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Catalogue Sixteen

Susanne Schulz-Falster
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1 [ABC – ANON.] Das ABC cum Notis Variorum
Herausgegeben von einem dessen Nahmen im A.B.C. stehet. Erster
und Ander Theil. Leipzig, Dresden, Johann Christoph Miethen,
Johann Heinrich Richter, 1703. £1,400
Two parts in one volume, 8vo; frontispiece woodcut of cockerel, pp.
[ii], title printed in red and black, 210 with one large folding printed
table after M2; 287, [1] cockerel woodcut; a few signatures with light
dampstaining, stronger towards the end; nineteenth century calf-backed
marbled boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, spine label;
early mss note to title, Leipzig, 1732, private ownership stamp, mostly
removed.
First complete edition of this introdution to all aspects of the alphabet,
literal, mystical, musical, historical and alchemical. The Wrst volume was
Wrst published in 1695, the second is here published for the Wrst time.
The Wrst section gives origin and literary occurance of all letters of the
alphabet, followed by the history of alphabets, biblical references, and anagrams,
such as ‘Magister’ – ‘Saget mir’. The second half contains examples
of number logic and number alphabets, secret language, and ciphers for
divination and prognostication. Trigonal alphabets, the use of letters in
mathematical puzzles, letters for decoding cryptographic messages and the
use of letters in cabbalistic practices are all covered in this loosely arranged
compilation.
Amongst other entertaining anecdotes, a satire is included by the
baroque author Christian Weise (1673), on the inability to pronounce
the letter R, with a whole speech avoiding the letter.
The attractive full-page woodcut, which is used both as a frontispiece
and on the Wnal leaf of part two, shows a cockerel positioned on a book,
with two smaller Wghting cockerels at his feet. This image later became an
integral part of early ABC books.
Graesse I, p. 3; Rosenthal, Bibliotheca paedagogica, 3l.
JeVerson and Dupont de Nemours were Members
2 [AGRICULTURE.] Annuaire de la Société d’Agriculture
du Département de la Seine. Pour l’An 1809. Paris, Mme Huzard,
1809. £280
8vo, pp. 59; title vignette; uncut in the original stiV paste-paper
wrappers; extremities a little chipped, but a Wne copy.
A curious annual for the Agricultural Society of the Departement Seine,
founded in 1797. Given is a list of members – among them Dupont de
Nemours, who (after a period in America) spent time in France to research
and edit the works of Turgot – followed by associated and foreign members,
including JeVerson, president of the United States. Further information
includes associated societies and local and foreign correspondents.
OCLC: University of Pennsylvania and Bibliothèque Nationale only.
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First Documentation of Bourgeois Family Life
3 [ALBERTI, Leon Battista.] Trattato del governo della Famiglia.
D’Agnolo PandolWni. Colla Vita del Medesimo scritta da Vespasiano
da Bisticci. 1734. Florence, Tartini e Franchi, 1734. £650
4to, pp. 52, 104; engraved title vignette, title printed in red and black;
engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials; uncut in the original buV
boards; marbled paper spine; a good copy.
First edition thus of book III of Alberti’s famous courtesy book Della Famiglia,
written between 1437 and 1441. Alberti (1404–72), Italian humanist,
philosopher, painter and architect, a true ‘Renaissance man’, concentrates
in this most important third part on household management and business.
In lively dialogues with his family he stresses the importance of family life
and a well-run household. The dialogues are based not on principles but on
real people and have a life-like immediacy. He underlines the importance
of business and money, which is central to the household and needs to
be managed carefully. Alberti’s description of content family life under the
watchful eye of the pater familias has been used by sociologists as the Wrst
documentation of bourgeois family life.
This third book has often been mistakenly attributed to Agnolo PandolWni.
Gamba 700.
Lighthouse Illumination
4 ALDINI, Giovanni. Saggio di macchine relative alla luce
intermittente dei fari tanto a olio che a gas. Modena, TipograWa
Camerale, 1825. £3,400
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4to, pp. 24, two hand-coloured folding engraved plates; contemporary
full marbled calf, sides with decorative leaf roll; spine a little chipped; a
large copy, very clean and crisp.
First edition, uncommon, of Aldini’s more advanced second contribution
on the construction and illumination of lighthouses, using both oil and gas
as an illuminant. Aldini begins with a brief survey on earlier publications
on lighthouses, including his own Saggio di Osservazioni sui mezzi atti a
migliorare la costruzione e l’illuminazione dei fari, of 1823, and illustrates
some of the designs. Here he mainly proposes a hydraulic mechanism
for the intermittent light beam of the lighthouse. He also comments on
illuminations for festivities, street and theatre lighting, accompanied by
technical detail.
Giovanni Aldini (1762–1834) was an ardent and early champion of the
electrical theories advanced by Galvani, his uncle, and established his own
reputation with several early essays which showed the eVects of electrical
current on the human organism. A keen investigator of mechanical and
thermic phenomena, in the last decade of his life, he turned his research to
methods of artiWcial lighting and experiments in WreWghting.
DSB, I, pp. 107V; Hirsch, I, p. 98; OCLC: Harvard, NYS College of Ceramics.
Lottery Calendar and Legislation
5 [ALMANAC – LOTTERY.] Königl. Dänischer Lotto-
Calender für das Jahr 1827. Altona, Königliche Lotto-Druckerey,
1827. £550
12mo, ll. 30, title and calendar within decorative border, interleaved
copy; bound in the original blue silk, sides with gilt decoration and with
the arms of the Danish King Frederic VI to both sides; extremities a
little rubbed, foot of spine chipped, still an attractive copy.
A charming lottery calendar, which, in addition to normal calendar in formation,
gives the dates of the lottery draws in Copenhagen, Wandsbeck
and Altona. A preliminary note outlines the prevalent legislation regulating
lotteries. Lottery tickets are only to be bought at oYcial lottery oYces, not
syndicated and not to be sold on. A Wnal listing gives the winning lottery
numbers of the weekly draws since 1817 (Wve corrrect numbers were
suYcient) for Copenhagen, Wandsbeck and Altona, followed by a useful
guide to how often individual numbers (1 to 90) have been drawn in the
past decade. An indication of the expected earnings, depending on the
number of correct entries, is also given.
This useful little lottery calendar gives a fascinating glimpse into the
lottery craze of the eighteenth century.
KVK records just three issues of this calendar, all in Hamburg (1797, 1839, 1848);
no records in OCLC.

6 [ANON.] Discorso sopra i mezzi di riparare ai mali
della ineguaglianza estrema, della loro giustizia, ed utilita, e della
loro necessita nelle repubbliche. Lucca, Domenico Marescandoli,
1801. £650
8vo, pp. 82, [2] blank; uncut in the orginal blue wrappers; paper fault
to upper margin of B2, with loss of two letters; occasionally a little
browned; with extensive contemporary manuscript annotations in ink.
First edition of this anonymous publication, advocating land reform as
a method for eliminating excessive inequality within the population.
According to the preface this is a more elaborate version of his earlier
brief pamphlet entitled Principi di legislazione agraria coll’aggiunta di nuove
riXessioni (1797). The anonymous author proposes distribution of feudal
and church properties to the people, in order to create a self-suYcient
agricultural class. At the same time a reform of the inheritance of land from
one generation to the next is also considered. This more equal distribution
of land would in turn result in a more equal and just society. The author
refers repeatedly to the concepts of Rousseau, Helvetius, Montesquieu, and
Adam Smith.
In three separate chapters the anonymous author discusses the legality
of the proposal; its usefulness, in not just generating a more equal society,
but also in reducing crime; and Wnally a political conclusion justifying land
reform as major characteristic of republics.
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A mid-nineteenth century reader apparently found extensive similarities in
the arguments of this work and Jean-Paul Alban de Villeneuve-Bargement’s
Economie politique chrétienne, 1834, who advocated that a Christian spirit of
law should curb the excesses of capitalism, and has added annotations in
ink to that eVect.
KVK and OCLC list one copy at the Risorgimento Museum, Turin only.
Money not Revolution
7 [ANON.] Der Zeitgeist oder das Geld. Eine vorgelesene Rede
von C. Dortmund, Ch. L. Krüger, 1834. £250
8vo, pp. 64; contemporary paste-paper covered boards, mss label
to spine, with gilt heraldic stamp to upper board; from the Staatsbibliothek
Berlin, with release stamp.
First and presumably only edition of this far-sighted political publication,
deploring the fact that any ideas of political change were undermined by
a materialistic society and a general desire for aZuence. Money being the
center of desire did not allow for revolutionary ideas of social change.
This was the period of the so-called Vormärz, when government in
Austria and Prussia was characterised by control, censorship and a general
clamp-down on liberal ideas, which led to a reversal of the ideals of the
Enlightenment.
See Gersdorf, Repertorium der gesammten deutschen Literatur, III, p. 436; OCLC
and KVK list 4 copies in Germany.
Ventilation Perfected
8 [AVOGADRO, Giuseppe, Conte di Casanova.] Expériences
et RéXéxions sur les Avantages que l’on peut se procurer par les
Ventilateurs Naturels. Verceil, Joseph Panialis, 1793. £250
Small 8vo, pp. 40; some light foxing; in contemporary marbled boards;
minor wear to head and tail of spine and extremities.
Rare Wrst French edition of this brief essay examining the use and potential
beneWts of the recently invented ‘ventilateurs naturels’, devised by Giuseppe
Avogadro, and here translated anonymously. The work Wrst appeared as
Saggio di alcuni sperimenti e di varie riXessioni sopra i vantaggi, che si possono
trarre dai naturali ventilatori, in 1791. The removal of fetid and noxious
fumes, especially located around sewers and latrines, is achieved by the
introduction of ‘un courant d’air atmosphérique qui chassât avec force l’air fétide
qui s’y trouvoit sans mouvement’ (p. 8). Experiments carried out at ‘l’Hospice de
charité de Verceil, et ensuite dans l’Hôpital de la même Ville, où l’on en éprouva les
plus prompts et les plus salutaires eVets’ (p. 37).
Born in Vercelli in 1731, Avogadro went on to become Prime Minister of
the Department of Sesia, and was created a knight of the Legion d’Onore. An
agronomist, he wrote a number of works including, ‘Avviso sulla cultura ed
irrigazione delle praterie; Metodo per coltivare il lino, secondo il celebre Duhamel;

