Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

Smith would today not be regarded as pests, such as otters, badgers, hedgehogs
and various breeds of birds of prey. Smith concentrates on the rat, and
makes a number of suggestions on how to catch them alive or, if necessary,
poison them. The rat-traps together with steel traps for foxes and cube traps
for birds of prey, are illustrated on the Wnely engraved plates.
ESTC t132212; see Goldsmiths’–Kress 330126 for 1841 edition; numerous further
editions were published.
288 [SONNENFELS.] ANON. Bordelle sind in Wien nothwendig.
Herr Hofrath von Sonnenfels mag dagegen auf seinem
Katheder predigen, was er will. [n.p.], 1786. £200
8vo, pp. 29; recent marbled boards; bookplate for Theodor Karajan to
verso of title with slight show through.
Reasoned response to Sonnenfels’s condemnation of brothels in Vienna.
The anonymous author defends the institution of brothels for public health
reasons. The bourgeois opponents of brothels are pilloried, especially since
they are, according to the author, most likely to have a mistress installed in
a comfortable apartment and therefore have no need to frequent brothels.
Not found in RLIN or OCLC.
289 SONNINI, Charles Sigisbert and Arsenne THIEBAUT de
BERNEAUD. Annuaire de l’Industrie Française, ou Recueil par
ordre alphabétique des inventions, decouvertes et perfectionnemens
dans les arts utiles et agréables, qui se font à Paris et dans les
Départements. Année 1811. Première Année. Paris, D. Colas,
[1811]. £750
24mo, pp. [xvi], xii, 416; contemporary roan-backed boards, spine
ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label and numbering piece, boards a little
faded, but a good copy.
First edition of a fascinating publication, an alphabetic listing of industrial
products, with their patent holders, producers and merchants, from all over
France. In eVect a catalogue of industrial innovation, together with the ‘Yellow
Pages’, for suitable addresses. More than seven hundred products are
listed and described, ranging from Aiguilles needles, formerly all imported
from England, but now produced in France, available at an address in Paris
to the Zymosimètre, a device invented by Charpentier-de Cossigny to
measure fermentation in wine, beer, cidre etc. The subject index allows easy
access to the individual entries, whereas the index of names gives inventors
and merchants.
RLIN and OCLC list two copies at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania,
with further copies at the Bibliothèque Nationale; there appears to be one copy at
the Bibliothèque Nationale, which extends to a second year.
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten
Builders’ Price List
290 SPINELLI, Giovanni Battista Bruno. Economia nelle Fabriche
e Regola di tutti li Materiali per Costruire ogni Fabrica Urbana,
e Rurale, per saperne di ciò distintamente la Spesa. Bologna, Gio
Pietro Barbiroli, 1708. £950
4to, pp. [xii], 120, with one folding printed table and numerous Wgures
in the text; decorative initials; paper lightly and evenly browned and
spotted, due to paper quality; contemporary buV Xexible boards, with
later marble paper spine, chipped; a good copy.
Second, substantially enlarged edition (Wrst 1698) of a price guide for
builders and construction workers together with practical information on
building practices. Spinelli covers construction, maintenance and renovation
of houses, and gives information on the cost of a variety of procedures,
such as making and installing window seats, plaster mouldings, ironwork,
decorative Xoor tiles, stone and wooden vaults, driveways, both public and
private. He gives a detailed list of the cost of materials and itemised lists of
various building projects together with labour costs. The price list is immensely
detailed, every skill or process is listed individually. Spinelli also
gives information on the contractual arrangements between foreman and
day labourers, and the general contractor. This includes not just legal questions,
but also of provisions, with details of the necessary quality and quantity
of wine to be made available to the workmen. He includes a brief Wnal
section with practical advice for occupational injuries.
Cicognara 453; Goldsmiths’–Kress 4479.4; RLIN and OCLC list copies at the
University of Chicago and the Kress library, with the Folger library and the National
Gallery of Art holding copies of the Wrst edition.
Up to SnuV
291 [SPINETTO, Albanus de, vere: HERTEL, Johann Friedrich.]
Politische Schnupf-Tobacs-Dose vor die wächserne Nase der Justiz
in sich fassend Juristische Streit-Fragen in Handel und Wandel
von denen Kauf- und Mieth- oder Pacht auch andern Contracten,
mit satyrischer Feder entworfen, und aus dem Italiänischen ins
Teutsche übersetzt. Franckfurth und Leipzig, 1739. £1200
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xxviii], 439; separate title-page for
second section; title-page a little dust-soiled, else clean throughout;
contemporary half vellum over sprinkled boards; an attractive copy.
First edition of this satirical criticism of the intricacies of legal argument and
the legal profession. Purportedly a translation from the Italian, but in fact
written by Hertel (1667–1743), a German jurist and professor of law, the
work satirises how under the present legal system cases can be won on
‘points’ rather than justice being done. Legal questions are presented in the
guise of snuV, and each nostril expels a solution to the problem. Both solutions
follow an intrinsic logic and are backed up by extensive legal refer-