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medicine, fashions etc, employing all the standard features of enlightenment
utopian cities – well-ordered, no crime, general happiness.
In a curious chapter he describes artefacts and books lost on earth, but
still present in Sélénopolis.
See Cioranescu 63462, Negley 1141 and Hartig & Soboul p. 57 for Wrst edition;
RLIN lists copies at Chicago and Duke universities.
Hanseatic League
325 VILLERS, Charles de. Constitutions des trois Villes Libres –
Anséatiques, Lubeck, Brêmen, Hambourg. Avec un Mémoire sur le
Rang que doivent occuper ces villes dans l’organisation commerciale
de l’Europe. Avec une carte coloriée. Leipzig, Fr. Arn. Brockhaus,
1814. £450
8vo, pp. [viii], 143, [1], one folding engraved and hand-coloured map
bound at the end; text in French and German; uncut and unopened in
the original glazed printed wrappers; a little dog-eared, else Wne, from
the Starhemberg, Schloss Eferding library, with faint stamp to head of
spine.
First edition of this study of the economic cooperation and power of the
Hanseatic towns and free cities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, after
their annexation by France in 1810 to provide strategic control of the coast
and tighten Napoleon’s Continental Blockade. Their respective constitutions
are printed in French and German. Villers gives a clear outline of the
economic sphere of inXuence of the Hanseatic towns, which is illustrated
on the hand-coloured map. He deWnes them as a proto-European Union,
with beneWcial free trade agreements.
Charles de Villers (1765–1815) was very inXuential in German-French
relations, both through translations of publications by Reimarus etc, but
also through collaborations with Mme de Stael.
Not in Humpert or Goldsmiths’, OCLC lists copies Stanford, Kansas, Michigan,
New York, and Harvard.
326 VOIGT, Lodovico. Gramatica Tedesca dedicata
all’Illustrissimo, ed Eccellentissimo Signor Principe Marchese Don
Antonio Maria Melzi ... Prima Edizione esatamente corretta.
Milano, Domenico Bellagatta, 1729. £160
8vo, pp. xxxxviii, 655, some spotting, last leaf mounted; paper
occasionally a little spotted and browned; bound in contemporary full
vellum over boards, gilt-lettered spine label, later manuscript note to
foot of spine; eighteenth-century manuscript note to front paste-down;
a good copy.
First edition. After a detailed introduction to German pronunciation, German
vocabulary, syntax and the elements of grammar, the second half of the
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work is taken up with bi-lingual sample dialogues. The Wrst ones deal with
the usual topics: situations in the hotel, shopping, amusements, such as
dancing, and military concerns such as horse riding and fencing. Then the
‘dialoghi’ digress to more general, and philosophical topics. In one dialogue
two women discuss the question of whether women should study, and in
the process of the conversation, the more outspoken ‘feminist’ convinces
the other one of the superiority of women in general.
German idioms followed by proverbs and popular sayings take up the
Wnal sections.
Not found in NUC.
327 [VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.] Lettres Ecrites de
Londres sur le Anglois et autres Sujets. Par M. D. V.***. Basle, [i.e.
London, Bowyer], 1734.
[bound with:] Lettre sur les Panégiriques. Par Irenée Aléthès. La Haye,
Frederic Staatman, 1767. £850
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], 228, 19; 15; late eighteenthcentury
red boards, spine lettered in manuscript; head and tail of spine
chipped and corners lightly bumped, spine and sides a little faded; a
good copy.
First edition in French of this fascinating volume of great philosophical and
scientiWc interest, which was, in fact partly written in English and Wrst published
in English the previous year. It was written by Voltaire as a kind of
testimony of his love of ‘things English’, and then subsequently partly rewritten
in French for the French editions. Buruma observes that Voltaire
invented a new genre: instead of writing an ordinary travel book, he approached
his subject as an intellectual traveller and wrote a journey of ideas.
He made no eVort to describe what England looked like, but wanted to
show what Englishmen thought. Much of what he admired about England
and the English was, of course, taken as criticism of his own country, and
some attempts were made to suppress this French version.
Bound with it is the third issue of Voltaire’s Lettre sur les Panégiriques,
Wrst printed the same year.
I. Bengesco 1558, Vol II, p. 14–15; ESTC t138264; II. Bengesco 1740, 3.
Micromégas
328 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. Le Micromégas de
Mr. de Voltaire. Avec une Histoire des Croisades & un Nouveau
Plan de l’Histoire de l’Esprit Humain. Par le Même. Londres [i.e.
Gotha], 1752. £650
8vo, pp. [ii], 257; some dampstaining to lower inner corner, with slight
paper damage to last few leaves; contempoary sheep backed marbled
boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label.