Metodo facile e pratico per la costruzione di una volta’ (Dizionario BiograWco
Universale, p. 239).
OCLC locates just one copy at the American Philosophical Society.
9 [BANKING – ANON.] Ein Blick in die Geschichte der
Zettelbanken in Europa und auf die Errichtung einer Nationalbank
in Baiern. Nuremberg, Riegel and Wiessner, 1822. £400
8vo, pp. 16; stitched as issued.
First edition of this essay on the history of note-issuing banks in Europe, i.e.
the national banks, together with an argument to prevent the establishment
of a Bavarian National Bank. The anonymous author gives a brief overview
of early giro banks, and also of early banking crashes, such as the collapse
of Law’s system, the suspension of cash payments in England in 1797,
and the collapse of the Swedish national bank. He counters the arguments
which have been raised in favour of the Bavarian National Bank – such as
ease of money circulation, use of dead capital, cheap loans to agriculture
and industry, reduction of emigration – and rebukes every single one of
them, by maintaining that existing banks already oVer the same, without
the inherent risk to the Bavarian state government.
The author of this pamphlet has not been established. He also published
another anonymous work, Ein freymüthiges Wort über Handel und Zollgesetze.
Vom Verfasser der Schrift: Ein Blick in die Geschichte der Zettelbanken.
(1826).
Not found in OCLC or KVK.
Lending Bank for Hamburg
10 [BANKING – ANON.] Hamburgs jetzige merkantilische
Lage und Wirkungskreis der Darlehns-Anstalten. Ein Versuch
der handelnden Welt zur Beurtheilung vorgelegt. Deutschland,
[Hamburg, Kratsch], 1807. £480
Small 8vo, pp. [iv], 47, [1] blank; contemporary marbled boards, a little
rubbed and spine chipped.
First and only edition of a proposal for the foundation of a lending bank in
Hamburg, to protect the local economy and support Hamburg business in
the wake of the serious Wnancial crisis of 1799, which had led to numerous
bank and business failures in the city. The anonymous author argues that
Hamburg, as a city concentrating on trade, Wnance and insurance only,
with no manufacturing base, needed to encourage industry, possibly
through providing factories. More importantly, however, money had to be
made available, through a loan bank, which dealt in exchange credits and
underwrote state loans.
Not in Kress and Goldsmiths’; very uncommon, KVK and OCLC list just two
copies in Hamburg.
Goods and Chattels
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11 BAUMANN, J. J. Valentin. Ueber Vermögensaufnahmen,
Theilungen und Verweisungen auf dem Lande: Mit Bezeichnung
der im praktischen Geschäftsleben vorkommenden Gegenstände,
und der Anwendung der Großherzoglichen Badischen Landrechts
auf solche. Nebst neu und vollständig eingerichtetem Fahrniß-
Register. Freiburg, Herder, 1828. £750
8vo, pp. x, iv, xxxviii, [2] errata, 206; occasional light spotting, due
to paper quality; contemporary red patterned boards, spine ruled and
lettered in gilt, sides with single gilt Wllet; a.e.g.
First edition of this comprehensive guide to assessing the Wnancial
value of personal assets, goods and chattels for the purpose of clarifying
inheritance questions, in divorce and property separation cases, when used
as compensation for debt, or when being seized in satisfaction of a writ.
Baumann maintains that questions regarding personal assets are the main
causes of legal conXicts in civil cases, and that therefore a well maintained
register of personal assets will reduce, if not eliminate, these cases. He cites
throughout current legislation on the basis of the Baden civil code.
The work begins with an extensive checklist of items covered by the term
personal assets, goods and chattels – in itself a fascinating document of
early nineteenth century social history. Bauman then discusses questions
of accounting for assets, procedures for using assets as compensation,
inheritance questions, the inheritance of debt, inheritance of obligations,
and usufruct, ie the right to use and enjoy the proWts of a property belonging
to another. Throughout he refers to relevant legislation and the Baden
legal code, and gives numerous practical examples and explains practical
procedure.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, OCLC: Freiburg, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Berlin,
and Karlsruhe only.
The Laughing Philosopher
12 [BEHNISCH, Heinrich Wolfgang.] Der neue Demokrit,
oder der lachende Philosoph. Leipzig and Pressburg, Benediktische
Buchhandlung, 1784. £900
8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 112; engraved title vignette of laughing philosopher;
contemporary half calf over paste-paper boards, spine in compartments,
with gilt-lettered spine label; boards a little crooked; mss ownership
inscription removed from title.
First edition, very rare, of this amusing study of the ridiculous in human
life, the philosophy of laughter. Behnisch stresses the positive in laughter
‘So of jemand lacht, so oft setzet er seinem Leben etwas zu: er treibt das Lebensrad
in eine Xüchtigere Rotation, er befördert den freyen Umlauf des Bluts, er thut
der ganzen Maschine wohl, und badet so zu sagen, die Seele im Vergnügen’

(introduction). Laughter, he maintains, has the same eVect as a dose of
opium.
Behnisch sees reasons for laughter in all aspects of human life, in the
diVerent ages of man, in fashion and aspects of beauty. He describes the
ridiculous in the class system and in modern morals, even funeral customs,
and at the same time warns of moral condescension against foreign customs.
Etiquette and polite behaviour come in for criticism, but in particular he
identiWes human passions as a source for laughter – from love, to self-love,
gambling addiction to drink, all these provide a perfect target for laughter
and ridicule. Well-read, he spices his observations with citations from
classical literature and historical sources.
This rare work is generally listed as anonymous, but a note in the text
referring to an earlier publication by the author, allows the identiWcation
of the anonymous author as Heinrich Wolfgang Behnisch (with thanks to
Dr. Georg Miller).
Hayn-Gotendorf II, 27; rare, OCLC lists National Library of Slovenia, Dresden;
KVK adds Weimar.
Presentation Copy
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13 BENTHAM, Jeremy. Chrestomathia: being a Collection of
Papers, Explanatory of the Design of an Institution, Proposed to
be Set on Foot, under the Name of the Chrestomathic Day School,
or Chrestomathic School, for the Extension of the New System of
Instruction to the Higher Branches of Learning, for the Use of the
Middling and Higher Ranks in Life. London, Payne and Foss, and
R. Hunter, 1816. £1,800
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. xxi, [v], 347, [2], 24, 5 folding
tables; publisher’s boards, spine worn and with piece missing, joints
cracked, inscribed on front free endpaper ‘Presented by Dr Bowring’,
Mead-Row Library label, ink stamps on paste-downs and on Wnal leaf of
text, pages uncut and clean, apart from ink blotches on pp. 136–7.
Presentation copy from Sir John Bowring of Chrestomathia, Bentham’s
principal work on educational reform, in which he applied the principles
of the Bell and Lancastrian systems to the higher branches of learning.
Bentham’s Utilitarian principles are applied particularly in Part II, which
is an example of the principles of the choice of the lesser of two evils as
a means to the greatest happiness of the greatest number, and of oYcial
aptitude maximised and expense minimised.
Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) was Bentham’s chief disciple and became
his editor. Bentham left him all his manuscripts together with money
towards their publication.
Chuo C1.2; Goldsmiths’–Kress 21357.
14 BERTARELLI, E. Le condizioni Igieniche dei Fonditori di
Caratteri Ricerche sperimentali di Igiene Industriale. Estratto dall
Rivista d’Igiene e Sanità pubblica Anno XIV – 1903. Turin, Fratelli
Pozzo, 1903. £180
8vo, pp. 38, [2] blank; with three photographic illustrations in the text;
original printed wrappers, wrapper a little dampstained, with wear to
spine.
First edition of this contribution to public health science, a study on the
working conditions of typecasters at the Nebiolo typefoundry. Bertarelli
examines the working conditions and workers’ health statistics over the
course of three years and presents various Wndings. He particularly studies
the eVect of improved ventilation in the work rooms, and suggests better
cleaning processes, and the introduction of speciWc ventilation covers for
the type casting machines.
Bertarelli proposes strict rules, such as speciWc work clothes, wearing of
masks, and gloves, both of which need to be left at the work place; strict
cleaning processes must be adhered to when leaving the work place. He
also makes some dietary suggestions: consumption of milk should be

ecommended, whereas the drinking of acidic beverages should be severely
limited. Women in the last weeks of pregnancy should not be allowed to
work in type-casting.
Genoa’s Political History
15 [BIANCHI, Agostino.] RiXessioni sulla Grandezza e
Decadenza della Repubblica di Genova. [colophon:] Genoa,
Stamperia nazionale, 1797. £480
8vo, pp. 235, [5] errata and imprint; some staining to blank verso of
last leaf; twentieth century half vellum over boards, gilt-lettered spine
label; author and date inserted in ink on title.
First edition of this detailed political history of Genoa, inspired by and
modelled on Montesquieu’s earlier Considerations on the Causes of the
Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans. Clearly designed as a political
philosophy published in the year when French pressure under Napoleon
put an end to Genoa’s aristocratic rule and the Ligurian Republic was
formed. Bianchi begins with the emergence of Genoa in the thirteenth
century, when its maritime power increased considerably and it competed
with Venice for the position as the foremost mercantile power in the
Mediterranean. Adopting early on a funtioning banking system with the
Banca di San Giorgio, Genoese power increased. But diVerent to Venice
with its stable political elite, in Genoa political power constantly shifted,
weakening its position.
Bianchi concludes with encouragement to his fellow citizens by pointing
out how commerce, navigation and patriotism saved the fate of Genoa in
the past, whereas disunity and internal Wghting have weakened it. He makes
some proposals for a new political constitution of Genoa.
KVK lists copies at the BL, Genoa, Rome, Turin, and OCLC adds Michigan, New
York, and Illinois.
The Sciences during the French Revolution
16 BIOT, Jean-Baptiste. Essai sur l’histoire génerale des sciences
pendant la Révolution française. Paris, Duprat, Fuchs, An 11
1803. £850
8vo, pp. [iv], 83, with extensive mss note at end; some light browning;
entirely uncut, as issued in contemporary blue wrappers; a Wne copy.
First edition of Biot’s history of the sciences during the French Revolution,
originally meant for the new edition of the Journal des Écoles normales, but
published separately. Biot documents how chemistry had come to the
forefront during the French Revolution, whether it was establishing the
new units of weight measurement, improving the manufacture of salpeter
and gunpowder, advances in metallurgy and dyeing, and the setting up of
armaments factories, all these were dominated by chemists, such as Lavoisier
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etc. Biot’s history of the sciences clearly is dominated by the concept of the
continuing perfectibility of science and its application.
The physicist, mathematician and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–
1862), was closely associated with many of the institutions for education and
research that were a prominent feature of the France after the Revolution,
which gave him the perfect vantage point for this study. He was professor
of astronomy in Paris, a member of numerous societies, and devoted his
life to the pursuit of science. He was the author of a number of inXuential
textbooks, and made important contributions to mathematics, astronomy,
and in particular the polarization of light by reXection.
Monglond VI 469; DSB II, 134–140.
Finely Engraved Emblematic Vignettes
17 [BLUMAUER, Aloys.] Gedichte und Lieder verfasst von den
Brüdern der Loge zur Wahren Eintracht im O. v. W***. [Vienna],
Christ. Fried. Wappler, 1784. £1,100
8vo, pp. [viii] including engraved title within decorative border,
104, with 28 Wnely engraved vignettes; very clean and crisp, printed
on heavy paper; contemporary mottled calf, spine decoratively gilt
in compartments, with two contrasting gilt-lettered spine labels,
insigniWcant worm damage to foot of spine; a Wne copy, with cipher ‘F’
to title, and small circular stamp to verso.

