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Abracadabra
1 ALBERTI, Giuseppe Antonio. I Giuochi numerici fatti arcane
palesati. Terza Edizione adornato di Figure. Venice, Gio. Battista
Locatelli, 1788. £800
8vo, pp. 154, pp. 155–156 catalogue, with ll. 16 of engravings bound
in; Wrst signature a little browned; small hole to blank lower margin of
title, due to ink erosion; uncut in contemporary limp buV boards; spine
lettered in manuscript; ownership inscription by G. B P. Perazzi dated
1804.
Third edition (Wrst 1747), of Alberti’s well-known handbook of mathematical
puzzles, conjuring and magic, and in eVect the Wrst Italian book on
the subject. The Wrst section is taken up by number theory and mathematical
tricks, this is followed by card tricks, then sleight of hand, including the
well known thimble trick (illustrated on plates 1 and 2), and various tricks
involving appearing and disappearing rings. Further party tricks involve
(marked) cards and other ‘equipment’, optical illusions, invisible ink, blank
books and magic paper. All tricks are carefully described and explained and
illustrated on the engraved plates, with the express intention of revealing
the ‘artistic’ and scientiWc background to these tricks.
See: Riccardi I, p. 15; PoggendorV I, p. 23; Caillet I, 145 ‘rare’; Honeyman nr. 47;
Honeyman I, 40 (Wrst edition).
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Middle Class Values
2 [ALBERTI, Leon Battista.] Trattato del Governo della
Famiglia. D’Agnolo PandolWni. Colla Vita del Medesimo scritta
da Vespasiano da Bisticci. Florence, Stamperia Tartini e Franchi,
1734. £950
4to, pp. 52, 104; engraved title vignette, title printed in red and black;
engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials; uncut in the original buV
boards; marbled paper spine; a good copy.
First edition thus of book III of Alberti’s famous courtesy book Della
Famiglia, written between 1437 and 1441. Alberti (1404–72), Italian humanist,
philosopher, painter and architect, a true ‘Renaissance man’, concentrates
in this most important third part on household management and
business. In lively dialogues with his family he stresses the importance of
family life and a well-run household. The dialogues are based not on principles
but on real people and thus have a life-like immediacy. He underlines
the importance of business and money, which is central to the household
and needs to be managed carefully. Alberti’s description of content family
life under that watchful eye of the ‘pater familias’ has been used by sociologist
as the Wrst documentation of ‘bourgeois’ family life. This third book has
long been mistakenly attributed to Agnolo PandolWni.
Gamba 700.
On the Road in Enlightenment Europe
3 [ALFIERI, Vittorio attrib.] Lo Spione Italiano o sia Corrispondenza
segreta e famigliare fra il March. di Licciocara, e il conte
RiWela, tutti due Viaggiatori incogniti per le diverse Corti dell’
Europa... Num 1 [– Num 3]. In Europa, 1782. £900
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. 136; 135, [1] blank; 128;
contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, with
gilt-lettered label and numbering piece; spine repaired.
First edition of this lively exchange of letters recording the exploits and adventures
of two cavaliers travelling through the courts of Europe, juxtaposed
with social and political observations on life at the time. The letters
document the spirit of the early 1780s and the two correspondents, one the
Italian diplomat Marchese Domenico Caracciolo, writing under the pseudonym
Marchese di Licciocara, and reporting on meetings with public
Wgures, recording street conversations etc., the other the most admired
writer of the Italian Risorgimento Vittorio AlWeri (1749–1803), who had
spent a decade travelling throughout Europe ‘about ten years of travel and
dissolute conduct’, as he later wrote in his autobiography. Reports of meeting
Rousseau, discussing Benjamin Franklin etc., are mixed with comments
on the local women, fashion, carnival and other festivities. Because of its
mildly licentious content the book was placed on the index.
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The book was published anonymously but recently it has been attributed
to AlWeri.
Parenti p. 80; see Masini, Pier Carlo. AlWeri. Collana ‘Perduti e ritrovati’: 2, Pisa
1997, a study concerning the probable authorship by AlWeri of the periodical; uncommon,
not found in RLIN/OCLC, two copies recorded in ICCU.
The First Book Entirely Devoted to Women’s Fashion
4 AMMAN, Jost. Im Frauwenzimmer wirt vermeldt von allerley
schönen Kleidungen unnd Trachten der Weiber, hohes und niders
Stands, wie man fast an allen Orten geschmückt unnd gezieret ist.
Als Teutsche, Welsche, Französische, Engelländische, Niderländische,
Böhemische, Ungarische und alle anstossende Länder.
Durchauss mit neuwen Figuren geziert dergleichen nie ist aussgangen.
Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn, Sigmund Feyrabend,
1586. £8500
Small 4to, ll. 119, (lacking the Wnal blank) title printed in red and black,
woodcut to title, woodcut arms at the beginning of the dedication and
122 full page woodcuts, the large majority printed on rectos only, only
the Wrst nine and Wnal Wve woodcuts are printed on recto and verso; title
page a little dust-soiled, fore-margin of dedication shaved, just touching
letters, but no loss; paper occasionally lightly browned, but in all very
clean and crisp, with strong impressions; eighteenth century full vellum
over boards, spine title in manuscript.
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First edition of the Wrst book entirely devoted to women’s dress: Amman’s
famous depiction of women of all classes. Illustrated are costumes from all
over Europe and one of an American native (‘ein Fraw auss Peruvia’), arranged
by social rank, (from empress to servant) and by country and city.
Patricians, burghers, peasants and nuns from diVerent cities, regions and
countries are depicted in sixteenth century costume. ‘Amman’s woodcuts
are of great importance since they give a vivid, manifold and mostly realistic
picture of late sixteenth century fashion, when the ‘new Spanish style’ conquered
all of Europe. Accessories and head-dress give valuable information
on social conventions. An eight-line verse by Konrad Lautenbach is printed
half above and half below the illustrations explaining the Wgure represented
in a jocose manner’ (see Erdmann 25).
The woodcuts are by Jost Amman (1539–1591), one of the foremost
artists of his time. An edition with Latin text was published later the same
year. ‘The style of the Wgures in the Frauwenzimmer is very diVerent from
that of Amman’s 1577 Trachtenbuch whose plates were cut by Hans Weigel.
The spontaneous rendition of the Wgures, especially compared with those
that also appear in the earlier book ..., suggests that perhaps Amman himself
may have cut the wood blocks for the Frauwenzimmer (J. A. Olian, Sixteenth
century costume books, in ‘Dress’, 3, 1977, p. 28).
VD16, L–727; C. Becker, Jost Amman, 1854, p. 134–135, no 42a; Kelso p. 329,
no 27; Erdmann 25; Hiler p. 25; Colas 126; Lipperheide Aa 29.
Town Planning through the Ages
5 ANCORA, Gaetano D’. Della Economia Wsica degli Antichi
nel construire le città. Naples, Zambraia, 1796. £1400
8vo, pp. [ii], 8, 297, 1; some browning and spotting at beginning and
end; contemporary limp buV boards, backed with marbled paper;
manuscript note in ink to verso of Wnal page; presentation copy with the
inscription ‘Dono dall’ Autore’ to title page, from the library of the
eminent statistician Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi.
First edition of this interesting treatise on historical town planning, documented
in the publications from classical authors. D’Ancora argues that
over the centuries various precautions were taken when planning towns or
individual dwellings, which could well be of use when planning in the
present day. With reference to classical authors, but also early modern and
enlightenment writers, he discusses the location of water supplies, temperate
climate, air Xow and exposure to wind, climate change, and prerequisites
regarding soil. He stresses the importance of an existing or developing
road and port system, and proximity to a civic centre with public facilities,
such as theatres and hospitals – again with detailed references to the classics.
An extensive chapter is devoted to the construction of private houses,
stressing the importance of natural light, galleries for privacy, and cool
rooms for food storage. He concludes with a chapter on how to keep the
towns clean, by removing certain professions such as tanners to outside of
the city limits, and positioning cemeteries out of town. Throughout
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D’Ancora supports his Wndings with extensive bibliographical details. The
Wnal index makes the information more easily accessible.
Gaetano D’Ancora (1751–1816) was professor of literature at the University
of Naples.
[Provenance:] From the library of D’Ancora’s contemporary and fellow
professor at Naples university, the eminent Italian statistician Cagnazzi
(1764–1852), who is best known for having published the Wrst comprehensive
Italian work on statistics.
Uncommon, RLIN/OCLC list copies at Berkeley, the University of Alberta, Edinburgh
and NEHA only.
Italian Revolutionary Journal
6 [ANDREOLA, Francesco ed.] Pubblica Mensione dei migliori
Pezzi d’Eloquenza e d’Istruzione che sono sortiti in Italia sotto gli
Auspizi della Libertà. Dalle Stampe del Cittadino Francesco
Andreola. [Venice, ?1797]. £650
8vo, pp. [iv], 199, [1] blank; pagination occasionally irregular, but
complete; title a little browned, small repaired worm hole to gutter
margin; insigniWcant browning to Wnal signature; uncut in the original
pale blue wrappers, rebacked with pattern paper.
First edition (all published) of an interesting revolutionary Italian journal,
collecting a number of articles by major representatives of Venetian public,
political and literary life. Further volumes had been planned, but the turbulent
developments of the fall of the Venetian Republic apparently prevented
this.
Major Wgures of the new government, amongst them Francesco Mengotti,
M. Cesarotti, Vitt. Barzoni and Vincenzo Monti contributed articles,
ranging from suggestions on the reform of the education system, to a tearful
tribute of a son to his father who died in the struggle for liberty. There is an
essay on the political and historical importance of Dalmazia and Istria (G.
Bonaugurio), a dialogue on the democratic constitution by Vittorio
Barzoni, and particularly interesting a detailed description of the prisons of
the state inquisitors also by Barzoni. The work concludes with a description
of the dire situation in Verona, under siege by Napoleon for the past ten
months and reduced to a shadow of its former self. For greater eVect this letter
is also given in a French and an English translation (prepared by a Mr
Woodward).
RLIN/OCLC list only one copy at the University of Michigan; ICCU and
Marziana catalogue show only this one volume.
Federalism in Italy
7 ANGELONI, Luigi. Sopra l’Ordinamento che aver
dovrebbono i Governi d’Italia. Paris, the Author, 1814. £350
8vo, pp. 47; entirely uncut in the original blue wrappers.
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First edition of the Wrst purely political work of Angeloni, where he recommends
federalism as a solution to the Italian problem and a basis for an
independent Italian state, similar to the United States or the Helvetic Republic.
He stresses the importance of a union between the small Italian provincial
states, for a future role of the country within Europe.
Angeloni (1758–1842) had participated in the shortlived Roman Republic
and was one of the supporters of the publication of V. Russo’s
Pensieri Politici. When the Republic collapsed, he Xed to France, where he
remained together with Buonarotti one of the most important representatives
of Italian political emigration. Together with Canova and Marini he
became very much involved in the campaign to have the works of art removed
under Napoleon returned to the country.
DBI III, p. 244; RLIN/OCLC list copies at Harvard and NEHA.
8 [ANON.] Avventure di Diverse Dame Forestiere nel Convito
della Villeggiatura. Tradotte dall’ Inglese. Venice, Giuseppe Garizzo,
1772. £500
8vo, pp. iii–205, [1] imprint, with engraved frontispiece, possibly
lacking a half-title; occasional light spotting; uncut in contemporary
buV limp boards; boards a little discoloured, else Wne.
First and apparently only edition of this eighteenth century novel, recounting
the adventures of in a country ladies’ boarding school. The book is arranged
in the form of letters, and discusses the adventures, both erotic and
intellectual of young women, their search for love and aVection, and ultimately
husbands. The letters are between a lady and her suitor, and a lady
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and her sister, and oVer advice on courtship, behaviour, morals, jealousy,
etc. The work is disguised as a translation from the English. No obvious
English original has been found.
Marchesi p. 377 (no details); not in Parenti, Leporace or Lapiccirella; not found in
ICCU, KVK or OCLC.
The Enlightenment Illustrated
9 ANON. Gli Studi e i Doveri che costituiscono il vero
Cittadino Repubblicano. L’amico della propria famiglia. [colophon:]
Bassano, 1787. £1500
4to, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece & title, iv, 39, 3 engravings bound
in; three Wgurative engraved head-pieces; frontispiece engraved by
Giovanni del Pian after a design of Antonio Bertoldi; title engraved by
A. Gabrieli after Aug. Colonna; imprint with elegant design; original
thin glazed paper boards, spine reinforced with marbled paper; corners
a little frayed, else a Wne copy.
A Wne copy of a rare and interesting work, stylistically inspired by Bodoni,
with wide margins and clean typography. The three engraved plates are of
exceptional quality within a book of this type. The verse celebrates the study
and obligations of the true republican citizen, praising in turn education,
work, and domestic economy. In the preface the emblematic frontispiece is
explained, with all its features that encompass the spirit of the republican
age, and praise the values of family, education, science and agriculture.
This is apparently some form of proof print, as pages ii and iii are pasted
on, and only the recto is already properly printed.
The three full-page engravings in the text, all rustic interior family scenes,
are engraved by Gabrieli after Rembrandt and Moitte.
Lapiccirella 118; rare, not found in RLIN or OCLC, KVK lists two copies in the
Italian COPAC and the Austrian National Library.
With Original Purchaser’s Invoice
10 ANSALDI, Innocenzio Andrea. Il Pittore originale, poemetto
didascalico del pittore et poeta Innocenzio Ansaldi di Pescia
pubblicato per la prima volta dal Can. Domenico Moreni. Si
Aggiungono le Memorie riguardanti la di lui vita e le di lui opere.
Florence, Francsco Daddi, 1816. £350
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4to, pp. viii, 88; uncut, in the original pale-blue wrappers; repair to
upper wrapper; from the collection of Pieri Gerini with printed label to
upper wrapper; loosely inserted the original receipt for the book.
First edition, published posthumously, of Ansaldi’s didactic poem on painting
and painters, which was well-received. He had earlier published a translation
of Alphonse du Fresnoy’s seventeenth century poetical treatise De
arte graphica, and this can be seen as his more personal response to it.
Ansaldi (1734–1816), painter and art historian, studied at the Academy of
Art in Florence, and then did an educational tour of Italy, studying art in
Rome, Naples, Genua, Padua and Venice. He published on art history and
monuments and art in Pescia, where he had settled for family reasons. Due
to his wide knowledge of art history, he advised numerous art collectors,
among them Domenico Morreni, who here contributes the extensive biographical
essay and list of Ansaldi’s paintings, and Cicognara.
Appealingly the book has loosely inserted the original purchase invoice,
dated 30 April 1817, made out by the Venice publisher and bookdealer
Giov. Fuchs to Cav. De Layara.
Thieme-Becker I, p. 536; DBI III, 366.
Cork Life-Saving Suit
11 BACHSTROM, Jean Frederic. L’Art de Nager, ou Invention à
l’aide de laquelle on peut toujours se sauver du Naufrage; &, en cas
de besoin, fair passer les plus larges Rivières à les Armées entières.
Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain, 1741. £1000
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8vo, pp. [iv] with engraved frontispiece and title page in red and black,
pp. 70, [2] blank; contemporary stiV paste-paper wrappers, spine a little
worn and chipped, but holding Wrm.
First edition of Bachstrom’s description of his invention of a life-jacket
made out of cork. Bachstrom begins with a brief account of earlier attempts
at life-saving and in fact diving equipment, before describing his own invention.
He gives credit to a Dutchman who had Wrst introduced him to the
idea. Only after experimenting with cork, which he then formed into some
form of jacket, did he really resolve the problem. He maintains that his was
the Wrst truly eVective life saving equipment in water, useful both for the
individual, but also for whole armies. It could be used both in cases of shipwreck,
but also as a means of transporting whole armies across rivers or
inlays.
Interestingly he also identiWes a business opportunity, by maintaining
that insurance rates for ships should go down when everyone on board is
kitted out with a life-jacket. The rather fetching cork jacket with trousers
attached is illustrated on the engraved frontispiece.
Bachstrom (1686–1742), a theologian and medical doctor, had a varied
and restless career in both theses Welds. At a time active as a Christian missionary
in Turkey, he later met his death there after unjustiWed accusations
of treason. In this work he also gives some information on his best known
publication on the prevention of scurvy, and midwifery, and also on his
attempts to procure a university education for his two daughters.
ADB 55, pp. 664–667; Graesse I, 271; Harrington, A list of works on swimming, 4.
Popular Potatoes
12 BALDINI, Filippo. De Pomi di Terra. Ragionamento di
Filippo Baldini. Napoli, 1783. £350
8vo, pp. 35, [1] advertisement; uncut in recent wrappers; a little dogeared
and title dust-soiled, ownership stamp ‘M’ to lower corner of title.
First edition of an appealing essay on the uses of the potato. The author had
been introduced to the potato by one of the descendants of the English
economist Joshua Child, and here gives a brief biological description of the
plant and fruit, its names in diVerent languages, and details of its cultivation.
Interestingly, he adds information on the American origin of the potato,
its introduction in Europe, and maintains that Cardano was the Wrst to
popularise it in Italy. He turns to a medical and biological analysis of the
health beneWts of the potato, and reports that in Sweden potato leaves are
used as tobacco.
In general the nutritional beneWts of the potato appear conWrmed, supported
by numerous contemporary authorities. Baldini comments on the
extensive use of the potato in English cooking, the Swiss fondness for
mashed potatoes, which are used to feed young children. He maintains that
in America the potato is the staple diet – even before the invention of french
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fries. In the last section he compares the nutritional value of potatoes and
grain, both for human consumption and for feeding animals.
Paleari 59; Westbury 19; RLIN/OCLC list just one copy at New York Botanical
Gardens Library.
Economic Reform
13 BANDINI, Salustio Antonio. Discorso Economico scritto
... nell’anno 1737 e pubblicato nell’anno corrente 1775. Doppo
la di lui morte seguita nel 1760. Firenze, Gaetano Cambiagi,
1775. £3200
Small 4to, pp. 209, [3] blank; entirely uncut in the original buV limp
boards; a very Wne and wide-margined copy.
First edition, very rare, of Bandini’s remarkable and innovative economic
reform proposal, contained in his Discorso supra la Maremma Toscana of
1737, oVered in manuscript to the grand-duke Francis in 1739 and not
published until 1775. When he investigated the social and institutional
causes of the depopulation of the Maremma region during the last years of
the Medici rule, Bandini proposed far-reaching structural reform, and basically
presented the leading principles of political economy. He was a political
visionary, advocating free trade, challenging price control, advocating
simple Wscal policies and thus anticipated economic debate by half a century.
He ‘suggested that it was necessary to change economic policy radically.
Restrictive provisions, pressure of taxation, endless intervention by legal
middlemen and useless annona regulations were no good. These cornerstones
of state intervention should be rejected and in their place the free
export of grain should be permitted which would make it proWtable for
producers to invest in agriculture in the lands of the Maremma, leading in
turn to the reduction in the tax burden on the peasants. This plan was too
far ahead of its time to be approved in its entirety by the new rulers, but in
1738 it was adopted in part when the free export of Maremma grain was
established. This was a limited measure that certainly was insuYcient to
Bandini’s demands which were suppressed until the 1760s when they were
revived by the physiocrats and the reformism of Leopold’ (Carpanetto &
Ricuperati, p. 170).
Einaudi 282; Kress Italian 447; L’Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli,
30; OCLC adds copies at Berkeley, Yale, New York and the National Library of
Wales.
European and American Population, Economic, and Military
Statistics
14 BEAUFORT, M. Le grand Porte-feuille politique, à l’usage
des Princes et des Ministres, des Ambassadeurs et des Hommes de
lois, des OYciers généraux de terre et de mer, ainsi que le Noblesse,
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du haut Clergé, des Financiers, des Voyageurs, Amateurs et Connoisseurs
des Sciences politiques; et enWn, de tous ceux qui suivent
la carrière politique, ou qui s’y destinent; en dix-neuf tableaux,
Contenant la Constitution actuelle des Empires, Royaumes,
Républiques, et autres principales Souverainetés de l’Europe. Paris,
Maradan, 1789. £1200
Large folio (528 x 402mm), pp. [iv], xv, [1] contents, with 19 doublepage
tables on guards, [2] approbation and privilege, with one large
folding engraved map inserted; occasional light browning; contemporary
half red roan over marbled boards, extremities a little rubbed and
leather dry; with Beaufort’s presentation signature to half title, from the
library of the economist Daniel Boileau; a Wne, large and clean copy.
First edition, rare, of this commentated statistical account of the principal
European powers on the eve of the French Revolution with the inclusion of
the newly founded United States of America. The nineteen double page
tables each deal with one country or political entity, covering Austria,
France, Russia, Turkey, Spain, England, Prussia, Portugal, Sardinia and the
PontiWcal States, Sweden and Denmark, Polen, Venice, Switzerland,
Genua and Malta, the German States, and America. Each table is arranged
in six columns, which in turn cover geographical location, population and
population density, with main cities and towns; military strength; Wnancial
position with Wgures of national debt and public revenue; political situation
and form of government; agriculture and natural resources; and Wnally
commerce, manufacturing and exchange. A Wnal section deals with interesting
observations regarding national characteristics, international relations
and alliances. In his preface Beaufort, who appears to have been employed
in the foreign oYce, gives a survey of economic and demographic theories
with some bibliographic information, citing Montesquieu, Hume, and
Verri amongst others. He stresses the importance of closer collaboration
between agriculture and industry.
This fascinating statistical-political survey of Europe immediately before
the French Revolution also includes information on America, with a particular
discussion of the democratic form of government and additional
information on issues like freedom of the press, slavery, etc. As indicated on
the title page, it was aimed at ambassadors, high government oYcials, and
the general reader. Due to its large size, it certainly would not have served as
a travelling manual, but in its tabular form, it gives easy access to vital statistical
information. These statistical tables would certainly have been used by
Peuchet and Chanlaire, and might easily have inXuenced Playfair.
In this copy an additional large folding map is bound in, entitled ‘Chart of
the Passage to the East of Banka. Laid down from observations in ship Van Sittart
by Capt Lestock Wilson 1789’.
INED 330; Martin-Walter 2181; Monglond I, 209; not in Einaudi; Goldsmiths’;
Kress or Sabin; RLIN records copies at Harvard, Stanford, American Philosophical
Society, University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge only.
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Il CaVè – First Collected Edition
15 [BECCARIA, Cesare and Pietro VERRI et al.] Il CaVé ossia
Brevi e Vari Discorsi distribuiti in Fogli Periodici. Dal Giugno,
1764 a tutto Maggio 1765. Tomo I [Dal Giugno 1765 per un Anno
Seguente, Tomo II.] Brescia, Giammaria Rizzardi, Galeazzi, 1765,
1766. £5600
Two volumes, 4to, pp. vii, [i] blank, 288; viii, 302, [2] advertisement;
title vignette, and decorated initials and head- and tail-pieces; some light
browning to paper; recently bound in calf backed marbled boards.
First collected edition of this highly important Italian enlightenment journal,
founded by Beccaria, the Verri brothers and others, and one of the most
important documents of Italian eighteenth century thought. The periodical
was short-lived and reached just seventy-four numbers in the course of two
years, before it was discontinued in 1766. InXuenced by the great English
examples, especially Addison and Steele’s Spectator, but also by the French
Encyclopédie, Il CaVè diVered greatly from its predecessors. It came out of
the intellectual circle of the Accademia dei Pugni and was published in
Brescia to avoid censorship. The periodical concentrated on law, economics,
agriculture, medicine, and the natural sciences. It epitomized the spirit
of reform and was encyclopaedic in its range. In it many of the subjects dealt
with by Verri and Beccaria found a broader forum and link with the public.
Verri’s contributions (on luxury, trade etc.) anticipate the arguments which
were to lead to his Meditazioni sull’economia politica. Beccaria contributed
numerous articles, particularly noteworthy are his introduction on the nature
of periodicals (De’ fogli periodici), but also his contributions to social
statistics, such as his remarkable Tentativo analitico sui contrabbandi (An Attempt
at an Analysis of Smuggling), his second contribution to mathematical
economics where he analyses the connection between tariVs and smuggling,
followed by his calculation of the odds at the game of faro.
A second edition was published in Venice, 1766 and further collected
edition followed in 1804.
Manuppella 305, 306; Einaudi 6161; HünersdorV I, p. 250; Melzi I, p. 160;
Ukers, All about coVee, pp. 30; this edition not in Kress or Goldsmiths’ where only
the 1804 collected edition is listed; see Dioguardi, Attualità dell illuminismo
milanese: Pietro Verri e Cesare Beccaria, 1998.
16 BECCARIA, Cesare and Pietro VERRI. Manuscript
document signed by Beccaria and Verri. [Milan], 27.4.1785. £750
4to, pp. 1 (290 x 197mm); a few creases, document number in upper
left-hand corner.
Addressed at the ‘UYzio per la Spedizione’ the document grants a transport
licence to Michele Bertolla ‘alla Provincia Cremoye come quadranta legume
condotti alla Città di Milano ... alla Città di Pavia ... conciedoli le licenze di
trasporto’.
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The document is countersigned All’Annona, dated 27 April 1785, and
signed in ink by Beccaria and Verri. At the time, both Cesare Beccaria and
Pietro Verri, two of the main proponents of the Milan enlightenment, were
working for the Milan Government.
Marriage in Mind in Mid-Eighteenth Century Italy
17 BERETTA, Francesco conte de. Principi di FilosoWa Cristiana
sopra lo Stato Nuziale ad uso delle Donzelle nobili, fondati nella
Ragione Divina, ed Umana, e nell’autorità Ecclesiastica, e Profana.
Opera utile e necessaria non solo alla Gioventù dell’uno, e dell’altro
sesso, ma ancora ai Padri, e delle Madri, e ai Direttori, e alle
Direttrice della medesima. Padua, Giuseppe Comino, 1730. £950
4to, pp. xxxxiv, 466, [13] table of contents, [1] errata, [2] advert, [1]
imprint; engraved Wgurative title vignette, decorative initials
throughout; very clean and crisp; contemporary full vellum over
boards; a Wne copy.
