First edition of a document of great importance for economic and philatelic
history: a broadside announcing the introduction of the postal stamp to the
Papal States. Prepared and signed (19. December 1851) by the economist
and finance minister Angelo Galli (1789–1859), the broadside gives the
legal and practical directives on the introduction of postal stamps, followed
by information on rates both inland and abroad and size specifications.
Postal stamps had first been introduced in 1840 in England, as a single
rate prepaid charge for the safe delivery of mail, after Rowland Hill’s reform
of the postal system. He had suggested the simplification of the postal
system with a flat rate rather than a complicated rating system according to
distance practiced up to the time. The benefits of the modern postal system
became immediately obvious, and the flat rate was introduced to various
European countries. Within Italy, the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia
was the first to introduce the postal stamp, followed by the Kingdom of
Sardinia and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. On January 1, 1852 the Papal
States followed.
Not found in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi; for information on the postal system
and the introduction of the postal stamp see Royal Philatelic Society.
Teaching Economics at University
105 [POSTAL SERVICE.] Placat hvorved en ny Brev-Posttaxt
for Kongeriget Danmark og Hertugdommene Slesvig og Holsteen
bekiendtgiores. Copenhagen, Johan Frederik Schultz, 1801. £450
4to, pp. [56], last blank, with one very large folding engraved table
(502 x 595mm); contemporary gilt-paper boards; very clean and crisp.
First edition of postal routes and rates within Denmark and including
Schleswig Holstein. The postal rates were calculated by distance, and the
fine engraved plate illustrates both the routes, distance between postal
stations and the prices. For easy access postal rates for individual places are
printed in the form of lists. The postal rates for Norway are also included.
OCLC lists just the Danish National Library copy; see David Cornelius, An
Introduction to the Postal History of Denmark 1624–1950, 2004.
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107 ROGGENDORF, Cajetanus. Versuch über das Verhältnis der
Stände ... nebst angehängten Lehrsätzen aus der Polizeywissenschaft,
zu deren Prüfung in dem gewöhnlichen Hörsaale der Polizey und
Kameralvorlesungen der April die 10te Vormittagstunde bestimmet
ist. Vienna, Georg Ludw. Schulz, 1764. £650
4to, pp. 49, [1], [8]; decorative initials and head-pieces; some
insignificant damp-staining to upper outer corner; contemporary pastepaper
wrappers.
First edition of an interesting work illustrating teaching and research in
the department of economics and statecraft under Sonnenfels at Vienna
University. The monograph is followed by a brief section of economics
aide-memoire, a concise introduction to the basic principles of economics,
finance and statecraft.
Roggendorf deals with population questions, and how this reflects on
the different classes of society. Based on Süssmilch, but taking into account
other contemporary and earlier writers, he analyses variations in population
density, the limitations of population growth, the distribution of the
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population between the cities and the countryside, and the most beneficial
ratio of population growth among different classes of society.
Not in Humpert, Kress or Goldsmiths’.
Debt Management
108 [RÖMER, Carl Heinrich von]. Ueber das Schuldenwesen des
chursächsischen Adels, und das beste Mittel, ihn wider den fernern
Verfall zu sichern. Ein frommer Wunsch bey Gelegenheit des im
Jahr 1787 ausgeschriebenen allgemeinen allgemeinen Landtags,
geäussert von ***. Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1787. £680
8vo, pp. 288 (vere 284) with one folding table, engraved title vignette;
private library W. Planitz to verso of title; contemporary pink stiff
wrappers; spine faded.
First edition of this monograph on the debt management of the nobility
in the Electorate of Saxony, by Römer (1760–98), a professor for law in
Wittenberg. Ironically, a few years later, in the early 1790s he was put under
house arrest for debt himself.
After the Seven-Years-War the economies of both Prussia and Saxony were
shrinking, which affected all classes. The nobility tried to maintain the old
Baroque lifestyle, which in many cases lead to their increased indebtedness.
In the first chapter entitled ‘On the Decline of the Saxon rural Nobility and
their Debts’, Römer deals with mortgages and re-mortgaging of estates,
and examines the laws regulating economic activities of the nobility, their
loans and financial obligations. The author then tries to clarify the maze
of different – Roman and German – laws which regulate these financial
transactions. In a further chapter he examines the state and organization
of agriculture in the Electorate, and the recent influx of industrialists (who
bought into these feudal estates, established funds and insurance against
bankruptcy of single estates by forming some form of financial cooperation
between individual estates for investment purposes). Römer outlines
how this fund will work under the law and in connection with banks and
investors. He concludes with suggestions on how this re-financed lower
nobility can contribute to economic and infrastructural development of the
Saxon countryside.
Bemmann/J. I/2, 22; Humpert 9593; see Goedecke V, 516.16.; not in Kress,
Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi.
First Editions of Rousseau’s Contract Social and Emile
109 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Du Contract Social; [half-title]
Principes du Droit Politique. Marc Michel Rey, 1762.
[together with:] Emile, ou de l’Education. The Hague, Jean Néaulme
[i.e. Paris, Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne], 1762.
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[together with:] Oeuvres de Rousseau de Geneve. Nouvelle Edition
revue, corrigée, & augmentée de plusieurs morceaux qui n’avoient
point encore paru. Tome I [– Tome V]. Neuchatel, 1764.
[together with:] Esprit, Maximes, et Principes de M. Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, de Genéve. Neuchatel, Libraires Associés, 1764.
[together with:] Lettres écrites de la Montagne. Premiere Partie.
[– Seconde Partie]. Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1764. £18,000
Seventeen volumes, vol. XV ‘Contract Social’, 8vo, pp. [iv], viii, 323, [1]
advertisement, engraved title vignette with the figure of Liberty seated;
vols. VI – IX ‘Emile’, 8vo, pp. [2], viii, [2] explication des figures, 466,
[4] privilege, [1] errata, [1] blank, with engraved frontis piece and one
plate bound after ‘livre I’; engraved frontispiece, [iv], 407; engraved
frontispiece, pp. [iv], 384, some spotting & damp-staining in last
section; engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], 455, some spotting to last two
pages, else fine; vols. I – V, engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], vi, 5–421;
engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], 447; engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], xlvii,
[48]–384; engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], xvii, [18]–406, [1] contents,
[1] blank – with half title; engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], 288, cxliii, [1]
errata; vols. X – XIII: La Nouvelle Heloise, first Paris edition, engraved
frontispiece, pp. [iv], 408, with two engraved plates; [iv], 405 with
plates 3–6; [iv], 432, with plates 7–9; [iv] 382, with plates 10–12; vol.
XIV ‘Esprit, Maximes, et Principe’s, 8vo, engraved portrait, pp. xxiv,
[25]–464; vols. XVI – XVII ‘Lettres écrites de la Montagne’. First
edition. 8vo, pp. [viii], [i] advertisement du libraire, [i], 334; 8vo, pp.
[ii], 226, [2] catalogue des livres, [2] errata, [231]–395, [5] contents,
signatures bb, cc and dd browned, due to paper stock; uniformly bound
in contemporary marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, with two
gilt-lettered lettering and numbering pieces; sides with triple gilt fillets;
some surface abrasions and short worm traces to joints; overall an
attractive set in good condition, with contemporary ownership
inscription by Delaunay, cadet, to front free endpapers.
First edition of two of Rousseau’s most important works, the Contract
Social and Emile, uniformly bound in a set together with some of his other
works, clearly put together by an early reader.
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elite. It was condemned by the parliament in 1765. (Dufour I, 232;
Tchemerzine V, 550 – both bibliographies call for an added errata leaf not
present here).
Contract Social: Dufour 133, PMM 207, Sénelier 554, Tchemerzine V, 543, see
Leigh, Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of J.-J. Rousseau, Cambridge, 1990;
II. Émile: Dufour 1925; McEachern, 1 A; Tchemerzine V, 545..
First edition, second issue, of the Contract Social, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s
most important political work, which influenced both the American and
the French Revolution. ‘It had the most profound influence on the political
thinking of the generation following its publication. It was, after all, the
first great ‘emotional’ plea for the equality of all men in the state: others had
argued the same theoretically, but had themselves tolerated a very different
government. Rousseau believed passionately in what he wrote, and when
in 1789 a similar emotion was released on a national scale, the Contract
Social came into its own as the bible of the revolutionaries in building their
ideal state’. ‘In practice his attempts to balance volonté de tous and volonté
générale could result only in anarchy. Nevertheless his fundamental thesis
that government depends absolutely on the mandate of the people, and his
genuine creative insight into the political and economic problems of society
gives his work an indisputable cogency’ (PMM 207).
