New York 2012 Susanne Schulz-Falster - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

58. LE NOBLE, E. Carta Topografica
dell’Isola del Maritaggio. Cosmopoli, n.p.
1765. $2,300
8vo, pp. 43, [1] folding engraved map; early
nineteenth century half red roan over marbled
boards, spine gilt.
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 mountain range
of the ‘in-laws’, with possibilities of transferring to
the peninsulas of ‘widowhood’ and ‘divorce’ or the
‘island of bigamy’.
See Cioranesco II, 42504; Fromm IV 14905; OCLC lists
copies at McGill, UCLA, Kansas and Princeton.
59. LEREBOURS, J.-N. 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 Deuxième Edition. [Paris,
Lerebours,], 1809. $2,650
8vo, pp. 16; a few items discretely marked in ink;
recent marbled wrappers.
A very rare comprehensive catalogue of scientific
instru ments prepared by Jean-Noël Lerebours
(1761–1840), the best French producer of optical
instruments of the first half of the 19th century.
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.
60. LIGHTHOUSE – ALDINI, G. Saggio
di macchine relative alla luce intermittente dei
fari tanto a olio che a gas. Modena, Tipografia
Camerale, 1825. $5,400
4to, pp. 24, two hand-coloured folding engraved
plates; contemporary full marbled calf,
First edition, uncommon, of Aldini’s more advanced
second contribution on the construction and
illumination of lighthouses, using both oil and gas
as an illuminant. Here he introduced a hydraulic
mechanism for the intermittent light beam of the
lighthouse and comments on illuminations for
festivities, and street and theatre lighting.
DSB, I, pp.107 ff; Hirsch, I, p. 98; OCLC: Harvard, NYS
College of Ceramics.
61. LOCKE, J. Elements of Natural
Philosophy Glasgow, R. Urie, 1758. $950
12mo in 6s, pp. [ii], v, [1] contents, 110, with
one large folding engraved plate; contemporary
mottled calf, spine gilt.
Rare Glasgow printing. 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.
62. LOMEIER, J. De bibliothecis liber
singularis. Editio secunda. Utrecht, Ribb,
1680. $2,250
8vo, pp. [xvi] including engraved title (specially
engraved for this edition), 414; [20] index,
[1] errata, [1] blank; contemporary full calf,
gilt lettered spine label; a fine copy from the
Macclesfield library.
Second much enlarged edition of this comprehensive
survey and history of libraries (first edition 1669),
with detailed information on the responsibilities of
librarians, library locations and buildings, and library
fittings.
Petzholdt p. 26 (with a discussion on the order of books in
libraries).
63. LYSER, J. Discursus politicus de
Polygamia Auctore Theophilo Althaeo.
Freiburg, Cunrath, 1674. $1,600
12mo, pp. 96; contemporary full vellum, giltlettered
spine label.
First edition, rare, of this vigorous defence of
polygamy, which caused a furore throughout
Europe. Lyser maintained that polygamy was allowed
according to the Bible and natural law, and, moreover,
that it led to true happiness of the individual citizens,
revitalised the country, and created a higher standard
of living.
Gay-Lemmonier III, 842; Hayn-Gotendorf VI, 234; Peignot,
Livres condamnés au feu, I, 273.