Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

30 [BERINGTON, Simon.] Memoires de Gaudence de Luques,
Prisonnier de l’Inquisition: Augmentés de plusieurs Cahiers qui
avoient été perdus à la Douane de Marseille: Enrichis des savantes
Remarques de Mr. Rhedi. Premiere Partie [–Quatrieme Partie].
Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkst & Merkus, 1754. £500
Four parts in two volumes; 12mo, engraved frontispiece to all four
volumes, pp. [iv], lxiv, 98; [iv], 154; [iv], 148; [iv], 166, [1] errata;
titles printed in red an black, with title vignettes and typographic head
and tail-pieces; paper occasionally lightly browned; contemporary full
mottled calf, boards with triple gilt Wllet, Xat spines decorated in gilt,
with matching gilt-lettered label and lettering piece; an attractive set.
Second French translation of Berington’s utopia, the Memoires of Sigr.
Gaudentio di Lucca, Wrst published in 1737. With this translation by Dupuy
Demportes, which was Wrst published the previous year, Berington’s adventure-utopia
became a Europe-wide bestseller, and in addition to numerous
further French editions, two separate German translations appeared.
The utopia is based on the confessions of the main protagonist Gaudence
before the Inquisition, where he tells of his adventures and travels in the
land of the Mezzoranies. The inhabitants of this utopian land, connected
with just one road to the outside world, lived happily, in equality, without
restricting laws, and well-provided for with store-houses and abundant supplies.
Gove, p. 297; Hartig 40; Negley 93; see Lee M Ellison, Gaudentio di Lucca, a forgotten
utopia, 1935.
31 BETTINELLI, Saverio. Dell Entusiasmo delle Belle Arti.
Milano, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1769. £650
8vo, pp. xvi, 416; woodcut vignette to title; uncut in the original limp
boards; spine lettered in manuscript; some show-through to endpapers;
a Wne copy.
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First edition of Bettinelli’s inXuential treatise on aesthetics and cultural politics.
Saverio Bettinelli (1718–1808), a Mantuan Jesuit, stresses the power
of ‘nature’ and ‘feeling’ in literature, and calls for a reform of the Italian
poetic tradition. With this work he appeared to be at the forefront of enlightenment
thinking, although his later works proposed closer allegiance
to modern classicism in the Jesuit tradition.
Melzi I, 357; uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy at Columbia University.
Poem in Praise of Tuscan Economic Reforms
32 BETTINELLI, Saverio. Sciolti sopra il libro intitolato
Governo della Toscana sotto il Regno di sua Maestà il Re Leopoldo
Secondo. Firenze, Gaet. Cambiagi, 1791. £450
4to, pp. xvi; contemporary limp boards, with faint presentation
inscription in ink by the author to foot of title page.
First and only edition, very rare, of Bettinelli’s blank verse appraisal of
Leopold II, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and of Gianni’s Wnancial account
of the economic reforms carried out under his reign, before he became
Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1790. Leopold II was one of
the most capable and remarkable of the reforming princes of the eighteenth
century, and Bettinelli charts the diVerent areas of his reform, be they administration,
the legal system, or public accounting.
DBI IX, 738–744; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, no copy found in RLIN or OCLC.
Farming for Ladies
33 BEYER, Moritz. Landwirthschaft für Frauen. Der
GeXügelhof, die Schweizerei, das Milchwesen und die Zucht und
Benutzung der Schweine. Nach dem Englischen für Deutschland
bearbeitet von Moritz Beyer. Leipzig und Pesth, Verlags-Magazin,
1845. £150
8vo, pp. xviii, 374, numerous wood engravings in the text, some light
spotting and foxing; mid-nineteenth century boards, original pictorial
printed upper wrapper bound in; a good copy with unsigned
calligraphic presentation inscription on front free endpaper.
First edition in German of this introduction to agriculture for women.
Based on John French Burke’s Farming for Ladies: a guide to the poultry
yard, the dairy and piggery by the author of British Husbandry, this treatise
is translated and adapted to the German situation by Moritz Beyer, who is
best known for his guidebooks for emigrants to America.
Not in NUC or RLIN, no copy in Kress or Goldsmiths’; for Burke’s British Husbandry,
see Goldsmiths’–Kress 28471.