Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

eing the Wrst instrument in which there was an attempt made to improve
the objective; for in this microscope the objective consists of two planoconvex
lenses mounted with their curved surfaces facing one another. This
construction was not copied by any other make and for the next hundred
years the objective was universally made of a single lense, usually bi-convex’
(Clay & Court p. 84). Similar to Hooke, Griendel illustrates various
insects, including the Xea and the louse, blown up to frightening proportions,
but also shows plants and details of their construction, and textile
materials.
A Latin edition was published the same year, both editions are rare.
Poggendorf I, p. 963; see Clay & Court, History of the Microscope, 132; rare, RLIN
lists copies of the German edition at the Harvard, Chicago, Cornell and the American
Philosophical Society only, six copies of the Latin edition are listed.
Accounting in Agriculture
145 GÜNTHER, Ludwig Christian. Praktische Bemerkungen über
Pacht- und Kaufanschläge, Abnahme, Uebergabe und Verwaltung
der Domainen-Aemter und Rittergüther. Mit Anmerkungen
begleitet von M. F. G. Leonhardi. Leipzig, Joh. G. I. Breitkopf,
1795. £450
8vo, pp. iv, 124; numerous tables in the text; some spotting, due to
paper quality; faint damp-staining to lower corner of some leaves; uncut
in contemporary pale blue boards.
First edition, uncommon, of this introduction to accounting in agriculture.
Günther gives an overview of diVerent crops, and advises on how to assess
them for tax and sale purposes. At the same time he gives an insight into
agricultural accounts, sale inventories, and the legal requirements in insurance
and sale. In the second half, he departs from the theoretical and legal
approach and concentrates on more practical advice on farming and estate
management.
Not in Humpert, no copy found in OCLC or RLIN.
146 GULDENER VON LOBES, Edmund Vincenz. Beobachtungen
über die Krätze gesammelt in dem Arbeitshause zu Prag.
Prag, J. B. Calve, 1791. £600
8vo, pp. [viii], 180 (vere 188), [4]; contemporary blue paste-paper
boards, spine label lettered in manuscript, some surface abrasions to
spine and corners; printed on heavy paper, very clean and crisp, with
corrections marked in ink.
First edition of this detailed study of scabies, and its etiology based on an
outbreak at the Prague workhouse. Guldener von Lobes (1763–1827),
medical doctor in Vienna and at Prague University, begins with a detailed
description of the Prague work house and gives details of the prevalent
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weather conditions in the period of 1785–88, together with an account of
the public health situation in Prague and more speciWcally the workhouse.
He then discusses scabies, a contagious skin disease, caused by a mite and
characterised by intense itching, in great detail, presents diVerent kinds of
the complaint and makes suggestions for its treatment.
Blake p. 190; Hirsch II, 911; Wolfenbüttel 693; rare, OCLC and RLIN list copies
at the University of Chicago and the National Library of Medicine only; a second
edition was published in 1795.
Predecessor of Malthus
147 [HANCARVILLE, Pierre-François Hugues de.] Essai de
Politique et de Morale calculée. Tome Premier [all published].
1759. £900
8vo, pp. xl, 270; contemporary tan mottled calf, spine gilt with
contrasting spine labels, head of spine chipped, and extremities worn;
still a Wne crisp copy.
First public edition of a very rare original contribution to the eighteenth
century population debate in France. There is in fact an edition dated 1752,
but the entire print-run, with the exception of just thirty copies, was destroyed
by the author. Hancarville begins with an analysis of the distribution
of wealth in society and identiWes a causal link between population
growth and a distribution of the resources. He furthermore calculates the
ratio between those in possession of the resources and their dependents,
and attempts to come up with an ‘ideal’ ratio. Without expressing it in the
same terms as Malthus, he appears to identify a relationship between subsistence
level and population growth. Hancarville (1719–1805), a mathematician
and linguist, was a member of the academies of London and
Berlin.
This second edition is a direct reprint of the Wrst edition and diVers only
in two respects from the Wrst, the avis, explaining the destruction of the
whole print-run, is only present in the Wrst edition, whereas the contents list
is only present in the second edition.
INED 2225; very rare, only the Kress copy known of the 1752 edition (Goldsmiths’–Kress
8759); no further copies listed in NUC and RLIN, not in Higgs or
Einaudi.
The First National Bibliography
148 [HAYM, Nicola Francesco.] Biblioteca Italiana, o sia Notizia
de’ Libri Rari nella lingua Italiana. Venezia, Angiolo Geremia,
1728. £300
4to, pp. [xxiv], 264; woodcut initials; contemporary full vellum, spine
lettered in mansucript; with censor’s stamps of M. A. Parenti and B.
Bonelli, of the Duchy of Modena, to foot of title page and last leaf; a
good copy.