First edition of this detailed study of matrimony and matrimonial law as
applicable in mid-eighteenth century Italy. In this wide-ranging work,
Beretta gives the Christian perspective on the institution of marriage for
young women of the nobility, and presents a veritable catalogue of characteristics
and accomplishments, which will most securely lead to a Christian
marriage. He gives advice on beauty, comportment, health, age, modesty,
attire, the importance of polite and educated conversation, etc. and warns
of the pitfalls of hasty marriages. Separate chapters are devoted to young
women from particularly aZuent backgrounds, and give advice on how to
prevent unsuitable marriages. Of particular interest are his comments on
games and gambling (to be discouraged, of course) and on theatre and festivities,
such as ballet, dance etc. He concedes that these might be suitable
occasions for young people of marriageable age to meet. He accompanies
his treatise with extensive citations from the legal authorities, philosophers
and church fathers.
Uncommon; RLIN/OCLC list copies at Chicago, and Wayne State only.
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Besançon Guild Rules
18 [BESANÇON.] Ordonnances, Reglemens et Statuts des Arts
et Metiers de la Cité Royale de Besançon. Besançon, Louis Rigoine,
Imprimeur du Roy, 1689. £1250
Small 4to, pp. 146, [1], 10; large woodcut city arms to title; decorative
head- and tail-pieces and initials; occasional light browning; contemporary
mottled sheep, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, giltlettered
spine label; extremities a little rubbed and corners bumped, still
a good copy, with an early ownership inscription by one D’Auxiron.
First edition, uncommon, of this important compendium of craft and trade
rules and regulations in force in the city of Besançon. A brief introduction
of general trade rules is followed by the regulations applying to the diVerent
guilds and artisans, including masons, carpenters, roofers, launderer, metalworkers,
farriers, pavers, gold- and silversmiths, pewterers, cabinetmakers,
hatters, tailors, shoemakers, weavers, tanners, saddlers, harness-makers,
apothecaries, surgeons, bakers and pastry-makers, and butchers. Each individual
section extends to between four and six pages and covers guild membership,
apprenticeships, trade organisation, succession in case of death of a
guild member, and other regulations.
The work gives a most interesting insight into the rules and regulations
covering trades and professions in seventeenth century France. Interestingly
an updated version of these guild rules was published in 1784, when
the guilds had become obsolete, and were about to be abolished with the
French Revolution.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 2727; uncommon.
The Rules of the Blacksmiths
19 [BLACKSMITHS.] Statuti dell’Antica e Nobile Arte de
Ferrari. Rome, Stamperia della Rev. Cam. Apostolica. 1690. £1750
4to, pp. [xx], 55, [1] blank; woodcut arms of pope Alexander VIII to
title; title and text within double border; a few paper repairs, and edges
frayed; recent limp boards; title with ownership inscription in ink by
the early twentieth century legal historian William Ashburner.
First edition, rare, of the Wrst printed statutes of the guild of blacksmiths
and metalworkers of Rome. The blacksmiths had been part of a joint guild
of metalworks, saddlers, goldsmiths and jewellers as early as the fourteenth
century, but these are apparently the Wrst truly distinctive guild rules and
regulations. The statutes incorporate the additions agreed under pope Alexander
VIII and of course refer to the rulings under pope Clemens XI, which
only exist in manuscript.
The Wrst section gives a detailed picture of the organisational structure of
this guild, which played a major role in the history of the city both economically
and socially. Because of its responsibility for the production of armoury
and weaponry in addition to welding and general metalwork, it held
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an elevated position in the city structure. The statutes give details of the
hierarchy within the guild, eligibility for membership, appointment and
function of oYcials, training, rules of fair trading, and details of internal
jurisdiction. The second part concentrates on legal questions, both in civil
and criminal cases, especially regarding debt, price Wxing, and fraud.
Some of the blacksmiths also served as veterinary surgeons, and their
speciWc regulations, especially as regards to animal husbandry are outlined
in the third section, which also deals with the specialisations of coppersmith,
locksmith, and those who produce knives and metal instruments. No
trade with Jews is allowed, and supplying Jews with arms and weaponry is
expressly forbidden.
This copy comes from the collection of the legal historian William
Ashburner, who wrote extensively on Italian law in the 1920s and 30s.
Biblioteca del Senato VI, p. 170; Manzoni II 61; uncommon, RLIN/OCLC list
just two copies at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
Social Morality and Public Policy
20 [BLONDEL, Jean.] Degli Uomini tali quali sono o come
dovrebbero essere. Opera di Sentimento. Hamburg, 1759. £250
8vo, pp. 103; title vignette; uncut in the original buV wrappers, spine
lettered in ink; a little dog-eared.
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First edition in Italian of this wide-ranging study of social morality and
public policy. Blondel (1733–1810), studies human behaviour in all its aspects,
covering celibacy, marriage and luxury, slavery and life expectancy.
An interesting section is devoted to marriage, and the principles which
should govern it. A combination of reason and love should be applied when
looking for a spouse. However, he admits that love might well render reason
ineVective. He condemns a ‘modern’ class of women who live just for
pleasure and ignore their responsibility for starting a family. He concludes
with comments on politeness and good manners, deplores the present state
of French morality.
See Cioranescu 12166; INED 540 for Wrst edition; RLIN lists just one copy at
Princeton.
Economic Maps of the Austrian Empire
21 BLUM, Heinrich Wilhelm von, Freiher von Kempen. Natur
und Kunst Producten Atlas der oesterreichischen, deutschen Staaten.
Gezeichnet durch Heinr. Wilh. V. Blum, Freyherrn v. Kempen, und
zu haben bey Johann Otto, Kunsthandler in Wien, 1796. £6500
Oblong folio, (340 x 460mm, plate size 278 x 364mm), engraved title,
pp. [14], with 13 Wnely engraved hand-coloured plates, all within
decorative border; front free endpaper creased; slightly later half vellum
over marbled boards, gilt-lettered green roan label to upper board;
extremities a little worn, else Wne.
First and only edition (all published) of this magniWcent series of economical
maps of the Austrian Empire, a splendid example of geographical maps
enriched with data on industry and natural resources. The initial text section
gives detailed economic information of the various Austrian provinces,
beginning with size, population, population density, followed by general
information of the natural characteristics of the province. Detailed information
is given on the most important natural resources, (especially mineral),
agricultural production, and Wnally industrial production. Trade Wgures are
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given with details of import and export, trade balance and main trading
partners. The information presented in Wgures in the Wrst part, is then illuminated
further in the detailed and Wnely engraved maps, which indicate the
location of mineral resources, agricultural strengths, manufacturing industries,
and trading centres.
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Due to the early death of the cartographer only the present thirteen maps
were issued. The original publishing project envisioned 37 individual maps
of all parts of the Austrian Empire and was Wrst announced at the end of
1794 in Viennese newspapers. Every month a Wnely engraved map of the
economic details of a particular province was to be published and issued to
subscribers. The early death of the cartographer Heinrich Wilhelm von
Blum von Kempen (1756–1797) put an early end to the project. The art
dealer Otto managed to buy the already existing thirteen maps, had a suitable
title page engraved and issued the present work. (see DörXinger I,
114). They include a general map of the whole of the Austrian Empire, a
map of Vienna, plans of Upper and Lower Austria, Krain, Corinthia,
Sturia, Tyrol, Vorderösterreich (today mostly German), Friaul with a map
of Triest, southern Bohemia, northern Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
DörXinger I, 114; Atlantes Austriaci I, 78; Wawrik-Zeilinger, Austria Picta.
Oesterreich auf alten Karten und Ansichten, 32.3; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’,
RLIN/OCLC records copies at Stanford, Harvard, Florida State and Chicago.
Incunable Bibliography
22 BONI, Mauro. Lettere sui primi Libri a Stampa di alcune Città
e Terre dell’Italia superiore parte sinora sconosciuti parte
nuovamente illustrati. Venice, Carlo Palese, 1794. £850
4to, pp. CXXXII (132); three separate title pages, Wnely engraved title
vignettes by Novelli to two of them; uncut in contemporary buV stiV
wrappers, with marble paper spine; a wide-margined copy.
First and only edition of a detailed study of early printing in Genoa, Pavia
and Bresica, and northern Italy in general by Mauro Boni (1746–1817).
The work is divided into three parts, each with its own title page, and concentrates
on little known incunables from Genoa, Brescia, Savona,
Voghera, Turin, Brixen, Treviso, and some other northern Italian cities.
Particularly appealing is the Wrst title vignette showing putti setting type
and inspecting books under the supervision of the queen.
Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 70; Bonamici p. 27; Graesse I, p. 487.
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Chappe’s Telegraph Improved
23 BOUCHENROEDER, Freiherr von. Signalkunst für Armeen
als ein Beitrag zur Kriegskunst... Nebst einer Anzeige, wie
Depeschen und mehrere Briefe zugleich geschwinder verschickt
werden können, als wie durch Eilboten möglich ist. Hanau,
Waisenhausdruckerei, 1795. £1050
8vo, pp. 148, four folding engraved plates bound at the end; plates cut
close, but no loss; contemporary paste-paper boards, spine ruled in gilt
with gilt-lettered spine label; joints a little chipped, else Wne; from the
Neustrelitz library with stamp to verso of title, and shelfmark in ink to
front paste-down; printed on strong paper, very clean and crisp.
First and only edition of this improvement of Chappe’s semaphore or ‘optical
telegraph’ (see item 28) for military use. Whereas Chappe’s device consisted
of an upright post with a transverse bar, on which two smaller arms
moved on pivots, Bouchenroeder presents a device with four movable arms
Wxed on to a Wxed post and cross bar. In this way he increases the number of
possible signals. To illustrate his device, he includes a miniature model of
the device, so that it can be tried out at home. In addition to this ‘optical
telegraph’ he also proposes improvements in the transmittal of signals during
the night, describes an acoustic telegraph, and signalling with the help
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of balloons. He presents a code for safe transmission of secret messages,
considers problems in the speed and frequency of transmissions and proposes
a code of practice to avoid misunderstandings, confusion and cross
postings.
The work is usually attributed to Friedrich von Bouchenroeder (1775–
1840), which seems unlikely, as he was only promoted to the rank of major
in 1811. It is possible that the work was in fact written by his father Johann
Wilhelm Gustav (born 1747), who held the appropriate rank at the time.
Appleyard however describes him as a Dutch oYcer.
Ersch, Literatur der Mathematik, c 1005, no 4539; not in Engelmann, not in
Darmstädter; Appleyard, Pioneers of electrical Communication, 1930, p. 282; uncommon,
OCLC lists just one copy at the Newberry Library, in addition to a few
copies in German Libraries.
24 CALDANI, Petronio Maria. Della Proporzione Bernoulliana
fra il Diametro, e la Circonferenza del Circolo e dei Logaritmi.
Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1782. £280
4to, pp. viii, 32; engraved title vignette, paper lightly dust-soiled, and a
little browned; a wide-margined copy in slightly later pink boards.
First and only edition of this interesting treatise on the Bernoulli–Riccati
equation by Petronio Maria Caldani (1755–1808), brother to the wellknown
anatomist Leopoldo Marcantonio Caldani.
Riccardi I, 209; OCLC lists Columbia, Austin, Texas and Berkeley only.
25 CALIFANO, Carlo Ragionamento sulla Fondiaria. Ossia sulla
giustizia, ed eguaglianza del Tributo diretto, ed indiretto. Napoli,
1820. £750
8vo, pp. [viii], 115; browning to one signature, else crisp;
contemporary full red straight-grain morocco; spine and sides decorated
in gilt, gilt-lettering.
First and only edition of this elegantly produced plea for a just and uniWed
system of tariVs and taxation. Califano deplores the large number of individual
taxes and especially the land tax. He quotes from Schmidt, Melon,
Broggia and David Hume, and discusses the relative beneWts of direct and
indirect taxes.
Cossa 125, 204; Goldsmiths’–Kress 22934.6.
Critique of Rousseau
26 CARLI, Gianrinaldo. Della Diseguaglianza Wsica morale
civile fra gli Uomini, ossia Ragionamento sopra l’Opera di
Rousseau Discours sur l’origine & les fondemens de l’inégualité
parmi les hommes ... Seconda edizione. Padova, Tommaso
Bettinelli, 1793. £950
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8vo, pp. 116, [1]; title a litle dustsoiled; contemporary blue wrappers,
new endpapers; a good copy with occasional annotations and marginal
markings in ink.
Second, revised and enlarged edition of one of Carli’s last publications, his
critique of Rousseau’s Discours sur l’Inégualité parmi les Hommes, based on a
talk at the Reale Accademia of Padua in 1792. Disillusioned with the developments
of the French Revolution, he develops further his objections to
Rousseau’s theories, some of which he had already voiced in his L’uomo
libero. ‘Men are condemned by nature to a state of permanent inequality,
physical, moral and economic. It is not an accident that society is divided
into two classes, rich and poor. Unlike Verri, for whom economic development
had in itself the power to improve the conditions of the poorer classes
by allowing them to participate in consumption, and unlike Beccaria who
continued to see inequality as the chief problem to be solved, Carli was
convinced that development would increase not only inequality but also
class conXict. The only remedy was the power of the sovereign, of a monarch
who could guard against despotism but at the same time defend civil
society against anarchy.’ (Carpanetto p. 270). He makes a striking comparison
between society and the family, and maintains that in both there is a
diversity of roles and functions.
L’Illumnismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli, 91; RLIN & OCLC record just
this second edition at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard; Cambridge
has the Wrst edition of 1792; for Wrst edition of 1792 see Einaudi 896.
Casanova the Political Journalist
27 [CASANOVA, Giacomo.] Supplimento alla Esposizione
ragionata della controversia che sussiste tra la Repubblica di Venezia
e quella d’Olanda. [Venice], 1785. £1400
8vo, pp. 69, [3] blank; contemporary pattern paper boards, some
surface wear to spine; a good copy.
First edition in Italian of Casanova’s second pamphlet on the dispute between
Holland and Venice. He had Wrst commented on the conXict earlier
the same year in Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due
Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda. [Venice], 1785. Whereas the earlier
Exposition was ‘largely a detailed statement of the facts in the dispute, the
Supplement is more argumentative and assumes to a certain extent the character
of a lawyer’s brief ’ (Rives Childs p. 80). It was Wrst published in a
French translation, but this Italian version is in fact Casanova’s original (see
Rives Childs p. 74).
In 1773 the Zannovich brothers, a pair of Venetian adventurers, had
managed to defraud two Dutch merchants of large sums of money in a
shady business deal negotiated with the help of M. Cavalli, a Venetian diplomat.
When the fraud was exposed and Venice refused to pay compensation,
Holland threatened war. Casanova, who had been allowed access to
important documents relating to the case by Sebastiano Foscarini, the
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Venetian ambassador in Vienna, exposes the Zannovich brothers. He defends
the position of the Venetian republic, as its representative Cavalli had
been misled and was not party to the fraud.
It has been argued that Casanova here mounted a last ditch attempt to
regain the approval of the Venetian authorities and to be allowed to return
to Venice. No other eighteenth century writer has been so closely identiWed
with Venice and its decadence, and Casanova’s Wnal banishment from the
city proved to be a blow from which he never recovered.
This piece of political journalism is at the same time a veiled attack on the
Venetian oligarchy. Casanova examines the nature of political power in the
Republic and blames the oligarchy for both the political and the economic
decline of Venice. He correctly predicts the Republic’s demise as a political
powerhouse, which happened a decade later under Napoleon’s rule, who
banished the oligarchy.
J. Rives Childs, Casanoviana, XXXIV, 2; OCLC/RLIN lists copies at Harvard,
Yale, Randolph-Macon College, and Indiana University.
The First Telegraph Engineer
28 [CHAPPE, Claude.] Il Telegrafo ossia Descrizione della
Macchina nuovament retrovata in Parigi per Trasmettere in
Brevissimo Tempo a Grandi Distanze qualunque Notizia. Con
Figure. Estratta dall’Edizione Tedesca di Vienna presso Baumeister
1794. £650
8vo, pp. xiii, [3] blank, 4 engraved plates bound at the end, decorative
head-piece and initial; some spotting throughout, partly uncut in
contemporary blue wrappers.
First edition in Italian of Claude Chappe’s ‘optical’ telegraph, which depended
on visual signals and preceded the modern telegraph. His device con-
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sisted of an upright post, on the top of which was fastened a transverse bar,
while at the ends of the latter two smaller arms moved on pivots. The position
of these bars represented words or letters; and by means of machines
placed at intervals such that each was distinctly visible from the next, messages
could be conveyed through 150 miles within a quarter of an hour.
Chappe’s contraption was adopted by the Legislative Assembly in 1792, and
in the following year Chappe was appointed ingénieur-télégraphe. The optical
telegraph was Wrst used for an oYcial transmission in 1794, and remained
widely in use in France until 1855, when it was superseded by the electric telegraph.
This work was translated from a German publication issued the same year
with the title Beschreibung und Abbildung des Telegraphen oder der neuerfundenen
Fernschreibemaschine in Paris, but clearly published in Italy. A brief introduction
to the principles of the device is followed by an eyewitness
account of the Wrst conveyance of a message from a device mounted on top of
the Louvre. This is depicted on the Wrst of the Wnely engraved plates. The
other plates show the agreed signals and the transcription of a message in
German.
There was another Italian edition, printed in Rome (Roma, si vende presso
Agapito Franzetti) the same year; not traced in NUC, RLIN or the Italian on-line
catalogue; see Appleyard, Pioneers of electrical Communication, 1930, pp. 263–298
and E. Jacquez, Claude Chappe, notice biographique, 1893 for further information
on the optical telegraph; Newton, Encyclopedia of Cryptology, p. 205.
Mathematics for Economists, Insurers and Lawyers
29 CHASSOT DE FLORENCOURT, Carl. Abhandlungen aus
der juristischen und politischen Rechenkunst ... Nebst einer Vorrede
Herrn Hofrath Kästners. Mit einem Kupfer. Altenburg, Richter,
1781. £1200
4to, pp. [ii], vi, 292, [1] plate on guard; engraved vignette on title by J.
D. Philippi, engraved head and tail pieces, numerous calculations and
tables in the text; stamp Stadtmuseum Döbeln to title page, paper
lightly but evenly browned throughout; bound in contemporary
pastepaper boards, extensive surface abrasions to boards, head and tail
of spine chipped, and corners bumped, but sound.
First edition of this interesting practical textbook on the application of
mathematics to economics and political economy, very much based on
practical experience. In his preface Kästner brieXy reviews previous contributions
to this Weld.
Chassot de Florencourt begins with interest calculations, including those
with changed payment terms, those, where part of the interest due is compensated
for by use of other facilities, and compound interest. He then proceeds
to the calculation of probability, illustrated with examples from
lotteries and gambling. The most extensive part of the work deals with
population Wgures, calculation of life expectancy and average death rates, in
its diVerent applications for insurance. He has separate chapters devoted to
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diVerent forms of insurance, not just widows’ and orphans’ schemes, but
also endowment insurance for dowry, university education and travel. Formulae
for their calculation are given, together with detailed examples and
instructions on how to calculate the Wgures oneself.
The last section deals with a variety of calculations which might prove
useful in legal disputes, such as the calculation of legal portions in inheritance
questions, legacies, insurance disputes etc. In this chapter he also discusses
a variety of insurance schemes, which he deems impracticable, such
as Justi’s proposal of a kind of agricultural mutuality scheme and Schreber’s
suggestion that every livestock farmer joins an insurance scheme, whereby
in the event of an epidemic, the remaining livestock will be re-distributed
proportionally. This, he claims, only beneWts large agricultural estates, but
not the small farmer.
The very last section shows interest tables, for simple and compound interest,
mortality tables, both in general and male and female separately, with
an additional table for mortality calculation for retirement funds.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, RLIN/OCLC list copies at Cornell, New York Public
Library, Harvard and Syracuse.
A Dashing Figure
30 CHIARI, Pietro. Memorie del Barone di Trenck comandante
de’ Panduri scrito da lui medesimo e date in Luce dall’abate Pietro
Chiari. [Tomo secondo per la prima volta publicato]. Venice,
Vincenzo Radici, 1782. [Bassaglia, 1784]. £680
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Two volumes 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. viii, 208; viii, 172; lightly
browned at beginning and end; contemporary half calf over patternpaper
covered boards, spine decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label;
some worming to spine, corners bumped; still an attractive copy.
First complete edition of Chiari’s pseudo-translation and Wctional treatment
of the Wgure of the Baron von Trenck, a soldier, adventurer, and gambler,
whose exploits, partly based on his own memoirs, were recounted all
over Europe. He is best known for his private army of ‘pandours’, which he
deployed against the ‘banditti’ in Croatia.
Chiari apparently took some of his information from the Memoires of the
Baron von Trenck. The second part is here published for the Wrst time, and
introduces a new set of adventures, both military and amorous.
The Wrst edition of the Wrst part only was published in 1754. When the
Wrst French edition appeared in 1788, it was styled as a translation from the
Italian original.
Marchesi p. 397; Melzi I, 201; Parenti, p. 95; no copy found in RLIN or OCLC.
31 [CHIARI, Pietro translator.] ARGENS, Jean Baptiste. Il
Wnto Cavaliere o siano le Memorie die Madamigella di Mainville ...
per la prima volta Tradotte dal Francese. Venice, Antonio Locatelli,
1767. £250
8vo, pp. xvi including engraved frontispiece, 197, [8] publisher’s
advertisements; uncut in the original buV limp boards; an attractive
copy, manuscript note in ink to front paste-down.
First edition in Italian, in a translation prepared by Pietro Chiari, of
d’Argens’ romantic novel Mémoires de Mlle de Mainville, ou le faint chevalier
(1736).
Zambon Bibliographie du Roman Français en Italie en XVIII Siècle 8; not in
Marchesi; not found in RLIN or OCLC.
32 [CHIARI, Pietro translator.] GOMEZ, Madeleine-Angélique
Poisson dame Gabriel de. Li Giorni di Divertimento di Madama di
Gomez. Tomo primo [– tomo secondo]. Venice, Domenico
Deregni, 1758. £350
Two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], 168; [iv], 168;
engraved head and tail-pieces; uncut in the original thin buV boards; a
good copy.
First edition in Italian, in a translation prepared by Chiari, of Les journées
amusantes, dediées au roi, by the proliWc French dramatist and writer of
prose Wction Madeleine-Angélique Poisson de Gomez (1684–1770). Her
Journées amusantes, a collection of amusing short prose pieces, enjoyed great
popularity all over Europe, which would account for this Italian translation.
This translation only covers the Wrst six days of her lurid and scandalous
diversions.
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The work was later continued and extended to six volumes in French;
there is a three volume Italian translation published in Naples in 1777.
Zambon 197; Marchesi p. 391; no copies found in RLIN or OCLC.
Translation by Pietro Chiari
33 [CHIARI, Pietro translator?] ARNOUD, Francois-Thomas-
Marie de Baculard. Clary, Istoria Inglese del Signor d’Arno.
Tradotta in Italiano. Venezia, Luigi Pavini, 1768.
[bound with:] [ARNOUD, Francois-Thomas-Marie de Baculard.]
Lucia e Melania os sia il Vero Amore. Istoria Francese. Venezia,
Luigi Pavini, 1768.
[bound with:][BRUMENT, de.] Enrichetta ovvero la Madre Gelosa
di sua Figlia. Istoria Francese tradotta in Italiano. Venezia, Luigi
Pavini, 1769. £600
Three works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece &
engraved title, 67, [1] blank; [iv] engraved frontispiece & title, 60, [2]
blank; [iv] engraved frontispiece and title, 109, 3 advertisements;
contemporary sprinkled boards, spine label lettered in manuscript;
corners bumped, with armorial bookplate to verso of Wrst title-page.
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A charming Sammelband collecting together Wrst Italian editions of three
novels translated from French originals to feed a rising demand for Wction
in Italy. The third work is apparently translated by Chiari.
I. First edition in Italian of Clary où la retour à la vertu recompensé, a perfect
example of the ‘roman sentimental’, by the French playwright Arnoud.
Clary is the daughter of a peasant who is pursued by Mévil a nobleman who
wishes to marry her. When he threatens suicide if she refuses to join him in
London, Clary is torn between loyalty to her parents and love for Mévil.
Eventually she follows Mévil and leads a life of opulence, but remains riddled
by guilt for having abandoned her parents. Arnoud wrote a number of
plays and novels which popularised the gothic form in France. There was
possibly a 1767 translation published in a journal.
II. First edition in Italian of Arnoud’s gothic novel Lucie et Melanie.
III. First edition in Italian of Brument’s Henriette, the sequel to
Rousseau’s Nouvelle Heloise, and presenting a complicated love triangle,
with the mother expressing jealousy of her daughter’s love interest. The
translation is by Chiari (1712–1785), one of the most proliWc Italian playwrights
and authors, was inXuenced by Richardson, Fielding, Voltaire and
Swift, and is known for introducing the novel into Italian literature.
All three are uncommon; I. Marchesi p. 383, Zambon, 15; II. Marchesi p. 396,
Zambon 28; III. see Marchesi p. 387 for other edition, Zambon 473; the Bodleian
holds a copy of Arnoud’s Clary, but none of the other titles listed in RLIN or
OCLC.
Enlightenment Dictionary of Philosophy
34 CHICANEAU DE NEUVILLE, Didier-Pierre. Dizionario
FilosoWco o sia introduzione alla Cognizione dell’Uomo. Venice,
Antonio Zatta, 1785. £250
8vo, pp. viii, 264; title vignette and engraved head- and tail-pieces;
uncut in the original buV boards, spine lettered in manuscript; head of
spine chipped, with small portion missing; some insigniWcant worm
holes to binding; a good copy.
Later edition in Italian of this enlightenment dictionary of philosophy,
which was Wrst published in French in 1751. Chicaneau de Neuville’s
Dictionnaire Philosophique is of interest as it combines traditional and innovative
‘philosophes’ attitudes. Despite coming clearly from a conservative
moralist point of view, and in general opposition to the philosophes, Chicaneau
de Neuville quotes frequently from the Encyclopédie, and seems generally
sympathetic to a sceptical attitude to religion. He tries to reconcile the
laws of God with the laws of society, and is clearly inXuenced by the ideas of
Locke, Condillac and Roussau. Similar to Mandeville, he argues that some
vices should be tolerated if they have social beneWts.
For a detailed study, see D. Adams, Enlightenment Cross-currents, in T. D. Hemming
et al, The Secular City, 1994, pp. 137–147.
