Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

First Cochin edition (and third edition in all) of Bosse’s Traité des manières
de graver en taille douce, with extensive additions. Cochin added several pertinent
details on the construction of state-of-the art presses, and re-engraved
the corresponding plates. He also included an extensive section on
the process involved in colour printing, called by him à la manière noire,
which was based on the three colour technique developed by Le Blon a few
years earlier. As Le Blon’s work appeared in print only in 1756 this may in
fact be the earliest manual on colour printing to appear in France.
Bigmore–Wyman, I, 72; Cicognara 254; see En Français dans le Texte, 92.
German Translation of Bosse’s Manual for Printmakers
48 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. Dresden,
Gröllische Handlung, 1765. £1600
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xxxvi], 254, [36] index and errata, 19
folding engraved plates bound at the end; with engraved head and tailpieces
and three engravings in the text; some light but evenly browning;
contemporary sprinkled boards; faint stamp from the library of
Krassow-Divitz on title; a good copy.
First edition of this translation. 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.
See Bigmore–Wyman, I, 72; Franklin 145; Graesse 501.
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49 [BOTERO, Giovanni.] Della ragione di stato, Libri dieci.
Milano, PaciWco Pontio, 1598.
[bound with:] Aggunite di Gio. Botero alla sua Ragion di Stato.
Venetia, Gio. Battista Ciotti, 1600.
[bound with:] Prencipi ... con le Aggionte alla Ragion di Stato.
Venetia, Gio. Battista Ciotti all’Aurora, 1601.
[bound with:] CALDERNI, Apollinaire de. Modo d’usar il Bossolo
per Pigliar Piante de luoghi murati, e non murati. Milano, Pandolfo
Malatesta, 1598. £3600
Four works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xvi], 402 (slightly irregular, but
ok); [5], [1] blank; [xvi], ll. 96; pp. 227; 24, with one folding printed
table, misbound; title vignettes and decorated initials; some light
browning; contemporary sprinkled sheep, spine gilt in compartments,
extremities a little rubbed, short split to upper joint.
Later editions of Botero’s important contributions to political economy
and political theory, including his Della Ragione di Stato (Wrst published in
1589), and Delle Cause della grandezza delle città (1588), an anticipation of
the ‘Malthusian’ principle of population – and one of the neglected masterpieces
in the history of economics. In his political work, Botero attempts to
deWne a ruler who combines Machiavellian shrewdness with moral
strength. His ‘Prencipi’ and the ‘Aggiunte’ include commentaries on international
law, neutrality, and oceanography.
Botero’s works are bound together with the rare Wrst edition of
Calderini’s treatise on surveying, in which he refers to Botero’s ideas on
town-planning and public organisation.
I. Index Aureliensis 122.735; II. I.A. 122.752; Adams B2550; III. see I.A.
122.750; IV. I.A. 129.316, Riccardi I/I, 210.
A Republican Constitution for Lombardy
50 BOTTA, Carlo. Proposizione ai Lombardi di una maniera
di governo libero. Milano, Stamperia alter volte di S. Ambrogio,
1797. £550
Large 12mo, pp. [ii], 381; title a little dust-soiled; uncut in attractive
contemporary pattern paper wrappers; a Wne copy.
First edition, rare, of Botta’s famous blueprint of the republican constitution
for Lombardy in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Botta favoured
a federation of republics for Italy, which would reXect regional
diVerences and municipal claims, but most importantly he favoured national
independence. To advance his constitutional ideas, he campaigned
for the convocation of a Lombard national convention. Of particular interest
are his economics proposals, as described in chapters V and VI, he demands
agricultural reform, to nationalise the large estates and redistribute
the land into small-holdings. Financial reforms are also proposed, leading