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

94. UNIVERSITY – ANON. Das Leben
auf Universitäten nebst einem Verzeichnis
aller burschikosen Ausdrücke. Sondershausen,
Voigt, 1822. $920
12mo, pp. [xiv], 259; contemporary roan-backed
boards.
First and apparently only edition of this anonymous
introduction to student life at German universities,
with a detailed glossary of German student term inology.
Hayn/Gotendorf IV, p. 75; Erman/Horn I, 12317; OCLC
lists copies at Stanford and UCLA.
95. VEGETIUS, F. R. De l’arte militare
Vegetio ne la comune lingua nouamente
tradotto. [colophon:] Venice, di Vitale,
January, 1524. $3,500
8vo, pp. [xvi], 176 [A8, B-Y4, including final
blank]; 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.
Haym, IV, 164; not in Adams, not in BL (STC).
96. VINÇARD, B. L’Art du Typographe.
Paris, Vinçard, 1806 $2,800
8vo, pp. [xii] including engraved frontispiece,
218, [ll. 4] five ll. printed in colour, 219–246, with
17 engraved plates; ll. 8 are printed on coloured
stock; contemporary sheep-backed paste-paper
boards.
First edition of this attractive and well-illustrated
comprehensive printing manual with eight full-page
examples of printing on coloured stock, and also five
examples of printing with coloured inks.
G. Barber, p. 16; Bigmore & Wyman III 51; Gaskell, Barber &
Warrilow F8; JPHS, F8; Jackson Burke 990.
97. WATELET, C.-H. L’Art de Peindre.
Poëme. Paris, H.L. Guerin & L. F. Delatour,
1760. $920
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xxiv, 152, with five
engraved vignettes, eight portrait medallions,
and two full-page plates; finely bound in
contemporary full red morocco, gilt.
First edition, illustrated with finely engraved vignettes
of Watelet’s didactic poem on art. Particularly appealing
are the vignettes and portrait medallions, showing
reading and drawing putti.
Cohen-de Ricci 1051.
98. WOMEN. Hippolytus Redivivus id est
remedium contemnendi sexum muliebrem.
Netherlands, n.p., 1644. $1,200
12mo, pp. 96, title page vignette; nineteenth
century polished tan calf, gilt.
First edition (second issue) of this outspoken satire
against women, a collection of proverbs, maxims and
quotations about the female sex. Under different
head ings female weaknesses are exposed, such as
vanity, secretiveness, curiosity, talkativeness, pride
etc.
Brunet III, 178; Gay II 482.
99. WOMEN – SECRET LIBRARY.
Etui Bibliothek der Deutschen Classiker,
volume 1–60 in 60 volumes, housed in Lady’s
embroidery kit. Zwickau, Schumann, (later
Aachen, Forstmann & Heilbronn, Strasser),
1815–1821. $9,800
Sixty volumes, small 8vo (98 x 80 mm), all
with engraved frontispieces, a.e.g., bound in
contemporary marbled boards; housed in a
custom-made octagonal embroidery or knitting
case (235 x 239, 158 mm), with an insert holding
99 ivory spools (75 of them with coloured silk
yarn); case covered in floral silk, with brass
handles and brass lock (key present), silk
covering a little faded and worn.
Fine set of a German travelling library of ‘pocket
editions’ of German classics housed and hidden in a
custom-made needlework box. This ‘secret’ library
was apparently given as a wedding present by a
friend of the bride as indicated in the hand-written
letter pasted into the upper cover of the case.