First edition of Emile, arguably Rousseau’s best-known work. The publication
history of the book is complex. This is the first 8vo edition, which
though printed second, was actually published and distributed first. (See
McEachern, pp. 16–7.)
First edition of the Lettres écrites de la Montagne, written while Rousseau
was in exile in Switzerland. They were a response to the attack by the
procurator-general Tronchin in his ‘Lettres de la campagne’. This work,
which contains autobiographical elements later further developed in the
Confessions, (written 1764–70), showed Rousseau’s allegiance to the cause
of the ordinary citizens of Geneva in their struggles against the political
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110 ROUSSEAU, Josué. Ensayo da arte grammatical portugueza
e Franceza, para aquelles, que sabéndo a lingua Francéza, querem
aprender a Portugueza. Primeira parte. Lisbon, Antonio Pedrozo
Galram, 1705. £850
Small 4to, pp. [viii], 176; hand-coloured woodcut device on title-page;
fifteen woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials and head-piece; paper
lightly browned throughout, a few insignificant tears with slight loss;
contemporary vellum over boards, spine lettered in manuscript, small
crack to spine, inner joint with cords visible, but holding firm; from the
Macclesfield library with blindstamp to title and first leaf, and North
Library book plate to front pastedown.
First edition of this bi-lingual manual of Portuguese language and
grammar, presented in the form of parallel Portuguese and French text.
Outwardly following Latin examples popular at the time, Rousseau in fact
presents a very practical approach to language learning. The work is
divided into three parts, covering grammar, conversational exercises and
idiomatic expressions. The bi-lingual dialogues on conduct, marriage,
health, economics, money, buying and selling, the theatre etc. are
particularly informative on the Portuguese social and cultural scene of
the time. Not much is known about the author Josué Rousseau (fl 1705 –
1718). Rolf Nagel suggests that he might have been a merchant of
Jewish or Protestant origin, which might explain the predominance of
economic subjects in the practical dialogues. He also published a
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somewhat dubious history of Portugal from the creation of the world to
the present day.
Part of the appeal lies in the large woodcut illustrations, mostly used
as end-pieces, which are similar to those used in chapbooks or colporteur
literature.
OCLC: Bibliothèque Nationale, BL, Hamburg, Portuguese Biblioteca Nacional; see
Rolf Nagel, ‘Aufsätze zur portugiesischen Kulturgeschichte’, MLN, Vol. 87, No.
2, Hispanic Issue (Mar., 1972).
111 RUFFO, Tomaso. Statuti et Ordinazioni del Monte Sanità
sesta Erezione stabiliti dalla Congregazione d’esso Monte approvati,
e confermati ... Ferrara, Giuseppe Barbieri, 1732. £750
Tall 4to (284 x 207mm), pp. [viii] including initial blank, 108, [2];
small paper tear to last leaf; contemporary buff limp boards; a good
copy.
First edition of the statutes of the Ferrara Monte di Pietà, which had been
founded in 1630 by a decree of Urban VIII. This combined pawn-shop and
charity institution also offered some banking facilities. In these statutes the
founding history and form of organisation are given, with details of offices,
contributions, and public officials. The full text of relevant ordinances, laws
and decrees which regulate the organisation is reprinted.
These statutes are a typical blueprint of the organisation of the large
number of charitable pawnshops, Montes Pietatis, which had been
established in Northern and Central Italy from the middle of the fifteenth
century. Their express purpose was to collect a fund adequate to satisfy the
legitimate credit needs of the lower class artisans and dealers and the poor
in general. Therefore it was fairly normal for these institutions to set a fairly
low maximum for loans and to refuse advances for commercial speculation.
The funds were replenished at regular intervals through various church taxes
and collections, and a small interest charge to cover expenses was levied
on monies taken out. This interest charge resulted in a fierce controversy
between the Franciscans on the one side and the Dominicans on the other,
with the latter maintaining that this system was based on usury. However,
in 1515 the Lateran council sanctioned the right to moderate interest
charges and in the future these institutions enjoyed the steady protection of
the Popes, and assumed much of the character of a bank.
Biblioteca Statuti del Senato III, p. 75;
Swedish Cameralist Economic Thought
112 SALANDER, Eric. Salus patriae, eller Sweriges Wälfärd,
genom Högstwårdande Förbätringar, wid the Almänna Närings-
Fång, Landtskiötzel,Bärgwärk, Landtwärk och Handel. Stockholm,
[n.p.], 1741. £1,150
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Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xvi], 144; 149, [1]; large woodcut
vignette to title, contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, giltlettered
spine label; preface signed by Salander; a fine copy.
First and only edition, rare, of an important contribution to Swedish
cameralist economic thought, and especially to the influence of population
figures on economic strength. Salander stressed the importance of growing
population of able and industrious people for manufacturing and thus for
the national economy of a country.
Salander (1699–1764), an industrialist, member of the Swedish Academy
and government commissioner of the Manufactory Office, (Manufaktur
kontoret), studies in this treatise how the economic situation of a
poor country can be improved, despite scarcity of money and reduced food
production. Salander was an outspoken supporter of the manufactories. He
discusses in turn agriculture, food supply, mining, artisans and craft, and
trade & commerce. Salander, and with him the Manufakturkontoret was in
strong support of a protected market with limited competition.
Salander himself seems to have been fully aware of contemporary European
writers and cites Seckendorff, Hörnigk and some English authors.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; not in Humpert; OCLC records copies at Berlin,
Ohio State, Bibliothèque Nationale, and National Library of Sweden only; see L.
Magnussen, An Economic History of Sweden, 2000, p. 64 ff.
Corsican Independence Defended
113 [SALVINI, Gregorio.] Giustificazione della rivoluzione
di Corsica e della ferma risoluzione presa da’ Corsi di non sottomettersi
mai più al Dominio di Genova. Oletta, Stamperia della
Verità, 1758. £850
8vo, pp. [iv], 408; title vignette; worm traces to gutter margin,
extending over signatures l-n, but never touching text; a few signatures
a little browned; contemporary full vellum over boards, spine lettered
in manuscript, upper board with ink stain; numerous ownership
inscriptions to title.
Second edition (first published the same year in 4to) of don Gregorio
Salvini’s famous justification of Corsican independence from Genoa. Salvini
was a close confidante of Paoli Pasquali, the Corsican patriot and leader, the
president of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica.
Paoli designed and wrote the Constitution of the Corsican Republic – the
first democratic republic of the modern age – himself.
Salvini condemned the Genoese ruling of the island, and claimed that selfgovernment
under Paoli would favour the return of emigrated Corsicans.
C. Starace, Bibliografia della Corsica, 1943, p. 305, n° 3092; OCLC: Cambridge,
Yale, UC Santa Barbara, Michigan.
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114 [SAMMELBAND.] SCHREBER, Daniel Gottfried. Ein
Vorschlag zu Anlegung eines öffentlichen Getreydemagazins, zu
Jedermanns Vortheil und Niemandes Nachtheil. Leipzig, B.C.
Breitkopf, 1772.
[bound with:] [ANON.] Versuch einer Abhandlung vom Eigenthum
der Bauern. Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1770.
[bound with:] [SCHWABE, Johann Joachim.] Der Grund der
Gesellschaft in der rechten Art des Ehestandes und der glücklichsten
Erziehung und Unterweisung der Kinder beyderley Geschlechts
zum Besten der Aeltern und Lehrmeister. Ulm, Albrecht Friedrich
Bartholomai, 1765.
[bound with:] BÜCHTING, J.J.Geometrisch-Oeconomischer
Grund-Riss zu einer regelmäßigen wirthschaftlichen Verwaltung
derer Waldungen, wie auch zu einer vortheilhaften Einrichtung
derer zur Landwirthschaft gehörigen Grundstücke, desgleichen zu
einer Abhandlung vom Bergbaue überhaupt. Halle, Johann Jacob
Curts, 1762.
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[bound with:] [ANON.] Cameral-Grundsätze geschildert mit
Patriotischer Freyheit. Augsburg, Johann Jacob Lotters, 1761.
