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Second edition, substantially enlarged, of ‘the Wrst or one of the Wrst national
catalogues’ (Taylor, p. 15), and the standard bibliography of Italian
books for most of the eighteenth century. Haym Wrst published his Italian
bibliography under the title Notizia de Libri rari nella Lingua Italiana with a
London imprint in 1726 with the original intention of listing only rare
books. However, subsequent editors, beginning with Angelo Geremia, so
enlarged the work that it came to be considered as a library of Italian literature.
Bestermann 921; Krieg, Bibliotheca Bibliographica, 36 (1741 edition); Taylor,
Catalogues of rare books, p. 15.
149 HELWIG, Joseph. Zeitrechnung zu Erörterung der Daten in
Urkunden für Deutschland ... Mit einer Vorrede des Herrn Michael
Ignaz Schmidt. Wien, Joseph Edlen von Kurzbek, 1787. £750
Folio, pp. [viii], [x], 190, [2] errata, 13 folding printed tables,
numbered A-N (table M on three leaves); engraved title vignette by
Blaschke after Weinkopf; some light, insigniWcant spotting;
contemporary half tan calf, spine ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered spine
label; a Wne copy, with faint stamp to lower corner of title.
First edition, rare, of this important contribution to the study of historical
chronology and calendars in historical documents, and highly useful bibliographical
tool, especially for documents relating to the Holy Roman Empire.
Helwig (1730–1799), a Viennese historian and archivist points out
the importance of establishing speciWc dates for historical study – even before
the further confusion caused by the French revolutionary calendar.
He gives comparative tables for the Gregorian and Julian calendar, for
movable religious holidays, for Wxed holidays, the Roman calendar, medieval
terms for speciWc holidays and their explanations.
ADB XI, p. 718; Wurzbach VIII, p. 297; uncommon, NUC locates just two copies
(NcU, CU), and RLIN and OCLC add no further locations.
Österreich über Alles
150 HERMANN, Benedikt Franz. Herrn Johann von Horneks
Bemerkungen über die österreichische Staatsökonomie. Ganz
umgearbeitet und mit Anmerkungen versehen... [n.p.] [Vienna,
Wucherer], 1784. £680
8vo, pp. [x], 253, [1] blank, [8] postscript by publisher; very clean and
crisp; contemporary half calf over buV boards, spine decoratively gilt in
compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; a very Wne copy, with
contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, and small
circular stamp to verso of title.
Revised and extensively rewritten edition of von Hörnigk’s classic
Oesterreich über alles wann es nur will, Wrst published exactly a century earlier.
DeWning the wealth and power of a country in terms of its relation to
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weaker and less powerful rivals, Hörnigk’s intention was to outline the economic
policy measures necessary to assure Austria’s supremacy in the struggle
of European powers. Hermann keeps Hörnigk’s basic order and chapter
headings, re-writes the text, eliminates some of the redundant historical and
anecdotal sections and in very extensive footnotes brings the work up-todate,
especially with extensive statistical data.
This appears to be a pirated version of the edition published the same
year with a Berlin imprint. The publisher, Wucherer, adds an extensive
postscript, defending the practice of reprints with elaborate economic and
philosophical arguments.
Carpenter VI, 16; Goldsmiths’–Kress 12557.4–1 suppl.; Menger c.49; see
Humpert 82.
Elocution and Articulation
151 HERRIES, John. The Elements of Speech. London, Edward
and Charles Dilly, 1773. £800
8vo, pp. xvi, 259; large folding printed table (short tear at inner fold)
bound in; uncut in contemporary half calf, gilt-lettered spine label;
corners bumped and edges rubbed, some wear to marbled paper sides; a
clean and crisp copy.
First edition of one of the most important eighteenth century treatises on
elocution, with a detailed treatment of articulation. Herries (died 1781), an
itinerant lecturer who taught at Dublin, Edinburgh, Oxford and London,
concentrates on the mechanisms of speech production. He deals with the
physiology of the organs of speech, the classiWcation of sounds, formation
of vowels, the alphabet, cultivation of the voice in children, speech impediments,
and teaching the deaf and dumb. His advice on correct breathing,
emphasis and eVective delivery is useful for the public speaker, singer, or
actor alike.
Alston VI 373; ESTC t8393.
Critique of the Anti-Machiavel
152 HESS, Heinrich Ludwig von. Historische und Politische
Anmerkungen über den Antimachiavel. Wismar und Leipzig, Joh.
A. Berger, 1751. £950
8vo, pp. [xvi], 494; title vignette; contemporary full sheep, spine gilt in
compartments, a little rubbed, spine label missing, but lettering in blind
directly to spine; a clean and crisp copy.
First edition of this close reading of the Frederick the Great’s Anti-
Machiavel, his enlightenment response to Machiavel’s Prince, which can be
summed up in the famous sentence ‘the prince is not the absolute master,
but only the Wrst servant of his people’. Hess carefully goes through the text
chapter by chapter and annotates it with further observations and comments
by classical and enlightenment philosophers. Hess (1719–1784), a