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Perspective for Artists – Large Paper Copy
1 ALEAUME, Jacques. La Perspective speculative et pratique.
Ou sont demonstrez les fondemens de cet Art, & de tout ce qui en
a esté enseigné jusqu’à present. Ensemble la maniere universelle de
la pratiquer... Mise au jour par Estienne Migon. Paris, Melchior
Tavernier, Francois Langlois, 1643. £3,500
Large paper copy, 4to (262 x 195 mm), pp. vi, 155, [5] privilege; with
39 engraved illustrations, fine engraved headpiece showing artists at
work and an engraved initial; paper fault to lower blank corner of E1
and marginal tear to F1 – no loss; contemporary full mottled calf, spine
gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; expert repair to head and
tail of spine and upper joint; small cipher L in ink to title page; a fine,
crisp and very wide-margined copy, printed on heavy paper.
First edition, large paper copy, of Aleaume’s important treatise on perspective
and projective geometry, of great importance for contemporary graphic
artists and architects alike, as it provided them with a new way of constructing
space and seeing objects through the picture plane. ‘His treatise on perspective
was his major contribution to the field of architectural theory, as a
practical and theoretical presentation of the subject. Aleaume states in the
introduction that he intends to cover both the theory and practice of the science
of perspective, and he divides the contents accordingly, presenting eight
‘propositions’ for determining the perspective field, including the choice of
horizon line, sight line, perspective points, and perspective surface. These are
followed by nine ‘problems’ related to the construction of simple perspectives
from plans… The Perspective is representative of the scientific, pragmatic
spirit of inquiry that developed during the first half of the seventeenth
century; the most prestigious example is Descartes’ Discours de la methode,
published in 1635, eight years after Aleaume’s book was written. Aleaume’s
work is advanced enough to emphasize the role of perspective as a technical
science associated with geometry rather than as a creative art, and to replace
both the complex abstract sixteenth-century ‘games’ of German perspective
authors and the complex anamorphic studies of Daniele Barbaro...’ (Mark J.
Millard Architectural Collection. French Books, p. 6).
Aleaume’s work was published posthumously in order to diffuse the
French perspective war, which had started when Desargues accused Dubreuil
of plagiarism after the latter had published his Perspective pratique in
1642. The publishers of Dubreuil responded that he had drawn his ‘uni-
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versal method’ from a work by Vaulezard of 1631 and from the manuscript
of Aleaume’s book, written around 1627. To support this, Dubreuil’s
publishers, Tavernier and Langlois brought out Aleaume’s book, edited by
Estienne Migon, claiming that it had been in circulation in manuscript since
1628 when a privilege had been granted.
Jacques Aleaume (1562–1627), a pupil of Viete, was a mathematician,
instrument maker, and Ingenieur du Roi under Louis XIV.
Cicognara 804; see Martin Kemp, The Science of Art, 1990, pp. 119–130.
With Two Volvelles
2 [ALMANAC – TRAVEL.] Jesus! Mit demselben glücklich zu
reisen zu Wasser und Lande. Tägliches Hand-Büchlein, Darinnen
enthalten: Morgen- Abend- Buss- Beicht- Communion- Reise- nebst
andern Gebeten und Liedern; Allerhand Rechen-Tafeln, Resolvirund
Zinss-rechnung, Gewichts- Müntz- und Maass-Vergleichung;
Weg-Weiser, Land-Charte, Städte- oder Meilen- Sonnen- Zeiger,
Wind- und See-Compass; nebst dem Immerwährenden Calender,
denen Reisenden zu Nutz, mit Fleiss übersehen und vermehret.
Leipzig and Waldenburg, Gottfried Hoffmann, ca. 1750. £950
12mo, pp. [iv] engraved and printed title, 212, [2] advertisement, with
double-page folding map, large folding engraved distance table, and
two-part calendar with volvelles; contemporary full calf, a little rubbed,
with clasps (one missing).
Uncommon combined travel almanac and merchant handbook. The first
half takes care of the spiritual well-being of the traveller, with prayers, songs
and blessings, whereas the second half provides a ready-reckoner, a perpetual
calendar with two volvelles, distance calculator and postal routes,
together with conversion and exchange rate tables. An engraved map and
engraved mileage table are also included.
This format was popular throughout the eighteenth century and although
numerous editions were published, only a few appear to have survived. Also
included is a later issue, published around 1800 under the same title and
published by the same publishing firm. By that time the copperplates were
clearly very worn, instead of two volvelles as indicated on the title only one
was included, and the information on the engraved title had become obsolete
– a clear sign of shoddy publishing practice.
See Lanckoronska & Oehler, II, pp. 89ff.
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Presented to his Son
3 AMPÈRE, André-Marie. Essai sur la Philosophie des Sciences,
ou Exposition analytique d’une Classification naturelle de toutes les
Connaissances Humaines. Paris, Bachelier, 1834. £1,600
8vo, pp. lxxx, 272, 1 fold-out printed plate with two tables bound at
the end; some staining to head of half title; occasional browning and
light spotting, due to paper stock; contemporary roan-backed marbled
boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; with presentation inscription in
ink by Ampère.
First edition of the work Ampère regarded as the ‘capstone’ of his output,
and which contains some of his most interesting reflections on psychology
and philosophy, this copy presented to his son.
In this significant work Ampère attempts to align his scientific discovery
with his philosophy of the classification of science. Not content with the
mere description, he endeavours to explain the origin of complex conscious
phenomena through the blending and association of simpler elements.
Ampère had rejected the philosophy of the Idéalogues, lead by Condillac,
which maintained that only sensations were real as this denied the existence
of God. He was drawn to Kant but as a mathematician could not agree that
space and time were subjective modes of human understanding. He therefore
developed his own philosophy, which allowed him to combine his
beliefs in God and in the real existence of objective phenomena. The classification
expounded in this work ‘reveals Ampère’s far-ranging mind and
permits us to understand his occasional excursions into botany, taxonomy,
and even anatomy and physiology. He was, in large part, seeking confirmation
for his philosophical analysis, rather than setting out on new scientific
paths. By the time of his death, Ampère had found, to his great satisfaction,
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that his scheme did fit all the sciences and, in his Essai sur la philosophie des
sciences, he maintained that the fit was too good to be coincidence; the classification
must reflect truth. Once again he had found certainty where his
predecessors had not’ (DSB).
[Provenance:] Presented by Ampère to his son ‘optimo et carissimo filio. A.
Ampère’. Jean-Jacques Ampère spent the second half of 1834 in Italy, which
accounts for the dedication in Italian. Nine years later, and seven years after
Ampère’s death, his son posthumously edited a second volume of the Essai
sur la Philosophie des Sciences, which, of course, is not present here.
See DSB I, pp. 139–146.
Keeping Birds
4 [ANON.] Handbüchlein für Liebhaber der Stubenvögel, oder
Anleitung zur Kenntnis und Pflege derjenigen Vögel, welche in
der Stube gehalten werden können, ihre Krankheiten und Heilart
derselben. Munich, Ernst August Fleischmann, 1823. £550
8vo, pp. viii, 88, [1] errata; occasional light spotting due to paper stock;
contemporary marbled boards, a little rubbed, else fine.
First and only edition of this charming guide to keeping birds as pets, with
detailed information on different types of birds, their characteristics, habitat,
food, illnesses and habits. More than two hundred and fifty different
types of birds are discussed, from the more commonly found caged birds,
such as canaries, larks, nightingales, parrots and parakeets, to more unusual
wild birds, such as wagtails, magpies, ravens and owls. In each case a brief
taxonomical description of the bird is followed by information on feed,
necessary cage size, and suitability as a pet.
Kayser, Bücher-Lexicon, I, 33 (with a publication date of 1824); not in Holzmann-
Bohatta; OCLC lists Boston Public Library in addition to three copies in Germany.
The Ancestor of Chomsky’s Linguistic Theories
5 ARNAULD, Antoine and Claude LANCELOT. Grammaire
Generale et Raisonné contenant les fondemens de l’art de parler;
expliquez d’une maniere claire & naturelle. Les raisons de ce qui
est commun à toutes les langues, & des principales differences qui
s’y rencontrent. Et plusieurs remarques nouvelles sur la Langue
Françoise. Seconde Edition reveuë & augmentée de nouveau. Paris,
Pierre le Petit, 1664. £600
12mo in 8s and 4s, pp. 157, [4], [1] privilege; insignificant short worm
trace in lower gutter margin of a couple of signatures; title vignette,
decorated initials; contemporary vellum, a little dust-soiled; a good
copy.
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Second edition, extensively revised, of the famous Port Royal grammar,
compiled by Claude Lancelot (1615–95) and Antoine Arnauld (1612–94)
and first published in 1660. Written in French, the Port Royal grammar
was part of a movement to displace Latin as the only possible expression
of academic enquiry, and its aim was to establish the philosophical and
universal properties of human language in descriptive terms. Together
with Arnauld’s Cartesian La Logique, or ‘the art of thinking’, it shaped Enlightenment
thinking and beyond. The Port Royal grammar has been cited
by influential present-day theorists, in particular Chomsky, as embodying
some striking anticipations of modern linguistic thinking, such as its notions
of ‘surface structure’ and ‘deep structure’, all of which reappeared in
Chomsky.
This second edition contains substantial revisions and corrections by
Lancelot.
See En Français dans le Texte, 99 and Cioranescu 8108 for first edition.
6 BABBAGE, Charles. Science économique des manufactures,
Traduit de l’Anglais de Ch. Babbage, sur la troisième édition, par M.
Isoard. Paris, Librairie Orientale de Dondey-Dupré, 1834. £400
8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 392; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine
gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, a little rubbed.
First edition of Isoard’s translation of the second part of Babbage’s Economy
of Machinery and Manufactures – the domestic and political economies
of manufactures – published just a year after Biot’s first translation into
French. This translation is taken from the important third edition containing
the final text of the classic treatise on the economics of the manufacturing
industry. Isoard’s translation differs from the translation by Edouard
Biot. While Biot chose to translate the entirety of Babbage’s work, Isoard
was more selective, with the aim of reaching a wider and more varied readership
than Biot. He therefore dropped technical chapters on mechanics,
translated much of the technical vocabulary into layman’s terms, and rearranged
many of the paragraphs in order to improve the continuity of each
subject.
The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures was Babbage’s ‘brilliant and
utterly original foray into political economy... Adam Smith had analysed
the sources of increases in labour productivity to be found in the division
of labour: Babbage took this fundamental principle of economic growth
and applied it to the individual firm. His obvious first-hand knowledge of
a wide variety of industrial and business processes, combined with general
analysis of production systems, made the work a tour de force. At a time
of anxiety and ambiguity over the reception of new technology, he also offered
authoritative policy statements on a wide range of machinery issues,
including patent reform, export of machinery, crises of over production,
and technological unemployment. The book’s intellectual position in relationship
to political economy was not, however, easily apparent, and few
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apart from J. S. Mill and Karl Marx appreciated its significance to their discipline’
(Maxine Berg in the introduction to the Pickering Masters edition
of Babbage’s works, 1989).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 28497; not in Einaudi.
The Definitive Edition
7 BECCARIA, Cesare. Dei Delitti e delle Pene, Edizione
sesta di nuovo corretta ed accresciuta. Harlem and Paris, Molini,
1766. £1,250
8vo, pp. [iv] including engraved frontispiece, viii, [9]- 314, [2] errata,
[3] contents, occasional light spotting; contemporary full vellum, gilt
lettering in panel to spine; endpapers a little frayed, else a fine and crisp
copy.
The author’s definitive text of Dei Delitti e delle Pene (first 1764) ‘the most
influential book in the whole history of criminology’ (PMM 209), printed
in Paris during Beccaria’s celebrated visit to the city.
Morellet, who prepared the French translation in 1766, basically rewrote
and reorganised the text and his revised version formed the basis
of all translations and most later editions, so that the 1774 edition saying
‘approved by the author’ has long been taken as the basis of all subsequent
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editions. Postwar research by Venturi and others demonstrated however,
that the expanded and reworked fifth and sixth editions, i.e. the present
one, constituted Beccaria’s own final version. This sixth edition was printed
in Paris during Beccaria’s celebrated visit to the city by Molini, who later
also published a second edition. It has been suggested that this might be
a clandestine Italian printing, but paper and compositional style clearly reflect
pre-revolutionary Parisian rather than Italian printing. Moreover, a
note in Molini’s correspondence refers to discussions he had with Beccaria
about it and to Beccaria’s tacit permission.
Beccaria is considered the founder of the modern penal system. The
importance of his work was immediately recognized and initiated penal
reforms throughout Europe. No less than six editions appeared within
eighteen months of its original publication, and it was translated into all
major languages. ‘Beccaria maintained that the gravity of the crime should
be measured by its injury to society and that the penalties should be related
to this. The prevention of crime he held to be of greater importance than
its punishment, and the certainty of punishment of greater effect than its
severity... He opposed capital punishment, which should be replaced by
life imprisonment; crimes against property should be in the first place punished
by fines, political crimes by banishment; and the condition in prisons
should be radically improved’ (PMM 209).
Firpo 10, Higgs 3964/5 (?), Manuppella 139; see PMM 209 for first edition; for
a full discussion of this see Firpo, ‘Contributo alla Bibliografia del Beccaria’, in Atti
del Convegno Internazionale su Cesare Beccaria, Turin 1966, pp. 367–373.
Bavarian Brewing Monopolies Repealed
8 [BEER – LAW.] Das Bierzwangsrecht in Bayern. [Munich,
Lentner], 1800. £650
8vo, pp. [vi], 86, some spotting, small hole in p. 73, contents leaves
with paper crease; faint dampstain to upper outer corner of last signature;
contemporary blue wrapper, paper spine, upper wrapper lettered
in ink; a little dog-eared, else fine.
First edition of this study of the Bavarian Bierzwangsrecht – a law which
restricted the right to brew and sell beer. Originally larger local landowners
(Rittergut owners) and monasteries were allowed to brew beer for their
own consumption, but they were only allowed to sell it within narrow confines
of their area and only if this did not clash with the area of another
local brewery. Brewing rights were generally granted to towns and cities
as a valuable form of income, and they regulated its production. Beer pro-
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duction was a vital branch of the economy, controlled by the strong guild
of the brewing master. In the 1730s new legislation was passed, regulating
the production of beer, imposing new taxes and limiting unwanted
competition. Within the area of a brewery no ‘foreign beer’ was allowed
to be sold, to safeguard the substantial incomes which could be secured by
beer selling. In 1799 the protectionism of the Bierzwangsrecht was relaxed,
to the vocal opposition of those who had previously benefited from this.
From 1800 even in Bavaria local beer sale monopolies were abolished and
‘foreign’ beers became more widely available.
See Stammhammer, Finanzwissenschaft 15 (for 2nd edition of 1810); not in Humpert,
OCLC locates three copies in Germany.
Conversational Fencing!
9 [BLACKWELL, Henry.] The English Fencing-Master: or, the
Compleat Tuterous of the Small Sword. Wherein the truest Method,
after a Mathematical Rule, is plainly laid down. Shewing also
how necessary it is for all Gentlemen to learn this Noble Art. In a
dialogue between Master and Scholar. Adorn’d with several curious
postures. London, J. Downing, for the Author, 1702. £2,450
Small 4to, pp. [xii], 55, [1], five full-page woodcuts in the text, title
within double border; the word ‘tuterous’ on the title-page has been
corrected in ink to ‘tutor’; small brown spot to dedication pages; contemporary
calf, covers ruled in a single gilt fillet, central gilt panel with
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floral tooling to each corner, rebacked, corners a little worn; with early
ownership inscription of William Langton to front free endpaper, and
later armorial bookplate of ‘Birks’ to front pastedown.
First edition of a an interesting fencing manual arranged in the form of questions
and answers. Blackwell clearly sees the art of fencing not as a sport or
pastime, but as a vital part of the education of a gentleman. Fencing was lethal
combat, its ultimate aim was to kill. Blackwell assumed that any gentleman
was likely during the course of his life to challenge someone to a duel or
be challenged; and for that occasion it was imperative to be prepared.
Henry Blackwell was a professional Master of Defence from the late seventeenth
to the mid eighteenth century.
ESTC t14873; Thimm p. 31; OCLC lists copies at UCLA, Yale, Library of Congress,
University of Illinois, Metropolitan Museum, in addition to Göttingen and
three copies in the UK; a second edition was published in 1705, some copies of
which have a suite of engravings in addition to the woodcut illustrations.
Viennese Collections
10 BÖCKH, Franz Heinrich ed. Wiens lebende Schriftsteller,
Künstler, und Dilettanten im Kunstfache. Dann Bücher, Kunst- und
Naturschätze und andere Sehenswürdigkeiten dieser Haupt- und
Residenz-Stadt. Ein Handbuch für Einheimische und Fremde.
Vienna, B. P. Bauer, 1822. £1,250
12mo, pp. xii, 551, [1] advertisements, and one engraved plate after p.
432; some light spotting and browning, with faint ink stain to lower
margin of p. 49, and some very light dampstaining to gutter margin of
signatures 9 and 10; uncut in contemporary marbled wrappers, printed
spine label; spine rounded and corners worn.
Comprehensive cultural handbook for Vienna divided into four sections,
covering in turn literature, fine arts, music, and the art trade. The first chapter
records all living authors, with their subject specialisations and addresses,
followed by libraries – both institutional and private – including information
on the Harrach Library or the Schönborn-Buchain and Schwarzenberg
collections. An extensive chapter is devoted to mineralogical, natural history
and scientific instrument collections, with comprehensive details of
holdings (sometimes of provenance) and access.
The second part deals with fine art, covering artists of all categories, collections
of paintings, engravings, objects and statues. Followed by a chapter
on music with listings of musicians, composers, instrument makers and
collections of musical instruments.
The final section gives useful information on the art and artisan trade,
including booksellers, both modern and antiquarian, art dealers, piano
makers, paper and ink manufacturers, bookbinders, lending libraries, scientific
and musical instrument makers etc. – each with their addresses and
specialisation.
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The work concludes with information on the city of Vienna with descriptions
of noteworthy buildings, parks and gardens, churches, synagogues
and theatres.
Bibliotheca Viennensis 3253; outside of Germany, OCLC lists copies at New York
Public Library, Madison, Wisconsin, Stanford and Oxford.
Control of the Press
11 BONALD, Louis Gabriel Ambroise de. De l’Opposition dans
le Gouvernement et de la Liberté de la Presse. Paris, Adrien le Clerc,
1827. £450
8vo, [iv], 163, [1]; uncut in the original printed wrappers, publisher’s
advertisement to lower wrappers; a little dog-eared and spine chipped;
a nice copy.
First edition of Bonald’s important conservative contribution to the debate
on freedom of the press and censorship, following on from the publication
of the 1814 Charter of Louis XVIII, granting freedom of the press to the
French people. Bonald objected to the fact that there was no longer censorship
or control before the publication of books. He thought it necessary to
regulate the right to publish, because publishing and public speaking were
‘actions’ and no government could afford to grant its citizens unlimited freedom
of action, otherwise it would regress to the savage state of war of all
against all. He maintained it was not a question of freedom but of power.
Whereas the other powers (legislative, executive, judiciary) were elected,
this one – journalists and publishers – were not elected and therefore not
accountable.
Louis Gabriel de Bonald (1754–1840), was the leading theorist of the
traditionalist school of thought in France. Bonald’s ‘philosophy’ has had
a considerable influence on the modern neo-Catholic traditionalist movement
in France and Italy. It has also influenced the shaping of Comte’s
thought and through Comte something of the doctrine may be said to have
passsed into modern sociology’ (E. Ginzburg in ESS).
See T. Todorov, ‘Freedom and Repression during the Restauration’ in Hollier &
Bloch, A New History of French Literature, pp. 617 ff.; OCLC lists copies at Minneapolis,
the Dutch Institute of Social Science, Gotha and Göttingen.
12 [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE.] FANTIN, Louis.
Catalogue des Livres en Feuilles de Louis Fantin, Libraire à Paris,
quai des Augustin, no. 70, avec les prix, argent de France. Paris,
Louis Fantin, An X, 1802. £650
4to, pp. 4, printed on pale blue paper in three columns; multiple foldmarks;
some dust-soiling and a few ink marks; mss note at end ‘Hotel
de Berlin’.
An unusual bookseller’s catalogue, listing in alphabetical title order close
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to five hundred books for sale – all still in sheets. At the end, Fantin gives a
sliding scale for the cost of having the books bound, depending on size and
material and style of binding. Fantin (1764–1832), originally from Genoa,
was active as a Paris publisher and bookseller from 1800. His Italian origin
might explain his note at the end of the catalogue, where he advertises the
availability of plays, novels and many Italian books.
The books offered include a wide variety of subjects, such as dictionaries
and encyclopaedias, books on architecture, science and philosophy, but also
a large number of novels, including many translations from the English.
Before the advent of cheap trade bindings in the nineteenth century,
books were generally sold in interim bindings or wrappers, however, it is
unusual to find a catalogue which exclusively offers books in sheets. This
rare example offers an insight into the varieties in book marketing in the
early nineteenth century. Another French bookseller who habitually advertised
his books in sheets was Bohaire.
Rare, not in Catalogue des Libraires 1473–1810; Répertoire d’imprimeurs et libraires,
2004, 1940; no copy found in OCLC.
Novels, Travel Literature and Music
13 [BOOKSELLER’S CATALOGUE.] HAAS, Franz.