£2,800
Five works bound in one volume, pp. [viii], 96; [viii], [9]–111, with
one large folded printed leaf bound after prelims; [viii], 248; [xxx]
including engraved frontispiece, 240, [2] contents; 131, with fine
engraved title vignette; contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards,
spine in compartments, ruled in gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label; head
and tail of spine chipped and with some insignificant worm damage;
still a good copy with early list of contents to front free endpaper.
A fine Sammelband collecting five contributions to political economy from
the second half of the eighteenth century, covering Cameralist principles,
feudal rights, modern marriage and the education of daughters, forestry
management and grain storage
I. First edition of this work arguing for the establishment and erection
of grain storage in Germany in order to bridge years of bad harvests, put
forward by a Leipzig doctor of law, teacher of economics and member of the
Leipzig Economic Society. Schreber analyzes the development of grain prices
from the late seventeenth century up to 1770, suggesting improvements of
agricultural methods, and state regulation of prices.
II. First edition of an enlightened study of serfs, peasants, farmers and
their land ownership in the Russian province of Latvia. The anonymous
author who makes some comments on the most suitably literary form
for such a study, declares his impartiality on the questions raised, as he
owns neither land nor serfs. Despite some enlightened and rationalistic
observations (Hartknoch was to become Kant’s publisher) the author
actually defends the feudal status quo, and argues against the abolition of
serfdom and liberation of peasants. He does, however, criticise excessive
exploitation of the rural poor.
III. First edition of this work on marriage and family as the foundation
of society, and on education, written for parents and teachers. Interestingly
the author discusses education for both genders. According to the preface
a translation from the French, but no French original is identified. After
introductory remarks on the origin of the family, Schwabe goes into details
about education and teaching, learning languages, whereby he emphasises
good pronunciation and the musical quality of the spoken word. Johann
Joachim Schwabe (1714–1784) was a prolific writer and translator from
the French (Rousseau) and English (Swift and Locke). He was appointed
librarian and professor for philosophy in Leipzig in the 1760s.
IV. First edition of Büchting’s introduction into scientific forestry, with
various proposals for increased yields. In the second part he concentrates on
agriculture and in particular stresses the importance of a central register of
agricultural land, to optimise its use. The clear documentation of borders in
agricultural land and the reparcelling of it is illustrated on the frontispiece.
In the final section he comments on the mining industry. Büchting was one
of the earliest university-trained forestry officials.
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V. First edition of this anonymous introduction to the principles of
Cameralism, concentrating on the training of civil servants intending to
serve a sovereign state in financial, fiscal and economic administration. A
good command of the French language is deemed absolutely necessary
because it is the language of the courts and the lingua franca of Europe;
strength of character and sound judgment of people is required to navigate
through the intrigues and cabals of court life. The main emphasis is on the
management of land and agriculture, reflecting the almost purely agrarian
economy of Germany in the eighteenth century.
I. Humpert 9442, Goldsmiths’-Kress 10872.4.; II. Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’,
OCLC lists a copy at the University of Illinois only; III. Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’,
OCLC lists no copies in the US (3 copies in Germany); IV. Humpert 3377,
Mantel I, 9; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, OCLC records a copy at Chicago and
the University of Amsterdam only; V. not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, OCLC records
copies at NLS, Columbia, Syracuse University and University of Washington in
addition to five copies in Germany.
Small 4to, pp. [xii], 136; eighteenth century vellum-backed marbled
boards, spine lettered in ink; a good copy.
First edition of this interesting dialogue on the organisation of medical
services in 17th century Naples, and in particular on the role of the
‘protomedico’, in the form of a dialogue between Antonio Santorello and
a disciple. In general the function of the protomedico was to oversee the
activities of the medical professionals, and especially to make sure that they
acted within the limits of their professions.
In detailed chapters, various aspects of the organisation of medical
services are discussed, beginning with the granting of an imperial privilege
by Charles V to the then protomedico to ‘examine, recognize and castigate
all non-graduate physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, grocers, alchemists,
barbers, enchanters, healers, midwives, etc.’. In Naples the protomedico
was a royal appointment, independent of the medical colleges and received
an annual salary. Detailed information is given on the extent of his authority,
on the regular visits he was required to make, together with the tariffs and
prices of drugs.
A final section gives the oaths sworn by the various professions, beginning
with the one of the protomedico, followed by herbalists, distillers, obstetricians,
dentists, and even specialists in treating syphilis.
Antonio Santorelli (1583–1653), philosopher and medical practitioner,
was Neapolitan protomedico and published extensively on medical topics.
He was professor at Naples University and member of numerous scientific
societies. He particularly concentrated on the development of primary
medicine ‘per motivo del bene publico’.
Not in Wellcome, Krivatsy, Waller or Osler; Hirsch V, 177; Dictionario Biographico
universale IV, p. 1092; OCLC: BL and Wolfenbüttel only; see David Gentilcore,
Healers and healing in early modern Italy, 1998; Pasquale Franco, ‘II protomedico
napoletano’, Pagine di storia della medicina, 1965, 9: 15–32, and Luigi de Rosa,
‘The ‘protomedicato’ in southern Italy, XVI–XIX centuries’, Annales cisalpines
d’histoire sociale, 1973, 4: 103–17.
Medical Law and Practice in Naples
115 SANTORELLI, Antonio. Il Protomedico Napolitano o vero
dell’ Autorita di esso. Dialogo raccolto da un discepolo del Dottor
Antonio Santorello protomedico del Regno di Napoli. E dato in
luce dal Signor Fabio Cava. Naples, Roberto Mollo, 1652. £1,400
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116 SARTORIUS, Johannes and Tobias F. WISCHLBURGER.
Memoria mirabilium Dei: Bedächtnuß der Wunderthaten Gottes.
Von dem Hochwürdigen Miraculosen Sacrament des wahren
Fronleichnambs Jesu Christ. So Anno 1337. zu Deckendorff von
denen Juden hoch-freuentlicher Weiß mit verschidenen Instrumenten
gemartert... Nunmehr mit etlichen Denckwürdigkeiten
dises Lebendigen Miraculs zum andern mahl in Druck gegeben.
Straubing, J. C. Rädlmayr, 1728. £2,200
12mo, engraved frontispiece, pp.221, [1], lacking the 2 leaves of
‘Consilium’, which are present in another copy; decorative initials and
decorative head-piece; printed on strong paper; contemporary mottled
calf, sides with blind ruling, with two bronze clasps; a very attractive
copy.
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Second edition of Wischlburger’s edition of a curious piece of anti-Semitic
propaganda supported and fostered by the Catholic Church – the progrom
in 1337 of the Jewish community of the Bavarian town of Deggendorf on
the phantasy charge of having desecrated the host or sacred wafer of mass.
In an organised riot the town’s inhabitants eliminated the entire Jewish
community, to whom they owed substantial amounts of money, and with
this act cleared their entire monetary debt. The city quickly appealed to
the duke of Bavaria to forgive the massacre, and he responded by granting
Deggendorf the Jewish property and a tax exemption. Later popular myths
emerged of the host desecration, leading to an annual pilgrimage.
In the early eighteenth century numbers of pilgrims soared, documented
in the list printed at the beginning of the book – which presumably inspired
this publication, which includes various reports of supposed Jewish host
desecrations and other misdeeds, and reprints official statements and anti-
Jewish legislation, and was clearly intended for those who made the annual
pilgrimage.
An earlier edition was published in 1710, OCLC records copies in Regensburg,
Passau and Munich only.
Musical Instruments
117 SCHNEIDER, Wilhelm. Historisch-technische Beschreibung
der musicalischen Instrumente, ihres Alters, Tonumfangs und Baues,
ihrer Erfinder, Verbesserer, Virtuosen und Schulen. Meissen and
Leipzig, Theodor Hennings, 1734. £850
8vo, pp. xii, 131, [1] errata, with 11 fold-out lithograph plates,
mounted on guards; publisher’s buff boards, printed title to spine;
extremities a little worn, contemporary ownership inscription on front
free endpaper.