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Tarantella – Dance and Medical Phenomon
35 CID, Don Francisco Xavier. Tarantismo observado en
Espana, con que se prueba el de la pulla dudado de algunos, y
tratado de otros de Fabuloso: Y memorias para escribir la Historia
del insecto llamada Tarántula, efectos de su veneno en el cuerpo
humano, y curacion por la música con el modo de obrar de esta,
y su aplicacion como remedio á varias enfermedades... Madrid,
Gonzalez, 1787. £1400
Small 4to, pp. [iv], 324, with two folding engraved plates of music, and
one woodcut illustrating a tarantula spider; very clean and crisp,
contemporary full vellum, faint ownership inscription or stamp to title;
a Wne copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this medical and psychological assessment of
the phenomenon of the Tarantola or Tarantella dance, a trance like ecstatic
dance. The origin of this dance is found in a therapeutic ritual, carried out
to fend oV the eVects of being bitten by the tarantola, the wolf-spider.
Popular belief was that the bite of this spider caused a disease called
‘tarantismo’, which led to a period of melancholy and ultimately death. The
only way to avoid death was a frenzied, uncontrollable dance, set to music,
and called the ‘tarantella’. Over time the music associated with this has become
more stylised, using guitars, violins, and tambourines.
Cid, an eminent physician in Toledo, studies the phenomenon in depth,
beginning with the natural history of the ‘tarantola’, with extensive reference
to classical natural historians, contemporary reports, and scientiWc
study, and includes a survey of existing literature on the subject. The following
chapters deal with the eVect of music on those aZicted, before studying
in detail thirty-Wve individual case, with medical reports and contemporary
assessments. In his conclusion Cid accepts the curative power of music and
ends with a chapter on the philosophy of music.
Tarantismo had its origin in Puglia, but apparently spread all over Europe,
at the end of the eighteenth century it reappeared in Spain with renewed
force.
The two engraved plates of music show six diVerent varieties of
Tarantelas and one Tarantela piece for guitar.
Palau III, 54578; Wellcome II, p. 349; uncommon OCLC lists copies at Illinois,
Johns Hopkins, Ohio State and Minnesota.
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Legal Reform in Naples
36 [CORIGLIANI, Antonio.] RiXessioni politiche. Parte Prima
[– parte Terza]. Naples, Stamperia Simoniana, 1783.
[bound with:] [ANON.] Opuscula sive de aequa Dominationis
Potestate; de factorum recognitione, disputationes duae; & Liber ad
marcum Fratrem. Naples, Typographia Simoniana, 1783. £1250
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. vi, 7–100, [3] privilege, [1] blank;
vii, [1] blank, 9–88; large engraved title vignette, and decorative
woodcut initials; some light spotting and browning; contemporary half
calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, contrasting giltlettered
label and numbering piece; a very good copy.
First editions of both works. An interesting collection on juridical and political
subjects by the jurist and philosopher Antonio Corigliani. In his preface
he stresses the importance of debate and conXict for advance in society.
This was at a time when the Neapolitan reformers, Wgures like Filangieri
and Pagano became restless with the slow progress of reform of legislation,
Wnancial systems and government.
He begins his three-partite work with some considerations on the legal
system, on the use of torture to extract confessions and on various forms of
punishment, such as the death penalty, where he disagrees with Beccaria’s
opposition. He maintains that swift punishment is most important, and
considers exile and deportation. Special chapters are devoted to corruption,
and its punishment. In the second part he concentrates on public administration,
magistrate, and the economy. The Wnal section covers education
and its system.
The second work which in other copies is also found bound with the
RiXessioni Politiche, is possibly also by Corigliani. Here he discusses justice
and power.
Very rare, not found in any of the bibliographies; not in RLIN or OCLC; author
attribution after ICCU, Göttingen apparently attributes the work to Filangieri.
Glass-Making
37 CORNIANI, Marco Antonio. Memoria sul Vetro
coll’Applicazione dell’Arte Vetraria della Petroselce Perlata dei Colli
Euganei. Venice, Gio. Parolari, 1810. £380
Tall 4to, pp. [iv], 53, [1] imprint; p. 20 with red chalk staining; uncut
in contemporary paper covered boards, slight surface damage to head
and foot of spine, inner joint week; later pencil notes to Wnal blank
endpaper and pastedown; a very wide-margined copy.
First and apparently only edition of this detailed study of the use of pearl
stone from the Eugenean Hills in glass making. Corniani (1768–1845),
mining oYcial and a member of numerous scientiWc associations, begins
with a brief history of Venetian glass production, before analysing the vari-
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ous components, and in particular colour pigments. The second chapter is
devoted to the mineralogical, geological, and lithological description of the
Eugenean Hills, with extensive reference to scientiWc authorities. Corniani
gives the analysis of a sample, before proceeding to a description of the relevant
experiments to establish the exact composition of the sample. With
reference to other scientists he describes the possible uses of the material in
various forms of glass-making. He concludes with extensive references to
the critical literature.
Corning 0194; Duncan, Bibliography of Glass, 2679; uncommon, OCLC lists one
copy at Cleveland, also at British Library.
Speak Properly!
38 DATI, Carlo, STROZZI, Giambattista, and BUOMMATEI,
Benedetto. Discorso dell’Obbligo di ben parlare la propria lingua. Di
C[arlo] D[ati]. Osservazioni intorno al parlare e scriver Toscano. Di.
G[iambattista] S[trozzi]. Con le Declinazioni de’ Verbi di Benedetto
Buommattei. Florence, Francesco Onosti, 1657. £1000
12mo, pp. 84; some light damp-staining throughout; contemporary
vellum, reusing a manuscript leaf with some notes in ink.
First edition of this outspoken campaign for the supremacy of the Florentine
dialect by Carlo Roberto Dati, stressing the importance of speaking
one’s language properly. This is bound together with an essay by Strozzi on
speaking and writing Tuscan dialect, and an essay on the verb declinations
by Buommatei.
Dati (1619–1676), a Florentine nobleman and academic, was a founding
member of the Accademia del Cimento, and secretary of the Accademia
della Crusca, where he initiated the third edition of the Vocabolario. He was
a disciple of Galileo, knew Torricelli and befriended Redi and Magalotti,
and published extensively on scientiWc subjects, together with numerous
historical, literary and political works. His defence of the Florentine dialect
was popular and was reprinted repeatedly in the seventeenth and eighteenth
century.
RLIN/OCLC list just Chicago (who attribute the work to Smarrito) and a copy of
the 1685 edition at Duke.
Mendicants in Agriculture
39 DEI, Francesco. Metodo per sollevare i Mendichi a BeneWzio
dell’Agricoltura. Dissertazione presentata all Accad. D’Agricoltura di
Firenze. Florence, Stecchi, Pagani, 1771. £480
8vo, pp. x, 11–40; typographic head- and tail-pieces; light browning to
second half, due to paper stock; later wrappers, manuscript note to
verso of title claiming that the author of the contribution was a Dott.
Luigi Framentoni (?) rather than Dei.
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First and only edition of this contribution to a prize question posed by the
Academy in Florence on how to utilise the local beggars in agriculture. Dei
divides beggars and mendicants into two groups, Wrst those who are invalids
and therefore unWt for work, who should be supported out of charitable
concerns. Then the majority who are capable of work, but unwilling in
varying degrees. This includes those from well-to-do backgrounds who
have fallen on hard times, and instead of actively changing their lot, just
deplore their situation. Also included are pimps and prostitutes, who need
moral guidance in addition to honest work, and whose children need to be
taken from them to be re-educated. This follows on from observations by
Josiah Child, Montesquieu, Melon, Getty, and David Hume. Throughout
Dei supports the idea of forced labour in agriculture, both as temporary
help during harvest time, but also as part of a re-education program.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; one copy listed in ICCU, RLIN/OCLC adds
Göttingen.
The Strict Separation: Books, Readers and Librarians
40 DELLA SANTA, Leopoldo. Della Costruzione e del
Regolamento di una Pubblica Universale Biblioteca con la Pianta
Dimostrativa. Florence, Gaspero Ricci, 1816. £800
4to, pp. 76, [4] explanation and table; paper lightly browned throughout,
and slim worm trace to gutter margin; uncut and mostly unopened
in contemporary buV stiV wrappers, manuscript lettering to spine and
upper wrapper, spine repaired.
First edition of the Wrst Italian treatise on the organisation of a public library,
which proved inXuential. Della Santa, who integrates architectural
and spatial demands, proposes a strict tri-partite division, into areas for the
reader, the librarians and the books. His separation of bookstacks from the
reader and the reader from the librarian set the scene for library organisation
and library architecture for the next century and a half. His lay-out is
illustrated on the folding plate.
Della Santa argues that the immense increase of book production makes
this separation necessary for an eYcient library service. Curiously he not
only separates readers from the books, but does not even allow them access
to the master catalogue. There is one type of catalogue, which may be consulted
by librarians only, and another ‘public one’.
Not much is known about the author, and it has even been claimed that
the treatise was in fact written by Vincenzo Follini, librarian at the
Magliabecchiana Library in Florence. This seems somewhat unlikely, as
Follini published a response to Della Santa’s work.
This treatise on library organisation proved highly inXuential, and was reprinted in
1996. For a detailed study see Giovanni Solimine and Flavia Cancedda’ review article
in the Bollettino AIB 1997, no. 2, pp. 240–241.
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Cogito, Ergo Sum
41 DESCARTES, Réné. Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam,
Ludovic Elzevir, 1644.
[bound with:] DESCARTES, Réné. Specimina philosophia: seu
dissertation de methodo rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in
scientiis investigandae: dioptrice, et meteora. Ex Gallico translato, &
ab auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendate. Amsterdam,
Ludovic Elzevir, 1644. £8000
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. [xxii], [ii] blank, 310, [2] blank,
woodcut device on title and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text;
[xvi], 331, [1] blank, woodcut device on title and numerous woodcut
illustrations in the text; a Wne copy in full contemporary vellum, with
overlapping edges, manuscript title to spine.
First edition of the Principia and Wrst Latin edition (translated by Etienne
de Courcelle) of Descartes’ Discours de la Méthode (1637), which had been
revised by Descartes. Although issued independently, these two works are
often found bound together. Descartes was the Wrst of modern philosophers
and one of the Wrst modern scientists; in both branches of learning his
inXuence has been immense.
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I. The Principia is one of the most inXuential books in the history of science,
presenting Descartes’ system of physics and cosmologies, and the
‘principles of his philosophy in four parts: [1] metaphysical and cognitive
principles; [2] the principles of nature (laws of motion, etc.); [3] the structure
of the universe (celestial physics); [4] an explanation of physical phenomena
such as fermentation, magnetism etc.’ (T. Verbeek in Dictionary of
Seventeenth and eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers, I, (p. 254–260).
II. The Discours de la Méthode is here in the Latin translation, by which it
reached its greatest circulation, and the Wrst to contain the famous dictum
‘cogito, ergo sum’. The Discours is Descartes’ fundamental work in philosophy
and on the method of science. ‘Descartes’s purpose is to Wnd the simple
indestructible proposition which gives to the universe and thought their
order and system. Three points are made: the truth of thought, when
thought is true to itself (thus cogito, ergo sum), the inevitable elevation of
its partial state in our Wnite consciousness to its full state in the inWnite existence
of God, and the ultimate reduction of the material universe to extension
and local movement. From these central propositions in logic,
metaphysics and physics came the subsequent inquiries of Locke, Leibniz
and Newton; from them stem all modern scientiWc and philosophic
thought’ (PMM 129).
I. Guibert p. 118; Norman 22; Willems 1008; Ashworth 1; II. Guibert p. 104;
Norman 623; Willems 1008; PMM 129.
Super-Casinos, Betting Shops, Wagers on Horses – the Law
42 DISNEY, John. The laws of gaming, wagers, horse-racing,
and gaming-houses. London, J. Butterworth, J. Cooke, and Dublin,
G. Auld, 1806. £1200
8vo, pp. vi, xiii, [1] blank, 132, [8]; entirely uncut in the original paleblue
boards, white paper spine, printed label, backstrip worn, but
sound.
First edition, uncommon, of an interesting study of the law as it applies to
betting, gaming, horse-racing, and gambling, apparently only the second
comprehensive review of the subject. In his perceptive treatise, Disney
(1779–1857), himself a barrister, distinguishes between legal and illegal
games, discusses diVerences between wagers between two individuals and
those that involve a stakeholder, treats betting on horses, and the lottery.
His comments on the lottery could be found in a modern newspaper article:
‘among other species of gaming may be ranked the Lottery: and though our
laws are severe against this vice in general, and when practised between individuals,
yet do they sanction it under this particular shape: and that, simply
because it is productive to the revenue’ (p. ix). He treats securities given
for wagers, the running of gaming-houses (super casinos?) and their legal
constraints, and concludes with a special chapter on forms of pleadings in
cases of gaming and wagers, i.e. a practical guide for barristers. Throughout
his treatise is supported by detailed case references. His individual cases are
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also an interesting source of social history, with its extensive references to
various games such as boxing, bull-baiting, cricket-matches, and dancing .
Sweet & Maxwell III, p. 65; uncommon, OCLC locates copies at McGill, Georgia,
Iowa, Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and New York Public Library.
Magic Debunked
43 ECKARTSHAUSEN, Karl von. Entdeckte Geheimnisse
der Zauberey zur Aufklärung des Volks über Aberglauben und
Irrwahn. Mit 4 Kupfern und 2 Vignetten. Munich, Joseph Lentner,
1790. £1400
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xii] prelims misbound, 271; with in all
4 engraved plates (one bound as frontispiece), large title vignette and
Wnal engraved vignette, a few Wgures in the text; contemporary half calf
over tan sprinkled boards, spine gilt in compartments with gilt-lettered
spine label; corners a little bumped; with stamp of the university library
Halle to verso of title, and shelf mark to spine and upper board; from
the Apel library in Ermlitz with manuscript note in pencil.
First edition, rare, of Eckartshausen’s early publication on magic and divination
in the spirit of the enlightened rationalism. Eckartshausen clearly
wants to debunk mystical theories and reveal the scientiWc explanations of
apparently magical phenomena. At the same time he accepts the power of
ideas, heightened emotional states, and scientiWc aids such as cryptography
etc. He describes some Wfty supernatural events under titles such as
‘Der Stiefel, der zum Kamin hinausXog’, ‘Der Zauberknödel’, ‘Das Gespenst,
Erscheinung des Geists des Rousseau’, covering love potions, charlatans, the
transformation into gold etc., and then proceeds to explain them. The illustrations,
though unsigned, are particularly Wne and appealing, the frontispiece
shows a witch in action, the title page vignette illustrates the magic
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dumpling, whereas the two following images show a witches’ convention
and a dance on the Blocksberg.
The jurist Eckartshausen (1752–1803), author of semi-scientiWc works
using arithmology, inXuenced Jung-Stilling and Novalis in his attempt to
merge science and literature, and published numerous esoteric works, in
addition to this one. A second edition was published in 1798.
Graesse, Bibliotheca Magica 92; see Hayn/Gotendorf III, 192 and Rümann 219;
not in Ackermann, Caillet, Rosenthal etc; RLIN/OCLC record copies at Chicago,
Harvard, DNLM, Göttingen, and the Wellcome library; for further information
on Eckartshausen see online exhibition at the J. R. Ritman Library.
Double-Entry Book-Keeping, Location Theory, and Tobacco
44 [ECONOMIC SAMMELBAND.] HÄNEL, Christian
Friedrich. Erklärung des einfachen und doppelten Buchhaltens, der
Wechselbriefe und von den Nutzen eines Handelsgerichts. Chemnitz,
Joh. Dav. Stössel Erben, Putschern, 1778.
[bound with:] SIMON, Christian Heinrich. Kurze Beschreibung der
bey den KauXeuten gebräuchlichsten Handlungsbücher auch
Hauptbuchsconten zur leichtern Erlernung des doppelten Buchhaltens
für HandlungsbeXissene. Frankfurt, Leipzig, Johann Philipp
Haug, 1780.
[bound with:] BÜSCH, Johann Georg. Ueber die Hamburgischen
Zukker-Fabriken, und den vergeblichen Wetteifer der Nordischen
Saaten mit denselben. Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1790.
[bound with:] [TOBACCO.] Neue und ausführliche Abhandlung
von dem Tabacke, worinnen desselben Ursprung, Sorten, Anbau,
Handel, Tugenden und Eigenschaften zur Gesundheit und Heilung
... untersucht werden... Aus dem holländischen. Leipzig, Christian
Gottlob Hilscher, 1781.
[bound with:] [ANON.] Die Entlassungen der Räthe. Frankfurt,
Leipzig, 1784. £3500
Five works in one volume, 8vo, pp. 56; 104; vi, 58; [xxiv], 184; [xiii]
14–73; very clean and crisp; contemporary marbled boards, corners a
little rubbed, else Wne, with contemporary ownership inscription to
front free endpaper by Franz Siegmund Schober, 1792.
First edition of all Wve works, the work on tobacco is the Wrst edition in
German (Wrst published in Dutch 1770). A fascinating economic Sammelband,
containing two very rare contributions on double-entry bookkeeping,
Büsch’s uncommon work on location theory, exempliWed in the
Hamburg sugar industry, a rare work on tobacco, its manufacture and
trade, and Wnally a well-argued political treatise on the independence of the
judiciary.
I and II. Both Hänel and Simon are important early exponents of Ger-
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man writings on double-entry book-keeping. They are both exceptional in
that they are very practice orientated, and aim to be useful for the ‘ordinary’
business man. Hänel also describes the importance of diplomatic relations
for trading purposes, and discusses general commercial contracts and exchanges.
Both give extensive examples of the diVerent account books and
their function, and most importantly stress the importance of double-entry
book-keeping for the easy access to business Wgures.
III. First edition of Büsch’s interesting contribution on Hamburg’s
dominance of the sugar industry, anticipating the location theory of economic
activity, which was properly developed towards the end of the nineteenth
century. He points out that there is a natural location for a branch of
business or manufacturing and rejects attempts of government, in this case
Frederick the Great, in artiWcially regulating this through protective tariVs
and subsidies. Büsch (1728–1800) was according to Roscher the best representative
of the liberal tendencies among the German economists of the
second half of the eighteenth century, and one of the ‘leading precursors of
German economic science’ (ESS).
IV. Rare Wrst German translation of an equally rare two-part treatise on
tobacco, Wrst published in Dutch in 1770 under the title Verhandeling van
den Tabak and Verhandeling over den Tabak, Tweed stukje. The anonymous
author gives a thorough overview of the beniWcial qualities of tobacco in all
its forms, and describes the whole process of growing, harvesting, drying,
processing, storing and selling of tobacco. He is particularly keen on stressing
the health beneWts of tobacco, underlined by some catchy rhymes and
poems.
V. A detailed and well-argued case against the dismissal of civil servants
and especially judges and other judicial oYcials. The anonymous author
supports his arguments with a wide range of relevant citations.
All Wve works very rare, none of them are in Kress or Goldsmiths’; I. not found in
RLIN/OCLC; II. RLIN/OCLC locate copies at Berkeley and NEHA; III. not
found in RLIN/OCLC; IV. RLIN/OCLC locate copies at Columbia and the National
Library of Medicine; V. no found in RLIN/OCLC.
Energy EYciency – A Comparative Report
45 [ENERGY SAVING.] Beschreibung neuer holzsparenden
Oefen und Feuerherde, zum Militär- und Civil-Gebrauch. Vienna,
v. Schönfeld, 1808. £2750
Folio, pp. xvi, xv–xxxiv, 47, [1] blank, xliii (pp. xxxiii, xxxiv, xliii, and
xliiii are folding printed leaves printed on recto only), 22 engraved
plates, one of which folding; very clean and crisp in contemporary calfbacked
paste-paper boards; from the library of the architecture department
of Ljubljana (Laibach), with stamps to front free endpaper and
one small faint stamp to title; a Wne crisp copy.
First and only edition, rare, of this detailed comparative report on energysaving
heating and cooking systems. The Wrst tests were run by an Austrian
government commission charged by archduke Karl with reducing the use of
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Wrewood, comparing existing types of stoves, ovens, cooking ranges etc.
and developing the most energy-eYcient model for each application. Not
only energy consumption was studied, but also manufacturing costs and
energy needs for constructing the ovens in question.
The very detailed report covers military institutions, (distinguishing between
the needs of large dormitories and smaller more intimate oYcer
housing) hospitals, prisons, schools, but also for private use. The Wnely engraved
plates show various kinds of ovens, with technical details and detailed
instructions for use. Of particular interest is the supplement showing
on comparative tables heating eYciency measured and contrasted with construction
costs, building materials and ease of handling. Two forms to be
completed after further experiments are also included.
There was a Xurry of publications on energy-saving ovens and cookers in
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. What diVerentiates this
publication from them is its great attention to detail and the scientiWc approach
to assessing the energy eYciency of the Wnal installation. Moreover,
rather than just heating for public or private spaces, calculations are also
made for use in manufacturing industry, such as dyeing works.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; uncommon, RLIN/OCLC list just two copies at Chicago
and Minnesota, KVK adds copies at Bavarian State Library, Dresden and
Deutsches Museum, Munich.
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Anti-Enlightenment Essays
46 [ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHY.] Lettere sopra la
FilosoWa del Secolo XVIII. Tradotte dall’inedito originale Francese
in Italiano. Prima Edizione. Fuligno, Giovanni Tomassini, 1795.
£850
8vo, pp. vi, [2] privilege and imprimatur, 430, [2] advertisements, [1]
errata; some signatures a little browned; uncut in the original buV
boards, a very good copy.
First and apparently only edition of this wide-ranging collection of critical
essays on eighteenth century history and the philosophy of the enlightenment,
published anonymously and according to the title translated partly
from the French. The publisher’s preface hints at a German author, widely
travelled and partly resident in France, but apparently already deceased. The
publisher describes the work as critical of the philosophes, and revealing antirevolutionary
tendency. At the same time the publisher distances himself
from the publication by stressing that it is but a translation.
Amongst the nineteen essays there is a vicious attack on enlightenment
philosophy, ridiculing Voltaire, Diderot, Helvetius, and attacking materialism
and sensationalism, followed by an equally stringent condemnation of
the encyclopédie. The anonymous author writes on America and its black
population, and makes some interesting remarks on skin colour following
Le Cat’s observations. A number of his essays are directly concerned with
Rousseau and his principles of liberty and equality. This anti-enlightenment
stance is further conWrmed in the article on the sovereignty of nations. A
Wnal article deals with the apparent causes of the French Revolution, again
manifesting stringent anti-revolutionary tendencies.
RLIN/OCLC list Stanford only, ICCU adds a further copy.
Fine Armorial Binding
47 ERNESTI, Johann Heinrich Gottfried. Die wol-eingerichtete
Buchdruckerey, mit hundert und achtzehen Teutsch-Lateinisch-
Griechisch- und Hebräischen SchriVten, vieler fremden Sprachen
Alphabeten, musicalischen Noten, Calender-Zeichen und Medicinischen
Characteren, ingleichen allen üblichen Formaten bestellet,
und mit accurater Abbildung der ErWnder der löblichen Kunst, nebst
einer summarischen Nachricht von den Buchdruckern in Nürnberg,
ausgezieret. Am Ende ist das gebräuchliche Depositions-büchlein
angefüget. Nürnberg, gedruckt und zu Wnden bey Johann Andreä
Endters seel. Sohn und Erben, 1721. £3400
Oblong 4to, pp. [58] including engraved frontispiece and title page
printed in red and black, 140, [2], 24; all text printed within a black
border, partly printed in red and black, numerous tables and Wgures and
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thirteen engraved printers’ portraits in the text; G4 music type face
entirely engraved; bound with the unsigned leaf of correction marks (in
red and black) which is often missing; very clean and fresh; bound in
contemporary full vellum, with the arms of the monastery Stift
Lambach to upper and lower board, printed within decorative Xoral
border, gilt mostly rubbed oV; gilt-lettered spine label; a very attractive
copy, from the collection of the German publisher Karl Thiemig with
printed bookplate to front paste-down.
First edition, rare, of this classic German printers’ manual. The charming
engraved frontispiece shows the interior of the print shop, with two presses
and nine people actively involved in type-setting, inking, proof-reading,
and printing. The two presses bear dates – one 1440 for the beginning of
printing, the other 1721, the date of this Wrst edition of this printer’s
manual. Ernesti begins with a brief history of printing, and includes concise
biographies of the main early printers, such as Gutenberg, Fust, Aldus,
Froben, and Plantin, with their engraved portraits printed in the text.
Ernesti’s fellow printers of Nürnberg are then discussed, rather Wttingly,
since Nürnberg was one of the important seventeenth century centres of
Wne printing.
The main text contains a complete practical treatise of the art of printing,
many diVerent specimens of type are introduced (including forty-seven
black letter types, twenty-one Roman, fourteen Italic forms) in addition to
many Slavic, Greek and Hebrew founts, music founts, and special symbols
for astrological and calendar signs. A variety of diVerent type case arrangements
are shown. Book production patterns and imposition are explained,
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with the calculation of suitable formats. Ernesti concludes with a brief essay
on the Hebrew language and its special demands on the printer’s knowledge
and ability. Ernesti (1664–1723), had taken over the Endters’ printing
works in 1717, and here published the Wrst account of this print shop. A
second edition was published after his death in 1733.
Boghardt, Typographische Lehrbücher, 14; Bigmore and Wyman, I, 205 (second edition
of 1733); Ornamentstich Katalog Berlin, 5340; Gaskell, P., Barber, G. and
Warrilow, G. ‘An annotated list of printers’ manuals to 1850’, Journal of the Printing
Historical Society, iv, 1968, pp. 11–32, G6.
Limited Companies and their Legal Implications
48 FIERLI, Gregorio. Della Società chiamata Accomandita e di
altre Materie Mercantili secondo le Leggi, e Statuti veglianti in
Toscana. Parte Prima. [– Parte Seconda]. Florence, Stamperia di
Antonio Brazzini, 1803. £1250
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. 172; 174; uncut and mostly
unopened in the original buV limp boards; early private ownership
stamp to title and inscription in ink to front free endpaper by Farretti.
