Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

FireWghting
298 STEINBECK, Christoph Gottlieb. Feuersnoth- und Hülfsbuch
fürs teutsche Volk und seine Freunde. Nach dem Krügelsteinischen
System bearbeitet... Leipzig, Voß und Comp. 1802. £650
8vo, pp. xx, 300; woodcut to title page; contemporary half vellum over
paste-paper covered boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; spine
rubbed; a Wne copy from the Fugger family library in Augsburg.
First edition, Leipzig issue (there is also a Munich issue) of this popular
manual on Wre prevention, based on Krügelstein’s three-volume work
Vollständiges System der Feuer-Polizeiwissenschaft (1798–1800). Steinbeck
(1766–1826) gives a very practical introduction to Wre-prevention. After a
brief discussion of sources of Wre, Xammable materials, and the practical
organisation of Wre-Wghting, he concentrates on preventive measures: How
to Wre-proof building materials for use in construction, the use of lightning
rods, the need for implementing rules for Wre prevention in towns and cities.
To make the work more accessible for the general population it is composed
in the style of an almanach. After the introductory remarks,
individual problems are presented in dialogue form.
Not found in NUC, RLIN locates one copy at Harvard; two copies in German
libraries, at the Bavarian State Library and Göttingen University Library.
The Might of the Individual
299 STIRNER, Max [pseud. for Johann Kaspar Schmidt.] Der Einzige
und sein Eigenthum... Leipzig, Otto Wiegand. 1845. £1600
8vo, pp. [ii], 491, [1] imprint; occasional light browning, due to paper
quality; contemporary moiré cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt;
a Wne copy, with small private library stamp to verso of title.
First edition of Stirner’s inXuential and highly original main work, his proclamation
of individualistic anarchy which placed him in the tradition of
Godwin, and exerted considerable inXuence over the modern school of anarchists
in Germany and Russia. The revolutionary impact of his work, which
was mainly written for the proletariat, lay in this insistence on peoples’ individuality
and their right to self-determination, a bold anticipation of the
psychological basis of Marx’s class struggle. Max Stirner (1806–1856) is also
known for his translations of Adam Smith and other economists.
Stammhammer I, 241; Borst 2187; Menger c. 368.
German Spelling Reform
300 STOSCH, Samuel Johann Ernst. Kleine Beiträge zur nähern
Kenntnis der Deutschen Sprache. Berlin, August Mylius, 1778,
1780. £320
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], 214, [2] errata; [vi], 217, [1]
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errata; woodcut title vignette and decorative head and tail-pieces, paper
occasionally lightly browned and spotted; contemporary full marbled
calf, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, with two gilt-lettered
spine labels; an attractive copy.
First edition of Stosch’s rather entertaining, though entirely disparate commonplace
book on the German language. His observations range from
brief etymological studies, to orthography, grammar and lexicography,
without any clear order or progression. However, the detailed index at the
end of the second part helps in locating pertinent chapters.
He warns of over-zealous spelling reforms, which attempt to simplify the
spelling of foreign words, rendering ‘Genie’, ‘Journal’ and ‘Cambridge’ as
an unintelligible ‘Schenie’, ‘Schurnal’, and ‘Kambritsche’.
A third part was published in 1782,which is not present here.
Bonaparte 9597; NUC lists three copies (CU LCU, ICN).
301 STURZEN-BECKER, Wilhelm Theodor Patrick. Some Notes
on the Leading Grammatical Characteristics of the Principal Early
English Dialects. An Academical Dissertation. Copenhagen, S. Trier,
1868. £60
8vo, pp. 81, [2] abbreviations; uncut and mostly unopened, paper spine.
Original printing of this doctoral dissertation on the grammatical variations
of Old English dialects at the time of the Franco-Norman inXuence. The
dissertation was presented at the university of Lund.
302 [TARIFFS.] TariVa delle Gabelle Toscane. Firenze, Gaetano
Cambiagi Stampatore Granducale, 1781. £750
4to, pp. [ii], 68 [h and h2 misbound], 44, 271, [1] blank, 216, [1]
errata (one extra blank bound in; large title vignette; uncut in the
original limp boards; some light dust-soiling to boards, extremities
rubbed; a Wne copy.
First edition of the revised Tuscan import and export tariVs, following the
legislation of 1781, as part of the far reaching reforms implemented under