First edition of one of the first systematic studies of the history of
western musical instruments, written at a time when many innovations,
improvements and newly invented instruments were appearing in
European orchestras. Wilhelm Schneider’s descriptions of instruments are
very detailed and always report the latest technical developments, such as
the guitar with a keyboard invented in London, called pianoforte guitar,
the latest improvements of the still relatively new clarinet, or the first valves
for brass instruments. A long section of the volume, from page 108 to the
end, is headed ‘Recently invented Instruments and those which are rarely
used’. This book was and is most useful for the composer, instrument
dealer and musicologist. The plates show the tonal ranges and tunings of
the instruments.
OCLC: Yale, Harvard, Boston, Boston MFI, Newberry, NYPL, BL & German
libraries.
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Engraved Throughout – in a Fanfare-Style Binding
118 SENAULT, Louis. Heures nouvelles Tirées de la Sainte
Ecriture Écrites et graveées par L. Senault. Paris, the Author,
[1680]. £2,800
8vo in fours (184 x 125mm), pp. [ii] engraved title page, 260, entirely
engraved within double border, with countless calligraphic ornaments,
including engraved historiated initials, paper repair at head of title page,
mss note at foot; fanfare-style binding on green vellum, with both clasps
present, spine in compartments, decorated in gilt, joints worn and head
of upper joint starting to split; a fine and very wide-margined copy with
faint contemporary manuscript note on the author to foot of title.
Second issue, with the breasts of the mermaids on p. 210 covered and
without the dedication, of this Book of Hours, entirely engraved by
Louis Senault, one of the finest writing masters of seventeenth-century
France. The text is engraved in cursive script, each page within a double
frame, decorated with magnificent floriated and historiated initials, and
vignettes. Senault endeavored to preserve in his engraved books the full
flavour of a contemporary manuscript. ‘The elegant roman script of this
book is ornamented with capitals framed by vignette landscapes or designs
of birds and flowers. Calligraphic flourishes or floral designs frequently
fill empty spaces at the bottom of a page. Prints by artists such as Israel
Silvestre surely inspired the landscape vignettes which ornament the book’
(Catalogue of the Exhibition 2000 Years of Calligraphy, Baltimore, 1965, No.
101). ‘Louis Senault followed Pierre Moreau in producing two writing
books (one dated 1668) and then concentrating on successive editions of a
devotional work printed from the same plates. But while Moreau finished
by producing printed books with some of the characteristics of handwriting,
Senault endeavoured to preserve in his engraved books the full flavour of a
contemporary manuscript. After his death his daughter, Elisabeth Senault,
produced some equally attractive smaller engraved Heures nouvelles dedicated
to the Grand Dauphin’ (PMM Exhibition catalogue).
The work is undated, but the presence of the Prière pour Madame la
Dauphine, i.e. Marie Anne Christine of Bavaria, who died in 1690, and the
lack of a dedication to the Dauphine suggests 1690 as the date of issue.
Bonacini 1689; Jammes, Belles Écritures, 40; Jessen 2426; Brunet III, 148; PMM
Exhibition Catalogue 98.
Sheffield Plate Designs
119 [SHEFFIELD PLATE.] A Trade Catalogue of Sheffield
Plate Designs. [n.p., probably Sheffield or Birmingham, ca. 1775–
1785.] £5,800
Oblong folio (232 x 385 mm), 75 copper engraved plates, last creased;
each plate with between one and nine figures per sheet, in all 138 items
depicted (no number 132), numbered throughout, but arranged by
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subject; marked with prices in a neat contemporary hand, the first plate
is headed in same hand ‘Carte 7195’; stitched as issued in contemporary
stiff marbled wrappers, a little dog-eared; a superb survival, entirely
unsophisticated, in fine and crisp condition.
An exceptional trade catalogue of Sheffield Plate designs, unusually compre
hensive and in a remarkable state of preservation. Such catalogues were
made for retailers or traveling salesmen and are invariably anonymous,
omitting the manufacturer’s name and any kind of title-page or imprint.
While the plates are numbered, they are not necessarily bound in number
order, since the merchant carried a catalogue reflecting available stock at the
time. A catalogue such as this is likely to reflect products from a number of
makers, and is often (as here) marked with prices in manuscript.
The large copper plates depict most of the items life-sized, and include
a range of candlesticks (cf. Bradbury 405), wine coasters, condiment sets,
an inkstand, salt-cellars, pepper casters, soy and spirit frames (cf. Bradbury
404), urns, salvers, a cake basket (cf. Bradbury 401), fish-slice, toast-rack,
dish cross, teapots, coffee pots and tankards representative of contemporary
Sheffield Plate production. The style is neo-classical of the pure Adam
variety, suggesting an early date, borne out by detailed comparison with
Bradbury’s illustrations. As usual it has not been possible to identify the
maker(s) of the wares illustrated here, since none of the plates bears a
maker’s mark.
The craft of Sheffield Plate production, in which solid silver was fused to
an underlying layer of copper and rolled into sheets, was pioneered by the
Sheffield cutler Thomas Bolsover c.1742–5 and was enthusiastically taken
up by craftsmen in Sheffield, Birmingham and Edinburgh. It became the
preferred material for domestic silverware until at least the 1840s when the
process was gradually replaced by electroplating methods.
See Bradbury, A History of Sheffield Plate; OCLC lists similar catalogues
at Boston Athenaeum and the Huntington Library only.
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Printed Wrappers with Précis of the Work
120 [SLAVERY – LESCALLIER, Daniel.] Réflexions sur le Sort
des Noirs dans nos Colonies. [n.p., n.p.], 1789. £1,400
8vo, pp. 71, [1], internally browned and with some damp-staining;
stitched as issued in its original printed wrapper, see below.
First and only edition of this important contribution to the prerevolutionary
anti-slavery debate. Lescallier urges the Assemblée Nationale
to abolish the slave trade, which he maintains is both detrimental to the
economy and immoral. He argues that liberty would increase profitability
of the colonies.
Daniel Lescallier (1743–1822) was well-placed for his progressive
pronouncements. He had followed Count d’Estaing to Santo Domingo in
1764 and in 1782 he went to regulate the affairs of Dutch Guiana, which
the French had just recovered from the English. In 1784 he transferred the
country to Dutch commissioners, and in 1785 was appointed commissionergeneral
of French Guiana. There he restored order in the finances, and
suggested many plans of improvement to the government, amongst which
was this proposal for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery.
Particularly appealing is the unusual printed wrapper, giving a précis of
the points made: ‘Messieurs: L’ouvrage qu’on vous présente a paru réunir
des moyens de conserver La possession de nos colonies, Les propriétés des
colonies, et de procurer l’adoucissement du sort des négres’.
Sabin 68753; Barbier IV, c. 162; Hogg, The African Slave Trade and its Suppression,
1966; Martin & Walter, Révolution française III, 21205.
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121 SMITH, ADAM. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of
the Wealth of Nations. In three volumes. London, A. Strahan and
T. Cadell, 1793. £2,400
Three volumes, 8vo, pp. x, 499; vi, 518, [5] appendix; v, [1]
blank, 465, [1] blank, 49, [1] advertisements; attractively bound in
contemporary full mottled calf, contrasting gilt-lettered lettering and
numbering pieces, flat spines with decorative gilt rule and decoration,
sides with decorative gilt roll, marbled paper endpapers; small chip at
head of spine; a fine, clean and crisp copy.
An attractive eighteenth century edition of The Wealth of Nations, the first
and greatest classic of modern economic thought (PMM). The Wealth of
Nations did more than any other book on economics in the West to create
the subject of political economy and to develop it into an autonomous
discipline. It was the ‘first major expression of the freedom of the individual’.
It developed the theory of laissez-faire and the right of individuals and states
to carry on their economic activity unimpeded. Smith ends with a history of
economic development, and virtually demolishes the basis of the mercantile
system. There are some prophetic comments on the limits of economic
control.
Kress B2618; Goldsmiths’ 15565; ESTC t95380; Vanderblue p. 4.
