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

12. BOSSE, A. De la Maniere de Graver
a l’Eau forte et au Burin … Augmentée de
l’Impression qui imite les tableaux, de la
Gravure en maniere de crayon, & de celle qui
imite le lavis. Paris, Jombert, 1758 [vere ca
1773]. $4,000
Tall 8vo (196 x120 mm), engraved frontispiece,
pp. xxxii, 205, [3], with four engraved vignettes
and 21engraved folding plates; contemporary full
catspaw calf, gilt.
Second Jombert edition of Bosse’s etching and
engraving manual with extensive additions on colour
printing.
Bigmore-Wyman, I, 72; Cicognara 255.
13. BOTTARELLI, G. De Bagni di San
Casciano. Florence, Vangelisti, [1688]. $3,500
12mo, pp. 308 [310], with four etched plates bound
in; contemporary vellum.
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,
with fine etched plates, showing ladies submerged,
and gentlemen under the head shower.
Vinciana 1845; Krivatsy 1607; Waller 1338; Wellcome II, p.
210.
14. BOZE, C. Gros de or G.-A. BAZIN. Le
Livre Jaune. Basle, 1748. $2,800
8vo, pp. [xxiv], 184; contemporary half calf,
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.
Barbier II 1331; Brunet III 1129 (50 copies); G. Peignot &
A.A. Renouard, p. 25 (30 copies).
15. BRUNNER, J. J. Vorschrift zu nützlicher
Nachahmung und einer fleissigen Ubung zu
Gutem vorgestellt und geschrieben. Bern,
Guttenberger, 1766. $1,950
Oblong folio ll. 17 engraved plates including
engraved title; early nineteenth century roanbacked
boards.
First edition of an attractive practical writing manual
by Brunner.
Becker 173; Berlin 4912; Bonacini 286; Doede 190.
16. CALENDAR. Agenda Perpétuel. A
l’usage des Négocians, Banquiers, Agens de
Change. Paris, Caillot, ca 1820. $900
12mo, frontispiece, title, pp. [122], ll. 32 of blank
leaves, and a printed calendar for 1821 pasted
in; original green crushed morocco, gilt, with
matching silver stylus.
A charming perpetual calendar diary, which includes
substantial economic and financial information.
17. CARTOGRAPHY – ANON.
Vorschriften für topographische Zeichnungen
in der Königlich Bayerischen Armee. Mit 42
Tafeln. Munich, G. F., 1845. $1,200
Ten parts, 8vo, pp. vi, 47, and 42 plates, mounted
on buff cloth, in nine sections; preserved in the
original slipcase.
First edition of this attractive introduction to the
production and colouring of topographical maps
and charts for the Bavarian army. 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.
18. CHAPPE, C. Il Telegrafo. Rome, n.p.,
1794. $1,000
8vo, pp. xiii, [3] blank, 4 engraved plates bound
at the end; partly uncut in contemporary blue
wrappers.
First edition in Italian of Claude Chappe’s ‘optical’
telegraph, a semaphore which depended on visual
signals and preceded the modern telegraph.
See E. Jacquez, Claude Chappe, notice biographique, 1893;
Newton, Encyclopedia of Cryptology, p. 205.