Re-issue of the Wrst edition, published a year earlier. A particularly appealing
example of Austrian book production towards the end of the eighteenth
century, a collection of poems, illustrated with twenty-four Wnely engraved
emblematic vignettes. The anthology contains thirty poems by members
of the Viennese Freemason’s lodge Zur wahren Einheit, all just identiWed
by their initials, Wfteen of the poems are by Aloys Blumauer, who was
also the editor, eight by Joseph Franz Ratschky, four by Gottlieb Leon,
and individual poems by Joseph von Retzer, Schlosser and Veit von
Schittlersberg.
Aloys Blumauer (1755–1798) was a main exponent of the Austrian
enlightenment. Employed as a Bücherzensor in 1782, he had great hopes
of the liberal tendencies of Emperor Joseph II as an enlightened ruler. As
editor of the Wiener Realzeitung and later of the Wiener Musenalmanch,
he helped publish many of his fellow writers. He was an active Freemason
and a member of the lodge Zur wahren Einheit, which under the leadership
of Ignaz von Born, became a forum for the literary and scientiWc elite of
the time. ‘Eine Eliteloge mit literarisch-wissenschaftlicher Tendenz, ein Sam melpunkte
aller derer, die auf diesen Gebieten Rang und Namen hatten’ (Rosenstrauch-Königsberg,
Freimaurerei im josephinischen Wien, p. 65).
Holzmann-Bohatta II, 5387; Wolfstieg, Bibliographie der freimauerischen Literatur,
39776; very uncommon, OCLC lists BL and Boston College for Wrst edition of
1783 and Wolfenbüttel for this edition; for further information see B. Becker-
Cantarino, Aloys Blumauer and the Literature of Austrian Enlightenment, 1973.
Rousseau Rejected
18 [BONALD, Luis de.] Essai analytique sur les Lois Naturelles
de l’ordre Social, ou du Pouvoir, du Ministre et du Sujet dans la
Société. Paris, [n.p.], 1800. £750
8vo, pp. [iv], 259, [1] errata; some occasional foxing, a couple of
signatures lightly browned, due to paper stock; contemporary calf,
rebacked, gilt-lettered spine label, extremities rubbed and foot of spine
chipped.
First edition of Bonald’s critique of the social order after the French
Revolution, following on from his earlier Théorie du pouvoir politique et
religieux dans la société civile, (1796), a blue-print of his conservative and
anti-revolutionary philosophy and a critique of liberal democracy. Bonald’s
system is essentially an answer to Rousseau and the theory of the social
contract. ‘Where Rousseau begins with the individual and individual rights,
Bonald begins with the fact of society and tradition as giving the individual
a reality. He considers individualism socially dangerous... The guiding factor
in Bonald’s state is religion, which has as its object the repression of
the individualist passions. The ultimate goal he Wnds in the unity of the
sovereignty in the state. He argues against Montesquieu’s theory of the
division of powers.
In the Chapter, Considérations Générales sur l’Etat Présent et Future de la
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Société, Bonald, who views democracy as anarchy and religious freedom as
atheism, describes the new French republic as corrupt and fanatic.
Bonald (1754–1840), a French social philosopher and émigré during
the French revolution, was the leading theorist of the traditionalist school
of thought in France, who advocated a return to ‘traditional values’ after
the ravages of the French Revolution. He maintained that freedom of
thought and inquiry and political liberty, the premises of the revolution,
had destroyed the unity of society.
Bonald’s philosophy has had a marked inXuence on modern neo-Catholic
traditionalist movements in France and Italy. He also inXuenced
Comte, and through Comte some of his doctrine has passed into modern
sociology.
The work remained popular, a second edition was published in 1817,
and further editions followed in 1835 and 1840.
Querard, p. 394; OCLC: Harvard, Boston College, Stanford, Ohio State.
Book Auction Catalogue
19 [BOOK AUCTION.] BOECKER, Johann Heinrich.
Bibliotheca Boeckeriana, scriptoribus multis Graecis, Corpore
Histor. Byzant. Biblioth. Max. PP. Tomis Conciliorum, Editionibus
Patrum praestantissimis, aliisque Libris Theologicis, Philolog.
Historicis, Philos. Mathematicis, haud vulgaribus, imo rarrissimis,
et praeterea formae exterioris elegantia se commendantibus
instructa, ... Nunc vero publica Auctione Hamburgi in aedibus
Viduae B. Jo. Joach. Wiese, auf der Breiten Strasse am Pferde-
Marckt, a 1734, d. 20. Octobr. & seqq distrahendos, eruditis
Aestimatoribus numerate pecunia addicere decreverunt Haeredes.
Ratzeburg, Andreas Hartz, 1734. £1,100
8vo, pp. [ii] 158; some foxing and spotting, due to paper stock; narrow
worm trace to upper joint, touching the Wrst few leaves; contemporary
stiV mottled paper wrappers, some light worm damage to upper joint,
spine a little worn, and foot of spine exposed; a little dog-eared, and
with ink annotations to title page; from the library of the Servite order
Rossau in Austria, with engraved book plate to front pastedown and
small heraldic cipher to Wrst page.
First and only edition of a rare auction catalogue of the library of Johann
Heinrich Böckler (1611–1672). The extensive scientiWc research library
contains mostly seventeenth century books, 587 titles in folio, 681 in
quarto, 679 in 8vo, 401 in 12mo, with 74 additions of various sizes.
The books were arranged by size, then alphabetically by author, with full
titles and dates of publication, and occasionally some information on the
bindings. Predominant are historical and political publications, most of
them in Latin, but many in French and German, English translations are
also included.

The political historian and jurist Böckler studied at the universities of
Altdorf, Tübingen and Strassbourg, and from 1638 became professor of
rhetoric in Strassbourg. Between 1648 and 1652 he held the same position
at the university of Uppsala, where he supported the protestant position
as a counter balance to Roman Catholic power in Sweden. His theory of
state, clearly anti-Machiavellian, was subject to protestant ethical values.
Together with Struve he is regarded as the Wrst commentator on Grotius.
Johann Heinrich Böckler was the brother of the well-known architect Georg
Andreas Böckler, who had been architect to the Margrave of Brandenburg-
Ansbach.
Loh, Verzeichnis der Kataloge von Buchauktionen, pt 2 1731–1760, p. 27; see
Jaumann, H., Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit, p. 111 V; not in Blogie,
Taylor or Sammlung Krieg; OCLC and KVK list just one copy in Tübingen.
The Auctioneer’s Marked-Up Copy
20 [BOOK AUCTION – WATERMEYER.] Catalogus der
Bücher des weil. Hrn. Consistorialraths Watermeyer in Stade,
die am ten März 1810 und den folgenden Tagen im Sterbehause
öVentlich meistbietend verkauft werden sollen. Stade, H. A.
Friedrich, [1810]. £2,500
4to interleaved with 8vo, pp. [ii], 300; interleaved with auction results
and information on buyers in ink; contemporary pale blue boards,
covers a little rubbed, spine covering recently renewed.
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Auctioneer’s copy of the auction of the extensive library of Albrecht Anton
Watermeyer in Stade, in a multi-day auction from March 19th to April 4th,
1810. In this extensive single owner sale, in all over six thousand titles were
oVered, mostly in German, but with some of them in Latin, English, French
and Hebrew, arranged by size and comprising 178 folio, 782 quarto, and
4286 octavo, 398 12mo, 305 unbound books, some calendars and almanacs
and 135 maps. In each case author, title, place and year of publication are
given. This copy is interleaved, with 4to blank pages bound in between the
8vo catalogue pages, containing a manuscript record of buyers and prices,
together with a running total.
On the verso of the title Wve commission bidders are listed, with the
invitation to contact them to leave commissions. This was clearly a popular
option, as a substantial number of lots are knocked down to them, but a large
number of other bidders were also involved, both private and institutional.
An interesting insight into an early nineteenth century auction of a clearly
eighteenth century library.
Watermeyer (1837–1809), was a preacher at the local garrison, and church
oYcial (Konsistorialrat) in Stade. Together with Pratier he organised, at his
own expense, a teacher seminary for the general improvement of education
in the area.
Not in Loh or Blogie; not found in KVK or OCLC.
21 BORIA, Joannes de. Moralische Sinn-Bilder, von Ihme vor
diesem in Spanisch geschrieben nachmahls in Lateinisch nunmehro
aber wegen seiner VortreZichkeit in die Hoch-Teutsche Sprache
übersetzet von Georg Friedrich ScharVen. Berlin, Johann Michael
Rüdiger, printed by Ulrich Liebpert, 1698. £1,200
4to, pp. [viii], 201; engraved title vignette, head- and tail pieces, and
100 engraved emblems, engraved and within circular frame; some
spotting and browning throughout, due to paper stock; contemporary
vellum over boards, a little soiled; bound without front or Wnal
endpaper.