Secrets and Recipes – From Glass-Making
to Fireworks and Paper-Marbling
122 [SMITH, Godfrey.] The Laboratory or School of Arts: in
which are faithfully exhibited and fully explain’d. I. A variety of
curious and valuable experiments in refining, calcining, melting,
assaying, casting, alaying, and toughening of gold; with several
other curiosities relating to gold and silver; II. Choice secrets
for jewellers in the management of gold; in enamelling, and the
preparation of enamel colours, with the art of copying precious
stones, of preparing colours for doublets, of colouring foyles for
jewels, together with other rare secrets; Second Edition. To which
is added, An Appendix: Teaching, I. The Art and Management of
Dying Silks, Worsteds, Cottons, & c in various Colours. II. The
Art of preparing Rockets, Crackers, Fire-globes, Stars, Sparks, &
Recreative Fire-works. Illustrated with copper plates. London,
J. Hodges, J. James and T. Cooper, 1740. £1,050
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [viii], 240
with 5 engraved plates; [ii], lxxx, [6] index, [2] blank, with three
engraved plates (two of which folding), damp-stain to gutter margin of
last two leaves; ownership inscription partly removed from title page
and at head of preface; ink inscription with dyeing recipes in ink pasted
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on front free endpaper; contemporary calf, rubbed and bent; lacking
spine label.
Second edition, much enlarged, of Godfrey Smith’s compendium of secrets
and recipes, first published in 1738. The separately paginated appendix
contains the extensive introduction to the preparation of fireworks, ‘the Art
of preparing Rockets, Crackers, Fire-globes, Stars, Sparks & for Recreative
Fire-works’.
The range of Smith’s Laboratory is immense. He includes recipes of use
for gold and silver workers, jewelers, those working with copper, brass,
tin or steel, glass-makers, dyers, wood-workers, joiners, turners, japanners,
distillers, etc. A large section concentrates on dyeing, with numerous colour
recipes for paints, glazes and textile dyes.
It is interesting to note that Smith includes the earliest descriptions and
illustrations of paper marbling (see Richard Wolfe, Marbled paper, p. 64–65,
illustrating the plate), and gives a thorough introduction to book-binding
(see Pollard & Potter, Early bookbinding manuals, no 73).
This is the true second edition, reset, rather than a re-issue of the first
with a cancel title-page. It contains a new section on cosmetics (Part XII);
the Appendix is a re-issue, with the date changed to Roman numerals and
the price removed.
ESTC t 65470; C. Philip, Bibliography of firework books, S160.5;
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Astronomical and Meteorological Instruments
123 STARK, August. Beschreibung der meteorologischen
Instrumente nebst einer Anleitung zum Gebrauche derselben bey
den Beobachtungen, als nothwendiger Beytrag zur Erläuterung der
meteorologischen Jahrbücher: mit 5 Kupfertafeln. Augsburg, [The
Author], Brinhausser, 1815. £1,400
4to, pp. [viii], 79, [1], with five engraved plates bound at the end;
finely bound in contemporary full blue silk, for Marie Louise of Bavaria.
First and only edition of this manual of meteorological and astronomical
instruments, with clear descriptions of the instruments and their use. The
range of instruments described is comprehensive, from the traditionally
meteorological, such as barometer, hydrometer, thermometers (sun
and shade temperature), and wind, rain and snow indicators, etc. to the
magnetic inclinometer, which may also be used as a ‘dioptic sun quadrant’,
manometer, and other instruments for making astronomical observations.
There are detailed instructions for laying out a meridian line for a large
courtyard sun dial together with further instruments and methods of
construction, all to help in making accurate recordings of astronomical
observations.
Of particular interest are the extensive bibliographies appended to
each section. The final section contains reduction tables for the Saussure
hydrometer and von Guericke’s manometer. The engravings are fine
impressions.
OCLC lists Adler Planetarium, Harvard, NY, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Yale in
the US.
comments on correctional institutions and suggests that inmates should be
made to work for the public good, rather than just be locked up.
In the section on fire fighting, Stoixner includes some practical proposals
for reducing fire risk, such as building brick houses rather than wood,
replacing thatched roofs. He also suggests the introduction of fire-insurance,
both to finance fire-fighting equipment for the community and to help those
households damaged by fire. He favours private fire insurance instead of a
state organised one, and gives figures of the contributions necessary. His
proposals are especially directed at small villages rather than towns, where
the state should have the overall responsibility of fire protection.
The final and most extensive section is taken up with the reform of the
general code governing domestic servants and farm labourers. Stoixner is
vehemently opposed to the Gesindeordnung, and maintains that it shackles
the landowner into employing too many servants and labourers. He deplores
over-regulation, which will bankrupt the landowner and employer.
Kayser II, p. 318; OCLC lists copies in Berlin and Halle only.
Poor Law, Code for Domestic Servants & Fire Fighting
124 [STOIXNER, Franz Carl von.] Zufällige Gedanken über
Zucht- und Arbeitshäuser, über nützliche Feueranstalten, und über
die Gesindeordnung; von einem Patrioten. Augsburg, Conrad
Heinrich Stage, 1782. £650
8vo, pp. [ix], 10–128; title vignette, some light foxing due to paper
stock; contemporary sprinkled boards, spine label and shelf mark; a
good copy.
First and only edition of this collection of three essays by the Munich lawyer
Franz Karl von Stoixner (Kayser II, p. 318), covering poor law and work
houses, the history and organisation of fire brigades and finally the most
extensive article a comprehensive critique of the Gesindeordnung, the recently
revised laws concerning domestic servants, farm labourers, hired servants
and day labourers, originally based on the feudal system of serfdom. Stoixner
expresses a clearly conservative view, deplores the increase in vagrants and
beggars, and maintains that the main problem with the rise of poverty is
the lack of distinction between deserving and undeserving poor. He also
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The Foundation of Modern International Law
125 SUAREZ, Francisco. Tractatus de Legibus, ac Deo Legislatore
in decem Libros distributus. Coimbra, Didaco Gomez de Loureyro,
1612 [colophon: 1611]. £3,500
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Tall 4to (285 x 195mm), pp. [viii], 1266, [30] index; title printed in
red and black, typographic head- and tail-pieces; small worm trace in
lower margin of signatures qq to xx, nowhere near text; two signatures
browned, due to paper stock; contemporary panelled calf, with
blindstamped vignettes to sides, spine gilt in compartments, with giltlettering
directly to spine, head and tail of spine expertly repaired and
corners renewed; front free endpaper with three lines of crossed out
inscription, a very good copy.
Rare first edition of Francisco Suarez’ most important work, an outline
of the principles of natural and international law, of great importance to
jurists and legislators alike, in particular to Grotius and Pufendorf. As the
outstanding philosopher of the sixteenth century Suarez exerted a profound
influence upon scholastic thought and upon the philosophy of politics and
law, especially international law.
Suárez concluded that international law comes into play at the point
where natural law and civil law intersect: international relations must occur
on the basis of the criteria contained in international law inasmuch as the
latter stems from ‘the shared needs of peoples’. It is therefore founded on
the community of nations: States cannot exist in isolation. He invokes
the concept of interdependence as a pillar of international law and a basis
for ensuring peace, justice, freedom, progress and co-existence.’ (Sergio
Moratiel Villa, The philosophy of international law: Suárez, Grotius and
epigones, 1997).
Suarez (1548–1617) was a Spanish Jesuit philosopher and theologian
and belonged to the school of Salamanca. He taught at a number of
Spanish and Italian universities, and from 1597 to the end of his life he was
a professor at Coimbra in Portugal. His writings had a great influence on
Grotius and Pufendorf.
ESS XIV, p.429; Ziegenfuss II pp. 662ff.; not in Sommervogel; Grice-Hutchinson,
Early economic thought in Spain, pp. 97–98; OCLC lists copies in BL, Bodley,
Cambridge, Harvard Law School, Boston College, University of Indiana
126 [THAMES TUNNEL.] The Thames Tunnel, open to the
Public every Day (except Sunday) from Nine in the Morning
until dark. Admittance 1s each. The Entrance is near the Church
at Rotherhithe, on the Surrey Side of the River. The Tunnel is
brilliantly lighted with Gas. [London], Thames Tunnel Office,
Walbrook Buildings, August 1839. Teape & Son, [1839]. 1839.
£500
Broadside, folio (407 x 269 mm); printed within border in
double columns, with three views, a longitudinal view and tunnel
view and a shield view, entitled Front Elevation of the Shield; reprint
August 1839; a fine wide-margined copy, corners a little torn, else
fine.
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Later edition (first 1835), with some adjustments of this promotional
broadside advertising the progress made on building the Rotherhithe
Thames Tunnel. The text gives a brief description of the project, the three
illustrations show a transverse section of the Thames, and beneath it a
longitudinal section of the Tunnel, as it will be when completed. No 2
shows the two arched entrances of the tunnel from the shaft, and no 3 is
a representation of the iron shield and shows a workman in each of the
compartments.