Verzeichniss von Verlags- und Sortiments-Büchern, Landkarten,
Musicalien und Kupferstichen welche bey Franz Haas, Buchhändler
in Carlsbad in seinem Laden zur goldnen Krone auf der Wiese,
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um beygesetzte Preise zu haben sind. Catalogue des Livres de fond
et d’assortiment, des Cartes géographiques, de Musique et des
Gravures en taille-douce. Carlsbad, Franz Haas, 1808. £550
8vo, pp. [ii], 54; stitched as issued, with pale blue paper spine, lower
corner torn off (30 x 20mm), no loss of text; title a little dust-soiled,
else fine.
Uncommon early publisher and bookseller catalogue, clearly separating
Haas’ own publications from those that he sold in his capacity as a bookseller.
The first section of Haas’ publications includes the classics, German
authors, scientific books, books for entertainment – including novels and
light reading – copperplate engravings and music. As a retail bookseller,
Haas offered classical authors, prayer-books, books for children, cookery
books, medical books, books on economics, travel, an extensive section of
novels and light reading, music, maps, engravings and a section of English
and French books. These foreign language titles are mostly novels, travel
accounts and dictionaries.
Not in Catalogues de Libraries 1473–1810; not in Répertoire d’imprimeurs et libraires,
2004.
Jones’ English System of Book-Keeping Revised
14 BORNACCINI, Giuseppe. Idee Teoretiche e Pratiche di
Ragionateria e di doppia Registrazione con in Fine dei Rilievi sul
Metodo Semplice di tenere i Registri di Commercio di E. T. Jones
Inglese. Rimini, Marsoner & Grandi, 1818. £600
Folio, pp. 442; tear to p. 155/56, no loss; occasional light foxing; contemporary
roan-backed marbled boards; spine lettered in gilt; extremities
a little rubbed, but a very good copy, from the Biblioteca Antonio
Caser, with printed book plate to front paste-down.
First edition of this thorough introduction to double-entry book-keeping
presented in the form of questions and answers. At first the basic elements
of accounting are explained, followed by an introduction to double-entry
book-keeping. The main account books are introduced and their use is explained.
Extensive examples of all the different account books are given.
The final section is taken up by a critique of Jones’ English system of bookkeeping.
Bornaccini praises Jones’ contributions to having simplified accounting
systems, but clearly insists on the double-entry system. Only a
double-entry system introduces the necessary checks to avoid fraud. He
adds some information on the accounting of unsold stock and inventory.
A second revised edition was published in 1838.
Historical Accounting Literature, p. 6; Cerboni p. 124; not in La Comptabilité à
travers les Âges; uncommon, Goldsmiths’–Kress 30348.3; OCLC lists copies at Berkeley
and the University of Kansas.
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German Translation of Bosse’s Manual for Printmakers
15 BOSSE, Abraham. Die Kunst in Kupfer zu stechen sowohl
vermittlest des Aetzwassers als mit dem Grabstichel; ingleichen die
sogenannte schwarze Kunst, und wie die Kupferdrucker-Presse nach
ietziger Art zu bauen und die Kupfer abzudrucken sind. Ehemals
durch Abraham Bosse, gewesenen Königl. Kupferstecher in Paris
etwas davon herausgegeben. Jetzo aber aufs neue durchgesehen,
verbessert und um die Hälfte vermehret, auch mit neunzehn
Kupfertafeln versehen. Aus dem Französischen ins Deutsche
übersetzt. Dresden, Groell, 1765. £1,200
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xxxvi], 254, [36] index and errata, 19
folding engraved plates bound at the end; with engraved head- and
tail-pieces and three engravings in the text; some light but even browning;
contemporary sprinkled boards; faint stamp from the library of
Krassow-Divitz on title; a good copy.
First edition of this translation. Bosse’s Traité des manières de graver en taille
douce, the first manual of copper-plate etching and engraving and the printing
of intaglio plates, was first published in French in 1645. It was aimed
at both the professional engraver and the amateur and is extensively illustrated,
with detailed engravings based on Bosse’s own designs. A number of
new editions were published, with additions by LeClerc (1701) and Cochin
(1745). In addition to a wealth of technical information, the work includes
scenes of the engraving studio and the copperplate press, and several wonderfully
informative step-by-step scenes of printmakers at work appear as
engraved head-pieces at the beginnings of chapters. Since adaptations were
made to all subsequent editions, the work remained an important introduction
to printmaking which is of practical use to the printmaker even today.
This rare German translation is based on the French edition of 1745
and was prepared by C. G. Nitzsche; earlier German editions had appeared
in 1689, 1714 and 1761. As Nitzsche writes in his preface, the quality of
previous translations made this new one necessary. He adds a couple of
text illustrations and gives an insight into German printing and engraving
practice at the time.
See Bigmore-Wyman, I, 72; Franklin 145; Graesse 501; OCLC lists Cambridge,
Harvard, Newberry Library and Free Library of Philadelphia outside of Germany.
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Extra Large Paper Presentation Copy
16 BRUNI, Leonardo. Novella di Lionardo Bruni Aretino tratta
di nuovo da un Codice della Capitolare Biblioteca di Verona ed
aggiuntevi le varie Lezioni Collazionate colle piu recenti Edizioni a
Stampa. Verona, Mainardi, 1817. £750
8vo in 4s, large paper copy (280 x 191 mm); uncut in contemporary
pastepaper boards, spine covering a little worn; presentation copy to
count Leonardo Trissino (1780–1841).
Large paper presentation copy of this nineteenth-century first printing of
a humanist novella by Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) from a manuscript in
the library of Verona. The work was apparently circulated in manuscript in
a number of copies. The novella, entitled Storia di Seleuco, d’Antioco e di Stratonica
was meant as a counterpoint and companion piece to Bruni’s earlier
one on Griselda, a reworking of Boccaccio’s original. The work was edited
by the famous botanist Giovanni Brignoli di Brunnhoff (1774–1857), and
is presented here in a critical edition with copious notes and annotations.
Bruni championed ‘civic humanism’, a ‘union of classical study and writing
in the service of the ‘common good’ – in Bruni’s case, the good of the
florentine republic, and the cause of republicanism’ (Cambridge History of
Italian Literature, p. 137).
OCLC lists Library of Congress, Harvard, Newberry Library, Michigan and Oxford.
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Optimal Design of Arabic Numerals
17 CHAUVIN, Leon. Etudes de Chiffres Arabes, avec des
Exemples et un grand Tableau Autographié par l’Auteur. Paris,
Béthune and Plon, 1845. £150
Folio, pp. 7, [1] blank, 19 lithograph plates, 10 hand-coloured; original
blue wrappers, with printed label to upper wrapper; spine worn, else
fine.
A detailed study of legible and efficient design of arabic numerals. Chauvin
analyses the elements which make figures legible, giving particular attention
to type height versus width, weight, spacing, and serifs. His theoretical discussion
is accompanied by 19 lithograph plates, 10 of which show full-size
hand-coloured numerals.
OCLC records one copy at the Swiss National Library; not in Updike.
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Enlightenment Dictionary of Philosophy
18 CHICANEAU DE NEUVILLE, Didier-Pierre. Dizionario
Filosofico 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 buff boards, spine lettered in manuscript; head of
spine chipped, with small portion missing; some insignificant worm
holes to binding; a good copy.
Later edition in Italian of this enlightenment dictionary of philosophy,
which was first 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 influenced by the ideas of Locke,
Condillac and Rousseau. Similar to Mandeville, he argues that vices should
be tolerated if they have social benefits.
For a detailed study, see D. Adams, ‘Enlightenment Cross-currents’, in T. D. Hemming
et al, The Secular City, 1994, pp. 137–147.
With 82 Woodcuts
19 COMENIUS, Johann Amos. Jo. Amos Comenius Graeco
Latinus usui Studiosae Juventutis accomodatus. Vienna, J. G. Binz,
1802. £1,250
8vo, pp. [ix], 10–173, [1], [2] errata; with 82 woodcuts (54 x 84 mm)
in the text; text in Greek and Latin; contemporary marbled boards; extremities
a little rubbed, else fine.
Greek-Latin parallel text version of Comenius’s Orbis Pictus, covering sections
1 to 83 of the original. Each page opening shows a woodcut on the
left hand side, and in three columns on the right hand side are the Greek
and Latin text and the explanation of the image in Latin.
The Orbis Pictus respresents the final culmination of Comenius’ thoughts
on education, and is the strongest expression of his belief in the visual powers
of teaching. This attractively illustrated ‘encyclopaedia’ is clearly designed
for children and explains ‘the world’. Every trade, occupation, bird,
beast, plant, natural phenomenon etc. dealt with is illustrated, and each
illustration is numbered for reference to the explanations contained in the
accompanying text.
The first Greek-Latin edition was apparently published in 1801 (Pilz
146).
Pilz p. 255, 147; OCLC lists copies at Weimar, Berlin, Leipzig, Freiburg, Princeton,
Chicago, and University of Indiana.
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‘The most Interesting and Original Philosophy Work Written by a
Woman in the Seventeenth Century’
20 [CONWAY, Anne Viscountess Finch.] The Principles of the
most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, concerning God, Christ,
and the Creatures, viz of Spirit and Matter in general; whereby may
be resolved all those Problems or Difficulties, which neither by the
School nor Common Modern Philosophy, nor by the Cartesian,
Hobbesian, or Spinosian, could be discussed. Being a little treatise
published since the Author’s death, translated out of the English
into Latin, with Annotations taken from the Ancient Philosophy
of the Hebrews; and now again made English. By J.C., Medicinæ
Professor. Printed in Latin at Amsterdam, by M. Brown, 1690, and
Reprinted at London [no publisher], 1692. £4,800
8vo, pp. [viii], 168; title within double border; some light browning
to first two signatures and faint intermittent damp-staining to lower
outer corner, paper fault to C3, affecting two letters; nineteenth century
half calf over marbled boards, upper joint and head and tail of spine repaired,
spine ruled in gilt, decorated in blind, with gilt-lettering directly
to spine; with numerous ownership inscriptions – front free endpaper:
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To be returned when read, James Jackson 1775, above preface: Jane
Singleton 1849, at end HD Hamilton, front pastedown: Horace Newton;
overall a good copy.
First edition in English of ‘the most interesting and original philosophy
work written by a woman in the seventeenth century. Her radical and unorthodox
ideas are important not only because they anticipated the more
tolerant, ecumenical, and optimistic philosophy of the Enlightenment, but
also because of their influence on Leibniz’ (preface of new translation, Cambridge
1996). This is a retranslation of the manuscript which had been
posthumously translated into Latin by van Helmont and published in 1690
in his Opuscula philosophica quibus continentur principia philosophiae antiquissimae
et recentissimae. As the original manuscript had been lost, it needed to
be newly translated for its publication in English in 1692.
For a woman of her time, Anne Conway had unusual opportunities to
pursue her interest in philosophy, but she treated it as very much a private
activity and never wrote for publication. ‘The Principles of the most Ancient
and Modern Philosophy ... clearly shows her acquaintance with contemporary
philosophy as well as the impact of her cabbalistic studies. Her Principia
outlines an original metaphysical system according to which all created
things are constituted of monads of spiritual substance deriving from God.
She proposes a tripartite hierarchy of being where the infinite monads of
created substance express the infinity of the divine creator, and where causality
is mediated through an intermediate level of being that participates
in both the divine and created being. Since God is essentially good, so too
is his creation. Conway denies the eternity of hell, arguing for a perfective
order of things. In the course of her discussion she attacks the dualism of
Descartes and Henry More, and the materialism of Hobbes and Spinoza.
As a theodicy and monadology, her system anticipates the philosophy of
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. It is certain that Leibniz knew of the work,
and indeed possessed a copy (probably the gift of their mutual friend, Van
Helmont)’ (Sarah Hutton in Oxford DNB).
Anne Finch was born in 1631, a week after the death of her father (Sir
Heneage Finch, Speaker of the House of Commons). She was taught at
home, learnt Latin and later Greek and Hebrew. The Platonist, Henry
More, who had been the tutor of one of her brothers at Cambridge, corresponded
with her on the philosophy of Descartes.
This correspondence continued even after Anne’s marriage to Edward
Conway in 1651. More stated that he had ‘scarce ever met with any Person,
Man or Woman, of better Natural parts than Lady Conway’. Her husband
apparently encouraged her in her intellectual pursuit, and through marrying
into the Conway family she had at her disposal one of the largest private
libraries in England, and she gathered around herself a lively intellectual
circle. Through More she was in contact with other Cambridge Platonists,
including Ralph Cudworth and John Worthington. She was also in
contact with Francis Mercury Van Helmont, son of the Flemish biologist
and natural philosopher, who later became a member of Lady Conway’s
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household. He encouraged her interest in Jewish cabbala, and brought her
into contact with Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, the German cabbalist
scholar. He also introduced her to Quakerism, and shortly before her death
in 1679 she converted.
Wing C5989 (BL, Trinity College Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, Bodleian;
US: Folger, Havard, Library Company, UCLA, Michigan, Penn, Yale, Toronto);
see Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophy, I 208 ff.
Steam-Power for Household and Business Application
21 DINGLER, Johann Gottfried. Beschreibung und Abbildung
mehrerer Dampfapparate zur Benützung der Wasserdämpfe zum
Kochen und Heizen in verschiedenen öffentlichen Anstalten, in der
Haus- und Landwirthschaft, in Fabriken, Manufakturen, Gewerben
etc. Mit vier Kupfertafeln. Zum Besten des Augsburgischen Armenwesens
gedruckt. Augsburg, Nikolaus Doll, and Leipzig, P. B.
Kummer, 1818. £950
8vo, pp. xx, 140, four engraved plates with 61 illustrations; original
printed wrappers, rebacked and paper repair to lower corner, lower
wrapper with view of the steam cooking range installed at the orphanage
at Augsburg; from the library of the Oberbaudirektion, with small
circular stamp to title, a manuscript inscription to verso of upper wrapper,
and shelf mark.
First and only edition of this practical introduction to the use of steam
power for household and small business application. In this well-illustrated
work Dingler begins with a detailed description of the steam-powered
cooking range, with advice on common problems and safety measures. He
also describes ovens, a portable cooking range and a specialised pharmacist’s
oven. In the second part the use of steam power in agriculture and the
manufacturing industry is described, including its application to cooking
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in poor houses (Rumford’s soup), its use in laundries, both household and
larger scale, public baths, and in the textile and food industries. Steam was
apparently used both for distilling and brewing, and the production of fruit
vinegars, sugar and glue. The final section deals with heating and drying
processes, for example in the production of tobacco, dried fruit, and even
explosives. The main advantage of steam heating was the decreased risk of
fire, as multiple houses could be heated with just one fire. A chapter on
heating conservatories concludes the work. All aspects of steam-powered
heating and cooking are illustrated on the finely engraved plates.
Dingler (1778–1855), a pharmacist in Augsburg, began operating a
chemical factory in 1805. In 1820 he became editor of the well-known
technical periodical Polytechnisches Journal.
Engelmann 80; see Poggendorff I, c 573 ff; Hein/Schwarz I, p. 121; NDB III,
p. 730.
Monetary History
22 DIODATI, Luigi. Dello Stato presente della Moneta nel
Regno di Napoli e della Necessità di un Alzamento, Libri due.
Naples, Michele Migliaccio, 1790. £1,400
8vo, pp. xvi, 158; some marginal damp-staining to first and last signatures;
occasional light browning; contemporary half sheep over marbled
boards; spine with double gilt rules, gilt-lettered spine label; a few individual
wormholes to spine, foot of spine worn.
First edition, uncommon, of this innovative study of monetary history by
Luigi Diodati, who is also known for the biography of his fellow Neapolitan
economist Galiani. Diodati’s contributions to the history of coins and
money were recognised by the government and he was made the director
of the Neapolitan mint.
Diodati attempts to resolve the question why gold had disappeared in
1587 from the kingdom of Naples, which was not sufficiently explained
by all earlier monetary writers, such as De Sanctis, Serra, Locke, Melon,
Galiani or Beccaria. The usual explanation of this fact was an excess of imports
over exports. Diodati, however, maintains that the lack of gold was
caused by the monetary reform undertaken by the other states of Italy, each
of which had raised the nominal value of their coins. This had been a reaction
to the rise of prices and the fall in the value of money consequent to
the discoveries of silver in America, and the impulse these supplies of metal
gave to enterprise and business, whilst reducing all fixed incomes.
In the concluding chapter Diodati develops a theory of ideal money,
‘moneta immaginaria’ which is not subject to re- and de-valuations, but
sustains its value. It appears to be a form of exchange-rate mechanism, with
fixed exchange rates.
A second edition was published in 1849.
Cossa 47 (170); Einaudi 1571; Goldsmiths’–Kress 14462.33; OCLC lists copies
at Chicago, Berlin and Paris.
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Persian Grammar
23 DOMBAY, Franz von. Grammatica Linguae Persicae accedunt
Dialogi, Historiae, Sententiae et Narrationes Persicae. Vienna,
Albert Camesina (ex Officina Kurzböck), 1804. £350
4to, pp. [viii], 114; printed on light-blue paper; contemporary sheepbacked
marbled boards; spine gilt in compartments with gilt-lettered
spine label; neat pencil notes to title; a good copy.
First edition of Dombay’s attractively printed Persian grammar together
with useful bi-lingual (Persian – Latin) dialogues and brief prose pieces
with their translation. Dombay (1758–1810) studied at the Academy of
Oriental Languages of Vienna before taking up a consular position in Morocco,
which gave him a chance to study the language more fully.
The book is attractively produced and was printed in the Kurzböck printing
office in Vienna, using specially created type faces. The publisher Kurzböck
had long-standing connections with the Vienna Oriental Academy,
and had printed in the previous twenty years a series of Arabic, Persian
and Turkish texts, using Arabic types specially created by himself, with the
help of, among others, Yusuf Sasati, an Ottoman Syrian tradesman living
in Vienna (Durstmüller).
Brunet II, 800; Schwab 758; Vater, p. 281; Wurzbach III, 353 f.
Dictionary of Inventions with Bibliographical Details
24 DONNDORFF, Johann August. Geschichte der Erfindungen
in allen Theilen der Wissenschaften und Künste von der ältesten
bis auf die gegenwärtige Zeit. In alphabetischer Ordnung. Erster
– [Sechster Band, including two supplements]. Quedlinburg and
Leipzig, Gottfried Basse, 1817–1821. £1,250
Six volumes (including two supplement volumes – all published), 8vo,
pp. xxiv; [i] errata, [i] blank, 412, pages 135/6 creased; [ii], 385; 413;
432; xxxiv, 582 (small rust hole on p. 147/8); xii, 523, [1] corrections;
printed on thin paper, with occasional paper faults in foremargin (no
loss of text), intermittent spotting and light browning; contemporary
buff coloured boards, spines ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine labels
and numbering pieces, extremities a little rubbed, and head of spine
chipped, but still a pleasant set; extensive mansucript notes to front free
endpaper of volume 2, private ownership stamp to front free endpapers
O. Mahr.
A comprehensive history of inventions, documenting first and foremost
discoveries in all branches of knowledge, with reference to their discoverer
and earliest documentation. Donndorff does not appear to be interested
in describing technical detail of these discoveries, or even their specific
function, but notes instead bibliographical details of its first mention. His
concept of ‘inventions’ is wide-ranging, covering tools, materials and all
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manner of technical contraptions, but also social ‘inventions’, social institutions,
professions etc.
In his preface Donndorff refers to Beckmann’s earlier contributions to
the history of technology and inventions and the ongoing dispute with
Busch and Poppe about questions of priority, clarity and plagiarism.
Poggendorff I, 593; see G. Banse and H. P. Müller (eds.), Johann Beckmann und
die Folgen. Erfindungen – Versuch der historischen, theoretischen und empirischen Annäherung
an einen vielschichtigen Begriff. Kassel, 1998; very rare outside of Germany.
Translated and Illustrated by Fuseli – Annotated by James Harris
25 [DRAGONETTI, Giacinto. Translated by Henry FUSELI.]
A Treatise on Virtues and Rewards. London, Johnson and Payne,
J. Almon, 1769. £1,800
8vo, pp. [ix], 10–183, with title page vignette, head-piece and two
tail-pieces by Grignion after Fuseli; contemporary full sheep, sides with
single gilt filets, spine in compartments, ruled in gilt, head and tail of
spine chipped, and joints cracking; inscribed E Libris J. Harris to front
free endpaper and with annotations in same hand, some of them partly
erased.
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Very rare parallel text response to Beccaria’s Dei Delitti e delle Pene by Giacinto
Dragonetti, originally published under the title Trattato delle Virtù
e de’ Premi. Whereas Beccaria had discussed the aim of criminal law and
the philosophy of punishment in utilitarian terms and had attacked capital
punishment, Dragonetti’s purpose was to identify the positive functions of
government, using even more explicitly utilitarian principles in the question:
How could government reward virtue and generate happiness? He
maintained that the aims of government needed to be in tune with private
interest. Thus he favoured rewarding inventors for scientific and technological
progress, offering insurance to those engaged in risky occupations
which benefit the public good, and demanded that inherited distinctions
of rank should be abolished, and fair wages be paid. Whereas profit from
commercial activity is entirely legitimate, profit from underpaying labour
is to be curtailed. This utilitarianism was later to be found in Paine’s Rights
of Man.