First edition in German of Boria’s important emblem book, translated by
Georg Friedrich ScharV. The one hundred emblems by J. C. Schott are
each accompanied by a four-line verse and a detailed explanation on the
facing page. All the emblems are presented within a circular frame and are
of striking directness. The range of the objects depicted in the emblems is
fascinating, and their iconographic and symbolic richness combine diverse
kinds of knowledge and rhetorical procedures, which in turn provide vital
tools for the understanding of other literary genres.
Borja’s Empresas Morales was Wrst published in Spanish in 1581, a Latin
translation by Camerarius was published in Germany in 1697. Not much
seems to be known about Don Juan de Borja (1553–?), who was ambassador
to Portugal (for Philip II) and to the Emperor Rudolph II.
VD17 23:301274E; Faber du Faur 687a; Jantz 2204; Landwehr 138; Praz p.
282.
Church Opposition to the Theatre
22 BORROMEO, Carlo. Veri Sentimenti di San Carlo Borromeo
intorno al Teatro, Tratti dalle sue Lettere. Rome, Giovanni Zempel,
1753.
[bound after:] BORROMEO, Carlo. Opusculum de choreis et
spectaculis in festis diebus.... Rome, Brothers Palearinos, 1753.
£850
Two works in one volume, tall 12mo, pp. 35, [1] imprint; xii,
93, [1] imprint; both works with decorative vignettes and initials;
contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered
spine label; silk book mark; a Wne copy, printed on strong paper.
First edition, uncommon, of this further clariWcation of Borromeo’s opposition
to the theatre, consisting of edited extracts from his correspondence.
This was published in response to Bianchi’s De i vizi, e de i difetti del moderno
teatro, of the same year, where Bianchi had attempted to reconcile the
justiWable concerns of the church with enlightenment ideas.
Carlo Borromeo (1538–1584), Archbishop of Milan, Papal Secretary of
State under Pius IV, and one of the main participants at the Council of
Trent, was one of the chief factors in the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
He objected to theatre in general, maintained that theatre disrupted social
and religious order, that it undermined genuine religious activity, and
Wnally that it undermined the ‘Christianization’ of society.
I. OCLC: Getty, New York Public Library and Spanish National Library; II. no
copies of this edition in OCLC.
Baking Bread
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23 [BREAD – ANON.] L’amico dei poveri che insegna il vero
modo di fare il pan venale col quale possono arricchire i fornaj
onesti, intelligenti, e pratici delle regole del loro mestiere e possono
dare un maggior peso di pane ottimo, ben lievitato e ben cotto alla
povera gente. Florence, Domenico Marzi and Co., for Luigi Carlieri,
1773. £750
8vo, pp. 42 including title page, with Wne engraving on p. 13; title a
little dust-soiled; contemporary stiV wrappers, rubbed.
First edition (?) of an interesting popular publication on the economical
production of bread. To increase the quality, weight and nutritional value
of bread, a variety of diVerent grains such as rye, vetch, or millet were used
in private households when baking bread. However, according to the law,
bread for sale had to be made exclusively from wheat.
The ‘Amico dei Poveri’ suggests using diVerent grades of wheat Xour. For
best results the stone crushed wheat was to be sifted rather than milled and
then separated into diVerent grades with the help of the ‘Buratto’, a machine
depicted on the Wnely engraved plate. Detailed information is given on
bread production, with yield Wgures per Wxed amount of Xour depending
on the grade of Xour. Various suggestions are made as to diVerent raising
agents, type and temperature of water used, and perfect baking temperature
– all with the ultimate aim of increasing yield.
Another edition of the same work was published with a Viterbo
imprint.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; OCLC: Göttingen for this edition, BL for Viterbo
imprint.

24 [BROADSIDE.] Vivat Franz II, Friede sey mit Deinen
Gränzen Liebes deutsches Vaterland. Krieg verschwinde Fried
umschwebe Kaiser Franzens Thron und gebe Seinen Ländern den
gewünschten Ruhestand. [n.p., n.d.], ca. 1792. £750
Broadside (290 x 383mm – platemark), 420 x 550, two engraved
portrait vignettes within headline, Wve lines of text, with hand-coloured
anthropomorphic letters; edges a little frayed and dust-soiled, a few
marginal tears, central crease.
A Wne example of an anthropomorphic alphabet used on a celebratory
broadside for the succession to the throne of the Holy Roman Emperor
Francis II in 1792. The six lines of text, made up of Wgurative letters
composed entirely of human Wgures in regional dress, some heraldic animals
and plants, also include two central portraits vignettes of Francis II and his
wife Maria Louisa of Spain.
Apparently not in Drugulin; not found OCLC or KVK.
25 [BÜSCH, Johann Georg. attrib.] Hamburgs und Altonas
Nahrungszustand nebst einer Darstellung des Zwischenhandels den
Hamburg führt und einem Vergleich des Handels dieser Städte mit
dem von England und Holland. Hamburg and Altona, Gottfried
Vollmer, 1804. £450
Tall 8vo, pp. [ii], [187]–282; quite spotted due to paper stock, a little
creased; stitched as issued in contemporary marbled boards, head of
spine worn.
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Curious oVprint, with a new title page, of an essay published in 1801 in
the Handlungs-Bibliothek, dated 1801 and presumably by Büsch. This
publication, clearly meant to stand alone, gives a detailed overview of the
economic situation of Hamburg and Altona and its special position as a
major trading place. Hamburg’s specialisation in intermediate trade, which
was particularly volatile, made its situation very diVerent from trade in
London, which was supported by its own merchant Xeet. This volatility
was particularly noticeable during the crisis of the late eighteenth century,
when the continental blockade led to severe food shortages and numerous
bankruptcies.
Büsch (1728–1800) was one of the best representatives of liberal
tendencies among the German eclectic economists of the last third of
the eighteenth century. He organised a trade academy in Hamburg, and
produced a number of works on trade, many of them with special relevance
to Hamburg conditions.
OCLC: Danish National Library.
Comfortable Shoes for Healthy Feet
26 CAMPER, Pieter [Petrus.] Dissertation sur la meilleure forme
des souliers. [The Hague], the author, ca. 1781. £1,600
8vo, pp. iv, 80, with 8 Wgures on one folding engraved plate after
Reinier Vinkeles (1741–1816); title loosening and with central crease;
contemporary full calf, gilt-lettering directly to spine, extremities a little
rubbed, and some surface scratches to upper board; a good copy.
First separate edition of what is regarded as one of the most remarkable
books in orthopaedic history: Camper’s indictment of shoes of the time,
and their detrimental eVect on feet, the classic discussion of childhood shoeinduced
foot deformities. First published in Dutch in the journal Geneesnatuur-
en huishoud kundig Cabinet, 1781, under the title Verhandeling over
den besten schoen, the work became an instant success and was translated into
many European languages.
Camper (1722–1789), professor of medicine at Amsterdam, was one
of the outstanding medical scientists of the eighteenth century, and also
an accomplished anatomical artist, who illustrated his own publications.
This brief work contains a description of the foot, its bones and the sole
of the foot, a physiology of walking (Hirsch/H. I, 185) and an analysis of
imperfect shoes and boots; Camper also gives a Wrst, albeit brief, description
of the anatomical condition of the clubfoot.
In his introduction, he writes: ‘It is surprising that while mankind in all
ages have bestowed the greatest attention upon the feet of horses, mules,
oxen and other animals of burthen or draught, they have entirely neglected
those of their own species, abandoning them to the ignorance of workmen,
who, in general, can only make the shoe according to routine principles and
according to the absurdities of fashion, or the depraved taste of the day. Thus
from our earliest infancy, shoes, as at present worn, serve but to deform the

feet and cover the toes with corns, which not only render walking painful,
but, in some cases, absolutely impossible.’ In a most outspoken way he
campaigns for ‘natural shoes’ – a concept today expressed by modern shoe
manufacturer ‘Camper’.
Garrison-Morton (5th ed.); 4305.1; Colas 512; an English translation was
published in 1871; OCLC lists copies at Yale, New York Public Library, National
Library of Medicine, and the Wellcome library, in addition to copies in France and
Holland.
27 [CANON LAW – ANON.] Dissertazione teologica sopra
l’Uso degli arredi sacri nei pubblici Bisogni. Lucca, n.p., 1767. £550
4to, pp. 45, 1 errata, [2] blank; contemporary buV card.
First and apparently only edition of this detailed debate of the canon law
position on money, charity and on the accumulation of riches. On the one
hand, charity to the poor was seen as a moral obligation, on the other hand
the Catholic Church had over the centuries accumulated riches, which
found expression in the extravagance of church buildings. The anonymous
author gives a detailed survey of the church position, as manifested in
ecclesiastical writings, and poses the question whether church riches, and
occasional extravagance in church buildings can be in line with the general
maxim of poverty and restraint.
KVK records three copies in Italy (Foggia, Naples, Viterbo); no copy in OCLC.
Cardano’s Frank Self-Portrait –
one of the Most Famous Autobiographies of All Time
28 CARDANO, Girolamo. De Propria Vita Liber Ex Bibliotheca
Naudaei. Paris, Jacob. Paris, Villery, 1643. £5,500
8vo, pp. [96], 374; title vignette and decorative initials; some signatures
lightly browned and foxed due to paper stock; contemporary full
vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; an engraved seventeenth-century
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portrait of Cardano has been added to front pastedown; with some
early marginal annotations in ink; overall still a good copy, with the
early ownership inscription and annotations by Joannis Blümigius,
1678, to front free endpaper.
First edition of one of the most famous autobiographies of all time, Cardano’s
frank self-portrait. One of the most remarkable men of the Renaissance,
Cardano was not only a major scientist, outstanding mathematician and
physicist, but also a great gambler and astrologer. Condemned by the
Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life,
an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct.
Whether discussing his sex life or his diet, the plots of academic rivals or
meetings with supernatural beings, or his deep sorrow when his beloved
son was executed for murder, Cardano displays the same unbounded
curiosity that made him a scientiWc pioneer. At once picaresque adventure
and campus comedy, curriculum vitae, and last will, The Book of My Life is an
extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait – a book to set beside Montaigne’s
Essays, and Benvenuto Cellini’s Autobiography.
The book was published many years after Cardano’s death by Gabriel
Naudé who added an extensive introduction to it, including much
bibliographical data.
The engraved portrait, pasted onto the front pastedown by an earlier
owner, comes from Jean-Jacques Boissard’s important portrait collection
of European scholars, Bibliotheca chalcographica (1652–1669).
Brunet I, 1574; Cushing C76; Heirs of Hippocrates 151; see Anthony Grafton’s
introduction to a new translation of Cardano’s work (2002).

