Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

An attractive little volume showing the costume and tools of the London
working classes. Ranging from milkmaid, watchman and coalman, to sellers
of dog meat, chickens and doormats, the less well dressed side of London
is depicted. The work had earlier been published in a larger format and
was based on the engravings for the cries of London.
Lipperheide 13; Colas 492; not in Tooley or Abbey, Life.
61 BYRNE, Oliver. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
in which coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters
for the greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne surveyor of her
Majesty’s settlements in the Falkland Islands and author of
numerous mathematical works. London, William Pickering
[Chiswick, printed by C. Whittingham], 1847. £4200
4to, pp. xxix, 268; with numerous diagrams, symbols and letters
printed in four colours (red, blue, yellow and black), wood engraved
initials and decorations; a good copy, spotted as usual, but not as badly
as some copies; bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in gilt and
blind with Euclidean diagram on front board, spine expertly repaired.
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten
First edition of one of the most remarkable Victorian books. The familiar
Euclidian diagrams are transformed into Mondrian-like designs and the
text is littered with little coloured symbols representing angles, lines and
coded symbols to simplify Euclid and make the theorems stick in the
memory more readily. Byrne attempts to present Euclid’s proofs in terms of
pictures, using as little text – and in particular as few labels – as possible.
McLean in Victorian Book Design calls it ‘one of the oddest and most beautiful
books of the whole century ... a decided complication of Euclid, but a
triumph for Charles Whittingham’.
Keynes, p. 65.
62 CACCIALUPI-OLIVIERI, Antonio. Metodo di Contabilità
controllato dal Giornale Bilanciante ed applicabile ad Aziende di
qualunque specie private, pubbliche e mercantili. Sanseverino,
Benedetto Ercolani, 1858. £700
Folio, pp. 112, [3]; engraved head and tail-pieces, tables in the text;
recent sheep-backed boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; the work
was earlier bound together with another work, with manuscript
numbering in the upper corner.
Second enlarged edition (Wrst 1844), rare, of this detailed introduction to
double-entry book-keeping. Caccialupi takes Jones’ English system of Bookkeeping
as a starting point, but substantially modiWes it and clearly insists on
double-entry account keeping. He introduces the basic books, i.e. journal,
daybook, and ledger, and pays articular attention to the easy preparation of
end-of-year accounts. In the second half he concentrates on accounting for
stock retained beyond the Wnancial year and accounting for written-down
capital expenditure. He concludes with sample account forms of his own
design.
Cerboni p. 153; very rare, not in Historical Accounting Literature or Herwood; no
copy found in NUC, RLIN or OCLC.
63 CALIFANO, Carlo. Ragionamento sulla Fondiaria. Ossia sulla
giustizia, ed eguaglianza del Tributo diretto, ed indiretto. Napoli,
1820. £750
8vo, pp. [viii], 115; browning to one signature, else crisp;
contemporary full red straight-grain morocco; spine and sides decorated
in gilt, gilt-lettering.
First and only edition of this elegantly produced plea for a just and uniWed
system of tariVs and taxation. Califano deplores the large number of individual
taxes and especially the land tax. He quotes from Schmidt, Melon,
Broggia and David Hume, and discusses the relative beneWts of direct and
indirect taxes.
Cossa 125, 204; Goldsmiths’–Kress 22934.6.