First edition, uncommon, of Fierli’s important contribution on the legal
framework of mercantile law in Tuscany under Leopold II, in which he discusses
in great detail limited partnerships and other forms of business organisation
within the framework of commercial law. He outlines the
various requirements both for legal and for tax purposes, joint and separate
capital, shared proWts and limited liabilities, etc., and describes how limited
companies are formed, registered, continued or abandoned, which procedures
are necessary for the termination of a limited partnership, and how
the Wnal liquidation accounts need to be prepared.
In the second part he concentrates on bankruptcy procedures aVecting a
limited partnership, on the requirements of the auditor, and contemporary
Tuscan legislation regulating this. A separate chapter is devoted to special
exemptions within Tuscan law, especially those exemptions applying to the
merchants of Livorno. He concludes with some observations on the reform
of the mercantile laws in 1713. Fierli accompanies his observations with
extensive reference to the relevant legal literature, from Stracca, Peri, Targa
etc. to the decisions of the Rota Romana, and local statutes and decrees. His
treatise was well received and reprinted in 1840.
Fierli (1744–1807) a practising lawyer and administrator, published extensively
on legal matters, and compiled comprehensive works on juridical
decisions.
Not in Kress, Goldsmiths’, or Einaudi; uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list copies at
Harvard and Berkeley Law Library only.
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BeneWts of Public Debt and the National Bank
49 [FINANCE.] Considérations sur les Avantages de l’Existence
d’une Dette publique, et sur la Nécessité d’un Plan général et
complet de Bonne Conduite en Finance, Pluviose an 8, Février
1800. £750
4to, pp. [ii], 96; stitched in the original printed wrappers, a little dogeared;
printed on strong paper, a wide-margined copy.
First and apparently only edition of this anonymous contribution proposing
a wholesale Wnancial and economic reform to improve the French
Wnancial situation after the Revolution. Following on from Pinto among
others, the author outlines the beneWts of public debt for the national
economy and the country as a whole. The public debt not only aids circulation,
it guarantees a sound administration, serves as a comparative measure
of values, aids commercial enterprise, and also gives an index for credit and
foreign transactions.
This is followed by a comprehensive proposal for Wnancial and political
reform, including a plea for the end of the prosecution of emigrants for
Wnancial reasons, the foundation of Caisse d’amortissement and of a National
Bank.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in INED; rare, RLIN/OCLC list copies at
Amherst, the British Library and the Bibliothèque Nationale only.
Games Manual
50 [FLITTNER, Christian Gottfried]. Neuester Spielalmanach
für Karten-, Schach-, Brett-, Billard-, Kegel- und Ball-Spieler; zum
Selbstunterrichte, nach den gründlichsten Regeln und Gesetzen. von
G. W. v. Abenstein. Zweite durchaus verbesserte und mit neuen
Spielen vermehrte Ausgabe. Berlin, G. Hayn, 1820. £650
8vo, pp. xxiv [vere xxviii], 412, with some schematic illustrations in the
text; recent half cloth with original printed wrappers bound in,
wrappers with illustration of playing cards and billiard; from the
Donaueschingen library, with small stamp to verso of title.
Second edition enlarged of this attractive almanach of games and gambling,
explaining the rules of a multitude of card, board and ball games. After a
brief introduction into the history of games and gaming, strategy and betting
and the dangers of fraud and trickery are discussed. Card games covered
include Whist, Tarot, Boston, Casino, Imperial, Piquet, Tresette,
Commerce, Alliance, Bassadewitz, Deutsch Solo, Pharao. In each case the
rules are explained, strategies outlined, and information is given on the
resepective merits of the game. A further section deals with board games
including chess and checkers, with a comprehensive history of the game,
and illustrations of board constellations. This is followed by billiards and
various other games played on a billiards table, and bowling. The Wnal sec-
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tion describes a ball game using a bat and involving two teams alternately in
the Weld and at bat, which bears resemblance to baseball or cricket.
In the preface the author describes the complicated publishing history of
the work, enlarged from the original Spielalmanach of 1797, and re-issued
without licence and under a variety of pseudonyms by a number of rival
publishers, which resulted in a number of law suits. The diVerent editions
are all of interest, as they reXect contemporary gaming fashions, and include
diVerent games.
Van der Linde, Das erste Jahrtausend der Schachliterature 16; Van der Linde,
Geschichte und Literature des Schachspiels II, p. 69; an der Linde-Niemeijeriana 3551;
see Spielbücher und -Graphik des 16.–18. Jahrhunderts 38 for earlier edition.
Catching Bandits
51 [FLORENCE. BANDITS.] Provisione che’l Premio di chi
Ammazza Banditi che non si Paghi à chi non domanda in tra
l’anno. A dì 23. Di Gennaio. 1553. Florence, Giorgio Marescotti,
[1575]. £150
4to, pp, [4], ducal arms to title, hand-coloured; modern boards.
Second edition of a ruling on the rewards paid out for the slaying or capture
of bandits or fugitive criminals. Following a number of false claims for these
rewards, it was decided that claims have to be made within the year. Apparently
quite frequently money had been claimed by fellow bandits with spurious
proof and substantial time delay.
BM STC Italian, p. 261; not found in RLIN, OCLC or KVK.
Paris Population Figures Analysed
52 [FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron de.] Recherches
statistiques sur la Ville de Paris et le Département de la Seine,
Recueil de tableaux dressés et réunis d’après les ordres de Monsieur
le Comte de Chabrol. Lithographie de l’Ecole Royale des Ponts et
Chaussées. C. Ballard, Imprimeur du Roi, 1821. £1000
8vo, pp. x, 114, [32] interleaved with tables, [5] numération générale,
[2] errata, [1] blank, 2 lithographed plates facing page 94, and 62
lithographed tables on 38 sheets, mostly folding; original buV coloured
boards, spine with printed label, extremities slightly worn, otherwise a
Wne copy, with a presentation inscription to the Rector of the Académie
de Paris, and an 1829 ownership inscription of Pierre Claray.
Prepared for the Comte de Chabrol (1778–1843), the prefect of the
Département de la Seine, this impressively detailed statistical work on Paris
collects a wealth of information on the French capital after Napoleon’s
reign. Baron Fourier, director of the Bureau of Statistics and noted mathematician,
had a decisive part in the preparation of the Wgures, and is the
author of the ninety page essay on the collection and importance of vital
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statistics. Gathered together here are tables on population statistics,
Fourier’s programmatic essay, Comte de Chabrol’s comments on the
Wndings, and sixty-two lithographed tables. In these tables the data is presented
and organized in a variety of ways. In addition to basic population
statistics (i.e. number of live births, deaths &c.), the tables indicate the various
causes of death (natural, accidents, suicides), and the personal circumstances
of the deceased (married, widowed, etc.). Also included are speciWc
medical and social statistics, giving, for example, information on the
number of poor-houses and hospitals in every district, or the number of
people vaccinated. A particularly curious table even lists the number of free
entertainments for the poor, according to district and attendance. Most of
these tables are based on Wgures from the 1817 and 1818 censuses, with
some comparisons to earlier data. The importance of statistical information
for policy decisions of civil administrations had been noted before, and the
Wrst publication of such Wgures on Paris had already appeared under
Colbert. However, it was not until the nineteenth century that this data was
regularly collected and published. Following this publication, which
marked the beginning of the new emphasis on social statistics, a whole series
of them was issued by the Paris Bureau of Statistics between 1826 and
1860.
Uncommon, Goldsmiths’ 23140; Einaudi 1961; Kress records only the second
edition C3488; Perrot p. 213.
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Fournier’s MagniWcent Type Specimen
53 FOURNIER. Pierre Simon. Manuel Typographique, utile aux
Gens de Lettres, & à ceux qui exercent les diVérents parties de l’Art
de l’Imprimerie. Par Fournier, le jeune. Tome I [–II]. Paris, the
Author, J. Barbou, 1764/1766 [vere 1768]. £4800
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv] two engraved frontispieces, xxxii, 323, [1]
errata, [4] privilege, and 8 folding engraved plates; [iv] frontispiece and
title, xliv, [ii], 306, and 8 folding engraved plates, pages 177–186 as
fold-out pages with printed music; type specimen printed within
decorative border; contemporary full calf, spine decoratively gilt, with
two gilt-lettered labels and numbering pieces, sides with greek rule, gilt
dentelles, a.e.g.; a little rubbing to joints, front free endpaper removed;
a Wne copy, with engraved book-plate to front pastedown.
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First edition, a Wne copy, Fournier’s masterpiece, a magniWcent type specimen,
which is regarded as ‘the most important book on French eighteenth
century typography’ (Birrell & Garnett 37) and his types dominated European
printing for Wfty years (PMM II, 112). It includes 186 pages of specimens
of type and 101 alphabets, ancient and modern, and was ‘intended to
explain to the layman the intricacies and nuances of the typographic art’
(Jackson Burke 527) This copy also includes the portrait of Fournier after
Bichou, which is often missing.
In his preface to volume I Fournier gives a brief overview of the earlier
French publications on the history of printing and type, and outlines the
scope of his book. He gives technical information on punch-cutting, matrix-making,
and type-founding, and includes here his innovative point system
of type sizes. In a series of tables he indicates the respective number of
each character to be supplied in making up fonts of roman, Hebrew, Greek,
music types etc. and concludes with eight engraved plates, which show
tools and equipment employed in the various processes described in the
text. In volume II Fournier emphasises the importance of utilising the full
range of printing types, and gives details of the principal type foundries of
Europe. This is followed by type specimens of every type and size imaginable.
They represent the types of Fournier l’ainé, the Paris founders Cappon
and Hérissant and Breitkopf (Leipzig) and are grouped under six headings:
I. Types in ordinary use, II. Ornaments, III. Types peculiar to particular
countries or of special forms, IV. Oriental types, V. Music and plain-song,
VI. Types of ancient and modern languages with explanatory notes.
The very attractive type specimen shows roman, italic, Greek, Hebrew
fonts, with many additional exotic faces, such as Syriac, Arabic, Coptic and
Armenian. It presents the amazing repertory of Fournier’s foundry, ranging
from the tiny ‘Parisienne’ and ‘Nonpareille’ sizes to the grand size of ‘Grosse
Nonpareille’, an unusually large face for cast type. A further highlight of this
type specimen is the extensive choice of ornaments, which were clearly designed
to compose into a great variety of combinations and patterns.
Fournier’s contribution to typography cannot be over-estimated. ‘His
grasp of typography was so complete and so Wrm that he could venture into
every corner of it, its literature, its history, its relation to greater things,
writing, architecture, music’. His Wrst contribution had been his ‘table des
proportions qu’il faut observer entre les caractères’, an attempt to standardize
type sizes by a point system – a standard which is still in use today. He
was a great innovator and moderniser of type faces, and his type specimen
gives ample proof of this. Fournier had planned this work to consist of four
volumes, but died before its completion.
Audin, 55,56; Bigmore & Wyman I p. 228; Birrell & Garnett 37; Jackson Burke
527; Printing and the Mind of Man (Exhibition Catalogue) II, 112; see Updike,
Printing Types, 1951, I, pp. 250–266 with numerous sample pages.
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The Earliest Catalogue of ‘Books in Print’
54 [FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR.] WILLER, Georg. Catalogus
novus nundinarum vernalium Francoforti ad moenum, anno
M.D.LXXXV ... Verzeichnuss fast aller neuwer Bücher, welche
seyther der nechtsverschiene Herbstmess, biss auf dise gegenwertige
Fastenmess in oVentlichem Druck seyn ausgangen. Frankfurt am
Mayn, Willer, 1585. £2800
4to, pp. [45], some light browning; recent sprinkled boards, with
printed title to cover.
First edition thus of this early Frankfurt Book Fair catalogue. The
Augsburg book-dealer and book-distributer Georg Willer (c. 1514–1594)
was the Wrst to issue regular (bi-annual) catalogues of new books available
for purchase, which had been presented at the Frankfurt book fair. To facilitate
their sales’ promotion he issued regular catalogues, Wrst with an
Augsburg imprint, and later to save time, with a Frankfurt imprint. The Wrst
such catalogue was issued in 1564.
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The books listed are arranged by subject, and for the Wrst time place, publisher
and date are always mentioned. The catalogue Wrst records books in
Latin, then books in German, with a few French books also listed. Within
this division, the books are arranged under the following headings: Protestant
theology, followed by Catholic books, law, medicine, history and geography,
philosophy and humanities, poetry and Wnally music. Clearly a
much larger number of books was published in Latin than in the vernacular.
For Willer the catalogues produced increased sales and proved an innovative
selling tool. But the catalogues also served a secondary function as an
early form of ‘Books in Print’ and were used by his competitors and librarians
alike. With these early sales catalogues the book trade was well ahead of
other retail businesses. Despite growing competition Willer continued to
issue his catalogues until 1627, even though as early as 1598 an oYcial
Frankfurt book fair catalogue was issued under the title Frankfurter Ratsmeßkatalog
(see Wittmann, Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels, pp. 66 V).
All issues of Willer’s catalogue are very rare.
Lexikon des gesammten Buchwesens III 585; see Breslauer & Folter 24 (for the issue
of 1568); OCLC list one copy of the issue of 1583 at the Library of Congress, and
another of the issue 1592 at the Newberry Library; Harvard apparently has a
number of sixteenth century issues.
Revolutionary Dress Sense
55 [FRENCH REVOLUTION.] Dresses of the Representatives
of the People, Members of the two Councils, and of the Executive
Directory: also of the Ministers, Judges, Messengers, Ushers and
other Public OYcers, &c, &c. From the original Drawings given by
the Minister of the Interior to Citizen Grasset S. Sauveur. The
Whole is illustrated by an historical Description, translated from the
French. Paris, printed for Deroy: London: printed for L. and S.
Harding, 1796. £1000
8vo, pp. [viii] title page, engraved title, index and advertisement, ll. 12
of text, printed on one side only, with 15 engraved and hand-coloured
plates; some light spotting, else clean; contemporary half green roan
over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label.
First edition in English (one of two issues) of this publication on the costumes
of the oYcials of the French Revolutionary Government, Wrst published
in 1795 under the title Costumes des Représentans du Peuple Français.
This Anglo-French publication, published presumably to satisfy English
curiosity about the developments on the other side of the Channel, was
produced by Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757–1810), a Canadian by birth,
who later lived and died in France, and published a number of costume
books after his own drawings. He is best known for his comprehensic illustrated
Encyclopédie des Voyages, containing over three hundred costume
plates.
ESTC t34964.
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56 [FRENCH REVOLUTION.] L’Anno Vecchio, ossia la Fine
del 1792. [n.p.], 1793. £750
8vo, pp. 54, [2] blank; contemporary stiV paste-paper wrappers; a little
dog-eared, head of spine chipped; extensive nineteenth-century
manuscript annotations in ink to margins.
First and only edition of this forceful critique of the French Revolution
with a pan-European perspective. The anonymous author deplores the
eVect of the French Revolution and outlines its repercussions all over Europe,
giving details of political, economic and moral decline in a newly polarised
world. He argues that only the Jews, due to their stateless existence,
have escaped unscathed from the upheavals, and due to their economic
power remain a force to be reckoned with. He also comments on science,
cultural life and religious beliefs and social mores. The manuscript annotations
were added a hundred years later, according to the note on the front
paste-down, and add another dimension to the virulent outbursts.
Uncommon, RLIN/OCLC locate copies at the Library of Congress and the National
Library of Canada only.
The Outstanding Italian Contribution to the Theory of Money
57 [GALIANI, Ferdinando.] Della Moneta Libri Cinque. Naples,
Giuseppe Raimondi. 1750 [i.e. 1751]. £8500
4to, pp. [xvi], 370, [6] errata, privilege, large woodcut vignette on title,
attractive woodcut decorated initials; entirely uncut, in contemporary
pattern-paper covered boards, endpapers sometime renewed, joints
chipped, and extremities a little bumped, else a very Wne, wide-margined
copy with contemporary ownership attribution in manuscript on title
page in the same hand as the ownership inscription and small stamp of
Massimo Calvi.
First edition, very rare, of the ‘outstanding Italian contribution to the
theory of money’. Galiani’s Della Moneta, published anonymously in 1751
(predated to 1750) when the author was barely twenty-three years old,
made him an instant celebrity.
Galiani ‘published his remarkable treatise on money, Della Moneta
(1751) in order to convince his compatriots, the citizens of Naples, that the
rise in prices which had resulted from monetary reform was accompanied
by unquestionable symptoms of prosperity and was, therefore, advantageous
to the community. Both the originality of Galiani’s fundamental conceptions
and the methods which he used in elaborating them made his
treatise an outstanding achievement of eighteenth-century reasoning’
(Pibram, p. 115). His analysis reXected the inXuence of utilitarian views,
contained a brilliant analysis of the utility theory of value, with indications
of diminishing marginal utility. Galiani’s theory was based on the conXict
between utility and scarcity, with the added element of the subjective nature
of value, which is based on our constantly changing preferences and not in
the goods themselves.
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Galiani conversed and corresponded with many of the leading intellectuals
of his time, among them Diderot, Voltaire, Turgot and in particular
Giambattista Vico, the great philosopher and historian of philosophy. Due
to his inXuence, Galiani stressed the evolutionary development of society
from which only historically relative truths can be derived.
Cossa 41 (113), Einaudi 2329; Goldsmiths’ 8528; see Kress Italian 269; Mattioli
1373; this copy conforms with the Goldsmiths’ copy (2B3 a cancel, D4
uncancelled);
Stamps for the Papal States
58 GALLI, Angelo. Regolamento per l’applicazione dei bolli
franchi alla corrispondenza epistolare. Roma, tipograWa della
Reverendia Cameral Apostolica, 1851. £1000
Folio broadside, measuring 820 x 600 mm, printed in two columns,
with some discreet repairs to verso; folded.
First edition of a document of great importance for economic and philatelic
history: a broadside announcing the introduction of the postal stamp to the
Papal States. Prepared and signed (19 December 1851) by the economist
and Wnance minister Angelo Galli (1789–1859), the broadside gives the
legal and practical directives on the introduction of postal stamps, followed
by information on rates both inland and abroad and size speciWcations.
Postal stamps had Wrst been introduced in 1840 in England, as a single rate
prepaid charge for the safe delivery of mail, after Rowland Hill’s reform of
the postal system. He had suggested the simpliWcation of the postal system
with a Xat rate rather than a complicated rating system according to distance
practiced up to the time. The beneWts of the modern postal system became
immediately obvious, and the Xat rate was introduced to various European
countries. Within Italy, the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia was the Wrst to
introduce the postal stamp, followed by the Kingdom of Sardinia and the
Grand Duchy Tuscany. On January 1, 1852 the Papal States followed.
Not found in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi; for information on the postal system
and the introduction of the postal stamp see Royal Philatelic Society.
Critique of Women’s Love of Luxury
59 [GAZANO, Michele Antonio.] Invettive contro il Lusso
Femminile Odierno. [Cagliari, Stamperia Reale], 1780. £750
Small 12mo, pp. [12] with 40 numbered stanzas; contemporary
pattern-paper wrappers.
First and apparently only edition of this outspoken critique of female luxury
and wastefulness of the time. Written in forty numbered eight-line stanzas,
the author pillories extravagance, which impoverishes fathers and husbands
alike. He complains that women are decked out as if on their way to a carnival,
decorated with Xashy watches, pearls etc., and, at the same time, deplores
the fatal attraction of women.
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The author Gazano also wrote extensively on the history of Sardegna.
Melzi, II, p. 41; very rare, just the British Library copy located; not in RLIN/
OCLC.
The First Universal Bibliography
60 GESNER, Conrad. Bibliotheca universalis, sive Catalogus
omnium scriptorium locupletissimus, in tribus linguis, Latina,
Graeca, & Hebraica: extantium & non extantiu, veterum & recentiorum
in hunc usqu diem, doctorum & indoctorum, publicatorum &
in Bibliothecis latentium Opus novum, & no Bibliothecis tantum
publicis privatisue instituendis necessarium, sed studiosis omnibus
cuiuscunq artis aut scientiae ad studia melius formanda utilissimum.
Zurich, Christopher Froschauer, September 1545. £16000
Folio, ll. [viii], [i] blank, [x] index, 631, large printer’s mark to title and
large woodcut arms to verso of *7; with ll. 15 mss leaves either pasted
in or loosely inserted; two or three individual wormholes extending
through Wrst few signatures only; original full richly blind-stamped
pigskin over wooden boards, with remains of one catch and one clasp;
spine label lettered in manuscript; the upper board has ‘Bibliotheca I A
1546’ stamped in black on three panels of the decorated binding; head
and tails of spine a little chipped, else well-preserved; with extensive
manuscript annotations throughout; from the library of Daniel Wilhelm
Nebel, with his bookplate to front pastedown, and a further bookplate
of A de St. Ferriol; a very good copy.
First edition, a very good copy with a fascinating provenance and manuscript
annotations, of ‘one of the epochal works in the annals of bibliography:
the Wrst ‘universal’ bibliography, that is, an international bibliography
of authors who wrote in the learned languages, alphabetically arranged by
their Wrst names in accordance with medieval usage. Short bibliographical
data precede the list of works, with indications of printing places and dates,
printers and editors, where applicable. About 12,000 titles are listed, an
amazing achievement, especially in consideration of the author’s age,
twenty-nine at the time of publication. Gesner published an Appendix
Bibliothecae in 1555. ... Gesner, who has been called the father of (modern)
bibliography, was a Renaissance polymath who wrote on medicine, zoology,
botany, and pharmacology, as well as on theology and philology’
(Grolier Club, Bibliography 14).
This copy comes from the library of the eighteenth century Heidelberg
doctor Daniel Wilhelm Nebel (1735–1805), who descended from a family
of scientists, pharmacists and academics. Gesner’s bibliography might well
have been in the family library for a number of generations, and the extensive
annotations attest to its being extensively used. The annotations give a
fascinating insight into buying and reading patterns of an eighteenth century
medical scientist.
Besterman, Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography, pp. 14–20; Printing and the Mind
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of Man 73; Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography its History and Development, Grolier
Club 1984, 14; Wellisch A 16.1.a.
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61 GHIRLANDA, Gaspare. Negoziazione e Nobiltà a sua
Eccellenza il Sig. Conte Carlo de Firmian ... [colophon:] Milan,
Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1773. £600
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 126; title within decorative border;
elegantly printed on strong paper; contemporary full mottled sheep,
rebacked with gilt-lettered spine label, endpapers renewed.
First edition of an interesting and well-researched debate concerning the
involvement of the nobility in trade and commerce. Coyer’s Noblesse Commercante
was clearly the starting point of a general debate on this question,
but Ghirlanda maintains that his arguments are directed at the situation in
Milan in particular. He comments on the fact that nations dependent on
trade and commerce are more likely to form alliances, live amicably with
their neighbours, and make scientiWc advances in navigation and technology.
Despite their ‘natural’ occupation in the army or the government, the
nobility has a valuable contribution to make in advancing trade and commerce.
Ghirlanda cites extensively from earlier writers and his contemporaries
in his historical overview, and compares the situation in ancient Rome,
sixteenth century Holland, and the Italian city states. He comes out very
much in favour of a substantial involvement of the nobility in commerce.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10994.3–1 supplement; Einaudi 2535.
Interest Rate Calculations
62 GIARDINI, Giambattista. Lettere in Material di Sconto.
Modena, Bartolomeo Soliani, 1760. £450
8vo, pp. 56; title vignette and decorative initial; calculations
throughout; contemporary sprinkled boards; a Wne copy.
First edition of this spirited debate on interest rate calculations presented in
the form of letters, by the mathematician and philosopher Giambattista
Giardini. Sparked oV by a dispute between merchants in Modena who were
trying to compare interest rates and terms oVered by various money-lenders,
the two correspondents enter into a heated debate, which extends to the
exchange of four letters. Complicated interest rate calculations are combined
with discounting of bills of exchange, all supported by extensive calculations.
The work is also attributed to Giovanni Battista Araldi, whose Due
Lettere apologetiche in material di Sconto were published the same year (extending
to 65pp.) (Goldsmiths’–Kress 9580). In 1761 in a much expanded
version appeared under the title Lettere ed indici in material di sconto di
Brimantide.
Uncommon, no copy recorded of this Wrst version; for Due Letter apologetiche, 1760
see Goldsmiths’–Kress 9580, Higgs 9580 and Mattioli 1060.
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Crime Reduction
63 GILLET, Jean-Claude-Michel. Discorso sulle mezzi di
prevenire i delitti nella Società. Milan, TipograWa Milanese in
Contrada Nuova, anno 9. [1800–1801]. £350
8vo, pp. [ii], 74; recent boards, spine with gilt-lettered roan label.
First Italian edition (Wrst 1799) of Gillet’s prize winning essay on the question
of how to reduce crime and criminal behaviour in society. His proposals
include work programs for mendicants, a topic he later wrote on more
extensively. Gillet expresses the opinion that as a result of the social contract,
which limits individual freedom for the greater good and is the basis
of the republican government, public divisions will be decreased. Gillet
(1759–1810) was one of the tribunes of the French revolutionary government
and a public prosecutor.
64 GONZAGA DI CASTIGLIONE, Luigi. L’Homme de
Lettres, bon Citoyen, Discours philosophique & politique de son
Altesse Monseigneur le Prince Louis Gonzaga de Castiglione:
prononce à l’Académie des Arcades, à Rome l’année 1776. Traduit
de l’Italien. Geneva, 1777. £450
4to, engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. cxxiv, with title vignette and
decorated initials; printed on heavy paper; contemporary full mottled
calf, spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label, sides with decorative gilt
Xoral tooling; a few manuscript corrections in the text; heraldic
bookplate to front paste-down and contemporary ownership inscription
to front free endpaper; possibly a large paper copy.
First edition, rare, of the French translation of Il Letterato Buon Cittadino, by
the Italian Enlightenment author Luigi Gonzaga di Castiglione, together
with his Essay Analytique sur les Decouvertes Capitales de l’Esprit Humain, a
speech he had given at the London Royal Society the same year, and Wnally
his essay on poetry, RéXexions sur la Poesie. Gonzaga di Castiglione (1745–
1819), a maverick Enlightenment Wgure, of noble birth and independent
means but who renounced his title, was clearly inXuenced by Rousseau and
other Wgures of the European Enlightenment. He was at home in Venice,
Rome, Paris and in London, where he spoke at the Royal Society.
