Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

Physiocrat Polemic
19 BAUDEAU, Nicolas abbe. Éclaircissements demandé à M.
N**, sur ses Principes Économiques, & sur ses projets de législation;
au nom des Propriétaires Fonciers & des Cultivateurs
François... [Paris, Didot] 1775. [verso of title:] Extrait des Nouvelles
Ephemerides Economiques. £1600
8vo, pp. x, 306, A1 and Q8 are cancels; a good crisp copy with wide
margins in contemporary mottled calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered
spine label, sides with triple gilt rule and gilt dentelles, a.e.g.;
extremities a little rubbed, a Wne copy.
Very rare Wrst separate edition of Baudeau’s famous Physiocratic polemic,
which according to Daire is one of the best productions of the Physiocratic
movement. The work was also printed the same year in the Nouvelles
Éphémerides Économiques. In the Eclaircissements Baudeau attacks Necker’s
De la législation des grains. Originally a protectionist, but converted to the
cause and in eVect the most eVective popularizer of Physiocratic ideas,
Baudeau here defends the laissez-faire principles of Quesnay and his followers,
against the doctrines of Colbert. The mother, Agriculture, is, he claims,
being sacriWced to the daughter, Industry.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 11256; Higgs 6259; INED 276.
Monetary Policy
20 BAUMHAUER, Michael Paul. Versuch eines neuen und
richtigen Lehr-Gebäudes der Politischen Münzwissenschaft im
Grund-Risse; nebst einer Vertheidigung des hohen Münz-Fußes.
Frankfurt und Leipzig, Gotthelf D. Schulz, 1766. £400
4to, pp. [xii], 122, [20] contents; some light dust-soiling to title, small
stamp to foot of title; uncut in the original pale blue boards.
First edition, uncommon, of a comprehensive study of coinage, currency
and monetary questions, with an impressive subject bibliography.
Baumhauer (1744–1811), a jurist, gives a brief historical overview, lists
necessary reference works, both on coin production and historical coinage,
and then discusses coinage and numismatics in the diVerent European
countries. He also includes brief sections on American, African and Asian
coinage. In the second half Baumann concentrates on the reform of the
German monetary system, again citing all the relevant literature.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10234.1; Humpert 11178.
21 [BECATTINI, Francesco attrib.] Istoria della Città di
Gibilterra in Spagna con la Descrizione della medesima, Porto, Baja,
FortiWcazioni antiche e recenti, ConWni e Planta in Rama della
suddetta. Firenze, Anton-Giuseppe Pagani e Comp., 1782. £400
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8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 44, with one further engraved portrait
and a large folding engraved map; contemporary vellum-backed pastepaper
boards; with defaced ownership label to front paste-down; a Wne
copy.
Second edition (Wrst 1781) of this history of Gibraltar, written during the
Grand Siege, when Spanish and French troops attempted to recapture the
Rock. Gibraltar had been declared a free port and it was under British rule
since the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). Becattini not only gives a history of
Gibraltar, but also describes the leaders of the opposing armies – the Duc de
Crillon and General Elliott, and gives details of the Spanish army. Particularly
appealing is the folding engraved map. The war, which was observed
with interest from all over Europe, ended the following year with a British
victory, the English having defended Gibraltar with the help of an ingenious
tunnel against the apparently overwhelming strength of the besieging
army.
The 1781 edition styles itself as the second edition; but there appears to
be no earlier printing.
OCLC and RLIN list copies at Berkeley, Yale, Chicago, Princeton, and the
Wellcome Library only.
22 BECCARIA, Cesare. Ricerche intorno alla Natura dello Stile.
Milano, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1770. £1800
8vo, pp. 164, [1] errata; title with double rule; uncut in the original
buV stiV wrappers; some worm damage to spine, with half of spine
covering lost, but stitching Wrm; a Wne, unsophisticated copy.
First edition, rare, of Beccaria’s main literary work, his important contribution
to philosophy and aesthetics. Beccaria discusses in detail the relationship
between form and content. He had included a preliminary article on