The Robbers’ Constitution
29 [CARTOUCHE.] Istoria della Vita, e Processo del famoso
Ladro Luigi Domenico Cartoccio, e di molti altri suoi Complici.
Tradotta in lingua volgare dalla Francese. In questa impressione
aggiontovi altre curiose notizie spettanti alla medesima Istoria. Lyon
and Milan, Giambatista Cetti, 1736. £380
12mo, pp. 132; clean and crisp; contemporary red boards, gilt-lettering
directly to spine, with paper label; extremities a little rubbed, and foot
of spine chipped; an attractive copy, with private ownership cypher
‘J.R.’ gilt-stamped to spine.
Second enlarged Italian translation of the Histoire de la vie et du procés
de L. D. Cartouche (Wrst 1722). The proverbial romantic rogue. Louis-
Dominique Bourguignon, known as Cartouche (1693–1721), born in
Paris, became the leader of a famous band of robbers. His daring and skill
made him a legendary Wgure. His exploits were followed with interest by
his contemporaries all over Europe, and he has Wgured in numerous plays,
novels and recently Wlms, since.
This Italian translation is of particular interest, as it adds the exploits
of numerous other outcasts of the time, and concludes with the Wctitious
twelve-point constitution imposed by Cartouche on his band of
robbers.
All the eighteenth century Italian translation are apparently rare, OCLC and KVK
record two copies of the 1724 edition (Venice and Bibliothèque Nationale) and
one of the later 1749 edition (Berlin), but none of this edition.
Hydraulic Pump Design
30 CASTELLI, Carlo. Ventilatore idraulico imaginato e descritto
dal Proposto Carlo Castelli a sua Eccellenza il Signor Don Niccoló
Pecci. Milan, S. Ambrogio, 1785. £550
8vo, pp. xxx; with one folding plate, and woodcut title vignette and
head-piece; light browning and water staining, with small worm-hole
aVecting lower gutter (not aVecting text); contemporary paste-paper
boards, neat library accession number on upper cover at tail, edges
lightly bumped.
First edition of this interesting description of a new design for a hydraulic
pump, based on the same principles as air pumps used in mine ventilation,
by Carlo Castelli, a noted hydraulic engineer. He describes and illustrates
this machine of his own invention, which he believes to be both safe,
eYcient and cost eVective. The pump can be used both for drainage and
for irrigation purposes. Its advantage is its small size, which makes it useful
even in small-scale operations, and also for Wre-Wghting purposes.
In addition to his various works relating to hydraulics, and in particular
pumping engineering notably, Tromba Napoleone, o, Sia nuova macchina
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idraulica destinata al vario sollevamento dell’acqua, (1808), Castelli wrote
L’arte di Wlare la seta a freddo in 1795, on the silk spinning industry.
Riccardi I, 294.7; OCLC: Yale, Delaware, Columbia, Texas and Göttingen.
Party Games for Children and Adults
31 [CASTELLI, Ignaz Franz.] Freut euch des Lebens! Oder:
Wollen wir lachen und fröhlich seyn? Ein Universal-Ratgeber zum
Genusse geselliger Freuden, ein Scherz- und Lach-Cabinet zur
Verkürzung langer Winterabende und Erheiterung trüber Stunden;
Gewidmet allen lustigen Brüdern und Schwestern, und jenen, die es
werden wollen; In sechs Bändchen. Von Sperling, Edlen von Spatz,
vazirenden Haus- und Zimmerpoeten zu Krähwinkel. Vienna, A.
Mausberger, [1839.] £450
Six volumes, square 16mo, pp. 88; 96; 56, [2], [6] advertisements;
53, [2]; 70, [2]; 60, [2], [2] advertisements; a few Wgures in the text;
original yellow printed stiV wrappers, title and contents of each volume
printed within a decorative border; a very Wne set; preserved in a
marbled slipcase.
First edition of a charming guide to games and home entertainment,
attractively arranged as a series of six handy volumes. Fairy tales and
charades, games of forfeits and other parlour games for children are
described, whereas adults are to be kept amused by card games, gambling
and a detailed descripton of billiards.
OCLC: Madison, Wisconsin only.
32 CATANEO, Giovanni de. Il WlosoWsmo delle Belle esposto
in quindeci Lettere nella prima Parte, e dodeci nella seconda Parte
con sette Capitoli. Dedicato a Sua Eccellenza il signor Giovanni
Mocenigo, Cavaliere, e Procuratore di S. Marco. Venice, Giovanni
Tevernin, 1753. £1,600
8vo, pp. [xvi], 180, [1] imprint, [3] blank; title vignette and
typographic head- and tail-pieces; contemporary full vellum over
boards, gilt-lettered spine label; a Wne copy.
First edition, very uncommon, of this interesting attack on modern
philosophy combined with a satire of the Wgure of the female savant or
scientist. Arranged in the form of letters to an aristocratic lady, Cataneo
describes the fate of a ‘Wctitious’ scientist, and the results of unreXected
knowledge.
From the premiss that beauty and scientiWc knowledge are mutually
exclusive in women, Cataneo tries to document the development of a
young woman to a ‘dotoressa’, which clearly can only be explained as an
attempt to compensate a lack of beauty by acquiring knowledge. In the

course of this education she is encouraged to read ‘liberal thinkers’ such as
Bayle, Martino, and Algarotti. She follows the ideal of ultimate individual
intellectual freedom, and aiming for knowledge and liberty ends up in
eternal confusion, which leads to madness.
The Wnal chapter is entirely dedicated to architecture, past, present and
future.
Cataneo argues for keeping women in a state of nature, uncontaminated
by modern philosophical ideas. Possibly as a response to this work, in 1760
Goldoni dedicated his comedy La donna stravagante to Cataneo.
OCLC: Getty, Monash, Munich.
Political and Legal Reform in Naples
33 [CHIARIZIA, Ottavio Maria.] Giannone da’ Campi Elisj
ovvero Conferenze segrete tra un savio Ministro di Stato, e
l’Avvocato Pietro Giannone intorno ad importantissimi Obbjetti,
che riguardano il ben essere della Nazione Napoletana. [Naples,
n.p.], 1791. £950
8vo, pp. viii, 263, [2] errata; with some spotting and browning due to
paper quality to beginning and end; contemporary full vellum, corners
a little bumped.
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First edition, uncommon, of this curious contribution to Neapolitan
political and legal reform arranged in the form of Wve letters allegedly by the
historian and reformer Pietro Giannone (1676–1748) from ‘beyond the
grave’. In the early eighteenth century Giannone, a revolutionary thinker,
had argued for the liberation of Italy, and especially Naples, from the
legally entrenched feudal power of the church. In 1723 he had published
his L’Istoria civile del regno di Napoli, where he pinpointed the stranglehold
that the Catholic Church had on Neapolitan History. He had shown the
relationship and development of the two institutions, and demonstrated
how political crises over history strengthened the position of the church,
which had acquired ever greater wealth and had progressively increased its
power to the detriment of secular states and peoples (see pp. 106–120).
His work met with hostility, and he was forced to Xee to Vienna. He was
later banished to Turin, where he died in 1748, and was transported from
the ‘tumultuose vicende di questo mondo e dalla cittadella di Torino al tranquillo
soggiorno de Campi Elisi’ (p. 22).
The Wve letters are addressed to the secretary of state Simonetti, who in
the 1780s had shown signs of willingness for judicial reform. The letters
contain a detailed assessment of the political and historical situation in
Naples, the importance of reform, a refutation of clandestine and anonymous
publications (giving a list of 25) relating to the ending of feudal homage
to Rome (the Chinea), and contain extensive references to the important
reformist writers of the second half of the eighteenth century.
Melzi I, p. 448; OCLC: Yale, Notre Dame, Santa Barbara, and Berlin only.
34 CHRÉTIEN, Gilles-Louis. La Musique étudiée come Science
naturelle, certaine, et come Art. Ou Grammaire et Dictionnaire
Musical... Le Précis, l’Ouvrage Théorique et le Cahier des Planches.
Paris, The Author, [1811]. £2,800
Folio, pp. 8, including engraved title, with seventeen numbered
engraved plates (by the author), eight with moving parts (sliding
keyboards), original tissue guards; signed by Chrétien’s widow on the
title-page as usual; faint dampstaining to title and towards end, but a
very good copy; uncut, stitched as issued, preserved in a cloth box.
First edition of the elaborate and extensively illustrated prospectus for
Chrétien’s main work of music theory. This prospectus contains a summary
of the theoretical text – an attempt at explaining music like a natural science
or an art – together with a suite of plates. As a teacher of cello Chrétien
valued spontaneous invention over the traditional scholastic rudiments.
‘He promoted a strictly tempered tuning and was the Wrst to recommend
audio-visual methods’. His innovations were contained in this prospectus.
The plates, with their moving elements, illustrate the correspondence
between harmonies laid out vertically on a stave and those horizontally on
an equally-tempered keyboard.
Chrétien had intended to publish the prospectus as a means of soliciting

some feedback from the music community, but died shortly after this was
written, in March 1811. Both the prospectus and the Wnal work (under the
same title but in 278 pages, 8vo, with the plates here issued as a separate
‘cahier’) were published by his widow.
Chrétien (1754–1811) was a cellist in the chambre du roi and subsequently
at Napoleon’s court. He ‘was also a skillful engraver of music and portraits,
and invented the physionotrace, a system of portrait-making regarded as
the forerunner of photography’ (New Grove).
OCLC and KVK list copies at BL, Oxford, Glasgow, Munich and Eastman School
of Music.
The Free Port of Venice
35 CZOERNIG, Carl Joseph. Über den Freyhafen von Venedig
mit Rücksicht auf den österreichischen Seehandel im allgemeinen.
Nebst einer vergleichenden Übersicht der Industrieverhältnisse
Großbritannien’s, Frankreich’s und Österreich’s. Vienna, Carl
Gerold, 1831. £350
8vo, pp. x, 232; some light browning, due to paper quality; uncut and
mostly unopened in the original printed wrappers; a little creased and
dog-eared, else Wne; with heraldic book plate to verso of title.
First and only edition of this assessment of the naval trade of Venice, and by
extension the Austrian Empire, after the creation of the free port of Venice
in 1829.
Czoernig gives an introduction to Venetian trade before concentrating
on the advantages and disadvantages of the creation of the free port, the
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enclosed free trade zone where ships could enter, load and unload, without
incurring any customs duties or inspections. The economic advantage
was clearly that it revived the Xagging economic fortunes of Venice,
since it again acted as an important distribution centre for the hinterland,
potentially with detrimental eVect on the other free port, Trieste. Czoernig,
however, conWrms the predominance of the existing free port of Trieste,
because of better road connections and established trade routes to the
Austrian Empire. Venice would complement this, by increasing the trade
with Lombardy and Italy.
Czoernig (1804–1899), chief government statistician and president of
the Austrian statistical commission, reWned the purpose of government
statistics. He wanted it to grow beyond being a mere tool of Wnancial
administration and become a study of every phase of a country’s economic
and social life. For this purpose he introduced innovative and direct
methods of gathering statistical information. According to his preface his
Wndings on the Venetian trade are based on a detailed study of thousands
of shipping manifestos.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 26750.6; Menger c. 144; not in Humpert; see Pibram in ESS
IV p. 688 for further information on Czoernig.
Moral Dangers of Dancing
36 [DANCING – ANON.] Gewagter Einhalt des unehrbaren
Tantzens. In Druck gegeben von einem Land-Pfarrer in der Obern
Pfalz. Sulzbach, Joseph Kilian Galwitz, 1751. £1,250
8vo, pp. 160; faint traces of dampstaining to upper outer corner of Wrst
few signatures; contemporary half vellum over sprinkled boards, sides
somewhat rubbed, head of spine worn, and some worm damage to
inner joint.
First and apparently only edition of a rare work on the moral dangers
of dancing, part of a long tradition of church opposition to dance. The
anonymous author, according to the title page a preacher, outlines the
dangers of dancing – rising skirts, bare legs, license to touch and thus
to temptation. At the same time he acknowledges that under certain
circumstances dancing might be appropriate. He quotes extensively from
church and legal authorities and includes various anecdotes of dance-related
accidents and superstitious occurrences. He discusses a number of questions,
such as whether all dancing is illegal, whether dancing on Sundays is
acceptable, the diVerence between chaste dancing and unchaste dancing, is
it acceptable to watch dancers, can responsible parents allow their children
to take part in dances? A whole mineWeld of moral judgement is opened up.
Overall our censorious writer condemns most dancing, just aged couples
might be allowed to engage in this morally dangerous activity.
Hayn-Got. VII, 543; Petermann, Tanzbibliographie 142; OCLC lists just one copy
at Munich.