This English translation is dedicated by ‘The Translator’, ‘once happy in
your esteem and patronage’ to viscount Chewton (courtesy title of George,
later 4th Earl Waldegrave (1751–1816)). Fuseli was Chewton’s travelling
tutor on the Grand Tour in 1765 and is identified as the translator by Weinglass,
but not in OCLC, ESTC etc. The painter and draughtsman Fuseli or
Johann Heinrich Fuessli (1741–1825), was born in Switzerland but later
settled in England. He closely collaborated with the publisher Joseph Johnson,
a prominent figure in radical British political and intellectual life, and
produced numerous book illustrations for him, in addition to occasional
pieces of writing, such as this translation.
This bi-lingual edition is an object lesson in critical translation. It is based
on a bi-lingual Italian–French edition, but has the English translator disagreeing
with the more monarchic French version, and commenting on it
in his footnotes. This English version is in turn accompanied by the manuscript
annotations of the philosopher James Harris.
[Provenance:] This copy is inscribed Ex Libris J. Harris, and has various
ironical notes to the English text, which either expand or supplement the
shorter annotations to the original. A later owner has attempted to erase
these, but they are still decipherable. The hand corresponds closely to that
of the philosopher James Harris’ 1775 manuscript corrections to his earlier
unpublished Essay on Criticism in BL Add MSS 18727–29.
ESTC t109487 (BL, Dublin, Oxford, Leeds); D. H. Weinglass, Prints and Engraved
Illustrations by and after Henry Fuseli, A Catalogue Raisonné, 14–16; OCLC
adds copies at Tulane and Texas.
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26 [EDUCATION.] Rath eines Vaters an seinen studirenden
Sohn. Leipzig and Jena, C. Weigel and A. B. Schneider, 1791. £380
8vo, pp. [xii], 52, with four page publisher’s advertisement from Weigel
and Schneider; title with blackened stamp; booklabel of the school library
Idstein and with early presentation inscription.
First edition of a charming guide to university life written by a father for
his son. The advice is specifically meant for middle class students, especially
those with limited funds. The anonymous author covers all aspects of student
life, from housing – don’t share a flat with another student, as it will
prove detrimental to your studies and don’t start a liaison with the landlady
– to the selection of classes, possible friends and associates, useful occupations
during the holidays etc. A separate section is devoted to finding a
suitable career – but most importantly the author warns against becoming
a perpetual or ‘professional’ student. Three years at university is sufficient –
most modern day parents of university students will agree.
Not in Erman-Horn or Holzmann-Bohatta; not found in GV; KVK and OCLC
list one copy at Augsburg.
The Beginning of Agricultural Chemistry
27 [FABBRONI, Giovanni.] Reflexions sur l’etat actuel de
l’Agriculture; ou Exposition du véritable plan pour cultiver ses terres
avec le plus grand avantage, & pour se passer des engrais. Paris,
Nyon, 1780. £550
8vo, pp. xxii, 294, [1]; tables in the text; brown stain to C10–12, else
clean and crisp; uncut in the original pink wrappers, spine label lettered
in manuscript; a little dog-eared, and head and foot of spine chipped; a
very good copy, with author’s name noted in ink on the title.
First edition of Fabbroni’s remarkable treatise on the state or agriculture and
agricultural reform, in which he developed new techniques in agronomy
and cultivation, based on procedures of pneumatic chemistry. Fabbroni’s
work contributed considerably to the application of chemistry to the study
of the plant world, and the beginning of agricultural chemistry.
Fabbroni (1752–1822), a strong supporter of the Leopoldine reforms in
Tuscany, was vociferous in his defence of free trade and rejected all forms of
restrictions of the trade in grain. He was assistant to Felice Fontana in the
Museum of Physics and Natural Sciences in Florence, where he later became
assistant director in 1780 and director in 1805. From 1776 to 1778 he lived
in Paris and then in London, and frequented enlightened and radical circles
in both cities. During this time he also met and corresponded with both
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 11983.3; see M. M. Libelli in IESS and M. Gliozzi in DSB.
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Fashionable Hamburg – with 65 Hand-Coloured Plates
28 [FASHION – PERIODICAL.] Hamburgisches Journal
der Moden und Eleganz. Mit illuminirten Kupfern und Music.
Herausgegeben von einigen Freunden des guten Geschmacks. Erster
[Zweyter] Jahrgang 1801 [–1802] [all published]. Hamburg, Meyn
and Mahncke, 1801–1802. £4,250
Two volumes, covering two years 1801/1802 (all published), twelve
monthly issues per year, 4to, pp. [2] general title, 257 (column 514),
[2] contents, and pp. 27 (c. 54) of Intelligenzblatt, with 34 hand-coloured
fashion plates, ll. 12 of letterpress printed music, and three leaves
with fabric samples (two samples lacking); pp. 255 (c. 510), 23 (c. 46)
of Intelligenzblatt, with 31 hand-coloured fashion plates, 2 engraved
plates showing views of Hamburg and ll. 7 of letterpress printed music;
all plates complete according to list of ‘explanation of plates’; bound
in contemporary matching half calf over marbled boards, spines gilt
in compartments, gilt-lettered spine labels and contrasting numbering
pieces; expert repair to lower board of volume II; an attractive set with
just some slight wear to extremities.
First and only edition, all published, of the well-illustrated but short-lived
Hamburg fashion journal, illustrating the latest styles, with plunging necklines,
high-waisted breeches, both demure and extravagant headdresses.
The editors proclaim in the preface their intention to entertain and educate
in the fashions of the world. Each monthly issue contains information on
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the latest fashion – illustrated with up to 3 hand-coloured plates, theatre
and music news from Hamburg, Altona, Berlin, Weimar and Paris, reports
of inventions, and pieces of music. Most issues are also accompanied by the
Intelligenzblatt, which mostly contains information regarding new publications.
The journal appeared at a time of transition in Hamburg, a period, when
due to the unprecedented commercial prosperity at the end of the eighteenth
century, fashion and conspicuous consumption threatened to question
the traditional values of frugality, hard work and modesty, which had
been the cornerstones of the self-governing city-state. The journal documents
this in its plates, and in the accompanying text, and gives a clear view
of the contemporary discussion between traditionalists and the followers of
fashion. Presumably because of its extravagant and costly production, with
its coloured plates and music printing, the journal did not survive longer
than the two years present here.
See K. B. Aaslestad, Place and Politics: local Identity, civic Culture, and German Nationalism
in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era, Leiden, Boston, 2005; no
copy found in OCLC.
French Constitution – Rare Provincial Printing
29 [FRANCE – Constitution]. Constitution Française et
Acceptation du Roi. Dijon, P. Causse, 1791. £550
12mo, pp. [ii], 163; contemporary full red morocco with simple gilt
rule to sides and spine, gilt-lettering directly to spine; early owner’s signature
‘John Greenwell, Broomshields’ to front free endpaper.
An attractive copy of this rare provincial printing of the Revolutionary constitution,
together with the King’s letter of September 13th, 1791 to the
Assemblée Nationale, his acceptance of September 4th, and the response of
the president to the King. The constitution is preceded by the Declaration of
Rights, and the work concludes with a useful alphabetical subject index.
Another Dijon edition, without the King’s response, was published the
same year.
Rare First Separate Translation of Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’
30 [FRANKLIN, Benjamin.] La Science du Bonhomme Richard,
ou Moyen Facile de payer les Impôts. Philadelphia, Ruault, 1777.
[bound with:] [GUIDI, L. Abbé.] Dialogue entre un Éveque et un
Curé, sur les marriages des Protestans. [n.p.], 1775. £800
Two works bound in one volume, 12mo, pp. 151, [1] blank, 4 advertisement;
iv, 5–120; title vignette; occasional light browning, due to
paper stock; contemporary mottled sheep, sides with triple gilt rule,
spine decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; discreet repairs to joints;
an attractive copy.
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Very rare first separate French translation of Franklin’s Way to Wealth, containing
his shrewd maxims and proverbs against idleness, pride and folly.
The work, first published in Poor Richard’s Almanac for 1758, and then
separately issued in 1760 under the title of Father Abraham’s Speech, gained
instant popularity as a gospel of bourgeois thrift and common sense.
The translation is by F. A. Quétant and J. B. Lecuy. Also included are
translations of Examination of Dr Franklin before the British Parliament, in
1766 translated by Dupont de Nemours, the Constitution of Pennsylvania,
as established in 1776, and the Examination of Mr Penn, at the bar of Parliament
in 1776.
The work is bound with the first edition of Guidi’s treatise in the form
of a dialogue on marriage of the Protestants. Guidi writes in favour of the
Protestants, and advocates their integration into French society, not just for
reasons of fairness, but also for economic advantage.
I. Faij 10; Echeverria, p. 54; see Sabin 25583 for 1778 edition; very rare, this edition
not in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi (all record only the 1778 edition); II.
Barbier I, 945; INED 2205.
The Beginning of English Lexicography –
Printed by Wynkyn de Worde
31 GALFRIDUS GRAMMATICUS. Promptuarium Parvulorum
Clericorum: quod apud nos Medulla grammatice appellatur.
Scholasticis quam maxime necessarium. Impressum Londiniis per
Wynadum de Worde. London, Wynkyn de Worde, 5. September
1516.
[bound after:] Ortus vocabulorum alphabetico ordine fere omnia que
in Catholico, Breuiloquio, Cornucopia, Gemma vocabulorum, atque
Medulla gra[m]matice ponuntur cum vernacule lingue Anglicane
expositionem continens. Impressus Londiniis P[er] Wynadu de
Worde. London, Wynkyn de Worde, 22 October 1518. £25,000
Two works bound in one volume, small 4to (192 x 130mm), ll. 70,
A8.4-K4, L6, M4 (Promptorium); ll. 198, A8.4-2K8, 2L6 (Ortus);
printer’s device to both title-pages, decorated woodcut initials; six small
spherical wormholes (up to 2 mm in diameter) at the beginning of the
Promptorium reduced to four at the end, the Ortus with larger number
of wormholes at the beginning, diminishing to six wormholes at the
end; despite the wormholes there is only minimal loss to legibility
throughout; the title-page of the Ortus is slightly browned and fragile,
with holes in the lower margin; nineteenth-century full calf by Hatton
of Manchester, sides with Macclesfield arms in gilt within double blind
rules, gilt-lettered red morocco label to spine, marbled endpapers, red
edges, extremities a little rubbed, and short split to upper joint; with
extensive sixteenth century manuscript annotations in ink.
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Rare early edition of the First English–Latin Dictionary, the Promptuarium
Parvulorum, in effect the beginning of English lexicography, and the first
Latin-English Dictionary bound together. The Promptuarium Parvulorum,
or The Children’s Storeroom or Repository was composed by Galfridus, or
Geoffrey the Grammarian, an East Anglian monk, around 1440 and first
printed by Richard Pynson in 1499. It is of the greatest importance. Here
for the first time the primary object was the elucidation of English not of
Latin, and thus this can be seen as the beginning of English lexicography.
Some 12,000 words are listed, in alphabetical order, with nouns and other
parts of speech listed first, followed by verbs. Each ‘English’ word is ‘translated’
by one or more Latin words. As is obvious from the list of sources
cited, the work is based on extensive research.
The Promptuarium is bound here together with the Ortus Vocabulorum,
also printed by Wynkyn de Worde, for convenience of use. Even though the
two works are sometimes found bound together they were issued separately.
The Ortus Vocabulorum, the ‘Garden of Words’, a Latin-English dictionary,
claims in its title to offer its readers ‘almost all the things that are in the
Catholicon, the Breviloquis, the Cornucopia, the Gemma Vocabulorum
and the Medulla grammatice, together with an exposition in the vernacular
English’. The Ortus Vocabulorum was first printed by Wynkyn de Worde in
1500, and no earlier manuscript is known.
‘Several editions of the Promptorium issued from the press of Wynkyn de
Worde, in small quarto form; copies in fine condition are scarcely less rare
than that printed by Pynson... Occasionally the Latin-English dictionary,
Ortus Vocabulorum, printed by the same printer and the like form, is found
bound up with the Promptorium for the convenience of students’. (Way III
xliv–xlv).
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Born in Alsace, Wynkyn de Worde came to England around 1473 as
Caxton’s foreman and after Caxton’s death in 1491 he took over his press
and moved it to Fleet Street, founding the long association between printing
and Fleet Street.
[Marginalia:] Both books have extensive contemporary marginalia quoting
verses and theological texts. Both also contain some lexical notes, preserved
by the nineteenth century binder by folding in the portion of the margin
annotated before trimming the page.
An annotation to the verbs beginning with ‘S’ in the Promptuarium reads
‘to sever segrego’ as well as ‘sacke i[d est] vinum aromaticum’. This description,
aromatic or spiced wine, is of particular interest in the light of Robert
Sherwood’s different translation of 1632 of the word as ‘vin sec’, and the
uncertainty surrounding its etymology. The earliest citation given in the
OED is 1531–2, clearly describing a sweet wine.
I. STC 20438; McKerrow 19; II. STC 13834; McKerrow 23; I. all early editions
are rare: 1511 (BL, Cambridge, University of Illinois), 1512: Huntington, Folger,
and Cambridge; 1516 (this edition): BL, Cambridge, Oxford, John Rylands, Winchester
College, Harvard and Huntington. II. A number of editions were published
between 1500 and this 1516 edition, all of them are rare.
Legal Restrictions on Jews in Hesse
32 GATZERT, Christian Hartmann Samuel. Tractatus Iuris
Germanici De Iuribus Iudaeorum Eorumque Obligationibus
Praecipue Parochialibus. Giessen, Krieger, 1771. £650
4to, pp. [iv], 132; woodcut title vignette and head- and tail-pieces;
occasional light browning and spotting, due to paper quality; contemporary
grey boards, extremities a little rubbed, corners bumped, minute
worm trace to endpapers, just touching first and last leaf, no loss.
First and only edition of a detailed discussion of the legal and financial
restrictions imposed on the Jewish population of Hesse, especially the application
of special taxes. Gatzert gives a comprehensive overview of the
treatment of Jews within Hesse over the centuries, with their expulsion
in 1524, the 1539 Judenreglement, the model for future regulation of the
Jewish population in Hesse, and the later system of the Schutzjude, i.e. Jewish
population being protected by the ruler in return for financial compensation.
He comments on marriage laws, and discusses in great detail
Jewish money lending and its regulation, so that excessive interest rates be
curtailed.
The second half of the work is devoted to the various payments imposed
on the Jewish population in the eighteenth century, with restrictions of social
gatherings, limitations of schools and synagogues. Gatzert’s work is of
particular interest as he reprints numerous documents of forced agreements
between the judiciary and the local Jewish population.
Gatzert (1739–1807), a practising lawyer, professor of law and member
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of the Hessian state government, published extensively on juridical and historical
questions.
ADB VIII, 413; not in Fürst; OCLC lists copies at New York Public Library,
University of Indiana, National Library of Scotland and National Library of Israel,
in addition to 4 copies in Germany.
Through Logic to Profit
33 GIOJA, Melchiorre. Esercizio Logico sugli Errori d’Ideologia
e Zoologia ossia Arte di Trar Profitto dai Cattivi Libri. Milan,
Pirotta, 1824. £320
8vo, pp. xv, [i], 320; some light spotting, contemporary roan-backed
marbled boards; spine decoratively gilt; an attractive copy.
First edition of a fascinating treatise on logic in relation to human nature
and evolutionary theory. Gioja argues that through the application of logic
and common sense, profit and knowledge can be derived from ‘bad books’.
He applies his principles to various theories of human evolution, and classifies
the arguments into ‘false’, ‘inexact’, ‘contradictory’, and ‘incomplete’.
Despite his even-handed approach, the work was put on the index. Gioja
(1767–1829) wrote mostly on economics, statistics, morals and logic.
Einaudi 2569.
Economic Utopia
34 [GOYON DE LA PLOMBANIE, Henri de.] La France
Agricole et Marchande. Tome Premier [–Tome Seconde]. Avignon
(Paris), n.p., 1762. £1,800
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 475 (vere 477, p. 209 twice), 7 fold-out
plates; xi, [1] blank, 616, with fold-out table on p. 374, and 4 folding
engraved plates (2 maps, one hand-coloured); light damp-staining to
upper margin of first three signatures of volume I and prelims of volume
II, else clean; contemporary full catspaw calf, spine gilt in compartments,
contrasting gilt-lettered labels and numbering pieces; head and
foot of spine a little rubbed, and short split to lower joint, an attractive
set.
First edition of this economic utopia, published anonymously as were all of
Goyon de la Plombanie’s works. Goyon de la Plombanie foreshadows the
effects of increased production on society, the results of industrialisation,
with massive numbers of people on the move into the cities, the overcrowding
and fragmentation of life in the modern metropolis. He proposes the
use of cartography to document natural borders, and indicate land ownership.
Road transport is to be improved with the use of steam engines, and
some form of locomotive – technical advances well ahead of his time. Similarly
his fiscal proposals, withholding tax, land and property taxes, were all
introduced after the French Revolution.
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However, clearly utopian are his proposals for better social organisation.
He compares society with a machine: out of disparate individuals a wellorganised
social entity is formed. Self-interest is identified as one of the
productive forces. Similar to Owenite projects in the early nineteenth century,
Goyon de la Plombanie proposes a manufacturing village of 120,000
workers to be founded in the Perigord, his original home. Around a central
temple, the town is organised in a rigid hierarchical system, divided
by professions, class and sex – and its geometric construction foreshadows
Bentham’s prison Panopticon.
In his well-structured treatise Goyon de la Plombanie begins with the
analysis of the disastrous economic situation in France during the Seven
Year War, due to insufficient money supply, high interest rates, and the
decline of public works. He outlines an ‘ideal’ economic system, with
public credit and an improved guild system. In the following chapters he
concentrates on the improvement of agriculture, first systemic, and then
through the introduction of improved machinery. For general economic
improvement he suggests a union of land owners. In the two final chapters
he expands his reforming spirit to improvements in the mechanical arts,
manufacturing, and industry, with public works projects and subsequent
population increase.
Not much is known about Goyon de la Plombanie (d. 1808); he was one
of the editors of the Journal économique, and after an army career turned his
attention to economic questions. He wrote several works in which he denounced
the insufficient supply of money and the increase of interest rates,
always proposing reform of agriculture and economics.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 9757.4; Higgs 2668; INED 2116; not in Menger; see Perrot,
Jean-Claude, ‘Le despotisme de la raison dans l’utopie économique de Goyon de
La Plombanie, La France agricole et marchande’, in Une Histoire intellectuelle de
l’Economie Politique, Paris, 1992, pp. 287–304.
Picture Encyclopaedia
35 GRAVELOT [BOURGIGNON], Hubert-François and
Charles-Nicolas COCHIN. Iconologie par Figures ou Traité
complet des Allégories, Emblèmes &c. Ouvrage utile aux Artistes,
aux Amateurs, et pouvant server à l’éducation des jeunes personnes.
Tome I [–Tome IV]. Paris, Le Pan, [1791]. £3,200
Four volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, title and portrait, pp. xvi,
99, with 45 engravings; engraved title, pp. 112, with 48 engravings;
engraved title, pp. 106, with 49 engravings; engraved frontispiece, pp.
168, with 60 engraved plates; in all four engraved titles, two portraits
and 202 engraved plates; very occasional light foxing of the text, else
very clean and crisp; contemporary half tan calf over sprinkled boards,
flat spines decoratively gilt with classical design, contrasting gilt-lettered
spine labels and numbering pieces; a very attractive set.
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First edition of this Rococo graphic arts encyclopaedia, Gravelot’s and
Cochin’s Iconologie par Figures, collecting emblematic and allegorical engravings
already used as frontispieces in the Almanach iconologique, which
had been issued in twenty-one volumes between 1764 and 1781. Here the
engravings are collected as a virtual picture encyclopaedia, accompanied by
brief essays, of different areas of knowledge, such as science, astronomy,
botany, chemistry, medicine and mathematics, of the seasons, of moods
and temperaments, such as melancholy, fury, inclination (both good and
bad), sobriety and nobility, of arts and industry such as printing, engraving,
calligraphy and sculpture.
The French illustrator, draughtsman and engraver Gravelot (1699–1773),
who spent many successful years working in England, was in great demand
as a book illustrator. His book illustrations, which tend to be small size,
are characterized by an extreme precision of composition, a delicacy of line
and an ability to gracefully animate his tiny figures in a variety of attitudes.
Cochin (1715–1790), who came from a family of artists and engravers,
is also known for his sympathetic book illustrations. The engravings were
executed by Choffard, Duclos, de Ghendt, de Launa, le Mire, de Longueil,
Ponce and others after the original designs by Gravelot and Cochin.
Cohen-Ricci 456; Landwehr, 349; see Praz p. 357.
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Public Prosecutor vs Attorney
36 [GROUSTEL, Louis.] Essai sur la Profession de Procureur.
[n.p.], 1749. £650
8vo, pp. [viii] including initial blank, half title, and advertisement to the
reader, 77, prelims and first signature with short worm trace to lower
outer corner of blank margin, nowhere near the text; a little browned;
contemporary full mottled calf, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, with
later gilt-lettered spine label, head of spine chipped and short split to
head of upper board; from the library of Jacobus Molinier (1690–1750)
with heraldic engraved book plate to front pastedown.
First edition of this detailed assessment of the role and function of the procurator
or prosecutor in the French legal system. Groustel briefly gives the
background of the position, with its historical development. In an extended
section the positions of attorneys and prosecutors are contrasted. Groustel
points to the great concentration of power within the office of prosecutor,
the closeness of the prosecutor to the legal profession in general. He gives
details of various famous prosecutors, and concludes with the official oaths
of solicitors and prosecutors. Throughout he makes detailed reference to
legal authorities. He is clearly concerned with the reform of the legal system
and the restoration of the position of the public prosecutor.