In the title essay Gonzaga di Castiglione diVers from his ‘hero’ Rousseau
and professes the importance of literature as a source of happiness and a
means to illuminate politics, the law and all human activity. The contribution
of the writer is as important as that of the scientist in Wghting ignorance
and falsehood, and as an embodiment of the new values of intelligence,
creativity and virtue. Gonzaga di Castiglione comes out in support of a constitutional
monarchy, and was arguably the Wrst to talk of liberty and democracy
in Rome.
In his Royal Academy essay he suggests the application of modern
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scientiWc methods to the study of modern social and political questions, to
the relationship between the Church and the State, and praises the enlightened
rulers of the time, who have turned their back on despotism.
Barbier II, 855 (edition limited to one hundred copies only); RLIN lists just one
copy, at Harvard.
Portuguese Earthquakes: Real and Economic
65 [GOUDAR, Ange.] Rélation historique du Tremblement de
Terre survenu à Lisbonne le premier Novembre 1755. Avec un
detail contenant la Perte en Hommes, Eglises, Convens, Palais,
Maisons, Diamans, Meubles, Marchandises, &c. Précédé d’un
Discours politique sur les avantages que le Portugal pourrait retirer
de son malheur. Dans l’Auteur développe les moyens que
l’Angleterre avoit mis jusques-là en usage pour ruiner cette
Monarchie. La Haye, Philanthrope, 1756. £550
8vo, pp. x, 216; uncut in the original pattern-paper wrappers, spine
label lettered in manuscript; a crisp wide-margined copy, early
ownership inscription to inside front wrapper.
First edition of Ange Goudar’s report on the earthquake which struck Lisbon
in 1755 and which was reported all over Europe. For the Wrst time, the
press helped to create a sense of proximity, and people were aVected by the
events of Lisbon as if they had happened in their own country. Goudar
clearly jumped on the bandwagon, he had been to Portugal in 1751 as part
of a secret spying mission, but he had returned to Paris before the disaster
struck. From other reports he compiled this hastily written account of the
damage done by the earthquake. More important, however, are his perceptive
remarks on the economic situation of Portugal, which in later editions
(three more in the same year) took pride of place.
Goudar argues that Portugal’s dire economic situation was caused by its
ally England. Because of its balance of trade deWcit, Portugal had allowed its
Brazilian gold to be drained oV by Great Britain. English Wrms based in
Lisbon had experienced great losses in the earthquake, and subsequent interruption
of regular trade had generated further deWcits. He blames England
for Portugal’s industrial backwardness, and argues that the earthquake
presents a unique opportunity for a radical change of policy and political
alliance. By forming an alliance with France instead of Britain, its fortunes
would be revived. Goudar’s text generated Europe-wide interest and comment,
was reprinted numerous times, translated into all the European languages,
and was used for propaganda purposes on the eve of the Seven
Years’ War.
Mars 31; see A. C. Araujo, ‘The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 – Public Distress and
Public Propaganda’, JPH vol. 4, no. 1, Summer 2006.
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66 [GOUDAR, Ange.] Memorie che servono alla vera Storia di
Madama Poissons-d’Estiolles Marchesa di Pampadour. Quarta
edizione. Venice, Gatti, 1789. £200
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 224 (including frontispiece); title
vignette; faint damp-stain at head of title and in gutter margin; uncut
in the original buV limp boards; spine lettered in manuscript; some
discolouring to lower board; private ownership stamp to title.
Straight reprint of the fourth and last edition (also published by Gatti) of
Goudar’s tendentious account of the true story of Madame de Pompadour,
well-known courtesan and mistress of Louis XV of France. The work was
Wrst published in French in 1763 and the Wrst Italian translation appeared in
1765. Some letters were exchanged between Casanova and Lamberg about
the attribution of this anonymously published work to Goudar.
The engraved portrait is a copy of the one done by Louis Durand for the
1765 edition.
Mars 63; see Marchesi p. 399 without attribution to Goudar; uncommon; RLIN/
OCLC list Harvard.
Arts & Society
67 GOUDAR, Ange & Sara. Relation Historique des
divertissemens de l’Automne de Toscane ou Lettre de Madame Sara
Goudar sur ce Sujet à Mylord ***. [1775?]. £900
8vo, pp. 46; a single worm hole in Wrst few leaves; recent wrappers.
An interesting report on contemporary ballet and theatre by Sara Goudar,
wife of the adventurer, political writer and friend of Casanova, Ange
Goudar. The work is in the form of letters addressed to their acquaintance
John Child, second Earl Tilney, who lived for over thirty years between
Florence and Naples, and was very interested in music and dance. The letters
were published in a number of editions, all very uncommon between
1774 and 1776.
After some general remarks on the respective merits of music, theatre,
ballet and dance, Sara Goudar gives reviews of a number of performances in
Florence, beginning with Perseus and Andromeda, with the music by
Giuseppe Gazaniga, and Corneille’s Le Cid, with details of the plot, leading
artists and the orchestra. Practical information is also included, such as
prices of tickets, visiting troupes, programs of other theatres, etc., followed
by general gossip regarding Lord Hamilton.
Mars 114; Childs, Casanoviana 445; no further copies found of this edition in
RLIN and OCLC; two other editions with diVerent pagination were published the
same year, OCLC lists copies at Yale, Chicago and Utrecht of one (pp. 64) and
Utrecht and UCLA of the other one (pp. 35,1).
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68 GOUDAR, Ange & Sara. Lettre de Madame Sara Goudar sur
le Carnaval de Toscane a Monsieur L***. 1776. £1000
8vo, pp. [ii], 47; title vignette; some light circular staining to A4, else
clean and crisp; recent wrappers.
Further reports by Sara Goudar on ballet, theatre, and gambling together
with some autobiographical remarks on her reading and working habits,
again in the form of letters addressed to their acquaintance John Child, second
Earl Tilney. She comments on the French philosophes, ridicules Casanova’s
attempt at translations, and makes scathing comments on the frosty
Russians. This is preceded by the observation that in women authors physical
appearance, hair colour, and beauty seem to be of greater interest than
their literary merit. The second half is taken up with the promised account
of the Tuscan carnival season of 1776, which was apparently inaugurated
by a ballet performance of Voltaire’s Semiramis. She comments on English
visitors to the carnival and the economic impact of their entourage, and
gives some interesting details of the practicalities of transferring money in
those days, with letters of exchange etc. Further economic considerations
follow on from observations of the decline of the carnival of Venice, especially
after the closure of the Ridotto, the gambling halls, only to be reopened
as state-run casinos. The economic cycle passes from individual
small traders, through money lending of the ghetto, to bankers at the gam-
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ling table. Further discussions on the restrictions applied to both carnival
and the ridotto conclude the work, with a brief excerpt from the 1775/6
publication Plan de réforme, proposé aux cinq correcteurs de Venise.
Mars, Ange Goudar 119; Childs, Casanoviana 445; RLIN/OCLC New York Public
Library (microWlm only); see Magriel, A Bibliography of Dancing, p. 112.
The First National Bibliography
69 [HAYM, Nicola Francesco.] Biblioteca Italiana, o sia Notizia
de’ Libri Rari nella lingua Italiana, Divisa in quattro Parti principali;
cioe’ Istoria, Poesia, Prose, Arti e Scienze, Annessovi tutto il Libro
dell’ Eloquenza Italiana di Mons. Giusto Fontanini col suo
Ragionamento intorno alla stessa materia. Con Tavole copiosissime,
e necessarie. Venice, Angiolo Geremia, 1728. £300
4to, pp. [xxiv], 264; woodcut initials; contemporary full vellum, spine
lettered in mansucript; with censor’s stamps of M. A. Parenti and
B. Bonelli, of the Duchy of Modena, to foot of title page and last leaf;
a good copy.
Second edition, substantially enlarged, of ‘the Wrst or one of the Wrst national
catalogues’ (Taylor, p. 15), and the standard bibliography of Italian
books for most of the eighteenth century. Haym Wrst published his Italian
bibliography under the title Notizia de Libri rari nella Lingua Italiana with a
London imprint in 1726 with the original intention of listing only rare
books. However, subsequent editors, beginning with Angelo Geremia, so
enlarged the work that it came to be considered as a library of Italian literature.
The bibliography is arranged in sections, beginning with history and
geography, then poetry, followed by prose writings, and a Wnal extensive
section of arts and sciences, including grammar, linguistics, history of art,
philosophy, politics and political history, mathematics and astronomy. The
format of the books is given, in addition to some indication of rarity and
advice on best editions.
Bestermann 921; Krieg, Bibliotheca Bibliographica, 36 (1741 edition); Taylor, Catalogues
of rare books, p. 15.
Bibliography of Legal Literature
70 HELLBACH, Johann Christian. Entwurf einer auserlesenen
Bibliothek für Rechtsgelehrte mit zweckmäßiger Kritik und
Ladenpreisen. Erster Theil [– Zweiter Theil]. Erfurt, Georg Adam
Keyser, 1787–1794. £1250
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [xxiv], 288; xxiv, 290, [2]; a Wnely engraved
title vignette showing a library; interleaved copy; contemporary half calf
over paste-paper boards, spines in compartments, ruled and decorated
in gilt, with contrasting gilt lettering and numbering pieces; a Wne set
from the Apel family library at Ermlitz castle.
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First edition, uncommon, of this comprehensive annotated bibliography of
all aspects of legal literature. Hellbach attempts to combine juridical theory
and practice, and divides it up in relevant subject areas, beginning with general
bibliographies and histories, followed by hermeneutics and diVerent
aspects of law, legal practice, case law etc. Subjects are treated under individual
headings such as maritime law, mining law, police administration
etc. The second volume, published some seven years after the Wrst, follows
the same arrangement. Interestingly he comments on the individual works
described, refers to review articles, and in many cases gives prices. Petzhold
comments favourably on the completeness and detail of the bibliography,
but deplores the separate indices for each volume.
After legal studies in Leipzig, Hellbach (1757–1828), became court
councillor of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen at Arnstadt and member of the
Academy of Sciences at Erfurt. He published extensively on the law and
genealogy.
An appealing interleaved copy, even though the previous owner did not
take advantage of the blank pages to add further legal titles to the bibliography.
Petzholdt p. 629; uncommon OCLC lists just one copy at the Library of Congress.
Original Manuscript Lecture Notes
71 HERMANN, Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm. Nationalökonomie
vorgetragen von Prof. Dr. Hermann, München, 3. Mai 1838.
Autograph manuscript, Munich, 1838. £6500
Small 4to, pp. [176], in 23 signatures; written entirely in a clean and
legible hand, occasional corrections and small additions; contemporary
black paste-paper boards, spine ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered spine
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label, reading ‘National-Oekonomie’, extremities a little rubbed and
head of spine chipped; in all a very good copy.
Original manuscript of Hermann’s lecture notes for a course in political
economy held at Munich University in the summer term of 1834. The lecture
notes present a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of political
economy. The clean copy with just a few corrections and annotations suggests
that it was meant for subsequent publication, but this never happened.
This manuscript is of high importance as it illuminates the development of
Hermann’s thinking between the publication of Staatswirthschaftliche
Untersuchungen, Wrst published in 1832, and the posthumous publication
of a second revised edition in 1870. Whereas the Staatswirthschaftliche
Untersuchungen had not been meant as a compendium to political
economy, but rather as an elaborate critique of subjects which were addressed
unsatisfactorily by contemporary science, Hermann takes a more
comprehensive view in this manuscript. Amongst other questions he here
presents his famous deWnition of ‘want’ (Bedürfniß) ‘the feeling of a need
(Mangel) and the desire to overcome it’. These areas were later included in
the second edition of his main work.
Hermann was ‘one of the greatest and most important thinkers’ whose
work started the golden age of German economic literature ... ‘among all
the continental experts he comes closest to the great authorities of the new-
English school’ (Kautz in H. D. Kurz). Albert SchäZe considered him the
‘sharpest of the German economists, their Wrst mathematical thinker’.
Heinrich v. Thünen called Hermann’s treatment of proWts ‘the most profound
and valuable disquisition on the issue I ever encountered (Thünen
[1850], 1990, 334n) and Schumpeter regarded him as ‘miles above’ his
contemporaries in Germany and maintained his work represented the ‘culminating
point of the highroad of German economists of the time’
(Schumpeter 1914, p. 55 V.)
Hermann (1795–1868), one of the most eminent of German economists
and statisticians, studied at Erlangen and Würzburg, became teacher of
mathematics at Erlangen and in 1827 was appointed extraordinary professor
of technology and political economy at the university of Munich. In
1832 he published his great work Staatswirthschaftliche Untersuchungen,
which made his reputation and procured for him the position of ordinary
professor at Munich university. In addition to his university position, he
was employed by the government as inspector of institutions for technical
instruction. He had a remarkable knowledge of contemporary English and
continental economic literature, which he had read in the original. Clearly
his favourite economist was Adam Smith. His responsibilities in public
oYce prevented Hermann to publish further in political economy, which
might well have contributed to his lack of recognition by later economic
historians.
His unexpectedly early death left his planned revision of his major work
unWnished, and it was later pieced together by two of his students. Because
of this, the present manuscript is of particular importance, as it documents
some of the changes Hermann would have proposed. Another but much
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later notebook of Hermann’s lectures exists: it is entitled Nationaloekonomie
und Finanzwissenschaft, and is now housed at the library of Louisiana State
Library. Heinz D. Kurz describes a number of manuscripts of student’s lecture
notes preseved at Munich University Library, and stresses the immense
importance of these manuscripts because of the Hermann’s limited published
output.
For information on Hermann see New Palgrave and Roscher, and for a more detailed
study Heinz D. Kurz, Hermanns Beitrag zur Kapital- und Verteilungstheorie in
ökonomisches Denken in klassischer Tradition, Marburg 1998, pp. 147–214.
Textile Technology
72 HESS, Johann Rudolf. Beschreibung von den Kamm- und
Spinn-Maschinen auf Wolle und Baumwolle eingerichtet. Mit acht
verschiedenen Kupfern. Zurich, Orell, Füssli & Co., 1806. £1200
8vo, pp. 23, [1], with eight large folding engraved plates boud at the
end; some light spotting and dust-soiling; paste-paper spine, a little
dog-eared, else Wne.
Sole edition, very rare, of a Wne work of original textile technology. Hess
presents improved spinning machines, which can be used both for wool
and for cotton. He gives detailed instructions with speciWc reference to the
plates, explains the construction and design of the machinery, and the
speciWc function of each part.
In his introduction the author stresses the importance of his work to his
Swiss compatriots. He also claims to have introduced this advanced spinning
technology in Italy. All proWts from this invention are to be devoted to
his poor in the Swiss provinces of Schwitzer and Unterwaldner Kanton.
Not in Bibliographica Textilia Historiae; not in Crerar Library; not in Kress, Goldsmiths’,
or Einaudi; just one copy found in NUC/RLIN/OCLC, at Harvard.
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73 [HOUSE VALUES.] Della Giusta Valuta delle Case secondo
la Consuetudine Maceratese. [n.p.], n.d. [? Macerata, Antonio
Cortesi and Bartolommeo Capitani, 1791]. £750
12mo, pp. [iv], 125 (including aggiunte); faint dampstain to upper
corner, else clean; contemporary limp boards covered with pattern
paper, extremities a little worn, else Wne; stamp removed from upper
corner of title.
First and apparently only edition of a curious anonymous publication, outlining
the correct valuation of houses in the city of Macerata in the Marche
province of Italy, dedicated to the home owners of the city. The author
distinguishes between the method of valuation applied by the Rota
Romana, which combines building costs and rental receipts, and his own,
which is based on building cost, location, and commercial use and also takes
the physical state of preservation of the building into consideration. The
purpose of his work is apparently both a justiWed assessment for tax purposes,
but also a help when establishing the price of houses for sale, be it for
private or commercial use. He refers extensively to opinions and calculations
prepared by various contemporaries. The dispute was apparently
caused by church authorities insisting on a lower values of compensation
when requiring buildings for religious and social services.
Not found in RLIN, OCLC or KVK; not found in Avery.
74 [INDEX.] Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Lyon, Guil.
Rouille, 1564.
[bound after:] Canones, et Decreta Sacrosancti oecumenici et
Generalis Concilii Tridentini ... Lyon, Guil. Rouille, 1564.
[bound with:] Bulla S.D.N.D.Pii divina providential Papae quarti,
super ConWrmatione oecumenici generalis Concilii Tridentini.
£1200
Two parts in one volume, 4to, pp. 236, [1], [3] blank, [21] index, [3]
blank, large folding folio sheet; Bulla; 46, [2] blank, last two leaves with
small portion torn oV upper blank margin; broadside Bulla with tear to
fold; large title vignette; paper lightly browned, a little dog-eared;
contemporary full Xexible vellum; a little stained and creased, head of
spine chipped and corners bent, but an entirely unsophisticated copy.
First French printing of the Wrst Index issued as a direct result of the Council
of Trent. The Wrst edition was published by Manutius the same year. This
is the book that provided the generic title for lists of banned books, which is
still in use today. The index constituted the most authoritative guide the
church had yet published, its rules were accepted as the guide for future
censors and compilers and its lists formed the basis of all subsequent indexes.
The Index of Prohibited books originated in the 1520s, when the printing
presses became the main means for spreading the ideas of the Protestant
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Reformation. Universities, ecclesiastical and civil authorities published numerous
lists of condemned books, which paved the way for the more general
Index. This Index compiled by the a commission established by the
Council of Trent, and published by Pius IV in 1564 is of great importance
because of the ten general rules it promulgated, which became the basis of
Catholic censorship policy for the modern era.
Not in Adams or Baudrier; see Grolier 22 and Petzholdt p. 140 for Manutius printing;
this Wrst French edition not in Petzholdt; see Reusch, Index der verbotenen
Bücher.
Enlightened Tax Code
75 [ITALY – TARIFFS.] TariVa delle Gabelle Toscane. Florence,
Gaetano Cambiagi, 1781. £750
4to, pp. [ii], 68 [h and h2 misbound], 44, 271, [1] blank, 216, [1]
errata (one extra blank bound in; large title vignette; uncut in the
original limp boards; some light dust-soiling to boards, extremities
rubbed; a Wne copy.
First edition of the revised Tuscan import and export tariVs, following the
legislation of 1781, as part of the far reaching reforms implemented under
the rule of grand duke Leopold (1765–1790). A lengthy preface which is
attributed to Vicenzo Mugnai outlines the history of Tuscan tariVs and customs,
quoting from Hume and Muratori, and stresses greater equality in
the new tax codes, where old privileges have been abolished.
The tax on commodities is divided into separate categories, direct tariVs
collected by the Exchequer, customs, special taxes and tariVs due to other
public accounts, and local taxes.
The extensive taxation tables give a fascinating insight into the great variety
of merchandise, which was produced in Tuscany, imported and exported.
Agricultural products, animals, foodstuVs and medicinal products
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are included, but also artists’ materials (pp. 49–57), such as inks, pigments
etc., glasses (pp. 170), and paper for various purposes. Detailed lists are
given of a wide variety of manufactured products, with some emphasis on
current favourites, such as leather goods, wine, and glass.
A second edition of this tax code was published in 1791.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 12205; NUC and RLIN add a further copy at the Library of
Congress and the National Library of Medicine.
76 [ITALY – ROAD MAINTENANCE.] Regie Patenti
d’approvazione dell’annesso Regolamento per la manutenzione, e
riparazione delle Strade Reali, e pubbliche. in data de’ 11. Settembre
1771. Turin, Stamperia Reale, 1771. £250
Folio, pp. 8; folded as issued, uncut; paper a little browned, but evenly
so; a Wne copy.
Decree by the Government of Charles Emanuel III ordering a general survey
of all public roads for maintenance and repair work – a typical example
of his wide-ranging managerial reforms. In thirty-eight numbered paragraphs
all aspects of road maintenance, planning of new roads, Wnancial
responsibility for the maintenance work, Wscal reimbursement schemes, and
proper disposal of waste materials are organised. Technical questions, such
as surface grading for drainage and the construction of run-oV ditches are
also discussed.
After the far-ranging reforms initiated by his father Victor Amadeus II,
Charles Emanuel III concentrated on consolidating these reforms, and on
putting a capable administration into place.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; not found in NUC or RLIN.
Use of Disinfectants
77 JANIN de COMBE-BLANCHE, Jean. L’Antiméphitique ou
Moyens de détruire les Exhalaisons pernicieuses & mortelles des
Fosses d’aisance, l’odeur infecte des Egouts, celle des Hôpitaux, des
Prisons, des Vaisseux de guerre, &c, &c ... Imprimé par ordre du
Gouvernement et a ses frais. Paris, Ph.-Denys Pierres, 1782. £250
8vo, pp. xxxii, 70, 8 [supplement]; contemporary calf-backed pastepaper
boards, spine lettered in gilt.
First edition of one of the earliest works to advocate the use of disinfectants
and examining their application. Janin de Combe-Blanche deals with various
aspects of public health, suggesting improvements to sewers and cesspits
and demanding improved ventilation and sanitation in hospitals,
prisons, churches, ships and mines.
Janin de Combe-Blanche (1731–1799), an ophthalmologist and president
of the College of Surgeons in Lyon.
Wellcome III, p. 345.
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Picture Dictionary and Grammar
78 [JUVENILE – ABC-BOOK.] Kleines Bilder-Cabinet zu
Erlernung der vier Sprachen I. Teutsch, II. Lateinisch, III.
Französisch und IV. Italiänisch. Augsburg, Johan Andreas PfeVel,
Kays. HoV. Kupferstecher, 1735. £2400
8vo, ll. [ii] engraved pictorial and textual title, ll. 100, all printed on
recto only, with nine images per page, each accompanied by engraved
text in four languages; contemporary sprinkled boards; a very clean and
crisp copy, with strong impressions.
Very rare baroque linguistic picture dictionary for children. Occasionally
accompanied by a textual guide, which is not present here, the picture dictionary
clearly relies on the memorable eVect of images in the acquisition of
language skill. Each Wnely engraved plate shows nine images with the German
word underneath it, followed by its Latin, French and Italian translation.
The arrangement is by part of speech, Wrst nouns, then adjectives and
verbs; but within each group the order is apparently random, though occasionally
based on the Latin term. The verbs are given in the Wrst person
singular, to make memorisation easier. Similar to the Orbis Pictus, this unusual
language guide relies entirely on visualisation to ease language acquisition.
The little scenes, Wnely engraved are particular vivid and cover a wide
social and cultural range.
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This ABC book is apparently very rare, the Herzog August Bibliothek
Wolfenbüttel has a complete set, with the textual part, whereas the
Staatsbibliothek Berlin only has an incomplete section of the illustrations;
another copy is recorded at the University of Groningen.
Brüggemann/Brunken 97, Bilderwelt 66; Deutsche Kinderbücher des 18.
Jahrhunderts, exhibition catalogue, Wolfenbüttel 1979, G2; Wegehaupt I, 1156;
OCLC lists just one copy at Groningen.
Pocket German Grammar
79 KIRCHMAYER, Matthias. Gramatica della Lingua Todesca
...in questa seconda Edizione augmentata e dedicata al’illustriss. Ed
Eccellentiss. Sig. Marches Clemente Vitelli, Ambasciatore
Straordinar del Sereniss. Gran Duca di Toscana... In Firenze nel
Garbo, nella Stamperia di Giuseppi Manni, [?1698, or 1702]. £450
12mo, pp. viii, 278, [2] approbation; woodcut initials and typographic
head-pieces; contemporary full vellum, spine numbered in manuscript.
Second edition of this charming pocket grammar of the German language.
In addition to grammar and grammatical exercises the work also contains a
glossary of the most important words, arranged in subject areas.
Kirchmayer concludes with a number of dialogues on areas useful to the
tourist or traveller. Finding lodgings, food and drink, shopping, but also
the necessary terminology for engaging in card games, betting and gambling.
A curious Wnal section deals with German idioms, ‘Del Germanismo’,
and gives numerous examples.
There are a number of diVerent early editions, dated 1702, 1704 and
1706 with imprints of Trento, Bologna and Venezia. The privilege of the
present copy is date 1698, but this might refer to the Wrst edition.
GV 24, 102; not found in NUC, OCLC and RLIN just locate one copy at Harvard
(Mattia Chirchmair).
Income Statistics
80 KÖRNER, Christian Gottfried. Quem Fructum oeconomia
Politica Capiat ex Descriptione Civium ad ipsius usus accommodate.
Specimen Primum [all published]. Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1778. £350
4to, pp. [iv], 30, 2, one folding printed table bound at end; paper spine,
small section (10 x 70 mm) cut oV from foot of title page, presumably
to remove inscription.
First and only edition of this dissertation by Christian Gottfried Körner
(1756–1835), on the use and beneWt of detailed income statistics for the
national economy. He draws from international examples, and refers to
Davenant, Petty, Berg, but also Justi and Süssmilch. The Wnal printed table
shows a sample form for collecting and organising the necessary data. The
population is divided into those who support themselves by ‘exchange’,
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which includes all those living oV the land, traders and merchants, state
oYcials, academics and artists, labourers.
Körner (1756–1835) was an eminent jurist and one of the closest friends
and benefactors of the German writer and poet Friedrich von Schiller.
Menger c. 20; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Humpert; RLIN lists just one
copy at Yale.
One of the Earliest Guides to London
81 KUECHELBECKER, Johann Basilius. Der nach Engelland
reisende curieuse Passagier, oder kurtze Beschreibung der Stadt
London und derer umliegenden Oerter, denenjenigen, so dahin zu
reisen gedencken, zum besten ans Licht gegeben. Hannover,
Nicolaus Förster, 1726. £1950
8vo, pp. [xxxii], 306, [14] index, with one woodcut diagram in the
text; occasional light browning, due to paper quality; contemporary full
sheep, spine decoratively gilt in compartments; a very good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this charming guide to the sights of London
and its surroundings, particularly designed for German students on the
‘Grand Tour’. Kuechelbecker stresses the beneWt of travel when undertaken
in the right spirit, well planned and well prepared. Endless sojourns in restaurants
and bars will not enhance the educational eVect of a tour, whereas
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the occasional visit to the opera or the theatre is perfectly admissible.