Potato Cultivation in Italy
37 [DANDOLO, Vincenzo.] Grido della ragione per la più estesa
coltivazione de’ pomi di terra diretto a coloni e possidenti. Naples,
Masi, 1817. £520
8vo, pp. 44; one folding engraved plate; uncut in contemporary purple
wrappers.
Revised and enlarged edition of Dandolo’s important article on the use
of potatoes (Wrst 1815), with the addition of three short contributions by
Baldini, Sella, and Amoretti on the same subject. Dandolo was instrumental
in popularising the use of potatoes in Italy, at a time when, as a result of the
economic crisis of 1816, famine was widespread in parts of the country.
Dandolo addresses his observations both to the small-holder and
landowner, thus emphasising that both large- and small-scale production
was possible, and gives detailed information on potato cultivation,
preservation, processing, and their use in human and animal consumption.
His sources are, amongst others, Parmentier and the reports of the English
Board of Agriculture. He demonstrates that with potatoes a far greater
proportion of the population could be suYciently fed than with grain,
which is far more expensive to grow. The folding plate shows a huge pot
with various inserts for steam-boiling large quantities of potatoes, designed
by Sig. Loy de Montfort, and Wrst published in the Bibliothèque physicoéconomique,
1813.
Paleari Henssler, p. 237; no copy found in OCLC.
De Moivre on Probability & Statistics
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38 DE MOIVRE, Abraham. Annuities on Lives: third edition,
plainer, fuller, and more correct than the former. With several
Tables, exhibiting at one View, the Values of Lives, for several Rates
of Interest. London, A. Millar, 1725. £600
8vo, pp. xii, 117; with extensive tables and calculations in the text; very
clean and crisp in contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, spine
lettered in manuscript, corners a little rubbed, with Swedish printed
book label to front pastedown; an attractive copy
Third, revised edition of this important contribution to the theory of
probability and statistics (Wrst 1725). De Moivre had a great interest in
the analysis of mortality statistics and the foundation of the theory of
annuities... De Moivre’s contribution to annuities lies not in his evaluation
of the demographic facts then known but in his derivation of formulas for
annuities based on a postulated law of mortality and constant rates of interest
on money. Here one Wnds the treatment of joint annuities, problems about
the fair division of the costs of a tontine, and other contracts in which both
age and interest on capital are relevant. This mathematics became a standard
part of all subsequent commercial applications in England. The work is
based in part on the mortality data collected by William Halley in the 1690s
and is inXuenced by Halley’s 1693 article on the inane life annuities still
being sold by the British government, in which the age of the annuitant was
not considered relevant. (DSB, IX p. 454).
For Wrst edition see Goldsmiths’–Kress 6398.7; Norman 1530; Hanson 3492;
Garrison-Morton 1690; Blake p. 307; see Pearson, pp. 146 V.
39 DEL BORRO, Alessandro. Dimostrazioni, e prove sopra
l’Attività, ed uso vantaggioso del Gran Coltro dal Marquese Don
Alessandro d’ Signori, e Marchesi del Borro in Toscana in riparo
delle forze necessarie alle maggiori fatiche dell’Agricoltura. L’anno
1713 proposto all Ecc.ma Congregazione delle Signori... Milan,
Marc Antonio Pandolfo Malatesta, 1718. £3,200
4to, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and half title, [xii], 80, [ii], 56, [1]
errata, [1] blank; with seven large folding and Wnely engraved plates by
Gaetano Bianchi, one plate with faint dampstain to fold, else very strong
impressions; contemporary full limp vellum, slightly chipped.
First edition of this unusual work of agricultural engineering, a description
of the coulter, a blade or sharp-edged disc attached to the plough, so that
it cuts through the soil vertically in advance of the ploughshare – in eVect
the ancestor of the modern digger. In the Wrst part Del Borro describes
the device, and in the second reprints a survey of a series of experiments
involving the new device.
Of particular interest are the magniWcent engraved plates, combining

artistic Xair with technical detail. They were produced by the Milanese
painter and engraver Gaetano Bianchi, and can be seen as an early example
of truly artistic book illustration in a technical book.
Del Borro (1672–1760) also published another work on agricultural
technology, on a form of seed drill.
Moretti, Bibliotheca agraria, p. 84; Predari, p. 306; Riccardi I, 170, note; Vinciana
1647; OCLC: Chicago, UC Davis, Reading, Harvard, Delaware, Bibliothèque
Nationale, Lyon, Berlin.
40 DEPLANAZU, Rey. Traité sur la Pomme de Terre, avec un
Moulin pour en extraire la Farine. Meaux, Augustin-Ponce Courois,
1786. £580
4to, pp. [ii] wrap-around title, 8, 1 engraved and hand-coloured plate,
[2]; signed by Deplanazu on title and plate; a Wne very clean and crisp
copy.
First edition of this interesting and attractively illustrated publication on the
potato and its uses. The Wrst sections deal with diVerent types of potatoes
and their cultivation, followed by proWtability accounts, and a discussion of
the storage prerequisites. In the second half Deplanazu discusses the potato
as a foodstuV for humans and animals. He proposes a method for extracting
potato starch, with the help of a mill, illustrated in detail on the engraved
plate, and then makes suggestions for its use in baking, preparation of baby
food, and for particularly light breads. Its medical use had been testiWed by
de Jussieu & Paulet. A Wnal section discusses the use of potatoes in distilling
for the preparation of eau-de vie.
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De Planazu collected his publications on agricultural improvements into
Oeuvres d’Agriculture in the following few years.
OCLC: Göttingen, Cleveland; Yale, Iowa, Indiana, Kress Linda Hall, Virginia,
Washington State list the whole series of 26 parts on agricultural improvements.
First Edition of Jacques le Fataliste
41 DIDEROT, Denis. Jakob und sein Herr aus Diderots
ungedrucktem Nachlasse. Erster Theil [– Zweiter Theil]. Berlin, Joh.
Friedr. Unger, 1792. £1,600
Two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece by Chodowiecki, pp.
[ii], 330, [2]; 339; circular title vignette to volume one; some light
foxing; contemporary paste-paper boards, spines with gilt-lettered
label; extremities a little rubbed and corners bumped; early ownership
inscription ‘Greuter’ to both front free endpapers.
First edition, rare, of Diderot’s Jacques le Fataliste, Wrst published in this
German translation, preceding the French version by four years (1796).
It is Diderot’s last novel, published posthumously and clearly inspired
by Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, which it resembles in the subordination
of narrative to digression. It is an entirely modern novel, a novel about
authority and ‘mastery’, a Wction about the telling of Wctions. Its climax
is a great quarrel in which Jacques, the insubordinate servant and teller of
stories, establishes his predominance and mastery for all time.
Around the central story-line of Jacques’ humorous narration of his
romantic aVairs, the author of the Encyclopédie presents a major work of

innovative Wction, that investigates philosophical and literary questions,
such as art, time, reality, freedom and the deWnition of the novel itself.
The book foreshadows major developments in nineteenth and twentieth
century literary techniques, exchanging the rational and classical for shifting
perspectives of time, personality, and viewpoint.
Jacques le Fataliste, though quite common in the later French version, is a
very rare book indeed in the original German translation.
Adams JF19; Fromm 7194; RLIN and OCLC list copies at Harvard and Yale only;
not in Borst; see Raddatz, ZEIT Bibliothek der 100 Bücher, pp. 136–139.
Mineral Waters
42 DUCHANOY, Claude-François. Essais sur l’art d’imiter les
Eaux Minérales, ou de la Connaissance des Eaux Minérales, et de la
manière de se les procurer en les composant soi-même dans tous les
tems et dans tous les lieux. Paris, Mequignon, 1780. £450
12mo, pp. vii, [i] blank, xxiv, 402, [4] approbation and privilege,
with one engraved plate bound between prelims and text; clean and
crisp, with insigniWcant worm trace to lower gutter margin of Wrst
two signatures, never near text; contemporary full mottled calf, spine
decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; head of spine chipped.
First edition of this interesting work on mineral waters, concentrating
both on the chemical analysis of naturally-occurring mineral waters and
the production of artiWcial or ‘ersatz’ mineral waters for medicinal uses.
Duchanoy begins with a review of recent developments in chemical analysis
before giving a detailed classiWcation of diVerent types of mineral waters.
On the engraved plate Duchanoy illustrates an apparatus to dissolve
carbon dioxide gas in water. A similar device had already been invented
and described by Priestley in 1772, but it was diYcult to use, as was the
improved version designed by Nooth and manufactured and sold by Parker,
which Duchanoy dismisses as being pretty to look at, but more suitable for
display than for use. Also included in the work is a detailed account of the
thermal springs of France and neighbouring countries, with details of their
respective composition and how to produce them artiWcially. Duchanoy
(1742–1827), a disciple of Antoine Petit (to whom the work is dedicated),
was a professor at the medical faculty in Paris.
Blake p. 128; Wellcome II, 491; Duveen 182; not in Ferguson.
A Highpoint of Swiss Book Illustration
43 [DUNKER, Balthasar Anton.] Ein Intermezzo mit einigen
Vignetten. [Basel, Serini], 1785. £1,200
Small 8vo, pp. xii, 84; with engraved title vignette and six text vignettes
by Dunker; repaired tear to C4, and faint abrasion to foot of title page;
recent half calf over marbled boards.
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First edition of this rare publication, originally meant as an ‘intermezzo’,
an interlude between parts two and three of Dunker’s Schriften. By the
bibliographies it is listed separately, but also regarded as volume III of
Dunker’s Schriften. It consists of a collection of mocking essays accompanied
by Dunker’s Wnely engraved satirical vignettes, which are a prime example
of his work and a highpoint of Swiss book illustration of the period. Of
particular interest is his dramatical satire on Luther ‘Doktor Luther auf’m
Abrtritt, ... Das sehr derbe, aber außerordentlich geistreiche Stück ist von
eigentümlich grotesker Spukhaftigkeit, die auch in den Vignette vibriert
(Lanckoronska/Oehler).
The Swiss water colourist, draughtsman, illustrator and writer Dunker
(1746–1807) is best known for his book illustrations, including vignettes,
genre scenes and landscape scenes.
Goedecke XII, 99, 2; Lonchamp 865; Lanckoronska Oehler II, p. 190; uncommon,
OCLC lists Munich, Tübingen, Bern, and Yale and Harvard for all three volumes;
see Matthias Frehner, Dunker, Balthazar Anton. Grove Art Online.
44 DUVAL, Nicolas. Nouvelles Ecritures de Finance & italienne
batarde, en usage avec un traité pout apprendre l’Orthographe
par Nicolas Duval secrétaire ordinaire de la chambre du Roy &
M. Escrivain juré à Paris. Paris, Veuve Jean Henault & François
Henault, 1674. £4,400
Oblong small folio (196 x 310 mm), V. [2] (engraved title and
dedication), pp. 4, [1-]15, [1], 8 (letterpress text), V. 20 (engraved
text); engraved title with elaborate border inhabited by 10 calligraphic
birds among foliage and Xoral swags, two cherubs with trumpets at
the head, each engraved leaf with the text extended to form elegant