Groustel (b. 1711) a lawyer and parliamentary prosecutor between 1738
and 1763, also worked on a comprehensive treatise on legal practice, but
this apparently remained unfinished and only a prospectus survives.
Barbier 5651; uncommon, OCLC lists copies at Harvard Law School and Dresden
only.
Criminal Procedure and Poor Law
37 GRUNER, Karl Justus and Theodor Konrad HARTLEBEN.
Allgemeines Archiv fuer Sicherheits und Armenpflege. Erster Band
[1. – 3tes Heft] [all published], Würzburg, Otto Baumgärtner,
1806. £750
4to, pp. [vi], 202, with one folding engraved plate, numerous tables in
the text; contemporary pale blue boards.
First edition, uncommon, of the complete run of the short-lived periodical
on public poor relief, prison reform, and policing. In their introduction
the editors point to the strong link between policing and poor relief, and
maintain that only a wholesale reform will reduce the problem. Poor relief
should no longer be dependent on private or religious charity, but should
integrate the poor into society by providing work and enforcing its acceptance.
The periodical presents legal and practical proposals for resolving the
problem, including a survey of various European penal institutions, information
on new legislation, and recent publications.
The first article gives a detailed survey of French, in particular Parisian,
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correctional institutions, ranging from prisons to work houses, institutions
for the reform of prostitutes and those in detention while awaiting trial
etc. Each prison and work house is described in great detail, with suggestions
for improvements. Further articles deal with suggestions on how to
render a workhouse profitable by providing raw materials to the inmates
and selling the products; and a very detailed study of the Philadelphia reform
prison and the application of its findings to the situation in Germany
Numerous detailed book and law reviews are included, outlining proposals
for prison reform and new laws passed, such as the Prussian act on safe
transport of prisoners by the army (1804 and 1806).
Even though the journal survived only for one year, it provides a very detailed
insight into contemporary policing and prison reform, with a clearly
international outlook. The two editors were Gruner (1777–1820), who
after legal studies in Göttingen became a civil servant and chief of the police
in Berlin during the Stein – Hardenberg reforms, and Hartleben (1770–
1827), a professor of law at Freiburg. Both of them published extensively
on legal and social questions.
Kirchner 2815 (only these three issues); not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, Humpert, or
MNE; KVK lists copies in Germany only, at Schwerin, Trier, Cologne, Munich
and Bamberg; not found in OCLC.
The Library of the Medical Faculty at Stockholm University
38 HAGSTRÖM, Anders Johan. Förteckning på de Boecker,
samt Chirurgiska och Anatomiska Instrumenter och Praeparater,
som tillhöra Theatrum Anatomicum och Undervisnings-Verket för
Läkare i Stockholm. Stockholm, Oloe Grahn, 1811. £900
8vo, pp. 100; original blue wrappers, frayed and with loss to lower corner
of upper wrapper (20 x 50 mm); with twentieth century ownership
inscription of Israel Holmgren 1917 to title; dog-eared, internally fine.
First edition of the catalogue of books, medical instruments and samples
at the medical faculty of Stockholm university, prepared by Anders Johan
Hagström.
The catalogue lists some 1000 medical books, mostly in German, Latin
and Swedish, followed by a listing of instruments, some with relevant literature,
and prepared samples. The final section gives instruments for specific
medical interventions, such as accident and emergency, gynecology, general
surgery, dentistry, ophthalmology, but also amputation and trepanning. In
many cases the donor or previous owner of the instrument is also noted.
Hagströmer (1783–1830), a professor of anatomy and surgery at Stockholm,
was a member of the Chirurgiska Societeten (Society of Surgeons) during
its final years from 1795–97 and of the Collegium Medicum from 1785.
Keen to raise standards of medical education, he began to build a collection
of medical books, surgical instruments and preparatons, which he donated in
1807 so that they would be available for students and colleagues at the Theatrum
Anatomicum. When the Medico-Chirurgical Institute moved to its new
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premises in Stockholm’s Kungsholmen district in 1816, Hagströmer took up
residence there, next to the library and the anatomical and surgical collections,
a great part of which was donated by himself. To honour his achievements,
the rare book collection of the Karolinska Institute and the Swedish
Society of Medicine is today called the Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library.
[Provenance:] From the collection of Israel Holmgren (1871–1961), Swedish
scientist, physician and professor at the Karolinska University Hospital
in Stockholm.
Almquist 3006; Callisen, Medizinisches Schriftstellerlexicon, 22, 1293; Wellcome III,
p. 190; OCLC lists just one copy at the Swedish Royal Library.
Bibliography of Arts, Crafts, Technology and Manufacturing
39 [HEINZMANN, Johann Georg.] August Burkardts Anleitung
zur Buecherkunde in allen Wissenschaften. Grundlage zu einer
auserlesenen Bibliothek in allen Fächern. Bern, Kommission bey der
neuen Societät; and Leipzig, Wolf, 1797. £750
8vo, pp. 391, [23], [7] advertisements, attractive engraved title vignette;
contemporary pale blue boards, spine sunned, and old shelf
mark removed, very clean and crisp.
First edition of an interesting general bibliography which in addition to
the usual areas such as literature, geography, philosophy and history, concentrates
on science and technology, and especially arts and crafts and the
manufacturing industry. Beginning with Beckmann’s Technologie and the
French Description des Arts & Métiers, Heinzmann gives a detailed overview
of the literature of the emerging manufacturing industry. Literature
relating to different crafts and trades is listed, such as some sixty titles on
the building trade, twenty on bakers, brewers, and distillers; on bridge,
road- and dyke-building; printing, book-binding, and book-keeping; turning,
dying and tanning. Manufacturing in general, machining and steelworking
are described.
In a final postscript, Heinzmann expresses the hope that his bibliography
will inspire publishers to reprint some of the valuable older titles, rather
than favour only recent publications.
Petzholdt 87; Sammlung Krieg 39.
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40 HENRION, Francesco. Manuale pratico sull’Istoria delle
Prestanze del Catasto della Decima che guida tutti i Possidenti
di Beni, i Giudici, gli Avvocati, e Procuratori, i periti Architetti,
Agrimensori e Fattori ec. Alla cognizione di tali Gravezze e degli
interessanti Documenti esistenti nell’Archivio delle Soppresse
Decime Gran-Ducali riguardanti le Gravezze medesime e tutti i Beni
Stabili di Città e del Contado Fiorentino. Florence, Pietro Allegrini,
1792. £250
8vo, pp. [ii], 3–32; later buff wrappers.
First edition of this practical study of the history of taxation in Florence and
its documentation in the city archives. Henrion gives a brief outline of the
tax levy from the mid fourteenth century, including land tax, Decimes and
other property taxes, and lists various changes in taxation and where they
are documented in the city archives. He maintains that his publication will
be of practical use to lawyers and architects alike, as it gives details of land
registry and property rights.
Throughout Henrion gives reference to legislation and earlier contributions
on the subject, in particular Guazzino and Pagnini.
Not in Kress, Goldsmiths’, Einaudi or Mattioli; no copy found in OCLC.
Wanley’s Copy with Extensive Manuscript Annotations
41 HICKES, George. Institutiones Grammaticae anglosaxonicae
et moeso-gothicae. Grammatica Islandica Runolphi
Jonae, Catalogus Librorum Septentrionalium. Accedit Eduardi
Bernardi Etymologicon Britannicum. Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre,
1689. £15,000
4to, pp. [xxvi], 114, [vi], 182, [xl], lacking the initial imprimatur leaf;
Sheldonian vignettes to Institutiones and Grammatica Islandica part
titles; contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, crimson
morocco label; joints expertly repaired, extremities rubbed, head and
tail chipped; from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield with the North
Library bookplate and Macclesfield armorial blindstamp, with manuscript
ownership note to front free endpaper and extensive mansucript
annotations by Wanley, see below.
Humfrey Wanley’s copy, with copious manuscript annotations to the Icelandic
Dictionary, many of which were incorporated in the revised version
published in Hickes’s Thesaurus. The corrections and improvements to the
Dictionary had previously been attributed to Hickes himself (see David
Douglas, in English Scholars, p. 109), but this copy proves that many of
these had in fact been supplied by Wanley.
This copy was given to Wanley by Arthur Charlett (Master of University
College, Oxford) in 1694, the year before he came up to Oxford, and is
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clearly the copy he describes in his letter of 15th October 1694. ‘Sir, I return
you my humble thanks, for your extream courtesie & civility to My sister &
my self at Oxford; & particularly for the book you gave me, which wil make
me renew acquaintance with the Saxon Tongue, as soon as I can get some
more books which I want: for out of Mr Kings book I only transcribed the
Saxon Grammar and the Catalogue of the Saxon books, without medling
with any thing of Gothic, Runic, Islandic, & of al which, with the Scotch I
can out of yours pretty well furnish my self ’til I buy more’.
The focus of Wanley’s interest is clearly the Dictionariolum Islandicum in
the second part of the book, which is extensively and carefully annotated.
Many of the notes are incorporated by Hickes in his revised version published
in the Thesaurus. For example, to ‘aan, defectus’ Wanley glosses ‘Inde
dicitur wan’, and the ‘the wane of ye moon’, both of which are included
by Hickes. Similarly at ‘mier batnar, revaleo’ Wanley notes: ‘to batten, vel
battn apud A.B. est vires acquirere: & proprie dicitur de infante vires post
nativitatem acqurenne’. Hickes follows this definition verbatim. Many of
Wanley’s notes and additions are similarly incorporated, but by no means
all: for example under ‘dapur, aegre affectus’ Wanley notes ‘A. dapper, idem
quod brisk’, which Hickes does not include.
George Hickes acknowledged his debt to the younger man, at least in
private. When he was fifty-five and Wanley was twenty-five, he wrote to
him, ‘I have learnt more from you, than ever I did from any other man,
and living or dying I will make my acknowledgement more ways than one’.
(Hickes to Wanley, 14. Mar. 1698).
Humfrey Wanley (1672–1726) was the most important Anglo-Saxonist
of his age, librarian to Robert and Edward Harley, and a founder member
of the Society of Antiquaries.
Bound at the end is a copy of William Drummond’s Polemo-Middinia,
carmen macaronicum. Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1691.
Alton III, 6; Kennedy 3143; Wing H1851.
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The Greatest Work on the Ancient Northern Languages
of the Eighteenth Century
42 HICKES, George. Linguarum Vett. septentrionalium
thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archaeologicus. Oxford,
Sheldonian Theatre, 1703–1705. £7,500
Two volumes, folio, large paper copy (442 x 272mm), pp. [16], xlviii,
[18], 235, [9], 111, [5], 92; [viii], 159, [3], 161–188, [18], 326,
[56], with fine engraved frontispiece portrait by Whyte, engraved armorial
dedication, 8 part-titles with vignettes, 27 plates (2 folding) of
alphabets, coins etc., many text illustrations throughout, 5 full-page,
engraved head-pieces and decorated initials, pages of runic printing;
early eighteenth-century mottled and diced russia, sides with a rich gilt
border, spine gilt in compartments with olive lettering pieces, marbled
endpapers and differentially coloured edges; very lightly rubbed, with
occasional dust-soiling at head; from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield,
with North Library bookplates, a very fine large paper set.
First edition, large paper copy, of the greatest work on the ancient Northern
languages of the eighteenth century – perhaps, indeed, the most comprehensive
account ever published. The present copy is in excellent condition,
a crisp and clean large paper copy. Hickes’ work embraces not only the
grammar and vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon but all Teutonic dialects from
Moeso-Gothic to Icelandic. The valuable accounts of Scandinavian manuscripts
were supplied by the Swedish scholar Peringski’ld and by Thwaites’
correspondents Olaus Rudbeck and Jonas Salanus. In addition the Thesaurus
contains a dissertation on Anglo-Saxon law and government, a treatise
on Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Danish coinage (by Andrew Fountaine) and a
catalogue of manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (by Humfrey Wanley).
The scale and breadth of Hickes’ achievement has been well appreciated by
contemporaries as much as modern scholars, who have always heaped it
with praise. A book ‘to which the learned world never yet saw anything like
or comparable in this kind of literature’ (Wotton in his epitome of 1708),
which ‘never had nor will have its equal’ (Ritson in 1782) and which ‘scholars
will continue to use or neglect at their peril’ (N. R. Ker in 1951), the
Thesaurus has never lacked for admirers.
‘The Thesaurus begins with grammars of the Northern languages, seeking
by superbly detailed comparative philology to place Anglo-Saxon among
its related tongues. In the supplementary treatise directed to Bartholomew
Shower under the title Dissertatio Epistolaris, Hickes examines critically
for the first time the foundations of the study Anglo-Saxon antiquities.
‘The learning of the Dissertatio thus found expression not only in connection
with its main theme, but also in numerous digressions which, even
to-day, carry the full weight of the magisterial scholarship that informed
them. The contributions thus made to knowledge are not to be assessed
in a paragraph. Even in its main arguments the scope of the treatise was
comprehensive’ (Douglas p. 91). The treatment of Anglo-Saxon charters as
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a fundamental source for the history of the time was revolutionary: many
forgeries or copies were for the first time denounced, and proper chronologies
based on palaeographical fact could be established. ‘It was Hickes who
began the proper investigation of Anglo-Saxon charters’ (Douglas p. 92).
Two further portions by outside scholars were added by Hickes: a discourse
on Anglo-Saxon coins by Andrew Fountaine, and a catalogue of surviving
Anglo-Saxon manuscripts by Harley’s librarian Humfrey Wanley. Wanley’s
work is of immense value today for containing the only detailed descriptions
of some of the Cottonian MSS which perished in the fire of 1731.
Douglas rates it thus: ‘from the quality of its scholarship and the extent of
its range it retains its value as an indispensable work of reference, and is today
almost as useful as when it was written.’
The book was originally intended to be bound in two volumes, but it
was found that the large paper copies were too heavy and cumbersome and
most of them, as well as most of those on small paper, were bound in three
parts. This is an impressive exception and a survival remarkable in this condition.
Only a small number of the large paper copies, sold at five guineas,
were printed, intended, as in this case, ‘for the libraries of princes and the
private libraries of great men’.
Alston III 10; ESTC t108393; Kennedy 2362; Petheram pp. 76–86; Francisque
Michel p. 93; see Douglas, English scholars (1951) pp. 88–95 and 113–7; see Bennett,
‘Hickes’s Thesaurus: A Study in Oxford Book Production’, in English Studies,
I, 1948, pp. 28–45.
The First Amateur Printing Press
43 HOLTZAPFFEL, Charles. Printing Apparatus for the Use
of Amateurs. Containing full and practical Instructions for the
use of Cowper’s Parlour Printing Press. Also the Description of
larger Presses on the same principle, and various other apparatus
of the Amateur Typographer... The pamphlet contains likewise,
numerous specimens of plain and ornamental types, brass rules,
checks, borders, ornaments, corners, arms &c. Third edition, greatly
enlarged. London, Holtzapffel, & Co, 1846. £2,250
8vo, pp. 79, [1] advertisements, with 12 numbered woodcut illustrations
in the text, numerous figures, and an extensive type specimen and
price list; original publisher’s dark green cloth, gilt-lettering to upper
board, within blind-stamped border; head of spine chipped, and cloth a
little discoloured, final endpaper stained; else a very good copy.
First available edition of the first description of a ‘really small, simple yet
effective press for amateur use’ and arguably both cause and effect of the
popularity of printing as a Victorian middle class pastime (see pp. xiii).
The Cowper press operated basically on the principle of the waffle iron,
a simple flatbed bellows press with a toggle-jointed clamp worked by a
lever to give the impression. The manual gives a concise introduction to
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all aspects of printing, and describes all steps from typesetting, correcting,
locking up the form, preparation of the paper, dampening of paper, inking,
proofing to finally printing, cleaning of type and rollers and re-distribution
of the type. Also included is a description of a larger press – the Folio Foolscap
press, and more elaborate printing processes, such as printing in two
colours, printing music, etc. This is followed by extensive type specimens,
both plain and ornamental, brass rules, checks, borders, ornaments, corners,
arms etc. The work concludes with a detailed price list for printing
presses and its equipment.
Holtzapffel’s introduction to the Printing Apparatus for the Use of Amateurs
is styled a third edition, even though no earlier editions are recorded.
The firm of Holtzapffel was founded in 1794 and specialised in tools and
instruments for tradesmen and amateurs. They did publish an earlier brief
pamphlet entitled Complete instructions for the management of Mr Cowper’s
Parlour Printing Press (1840), giving basic instructions for the use of the
press, but this extended to just 14 pages.
Bigmore & Wyman I, 342; Jackson Burke 1147; St. Bride Catalogue 216 (under
Cowper); see introduction to the 1971 reprint by the Private Libraries Association.
Lettish Primer
44 [JUVENILE – ABC.] Abcdarium... Riga, Samuel Lorentz
Frölich, 1727. £850
8vo, (150 x 93mm) pp. [xvi]; title printed in red and black, within
decorative border; woodcut initials; printed on card throughout; contemporary
vellum-backed Dutch gilt-pattern boards, spine chipped, but
a very attractive copy from the Macclesfield library, with North Library
book plate to front paste-down and blindstamp to title.
First and apparently only edition of an attractive little ABC book for children
as an aid to learning to read and write. The text is partly in German and
partly in Latvian or Lettish, one of two living Baltic languages.
Uncommon, not found in OCLC, KVK, or any of the children’s book bibliographies
consulted.
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Advice on Manners and Conduct for the Middle Classes
45 KNIGGE, Adolf Franz Friedrich Freiherr von. Ueber den
Umgang mit Menschen. In zwey Theilen. Zweyte verbesserte
Auflage. Frankfurt & Leipzig, n.p., 1789. £450
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], vi, [10]–240; xvi, 263; paper slightly
browned; contemporary full marbled sheep, spine gilt, with matching
gilt-lettered labels; labels and head of spine chipped, some light staining;
still an attractive set from a noble library, with blind-stamped heraldic
book plate.
First pirated edition, in fact a straight reprint of the second edition of
Knigge’s well-known and highly influential compendium of manners and
social conduct. A typical representative of the Enlightenment, Knigge
reconciles the aristocratic tradition of the courtesy book such as Il Cortegiano
with the value system of the developing middle classes. He places great
emphasis on marital and family life, and stresses the value of the individual
independent of rank or background.
Kayser III, 369; Knigge 25.003.
Wine-Making and Viticulture
46 [KNOHLL, Johann Paul, attrib.] Kurtze Beschreibung
und Unterricht des Wein-Baues, allen so mit dergleichen zu
thun, besitzen, umgehen, sich gebrauchen und erhalten zu einem
sonderbahren Nutzten, nebst einem offenhertzigen Wein-arzt.
Oder: Allerhand bewährten Mitteln, wie der Wein von der Kelter
an sorgfältig zu waten, beständig zu erhalten, in andere Kräuter-
Würtz- und frembde Weine zu verwandeln, und so er ohngefähr zu
Schaden kommen, ihme wieder zu helffen sey; Allen Hauß-Wirthen
mitgetheilet und mit einer Baum-Schule vermehret. Dresden,
Johann Jacob Winckler, 1711.
[bound with:] HENNEMANN, Abraham. Des Edlen Weinstocks
Anbau, Vermehrung, und dazu erforderte Arbeit, aus acht und
dreyßig jähriger genauer Observantz mit Fleiss aufgezeichnet und
beschrieben. Dresden, Johann Jacob Winckler, 1712. £3,200
Two works in one volume, first work in two parts, 8vo, engraved frontispiece,
pp. [iv], title etc, 346, [6] contents; 86, [2] blank; 32; typographic
head- and tail-pieces, illustrated initials; first part with irregular
pagination, but complete (collation identical to copy in GBV); with
engraved frontispiece, and full-page woodcut showing a wine-grower;
paper lightly browned; contemporary full mottled calf; extremities a
little rubbed, else fine.
A very rare comprehensive guide to all aspects of wine production by
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Johann Paul Knohll (pseudonym Sincerus Philaletes), a vintner and wine
official from Saxony. The work was apparently also published under the
title Der curiöse und offenhertzige Wein-Arzt. Coming from a wine-growing
family Knohll was employed by the electorate of Saxony to be in charge of
vineyard administration and author of a guide to the vintners’ laws promulgated
in 1588 (Weingebürgsordnung), which regulated the work of the
wine grower in twenty-four rules. Knohll’s first guide to the Weingebürgsordnung
was published in 1667 under the title Klein Vinicultur-Büchlein. The
present work is clearly based on the earlier publication, but corrected and
substantially enlarged (from pp. 227 to 346). Knohll gives a detailed and
very practical introduction to all aspects of making wine and vine cultivation,
including vintage, pressing, preparation of the casks etc. The second
part entitled the Wein-Arzt, or wine doctor, concentrates on various preventive
and curative measures for problems during the wine growing and
vinification process, including information on preservation etc. Fruit wines
using all imaginable types of fruit, vegetables and spices are described and
discussed, as is adulterated or sour wine, and the production of vinegar.
Hennemann’s brief guide to wine growing is bound at the end.
Schoene 3734; see Simon, Vinaria, p. 118 for 1699 edition of Unterrichts des Weinbaus;
not in Vicaire; rare, OCLC and KVK list only copies in Germany.
