Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

227 NICOLAS, Pierre François. Méthode de préparer et conserver
les Animaux de toutes les Classes, pour les Cabinets d’Histoire
Naturelle. Paris, F. Buisson, An IX, [1800]. £400
8vo, pp. [vi], viii, [9], 228, with 10 engraved plates; contemporary full
marbled sheep, spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine label.
First edition of this comprehensive practical treatise on taxidermy,
speciWcally aimed at those preparing and supplying zoological specimens
and cabinets of curiosities. The ten folding plates, drawn by Marechal and
Wnely engraved by Sellier, show tools and equipment, and animals in various
stages of preparation. Nicolas (1743–1816) had been a professor of
chemistry and natural history.
The work was popular and was translated into German in 1802.
The Importance of the Study of Economics for Public Life
228 OSTERWALD, Peter von. Akademische Rede welche bey
Gelegenheit des höchsterfreulichen Geburthsfestes des durchlauchtigsten
Fürsten und Herrn, Herrn Maximilian Joseph, ... Im grossen
Saale der Churfürstli. Baierischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu
München gehalten und darinnen der Zusammenhang und die
Ordnung aller Wissenschaften nebst dem Nutzen, welchen sie
dem gesellschaftlichen Leben der Menschen gewähren, dargethan
worden ... München, 27. März, 1762. £100
4to, pp. 27, woodcut head and tailpieces; as issued with paper spine; a
Wne copy.
First and only edition of this speech given at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
on the occasion of the birthday of king Maximilian Joseph.
Osterwald, a member of the Academy, outlines the relative importance of
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various branches of science, and stresses the importance of the study of economics
for all Welds of public administration and public life.
Not found in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Humpert.
The Montaigne of the North – Philosophical Essays
229 OXENSTIERNA, Johan Thureson. Recueil de Pensées du
Comte J. O. sur divers sujets. Tome Premier [–Tome Cinquieme].
Francfort, Antoine Heinscheit, 1725. £2800
Five parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. 124, [3]; [viii], 102, 3; [viii], 109,
[3]; 117, [3], 117 (bottom half of page cut), [2], engraved title vignette
to all Wve title pages, one engraved half-plate; some light even
browning, else very clean in contemporary full sheep, spine decoratively
gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; discreet repairs to joints;
a Wne copy preserved in a wooden box; from the library of Horatio
Walpole with his book plate on front pastedown.
Second issue (Wrst 1720–21) of the Wrst collected edition of the essays and
social aperçus of Johan Thuresson Oxenstierna (1666–1733), nephew of
Axel Oxenstierna, the Swedish chancellor. His brief, precise essays and
aphorisms on a wide range of subjects earned him a signiWcant international
reputation and the epithet ‘Montaigne of the North’ (Hoefer).
This copy comes from the library of Horatio Walpole, (1813–1894), 4th
Earl of Orford, a descendent of Horace Walpole’s cousin (see Hazen, p.
xxvi). The bookplate is an extremely close imitation of Walpole’s Orford
bookplate.
Hoefer XXXVIII, 1018; this is generally regarded as the Wrst collected edition, even
though there appears to be an earlier printing of 1720–21; OCLC lists just one
copy at the Bodleian Library, RLIN adds a copy at the University of Chicago, together
with a number of later editions in 1744, 1749 and 1762; a German translation
was published in 1738, a Russian translation in 1792; see Hazen, Walpole’s
Library, p. xxvi.
The Philosophes under Attack
230 [PALISSOT, Charles de Montenoy.] Petites Lettres sur des
Grands Philosophes. Paris, 1757. £240
12mo in 8s & 4s, pp. [ii], iv, 101, small worm trace in outer lower
margin of last section; modern wrappers.
First edition of Palissot’s popular satire on the encyclopédistes, coming at the
beginning of a whole spate of attacks on philosophes. Palissot attacked the
encyclopédistes for slavishly following Bacon, made fun of their sensitivity to
criticism, accused them of becoming a ‘church’, and in passing also attacked
d’Alembert for accepting a pension from France’s enemy Frederick the
Great. The dramatist Palissot (1730–1814) was a renegade from the
philosophe camp and a protégé of the highly inXuential Comte de Stainville,
later Duc de Choiseul.
Barbier III, 858e; Cioranescu 48774.