He begins with some general information on London and England in
general, with travel information, comments on the dress sense of the English,
meal times (no lunch before 3 pm) and the high price of clothing, before
concentrating on the history of London, its population and its main
sights. In addition to the well-known attractions of the Tower of London,
Monument, Houses of Parliament, St Paul’s and Westminster Abbey, he
includes detailed information on parks and gardens, coVee houses, banks
and clubs. A whole chapter is devoted to libraries, among them the Royal
Library at Westminster Palace, the Library of the Royal Society, Lambeth
Palace amongst others, followed by those of Oxford and Cambridge, with
information on their founding history, holdings and library buildings. He
comments on the large number of bookshops and book auctions, where
whole libraries are put up for sale. Kuechelbecker gives detailed information
on the economy, the organisation of guilds, and practical economic life
in London – a special chapter is even devoted to suitable souvenirs to take
home. His insights into daily life in London make this a charming and very
interesting guide to early eighteenth century social history.
With the Hanoverians on the English throne, this guide proved popular
and a second edition was published in 1736.
See Cox III, p. 98 for second edition; RLIN lists just Penn State and a second
edition at Göttingen.
Revolutionary Language
82 LA HARPE, Jean-François. Cosa sia il Fanatismo nel Dialetto
Rivoluzionario ossia della Persecuzione suscitata da’ Barbari del
Secolo Diciottesimo contra la Religione cristiana, ed i suoi Ministri.
RiXessioni di Gianfrancesco LaHarpe. Ragusi, [vere Milan].
1798. £750
8vo, pp. xvi, 218, [2] blank; uncut in contemporary paste-paper
wrappers; a Wne copy.
First edition in Italian of this fascinating analysis of revolutionary language
by the French poet, playwright and critic La Harpe (1739–1803). As a
young man he associated closely with the philosophes and modelled himself
on Voltaire. Initially enthusiastic for the Revolution, he turned sharply
against it, and in this political polemic analysed the political fanaticism of
the French Revolution and showed how language is used for political
means. He attacked the verbal (and real) excesses, both in general terms and
in individual instances. He shows how language becomes a weapon in the
political debate.
The French original had been published the year before.
Parenti p. 174; this Italian edition is very rare, not found in RLIN/OCLC, one
copy in ICCU.
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Constitution of the Roman Republic
83 [LAW – ITALY.] Costituzione della Repubblica Romana colle
Leggi ad essa relative e con Indice alfabetico Ragionato del
Cittadino Dottor Filippo Brunone Fidanza. Rome, Luigi Perego
Salvioni, Stampatore del Senato et Tribunato, Anno VII
Repubblicano [1798/99]. £1150
8vo, pp. viii, 400; woodcut of the Phrygian cap which became the
symbol of the liberty during the French Revolution to title; title-page
with two nature-printed Xowers positioned between title and imprint;
contemporary half vellum over boards, gilt-lettered spine label; a very
good copy with a contemporary ownership inscription in ink reading
Sen. Fererrar (?) to front paste-down.
First edition, uncommon, of the constitution of the short-lived Roman
Republic, beginning with the declaration of citizens’ rights, stressing liberty
of person and domicile, and guaranteeing property as a basic right and the
basis of human activities and social order. The constitution was proclaimed
after the invasion of the Papal States and occupation of Rome by the Directory
(15.2.1798); it was based on the moderate French constitution of
1795, with two chambers elected by restricted indirect suVrage, the executive
formed by Wve directors who nominated the ministers and an elective
judiciary. The three powers were strictly separated, with a centralised administrative
structure. The constitution was short-lived and became redundant
already in September 1799.
The Wnal 120 pages are taken up by a particularly useful index, which
helps identify relevant legislation for any question imaginable.
Uncommon; RLIN/OCLC locate copies at Harvard Law School and Cleveland
Public Library.
With Contemporary Hand-Colouring
84 LÖHR, Johann Andreas Christian. Die Künste und Gewerbe
des Menschen. Zum Behuf nützlicher Kenntnisse in 104
Abbildungen. Leipzig, Gerhard Fleischer, [1819]. £3400
8vo, pp. viii, [v]–viii, 416, [4] advertisement; with 104 woodcuts of
professions, with contemporary hand-colouring; original pink printed
boards, title to upper board within decorative border, spine and
extremities a little rubbed; a few signatures had become loose and have
been strenghtened, for-edges a little rubbed; an attractive copy.
First and only edition of a rare book of trades, speciWcally designed for children.
It is particularly attractive to Wnd this rare children’s book with contemporary
hand-colouring. The one-hundred and four full page
illustrations show diVerent professions at work, in their traditional outWts
and in their workplace surroundings. Löhr covers a vast range of professions,
beginning with the familiar such as baker, pharmacist, butcher etc.,
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to glazer, tanner, cartwright, vintner, printer, type-caster and paper-maker
to mention but a few. In each case the illustration accompanies a brief description
of the profession, outlining their specialities, training and products.
Löhr (1764–1823) was the author of popular children’s books, and has
been praised for the factual and unsentimental presentation of his material.
Heinsius, VI, 516; Lexikon der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur II, 391; not in
Wegehaupt, Rümann or Düsterdieck; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; very rare, not
found in RLIN or OCLC.
Enlightenment Garden Design
85 MABIL, Luigi. Teoria dell’Arte de’ Giardini. Bassano,
[Remondini], 1801. £1000
8vo, pp. xxiv, 309; title vignette; uncut in contemporary pink wrappers;
edges a little frayed and foot of spine chipped; a good copy.
First and only edition of this theory of garden design which brought the
fashion for English gardens to Italy. Mabil was an exponent of ‘enlighten-
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ment garden design’, which combined the principles of French formal gardens
with English landscape gardening, and based his work mostly on
Hirschfeld. He wrote the work in response to Pindemonte’s lecture on
English gardens at the Padua academy in 1792, which was not published in
book form until 1817. Whereas Pindemonte defended the position of the
‘artist-gardener’, Mabil developed an entirely diVerent theory of imitation
in gardening. ‘It had nothing to do with ‘imitating nature by nature’ but
with reproducing the character of a place. He believed that one should not
copy the natural features of a site, but rather the mood, the atmosphere, the
attitude that the garden evoked, which gave rise to a delightful uncertainty
as to where nature or art had created the scene, had prepared the surprise,
had painted the picture. Eventually, however, he placed gardens in two categories:
the symmetrical, formal garden for the display of collections of nature’s
most beautiful objects, an idea which anticipated the nineteenth
century fashion for collections of rare and exotic plants, and on the other
hand the informal garden’ (Mosser & Teyssot, pp. 363–364).
Mabil (1752–1836) was professor of aesthetics in Padua, and later professor
of law at the university of Pisa.
Berlin 3499; not in Cicognara; see M. Mosser & G. Teyssot (eds.), The history of
garden design, London, 1991.
The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph
86 MAGRINI, Luigi. Telegrafo elettro-magnetico practicabile a
grandi distanze. Con Tavole. Venice, Alvisopoli 1838. £900
Tall 8vo (230 x 150mm), pp. 86, [1] contents, [1] blank, 4 fold-out
plates bound at the end; uncut and partly unopened in the original
printed wrappers; with a presentation inscription by the author to Prof.
Benedetto dal Vecchio in ink at head of upper wrapper.
First edition of this early paper on the invention of the electromagnetic telegraph
by Luigi Magrini (1802–1868), professor of physics and applied
mathematics. He gives an overview of telegraphs and electrical telegraphs
before concentrating on the electromagnetic telegraph of his own invention,
based on the understanding of the link between magnetic and electric
phenomena. He includes extensive technical detail and calculations, and
various details of his device are illustrated on the engraved plates.
Magrini concludes with an interesting appendix in which he explains that
his own discovery preceded the experiments by Wheatstone and Steinheil
by a few months, and how while his publication was already at the printers
the Wrst news of Wheatstone’s and Steinheil’s experiments on the same subject
became public. Wheatstone had his Wrst patent granted in 1837, and
together with Cooke is credited with the Wrst commercial use of the electromagnetic
telegraph, whereas Steinheil is generally acknowledged to have
founded electromagnetic telegraphy in Austria.
Ronalds, 316; Rossetti & Cantoni, BibliograWa italiana di elettricità e magnetismo,
56.
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87 MANTOANO, Domenico. Il Tresette in Disciplina o siano
alcune regole da osservarsi nel nobilissimo gioco di Tre-sette. Estes.
Venezia ca. 1710. £550
12mo, pp. 24; later paper boards.
Early edition of these comprehensive rules for the popular Italian card game
tresette. The game, a card game of bluV and skill which is similar to poker, is
played by four players, with a deck of forty cards, and is widely used for
betting. Regional variations of the rules apply. All individual descriptions of
the game are rare, a later edition was published in 1715, (Weimar only).
See Lensi 95 for another undated edition.
88 MARTIGNONI, G. C. Ignazio. Dell’Opportunità d’associare
alle Istituzioni Civili i Principi dell Diritto di Natura. Como,
Pasquale Ostinelli, 1804. £350
8vo, pp. 16; Wnely printed on heavy paper; original marbled wrappers.
First and only edition of a brief lecture dedicated to Giuseppe Casati, prefect
of the Department of Lario, stressing the importance of linking the
study of civil institutions with those of natural law. Just like human rights
are the indisputable basis of the rights of the citizen, civil law has by necessity
to follow the principles of natural law. The lecture was apparently given
as a commencement address at the university.
Martignoni (Como 1757–1814) also published a number of other works
on aesthetics.
One copy recorded in KVK (ICCU), not found in RLIN or OCLC.
Air Pollution and Clean Beaches
89 [MEDICINE.] Discorso sopra la Mal’Aria, e le Malattie che
cagiona principalmente in varie Spiaggie d’Italia e in Tempo di
Estate. Rome, Luigi Perego Salvioni, 1793. £600
8vo, pp. 76; contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments;
a little worming to spine; else a Wne copy printed on strong paper.
First and only edition of this investigation on the declining air quality at the
sea shore during summertime, which in turn causes various illnesses. The
anonymous author concentrates on the swampy regions of the Agro
Romano, Naples and Tuscany, but maintains that his Wndings are applicable
to other regions as well. He particularly describes the pestilential air in
the Grotto del Cane, on mount Vesuvius, where the air quality during part
of the year was so lacking in oxygen, that dogs or other animals led into the
grotto, immediately experienced breathing problems. This grotto was also
the place, where Spallanzani later made his measurements of the chemical
composition of volcanic gases, which he published in 1798. He identiWes
that the bad air quality is caused by gas emissions from the soil, and
counters the general prejudice that it is caused by lack of human traYc.
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He identiWes trees as aiding air quality, and maintains that they are the
reason that Rome does not suVer to the same extent from pestilential air as
the surrounding areas. For immediate relief he suggests sleeping on the top
Xoor of the buildings, and possibly even lighting the Wre to expel the bad
air.
The anonymous author begins with a little dialogue on the beneWt of
publishing his Wndings for the beneWt of his readers and without elaborate
dedications.
Wellcome II, p. 472; RLIN/OCLC adds the Paris Museum of Natural History
only.
90 MELLANI, Giovanni. L’Uomo Straordinario ovvero la
FilosoWa, la Politica, e la Morale dell’Incognito Persiano. Rome,
Poggioli, 1820. £550
8vo, pp 76; apparently removed from a Sammelband, as additional page
numbers are added in ink; recent wrappers.
First and apparently only edition of this novel, describing the life, philosophy,
morals, and politics of an ‘extraordinary man’, a Persian Incognito.
The novel claims to be taken from an Arabic manuscript, translated Wrst into
Greek, then Latin and Wnally Italian. Through the main protagonist ‘Incognito’
eighteenth century life and morals are viewed. Well-travelled, both in
the East and in the West, Incognito apparently combines the knowledge of
science of all continents. His philosophy becomes clearer in the second half
(pp. 37–73) when some of his writings entitled I miei Sentimenti e Pensieri
are reprinted, a collection of aphoristic statements on life, philosophy, interpersonal
relationships, religion etc. in the tradition of Pascal, La
Rochefoucault, or Diderot. The novel ends with the report that the author
of these Sentimenti e Pensieri could not be established, despite research in
the archives of Oxford.
Not found in RLIN or OCLC.
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Teaching from Books or Manuscripts?
91 [MENICONI, Francesco.] Breve Dissertazione in cui
succintamente si dimostra essere assai piu proWttevole che i
professori delle belle arti e scienze alla gioventù spieghino libri
impressi che trattati manoscritti. Florence, Andrea Bonducci, 1765.
[bound with: ] [MENICONI, Francesco.] Lettera in Difesa della
Dissertazione che l’utilità sostiene di spiegare nelle Scuoli i Libri
pubblicati colle Stampe. Rome, Giovanni Zempel, 1768. £480
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. viii, 43; viii, 124; title vignette;
contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt,
gilt-lettered spine label; corners a little bumped, else a Wne copy, with
contemporary presentation inscription.
First and only editions of both works. Francesco Meniconi (1707–1787)
argues that it is better to use printed textbooks as a basis for teaching than
dictation. In this interesting contribution to the didactic debate, Meniconi
follows on from G. Lami, G. Facciolati and A. Genovesi. He argues that in
a time of educational reform memorizing by rote and dictation should be
abandoned in favour of more innovative techniques that would appeal to
the students’ natural abilities and inclinations.
The second work is a rejection of Vincenzo Cavallucci’s (1700–1787)
response entitled Parere di N.N. in forma di Lettera (1767), which argued in
favour of a more teacher-led educational style.
Melzi I, 148; Melzi II, 102; OCLC lists just one copy at Princeton of both works.
Enlightenment Legal Reform
92 MURATORI, Lodovico Antonio. Dei Difetti della
Giurisprudenza. Venezia, Giambatista Pasquali, 1742. £850
Folio in 4s, pp. [viii], 184; title printed in red and black, engraved title
vignette, decorated initials; marginal tear to R1, no loss of text;
contemporary marbled sheep-backed boards, spine ruled and decorated
in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, chipped; a Wne, wide-margined copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Muratori’s criticism of jurisprudence, in fact
the starting point of the critique of Roman law throughout the eighteenth
century, resulting in far-reaching judicial reforms and the drawing up of
modern civil codes. Muratori pillories the injustice of old feudal privileges
and the role of the Catholic Church in upholding these. He in particular
criticises the vast and often contradictory accumulation of edicts, which
made the execution of justice and power diYcult. His critique proved
inXuential on the reform of Tuscan legislature and the presentation of the
Codice Estense. In his treatise Muratori attacked the immobility of the Italian
legislative apparatus. The refusal of the curia to grant reform eventually
resulted in the radical enlightenment reform movement.
Muratori (1672–1750), archivist and librarian in Modena, was one of
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the greatest scholars of his time and published extensively in the Welds of
history, philosophy, and political economy. This criticism of the legal system
proved popular, further editions followed in 1743, 1744.
L’Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli 367; Sorbelli I, 154.
93 [ORIOLI, Francesco.] L’Arte di Riparare dai Calori Estivi le
Abitazioni e le Persone. Discorso letto dal Professore N.N. nella
PontiWcia Università di Bologna. Li VII Luglio 1823. Bologna,
Annesio Nobili, 1823. £520
8vo, pp. 52; uncut, stitched as issued in the original printed pink
wrappers, with title to the front, and imprint and price to the back; a
very Wne copy, with a manuscript book label to upper wrapper.
First edition of this entertaining discourse on how to protect houses and
their inhabitants from excessive summer heat. Orioli distinguishes between
the problem of hot air circulation, and the exposure to direct sun-light, and
discusses how diVerent surfaces absorb or reXect the sunlight. He argues
against a style of architecture with many windows, which might be appropriate
for Northern Europe, but is wholly inconvenient for Italy, where it
allows the sun to heat up the rooms excessively. Instead he recommends
ventilation, white curtains, and pale colours for the walls. He even describes
an intricate cooling system, with an ice cabinet in the middle of the apartment
and a system of vents to encourage air circulation, but admits that this
is appropriate only for the rich. The second part concentrates more on the
physiological eVects of excessive heat on the human body. He concludes
with practical advice, recommending light clothing and light meals, and
carrying parasols, but warns against excessive consumption of ice cream or
ice cold drinks, as they increase the individual perception of heat.
Francesco Orioli (1783–1856) was professor of physics at Bologna, and
published extensively on archaeology, science and electricity.
The publication met with approval and was reprinted in a Naples edition
in 1825, and another one in 1850.
Not in Wellcome; not in RLIN/OCLC, where just the later 1850 edition is listed,
with copies at New York Public Library, Smithsonian Institution and Tulane University.
The Principles of Criminal Law
94 PAGANO, Francesco Mario. Considerazioni sul Processo
Criminale. Milan, TipograWa di Tosi e Nobile, 1801. £600
8vo, pp. [x], 180; contemporary calf-backed paste-paper boards, spine
ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; from the library of the
Antonianum, Padova with shelf-mark label to spine, and stamp to title
page; early manuscript note to front free endpaper citing MaVei’s
favourable review.
Second edition, Wrst published in Naples in 1787, of Pagano’s well-received
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and much reprinted work on criminal law, his Considerations on Criminal
Trials. Following on from Beccaria and Montesquieu, he was convinced
that by means of a reform of penal law existing social and political structures
could be changed, if there was enough will for reform. In his Considerazioni
sul Processo Criminale he gives an overview of criminal law, its history, and
its application in diVerent countries, before proposing fundamental
changes in its application in Italy. He comments on bias in the judiciary,
condemns torture to extract confessions and rejects the application of the
death penalty.
Pagano (1748–99) was one of the most active and inXuential members of
the republican government in Naples in 1799. His life’s work, culminating
in his best known Saggi Politici, the great masterpiece of enlightenment culture,
marks him as one of the foremost representatives of the spirit of republican
reform. With the return of the Bourbons he was arrested and executed,
despite the guarantees given to the republicans in the capitulation agreement.
See L’Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli 391 for edition on 1799; uncommon,
Wrst edition held by Library of Congress and Berkeley only.
95 [PASQUALI.] Catalogo di Libri Latini e Italiani, Antichi e
Moderni che trovansi vendibili presso Giustino Pasquali Q.m Mario
Libraio e Stampatore Veneto, con due altri Cataloghi in Wne, l’uno
di varie Commedie, Tragedie, Drammi, Farse, ec. l’altro di Libri
Francesi ed Inglesi. Venice, 1797. £950
8vo, pp. 160; uncut in the original buV limp boards, spine strengthened
with pattern paper; corners a little frayed, remains of a label to upper
wrapper; a good copy.
First edition thus of the catalogue of books for sale oVered by the Venetian
bookdealer and publisher Pasquali. DiVerent from earlier catalogues issued
by this Wrm, this catalogue is in Italian, and lists books in Latin and Italian,
both in-print and out-of-print. The books are listed in alphabetical order by
author, giving size, number of volumes and price. For some books net
prices are given, others seem available at a discount. There are two separate
appendices, one of plays, and the other of French and English language
titles. In a nod to reader convenience, the plays are listed in alphabetical
order of title, as are the foreign language titles.
The catalogue covers mostly eighteenth century titles of general interest,
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many historical titles, some geography, biography, science, medicine, and
dictionaries, but mostly literature, poetry and Wction. Translations are also
included, from Robinson Crusoe, to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and
numerous works by Condillac, Voltaire, and Robertson.
Not in Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Catalogue de Libraires 1473–1810, where
some other Pasquali catalogues are listed; RLIN/OCLC list just the UCLA copy, at
the Bodleian Library; for Pasquali see Editori Italiani dell’ Ottocento, p. 811.
Holistic Medicine
96 PASTA, Giuseppe. La Tolleranza WlosoWca delle Malattie.
Bergamo, Stamperia Locatelli, 1787. £550
8vo, pp. viii, 284, [1]; contemporary half mottled sheep over boards,
spine ruled and decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; insigniWcant
worming to upper joint; very clean and crisp; a Wne copy.
First edition of this philosophical approach to medicine. Pasta (1742–
1823), a medical doctor from Bergamo makes some interesting observations
on medical practice, on the temptation to treat each and every
complaint with excessive pharmaceutical or surgical force. Instead, he
maintains, many complaints are just temporary and will improve without
medical intervention. He classiWes medical phenomena into three categories,
those that take care of themselves, or can be approached not as individual
‘illnesses’ but seasonal, age-related or endemic. Next are treatable
complaints, divided into skin diseases, piles, ulcers, haemorrhaging, vomiting
and diarrhoea, venereal diseases and gout which respond to medication,
and Wnally incurable diseases such as hereditary diseases or cancer. He suggests
that more attention should be paid to the needs of the patients, rather
than submitting them to a relentless regime of treatment. In a brief chapter
he deals with medical diet.
The volume concludes with a number of hitherto unpublished letters by
Cocchi (1695–1758) on the same subject.
Wellcome IV, p. 313; OCLC lists further copies at Berkeley, Harvard, and the
National Library of Medicine; a second edition was published the same year.
The First European Book Trade Directory
97 [PERRIN, Antoine.] Almanach de la Librairie, contenant
1. Les noms des Ministres & Magistrats qui sont à la tête de la Librairie,
ceux des Censeurs & des Inspecteurs. 2. Un Abrégé des
formalités qu’on doit remplir pour obtenir les diVérentes permissions
d’imprimer, de faire venire des Livres étrangers, de suivre les
process pendants en la Commission ou au Conseil, & enWn de ce
qu’il faut faire pour parvenir à être reçu Libraire ou Imprimeur.
3. Un Tableau de tous les Libraires & Imprimeurs de Paris & du
Royaume. 4. Un Tableau des Libraires des principales villes de
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l’Europe. 5. Un Tableau de Graveurs d’histoire, de paysages, de
portraits, établis à Paris, suivi de celui des Marchands d’estampes &
de dessins. 6. Les noms & les addresses des Graveurs en letters & en
musique, & ceux des Marchands de musique de Paris & des
principales villes du Royaume. 7. Les Foires de Librairie.
8. Le depart des Messageries, des Coches d’eau & des Rouliers,
& enWn les nouveaux Réglements. Paris, Moutard, Imprimeur-
Libraire de la Reine, 1778. £1250
12mo, pp. [iv], 207, [5] table des matières and privilege; paper lightly
browned at beginning and end; early nineteenth century sheep; triple
gilt rules to sides, spine decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; a little
rubbed; with bookplate ‘Pour Savoir E. Le Mercier’ to front pastedown.
Second much enlarged edition of the Wrst European book trade directory. It
was Wrst published in 1777 by Duchesne, but in a much less comprehensive
format.
This fascinating address book of everyone related to the world of printing
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and books clearly has an emphasis on the Paris book trade in particular and
the French book trade in general, but covers also German, Italian, British
and Scandinavian printers and publishers. The Wrst sections cover the ‘legal’
side of the book trade; names of censors and inspectors are given, with their
respective specialisations, followed by details regarding book imports and
distribution. The second part gives details of printers and booksellers,
names and addresses of engravers, followed by those of music printers.
Even though the directory is by no means comprehensive as regards names
of printers and publishers outside of France, it gives an invaluable listing of
the principal names in the trade in Europe.
The Wnal sections deal with recent modiWcations of the general laws governing
publishing and printing, especially those concerning workers’ regulations
and guild rules.
The Almanach was Wrst published in 1777, and later editions followed in
1781 and 1784, when new regulations made another edition necessary.
Grand-Carteret 586; see G. Barber, ‘Pendred Abroad’, in Studies in the Book Trade,
in Honour of Graham Pollard, 1975.
Judeneid – Oath More Judaico
98 PHILIPSON, Moses. Über die Verbesserung des Judeneids.
Ein auf Befehl der Königlich-Kuhrfürstlichen Justizkanzley zu Hannover
verfasstes Gutachten. Neustrelitz, Michaelis, 1797. £1200
8vo, pp. 264 (slightly erratic pagination), lacks Wnal blank; title page a
little dust-soiled, else clean and crisp; contemporary pattern-paper
boards, extremities chipped and corners bumped.
First edition, uncommon, of this study of the ‘Judeneid’, the ‘oath more
Judaico’, a formal oath, which Jews were required to use in courts of law,
especially in cases against non-Jewish opponents. This special oath apparently
dates back to the time of Constantine, and can be seen as characteristic
of the attitude of medieval states to their Jewish subjects. The union of
church and state seemed to make it necessary to have a diVerent oath formula
for those outside of the state church. Philipson, who had been requested
to publish this study by the royal electoral chancellery of justice in
Hanover, gives a historical overview of diVerent wordings of the oath, and
numerous occasions when it was used. It was partly used as a means of oppression
or denigration, by choosing most elaborate and embarrassing
wording. With this he also gives a detailed account of previous contributions
to the question. In the second part Philipson discusses in detail suggestions
for changes or improvements made by contemporaries. He argues
that denigrating wording has to be eliminated, that the oath has to be
simpliWed, and proposes speciWc wording. The Judeneid was abolished in
Germany 1869.
Moses Philippson, a friend of Moses Mendelssohn, was the author of Das
Leben Benedict von Spinoza’s (Brunswick, 1790). This treatise has occasion-
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ally been falsely attributed to Moses Philipson (1775–1814), the educationalist
who is best known for his bible translations.
Hamberger/Meusel VI, p. 95; Fürst III, p. 87 (attributing it wrongly to the educationalist
and bible translator Moses Philipson; uncommon OCLC lists just the
New York Public Library copy, in addition to Göttingen, the Netherlands and
Denmark; see Jewish Encyclopaedia IX, pp. 367.
Out-of-Town Cemeteries
99 [PIATTOLI, Scipione.] Saggio intorno al Luogo del
Seppellire. N.p. 1774. £650
Tall 8vo, pp. viii, 87, [1] blank; signature A lightly browned;
contemporary Xoral wrappers laid down.
First edition of this important contribution to public health, Piattoli’s detailed
work on burial customs through history, and an exposition of the
dangers of internment in cities. Piattoli stresses that through the ages people
had felt it necessary to bury the dead far from the places inhabited by the
living. He describes at length how Christians gradually began to inter their
dead in churches, with reference both to Carlo Borromeo’s criticism of this
development, and contemporary church council decrees. Piattoli concludes
his treatise by outlining the medial dangers of the practice. D’Alembert became
aware of the work and encouraged the French health reformer Felix
Vicq d’Azyr to have it translated. It was published in French in 1778.
Piattoli (1749–1809), a lawyer, philosopher and professor at Modena
University, later helped draw up Poland’s Wrst constitution.
RLIN/OCLC list Columbia and Cambridge only; not in Wellcome, where just the
French translation is recorded (Wellcome IV, p. 382).