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Rare Type Specimen – ‘Our Father’ in 123 Languages
47 KRAUS, Johann Ulrich, ed. Oratio Dominica ‘polyglottos kai
polymorphos’ (Greek), nimirum plus Centum Linguis, Versionibus
aut Characteribus, reddita & expressa, Editio Novissima, Speciminibus
variis quam priores auctior. Das ist: Das Gebet des Herrn
oder Vater Unser in viel Sprachen und Schreib-Arten, nemlich In
mehr als hundert Sprachen Ubersetzung und Schrifften verfasset
und vorgestellet, die letzte Edition, Um unterschiedliche Exempel
vermehret als die vorige. Augsburg, Johann Ulrich Kraus, and
Johann Christoph Wagner, ca. 1705. £3,200
Folio, pp. [iv], 22, with four large allegorical engravings (81 x 161 mm),
and numerous type specimens, partly engraved; light browning, and faint
dampstaining to upper blank margin of last two leaves; contemporary
half vellum over sprinkled boards, from the convent library of the Augustinian
Hermits of Vienna, with manuscript note to head of title page.
First and only edition of this very rare type specimen by the Augsburg engraver
Johann Ulrich Kraus and Johann Christoph Wagner – printing the
Lord’s Prayer in more than one hundred different languages. In all there are
123 examples of different languages and typefaces, amongst them 23 Asian
languages, 6 African, 18 eastern European and 3 from America (Mexican,
Poconchi, and Virginian). As is noted in the preface, the work was clearly
inspired by Benjamin Motte’s Oratio Dominia (1700), and aims to make
this more widely available. A list of earlier polyglot versions of the Lord’s
Prayer is also included.
Especially attractive are the large unsigned engravings, in particular one
showing putti removing script rolls from shelves and reading them.
Berlin 5338 (under Wagner), Thieme-Becker XXI, 441 (Kraus); not in Bigmore &
Wyman, St. Bride or Birrel & Garnett, see Gier and Janota (eds.) Augsburger Buchdruck,
p. 1258; OCLC lists copies at Princeton, Brown, Huntington, Newberry,
Columbia, Harvard, and Cambridge.
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Kabbalah in Tables
48 KRIEGESMANN, Wilhelm Christoph. Kabalah [Hebrew]
oder: die wahre und richtige Cabalah mit Kupfer und Tabellen
erläutert. Frankfurt and Leipzig, [n.p.], 1774. £1,800
8vo, pp. [x], 52, [2] description of plates, five folding letterpress tables
and one folding engraved plate, small marginal rust-hole to last plate,
no loss; title vignette and head- and tail-pieces; contemporary stiff blue
wrappers, spine lettered in ink; a little rubbed, from the Ermlitz library
with mss note to title.
First edition, rare, of this introduction to the mystic tradition of Kabbalah.
Kabbalah, a set of esoteric teachings that is meant to explain the relationship
between an infinite, eternal and essentially unknowable Creator with the
finite and mortal universe, has links with the ancient philosophical schools
of gnosticism and neoplatonism. Kriegesmann provides an overview of the
main tenets of kabbalistic philosophy, explains its powers of prognostication,
and hints at links with astrology, alchemy and zodiac signs. The folding
tables at the end give a schematic overview of kabbalah, its expression
in precious stones, interpretation of its link to the Zodiac signs, the ‘celestial
secret alphabet’ and finally the kabbalistic astrolabe, finely engraved.
Pinczower 7742 (rare); not in Fürst, Ackermann, Graesse or Rosenthal; OCLC
lists copies at Yale, New York Public Library and Berlin only.
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49 [LAMBERG, Maximilian Joseph von.] Tablettes Fantastiques
ou Bibliotheque tres particuliere pour quelques païs et pour
quelques hommes. Par l’Auteur du Mémorial d’un Mondain.
Dessau, Société typographique, 1782. £2400
4to, pp. [iv], 172, with one folding printed table bound after p. 98;
paper lightly but evenly browned, due to paper quality; contemporary
calf-backed paste-paper boards, spine in compartments with floral designs,
gilt-lettered spine label; a very good copy
First edition, very rare, of a curious work by the Moravian savant Lamberg,
covering music, alchemy, astrology, mathematics, women, the theatre, and
current affairs. Partly designed as a commonplace book, with Lamberg’s
aperçus on a wide variety of subjects, partly fictitious dialogues between
Lamberg (under the pseudonym Sergis) and Sir Earl, apparently count
Saint-Germain, the celebrated adventurer and mystery figure who enthralled
all of Europe with his linguistic, musical, alchemistical and conversational
powers and his discovery of the secret of ever-lasting life, discussing
a wide variety of subjects organised in a curious sequence of journées and
stations, some of them with quasi stage directions.
Amongst Lamberg’s observations there is a brief consideration of grammar,
where he tries to deconstruct grammar in a similar manner to Diderot’s
deconstruction of the senses in his work Lettres sur les Sourds et
Muets. Chapters on ciphers and secret language are followed by those on
superstition, magic, libraries, women, collections etc. The last section is entitled
Question sur une nouvelle manière de comter, ou Bustroph numéral, dedié
aux arithmeticiens modernes, containing an application of the poetic device
of a ‘bustroph’ to mathematical calculations.
Count Lamberg (1729–1792), educated at the universities of Breslau,
Berlin, and Halle, was destined for the diplomatic service. Because of the
intrigues of a courtesan, he became discredited and retreated to Augsburg.
Here he devoted himself to scientific research. He corresponded with
Hume, Voltaire, Algarotti, d’Alembert and Casanova and published on scientific
subjects. He formed one of the most notable ‘cabinets de physique’ in
Germany. He was admitted to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1773.
Caillet III, 6023; Goedeke VII, 9, 10; NBG, XXIX, 119; Querard IV, 481; very
rare OCLC locates three copies in Germany, Duke, and Randolph-Macon College
only.
Fine Association Copy: from Updike’s Library
50 LAMESLE, Claude. Épreuves Générales des Caracteres qui se
trouvent chez Claude Lamesle Fondeur des Caracteres d’Imprimerie.
Paris, Lamesle, 1742. £4,400
Small 4to, ll. 81, title and 80 leaves of type specimens, of which 10
are oblong in size, folded, and mounted on guards; title and music
specimens printed in red and black; printed throughout within double
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order; contemporary full panelled calf, joints and corners expertly repaired;
from the library of the well-known type historian D. B. Updike,
with his ownership inscription in ink to title page; a wide-margined
copy.
First edition of Lamesle’s first type specimen, a fine presentation copy of
this very interesting stock of type, representing various periods, both dating
back nearly two centuries and contemporary. This copy comes from
the collection of the American printer and historian of typography Updike
who was fulsome in his praise: ‘This book, both in type and ornaments, I
think presents better than any other, the output of French foundries during
the last quarter of the XVIIth and the first half of the XVIIIth century. The
collection of types is remarkably fine’ (Updike I, p. 270).
Not much is known of Claude Lamesle before he took over Pierre Cot’s
foundry in 1737. ‘He succeeded in building up a splendid stock of types and
ornaments containing examples of work by some of the finest punchcutters,
such as Peter Schoeffer the younger, Claude Garamond and Robert Granjon.
His specimen book of 1742 was meticulously planned, with much
of the text used for the specimen settings running on continuously from
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oman to italic and from one size to the next. His types were consistently
numbered from start to finish, with Greek and Hebrew included in the numeration.
Ornaments, signs, titlings and initial letters of various sizes were
shown at appropriate junctures in the sequence, making the book a very
comprehensive and helpful guide to printers deciding what they needed to
order from him’ (Dreyfus, p. 91–92). This magnificent collection was sold
by Lamesle to Nicolas Gando in 1758. Lamesle then moved to Avignon,
founded another foundry and issued another, entirely different, type specimen
in 1769.
Amongst the older types he presents L’oeil ordinaire (similar to Garamond),
also Cicero Gros and Petit Paragon by Robert Granjon, which was
also used by Plantin. Amongst the modern type faces it is interesting to note
that he includes Cicero Romain, Oeil dit la Police no. xxxi, a direct copy of the
‘Romains du Roi’ of the Imprimerie Royale, – a typeface that was explicitly
forbidden to be copied.
[Provenance:] From the collection of D. B. Updike, with his ownership inscription
in ink to the title.
Audin, 27; Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 417; Birrell & Garnett 35; see A. F. Johnson,
The Type specimens of Claude Lamesle, a facsimile edition of the first edition printed at
Paris in 1742, Amsterdam 1965; John Dreyfus, Aspects of French Eighteenth Century
Typography, Cambridge, Roxborough Club, 1982.
The Legal Profession in France and its Reform
51 [LAW.] Réflexions d’un Militaire sur la Profession d’Avocat;
Utiles au Barreau & au Public, pour détruire les abus qui dégradent
l’un, & nuisent à l’intérèt des deux. London and Paris, Veuve Vallat-
La-Chapelle, Méquignon le jeune, 1781. £350
8vo, pp. 31 including initial blank; uncut, stitched as issued in the original
buff wrappers, a little dog-eared and creased, else fine.
First edition of a curious anonymous publication characterising the profession
of the lawyer. The anonymous author, who concedes in the preface
that he was originally destined for the bar but chose the military instead,
deplores the laboriousness of the legal career, much less likely to gain honours
and public recognition than for example the military.
He criticises the complex internal structure of the judiciary, with its limited
number of those in high office, such as public prosecutor and those
called to the bar, who benefit, whereas most of the actual legal work is
being done by legal trainees. He proposes a much more merit based system
and suggests the abolition of old structures, especially the venality and
inheritance of public office such as magistrates, which was characterised by
self-interest and privilege.
Not in INED; OCLC list copies at the Society of the Cincinnati and Berkeley Law
Library only.
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52 [LAW – INHERITANCE.] Riflessioni sopra il Redintegro dei
Fideicomissi esposte in una Lettera d’un Veneziano ad un Amico.
Zurich [but Venice], 1798. £450
8vo, pp. lxii, [2] final blank; original wrappers; some wear to upper
outer corner, a little dog-eared; very clean and crisp.
First and only edition of this rare discussion of changes in inheritance law,
especially on entailments to limit inheritance to specific heirs, and to prohibit
the heirs from diminishing the assets. New legislation of 1796 had
curtailed the rights of the heirs, and the anonymous author maintains that
this is against natural and civil law.
Not found in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi; no copy in OCLC, RLIN lists just
one copy at the University of Hanover.
An Oath for Every Occasion
53 [LAW – OATH.] Collectanea zum Wein-buden Gebrauch.
Hamburg, Conrad König, Raths Buchdrucker, 1731. £950
4to, pp. [xxiv], large title woodcut with arms of the city of Hamburg,
small woodcut of hand held up in oath to verso of title, and woodcut
head- and tail-piece and large initial; a little browned, stitched as issued
in contemporary marbled wrappers, a little dog-eared and spine worn.
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First and only edition of this interesting collection of wordings for oaths for
various professions and occasions. A general serious warning against perjury
– printed both in German and in French – is followed by the wording
of the Jewish oath, oaths sworn by witnesses, book-keepers, copy-writers,
the oath of disclosure in cases of bankruptcy, and oaths sworn by lawyers
and advocates. The Weinbude was apparently the building where such oaths
were sworn.
The work includes 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 different oath formula for those outside the
state church.
Rare, OCLC lists copies at Hamburg and Göttingen (ll. 11 only?).
54 [LAW – VASSELIN, Bono Michael.] Liberatori Israel. Theses
utriusque juris ex Materia Sortito Ducta ... tueri conabitur Petrus
Josephus Bernardus Casterins. Paris, P. R. C. Ballard, 1791. £580
Broadside, (755 x 620 mm), with large copperplate engraving (300 x
390 mm) showing Moses’ rescue; printed in two columns; some fold
marks, a good copy.
An appealing exam poster with theses on canon and civil law. The topics
discussed are divorce in canon law and contract law in civil law. Nine theses
are presented for each, and were apparently discussed on July 14th, 1791
as part of the BA exam. The exam was held under the chair of Michele
Vasselin, the candidate was P. J. B. Casterins at the faculty of law of Paris
university.
The True Second Edition
55 LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm. Essais de Theodicée sur la
Bonté de Dieu, la Liberté de l’Homme, et l’Origine du Mal. Seconde
Edition. Tome Premier [– Tome Second]. Amsterdam, Isaac Troyel,
1714. £800
Two volumes bound in one, 12mo, pp. xlviii, 298, [2] blank; [ii] title
page, 301–580; title vignette, and decorated initials; contemporary full
calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; head of spine
chipped with headbands exposed, short split to upper joint, corners a
little bumped.
Uncommon second edition (first 1710) of one of Leibniz’s main works, in
fact the only substantial book on philosophy published during the author’s
lifetime. The Theodicée was both a riposte to Bayle on the origin of evil and
‘the outcome of discussions with [his patron, Queen] Sophie Charlotte on
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matters concerning free will, evil, and the justification of God’s creation’
(see L. J. Russell in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy). It contains Leibniz’s solution
to the problem of evil, i.e. how the evil in this world can be consistent
with the conception of God as omnipotent, morally perfect, and creator.
‘Leibniz was one of the last ‘universal men’ of the type which the Italian
Renaissance had ideally postulated: philosopher, historian, mathematician,
scientist, lawyer, librarian, and diplomat. In all these fields either his actual
achievements of his seminal suggestions have become part and parcel of
European thought’ (PMM 177).
Not in Ravier, who only records a Paris pirated edition for this year (Ravier 73);
OCLC lists copies at Toronto, Dresden, Mannheim,
Love Illustrated – Accompanied by Verse in Four Languages
56 [LEOPOLD, Joseph Friedrich.] Triumphus Amoris ...
oder: die über den gantzen Erd-Cräisz Triumphierende Liebe in
nachdencklichen Sinn-bildern neben sehr curiosen Lateinischen,
Italianischen, Französischen und Teutschen Bey-Sprüchen auch
kurzweiligen Versen fürgestellet. Augsburg, Joseph Friedrich
Leopold, Kupferstecher, 1695. £3,200
8vo, ll. 4 (engraved title, printed title in red and black, engraved dedication,
typographic dedication), ll. 44 engraved plates with 44 engraved
text pages, all printed on one side only and bound facing each other;
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contemporary calf over beech boards, very rubbed, with some surface
abrasions, joints worn, but holding; remains of spine decoration; internally
very clean and crisp.
First edition, rare, of a charming emblem book, which doubles as a foreign
language guide. Forty-five engraved plates show putti and winged angels
illustrate the triumph of love, from the power of love, sowing love, to blind
love, love showing off, causing heartbreak and jealousy accompanied by
poetic stanzas in four languages, Latin, Italian, French and German. The
charming engravings are bound opposite the descriptive text and clearly
illustrate the observations. According to Landwehr, Leopold’s engravings
have been derived from Emblemata amatoria (Amsterdam, ca 1690) with
German stanzas replacing the original Dutch ones.
VD17 1.084165H; Landwehr 598; Prax 517; see Graesse VI 2, 205 (for later
edition of 1698); Hayn/Gotendorf VII 711, characterises it as ‘tame’; very uncommon,
OCLC records copies in Germany only (Wolfenbüttel, Berlin, Rostock).
57 [LIVORNO – COMMERCIAL NEWS.] Bill of Entry.
Livorno, 4 October 1756 and Livorno, 13 December, 1756. £500
Two issues of the Livorno trade news, broadsides, printed on one side
only, measuring 297 x 88 mm, and 250 x 88 mm respectively.
Two examples of rare Livorno commercial and financial newspapers, which
apparently were published once a week. They are Bills of Entry, giving at the
head the date, followed by a listing of incoming cargo ships, giving their
origin, cargo, and occasionally captain. The lower part of the ‘newspaper’
gives a short list of exchange rates.
Apparently these ‘bills of entry’ were published regularly on single sheets
of paper, printed on one side only, and always about 80 mm wide. The
length varied depending on the amount of news to be published.
Livorno was one of the most important Italian commercial harbours since
the time of Medici. It was a free port and attracted a varied international
population. It was the principal port for the importation of foreign goods.
As the source of goods, the centre of trade and finance, it was also the centre
of an information network, which proffered the latest business news.
The amount of detail given on these ‘bills of entry’ is astonishing. A wide
variety of foodstuffs came into the city, such as salted mushrooms, fried &
marinated fish, grain, rice, lemons, tobacco, wine, etc. In some cases the
recipient is listed, in other cases the cargo was obviously to be sold portside
or to the highest bidder.
For further information see McCusker & Gravesteijn, The Beginnings of Commercial
and Financial Journalism, pp. 253–266.
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58 [LOEN, Johann Michael von.] Kräftige Mittel wider die
Herrsch- und Regiersucht denen bösen Weibern zum Neuen Jahr
geschenckt. Von Chrisolocosmopophilopax. [n.p., n.d.] [1748 or
1750]. £850
8vo, pp. 160; woodcut title vignette; quite browned throughout, due
to paper stock; uncut in contemporary wrappers.
First and only edition of this outspoken critique of women’s opinionated
and domineering behaviour, illustrated with numerous examples. Under
the guise of a humorous New Year’s gift, Loen produces a misogynist tract,
but admits the extremity of his views.
Loen (1694–1776), a highly educated and widely travelled government
official at the court of Frederick the Great, became the model of the wellread
and cultured nobleman, whose published works are generally characterised
by a tolerant and free spirit. He is also credited with having written
one of the first important political novels, with Der redliche Mann am Hofe,
where the honest and noble protagonist triumphs over adversity at court.
There seems to be some doubt as to the year of publication, both 1748
and 1750 have been suggested.
Hayn Gotendorf IV, 563; Holzmann-Bohatta 50; not in Goedeke; rare, OCLC
and KVK list copies at Göttingen, Munich and Berlin only.
Pros and Cons of the Lottery in the Eighteenth Century
59 [LOTTERY – SAMMELBAND.] L.J.N. Der nie unglückliche
Lottospieler, oder eine kurze Anweisung wie man mit Verstande in
die Lotterie spielen soll. Augsburg, Johann Georg Bullmann, 1784.
[bound with:] [ZWACKH, Franz Xaver.] Ueber das Lotto,
Träumereyen eines Wachenden zum Aufwecken der Schlafenden.
[Munich], [n.p.], 1784.
[bound with:] Luthers Wunsch ist erfüllet. Press-Burg, 1783.
Augsburg, Johann Georg Bullmann, 1784. £2,250
Three works bound in one volume, 8vo, pp. 30, [2] blank, with large
engraved title vignette; 119, [1] blank, [1] errata, [1] blank; 48; contemporary
two-colour pastepaper boards, head of spine chipped and
corners bumped, still a very good copy.
A charming Sammelband of two responses to the lottery craze of the late
eighteenth century. I. First and only edition of this attempt at analysing
lotteries to reduce the risk. Even though the anonymous author concedes
that lotteries are basically dependent on luck, he maintains that if the player
follows certain principles, he will increase the probability of winning and
reduce the risk of losing. After a brief discussion of various forms of lotteries,
he dismisses the annuities lottery in favour of the more ubiquitous
Genoa lottery. He analyses various habits of lottery addicts – either religiously
sticking to the same number for every draw, or covering too many
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numbers, or playing just before the draw – and gives advice on how to
maximise winnings. Those who lose money at lotteries he advises to see
themselves as patriots, since lotteries are state-run, the state’s coffers will
always benefit. The city of Augsburg had admitted lotteries with improved
rules in 1768.
II. First edition of this outspoken argument against playing the lottery,
part of the counter-movement forbidding lotteries, which was the result
of manipulation, abuse, fraud and criminal activities. The jurist Zwackh
(1756–1843), who is best known for his involvement in the Munich freemasons,
the Illuminaten, argues that the odds are always stacked against the
individual. With careful probability calculations he demonstrates how overoptimistic
lottery enthusiasts are, when they delude themselves into believing
they have a chance. He dismisses various strategies in playing lotto,
again with reference to the rules of probability. He gives some information
on the lotteries in different countries, and reports that lotteries are already
being outlawed in some parts of the country.
Both works are a clear indication of the persistent attraction of gambling
in society, providing the population with entertainment and excitement,
and the distant opportunity of becoming rich and happy.
I. OCLC locates just one copy at Berlin; II. Holzmann-Bohatta 6291, not found
in OCLC or KVK.
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Sexual Relations in Eighteenth Century France
60 MERAY, Chevalier de. Les Femmes, ou Lettres du Chevalier
de K*****. Au Marquis de ***. I–[II. Partie]. The Hague, [but
France, n.p.], 1754. £1,400
Two volumes in one, 8vo, pp. [vi, 118; [ii], 120; occasional inoffensive
brownstain to foremargin or lower corner, never affecting text; contemporary
full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine
label, head of spine chipped and short split to upper board, but firm;
still an attractive copy.
First edition of this account of sexual relations in mid-eighteenth century
France. In a series of fictional letters from an older mentor to a young man,
the Chevalier, drawing from his wide experience, minutely dissects the feminine
character, and offers detailed and intimate advice on the management
of sexual relations in mid-eighteenth century France.
The penultimate letter records that the Marquis has shown the correspondence
to a remarkable lady who recognized the description of her sex,
but missed any critical account of male psychology. The Chevalier therefore
concludes with an assessment of masculine motivations, illusions and follies.
While rejecting ‘conventional morality the Chevalier remains an optimistic
epicurean. Society may constrain and distort human nature, but having
mastered the rules of the ridiculous game, we may still pursue earthly
pleasures and find happiness’. This optimism ebbed away during the second
half of the eighteenth century and Meray’s analysis gave way to the dystopic
visions of the Liaisons Dangereuses and Justine.