calligraphic borders, the letterpress text often in columns, typographical
rules; margins of plates showing evidence of old dampstains and
fraying, the lower blank forecorner of title worn or torn with slight
loss (not touching text) lately expertly repaired, the engraved border
cropped at head with slight loss; limp vellum wrappers re-used from
an earlier manuscript on vellum with traces of original text and various
later scribbles and pen-tests; spine expertly repaired.
Nicolas Duval was an inXuential Wgure in the development of French
calligraphy and worked at the heart of the French government as Secretaire
Ordinaire de la Chambre du Roy. He issued a number of Wne engraved
manuals with diVering sequences of plates and letterpress explanations and
this example is apparently otherwise unrecorded. There does not appear
to be any other work with the same title or, indeed, the same composition
of text and plates. Surviving examples of these manuals are rare, and it is
clear that Duval altered titles and contents to suit circumstances (perhaps on
taking on a new student) so that each title may have been unique or issued
in only very small numbers.
See David P. Becker, The Practice of Letters, 1997, 88 and 89 (editions of c. 1670
and after 1686). This issue not in OCLC or in any of the usual catalogues.
Aesthetic of Dramatic Expression
45 ENGEL, Johann Jacob. Ideen zu einer Mimik. Erster Theil [–
Zweyter Theil]. Mit erläuternden Kupfertafeln. Berlin, the Author
and August Mylius, 1785–1786. £750
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], 381, [1]
with 23 engraved plates; [ii], 314 with 11 engraved plates, all plates
with two images each; some underlinings in the text, mostly in pencil;
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nineteenth century crushed half morocco, spine in compartments, giltlettered;
a little rubbed, front pastedown with engraved bookplate with
the letters H.L.; a good copy.
First edition of Engel’s charmingly illustrated guide to the aesthetics of
dramatic expression in the form of letters. The expressive engravings by
Meil illustrate feelings and emotions, attitudes, and dramatic situations.
They show clearly how gestures of the eyes, head and hands were combined
to convey speciWc emotions.
Engel’s Ideen zu einer Mimik met with Europe-wide acclaim, and appear
ed also in French, English, Dutch and Italian translations. Solomon
describes this work as a prime example of the newfound interest in the study
of acting technique in the late eighteenth century, and an invaluable help to
recreate how each movement looked on stage.
Engel (1741–1802) was professor of moral philosophy at the Joachimsthal
gymnasium, Berlin, a member of the Academy of Sciences Berlin, and
director of the newly founded National Theatre in Berlin. In addition to
numerous plays, which met with considerable success, he was best known
for his books on aesthetics, in particular music aesthetics.
For a full analysis, see Nicholas Solomon, Signs of the time: a look at late 18th-century
gesturing in Early Music, Vol. 17, No. 4, The Baroque Stage I (Nov., 1989), pp.
551–562.

The Most Radical Appraisal of the French Revolution in Germany
46 ERHARD, Johann Benjamin. Ueber das Recht des Volks
zu einer Revolution. Jena and Leipzig, Christan Ernst Gabler,
1795. £2,500
8vo, pp. [vi], vi, 195 including errata leaf; very clean and crisp;
contemporary pale yellow boards, spine with gilt lettered label, head
of spine bumped and sides a little dust-soiled; remains of shelf label
to spine; from the Neustrelitz library with stamp to verso of title and
engraved bookplate to front pastedown; a Wne copy.
First edition, rare, of arguably the most radical appraisal of the French
Revolution in 1790s Germany. Erhard (1766–1827), a Nuremberg
physician, friend of Schiller and philosophical disciple of Kant, defended
the French Revolution as both necessary and legitimate, and considered it
a pertinent model for Germany.
Erhard argued that the use of violence for revolutionary purposes was
legitimate to eliminate injustice and the violation of human rights and to
facilitate justice and defend universal rights and human dignity. His much
discussed treatise contains chapters on human rights in general, on the right
to a revolution, on the deWnition of a populace, and on the right of a people
to a revolution.
His friend Friedrich Schiller, though supportive of Erhard’s goals,
rejected their violent realisation, and advocated socio-political reforms
for gradual change instead of revolutionary uprising. Kant, in the spirit
of the Enlightenment, had demanded a revolutionary reform in the way
of thinking, Schiller complemented this with an appeal to revolutionary
feeling.
Stammhammer I 74; uncommon, outside Germany OCLC records copies at
Columbia, Amsterdam and Cambridge only; for a full discussion, see Marita
Gilli, J. B. Erhard et ‘Le droit du peuple à la Révolution’ (1795). Entre Kant, Fichte et
Rousseau, in Annales historiques de la Révolution française, Numéro 317, (http://ahrf.
revues.org/document270.html)
47 [EUROPE – POLITICS.] Les Entretiens Familiers des
Animaux Parlans, où sont descouverts les plus importans secrets de
l’Europe dans la conjuncture de ce temps. Avec une clef, qui donne
l’intelligence de tout. Die Vertrauliche Gespräche der Redenden
Thiere, worinnen die allerwichtigste Geheimnüssse in Europa
bey itziger Zeit BeschaVentheit entdecket sind. Benebenst einem
Schlüssel, welcher alles erkläret sampt der KupVerplatt. [n.p.],
1672. £1,400
4to, engraved title, pp. 200, A4 the ‘key’ pasted onto verso of printed
title, resulting in pp. 7/8 not being included in the pagination; paper
browned with some spotting throughout, with small dampstain to
foremargin of Wrst signature; printed in double columns; contemporary
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boards, covered with old manuscript leaf; corners bent and extremities
worn; with ownership inscription of the Comte de Trapp to engraved
title.
First edition of these satirical bilingual dialogues on questions of European
politics, particularly appealing because of the Wnely engraved title, where
the talking animals representing diVerent European nations are depicted.
The dialogues are in French and German.
With the help of the key, the individual protagonists are identiWable – the
English as leopards, the Spanish as foxes, the Swedes as bears, the Danes
as elephants, Poles as horses, etc. Ambassadors of diVerent nations are
involved in the six dialogues, and represent the double-dealing negotiations
on the European political stage.
Two other editions were published in the same year, but both in a much
smaller format, which seems to indicate that this is the Wrst edition.
VD17 1:067887F; Hayn/G. II 602 (rare); see Willems 2073 for the Elzevier
edition printed in Amsterdam; this Wrst edition uncommon, outside of Germany
OCLC records a copy at Duke.

Tycho Brahe’s Observatory
48 [FAXE, Wilhelm.] Fornlemningar af Tycho Brahes
Stjerneborg och Uranienborg på Ön Hvén, aftäckte åren 1823 och
1824. Stockholm, Johan Hornberg, 1824. £750
Small 4to, pp. 27, [1] imprint, folding lithographed plate/plan; title
browned and with remains of wrappers at gutter margin; twentieth
century marbled boards with old wrappers bound in; a very widemargined
copy.
First edition of this account and plan of Tycho Brahe’s underground
observatory Stjerneborg (star castle) built next to his palace observatory
Uraniborg, on the island of Hven. Tycho Brahe built it circa 1581, when
he found Uranienborg neither stable nor large enough for his precision
instruments. The plate, signed by C. Müller, consists of a plan-drawing of
Stjerneborg and Uranienborg, and is regarded as one of the Wrst uses of
lithographic printing in Sweden.
‘To be sold in aid of educational department on the island Hvén’. The
work was originally read at the Physiographical Society in Lund in 1824.
OCLC lists copies in the Danish Union Catalogue and the Swedish National
Library only; Cappelin ‘Hvar Wnns Skåne beskrifvet p. 34; see Jole Shackelford,
Tycho Brahe, Laboratory Design, and the Aim of Science: Reading Plans in Context, in
Isis, Vol. 84, No. 2 (Jun., 1993), pp. 211–230.
Price Controls for InXationary Food Prices
49 [FINANCE.] Vorschlag: wie die Wohlfeilheit der Eßwaaren
in Wien hergestellet werden könne. Ein Anhang zu der Abhandlung:
woher die Theuerung der Eßwaaren in Wien ihren Ursprung habe.
Vienna, Joseph Georg Oehler, 1790. £480
8vo, 30, [2] blank; woodcut vignette of cockerel to title; some
dampstaining to Wnal two leaves; contemporary blue wrappers, a little
frayed, with private circular cypher stamp to verso of title and last leaf.
First edition of this attempt to reduce inXationary food prices in Vienna
through price controls. Austria’s involvement in the Austro-Turkish war, a
‘debilitating and unpopular conXict’, had resulted in severe food shortages.
To control food prices which were spiralling out of control, a market
commission was formed, whose aim it was to ensure fair market prices, to
guarantee even delivery of supplies, to stop the formation of monopolies,
to supervise correct weights and measures, and to act as a form of sanitary
police, by removing spoilt and wrotten food stuVs from the market.
The proposal also contains revised market rules, and suggests the abolition
of existing market supervisors, who, according to the tables included, made
large proWts from their work. This publication is a response to Woher die
Theuerung der Esswaaren in Wien ihren Ursprung habe (Goldsmiths’–Kress
14194.26), published the same year.
Wernigg 2804; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not found in OCLC or KVK.
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50 [FLEISCHER, Heinrich Wilhelm.] Ueber bildende Künste
Kunsthandel und Buchhandel in Hinsicht auf Menschenwohl.
Glaubensbekenntniss eines Kunst- und Buchhändlers. Frankfurt,
Wilhelm Fleischer, 1792. £2,000
8vo, pp. [viii], 141, [1] blank, with woodcut portrait of Gutenberg in
the text; original publisher’s printed wrappers with Gutenberg portrait
within circular frame to upper wrapper; wrapper with slight dampstain,
spine covering with some loss, exposing stitiching, but holding Wrm; a
good copy from the collection of the Gotha publishing dynasty Perthes.
First edition of the ‘credo’ of an enlightenment bookseller, demanding
a widening of the cultural elite. Fleischer, a bookseller and owner of a
Kunstbuchhandlung in Frankfurt, questions the role and function of the
bookseller in society, and sees it as that of an educator in the philanthropic
mould of Basedow, providing a forum for intelligent debate, and for the
advancement of science and literature. He demands that everyone should
have access to private libraries, art collections and private natural history
collections (Wunderkammer), which up to then had been a prerogative
of the aristocratic elite. At the same time he includes a virulent attack on
lending libraries, for their concentration on cheap novels, subverting morals
– and presumably reducing proWts of booksellers and publishers alike. He is
ambivalent on press freedom, and seems to be in support of some form of
moral and social control, to avoid the seduction of impressionable young
(female) minds. He berates the public for its constant demand for cheaper
books and support of pirated or discounted editions, maintaining that this
curtails the legitimate role of the bookseller.
Fleischer ends with a ‘mission statement’ for his business, which he had
founded a year earlier in Frankfurt. Prices would be Wxed, no discounts
given, he was going to publish catalogues, and would work for education
and enlightenment.
Fleischer (1767–1820) came from a bookselling family, and is best known
as an active member of the reform movement of German booksellers.
[Provenance:] It is particularly appealing to have this copy come from the