100 [PIAZZA, Antonio.] Il Nobile immaginario, storia che può
istruire e piacere. Venice, Novelli, 1771. £780
8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and engraved title, [viii], 111; later
full vellum, spine lettered in ink.
First edition of this rare novel of romance and deceit by Antonio Piazza.
Written from the perspective of the hero or ‘nobile immaginario’ a wide
puzzle of relationships evolves. Trying to identify his real father, estranged
from the parents, through marriage, seduction and other adventures, our
hero tries to establish his history and his destiny. The Wne engraved frontispiece
shows two Wgures tearing each other’s masks oV.
Piazza (1742–1825), author of novels and plays at Wrst clearly copied
much from Chiari’s style of writing, which in turn was inXuenced by English
examples. However, in his later works, like this one, Piazza became
much more independent.
Marchesi, p. 402; not in Morazoni, Cicogna, or Lapiccirella; one copy in ICCU,
no copies found in RLIN or OCLC.
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101 [PIAZZA, Antonio and Giacomo CASANOVA.] Discorso
all’Orecchio di Monsieur Louis Goudar. Londra, 1776. £1200
8vo, pp. 55; large engraved portrait vignette to title; paper occasionally
a little browned, recent wrappers.
First and apparently only edition of this scurrilous work on Ange Goudar,
part of Casonava’s revenge. Sara and Ange Goudar had ridiculed Giacomo
Casanova’s translation of the Illiad, published in 1775–76, with the comment:
‘The authors of this category (translators) begin their career without
any qualiWcation and Wnish it without any glory... That of the Signor Casanova,
Venetian, which has just appeared is something below the mediocre:
it is said he has wished to dress up Homer, but Homer needs no clothing’...
(see item 68).
Casanova in collaboration with the Venetian publicist Antonio Piazza
here takes his revenge, by drawing into question the morals of Sara Goudar,
who before her marriage to Ange Goudar worked as a barmaid and by giving
details of Ange Goudar’s public and private life. Internal evidence
proves Casanova’s involvement, as many of the incidences described could
only have come from him. The work, part of an ongoing literary dispute
gives extensive information on Ange and Sara Goudar’s literary, political
and social career.
See Rives Childs pp. 37–42; RLIN/OCLC record copies at New York Public Library
a and Harvard only.
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ScuZes on the Ponte di Mezzo in Pisa
102 [PISA.] Prospetto della Festa del Gioco del Ponte che si
eseguisce in Pisa II di XII di Maggio del Corrente Anno 1785. Con
Veduta in Rame iniata del medesimo, ed accresciuta di diverse
circostanze formenti il complesso della suddetta Festa. Per comodo
ed intelligenza de’ Signori Forestieri. Florence, Giuseppe Tosani,
1785. £550
4to, folding engraved plate, pp. 12; loosely preserved in marbled
wrappers.
First edition of this ‘tourist’ guide to the colourful battle on the Ponte di
Mezzo, part of the traditional summer festivities in Pisa. Dating back to the
sixteenth century, the game involves Wrst an extensive military parade on the
river Arno of the representatives of the southern bank of the river (Mezzogiorno)
against those of the northern bank (Tramontana), followed by a
man-to-man battle of circa 50 representatives of the opposing teams on the
bridge. The combatants wore armour, a helmet (called a morione) and used
the targone (a large heavy shield) which could also be used for attack. The
desire for autonomy from Florentine domination and the increasing violence
of the game caused Leopold II to ban the game in 1785. It was revived
brieXy in 1807, and then again in the nineteen thirties, and today in a sanitised
form has become a major tourist attraction.
The charming hand-coloured engraved plate shows the bridge with
views of the surrounding sights, with the opposing teams in full action.
Fortune-Telling
103 [POIRIER, J. S. de.] Der GräWn von Bembrock Punctir- und
Schreib-Künste, aus dem Französischen ins Deutsche übersetzet.
Cölln, Pierre Marteau dem Jüngern, 1761. £750
8vo, pp. 47, with one large folding printed table, and 47 pages of
woodcut illustrations of dice and dice tables in the text; contemporary
vellum-backed marbled boards, endpapers renewed; a Wne copy.
A scarce work on divination and fortune-telling by using dice, a practice
popular in the second half of the eighteenth century. Three dice were used,
and depending on whether the results were even or odd numbers, a
geomantic Wgure was formed, which could then be looked up in the volume.
Marteau had already published an earlier edition in 1702.
A number of books were published in Germany on the subject, called
‘Punctirkunst’, and were generally spuriously ascribed to Mary Sidney, married
to Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke (nee Sydney) (1561–
1621), apparently because of her association with scientist, astrologer and
chiromancer John Dee. Most of these works are very rare.
The work is printed under the Wctitious Marteau imprint, which had
been used since the mid-seventeenth century for the publication of conten-
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tious, licentious, and radical literature, which was under threat of censorship.
The publishing house never actually existed. Publishers and printers,
in the Netherlands, France and Germany evaded open identiWcation of such
works.
Not in Weller, not in Walther, Die deutschsprachige Verlagsproduktion bei Pierre
Martau, on-line edition 2001; Caillet, Bibliotheca magica etc.; KVK lists just one
copy at Augsburg, RLIN adds another copy at the University of Michigan.
The Great Swedish Inventor and Industrialist
104 POLHEM, Gabriel. Chrisopher Polhems Patriotiska
Testamente, eller Anderraettelse om Järn, Stål, Koppar, Mässing,
Tenn och Bly för dem som wilja begynna Manufacturer i dessa
ämnen. Jemte en Förtekning på alla dess Mechaniska Inventioner. ...
Stockholm, Lars Salvii, 1761. £1000
8vo, pp. [xxiv], 128, a few woodcut diagrams in the text; some light
browning, due to paper quality; contemporary stiV marbled wrappers,
spine strengthened; a little dog-eared, but still a good copy.
First edition, rare, of Gabriel Polhem’s account of the most signiWcant inventions
of his father, Christopher Polhem (1661–1751), the important
Swedish inventor and industrialist. After studying engineering techniques
used in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and England, Polhem set up a
mechanical laboratory that gave considerable impetus to Swedish technology.
He constructed water-powered machines such as rollers and shearing
machines employed in the fabrication of metal products. Polhem’s major
contributions to the mining industry were put into practice when he collaborated
with Gabriel Stierncrona and founded the Stiersunds Bruk, a factory
for the mass production of metal goods in iron, steel and bronze.
Simple mass-market articles such as pans, trays, bowls, knives, scissors and
mirrors were made there together with the more sophisticated Polhem
lock. Polhem himself published an account of some of his inventions, Kort
Berattelse om de Fornamsta Mechaniska Inventioner in 1729, but this publication,
ten years after his death, gives a far more comprehensive account of his
inventions. The list of inventions (pp. 115–128) is not included in the German
edition.
In this publication his inventions using sheet metal, steel, copper, brass,
tin, and lead for industrial productions are described in greater detail, some
illustrated with woodcut diagrams. Most impressive, however, is the Wnal
listing of over one hundred inventions, including textile machinery (a special
loom for producing stockings), and a printing press. Those inventions
which are included in his collection of wooden models of mechanisms for
educational purposes (now housed in the National Museum of Science and
Technology in Stockholm) are marked with an asterisk.
Just two copies found, in the Swedish National Library, and the Bavarian State
Library; not in NUC, not found in RLIN, but two copies recorded at Stanford and
Harvard.
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Copyright and Intellectual Property
105 PÜTTER, Johann Stephan. Der Büchernachdruck nach ächten
Grundsätzen des Rechts geprüft... Göttingen, im Verlage der
Wittwe Vandenhoeck, 1774. £2250
4to, pp. [xiv], 206; title vignette, head- and tail-pieces and initials;
contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, with
gilt-lettered spine label; a Wne copy with the engraved bookplate of
Friedrich August II of Braunschweig-Öls to front paste-down.
First edition of the Wrst detailed study of literary copyright law as it aVects
authors, printers and booksellers. Pütter’s interest in international copyright
law, protection of intellectual property, and unauthorised reprints was
sparked oV by his own experience of an unauthorised reprint of one of his
works (Elementa juris publicis germanici) appearing in Frankfurt, while the
authorised version was still at the press in Göttingen. He carefully analysed
the legal implications of reprints and proved the unlawfulness of unauthorised
reprints because they violate the author’s right to his intellectual property.
The work was highly important in the history of publishing, and a
French translation appeared under the title La Propriété Littéraire. In the last
section earlier German edicts and laws regarding printing rights, licensing
agreements, unauthorised reprints, and censorship are reprinted.
The German jurist Pütter (1725–1807) was ‘undoubtedly the most important
expounder of the public law of the old Reich’. In his hands ‘the law
appears disentangled from its diYculties, in a form which by virtue of its
grace, rationality and elegance rises above the ponderous structure of the old
Reich ... In the Weld of public law, in which he made his chief contribution,
Pütter had separated constitutional from administrative law and then had
treated the particular branches of administration as parts of a highly lucid
system. In his method he became the founder of juristic dogmatism’ (ESS).
ADB XXVI, pp. 749–777; Bigmore and Wyman II, 226; Katalog des Börsenvereins
461; Der deutsche Buchhandel in Urkunden und Quellen, II, p. 331 V; NUC/RLIN
and OCLC record copies at Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley, and the University of
Pennsylvania; for further information on the author see ESS.
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Modern Historiography
106 RANKE, Leopold von. Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtsschreiber
... Eine Beylage zu desselben romanischen und germanischen
Geschichten. Leipzig und Berlin, G. Reimer, 1824. £900
8vo, pp. xii, 202; contemporary quarter calf, spine with raised bands,
ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; from the ‘Bibliothèque du Baron
de Noirmont’ with printed armorial book label to front paste-down; an
attractive copy.
First edition of Ranke’s revolutionary exposition of historiography. Ranke
can be called the Wrst modern historian; he was the Wrst to rely entirely on
contemporary sources, letters, diaries etc., and trained generations of disciples
in the critical use of original documents and the unbiased approach to
every age and nation. He rejected the task historians had formerly assigned
to themselves, of being the judges of the past and teachers of their contemporaries.
Instead his Wrst aim was merely to show how things actually were,
summed up in his well-known claim of writing history ‘wie es eigentlich
gewesen’.
‘Ranke Wrst applied to medieval and modern history the critical principles
which Niebuhr had established for ancient history. He thereby set up novel
standards of scholarship which have since become accepted by historians of
every nation who are not shackled by the straitjacket of a narrow dogma...
His ‘Examination of Modern Historians’ takes its departure from
Guicciardini, who had hitherto been regarded as the chief authority on the
period. Without belittling ‘one of the great historical productions which we
have’, Ranke deprives the Historia d’Italia of its claim to being a primary
source and shows the extent to which Guicciardini was dependent on other
writers, and even more important, how much his outlook is coloured by his
own private life, professional career and party prejudices. In other words,
Ranke tries to assess the value of a source through the explanation of the
character of its author’ (PMM 286).
Printing and the Mind of Man 286; see Blackwell Dictionary of Historians.
Handy for the Merchant’s Pocket
107 [READY-RECKONER.] Tableau des Rapports du Poids
Decimal du Royaume de France, avec l’ancien Poids de Marseille,
calculé depuis un Kilogramme jusqu’à un Million, d’après les bases
données par la Commission des Poids et Mesures, nommée par Mr
le Préfet du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône, en Ventôse an 10.
Nouvelle l’Edition, corrigée et augmentée. Marseille, Jean Mossy,
1831. £320
Tall 8vo, (190 x 55mm) pp. 208, tables throughout; contemporary full
sheep, extremities a little rubbed, but Wne.
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Later edition of a handy conversion guide for weights and measures, with
the traditional tall narrow shape, designed to Wt into the tradesmen’s
pocket. Earlier editions had appeared in 1802 and 1810.
All editions are rare; Harvard has 1810 edition.
An Early Motor Car? A Mechanical Chariot
108 REGOLI, Filippo. Intorno un gran Cocchio Meccanico
invenzione, e costruzione riuscite all’avvocato Filippo Regoli nel
tempo de’ suoi ozi il quale per ora lorende ostensibile in modello.
Bologna, TipograWa Marsigli, 1833. £450
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 16; recent boards.
First and only description of this invention by the avvocato Filippo Regoli,
a four-wheeled cart which is propelled with the help of a mechanical transmission,
and can be steered ‘on board’. Regoli, a lawyer by profession, prepared
the design and a model of this contraption in his spare time. He
praises the beneWts of his invention in twenty-four eight-line stanzas.
OCLC lists library of Congress, another copy recorded in ICCU. The work was
reprinted in 1986 as part of a documentation of Italian technical history.
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Signalling Numbers
109 REQUENO, Vincenzo. Scoperta della Chironomia, ossia
dell’Arte di Gestire con le Mani. Parma, Fratelli Gozzi, 1797. £650
8vo, pp. viii, 141, [1] imprint, [1] errata, 3 engraved plates; uncut in
the original pale blue wrappers; spine a little chipped and corners worn;
a crisp and very wide-margined copy.
First edition of this very attractive and curious introduction into the art of
‘chiromania’ , or talking with one’s hands, used not only in mime, but in a
wide range of situations. The author begins with a historical overview, and
then discusses the use of hands and Wngers in counting and calculating in
classical antiquity. The left hand indicates numbers up to ninety, whereas
the right hand gives hundreds. The three Wnely engraved plates, in fact, illustrate
this use, and give the hand signs for diVerent Wgures and numbers.
He also deals with the representation of the letters of the alphabet with both
the left and the right hand.
In the second and more substantial part the author deals with the use of
hands and gestures in mime, pantomime, and classical theatre in general.
He deplores in particular that modern mime does not utilise the hands in
the same ‘meaningful’ way as was common in antiquity.
110 ROBERTI, Giambattista. Della Probità Naturale Libri due.
Bassano, Remondini, 1784. £680
8vo, pp. xxxviii, [ii], 380; engraved title vignette; title a little dustsoiled,
else very clean and crisp; a wide-margined copy in contemporary
half calf over sprinkled boards, spine with triple gilt rules, gilt-lettered
spine label.
First edition of Roberti’s treatise on ethics and integrity, which is singled
out by Gamba as one of his better works. Inspired by numerous earlier and
contemporary writers, such as Montesquieu and others, Roberti explores
the diVerence between honesty and truthfulness, uprightness and moral
rectitude. The treatise is arranged in two parts: in the Wrst Roberti voices six
‘doubts’ which threaten truthfulness and integrity before concentrating on
the six founding principles. Throughout he illustrates his points by numerous
examples, both literary and real.
Roberti (1719–1786) professor of philosophy at Bologna and a proliWc
writer both on philosophical and literary questions. He is best remembered
for his collection of fables, a study of eighteenth century morals, and luxury
and a charming poem on strawberries (Le fragole, poemetto, 1752).
Gamba 2420; RLIN/OCLC lists copies at Georgetown University and Chicago
only.
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111 [ROBESPIERRE.] Vita del despota sanguinario della Francia
Massimilano Roberspierre. Tradotta dal Francese in Italiano.
[Rome], Filippo Neri, 1794. £350
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], 48; marbled wrappers.
First edition in Italian, later reprinted in Bologna and Como, of this political
biography of Robespierre recounting the various stages of his life, his
political successes, but also his character, ruthlessness and cruelty.
The anonymous author concludes with praise of France for having rid
itself of him. I have not been able to identify the French work from which
this was allegedly translated.
Commerce, Banking, and Early Trading Companies
112 SERRA, Giovanni. La Scienza del Commercio Tomo I
[– Tomo II]. Genoa, Eredi di Adamo Scionico, 1793. £900
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [viii], 236; 235; clean tear to blank margin of
title page of volume I, not touching any text, no loss; original printed
wrappers, with title within decorative border to both sides; spine
chipped, a little frayed and dog-eared, and some light discolouring; a
very good set, printed on strong paper.
First edition of this uncommon and little studied treatise on the principles
of commerce published under the auspices of the Genoa Patriotic Society to
encourage trade, commerce, and manufacturing. In the Wrst volume, Serra
begins with a brief history of commerce throughout the world, before devoting
extensive chapters to merchant adventurers, mercantile companies,
and various trading companies, not just the better known ones, but specialised
ones such as the Surinam Company, Hudson Bay Company, The Ice-
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land Company, and those exploring the East and West Indies, Spanish
South America, China etc. The remainder of the volume is devoted to the
history of banking, with information on early banks and credit systems.
The second volume contains a more theoretical treatise on the principles
of economics, covering trade and commerce, both internal and external,
free trade and its limitations, the decline of agriculture, the importance of
arts and manufacturing, and the rise of manufacturing industry.
The work concludes with list of the members of the Genoa Patriotic Society.
Einaudi 5263; Kress Italian 641; L’Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli
511; not in Mattioli.
Food Prices under Siege
113 [SIEGE OF MANTUA.] Descrizione di quanto è succeduto
in Mantova nel di lei Assedio per la seconda volta, incominciando
dalli 12. Settembre 1796, Wno al giorno della Rosa; come pure un
Dettaglio degli eccessivi Prezzi, a cui si sono venduti li Generi in tale
critica circonstanza. [n.p., n.d.] [1797].
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[bound with:] La Veneta Repubblica ossia saggio Storico che contiene
l’origine, stabilimenti, commercio, leggi, costumi, e governo
della Repubblica suddetta, unitamente alle Guerre da Lei sostenute
colla profezia sparsa ad arte ne Luoghi di Terra-Ferma nell’occasione
della violata neutralità coi Francesi ed in Wne i Funerali della Rep.
Adriatica. Milan, Palini, n.d. £750
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. 16; 24; some spotting due to paper
quality; fore-margin cut close, just touching Wrst letters on last leaf;
contemporary red boards, green paper spine.
A fascinating diary documenting a vital point during Napoleon’s Wrst Italian
campaign, the siege of Mantua between September 1796 and February
1797 which blocked the Austrian Armies from Northern Italy. The anonymous
author gives a close account of the events as they aVect the city, how rationing
was applied and health and public order deteriorated, until the
surrender in February 1797. He expressly condemns excessive prices and
proWteering of those who took advantage of the desperate situation. Of particular
interest is the list of prices for individual food items at the height of the
siege. Bound with it is a brief account of the Venetian Republic until its end
under Napoleon occupation.
I. One copy found in ICCU, not found in RLIN or OCLC; II. no copy located.
Civil Society at the Time of the French Revolution
114 [SOCIOLOGY.] [ANON.] Storia dell’umana Società. Parte
Prima [– Parte Seconda.] Florence, Albiziniana, 1790. £800
Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, pp. xvi, 184; vi, 172 (prelims
misbound); contemporary vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine
label; very clean and crisp; from the library of the Antonianum with
stamp and remains of shelf mark to title.
First edition, uncommon, of this analysis of civil society as it presents itself
at the time of the French Revolution, when all societies in Europe were in a
state of change and upheaval. The anonymous author studies social life and
the civil obligations of the citizens, which are necessary objectives for
progress in society. In the Wrst part he discusses individual elements of civil
society, describes all classes of society and their respective obligations, such
as nobility, intelligentsia, army, clergy etc. He studies the role and use of
women in society, the importance of marriage and family life, as a basis for
a functioning society. He attempts to unite the desire for liberty and especially
individual liberty with social justice for all, and deplores the outrages
of the French Revolution. The second part is more historical, here he gives
an overview of early forms of civil society, with extensive citations from the
bible and detailed accounts of Egyptian, Greek and Roman society. He acknowledges
the achievements of all these early societies, be it in science, the
arts and industry, but proclaims a lack of inherent cohesion.
RLIN/OCLC list just Berkeley, a further copy recorded in ICCU.
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Praising Law & Order
115 [SPEDALIERI, Nicolo.] Stanze di Nicolò Spitaleri ... in
occasione d’essere stato restituita la tranquilita pubblica alla Sicilia
coll Estirpazione d’una Compania di Ladri dal Vicaripo Generale ...
Palermo, Stamperia de’ SS. Apostoli in Piazza Vigliena, 1767. £580
4to, pp. [iv], 35, decorated initial; contemporary full calf, sides
decorated in gilt, with decorative devices in each corner; spine
decoratively gilt, damage to foot of spine, lacking spine covering to
bottom 30mm; front endpaper renewed, possibly a remboîtage;
internally very clean and crisp; a wide-margined copy.
First edition of what is apparently Spedalieri’s Wrst publication; a celebratory
poem on the restitution of law and order in Sicily by principe Don
Giuseppe Lanza di Trabia. Trabia managed to defeat of a group of bandits
headed by Testalonga, which had terrorised the countryside. Nicolo
Spedalieri (1740–1795), Sicilian philosopher and reformer is best known
for his 1791 publication I Diritti dell’Uomo, conceived as the catholic answer
to the Rights of Man, and to counterbalance revolutionary theories.
Mira II, p. 381; rare, not found in ICCU, or RLIN/OCLC.
Builders’ Price List
116 SPINELLI, Giovanni Battista Bruno. Economia nelle Fabriche
e Regola di tutti li Materiali per Costruire ogni Fabrica Urbana, e
Rurale, per saperne di ciò distintamente la Spesa. Opera non meno
Virtuosa, che Utile a tutti gli Economi, Agenti, e Fattori, come a
Muratori per rendere conto di tutta la spesa a chi brama Fabricare,
con li Prezzi dovuti alli Segantini, per fare tagliare, e lavorare ogni
sorte di Legnami. Seconda Impressione, con l’Aggiunta della
Seconda Parte. Bologna, Gio Pietro Barbiroli, 1708. £950
4to, pp. [xii], 120, with one folding printed table and numerous Wgures
in the text; decorative initials; paper lightly and evenly browned and
spotted, due to paper quality; contemporary buV Xexible boards, with
later marble paper spine, chipped; a good copy.
Second, substantially enlarged edition (Wrst 1698) of a price guide for
builders and construction workers together with practical information on
building practices. Spinelli covers construction, maintenance and renovation
of houses, and gives information on the cost of a variety of procedures,
such as making and installing window seats, plaster mouldings, ironwork,
decorative Xoor tiles, stone and wooden vaults, driveways, both public and
private.
In his preface the author writes of the common problem of building
projects turning out far more expensive than estimated. To remedy this, he
gives a detailed list of the cost of materials and itemised lists of various
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uilding projects together with labour costs. He gives the prices for various
types of brick, all manner of diVerent types of wood, followed by labour
costs for brick-layers, carpenters, painters, plumbers, window-makers etc.
The price list is immensely detailed, every skill or process is listed individually.
Spinelli also gives information on the contractual arrangements between
foreman and day labourers, and the general contractor. This includes
not just legal questions, but also of provisions, with details of the necessary
quality and quantity of wine to be made available to the workmen.
He includes a brief Wnal section with practical advice for occupational
injuries.
Cicognara 453; Goldsmiths’–Kress 4479.4; RLIN and OCLC list copies at the
University of Chicago and the Kress library, with the Folger library and the National
Gallery of Art holding copies of the Wrst edition.
The Prussian Legal Code
117 [SVAREZ, Carl Gottlieb and Christoph GOSSLER.]
Unterricht über die Gesetze für die Einwohner der Preussischen
Staaten von zwey Preussischen Rechtsgelehrten. Berlin und Stettin,
Friedrich Nicolai, 1793. £750
8vo, pp. xiv, 290; contemporary sprinkled boards, extremities a little
rubbed and corners bumped; internally clean; with contemporary
purchase information in ink to front free endpaper.
First edition, uncommon, of Svarez’ popular introduction to the Prussian
legal code, written in collaboration with Gossler. In the 1780s Svarez
(1746–1798), had been invited by the Berlin government to prepare the
Prussian general legal code. In it he embodied the great ideals of the law of
nature and the Enlightenment, such as freedom of religion and conscience,
the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary. In eVect the
entire so-called Stein-Hardenberg legislation can be seen as an embodiment
of Svarez’ ideas. Here the extensive and rather voluminous Prussian legal
code is presented in an edited and condensed form, as an aid to the citizens.
The Wnal version of the Prussian legal code was Wnally published under the
title Allgemeines Landrecht für die preussischen Staaten in 1794. It became the
model for later German legislations, and remained virtually unaltered for
over a century until it was replaced by the German Civil Code.
Holzmann-Bohatta IV, 8240; see ESS, XIV, p. 430 for further information on
Svarez; uncommon, just the Berkeley Law Library copy found in OCLC; at
Harvard Law Library.
The Delights of Conjugal Love
118 SWEDENBORG, Emanuel. Traité curieux des charmes de
l’amour conjugal dans ce monde et dans l’autre. ... traduit du Latin
en Français par M. de Brumore. Berlin and Basle, George-Jacques &
J. Henri Decker, 1784. £600
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12mo, pp. [iv], 206; some spotting and browning at beginning and
end, due to paper quality; contemporary calf-backed pastepaper boards,
spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, with armorial bookplate with
monogram CIVLR and motto ‘Mors est vita sine literis’ to verso of
front free endpaper.
First French translation of Swedenborg’s well-known work on the delights
of marriage, which Wrst appeared in Latin under the title Deliciae sapientiae
de amore coniugalis in 1768. Swedenborg regarded marriage as the union
between wisdom, embodied in the man, and love, embodied in the woman.
Thus marriage is a union between the two qualities of reason and intention,
a dualism that can be traced throughout his writings.
The Swedish scientist and philosopher Swedenborg (1688–1772) is now
best known for the spiritualist movement he founded, which exerted great
inXuence on a wide range of artists, writers and philosophers, such as
William Blake, Strindberg, Baudelaire, W. B. Yeats, Carl Jung and William
James to mention but a few.
Cioranescu 33411; OCLC lists copies at the Dutch Royal Library, Cornell,
Wellcome Library, Graduate Union College, California.
The Language of the Revolution
119 [THJULEN, Lorenzo Ignazio.] Nuovo Vocabolario
FilosoWco-Democratico indispensabile per ognuno che brama
intendere la Nuova Lingua Rivoluzionaria. Venice, Francesco
Andreola, 1799. £750
8vo, pp. 158, with initial and Wnal blank; uncut in contemporary
pattern paper wrappers, discreet strenghtening of foot of spine; a Wne
copy.