Brunel’s Thames Tunnel was the first underwater tunnel in the world,
an achievement only made possible by his invention of a tunneling shield,
one of the greatest innovations in the history of civil engineering. From
the outset the project attracted enormous interest, in Europe as much as
Britain, which was kept going during the long years of construction by
a variety of souvenir publications. Little handbooks, produced by the
company itself, and these broadsides, designed to attract visitors. Despite
its partial use for advertising purposes both text and illustrations are
amazingly comprehensive, and full of technical detail. In the first section
the progress of the project is outlined, from its first conception through the
parliamentary stages, to the work in progress.
The Triumphant Bore, A celebration of Marc Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, 94; all issues of
this broadside are rare, due to its ephemeral nature, with OCLC recording single
copies only for the issues of 1835, 1837, 1838, and 1840, and two copies for this
one (Berkeley and London).
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Theatre Organisation
127 [THEATRE.] Capitolare sistematico e parti relative che
contengono le regole e discipline dell’Accademie Proprietaria
del Pubblico Teatro Berico di Vicenza. Vicenza, Gio. Gattista
Vendramini Mosca, [1808]. £750
4to, pp. 28; printed on heavy paper; nineteenth century boards, spine
label; a fine copy with recent heraldic book-plate of Clementi to front
pastedown.
First and only edition of this document outlining the internal organisation
of the Teatro Berico in Vicenza, founded in 1799 as the theatre of the
Accademia del Teatro, and financed by subscription, i.e. by selling permanent
rights to seats or boxes. To avoid competition with the recently constructed
local opera house Teatro Eretenio, the Teatro Berico is not to be open during
the time of the carnival.
All academicians (named in the first section) are entitled to vote on internal
affairs; the offices of president and financial chancellor are regulated, and
the compensation of the office of ‘custode’, or janitor is outlined. Various
additions to the original founding documents are listed.
The final section covers the financial accounts of the academy, with
incoming funds from seat sales offset against the outgoings. Individual
productions were apparently financed independently by impresarios.
Uncommon, OCLC lists a copy at Harvard only.
The Earliest Italian Study of Population Statistics
128 TOALDO, Giuseppe. Tavole di Vitalità composte da D.
Giuseppe Toaldo, Professore e Accademico di Padova, &c. Padova,
Giovanni Antonio Conzatti, 1787. £2,800
4to, pp. 32; title page vignette; numerous tables in the text; early
nineteenth century stiff marbled wrappers; from the collection of Ant.
Buonamici, with private library stamp to title page; a very nice copy.
First and only edition, very rare, of the earliest Italian contribution on
population statistics and life expectancy. Toaldo (1719–1797) gives a brief
account of the collection of the necessary figures from the local parishes and
their presentation in a standardised way, in the seven tables which are bound
at the end. These population tables are divided by region (mountain, plain,
and city) and by living circumstances: with separate figures for religious
orders, nuns, and Jews. Within each category he gives the population,
number of deaths in any given year, number of survivors with a calculation
of survival probability, which is then adjusted year on year.
He makes some interesting observations in the text, not just on survival
rates and life expectancy, but also on average life expectancy, the lower child
mortality rate of Jewish babies, high mortality rate in the early 60s, and
higher mortality rate in the country than in the city. He also comments on
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the higher survival rate and average life expectancy of women. Throughout
he refers to the findings of Zeviani on child mortality, and Fontana on
Milanese population figures.
In his preface Toaldo refers to the Italian translation of De Moivre’s
Annuities upon Lives by Fontana which had been published in 1776 and
which supplied him with the necessary overview of the international
literature covering population statistics. Moreover, it made the lack of
comparable Italian figures obvious. Toaldo is clearly aware of the fact that
he produces the first Italian contribution to the subject.
Riccardi II, 528; uncommon, not in Kress, Goldsmiths’, Einaudi, or Mansutti;
OCLC locates copies at Cornell, Columbia, British Library, Berlin and Bibliothèque
Nationale only; for a more detailed study see Pigatto, Luisa (ed.). Giuseppe Toaldo e
il suo tempo. Nel bicentario della morte, Atti del Convegno, Padua, 1997.
129 TURGOT, Anne-Robert-Jacques. Réflexions sur la Formation
et la Distribution des Richesses. [Paris], n.p., 1788. £4,500
8vo, pp. 136; nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt
in compartments, gilt lettering to spine; extremities a little rubbed;
marginal worming throughout, from page 81 to the end an occasional
wormhole in the text touching the occasional letter but without
rendering text or words illegible.
First edition in book form of Turgot’s most famous work, his most
substantial work in economic speculation. First written in 1766, the work
was first published in 1769–70 in the Ephémérides du citoyen.
‘The Réflexions sur la Formation et la Distribution des Richesses was a major
influence on Adam Smith, and an early example of the economist as policymaker.
The Réflexions is a remarkable book, containing not only the skeleton
of the structure of Adam’s Smith’s Wealth of Nations, particularly the concept
of the division of labor, the distinction between the market and the natural
equilibrium price of commodities, and the stress on the volume of real savings
as the prime determinant of an economy’s rate of growth, but going beyond
Adam Smith in the analysis of the relation between profit and interest and
the clear statement of the law of diminishing returns in agriculture’ (Blaug,
Great Economists before Keynes, pp. 254–255). ‘His treatment, however,
of value and exchange, here, and, briefly, in the Reflexions, foreshadowed
that of such leading neoclassicals as Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, Walras and
Marshall. As Professor Groenewegen has concluded: ‘He has no peer in
the eighteenth century in the elegance with which the exchange models are
developed. They resemble contributions of the neoclassical school much
more than those offered by Turgot’s contemporaries’’ (Hutchinson, Before
Adam Smith, ch. 18).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 13536; Einaudi 5772; Mattioli 3673; INED 4362; En Français
dans le Texte, 165.
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Glossary of Student’s Language
130 [UNIVERSITY – ANON.] Das Leben auf Universitäten
oder, Darstellung aller Sitten und Gebräuche der Studenten, ihrer
Verbindungen und Comments bei Duellen u.s.w. nebst einem
Verzeichnis aller burschikosen Ausdrücke und einer Auswahl der
beliebtesten Burschenlieder. Sondershausen, Bernhard Friedrich
Voigt, 1822. £580
12mo, pp. [xiv], 259; contemporary roan-backed boards, gilt-lettered
spine label, label chipped and extremities a little rubbed; clean and crisp.
First and apparently only edition of this anonymous introduction to student
life at German universities. After a brief description of all the universities
in Germany, with their founding date, specialties and student numbers,
the author concentrates on student associations and fraternities, their
rites, internal organisation and statutes, festivities, and songs. He gives
the ‘constitution’ both of the older fraternities or corps, Landsmannschaft
and the more recent Burschenschaften, which recruited its members form a
broader population base than the corps, together with regulations of the
strictly regulated fixed-stance fencing, even today a feature of numerous
fraternities. Interesting information is given on the social side of student life,
with emphasis on beer drinking and socialising, and annual festivities. Of
particular interest is the detailed glossary of German student terminology.
Hayn/Gotendorf IV, p. 75; Erman/Horn I, 12317; OCLC lists copies at Stanford
and UCLA.
The second essay concentrates on the question whether travel is a
necessary part of education. In addition to the beneficial effects of travel,
Valdastri points out the dangers, both physical and mental. He makes
some interesting observations on different nationalities. Whereas for an
Englishman education is not complete without travel or the ‘grand tour’,
others are more content at home.
Valdastri (1762–1818), professor and cleric from Modena, certainly
shows his extensive reading with extensive quotations from Hume, Hobbes,
Montaigne, Mandeville, Addison etc.
Tiraboschi IV, pp. 447–454; OCLC: Getty, Chicago, Harvard, Johns Hopkins,
Newberry, BL
Public Games for Political Reasons
131 VALDASTRI, Idelfonso. Due discorsi Filosofici, e Politici
l’uno sull’ Influenze degli Spettacoli nelle Nazioni. L’altro su
quelle de’ Viaggi nell’Educazione. Modena, Società Tipografica,
1789. £950
Folio, pp. 211, [1] imprint; uncut in contemporary buff limp boards;
slightly loose in binding, with bookshop label to front pastedown; a
good copy.