Cioranescu 44434; Conlon 54: 877; OCLC locates copies at UCLA, Toronto,
Yale and Stanford.
Eighteenth Century Military Course – In the Original Parts
61 [MILITARY.] Programmes des Cours Révolutionnaires sur
l’Art Militaire, L’Administration Militaire, la Santé des Troupes
et les Moyens de la conserver. Faits aux Élèves de l’École de Mars,
depuis le 5 Fructidor jusqu’au 13 Vendémiaire, an troisième de la
République. Imprimés par ordre du Comité de Salut Public. Paris,
Comité de Salut Public, An 3, 1795. £1,250
4to, pp [ii], 4, [2], [2], 4, [2], 4, [2], 4, 4, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, [1]
blank, 3, [1] blank, 4,4, [2], 2, 2, 4, 3, [1] blank, 3, [1] blank, 4, 4, 7,
[1] blank, 4, 6, 4, 4, 4, 7, [1] blank, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8, 8; very clean and
crisp; contemporary green half vellum over pastepaper boards, spine
label lettered in manuscript; head and tail of spine chipped, and upper
joint beginning to crack at head; a very good copy.
First edition, very rare in the original parts, of the detailed French revolutionary
course on the military and military administration. This course
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was later re-issued in book form, but it is particularly appealing to have the
original issues, clearly hand-outs for the attendees of the military academy,
where the individual topics are presented like a power-point presentation.
The Ecole de Mars was founded in 1793 and was meant for the training of
the military cadres of the new Republic.
The first half of the publication contains fourteen lessons on military
science, including a historical section: warfare since the invention of gunpowder,
troup manoeuvres, encampments, and fortification amongst others.
The second half concentrates on military administration, and covers
subjects as wide-ranging as procurement of supplies, technical equipment,
food and clothing, with detailed information on necessary amounts, cost,
and allowance for wear and tear (uniforms for the infantry were to last
three years in peacetime, one year in wartime, with a realistic life expectancy
of just six months). Very detailed figures are given for food supplies and
rations, and general food production for the country, with advice on agriculture.
Chapters on encampment and troup movements detail necessary
supplies for tents etc., followed by equipment for the artillery, again with
detailed figures. Army pay and army hospitals with their organisation are
also covered. The final classes are more general, dealing in a more academic
manner with food production, agriculture, fabric technology, leather work,
mines and metals, arms production, and finally army organisation and discipline.
The concluding chapter concentrates on the health of soldiers and
how to preserve it, how to fend off contagious diseases, and how, in general,
to maintain adequate standards of health and hygiene.
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To accommodate the increasing part played by science, technology, and
organization in warfare, the training course started to include scientific,
technical, and general subjects, and can thus be seen as precursor to the later
Ecole Polytechnique.
OCLC records two copies of the book edition (not in parts) at the Society of the
Cincinnati and the University of Chicago.
History of Italian Trade Fairs
62 MONTI, Gioacchino. Notizie storiche sull’Origine delle Fieri
dello Stato Ecclesiastico. Dell’utilità delle medesime, dei privilegi ad
esse accordati dai Sommi Pontefici, del giorno e durata della loro
celebrazione, a cui vanno unite tutte le nozioni generali di quelle
che sono stabilite in Italia, ed in Europa. Rome, Giuseppe Salviucci,
1828. £400
8vo, steel engraved portrait frontispiece portrait by Tosetti, pp. [iv],
91, [1] imprint, [4] blank; occasional light spotting; contemporary
calf-backed marbled boards, flat spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label;
from the library of Sacchetti, with bookplate to front pastedown; an attractive
copy.
First edition of this interesting study of the emergence of trade fairs in the
Papal States and other countries. Of particular interest is the comparative
analysis of the effect these trade fairs had on economic and technological
development. After a brief historical section, describing the fairs of Frankfurt
and other European countries, Monti deals in more detail with the
fairs held in Ascoli, Cesena, Faenza, Fermo, Lugo, Ravenna, Senigallia, and
Viterbo. In each case the date of the first fair is given, together with some
historical information on the town, followed by details of length and frequency
and special emphasis of the fair. Some of the earlier fairs described
deal with agricultural products etc. rather than industrial exhibits.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 25739A.4; Einaudi, 4002; not in Mattioli.
The Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française
63 MORELLET, André. Observations sur un ouvrage anonyme,
intitulé: Remarques morales, philosophiques et grammaticales sur le
Dictionnaire de l’Academie Française. Paris, l’Institution des Sourds-
Muets, 1807. £200
8vo, pp. [iv], 79; recent buff wrappers.
First and only edition of Morellet’s spirited and detailed response to Feydel’s
criticism of the new edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française.
The fifth edition had been practically ready for the press when the Revolution
broke out and the Académie was suppressed. The manuscripts were
preserved, thanks largely to Morellet and publication was eventually un-
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dertaken by the Comité de l’Instruction Publique, in 1798. The pro-revolutionary
standpoint met with widespread opposition, especially because
the dictionary included some of the politically charged terminology of the
revolution. Even though Morellet himself was not in favour of including
the more extreme propaganda phrases of the French Revolution, he defends
the Dictionnaire against the more robust accusations by Feydel, who
complained about the large number of lower class expressions included in
the dictionary. Morellet analyses each of his complaints and gives his definitions
of the terms in question.
Cioranescu 47356.
Adam Smith Criticized
64 MÜLLER, Adam Heinrich. Die Elemente der Staatskunst.
Oeffentliche Vorlesungen vor Sr. Durchlaucht dem Prinzen
Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar und einer Versammlung von
Staatsmännern und Diplomaten, im Winter von 1808 auf 1809, zu
Dresden, gehalten... Erster Theil, Mit einer Kupfertafel [– Dritter
Theil mit einer Kupfertafel]. Berlin, J. D. Sander, 1809. £2,800
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 298, 1 plate; [ii], 375, 1
plate (pagination irregular, jumps from 366 to 369; [ii], 328, 1 plate
(pagination irregular, jumps from 323 to 326); irregular pagination,
but complete; very occasional light spotting and browning, else very
clean; recent dark green morocco, spine in compartments, with giltlettered
spine label, and numbering directly to spine, gilt dentelles; preserved
in a custom-made cloth box; a fine copy with book plate to front
free endpaper and faint contemporary ownership inscription to title.
First edition of the main contribution by the ‘most important political
economist of the German Romantic school. A central element in Müller’s
thinking was the organic unity of society and state. The society and its
economy constitute an organic totality which is more than the sum of the
economies of its individual members. This totality is represented by the
state, which is an end in itself (book I). Thus he opposed the economic
theories of Adam Smith and his successors, particularly their abstract and
isolated understanding of the individual and their emphasis on self-interest.
He also criticized Smith’s merely materialist notion of national wealth and
formulated a concept of spiritual capital encompassing cultural values and
the state of the sciences (books IV and V)’ (Hermann Reich in New Palgrave).
Like Fichte, Müller requested economic self-sufficiency as an important
means of strengthening national unity. Müller can be seen as an
early critic of capitalism, which he considered a threat to the viability of the
absolute state. He objected to free enterprise, competition and free trade
as violating the ideal of a self-sufficient and independent state. His writings
were ignored in the second half of the nineteenth century, but were
subsequently much appreciated by the members of the historical school of
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economics, such as Roscher and Knies, and rediscovered by the Viennese
economist Othmar Spann, who derived some of his ‘universalistic’ social
philosophy from Müller’s writings.
Müller (1779–1829) was a diplomat in Austrian service, and a distinguished
writer not only on politics and economics, but also on literature.
He can be seen as the most vocal representative of the reaction against
Adam Smith’s liberal views, and not only combated Smith’s ideas in print
but also did his best to frustrate the appointment of a follower of Smith at
the university of Berlin, newly founded in 1809.
Humpert 1059; Kress B5552; Menger c 87; not in Einaudi or Goldsmiths’.
Printing of Silhouettes and the Use of the Pantograph
65 [MÜLLER, Friedrich Christoph.] Beschreibung der Bou-
Magie oder Kunst Schattenrisse auf eine leichte und sichere Art zu
vervielfältigen. Münster and Hamm, Philipp Heinrich Perrenon,
1780.
[bound with:] Beschreibung eines sehr einfachen zur Verjüngung der
Schattenrisse dienenden Storchschnabels, den sich jeder Liebhaber
selbst verfertigen kann. Münster and Hamm, Philipp Heinrich
Perrenon, 1780. £1,850
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. 40, with one folding engraved plate
showing instrument and silhouette, with engraved title vignette; 59,
with two large folding engraved plates with 7 and 5 figures respectively,
engraved title vignette; contemporary blue paste-paper covered boards,
spine chipped; book plate of Thomas Stettner (1900) to front pastedown
and early ownership inscription in ink reading D. Beringer front
free endpaper.
First edition of this detailed guide to the reproduction of silhouettes or
shadow images. Müller describes a device of his own invention, using tin
plate, which he pours into a prepared form with the outline of the silhouette.
Final adjustment can be made with the help of a file or similar instruments,
and then, when it has been sufficiently inked, a large number of
images can be ‘printed’ from it, on dampened paper. Müller describes a
number of different recipes for the ink and pays particular attention to the
process of removing excess ink, for perfect reproduction. The press used is
of the most basic design, consisting of some padding and a simple roller.
The second work contains a well-illustrated guide to the Storchenschnabel
or pantograph, the instrument used in making silhouettes, or portrait profiles.
The pantograph was used to copy the shadow image and reduce its
size at the same time. One arm of the pantograph contained a small pointer
while the other held a drawing implement, and by moving the pointer over
a diagram, a copy of the diagram was drawn on another piece of paper. By
changing the positions of the arms in the linkage between the pointer arm
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and drawing arm, the scale of the image produced can be changed. The
large folding plate shows the pantograph in use.
Silhouettes became popular in the eighteenth century as a cheaper alternative
to full miniature portaits, and were, before photography, the cheapest
way of recording a person’s likeness. Lavater, who used them to analyse
facial types is thought to have contributed to their popularity.
These two works have mistakenly been attributed to Jacob von Döhren,
which seems unlikely, as the author refers to von Döhren in his introduction.
This attribution has also been refuted by Kippenberg on the basis of a
number of review articles on the technique of the silhouette.
The work was popular, was reprinted anonymously three times by 1788.
For a full account see Kippenberg, ‘Die Technik der Silhouette’, in Jahrbuch
der Sammlung Kippenberg, 1, 1921.
I. Kippenberg I, p. 168, 10; Holzmann-Bohatta I, 5730 (Doehren) and VII, 61
(Mueller); see Engelmann 257 for 3rd edition; OCLC locates just one copy, at St.
Louis Public Library; II. Kippenberg p. 168, 12, Holzmann-Bohatta I, 5886 and
VII, 1514.
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Charity Extravaganza – in Fancy Dress
66 [MUSICAL FESTIVAL.] An account of the Manchester
Musical Festival, 1828, containing the names of the patrons and
committee, a report of the oratorios and concerts, and a list of the
principal and instrumental performers; with a description of the
characters who attended the Grand Fancy Dress Ball. Manchester,
T. Sowler, 1828. £550
8vo, pp. 120 including frontispiece, with two folding plates outside the
pagination and a whole-page text figure; original green cloth with giltlettered
morocco spine label by J. Winstanley of Manchester with his
ticket on front pastedown; a very good copy.
First edition, rare, of this account of the musical extravaganza and grand
fancy dress ball in Manchester – all in aid of charity – supported and patronised
by the great and the good. The Account provides a detailed insight
in to both the planning, the sponsorship and the execution of the four-day
festival, which culminated in the Grand Fancy Dress Ball. The names of
approximately 3500 party-goers are listed with a description of their costumes,
ranging from military uniforms, Roman costumes, characters from
plays or operas, to Swiss peasants, flower girls, various royalty (including
Napoleon), Turkish and Chinese dress etc. In some cases more detailed
notes are given, such as ‘Fraser George, jun., as a Moor of Tunis, in a dress
brought from that country; a correct representation, in every particular, of
the costume of those descendants of the western Saracenes’.
The illustrations show a view of the orchestra, Manchester Collegiate
Church, the Ground Plan of the Ball-Rooms and a View of the Refreshment
Rooms.
Not in OCLC, Copac records copies a the John Rylands Library and the BL.
Russian Naval and Harbour Legislation
67 [NAVY – RUSSIA.] Instruction pour les capitaines de
Vaisseaux qui fréquentent les Ports de Russie. St. Petersburg,
l’Imprimerie du Département du Commerce Extérieure, 1829. £750
8vo, pp. [iv], 99, [1] blank; original blue wrappers; a little dog-eared
and small chip to spine, else fine.
First and only edition, very rare, of this legal handbook for naval captains
entering Russian harbours. In twenty-five chapters Russian naval and harbour
legislation is outlined, including customs formalities, taxation, necessary
papers, inspection of the ship by customs officials, unloading and
loading, and supply with provisions etc. Some goods may be sold freely
by the captain, most other ones need to go through official channels. The
responsibility of the captain for orderly behaviour of his crew and compliance
with the law of the land is emphasised throughout.
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Special provisions are made for smuggled goods, or goods either not listed
on customs declarations or listed, but not present during inspection. The
captain is liable for a fine and has to provide necessary paperwork within 24
hours. Failing to comply with this law, the ship will be impounded. Special
rules apply to shipwrecks and goods rescued from shipwrecks.
The publication was clearly meant for practical use, with an extra column
included on every page for notes. This might account for its rarity.
Not in Katalog Russica; not found in KVK; OCLC lists two copies at UC San
Diego and UC SRLF of the 1835 edtion, which is apparently an entirely different
work.
Early Italian Lady Traveller
68 PERRINO, Matilde. Lettera di Matilde Perrino ad un suo
amico nella quale si contengono alcune sue riflessioni fatte in
occasione del suo breve viaggio per alcuni luoghi della Puglia.
Naples, Simoniana, 1787. £1,050
12mo, pp. 89, [1] blank, 6; title vignette, decorative initial and headpiece;
occasional light browning and spotting; printed on strong paper;
contemporary full vellum over boards, corners bumped; with engraved
book label ‘Biblioteca de Rossi’ to front pastedown.
A charming and highly unusual eighteenth century travel report to Puglia,
written by a young woman of noble birth. Travelling in an area, which
according to popular belief was both backward and dangerous, Matilde
Perrino decided to accompany her father, a Royal Councillor. She reports
from Bari, its local products, such as almonds, olives and in particular wine.
Impressed by the high temperatures in summer, and the lack of rainfall,
which jeopardises the harvest of fruit and wine, she suggests beekeeping as
an alternative form of income.
She comments extensively on the city of Bari, which she judges ‘mediocremente
bella’, even though she admires many of its churches and palazzos.
But her description becomes more lively when she reports on the local
population. She praises the local women, who behave with decency and
elegance. In general she objects to prejudice against the Southern provinces
of Italy, like Puglia, and views her surroundings with disarming curiosity.
Her descriptions are clearly based on her own impressions, and seem particularly
adept at characterising the working population. She is less impressed
with the noble families. Throughout she makes suggestions at the material
improvement of life in Puglia and proposes the organisation of charitable
institutions to improve the life of the poor.
For a detailed analysis see preface to modern edition.
Not found in OCLC.
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Food and Drink – Natural History, Preparation and
Qualities of Food Stuffs
69 PISANELLI, Baldassare. Trattato della Nature de Cibi
et del Bere... Nel quale non solo tutte le virtù, & i vitij di quelli
minutamente si palesano; ma anco i rimedij per correggere i loro
difetti copiosamente s’insegnano: tanto nell’ apparecchiarli per l’uso,
quanto nell’ordinare il modo di riceverli. Distinto in un vago, e
bellisimo partimento, tutto ripieno della dottrina de’ piu celebrati
Medici, & Filosofi: con molte belle Historie Naturali. Venice,
Giovanni Battista Porta, 1584. £2,750
4to, pp. [viii], [ii] blank,1- 144, 155–162, (vere 152); printed throughout
within a woodcut border; woodcut title vignette, illustrated initial
and head-piece; barely noticeable repair to blank margin of title page;
contemporary full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; ties lacking; a
fine copy.
First public edition, uncommon, of this very early cookery and gastronomy
book, only preceded by a privately printed folio edition of 1583 published
in Rome. Baldassare Pisanelli describes the natural history, the usages, the
qualities of fruits (such as apples, strawberries, grapes etc.) and vegetables
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(such as mushrooms, artichokes, carrots, fennel, cucumbers etc.), liqueurs,
meats, game, fish, milk, cheese etc., and gives detailed information of the
conditions under which such food and drink should be used. The information
is laid out in a very attractive form for easy reference. Two types of
food are described per page-opening within a woodcut border. In each case
sub-headings are given in the left-hand margin, detailing selection of the
food stuff, benefits, its detrimental effects, its medicinal properties, and the
time of year when they are available or best used. On the opposite page the
natural history of each item is described. There is a special section devoted
exclusively to wine, with its various types and usage.
Pisanelli (fl. 1559–1583), a medical doctor from Bologna, became famous
on the strength of this book, which went through numerous subsequent
editions until the mid seventeenth century.
B.IN.G. 1498; BM STC Italian p. 521; Cagle 1168; Horn-Arndt 72; Simon Bibliotheca
Bacchica II.507; Simon Bibliotheca Gastronomica 1171; Vicaire 682 (listing
this edition as the first); Westbury, p. 173; uncommon, OCLC lists just three copies
of this edition (UCLA, University of Indiana, National Library of Medicine),
together with two copies of the first edition (DLC, University of Iowa).
70 PLANCY, Adrien Comte de. L’Administration de l’Agriculture
appliquée à un Exploitation. Paris, Mme Huzard, 1822. £650
Folio (437 x 280 mm), pp. 86, [1], one folding table in the text, part of
the pagination; some light foxing, due to paper stock; a very good copy
in contemporary paste-paper covered boards; discreet repairs to spine;
extremities a little rubbed; a good copy.
First edition of this application of strict accounting practices to the running
of an agricultural business. De Plancy attempts to express the wide-ranging
activities, expenses and income of an agricultural estate in the form of tables
to provide the necessary information for clear accounting.
No detail is too small, no expense too minor to be represented in his
immensely detailed tables. All activities of the farmer and his labourers are
represented, arranged both by subject and month of the year. Sample tables
are provided for the reader to continue the accounting exercise. In the
second half a five year trial account is given, followed by a table recording
the averaged prices for both agricultural products and labour for the early
1820s. Interestingly construction workers are included just as much as seasonal
workers, and thus a very detailed cross section of workers’ salaries is
given. Common prices of products are also included. A further table deals
with common ailments of farm animals, their causes and remedies, based
on various veterinary manuals, especially that of Tessier.
Of particular interest is a comparative table of agricultural income for the
farmer and larger landowner in five and ten year periods.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 23489.12; rare, OCLC list just the Harvard copy.
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Lithography Explained
71 [RAUCOURT de CHARLEVILLE, Antoine.] A Manual of
Lithography or Memoir on the Lithographical Experiments made
in Paris, at the Royal School of the Roads and Bridges; clearly
explaining the whole Art, as well as all the Accidents that may
happen in printing, and the different Methods of avoiding them.
Translated from the French by C. Hullmandel, Second Edition.
London, Rodwell and Martin, 1821. £900
8vo, pp. xix, 138, 2 folding lithograph plates, [2] advertisements; occasional
light foxing, especially in first two signatures; uncut in the original
boards, covered in paper; a good copy.
Second edition in English (first 1820) of this major introduction to lithographic
printing in the translation by Hullmandel, who was most influential
in the development of lithography in England. Hullmandel’s preface
contains a brief history of lithographic printing, from the moment that Senefelder
took out the patent for his invention. Raucourt’s treatise outlines
the principles of lithographic printing, the preparation of inks, both black
and various colours, the tools and presses, instructions for draughtsmen
and printers, and the application of lithography. He describes the presses
utilised, which are illustrated on the final plates.
Lithographic printing in France was overshadowed by the competition
between Lasteyrie and Englemann, who both intended to keep the printing
method secret. The Royal School of Roads and Bridges established
a lithographic press and proceeded to popularise the art. One of the first
students was Hullmandel, who here presents his translation of Raucourt’s
treatise. Most interestingly he gives a detailed account of possible problems,
and how to resolve them, such as lines forming, weak impressions, etc.
Raucourt concludes with an analytical comparison between lithographic
printing and engraving, together with a cost assessment, which shows lithographic
printing to be far more economical.
Bigmore & Wyman, II, p. 240; Twyman, Lithography, pp. 110–114.
In Praise of the French Language
72 RIVAROL, Antoine de. Dissertations sur l’Universalité de
la Langue Françoise, qui ont partagé le Prix adjugé par l’Académie
Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres le 3 Juin, MDCCLXXXIV.
Berlin, George Jacques Decker, Imprimeur du Roi, 1784.
[bound with:] SCHWAB, Jean Christophe. Dissertation sur
l’Universalité de la Langue Françoise. Beantwortung der von der
Könglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin fürs Jahr 1784
aufgegebenen Preisfrage: Was ist es, das die Französische Sprache zu
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einer Universalsprache in Europa gemacht hat. Wodurch verdient
sie diesen Vorzug? Ist zu vermuthen, daß sie ihn behalten werde?
Berlin, Decker, 1784. £1,800
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. [ii], 52; 87; uncut, title page dustsoiled
with some staining, two tears to lower margin strengthened
from verso, signatures B and C of the second work with some marginal
damp-staining; recent marbled boards, with printed label to spine and
upper boards; small unidentified heraldic stamp to verso of title.
