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

8vo, lithograph frontispiece, pp. viii [9] – 55, [1]
advertisement; contemporary buff boards.
First edition of this comprehensive guide to stain
removal from all manner surfaces with the help of
Javelle water – an early form of dry cleaning.
OCLC lists copies at the BL and Göttingen only.
71. NOLIN, J.-B. Methode Geographique
tres facile pour l’Intelligence des Cartes de
Geographie Disposée Par Demandes et par
Rêponses. Paris, I.B. Nolin, ca. 1700. $2,400
8vo (168 x 113mm), entirely engraved, pp. 30,
including engraved allegorical title and 5 doublepage
maps; contemporary full calf, spine gilt in
compartments.
First and only edition of this entirely engraved
introduction to basic geography and map-making
in the form of questions and answers. The globe,
equator, poles, zones, tropics, eclipses etc. are
explained and illustrated.
Uncommon, OCLC and KVK record copies at Auxerre and
Wolfenbüttel and the library of the Abbé Grégoire at Blois
only.
72. PEDROCCHI, C. Lettere amichevole
che trattano di politica economica, d’arti e
commercio. [n.p., n.p.], 1802. $1,200
8vo, pp. 124; printed on light-blue paper; bound
in contemporary calf-backed boards.
First edition, rare, of this very attractive series of
letters on trade, commerce, manufacturing and
polit ical economy, written by a Venetian merchant
operating (and writing) from Bergamo.
Kress Italian 706; not in Einaudi.
73. PHYSIOGNOMY. Physionomies
nationales des peuples, ou, Les traits de leur
visage comparés à leur mœurs et caractères.
Paris, Delaunay, [ca 1810.] $1,500
12mo in 6s, engraved title, pp. 125, [1] table, and
25 hand-coloured engraved plates; contemporary
red roan-backed marbled boards.
First edition of this appealing spin-off from Lavater’s
great work on physiognomy – a mini-physiognomy
of the peoples of the world. Twenty-five different
nationalities are described and illustrated, and their
physical traits are compared to their moral ones.
Included are American Indians and inhabitants of
Australasia.
Ferguson, 505a; not in Colas, Hiler or Lipperheide.
74. POSTAL SERVICE. Placat hvorved
en ny Brev-Posttaxt for Kongeriget Danmark
og Hertugdommene Slesvig og Holsteen
bekiendtgiores. Copenhagen, Schultz,
1801. $750
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 Hostein and
Norway – with a fine engraved plate.
OCLC lists just the Danish National Library copy; see David
Cornelius, An Introduction to the Postal History of Denmark
1624–1950, 2004.
75. RAVENSTEIN, A. Plastischer Schul-
Atlas für die Erste Stufe des Unterrichts in
der Erdkunde. Fünfte ganz umgearbeitete
Auflage. Frankfurt am Main, B. Dondorf
and Berlin, E. Schotte, 1865. $7,200
Boxed set of two series of eight maps (225 x
275mm), one series in three-dimensional raised
relief, mounted in wooden frames; preserved in a
contemporary fold-over box (240 x 290x 90 mm),
a little rubbed, but well preserved.
The first commercially produced terrain maps, a
boxed set of eight evocative relief maps of the world’s
continents produced for school children in Germany
in the second half of the nineteenth century.
ADB XXX, p. 68; NDB XXI, p. 221 ff; J. Espenhorst,
Petermann’s Planet II, 208, p. 1108 with illustration 41.2.;
OCLC lists copies in Amsterdam (1860), Library of
Congress.
76. RIDDLE – ANON. Das ABC cum
Notis Variorum.Leipzig, Dresden, Miethen &
Richter, 1703. $2,200
Two parts in one volume; frontispiece woodcut
of cockerel, 8vo, pp. [ii], 210 with one large