First edition, very rare, of this dictionary of revolutionary language, in
eVect a thinly veiled critique of the enlightenment and the French Revolution,
especially in the form of its arrival in Italy. The Jesuit Thjulen (1756–
1835), a fervent opponent of the enlightenment, diVerentiates between
new terms, such as Rousseau’s patto sociale, and terms that have changed
their meaning, such as ‘cittadino’ or ‘elezioni popolari’ or ‘religione’ (which
now equates with atheism). The deWnitions presented are sarcastic and cleverly
introduce the author’s opposition to the ‘republican regime’.
Municipalità, as standing for its anagram ‘Capi mai uniti’ is a particularly
striking example. He concludes with brief lists of words corrupted by the
revolution, and interestingly even transcribes a speech from ‘normal’ language
to revolutionary language.
This Wrst edition is very rare; it was followed by a two-volume second
edition of the same year and an equally rare pirated edition with the imprint
Gelopoli.
Sommervogel VII, 1974 e IX, 1212 (author: Thjulen); RLIN and OCLC locate
just one copy of this edition (Columbia), and two of the second edition of the same
year (New York Public Library, Bodleian Library).
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The Earliest Italian Study of Population Statistics
120 TOALDO, Giuseppe. Tavole di Vitalità. Padua, Giovanni
Antonio Conzatti, 1787. £3200
4to, pp. 32, [2] blank; title page vignette; numerous tables in the text;
original stiV marbled wrappers; a Wne copy.
First and only edition, very rare, of the earliest Italian contribution on
population statistics and life expectancy. Toaldo (1719–1797) gives a brief
account of the collection of the necessary Wgures from the local parishes,
and their presentation in a standardised way, in the seven tables which are
bound at the end. These population tables are divided by region (mountain,
plain, city) and by living circumstances: with separate Wgures for religious
orders, nuns, and Jews. Within each category he gives the population,
number of deaths in any given year, number of survivors with a calculation
of survival probability, which is then adjusted year on year.
He makes some interesting observations in the text, not just on survival
rates and life expectancy, but also on average life expectancy, the lower child
mortality rate of Jewish babies, high mortality rate in the early 60s, and
mortality rates higher in the country than in the city. He also comments on
the higher survival rate and average life expectancy of women. Throughout
he refers to the Wndings of Zeviani on child mortality, and Fontana on
Milanese population Wgures.
In his preface Toaldo refers to the Italian translation of De Moivre’s Annuities
upon Lives by Fontana, which had been published in 1776 and which
supplied him with the necessary overview of the international literature
covering population statistics, but also made the lack of comparable Italian
Wgures obvious. Toaldo is clearly aware of the fact that he produces the Wrst
Italian contribution to the subject.
Riccardi II, 528; uncommon, not in Kress, Goldsmiths’, Einaudi, or Mansutti;
RLIN/OCLC locate copies at Cornell and Columbia only; for a more detailed
study see Pigatto, Luisa (ed.), Giuseppe Toaldo e il suo tempo. Nel bicentario della
morte, Atti del Convegno, Padua, 1997.
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Smoke-free Chimneys
121 TOFFOLI, Bartolommeo. Saggio di una nuova Forma di
Cammini che non fumano... Padua, Stamperia del Seminario,
1790. £300
8vo, pp. 49, [1], 1 folding engraved plate bound at end; title within
decorative border; some light browning and dust-soiling; uncut in the
original wrappers, some damp-staining to wrappers; with decorative
initial stamp to foot of title page.
First and only edition of an attractive and well-illustrated treatise on an improved
chimney design, to avoid smoke-Wlled rooms, and, with the help of
heat ducts, use the Wreplace also as an oven for heating the house. ToVoli
(1755–1834) gives detailed test reports of various chimney designs installed,
and illustrates his perfected design on the engraved plate. He concludes
with a commentary on recently published reports on smoke-free
wood or charcoal in use in classical antiquity.
Just the Harvard copy recorded in RLIN and OCLC.
122 TRONA, Gaetano. Primi elementi dell’aritmetica ragionata.
Divisi in due parti. Turin, Davico e Picco, 1812. £380
12mo, pp. [iv], 39, 43–94, with one folding engraved plate, and one
folding woodcut, numerous tables and Wgures in the text; despite the
irregular pagination apparently complete; author’s authenticating
signature to title verso; contemporary paste-paper wrappers.
First edition of this comprehensive guide to arithmetic arranged in 203 individual
sections. In the Wrst part basic numbers are explained, how to write
and pronounce them; whereas the second part gives a brief introduction to
metric measurements, their corresponding regional forms of weights and
measures, with sample calculations. The revolutionary calendar is explained
together with the organisation of the day into ten hours instead of twentyfour,
and even the circle is divided into metric units.
Trona later published another work on arithmetic entitled Aritmetica
ragionata in 1830.
Not in Riccardi, no copy found in RLIN/OCLC or KVK.
123 [TYPE SPECIMEN.] Preces Sancti Nersetis Clajensis
Armeniorum Patriarchae, vingti quatuor linguis editae. Venice,
Mekhitarist Press, San Lazaro, 1837. £400
12mo, pp. [iv], 432, [2], engraved frontispiece and title, medallion
ornaments at head of dedication page; Wnely printed throughout;
original dark green roan, elaborate gilt ornamentation to sides and
spine, gilt-lettered green spine label; a.e.g.; a Wne copy.
Second edition (Wrst 1823) of Saint Nerses’ famous ‘In faith I Confess’
prayers printed in twenty-four languages and the appropriate type-faces,
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amongst them Armenian, Greek, Russian, Gothic, Illyrian, Turkish, Persian,
Arabic, Hebrew, Chaldaean, Syriac and Iberian. English, French,
Irish, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Latin and Swedish versions are given in
roman type. Because of the wide range of typefaces used, it also serves as a
type specimen of the Mekhitarist Press. The work was printed by the
Mekhitarist Congregation on the Venetian island of San Lazzaro, the foremost
centre of Armenian culture.
St. Nerses (d. 1173) was the most important Armenian writer of the
twelfth century and the head of the Armenian church. This edition of his
prayers was edited by Father Paschal (i.e. Haroutiun Aukerian, 1774–
1827) who was admired by Lord Byron, who famously rowed out to the
island of San Lazarus daily to take Armenian lessons and use the famous
library.
Earlier polyglot editions of his prayers had been printed in 1810 and
1811, but with fewer languages and type faces. Further expanded editions
appeared later.
V. Nersessian, Catalogue of Early Armenian Books 1512–1850, 510; see Birrell &
Garnett 30 for 1823 edition.
French Type Faces
124 [TYPE SPECIMEN.] Notice sur le Types Étrangers du Spécimen
de l’Imprimerie Royale. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1847. £600
Tall 4to, pp. [iv], 65; title vignette and numerous type specimen in the
text; original publisher’s printed boards, lettering to spine, chip to
upper joint, else very clean and crisp.
First public edition of this important type specimen, a comprehensive listing
of the foreign types used at the Imprimerie Royale, the French national
printing house. Included are examples of hieroglyphiques, Chinese, Japanese,
Persian and Hebrew, but also Persepolitan, Ninivite, Zend, etc. Each
specimen is preWxed by notes on its origin and history, the relation to other
characters, and the variations it might have undergone. Further informa-
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tion relates to the originator of the particular type, and when and where it
was produced.
The type specimen also includes the double-page comparative table of
types used by the French National Printing House from its foundation to
1846, deemed by Updike ‘one of the most enlightening documents about
French typefaces in existence’, because it illustrates how early nineteenth
century fonts compare with the historical fonts which preceded them.
Apparently there was an earlier undated issue, which was published in
1846.
Audin 16; Updike II, 186/7, and illustration p. 327; not in Bigmore & Wyman, or
Birrell & Garnett.
125 [VENICE.] Vero Quadro Economico delle Rendite
estraordinariamente Percepite dal Veneto Aristocratico Governo,
specialmente dalla Terra ferma, e dominante, e loro Impiego da
Primo Giugno 1796. Sino al Cader dell’Aristocrazia. Con alcune
interessanti Notizie. Italia, 1799. £900
Tall 4to in 8s, pp. 95, [1] blank, [1] errata, with 3 folding tables bound
in and numerous tables in the text; uncut in the original paste-paper
limp boards; a Wne copy.
First and only edition of this detailed Wnancial account of the Venetian Republic
on the eve of its collapse, when it still maintained its neutrality and
just before it was occupied by Napoleon. The Wnancial balance sheet shows
the contributions made from the provinces to the Wnancial situation of the
‘Serenissima’, after new levies had been raised by the Doge to defend Venice
against Napoleon with the help of an army of mercenaries.
In detailed tables the income especially from the ‘terra Wrma’, from the
provinces of Verona and Salo, from Crema, Brescia and Bergamo are given,
including taxes, loans, and retributions in silver. Also included are those
from the areas of Dalmatia and the Levant. As the report makes clear, the
actual contribution was even higher than in the amounts actually handed
over, as the various local governments were responsible for upkeep and
fortiWcations. The anonymous author concludes with a statement to the
eVect that he wanted to defend the Venetian oligarchy against the accusation
of having abandoned the mainland areas of the Republic in the Wght to
keep their independence.
Uncommon, RLIN/OCLC list copies at Harvard and Rochester only.
126 [VENICE – POPULATION.] Ristretto di tutti li nati nella
Città di Venezia – Ristretto di tutti li morti nella città di Venezia
l’Anno 1772. Tommaso Monti scrivan. Venice, [Pinelli]. 1772.
£750
Broadside (615 x 400 mm), deckle edge on three sides, left margin
trimmed and with slight worming, not aVecting text; folded.
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A rare survival, Wgures of births and deaths in the city of Venice for the year
1772. Printed in double columns a detailed listing is given of population
developments in the city of Venice. Subdivided by ‘sestiere’ and then parish
or hospital, births, both male and female are given, whereas the deaths are
grouped in male and female children, and male/female adults. The totals
seem to indicate that even in the eighteenth century Venice was struggling
with a diminishing population.
Not found in any of the bibliographical reference works.
Important Treatise on Commercial Arithmetic
127 VERONESE, David. Prattica d’Aritmetica Mercantile. Nella
quale con modi, regole, ed osservationi di brevità non più usate da
altri Auttori, si resolve la maggior parte de’ conti, che accadono al
Mercante. Aggiuntovi un Trattato de Cambii dello stile di Genova.
Genoa, Giuseppe Pavoni, 1627. £2800
4to, pp. [viii], 440, [15], [1] blank, signature gg bound in twice; title
vignette, engraved head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials; numerous
calculations in the text; contemporary full limp vellum, spine lettered in
manuscript; head and tail of spine chipped, else Wne.
First edition, rare, of what is regarded as the most important comprehensive
treatise on business mathematics published at the time (see Riccardi II,
594). Veronese’s work is divided into six parts, and is very clearly devised
for practical application. He begins with basic arithmetical operations, fol-
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lowed by the rule of three and an introduction to all manner of commercial
calculations for exchange rates, weights and measures (both liquid and dry),
and price, discount and proWt. He gives extensive information on maritime
commerce and concludes with a separate treatise on exchange calculations
based on the customs at Genoa. This includes extensive information on
trading practices, with information on direct foreign currency exchanges,
but also forward loan contracts, which involve longer-term monetary investment.
Veronese’s treatise was popular and was reprinted in 1677 and again in
1727.
Cerboni p. 52; Riccardi II, 594 ‘libro raro e assai apprezzato’; uncommon RLIN/
OCLC list copies at Harvard, Columbia, St. John’s, and at Oxford only.
128 VERRI, Pietro. Discorsi del Conte Pietro Verri dell’Instituto
delle Scienze di Bologna Sull’Indole del Piacere e del Dolore; Sulla
Felicità e sulla Economia Politica. Riveduti ed accresciuti
dall’Autore. Milan, Giuseppe Marelli, 1781. £1400
Tall 8vo, pp. [xviii], 100, [5], 102–183, [10], 186–394; portrait
medallion vignette to title page, divisional titles and preliminaries not
included in the pagination; contemporary half calf, over marbled
boards, spine ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered spine label; some surface
wear to marbled paper; a very good wide-margined copy.
First collected edition, uncommon, containing Verri’s two important
works on philosophy and aesthetics, his reXections on individual and collective
happiness, and his most important economic work, his Meditazioni
sull’economia politica, Wrst published in 1771. At the centre of his writings
are his reXections on luxury, on happiness, on the interpretation of laws, on
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economic liberalism and on the need for a radical modernisation of lifestyles
and customs. They are a testament of one of the outstanding Wgures of Italy’s
cultural renewal.
‘Verri’s ReXections is a complete treatise on political economy, reminiscent
of Turgot’s work (1766) with its tight logical framework and division
into fairly short sections. Although these cover a wide range of subjects,
they are interconnected by the basic theme of the work, the increase in annual
reproduction of the nation through trade of surplus product which
Verri related to the balance of production and consumption. ... Some features
of this analysis may be speciWcally noted... His emphasis on supply
and demand (used to determine all prices including the rate of interest)
combined with references to utility and scarcity in the context of value (section
4) explains why this part of his work has been linked with marginalist
economics. ... Verri’s ReXections were highly regarded when they appeared,
and could be found, for example, in Smith’s library (Groenewegen in New
Palgrave, IV p. 807). Schumpeter praises Verri as ‘a true econometrician –
for example, he was one of the Wrst economists to Wgure out a balance of
payments – that is to say, he knew how to weave fact-Wnding and theory
into a coherent tissue: the methodological problem that agitated later generations
of economists he had successfully solved for himself’ (Schumpeter,
p. 178).
Cossa I, 131; Einaudi 5875; Goldsmiths’–Kress 12128; Mattioli 3731.
A College for Young Women
129 [VERRI, Pietro.] Il Collegio delle Marionette a BeneWzio dell
Chicchere Femminine. Lugano, Agnelli, 1764. £850
8vo, pp. [3]–46, [1]; lacking Wrst and Wnal blank; recent stiV wrappers.
First edition of Verri’s early satire, in which he lampoons the female talkativeness.
He maintains that women are characterised by beauty and weakness
and proposes the foundation of an educational institute to educate
them for marriage. Not only does he want to teach them a wide range of
subjects, to Wll the empty chatter with substance, French language and
dance, history, philosophy, music, comportment etc. He also stresses the
importance of diet for a ‘rounded’ personality and concludes with ten facetious
dietary laws, recommending beauty sleep, exercise, only minimal consumption
of alcohol, sweets, coVee etc., followed by twenty rules of general
behaviour.
Pietro Verri (1728–1797) was one of the major Wgures of the Italian enlightenment.
During an important public career, he devoted himself to
questions of economic reform. Together with his brother Alessandro, and
the legal reformer Beccaria he founded the critical journal Il CaVe (see item
15). The present work is one of his earlier ones, and his critical view of
women and their marriagability was possibly caused by his earlier ill-fated
love aVair, which had led to a serious intellectual crisis and a break with the
family.
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A second edition was published the same year under the same title but
with the extension ‘tutte le femine galanti e principalmente da marito’ and
the Wctitious imprint of Chicheropoli.
Rare, not found in RLIN or OCLC; KVK records two copies in Italy (Milan, Turin),
and one in Germany (Kassel).
130 VERRI, Pietro. Opere FilosoWche di Pietro Verri. Tom. I
[– Tom. IV]. Pavia, Giovanni Capelli, 1803. £450
Four volumes bound in three, 12mo, pp. 239; 252; 103, [3] blank;
192; contemporary sheep-backed sprinkled boards, spines ruled,
lettered and numbered in gilt, most of the gilt worn oV; extremities a
little rubbed, else Wne.
An attractive set of this collected edition of Pietro Verri’s philosophical and
economical works, included are his Della economia politica (Wrst 1771),
Discorso sull’indole del piacere e del dolore (Wrst 1773), Discorso sulla felicità
(Wrst 1763), together with his Sulle leggi vincolanti principalmente nel
comercio dei grani (Wrst 1769).
Verri (1728–1796) was not only one of the major Wgures of the Italian
enlightenment, but also a major economist and econometrician.
See Einaudi 5883 (1801) and Cossa 130 (1) and 139 (45) for earlier editions.
Vico on Natural Rights and Poetical Translations
131 [VICO, Giambattista.] [FRACASTORO, Girolamo.] La
SiWlide di Girolamo Fracastoro. Tradotta da Pietro Belli e dedicate
all’eccellentissimo e riverendissimo Monsignore Ernesto de’ Conti
d’Harrach. Naples, Parrino, 1731. £4950
8vo, pp. [xxviii], 104; large vignette to title, head- and tail-pieces and
decorated initials; some spotting and browning throughout, due to
paper stock; contemporary full vellum over boards, spine lettered in
manuscript.
First edition, very rare, of two publications by Giambattista Vico, entitled
‘Sul Diritto naturale de Genti’ and ‘Le Traduzioni poetiche, il ‘De rerum
natura’ di Lucrezio e l’antichità e nobilità della medecina’ on poetical traditions.
These two publications serve as a dedication and preface to ‘La
SiWlide’, and take up the Wrst section of the book.
The Wrst work is of particular importance, as it contains a dedication of
the second edition of Vico’s Scienza Nuova to the inXuential Monsignor
Ernesto von Harrach, the nephew of the Viceroy of Naples. It is clearly
written by Vico himself (see Croce, I, p. 89), even though it is signed P.
Belli. According to Nicolini proof of this attribution was to be found in a
manuscript amongst the Vico papers.
Nicolini in the revised edition of Croce’s BibliograWa Vichiana attests to
the rarity of this publication: ‘di questo libriccino non si conosce se non
l’esemplare serbato nella collection del Croce’ (I, p. 89). The text is not
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included in the early collected works, edited by Corcia, Ferrari, Jovene and
Pomodoro respectively. It was Wrst included in the collected edition published
by Nicolini in 1953.
The support of Harrach was of particular importance for Vico, with his
help he later secured a pension for his son from the Council of Spain, and
this marked a general change in the reception of his ideas by his contemporaries.
‘While not suspecting his real greatness, the authorities at least recognised
his thirty years and more of irreproachable service and his digniWed, if
modest, role in Neapolitan culture’ (G. Ricuperati, p. 103).
Croce, BibliograWa Vichiana, ed. by Fausto Nicolini, I. p. 89; RLIN and OCLC list
copies at Harvard (only 10 preliminary ll.), Yale, Northwestern, and the National
Library of Medicine.
132 [VIVORIO, Agostino.] Sopra i Corpi delle Arti, Risposta ad
un Qesito Accademico. Verona, 1792. £850
8vo, pp. 85, [i] contents; wide-margined copy in contemporary pastepaper
stiV wrappers; a Wne copy printed on strong paper.
First and only edition of Vivorio’s prize essay on the question of the advantages
and disadvantages of the guild system. Vivorio, (1743–1822), who
dedicates his contribution to the economist Iselin, is clearly aware of the
contemporary European debate on the matter, and cites from Adam Smith,
Condillac, Montesquieu, Iselin, Verri, Rousseau and Forbonnais. In his
well-argued discourse, he Wrst lists some possible advantages of the guild
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system, such as hierarchical structure, discipline, and training. However, he
also identiWes some disadvantages inherent in the system, such as limited
variety of products and increased proWt margins. In the more substantial
second part he voices clear opposition to the guild system and advocates its
wholesale reform. He maintains that restrictive access to professions is detrimental
both to individual tradesmen, and to the economy in general, because
it hinders the successful development of a manufacturing system and
does not oVer suYcient employment.
He argues that guilds should be abolished, and should be replaced with
government directives.
Cossa p. 221; not in Kress, Goldsmiths’, Einaudi, or Mattioli; OCLC lists just
Göttingen.
Historiography Reformed
133 [VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.] Le Siecle de Louis
XIV publié par M. de Francheville conseiller aulique de sa Majesté,
& membre de l’académie roiale des sciences & belles letters de
prusse. Berlin, C. F. Henning, 1751. £2200
Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [ii], [xii], 488; [ii], 466, [2] errata; a few
leaves lightly browned and spotted, else very clean and crisp in
contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, giltlettered
label and numbering pieces; sides with decorative panelling,
extremities a little rubbed, a Wne set from the Apel family library at
Schloss Ermlitz, with manuscript note in pencil to front free endpaper.
First edition of Voltaire’s innovative historical work, which revolutionised
the writing of history, and marked the watershed in European historiography
between Bossuet and Ranke. Voltaire does not conWne himself to describing
Louis XIV and his military and political exploits, but depicts the
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king as a symbol of a great age. He deals with all aspects of society of the time,
ideas as well as events, and thus creates a complete picture of seventeenth
century French civilisation. Of particular interest is his annotated listing of
writers and artists of the time, which takes up nearly one hundred pages.
This was the most carefully researched of Voltaire’s works. He began to
work on it in 1734 while at the Château Cirey, and continued to work on it
in 1750, when he was at the Court of Frederick the Great of Prussia. His
extensive research included the study of countless unpublished memoirs,
original papers of Louis XIV’s ministers, archives in Versailles, and Louis
XIV’s manuscripts. For a closer insight into life at Louis XIV’s court he
consulted with numerous people, and thus presents a close-up view of
French society at the time.
Le Siècle de Louis XIV was later incorporated into his Essai sur les Moers et
l’Esprit des Nations (1769), his ‘summary of world history as a gradual
progress of mankind towards the goal of perfection by reason’ (PMM 202).
Voltaire published this work under the name of Francheville, a Councillor
at the court of Frederick the Great, much esteemed by Voltaire. His
history was a great success and was frequently reprinted.
Bengesco I, 1178; En Français dans le Texte, 154; Bibliothèque Nationale, Voltaire
un Homme un siècle, no 392.
On Beauty
134 [WOMEN.] Avvertimenti alle belle. Milan, Pietro & Gius.
Vallardi. 1828. £480
12mo, pp. [ii], 159, [1] imprint, [4] calendar, with 6 steel engraved
plates; original red morocco, spines and sides elaborately gilt, a.e.g.,
inner hinges cracked, but Wrm; preserved in a red morocco slipcase,
lower corner worn, spine darkened.
A charming little almanac for women with a guide to enhancing and preserving
their beauty. Starting from the top, the works covers in turn hair,
(how to treat, clean and arrange it) including tips on how to combat greasy
hair and hair loss, and how to remove unwanted hair. This is followed by an
equally thorough treatment of teeth (with advice on toothpaste, gargling,
and even a preparation containing acquavite to keep gums healthy), skin,
hands and nails, and legs and feet. Extensive chapters deal with cosmetics.
The author comments on the importance of a healthy diet and how to combat
excessive weight and weight loss. Clothing is discussed in detail advising
on a combination of beauty and comfort. The author concludes with some
comments on moral well-being.
The charming plates illustrate some of the advice given, such as a young
beauty enjoying a relaxing foot massage.
Not found in KVK, RLIN or OCLC.
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Tobacco Factory
135 ZUCCHINI, Andrea. Lettera del Signor canonico Andrea
Zucchini di Cortona scritta al N.U. il Signor Bali Cav Marco
Martelli Patrizio Firentino ... Sopra lo Stabilimento a Tabacchi di
Nona nella Dalmazia. [Zara, or Florence, 1790].
[bound with:] Appendice, Relazione presentata dai Signori Orazio
Nob. Pinellli, Girolamo Zorovich e Mart’Antonio Lantana al Nob.
Consiglio di Nona addì [n.p., 1795].
[together with:] Relazione presentata dai Signori Orazio nob. Pinelli,
Girolamo Zorovick e Mart’Antonio Lantana al nob. Consiglio di
Nona, Addì 24. Giugno, 1792. £980
Two works in two volumes, 8vo, large folding engraved map bound as
frontispiece, pp. 50, [2] blank; p. 21 [appendice]; pp. 27 manuscript in
ink, written in a clear and legible hand; with 3 letters regarding bibliographical
questions loosely inserted; Zucchini’s Lettera and Appendice
bound in contemporary buV boards; the manuscript bound contemporary
carta rustica; occasional crayon marks and annotations.
First edition of this lively description of the tobacco factory in Nona in Dalmatia,
(Nin in Croatia) which had been established in 1786 by the Venetian
entrepreneur Count Girolamo Manfrin. The report is in the form of a letter
from a group of travellers who visited the rather magniWcent manufacturing
site, which is depicted on the large folding engraved plate. The plate shows
the elevation, sections and plan, with detailed explanation as to the respective
use of the buildings. This is apparently one of the Wrst illustrations of a
modern factory, and includes not just factory buildings arranged around
two courtyards, but also dormitories for the work force, stabling for cattle
and horses, oYces, storerooms, a church, and accommodation for the management.
This was necessary due to social conditions in Dalmatia at the
time. It becomes clear from Zucchini’s report that Count Manfrin had studied
the latest economic developments from England, France and even Sweden,
to optimize tobacco production in the area. Manfrin not only owned
the magniWcent tobacco factory, but also vast grounds, and a palazzo in
Venice, all presumably Wnanced by tax-farming of tobacco taxes.
The appendix, which is bound with the work and then also included in a
manuscript copy (or the manuscript original), recounts the protracted legal
procedures necessary to acknowledge the birth right of Count Girolamo
Manfrin to his rightful place amongst the Venetian nobility. This is partly in
recognition of his services to industry, and might be a Wrst enoblement on
such grounds. The debates cover a period of three years, and the Wnal footnote
recounts that had La Serenissima not fallen to Napoleon, Manfrin
would have been re-inscribed in the golden book of the Venetian Patriziato.
Curiously this appendix, which is not found in any other copy of the
book, is here present twice, both printed and in an original manuscript.
Arents IV, 57; OCLC list Harvard (lacking engraved plate), Yale, Kansas,
Lexington, Cleveland, and Library of Congress, but all without the supplement.
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A magniWcent collection of Italian ‘presentation’
books – a high-point in Italian book production,
illustration and book-binding.
This collection presents forty particularly
splendid examples of ‘presentation’ or festival
books, celebrating ‘ingressi’ and ‘nozze’, publications
privately issued to commemorate special
events, such as the procession on assuming public
oYce, or the marriage of members of distinguished
families. These books of congratulatory
verse were produced magniWcently in the second
half of the eighteenth century, sparing no
expense, with charming vignettes and fully
decorated engraved borders, designed by the
most important artists of the day, such as
Tiepolo, Piazzetti, Novelli and Bartolozzi.
This collection comprises forty representative
examples of these books together with a very
rare engraved broadside announcing an ingresso.
While individual examples of such
presentation books occasionally come on the
market, it is virtually impossible to acquire
such a representative collection.
An illustrated catalogue is available on request.
POA