First edition, very rare, of Rivarol’s prize-winning essay on the universality
of the French language, published by the Berlin Academy of Sciences,
together with Schwab’s essay on the same question. Concise, brilliant, and
aphoristic, this celebration of the glory of the French language is included
in even the briefest history of the French language and has served as an indicator
for the pride the French take in their language and culture. Rivarol
maintained that there was no need to look further for a universal language,
as French already possessed all the necessary characteristics. In a sweeping
overview he condenses centuries of French linguistic history and celebrates
French culture.
Umberto Eco sums up his main points: ‘Apart from its intrinsic perfection,
French was already an international language; it was the language
most diffused in the world, so much that is was possible to speak of the
‘French world’ just as, in antiquity, one could speak of the ‘Roman world’.
According to Rivarol, French possessed a phonetic system that guaranteed
sweetness and harmony, as well as a literature incomparable in its richness
and grandeur; ... In comparison with French all other languages paled: German
was too guttural, Italian too soft, Spanish to redundant, English too
obscure. Rivarol attributed the superiority of French to its word order: first
subject, then verb, and last object. This word order mirrored a natural logic
which was in accordance with the requirements of common sense’. Rivarol
condenses his arguments in great aphoristic style: ‘Ce qui n’est pas clair,
n’est pas français’.
Rivarol (1754–1801), a man of letters, journalist and pamphleteer, was
celebrated in Paris for his learning, wit, and brilliant conversation. He left
France during the French revolution, stayed briefly in England, where he
was respectfully received by Pitt and Burke, in spite of his dismissive remarks
on English language and literature. He later moved to Hamburg,
where he composed his ‘Discours préliminaire du nouveau dictionnaire de la
langue française’ in 1797, an attempt to present the human mind through
the evolution of language, particularly the French language.
The first edition of this work is very rare, it was reprinted the same year
with a Berlin and Paris imprint (à Berlin, et se trouve à Paris, chez Baily et
Dessenne) with a further edition following in 1797.
En Français dans le Texte 177; Cioranescu 53293; Tchemerzine IX, p. 103 (mistakenly
listing the second issue as the original); OCLC lists just one copy at the
Boston Athenaeum, RLIN adds just microfilms; see Umberto Eco, The search for
the perfect language, 1995.
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Modern Approach to Economic Decisions: The Politically Feasible
instead of the Economically Sensible
73 [ROSSI, Augustin-Joseph-Louis-Philippe de.] Considérations
sur les Principes Politiques de mon Siecle et sur la Nécessité
indispensable d’une Morali-Politique. À l’Occasion de l’Ouvrage
intitulé: Sur la Législation et le Commerce des Grains. Et Éxamen
Analytique de quelques Passages principaux de cet Ouvrage.
London, A. Grant, 1776. £1,000
8vo, pp. 276, [3] errata, contents, [1] blank, [8] observations; printed
mostly in double columns; some light spotting and foxing at beginning
and end; contemporary full mottled calf, spine decoratively gilt, with
gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed, and corners bumped;
still a good copy.
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First and only edition of a curious work, a close reading and analysis of
salient points of Necker’s Sur la Législation et le Commerce des Grains. To facilitate
the argument, Rossi has the text printed in double columns, so that
Necker’s original and Rossi’s commentary can be viewed side by side. Rossi
is particularly interested in the political implications of economic decisions,
and maintains that the free trade in grain is a political decision, rather than
a purely economic one.
The work is of particular interest in that it marks the beginning of a modern
approach to economic decisions, identifying the politically feasible, as
opposed to the purely economically sensible. Necker’s text is only taken as
a starting point for Rossi’s observations on political economy and economic
decisions.
Rossi concludes with his ‘Observations touchant la lecture de cet ouvrage ‘,
apparently lacking in the INED copy, and gives brief guidelines on how to
read the book, which sections are essential, and which ones can be skipped
by readers in a particular hurry.
Barbier I, 725; INED 3913 (lacking the ‘observations’); Goldsmiths’–Kress 11389
(microfilm only); uncommon, OCLC lists copies at the university of Kansas and
Texas.
74 [SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine and H. BASSIN DE
PREFORT.] Dictionnaire des Origines, Découvertes, Inventions
et Établissemens; ou Tableau Historique de l’origine & des progrès
de tout ce qui a rapport aux Sciences & aux Arts; aux Modes & aux
Usages, anciens & modernes; aux differens Etats, Dignités, Titres
ou Qualités; & généralement à tout ce qui peut être utile, curieux
& intéressant pour toutes les classes de Citoyens. Par une Société de
Citoyens. Paris, Moutard, 1777. £600
Three volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, 572; [iv], 700; [iv], 642, [2]; contemporary
marbled calf, spines richly gilt with raised bands, contrasting
labels lettered in gilt, marbled edges, a fine set from the library of Pierre
Chollet-Beaufort, with bookplates to all three volumes.
First edition. An attractive copy of this interesting French science and social
science dictionary – quite obviously an outcome of the encyclopaedia
craze of the time – on inventions and developments, charting the history
and progress of mankind, or as written in the preface: l’Histoire de l’esprit
humain. The authors set out to describe both physical and spiritual progress
covering the fields of history, natural history, physics, metaphysics, mathematics
and liberal and mechanical arts.
Cioranescu 57972; Conlon 77:1471.
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Spanish Investment in the Colonies
75 SANTA CRUZ de MARCENADO, Alvaro Navia Ossorio
Marques de. Comercio suelto, y en Companias general y particular,
en Mexico, Peru, Philipinas, y Moscovia: Poblacion, Fabricas,
Pesqueria, Plantios, Colonias en Africa: Empleo de Pobres, y de
Vagabundos: Y otras ventajas, que son faciles à la Espana con los
medios aqui propuestos, extractados, ò commentados. Madrid,
Antonio Marin, 1732. £1,400
Small 8vo, pp. [xvi], 256; woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials;
contemporary full vellum, with the original ties and ebony buttons,
manuscript lettering to spine; a very attractive and fresh copy.
First edition, uncommon, of an interesting treatise on Spanish economics
by Navia Ossorio, Marques Santa Cruz de Marcenado, written in the
form of a dialogue between the author and a friend. Basically the work is a
plea for the improvement of economic infrastructure to counteract Spain’s
weakened position, and at the same time an attempt to encourage investment
in trading companies and colonial trade. Investment is particularly
targeted for South America and Africa.
In eight chapters a detailed reform and investment program is outlined,
some of it similar to proposals by Ustariz. He proposes the standardisation
of weights, measures and the currency; the improvement of roads,
canals and bridges; the suppression of internal tariffs; the reduction of tax
on merchandise imported from foreign countries, and the protection of all
skilled craftsmen who wish to operate from Spain. Santa Cruz de Marcenado
voices his opposition to any trade restrictions and is much in favour
of commercial companies. He also deals with social questions, such as relief
programs for the poor and unemployed. Details of a company of the Spanish
Indies is given, and some interesting comments on the slave trade are
also included.
Santa Cruz de Marcenado (1684–1732) had earlier published an extensive
military treatise under the title Reflexiones Militares, and some of the military
imagery and vocabulary are noticeable here too. He begins with the maxim,
that in war – just like in economics – three things are necessary: ‘money, money,
money’. To protect free trade rather draconian measures are proposed.
Smuggling, for example, is to be met with the death penalty.
Colmeiro 354; Goldsmiths’–Kress 6980.6 (lacking the half-title); Palau 188832.
Riddles for Every Day
76 [SANTUCCI, Leone.] Enimmi di Caton l’Uticense Luchese.
Venice, Andrea Poletti n.d., [ca. 1690]. £650
12mo, pp. 144, [8]; woodcut cipher to title, small decorative device to
foot of every page; faint dampstain to lower corner of last signature;
contemporary vellum, extremities worn and bent; old shelf label to
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spine; early illegible ownership inscription to front free endpaper and
title page.
Second edition (?) of Santucci’s riddling sonnets, which first appeared in
1689 and were reprinted numerous times until the middle of the eighteenth
century. Caton l’Uticense Luchese is the pseudonym of Leone Santucci
(1636–1724), a priest from Lucca keen to preserve his anonymity. In this
second or third edition the solutions to the riddles are also given in an additional
final section with a separate title page. Different from some of his
contemporaries Santucci’s riddles concentrated on literary allusion rather
than double entendre. They were mostly meant as literary exercises rather
than for public consumption, and in subject matter cover the both the
learned and the popular, ranging from ‘books’ to ‘fungus’.
This is apparently the second edition. The first was published with a date
in 1689, the third and fourth editions are apparently thus identified on the
title, but also published without a date.
Melzi I, 188; see Giuseppe Aldo Rossi, Enigmistica, il Gioco agli Enigmi del albero
ai giorni nostri; 2001, pp. 113 ff. and Mark Bryant, Dictionary of Riddles, 1988, p.
50.
Comprehensive Introduction to Papermaking
77 SEEBASS, Christian Ludwig. Die Papiermacher- Kunst in
ihrem ganzen Umfang; aus dem französischen Original des Herrn
Desmarest, Oberaufseher über die Manufakturen; bearbeitet und
mit einigen Zusätzen, und einem Anhang über die neuesten dahin
gehörigen Erfindungen und Verbesserungen versehen. Mit 16
Kupfern. Leipzig, Baumgärtner, [1803.] £2,500
4to, pp. iv, 191 [1] blank, with 16 engraved throw-out plates on 15
sheets (two of the plates folding); slight foxing to title, else clean and
just very lightly browned, due to paper stock; tear to gutter margin
of B1; contemporary half sheep over dark marbled boards, flat spine
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; short split to lower joint, but
strong; extremities a little rubbed and endpapers browned; a good copy.
First edition of this German translation of the classic work on papermaking
by Desmarest, published in 1788 in the Encyclopédie méthodique (volume V,
463–592). Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815) was a member of the Academy
of Sciences and inspector general of manufactures in France. In the
1760s he had been sent to Holland to investigate methods of papermaking
employed there to improve the French paper industry. His first report was
published in 1774, to be revised and expanded in the 1788 edition.
Seebass gives a comprehensive account of all aspects of papermaking,
beginning with a brief history of papermaking, including Chinese and Japanese
developments. He then describes the process of papermaking from the
collection and sorting of rags to beating and the preparation of pulp, the
work of the vatman, to drying and pressing of the paper. Various further
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processes, such as sizing are described and all are illustrated on the sixteen
engraved plates. This German version is of particular importance because
of its extensive supplement (pp. 157–191), which contains translations of
recent articles on papermaking by Loysel, Cunningham, Bigg, Campell,
Chaptal and Benjamin Franklin, especially on the question of bleaching.
Further chapters deal with making paper from straw and other materials
(with reference to Koops), and with Benjamin Franklin’s proposal for making
large sheets of paper Chinese style.
The fine engraved plates show various stages of papermaking and give
extensive details of the machinery involved.
IBP 750; see Hunter, The Literature of Papermaking p. 42 for Desmarest.
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First Dublin Edition
78 SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects... to which
is prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by
Dugald Stewart. Dublin, Wogan, Byrne, 1795. £1,600
8vo, pp. cxxiii, [1] blank, 332; contemporary marbled calf, gilt rules to
spine, gilt-lettered red roan spine label; short splits to joints, corners a
little bumped; an attractive copy.
First Dublin edition, published the same year as the London edition,
of Smith’s posthumously published works. These essays, which Smith
had left in manuscript form with friends, were written throughout
his career, the article on astronomy being one of his earliest works.
They had been withheld from publication since Smith had planned
to write a connected history of the liberal sciences and the elegant
arts. The essays cover philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of
sciences.
Stewart’s Life, taken from the Transactions of the Royal Society, is here first
published in book form.
Vanderblue p. 43.
Striking Engravings in Blue and Sienna
79 [SOLDINI, Francesco Maria.] De Anima Brutorum;
Commen taria Curiosum nobii Natura ingenium dedit. Seneca
de Vita Beata Cap. 32. [colophon:] Florence, Cajetan Cambiagus,
1776. £3,200
Tall 8vo, pp. engraved title printed in blue, [ii], 256, with 8 engraved
plates printed in sienna, one of them bound as a frontispiece, and seven
historiated initials printed in blue or sienna; printed throughout within
a decorative rococo border; paper repair to a few marginal wormholes,
engraved title a little dust-soiled, and one plate in a rather weak impression;
contemporary pattern paper boards, rebacked and corners bumped
and a little worn; still an attractive copy.
First edition of a charming work which combines mythology, animal psychology,
zoology, evolution and creationism. Published nearly a century
before Darwin’s theory of evolution, Soldini’s De Anima Brutorum was
deemed unacceptable and was put on the Index.
The main attraction of the work, however, lies in its curious engravings
and historiated initials, printed in blue and sienna. The plates, all printed in
sienna, depict bizarre prehistoric creatures and all manner of animals, including
a rhinoceros (clearly based on Dürer), shellfish and amphibians invading
the land from the sea, and birds and mammals, including an elephant and a
hairy ape with distinctly human features. The plates are in strong impressions.
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There are apparently also issues where the plates are printed in blue. The
historiated initials have landscape backgrounds and mostly feature human
figures.
Brunet, V, 427; New York Public Library (Spencer Collection, II, p. 431).
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Statutes of one of the Earliest Minerological Societies
80 [ST. PETERSBURG.] Statuten der im Jahre 1817 am 7ten
Januar gestifteten und am 12ten Jun von Sr. Kaiserlichen Majestät
Alexander I. Selbstherrscher aller Reussen etc. etc. etc. allerhöchst
bestätigten Gesellschaft für die gesammte Mineralogie in St.
Petersburg, nebst einem Verzeichnisse der Stifter dieser Gesellschaft.
St. Petersburg, M. C. Iversen, 1817. £850
8vo, pp. 20, stitched as issued; very clean and crisp.
First edition of the founding statutes of one of the earliest minerological societies,
the St Petersburg Gesellschaft für die Gesammte Mineralogie, founded
in 1817. The aim of the society was to promote the study of mineralogy
and the exchange of ideas between scientists, but also to educate the general
public in the science and further mineralogical exploitation.
The statutes give the general structure, membership selection, the responsibilities
of members, be they local members, general Russian members,
or foreign members, and membership fees. Meetings were to be held
every other week, the language of debate was to be German, but by general
consent individual contributions could also be in French or Russian. In
addition to an exchange of ideas, the main aim of the Society was to form
a number of mineralogical collections, illustrating the chemistry, crystal
structure, and physical properties of minerals, their origin and geographical
distribution, and their utilisation. This was to be supplemented by the
formation of a scientific library and a collection of scientific instruments. All
active members were to be free to use these collections.
The statutes conclude with a list of the founding members. The Society
still exists today, under the title Russian Mineralogical Society.
See Schuh, Mineralogy 2974 for first Russian edition of the same year; OCLC and
KVK list just one copy in Göttingen.
Neutral Nations in Time of War
81 STALPH, Joseph Abraham. Juristische Abhandlung über
einige Rechte und Verbindlichkeiten neutraler Nazionen in Zeiten
des Krieges. Würzburg, Franz Ernst Nitribitt, 1791. £650
8vo, xiv, 82; contemporary gilt paper wrappers, a.e.g.
First and only edition of this juridical disputation on the question of rights
and obligations of neutral nations in times of war. Stalph begins with a brief
critique of earlier writers on neutrality and impartiality, such as Grotius,
Besold, Pufendorf, up to Galiani before summarising the basic principles
and consequences of neutrality in the eighteenth century. He discusses the
question whether allies can be forced out of neutrality by war-faring associates,
whether humanitarian reasons can force a sovereign to abandon
neutrality, or whether a sovereign whose close relation is participating in an
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armed conflict can decide to remain neutral and expect to be respected as a
neutral party. The concluding chapters deal with the question of trade and
commerce of neutral nations in times of war, Stalph maintains that certain
restrictions of the war-faring nations will have to be observed in addition to
strict neutrality to maintain trade lines during times of conflict.
The examiner was Aloys Samhaber, professor of law at Würzburg university.
Not in van den Dungen, From Erasmus to Tolstoy, the Peace Literature of Four Centuries;
OCLC records copies at the National Library of Scotland, Peace Palace Library,
Utrecht and Munich.
Guild Rules in Brescia
82 [STATUTES – BRESCIA.] Statuti della Mercanzia di Brescia
e suo Distetto con Aggiunta della Versione Italiana del Latino Testo,
non che di Ducali, Decreti, e Giudizj concernenti Privilegj della
detta Mercanzia e delle Parti e Provisioni relative al Governo della
Medesima il tutto arricchito di accurate Tavole, e d’Indice copiose
dell Materie. Brescia, Bossini, 1788. £1,200
4to, pp. xvi, 254; engraved head- and tail-pieces; mostly printed in double
columns; contemporary boards, spine lettered in manuscript; corners
a little bumped and some light dust-soiling to boards; a fine copy.
First edition thus of the rules and regulations governing trade and commerce
in the city and province of Brescia. The statutes are of particular interest in
that they include the rules of the guilds, amongst these training, poor relief
and detailed commercial procedure. Accounting procedures are prescribed,
and special measures are taken by the authorities to punish fraudulent dealings
and recover bad debts. The property of merchants who have defaulted
on their loans and have left town is to be distributed amongst the creditors.
Their immediate family is equally responsible for repayment. Very strict
provisions are made that government officials are not actively involved in
trade or commerce, to assure fair dealings
In the second part all the relevant legislation is reprinted, beginning with
the statutes first approved in October of 1429, and containing all amendments
and decrees up to 1787. A final very detailed general index extending
to some thirty-five pages makes it easy to identify all relevant rulings.
Chelazzi, Catalogo della Raccolta de Statuti, I, p. 273; Manzoni II, 22; RLIN lists
copies at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard and Michigan.
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Statutes of the City of Siena – Regulating City Life
83 [STATUTES – SIENA.] Statuti dell’Università de’ Mercanti,
e della Corte de gl’Offiziali della Mercanzia della Città di Siena.
Riformati per comandamento del Sereniss. Don Cosimo II, Gran
Duca Quarto di Toscana. Divisi, secondo l’antica forma loro,
in Quattro Distinzioni. La Prima, tratta Del modo di eleggere
gl’Offiziali, & i loro Ministri, e de gl’obblighi loro. La Seconda,
Dell’ordine, e modo di procedere nelle Liti, e Cause; e dell’eseguire
le Sentenze. La Terza, Del modo di convenire tra i Particolari. La
Quarta, Delle cose da osservarsi dall’Arti. Con la Tavola di tutte le
Rubriche. Siena, Bonetti 1619 £3,800
Folio, pp. [xii], 160, with woodcut and vignette to title and decorated
initials throughout; some spotting and light browning; contemporary
full limp vellum, some insignificant staining, with remains of the leather
ties; some worming to inner joints, with two wormholes extending
through the first and final two leaves; not touching any text; extensive
early manuscript annotations, mostly marginal, but also to final endpaper;
an attractive copy.
Second revised edition of the mercantile statutes of the city of Siena. These
statutes had a fourfold purpose: first, to organise the election and appointment
of officials; secondly, to mediate in disputes and serve as a mercantile
court; thirdly, to organise the structure of different guilds; and finally,
to organise business activity, taxation and politics in the city of Siena. In
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addition to its obvious legal, financial and economic interest for seventeenth
century Italian city state politics, the volume contains fascinating social and
historical information. The treatment of debtors, for example is explained
in great detail, as is inheritance and its fair division.
Of greatest interest is the information on different guilds and professions,
which are carefully defined. All professionals only have the licence to
sell their specified wares and are not allowed to also deal in ‘related’ items.
Booksellers, for example, may only deal in books, paper or maps; they may
not sell paper in bulk and, curiously, they may also not bind books. In return
other traders are not allowed to sell printed books, both those in Latin
and in the vernacular.
This copy has extensive early manuscript annotations in at least two different
hands, clearly written by someone closely involved with the management
of the city. Numerous factual corrections are also inserted.
Biblioteca del Senato VII, p. 235; Goldsmiths’–Kress 477.1; Manzoni II, 20; not
in BM STC Italian; RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Harvard, the University of
Chicago, New York Public Library and the Library of Congress only.
Comprehensive Argument for the Emancipation of Women
84 THOMPSON, William. [and Anna WHEELER.] Appeal
of one Half of the Human Race, Women, against the Pretensions
of the other Half, Men, to retain them in Political, and thence in
Civil and Domestic Slavery; in Reply to a Paragraph of Mr. Mill’s
celebrated ‘Article on Government’. London, Longman, Hurst,
Rees, 1825. £6,800
8vo, frontispiece portrait of Anna D Wheeler by Gauci and printed by
C. Hullmandel, which is not present in all copies, pp. xvi, 221, [1] errata
and addenda, [2] advertisement and imprint; endpapers and title page
foxed and a little browned, else clean and crisp; uncut in mid-nineteenth
century green half crushed morocco by Birdsall & Son of Northampton,
spine in compartments, lettered in gilt directly to spine; extremities a little
rubbed; with an ownership inscription in ink by Job Lousley, dated
1842 to title and errata leaf, and book-plate of Herbert S. Leon.
First edition of one of the most important works arguing for the emancipation
of women. ‘No book published before this time on this subject, even
the famous work of Mary Wollstonecraft, is at once so broad and comprehensive
and so direct and practical as Thompson’s Appeal of One Half of the
Human Race... It was in fact the most significant work in the seventy odd
years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the
Rights of Women (1792) and John Stuart Mill’s Subjection of Women (1869)
(Pankhurst, pp. 65–79).