First edition of these two philosophical discourses by Valdastri, the first
concentrating on the relationship between public spectacles and society,
the second on the role of travel in education. Both discourses had been
submitted belatedly in response to prize questions by the Academy in
Lyon.
In the first essay Valdastri gives an outline of the role of public games,
sporting competitions etc. in ancient history and extends his discussion
to pantomime and theatre. He maintains that these ‘innocent’ pleasures
bind society together and serve as a cathartic revisiting of traumatic events.
However, he also appears to identify a tendency of the state to use these
public events to cover up political difficulties.
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First Edition in Italian
132 VEGETIUS, Flavius Renatus. De l’arte militare Vegetio
ne la comune lingua nouamente tradotto. [colophon:] Venice,
Bernardino di Vitale, January, 1524. £2,200
8vo, pp. [xvi], 176 [A8, B-Y4, including final blank]; dedication by the
translator, Tizzone Gaetano to Frederic II Gonzaga; with one woodcut
initial and final woodcut triangle; early 20th century vellum; a good
copy.
First edition in Italian of Vegetius’ treatise on the art of warfare and military
strategy, in fact the most important western treatise on military strategy
before Clausewitz.
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Vegetius, a Roman author who lived in the late fourth century, based
his treatise on descriptions of Roman armies, especially those of the mid
to late Republic. As G.R. Watson observes, Vegetius’ Epitome ‘is the only
ancient manual of Roman military institutions to have survived intact.’
The treatise is in four parts, concentrating in turn on the selection and
training of recruits, traditional military practice for the infantry, military
principles for fighting on land, and finally military machinery, such as siege
engines, onagers etc. with some information on naval practices. Particularly
interesting are the military and strategic maxims, included in part III, which
became influential to military commanders up to Frederick the Great.
Heavily used in its own time, and transmitted in manuscript form, the
work became a popular manual in medieval times. The work was published
under a variety of titles, Epithoma (sic) rei militaris (1474), Epitoma de
re militari (1475), Epitoma institutorum rei militaris (1487), Epitoma rei
militaris (1488), De Re Militari (1496), the present edition seems to be
the first to use the title of the Art of the Military, presumably inspired by
Machiavelli’s Art of War.
Haym, N.F. Bib. italiana (1803), IV, 164; not in Adams, not in BL (STC); OCLC:
Toronto, UCLA, Yale, Harvard, Duke, Columbia, Cornell, Hagley Museum.
blue paste-paper boards, gilt-lettered spine label, with crowned cypher
to spine.
First edition of a treatise on equestrian tournaments and jousting in the
Middle Ages, preceded by a chapter on the circus of the Romans. Verdy
du Vernois favours a return to the values of chivalry and advocates the
organising of tournaments as training for the cavalry, rather than horseracing.
He comments on the changing role of the cavalry after the invention
of gunpowder. Chevalier de Verdy du Vernois, d. 1814, was employed
by the Comte d’Artois before the Revolution, and afterwards became
Chamberlain to the King of Prussia. He settled in Germany and became a
member of the Academy of Berlin. He wrote a number of books on military
questions.
Barbier 21795; Brunet IV 15991; Querard X p.107; OCLC: Society of the
Cincinnati only in the US, else BL, Bibliothèque Nationale, Strasbourg, and German
libraries.
Venice Population Statistics – a Broadside
133 [VENICE – POPULATION.] Ristretto di tutti li nati nella
Città di Venezia – Ristretto di tutti li morti nella città di Venezia
l’Anno 1799. Pietro Fucci Gradenigo Scrivan. Venice, n.p. poss.
Pinelli, 1799. £500
Broadside (540 x 400 mm), deckle edge on all four sides; folded.
A rare survival, figures of births and deaths in the city of Venice for the year
1799. Printed in double columns, a detailed listing is given of population
developments in the city of Venice. Subdivided by ‘sestiere’ and then parish
or hospital, births, both male and female are given, whereas the deaths are
grouped in male/female children, and male/female adults. The totals seem
to indicate that even in the eighteenth century Venice was struggling with
a diminishing population.
Not found in any of the bibliographical reference works.
134 [VERDY DU VERNOIS, Adrien Marie Francois de.]
Recherches sur les carrousels anciens et modernes. Suivies d’un
projet de jeux équestres à l’imitation des tournoys de l’ancienne
chevalerie. Dans lequel on démontre l’utilité que la noblesse
retireroit du rétablissement de ces jeux, autrefois l’école de l’adresse
& de la valeur. [?Cassel, n.p.], 1784. £750
8vo, [ii], [iv], [3]–155, [1] blank; title page and first signature a little
browned, paper fault to blank lower margin of F3; nineteenth-century
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Maritime Law and Insurance
135 VERWER, Adriaen. Nederlants See-rechten, Avaryen, en
Bodemeryen: begrepen in de gemeene Costuimen vander See, de
placcaten van Keiser Karel den Vijfden. 1551, en Koning Filips
den II. 1563, ‘t tractaet van Mr. Quintyn Weitsen van de
Nederlantsche avaryen, ende daerenboven in eene verhandelinge
nopende het recht der Hollantsche bodemeryen. Amsterdam,
Jan Boom, 1711. £950
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4to, pp. [xii], 242, [2] index; single worm hole to gutter margin and
faint damp-stain at foot; still a good copy; contemporary full vellum,
spine lettered in ink; some wear to lower outer corner.
First edition of this original treatise on maritime law and maritime
insurance. Verwey combines a practical manual, digest and commentary on
the statutes with an original treatise on bottomry. He discusses the Wisby
and Hanse maritime laws and the strict placaat of 1551, which safeguarded
the seaworthiness of Dutch merchant ships, despite insurance. A further
section deals with the comprehensive codification of maritime law under
Philip of Spain in 1563. Quintyn Weytsen’s treatise on the Roman law of
averages, first published in 1731 is here reprinted in the original Dutch.
Verwer mostly concentrates on questions of insurance, including bottomry,
loss, average and salvage – and provides a comprehensive overview of the
state of maritime law at the time.
Adriaen Verwer (c 1655 – 1717), was a merchant, but also a serious
author on legal questions, and a writer on philosophy and linguistics. His
treatise was well respected and was reprinted a number of times up to
1764.
The Founding Father of German Seaside Resorts
136 VOGEL, Samuel Gottlieb von. Allgemeine Baderegeln. Zum
Gebrauche für Badelustige überhaupt und diejenigen insbesondere,
welche sich des Seebades in Doberan bedienen. Stendal, Franzen &
Grosse, 1817. £750
8vo, pp. xiv, [ii], 159, [1] blank; wood-engraved title vignette with
goddess lifting a water dish; contemporary marbled boards, extremities
a little rubbed, but a good copy.
First edition of this charming guide to bathing both in the sea and in spa or
bathing facilities by the founding father of German seaside resorts.
Vogel begins with the general principles of sea-bathing, best done in
the morning, never with a full stomach, or when exhausted, over-heated,
or over-emotional. Gradual entry into cold water is recommended, and
sea bathing is most beneficial when approached in a jolly mood. Vogel
recommends full immersion into the water for best effects, preferably
without any bathing suits or shirts, and can thus be seen as the earliest
supporter of naturist bathing. He also recommends swimming caps to
protect the hair. A number of brief dips are better than remaining in the
water for a longer period. Under certain medical conditions, sea bathing is
not recommended, such as high blood pressure, pregnancy, or old age.
Vogel concludes with a brief final section on hot baths, which in general
are to be treated with similar caution as cold ones, but which may be enjoyed
for much longer periods. He stresses the importance for entertainment
during hot baths, be it through music or readings.
Samuel Gottlieb von Vogel (1750 – 1837) was a German physician,
and is generally seen as the founding father of German seaside resorts.
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After studies in Göttingen, Vogel practiced as a physician in the town,
and published a number of medical works. Later he became professor at
the University of Rostock, and in 1793 he advised Friedrich Franz I in
the foundation of the seaside resort Heiligendamm, where he became the
resident spa physician.
Uncommon, OCLC lists DNLM in addition to three German libraries.
137 [WOMEN SAMMELBAND.] 1. [ESTIENNE, Henri.]
