Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

Arranged in the form of eight letters, general medico-geographical information
is presented. Menuret studies the natural condition of life in the city
of Hamburg, particularly inXuenced by its geographical locations, with its
long winters, wet climate and lack of sunshine. He makes some interesting
comments on local diet: large consumption of strong tea and weak coVee,
dark bread favoured by the inhabitants, fresh fruit and vegetables cultivated
in Vierlanden. Menuret had earlier published similar surveys of Paris and
Montélimar.
Rare, NUC and RLIN record copies at the National Library of Medicine, and
Madison, Wisconsin only.
Eighteenth Century Periodical
211 MEUSEL, Johann Georg. Historische Untersuchungen.
Gesammlet und herausgegeben von Johann Georg Meusel.
Nürnberg, Joh. G. Lochnerische Buchhandlung, 1779–80. £420
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xvi], 182, one folding plate; [iv],
180; [iv], 240, [4]; title vignettes and head and tail-pieces;
contemporary half sheep, spine decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine
label, head of spine chipped, extremities a little rubbed.
First and only edition of a short-lived historical journal, edited and partly
written by the historian and statistician Meusel. His introduction is of particular
interest, as he gives an extensive overview of current journals and
periodicals. He points out the importance of this form of publication for
the spread of scientiWc, technical, and historical ideas. The emphasis appears
to be on early modern history, with contributions by contemporary historians
Spitteler, Fäsi, Stieber, Longolius, and Albinus. Of particular interest is
Spitteler’s demographic article on the population of Wurttemberg before
the Thirty Year War. The last issue contains articles by Meusel himself, an
interesting study on the history of language, and an extensive translation of
a review on Dalin’s Swedish history.
Kirchner 1102; very uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list only microWlm copies.
‘One Quarter be paid before the 2nd Quarter becomes due’
212 [MILITARY MANUSCRIPT.] An Establishment of his
Ma[jesty’s] Guards, Guarrisons, & Land Forces wi[thi]n the Kingdom
of England Dominion of Wales & Town of Berwick upon
Tweed & the Islands thereto belonging with their full Pay &
entertainment: to commence the 1st day of January 1683/4. £2000
8vo, ll. 23 manuscript, written in a clean and legible hand, on paper
ruled in red; Wnely bound in contemporary black calf, with intricate gilt
Xoral design to upper and lower board, with two panels; gilt a little
faded in parts; spine in compartments, silver clasps and catches in
perfect order; a near perfect example of a Restoration binding; small
chip to head of spine, a.e.g.; a very Wne copy.
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten
A very attractively bound seventeenth century English manuscript on the
army establishment in 1684, in fact a complete list of the British military
Establishment, its numbers and pay per day and per year ‘to commence the
1st day of January 1683/4’. It is possible that the manuscript was later
printed, as circulation in manuscript often preceded publication. The
manuscript appears to be complete, even though two leaves, the stub of one
having a fragment of writing, were removed at the end. Since the manuscript
covers a period near the end of the reign of King Charles, it is possible
that the Wnal leaves contained some expression of loyalty, or a concluding
prayer, neither of which would have been particularly appropriate under
the new and Catholic reign of James II. It is a very detailed document, setting
forth the condition of pay from drummer to general, concluding with
the excellent precept that everyone should be paid ‘so that one Quarter be
still paid before the 2nd Quarter becomes due’.
Harold Love, Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England, Oxford 1993.