Thompson’s starting point was James Mill’s dismissal of political rights
for women in his famous ‘Article on Government’, where he argued that
women were sufficiently represented in political matters by their fathers
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and husbands, and that it was therefore quite unnecessary for them to enjoy
formal political rights. This statement from a fellow Benthamite and utilitarian
alarmed Thompson and his friend and collaborator, the Irish feminist
philosopher, Anna Wheeler. The book champions not just political, but
also civil rights for women: equitable laws, educational opportunities, reform
of marriage customs, and so on. At the same time it also recommends
the abolition of the system of ‘individual competition’ – in other words,
capitalism – and its replacement with the system of ‘mutual cooperation.’
For these reasons, the Appeal has been referred to as ‘the first detailed statement
of socialist feminism’.
Thompson (1785–1833), a supporter of Owen and the co-operative
movement, a socialist and important writer on political economy wrote this
book, as fully acknowledged in his introductory letter, together with his
friend ‘Mrs Wheeler’, who provided ‘those bolder and more comprehensive
views which perhaps can only be elicited by concentration of the mind on
one darling though terrific theme’. Anna Wheeler (1785–1848) was born
into the Anglo-Irish gentry, got married aged fifteen, and left her drunken
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and violent husband in 1812 with her two daughters. ‘Wheeler’s philosophical
acumen and patronage to young intellectuals titled her the ‘Goddess of
Reason’ (Sadleir, 76) and ‘most gifted woman of the age’ (ibid., 79). When
her estranged husband died in 1820, Wheeler went to London, where she
formed close relationships with men of liberal ideas, such as the utilitarian
Jeremy Bentham, the charismatic co-operative leader Robert Owen, and
William Thompson, the Irish political economist, feminist, and critic of
capitalism.’ (ODNB)
Thompson and Wheeler conclude with a clarion call: ‘Women of England!
Women, in whatever country ye breathe – wherever ye breathe, degraded
– awake! Awake to the contemplation of the happiness that awaits
you when all your faculties of mind and body shall be fully cultivated and
developed; when every path in which ye can exercise those improved faculties
shall be laid open and rendered delightful to you, even as to them who
now ignorantly enslave and degrade you’ (p. 187–8).
It is ironic that this forceful appeal for women’s rights was written in opposition
to a statement of James Mill. His son, John Stuart Mill was later
to make up for his father in The Subjection of Women (1869).
[Provenance:] From the library of the nineteenth century naturalist and botanist
Job Lousley (1790–1855), with his ownership inscription to title, and
the note: ‘a very curious work and rare’ to the title page. The frontispiece
portrait which was added has resulted in some damp-staining and foxing of
the front free endpapers.
Goldsmiths’ 24707; Stammhammer I, 246; see Rendall, The Origins of Modern
Feminism, 1985, pp. 217–8; Richard K. P. Pankhurst, William Thompson (1775–
1833): Britain’s Pioneer Socialist, Feminist, and Co-operator, London, 1954, pp.
65–79.
Moral Philosophy – with Manuscript Annotations by the Author
85 [TODERINI, Giambattista.] L’onesto Uomo ovvero Saggi di
morale Filosofia dai soli Principii della Ragione. Edizione Seconda,
accresciuta, e migliorata. Venice, Giacomo Storti, 1785. £850
8vo, pp. 203, 1; engraved title vignette; with extensive presumably authorial
manuscript annotations, some on paste-on slips; contemporary
full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript.
Second revised edition (first 1780) of Toderini’s detailed treatise on moral
philosophy, exploring the foundations of personal integrity and an honest
life. The treatise is throughout annotated and corrected by Toderini, ranging
from the correction of spelling mistakes, to additional footnotes, the
elimination of sections and additional notes.
Toderini establishes the basis of personal integrity in a belief in God and
moral rectitude. Certain characteristics follow on from these basic principles,
such as virtue, temperance, a feeling of justice, benevolence, generosity,
humanity, and a form of patriotism. Throughout Toderini refers to
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classic philosophy, but also Bacon, Montaigne, Rousseau, and others. He
also includes extensive references to Turkish philosophy, a subject he studied
extensively for his subsequent publication.
The second half of the treatise is devoted to the vices and passions directly
opposed to moral integrity, such as greed, avarice, deviousness, luxury, and
suicide, which he condemns wholeheartedly. He maintains that suicide is
caused directly by adherence to the heretical positions of materialism and
atheism. A detailed chapter is devoted to law, and crime and its prevention.
Personal integrity and a moral life result in happiness. Toderini backs his
opinions with detailed references to moral philosophers both ancient and
contemporary. The final comprehensive index indicates his indebtedness
to those authors.
Toderini (1728–1799), Jesuit professor of philosophy. After the suppression
of the Jesuits he became attached to the embassy at Constantinople,
where he wrote his best-known work, his comprehensive history of
Turkish literature, which was translated into French and German.
Sommervogel VIII, p. 58.
Calligraphy Manual
86 TOMKINS, Thomas. The Beauties of Writing exemplified in
a Variety of Plain and Ornamental Penmanship designed to excite
Emulation in this valuable Art. London, for the Author, 1808,
1809. £800
Oblong folio, ll. 41, 280 x 441 mm (platemark 237 x 356 mm), all
engraved after Tomkins by Halliwell, Ellis, Woodthorpe, Ashby and
Kirkwood. The first edition was published in 1777; the plates are dated
1777, 1808 and 1809 respectively; bound in mid-nineteenth century
dark blue moirée cloth, gilt lettering to upper board, head and tail of
spine chipped, and slight discolouring to lower board, corners bumped;
a clean and crisp copy.
Second edition of Thomas Tomkins’ most extensive manual of calligraphy
(first 1777), giving a thorough introduction into the art, with examples
of various alphabets, mottoes, but also texts more suitable to his business
academy, i.e. promissory notes, cheques and receipts and business calculations,
all finely engraved.
The writing master Thomas Tomkins (1743–1816) ran a boarding-school
in London, where he taught writing and accounts to ‘Young Gentlemen for
Trades, Merchts. for Counting Houses and the Public Offices’ (Heal, 108).
He published only two engraved copy-books, first The Beauties of Writing
(1777), an expensive volume which sold for 15s., and then Alphabets Written
for the Improvement of Youth (1779). Both contained a combination of
plain and decorative writing exercises in a variety of styles. He is best known
for his determined campaign to have calligraphy recognised as one of the
‘sister’ arts, such as poetry, music, sculpture and painting and be eligible to
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membership at the Royal Academy. ‘For boldness of design, inexhaustible
variety, and elegant freedom, he was justly considered to have attained the
highest eminence in his art’ (DNB).
See Becker, The Practice of Letters 227 for first edition and Heal, The English Writing
Masters, 1570–1800, p. 192; not in ‘The Universal Penman’.
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87 [TYPE SPECIMEN.] HAHN, Franz. Noten und
Schriftproben von Franz Hahn. Vienna, Franz Hahn, ca. 1876.
£850
4to, chromolithograph title page, ll. [8] engraved plates, all printed on
one side only, ll. 2 with type specimen, and ll. 6 with music printing,
within colour border; a few pencil marks and annotations; original
purple cloth, upper board with gilt panel, with central harp; spine faded
and a little rubbed, else fine.
Curious type specimen of the Viennese printer Franz Hahn, showing various
text and display type faces and numerous examples of music printing,
but all engraved within a decorative colour border.
Not in Jolles, see Mayer II, 347 for Leopold Hahn; Durstmüller-Frank, 500 Jahre
Druck in Oesterreich III, 336; not in Jammes.
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88 [TYPE SPECIMEN – SCHELTER & GIESECKE.]
Muster-Sammlung von J. G. Schelter & Giesecke Schriftgiesserei,
Messinglinienfabrik und Galvanoplastic, Fachtischlerei und
Utensilienfabrik, Maschinenfabrik, Leipzig. Handausgabe.
[Together with:] Preis- und Lieferliste. Leipzig, J. G. Schelter &
Giesecke, 1886. £1,200
Tall 8vo, pp. [viii], colour lithograph frontispiece, half title, title and
dedication, [iv], 359, [iv], xii, 28; with numerous woodcut illustrations
in the text, with 9 chromolithographic section titles, and numerous
additional leaves bound in; Preisliste, pp. [iv], lx (with 3 inserted
leaves) and one folding double page table (Preisskala Stereotypengiesserei),
printed in red and black, and two inserted slips; occasional light dustsoiling,
but overall in very good clean condition; title with small stamp;
original publishers’ decorated blue cloth, with title in gilt to sides and
spine, within elaborate floral decoration; price list with paper spine; with
bookplate of the Scandinavian Agent of the firm, G. Carlsson & Co.
Extensive type specimen of the German typefoundery Schelter & Giesecke,
in fact the second large type specimen issued by the firm. The work is illustrated
with full-page chromolithographs, black and white reproductions
of hundreds of printing fonts, vignettes, emblems, decorative borders etc.
In a separate final section printing utensils and machinery are offered. Also
included is the extensive price list, which is often lacking.
The firm of Schelter and Giesecke was founded 1819 in Leipzig by the
punchcutter Johann G. Schelter (1775–1841) and the typefounder Christian
F. Giesecke (1785–1851). The firm expanded under their successors
and type specimens were published in 1836 and 1849. This 1886 type
specimen is far more comprehensive and shows the wide range of type and
ornament on offer at the time. Rather appealingly this copy belonged to the
Scandinavian representative of the firm. In 1946 Schelter & Giesecke was
nationalised by the East German government and combined with various
other type founderies to form Typoart, which still exists today.
Jolles, Deutsche Schriftgiesserei, p. 232; Jammes, Collection de Spécimens de Caractères,
145; see Bauer, Chronik der Schriftgiessereien in Deutschland, pp. 120 ff.
Trading with America
89 VASCONCELOS, Luís Mendes de. Do Sitio de Lisboa.
Dialogo de Luys Mendez de Vasconcelos. Com Licenca da Sancta
Inquisiçam & do Ordinario. Lisbon, Luys Estupiñan, 1608. £2,500
Small 8vo, pp. [viii], 242, [22] index, errata and imprint; nineteenth
century red half crushed morocco over marbled boards, spine in compartments,
gilt-lettering and numbering directly to spine; with the engraved
heraldic bookplate of Francisco de Saldanha da Gama Ferrão de
Castello Branco to front paste-down; a good copy.
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First edition, rare, of this biography of Lisbon in the form of a Platonic dialogue
between a soldier, an administrator and a philosopher. Luis Mendes
de Vasconcelos begins with a lyrical evocation of the beauty and importance
of the city, before making a concerted plea for its economic importance and
revival. He cites major philosophers and historians and points to the population
growth in the city. He maintains that its natural location gives it the
perfect strategic position for trade with the Americas. The Mediterranean
has lost its predominance in international trade, the world has become bigger,
and America is the more important trading partner. He encourages the
Spanish King Philip II to move the capital to Lisbon, for economic regeneration.
The last section is taken up with a discussion of the new direction of
colonial expansion: Vasconcelos is clearly in favour of Atlantic expansion,
and concentrating the efforts on South America (especially Brazil) and Africa.
He advocates a more intensive exploitation of its natural resources and
cheap labour provided by Brazil’s population of penal exiles. To this end the
Spanish merchant fleet will need to be reorganised.
Vasconcelas, who lived in the last half of the sixteenth and the first quarter
of the seventeenth century began his career as a captain of the army in the
Orient and later became governor of Angola. When he returned to Lisbon,
he concentrated on writing.
The work became popular, was reprinted repeatedly, and was included in
the Antologia deos economistas portugueses: seculo XVII.
Kress S371; Azevedo-Samodães I 2072; see L. Baeck, The Mediterranean Tradition
in Economic Thought, 1994; this first edition is very uncommon, OCLC records
copies at the JCB, Newberry Library, Amsterdam, Gottingen and Berlin.
90 VATER, Johann Severin. Grammaire abrégé de la Langue
Polonoise consistant en Tableaux, Règles et Exemples. Halle, J. J.
Gebauer and Strasbourg, Levrault, 1807. £300
8vo, pp. [ii], vi, [7]–46, [2] errata and advice to the binder, 4 large
folding printed tables; paper a little browned and spotted due to paper
stock; uncut in the original wrappers; wrappers frayed and back strip
very worn; still a good copy.
First edition in French of this scarce Polish grammar, which was simultaneously
published in German. Vater (1771–1826), a professor of philosophy
and theology at Halle, wrote a number of works on philology, was a collaborator
of Rask’s and completed Adelung’s Mithridates.
Maggs 457; NUC locates four copies, Newberry Library, Boston Public Library,
Princeton and Yale.
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Viennese Washer Women’s Trade Secrets
91 [WASHERWOMAN.] Das Wiener Putz- und
Nähtermädchen. Zur Belehrung und zum Nutzen ihrer
Mitschwestern herausgegeben von einem Wiener Putzmacher- und
Nähtermädchen. Vienna, n.p., 1798. £980
8vo, pp. viii, 174 [misnumbered 74]; occasional light spotting, contemporary
sprinkled boards, extremities a little rubbed, and short worm
trace to upper joint (less than 10mm); a good copy.
First edition of a fascinating manual of all that is necessary for the washerwoman
and seamstress, allegedly written by a member of the profession.
In five chapters all relevant tricks and recipes for a successful career as a
washerwoman are described. In the first chapter all manner of articles of
clothing are washed, with careful recipes for soap and suitable starch. The
items of clothing and fabric range from cotton, wool and silk, to the cleaning
of gloves, feathers, and pearls. The second chapter deals with spinning
of flax and linen, cotton and wool. Stain removal of all types and from
all materials occupies the following extensive chapters – and clearly puts
modern dry cleaners to shame. A most extensive section deals with dyeing
of all materials, using natural dyes, and giving very detailed instructions on
the dyeing process. The author differentiates between colourfast dyeing,
and short term dyeing for fashion purposes, which will be removed in the
next wash.
The manual concludes with miscellaneous information on cleaning duvets,
decoration, building beds etc. The manual was clearly popular and
went through a number of further editions up to 1816.
See Hayn-Gotendorf VIII, 488 and Mayer, Bibliotheca Viennensis 8350 (both for
third edition of 1803).
Trades and Artisans Drawn from Life –
Complete with their Tools and Equipment
92 WEIGEL, Christoph. Etwas für Alle, Das ist eine kurtze
Beschreibung allerley Stands- Ambts- und Gewerbs-Personen, mit
beygedruckter Sittlichen Lehre und Biblischen Concepten. Durch
welche der Fromme mit gebührendem Lob hervor gestrichen, der
Tadelhaffte aber mit einer mässsigen Ermahnung nicht verschonet
wird; Allen und Jeden heilsam und leitsam, auch so gar nicht
ohndienlich denen Predigern verfertiget durch Abraham a Santa
Clara... Verlegt und mit Kupfern vermengt durch Christoph
Weigeln in Nürnberg. Würzburg, Hiob Hertzen, [volume II and
III: Martin Frantz Hertz], 1711, 1711, 1737. £6,000
Three volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 532, [12] contents,
with 100 engraved plates; engraved frontispiece, pp. [xii], 793,
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[39] contents, with 77 numbered plates; engraved frontispiece, pp.
[xiv], 886, [ii], 887–974, [30] with 103 engraved plates; in all 280
engraved plates; all titles printed in red and black; occasional very light
browning, due to paper quality; some of the plates in weak impressions,
but predominantly fine; contemporary full sheep, spines in compartments,
with raised bands, elaborately decorated in gilt, matching lettering
and numbering pieces; a very attractive set.
First edition of volume II, second edition of volumes I and III, of the most
famous German book of professions, trades and artisans, with nearly three
hundred engraved plates showing different professions at work, in their
traditional costume and surrounded by their tools or equipment. The plates
are by Weigel after designs by Jan and Caspar Luiken.
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The volumes are a fascinating source of information both on the costumes
of representatives of different trades, but also their equipment and
workshop surroundings. Many of the scenes were drawn from life by
Luiken, and thus preserve a lifelike immediacy. Professions include printer,
bookbinder, type caster, musical instrument maker, as well as carpenter,
bricklayer and builder. Professions like doctor, dentist and lawyer are also
included. The engraved plates are accompanied by extensive chapters in
prose by Abraham a Santa Clara, outlining the relationship of each craft to
God and the divine world plan.
Abraham a Santa Clara (1644–1709), an Augustinian friar and preacher,
was the author of numerous books of popular knowledge, presented with
wit and humour. They showed the influence of Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff
(Ship of Fools). More than a century later Friedrich Schiller summed up his
verdict in a letter to Goethe: ‘This Father Abraham is a man of wonderful
originality, whom we must respect, and it would be an interesting, though
not at all an easy task, to approach or surpass him in mad wit and cleverness’.
It is rare to find all three volumes together, complete with all plates and
in a fine contemporary binding.
Bertsche 38a–5, 56a–2, 57a–1; Dünnhaupt 146, 35 II.1 and 35.III.1; Faber du
Faur 1118–1120; Jantz 313, 314; RLIN/OCLC record copies at the University of
Chicago, Columbia, Berkeley (volume I only), Duke, the Library of Congress, the
University of Philadelphia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a Dutch version
was published later.
Mathematics a Cure for All Ills
93 WEIGEL, Erhard. Extractio radicis, oder Wurzl-Zug des
so schlechten Christen-Staats, sammt einer Rolle von 45 Lastern,
welche in gemeinen Schulen unsern Kindern angewehnet werden.
Nechst Andeutung einer bessern Lehr-Art so genannter Jugend-
Schul. Und mit dem Anhang des Beweises, daß die ersten Christen
anders als bissher geschehn, ihre Kinder informiret haben. Jena,
Bielcke, 1680. £1,200
4to, engraved portrait, pp. [vi], [viii], 55, [1], [8]; [xvi]; title printed in
red and black, some light browning and spotting; frontispiece, which
was meant to be folded, is here cropped and title page shaved at foot;
nineteenth century paste-paper boards, gilt-lettered red morocco label
to upper board, extremities a little rubbed.
First edition of an interesting early attempt at making science and mathematics
more widely accessible to the public. Weigel maintained that the
universal competences of mathematics formed the basis of all things, and
should therefore be the centre of education. In forty-five articles, he identified
problems in modern education, ranging from clumsiness to arrogance,
ignorance, laziness, sloth and disobedience. In each case mathematics is
prescribed and guaranteed to improve students’ behaviour, both physical
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and moral. An understanding of mathematics will automatically eradicate
these problems, free students from their animal instincts, and allow them
to fulfil their potential. This unlikely project even led to the foundation of
a successful, though short-lived, school, the so-called ‘Tugendschule’ under
the direction of Weigel.
The German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Erhard Weigel
(1625–1699), was professor of mathematics at Jena University, and best
known as the teacher of Leibniz in 1663. He was instrumental in the introduction
of the Gregorian calendar in protestant states. With his belief in
the number as the fundamental concept of the universe, he can be seen as
an ancestor of all modern mathematicians. Through Leibniz he is the intellectual
forefather of a long tradition of mathematicians.
At the end is bound Copia response ... Unmassgebigen Informations-vorschlag
zur Kunst- und Tugend Ubung. Jena, Paul Ehrich, 1694, in fact a reprint of
the prelims with a new title page.
VD 17 3:601652E; ADB XL, p. 469; Schüling 100; OCLC lists four copies in
Germany, Dresden, Marburg, Munich, and Wiesbaden only.
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94 WEISHAAR, Jakob Friedrich. Bemerkungen über das
Verfügungsrecht eines Schuldners über sein Vermögen vor
Ausbruch des Konkursprozesses; aus Veranlassung eines Rechtsfalls
und einer darüber erschienenen Schrift. Heilbronn, Johann Daniel
Claß, 1803. £450
8vo, pp. 46 [2] blank; contemporary blue wrappers, lettered in ink.
First and only edition of this discussion of bankruptcy law, especially as
regards the financial rights of the debtor to his own property, before bankruptcy
proceedings have officially been initiated. With specific reference
to Gmelin’s work on bankruptcy law, Weishaar discusses the question
whether someone facing bankruptcy proceedings is still free to offer goods
in compensation to specific creditors, or whether all his assets are virtually
frozen and at the court’s disposal for fair distribution amongst all creditors.
Weishaar’s deliberations are caused by a specific case, which is briefly
outlined, and makes detailed and extensive reference to local legislation and
legal authorities.
ADB XLI, 538; Meusel IV, 175; OCLC lists just once copy at the National Library
of Scotland.
95 ZOLLIKOFER, Hektor v. Der Siegelkünstler, oder deutliche
Anleitung zu der Kunst sowohl einfache und zusammengesezte als
auch heraldisch bemalte sehr schöne Siegel-Abdrücke zu fertigen. St.
Gallen, Bureau des Freimütigen, 1833. £350
8vo, pp. 30, [2] blank; original printed wrappers; with circular stamp to
upper wrappers; edges a little spotted, else fine.
First and only edition of a charming little guide to producing copies of
seals, medals, stamps and hand-coloured seal impressions both for purposes
of collection and historical documentation. In addition to practical information
on the technique of taking impressions, Zollikoffer gives practical
advice on how to avoid the most common problems and includes recipes
for the production of multi coloured sealing wax. A final chapter describes
the organisation of a heraldic arms collection.
Uncommon, OCLC lists just one copy at Wolfenbüttel.
inv . kitzinger imp . smith settle