Discours merveilleux de la vie ... de Catharine de Medicis, mere
de François II, Charles Henry III, rois de France. Jouxte la copie
imprimée. Paris. [n.p.], 1663. 12mo, pp. 113.
2. Histoire de la vie de la reyne Christine de Suede: Avec un
veritable recit du sejour de la reyne à Rome, et la defense du marquis
de Monaldeschi contre la reyne de Suede. Stockholm, Jean Pleyn de
Courage, 1677. 12mo, engraved portrait frontispiece, pp. [2], 212.
3. [MANCINI, Hortense.] Mémoires D. M. L. D. M. (de Mme la
duchesse de Mazarin). Cologne, P. Du Marteau, 1676. 12mo, pp.
144.
4. [MANCINI, Maria.] Les Memoires De Madame la Princesse
Marie Mancini Colonna. Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1677. 12mo, pp.
140.
5. [LETI, Gregorio.] Histoire de donna Olimpia Maldachini,
Traduite de l’italien, de l’abbé Gualdi. Leyden, Iean Dv Val, aux
armes de Liege, 1666. 12mo, pp. 213
6. [ANON.] Relation de la cour de Savoye ou les amours de
Madame Royale. [n.p.] [1680?]. 12mo, pp. 36.
7. [BUSSY, Roger de Rabutin, comte de 1618–1693.] Histoire du
Palais Royal. N.p. n.d., [1666]. 12mo, pp. 96.
8. [PALLAVICINO, Ferrante.] La Rettorica delle Puttane,
composta conforme li precetti di Cipriano. Dedicata all’università
delle Cortegiane piu Celebri. Villafranca, [Amsterdam, L.D.
Elzevier], 1673. 12mo, pp. 124.
£2,800
Eight works in one volume, 12mo and 8vo, contemporary full vellum,
yapp edges; a good copy.
A fine Sammelband on scandalous women – eight seventeenth century
works, partly written by the women themselves, but mostly by misogynist
male contemporaries, culminating in Pallavicino’s famous erotic narrative,
translated as The Whore’s Rhettorick.
Included are the lampoon biography of Catherine de Medici, ‘praised’
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for her relentless ambition for her children; a biography of queen Christina
of Sweden, with an aside on her doubtful part in the death of the Marquis
Monaldeschi; two works by the French women writers Marie and Hortense
de Mancini. Marie (1640 –1715) was courted by Louis XIV, but forced
by Mazarin to abandon this relationship and Marie de Mancini was locked
up in a convent. Hortense (1646–1699), who took the title Duchesse de
Mazarin, married the wealthy duc de la Meilleraye, became the mistress
of the duc de Rohan and later, while in England, also of Charles II. She
founded a society of witty libertines. Memoires of the sisters were published
in 1675 and 1678 respectively.
Bound at the end is the second edition of Pallavicino’s famous erotic
narrative, a burlesque modelled on Aretino’s Ragionamenti. The work
consists of fictional dialogues between a poor young woman who is trying
to better her station in life, and a woman of pleasure. They debate the
relative merits of virtue versus using one’s female powers for pleasure and
personal gain. It was first published in 1642, and in 1673 also issued as
part of Pallavicino’s Opere Scelte. Pallavicino (1615–44), a free-thinking
intellectual and rebellious monk, wrote religious novels, satirical fiction and
erotic narratives that can barely be characterised as novels. In 1644 he was
beheaded at Avignon for anti-papal writings.
Pallavicino Brunet IV, 327; Gay-Lemmonier III, 1012; Graesse V, p.110; Melzi
I, 432; H.B. Copinger, Elzevier 3472; Willems 1488.
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138 WOODWARD, Augustus B. Considerations on the executive
government of the United States of America. Flatbush, (NY), Isaac
Riley, 1809. £1,950
8vo in 4s, pp. 87, [1] blank; original printed pink wrappers, a little
dusty and dog-eared, small chip to head and tail of spine; old French
circular library stamp in red to title-page and contemporary mss note in
ink at head of wrapper, reading ‘Government of the Unit. States’; a very
fine copy.
First edition of this important tract on the reform of the United States
Constitution. Woodward, a noted jurist, proposes that the executive power
of the nation be vested in a ‘permanent body rather than in an individual’
(Shaw & Shoemaker 19261). He calls for the elimination of the second
article of the constitution. A reformed executive branch would consist of a
President and four ‘Councillors’, who would need a simple majority of two
councillors and the president for any decisions.
Woodward evokes a Hobbesian sense of relations between nations.
Similar to Jefferson, he fears an oppressive executive branch, ruled by a
single man subject to bias, which would enfeeble the country.
Woodward (1774–1827) was born in New York, educated at Columbia,
and an admirer and friend of Jefferson. From 1797 he practiced law in
Georgetown, played an active part in the incorporation of the city of Washington
and was elected a member of its first council (1801). At this time
he began to publish on constitutional matters. In 1805 Jefferson appointed
him Chief Justice of Michigan Territory, where he compiled the first code of
laws, now known as the ‘Woodward Code’. ‘Woodward was the dominant
figure in the court and legislative body of Michigan... He was a man of
strong character ... a thorough lawyer, positive and independent in his
views, regardless of popularity, somewhat eccentric, and occasionally arbitrary.
His philosophic and political ideas were at time visionary’ (DAB).
This is one of the earliest books to be published in Flatbush, on Long
Island.
Howes W657; Sabin 105148; Shaw & Shoemaker 19261.
139 [WORKER’S PAY.] Livres de notice, des gages des
domestique(s) et ouvrie(rs) de la bas cour 1691. Fine Manuscript
in ink. France, n.p., ca. 1691–1704. £1,400
Narrow 4to (293 x 93 mm); pp. [64], with a few blank leaves; bound
in an earlier vellum liturgical manuscript leaf; fine manuscript in ink,
written in a legible hand.
An attractive manuscript listing the salaries paid for servants, domestic
help and other workers at an unidentified French estate, presumably the
farmyard or basse court of a castle or possibly monastery. This annotated
account book covers the period between 1691 and ca. 1704, and lists the
payments to twenty-four employees, some identified by name, others
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y function. Domestic salaries were paid traditionally on February 2nd,
Chandeleuse (Chandeleur) or Candlemass Day, as this was apparently the
traditional day for hiring. The usage of the term ‘chandeleuse’ instead of
‘chandeleur’ seems to indicate that the manuscript comes from the central
south-eastern part of France, esp. the dioceses of Besançon und Vienne (see
Ernst, Histoire linguistique de la Romania, 2006, p. 1327).
Bookseller’s Catalogue
140 ZATTA, Antonio. Catalogus Librorum omnium tam veterum,
quam recentiorum, qui venales reperiuntur apud Antonium Zatta
q.m JAC. Bibliopolam & Typographum Venetum Accedit etiam in
fine parvus index librorum Gallica lingua conscriptorum. [Venice,
Zatta], 1780. £2,900
12mo, pp. 307, [3] blank; contemporary publisher’s binding of buff
carta rustica; a fine and crisp copy.
First edition thus of this fine booksellers’ catalogue recording all the books
to be had at the leading Venetian publisher Antonio Zatta (1722–1804),
who specialised in illustrated books and bibliography. The catalogue lists
a stock of about 3300 books for sale, giving author, title, format, place
and date of printing and price. The catalogue is alphabetically arranged by
author and title, listing first the Latin books by author and within a separate
alphabet the books in Italian by title. The only exception to this rule are
books by Dante which do appear in the Italian section under ‘D’ rather than
the individual titles. At the end follow a brief separate section of books in
French, prints and engravings, and maps.
Not just Zatta’s publication are being offered – many in a variety of
formats or printed on different papers – but also books published by other
contemporary Venetian printers, including his main rivals Albrizzi and
Pasquali. Zatta also advertises books for sale from other contemporary
Italian printers, and some from printing presses in France, Germany and the
Netherlands, and thus acts as a clearinghouse for European publications.
The majority of the books are eighteenth century, but there are a few from
the seventeenth and even sixteenth centuries.
Zatta’s catalogue is a highly valuable first hand source on the distribution
of books.
Pollard & Ehrmann, The distribution of Books by Catalogue to 1800, p. 306, n 127
(this copy); OCLC lists copies at Harvard, Newberry Library, Bavarian State
Library in Munich, and Bibliothèque Nationale.
Back cover illustration, see item 54
inv . kitzinger
imp . smith settle