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

31. ESCOBAR, J. S. de or ZURITA, J.A.
Dificultad imaginada, Facilidad verdadera.
En la practica de testamentos, reducida â ocho
documentos. Mexico, M. de Ribera Calderon,
1714. $2,250
8vo, pp. [xviii], 72; woodcut endpiece;
contemporary limp vellum.
First edition, rare, of this Mexican treatise on wills,
published anonymously by the Congregacion de la
Buena morte.
Beristain, I, 412; Diaz 4521; Medina 7697; Medina, Imprenta
en Mexico, 2391; Sabin, XXIX, 297.
32. FABLES. Les Fables et la Vie d’Esope
composée par Planudes le Grand. Caen, T.
Chalopin, n.d., c. 1820. $1,300
8vo, pp. 79, [1]; illustrated with a woodcut
portrait of Aesop and 81 small woodcuts in the
text; stitched as issued in the original wrappers,
spine worn.
Charming chapbook edition of Aesop’s fables, with a
portrait and eighty-one woodcuts in the text, the final
woodcut is signed Godard d’Alençon.
René Hélot, n° 84; A. Sauvy, p. 117; OCLC: Bibliothèque
Nationale.
33. FANTONI, P. Relazione della visita
fatta … al Canal Maestro di Valdichiana e
considerazioni sopra il nuovo progetto di
abbassare il regolatore di Valiano. Florence,
Cambiagi, 1791. $2,100
Folio, pp. 52, with 6 plates (3 engraved, 3 printed,
one with engraved elements, one folding);
original carta rustica.
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, a problem that had defeated Galileo, Viviani
and Torricelli.
Moreni 358; Riccardi I, 446.
34. FARINATI, P. Diverses Figures a l’eau
forte de petits Amours, Anges vollants, et
Enfans. Paris, A. Bosse, 1644. $9,200
Oblong 4to, (197 x 250 mm), 30 engraved plates;
early eighteenth-century vellum-backed marbled
boards, from the Macclesfield library.
First edition of a very appealing series of engravings
by Abraham Bosse after designs by Paolo Farinati
(1524–1606). The plates depict small cupids and
angels (22 plates) and the remaining eight plates
show masks.
Blum, 940–943; Cicognara 2028; see Berlin 4355.
35. FARSETTI, G. T. La Trasformazione
d’Adria al Serenissimo Doge Pietro Grimani.
Venice, Albrizzi, 1752. $1,050
4to, pp. xxviii, [2], with four small and one full
page engravings; original buff stiff wrappers.
First edition, of this illustrated poem in praise of
Venice, a fine example of eighteenth century Venetian
book production.
Morazzoni 229; Cicogna 1848 and 2452; not in Gamba;
OCLC records copies at NYPL, Boston College, University
of Rochester, BL and Bavarian State Library.
36. FENCING. Regulations and instructions
for the infantry sword exercise. Adjutant-
General’s Office, Horse-Guards, 10th
September, 1819. London, Clowes, 1819. $600
8vo, large folding engraved plate bound as
frontispiece (560 x 420 mm), pp. 63, [1] imprint;
early pebble-grain red cloth.
First edition of one of the earliest fencing manuals
specifically for the British infantry, with a plate
by Henry Angelo, Jr (1780 – 1852), the last of the
famous dynasty of English fencing masters.
Thimm, p. 239.
37. FOURNIER, P. S. Manuel Typographique,
utile aux Gens de Lettres. Tome I
[–II]. Paris, J. Barbou, 1764/1766 [vere 1768].
$6,600
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv] two engraved
frontispieces, xxxii, 323, [5], and 8 folding
engraved plates; [iv], xliv, [ii], 306, and 8 folding
engraved plates, pages 177–186 as fold-out pages
with printed music; contemporary full calf, spine
decoratively gilt.
First edition, a fine copy, of Fournier’s masterpiece, a
magnificent type specimen, which is regarded as ‘the
most important book on French eighteenth century