library of the German publishing dynasty of Perthes, with mss ownership
inscription to inside front cover.
Holzmann-Bohatta IV, 6192; NDB V, p. 231; see Fleischer, R. A. Die Wichtigkeit
des Buchhandels, 1953 a monograph on Fleischer and his inXuence on the German
book trade; on the period see Selwyn, Everyday life in the German Book Trade,
Friedrich Nicolai as bookseller and publisher in the Age of the Enlightenment, 2000; very
rare, OCLC records copies at British Library and Bibliothèque Nationale only.
51 [FRANCE – HENRY III.] Ordonnance du Roy, sur le faict
& Reglement general de ses Monnoyes. Paris, Veuve Jehan Dalier &
Nicolas Rosst, 1577. £300
Small 8vo, ll. 28 ; large title vignette, head-pieces and decorative initials;
paper a little browned, due to paper stock and title dust-soiled, corners
worn and a little dog-eared; marbled paper spine; extensive manuscript
annotations in the text , and mss addition to title giving the date 20
November 1577.
First and only edition of a rare ordinance contributing to the debate on
inXation and monetary instability in sixteenth century France. OYcial
exchange rates were replaced by local ‘inXationary’ market rates, and
monetary instability threatened to change the economic order of France.
As an emergency measure the circulation of foreign coin was forbidden, and
instead the adoption of the ‘Écu’ was proposed, as the money of account.
A number of ordinances were passed in 1577, and this particular one
of November 13/20 also appears to have been issued in a number of
versions. Harvard Law School records one of the same year, with additional
illustrations of coins, but clearly a diVerent issue.
This ordinance is of particular interest because of the extensive
contemporary manuscript annotations, which merit further investigation.
See Goldsmiths’ 191 and 192 for similar contributions to the debate; for a full
analysis, see Mark Greengrass, Money, Majesty and Virtue: The Rhetoric of Monetary
Reform in Later Sixteenth Century France, 2007; and Jotham Parsons, ‘Governing
Sixteenth-Century France: The Monetary Reforms of 1577’, in French Historical
Studies 26.1 (2003) pp. 1–30.
Name Them and Shame Them – Backstreet Loan Sharks
52 FUNK, Franz. Das Verzeichniß der Vielperzentigen. Ein
zeitgemässer Schema renomirter Kapitalisten Wiens, die für zwölf,
achtzehn, vier und zwanzig, sechs und dreißig und mehr Perzent ihr
Geld ausleihen. Vienna, the author [Schmidbauer and Holzwarth],
1848. £480
8vo, pp. 73, [1] blank, [5] index, [1] imprint; a little dust-soiled, paper
spine, chipped.
First complete edition of this polemical publication, revealing the names
and addresses of Viennese moneylenders and usurers. The work consists of
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Wve parts, listing a total of ninety names, with separate chapters on money
lending in general and a justiWcation of the present publication. According
to the title, the Wrst listing of a dozen moneylenders had been published
earlier.
A brief description of the particular characteristics and extortion
techniques of each moneylender is followed by his or her full address. A
surprisingly large number of women are involved. A separate section is
devoted to Jewish moneylenders, with even more colourful characteristics
listed.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 35791.23; Gugitz II, 10398; Hayn/G. VIII, 445; Mayer 656
(von bekannter Seltenheit); OCLC: Northwestern, Brigham Young, Minneapolis,
Indiana.
53 [GAMES – TAROT.] Per chi tarocca. Almanacco criticoistruttivo
per l’anno 1794. Che contiene non solo le penali
corrispondenti ai falli che commettere si puonno nel giuoco
de’tarocchi, ma anche molte regole generali, e particolari,
avvertimenti, ed istruzioni necessarie a sapersi da chi ha piacere di
ben giuocarlo. Milan, Veladini, in contrada Nuova. [1794]. £650
12mo, pp. 108; some light spotting and foxing; contemporary marbled
stiV wrappers, spine covering worn; shelf mark to foot of spine;
accounting section completed in ink.
First and apparently only edition of this detailed introduction to the game
of Tarot, combined with a calendar for the year 1794, a detailed proWt and
loss account section where the gambler can list his winnings and losses,
and, curiously, the legal oYcials registered at court in Milan. Even though

designed as a periodical publication, this seems to be the only issue ever
published.
Particularly appealing is the accounting section, completed in ink by a
contemporary tarot player, who seems to have played every other day, and
lost.
Not in Lensi, BibliograWa Italiana di Giuochi di Carte; OCLC, KVK, and ICCU list
just one copy, at the Biblioteca Trivulizana, Milan.
54 GERDIL, [Giancinto Sigismondo]. Defense du Sentiment du
P. Malebranche sur la nature, & l’origine des Idée contre l’Examen
de M. Locke. Turin, Imprimerie Royale, 1748. £450
4to, [16], xxxix, [1] blank, 246, [22]; title vignette, decorative initials,
head- and tail-pieces; contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, extremities a little rubbed, with
manuscript ownership inscription Joannis Pramotton, Canon of St.
Laurentius, near the Italian city of Aosta.
First edition of Gerdil’s presentation of Malebranche’s ideas on the nature
and the origin of ideas, with an outspoken critique of Lockian philosophy.
This followed on from his earlier publication L’immaterialité de l’ame,
demontrée contre M. Locke, of 1748. Whereas Locke maintained that ideas
come from sensation and reXection, Gerdil followed Malebranche’s
occasionalist explanation.
Giancinto Sigismondo Gerdil (1718–1802) had a distinguished career
as a Barnabite scholar and teacher at various educational institutions, was
professor in Turin, and later became cardinal. He was a dedicated disciple
of Malebranche, and opposed the ideas of Locke, WolV and to a certain
degree Newton.
Cioranescu 30950.
Energy Conservation in Portugal
55 GIRAO, Antonio Lobo de Barbosa Ferreira Teixeira.
Memoria sobre a Economia do Combustivel por meio de varios
Melhoramentos que se devem fazer nos lares ordinaries, fornalhas,
fornos et fogoens. Com as precisas estampas. Lisbon, Imprensa
Nacional, 1834. £450
Large 8vo, pp. 223, with 5 folding lithograph plates; uncut and mostly
unopened in the original pale blue wrappers; spine a little worn and
small hole to upper wrapper; a good copy.
First edition of this Portuguese contribution to the science of energy
conservation. Girao, the prefect of Estramadour, is clearly aware of earlier
and contemporary European developments such as wood-saving ovens,
energy-eYcient cooking ranges, double burners, insulation materials, high
pressure cookers and improved chimneys, based on the developments
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of Rumford, Chaptal, Derosne et al. In this very detailed treatise he
adapts numerous energy saving devices for use in Portugal, with detailed
information on their construction, illustrated on the lithographed plates.
In addition to detailed descriptions of cookers, and ovens, kilns for the
burning of porcelain, a wine distillery is also described. He also gives his
adapted recipe for Rumford soup, renamed ‘American soup’.
The adoption of energy saving measures was of particular importance
for Portugal as it had no energy sources apart from wood. Girao points
out the detrimental eVects of deforestation, both on population growth,
climate change and agriculture. The fact that fruit trees are cut to provide
Wre wood he terms a particular sacrilege and argues for wide-scale organised
reforestation.
OCLC lists just the BL copy.
56 GRÄFFER, Franz. Clio’s Curiositäten-Cabinet. Darstellungen
außerordentlicher Thatsachen, picanter Charactere, seltener,
zum theil ungedruckter Urkunden, überraschender Momente,
besonderer Denkwürdigkeiten und wenig bekannter Anecdoten aus
der Geschichte aller Zeiten und Völker. Zugleich als Seitenstück
zu dessen historischen Raritäten. Mit einem Kupfer. Vienna, Carl
Gerold, 1814. £750
8vo, folding engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], viii, 236; a little dustsoiled,
and occasional foxing and ink spots, contents page with small
faint Xower-shaped stamp to some entries; stamp of the Lindauersche
Bibliothek to verso of title and to engraved plate; foremargin uncut,
contemporary half calf over paste-paper boards, head of spine chipped.

First and only edition of this compilation of curious historical facts and
events, aptly named after Clio, the muse of history. The range is impressive,
from the fate of Jeanne d’Arc (was she really burnt at the stake?), the riches of
Rome (with full accounts), household accounting instructions by Mme de
Maintenon (with hints on saving money – get yourself invited to dinner), to
a listing of automatons and famous kisses. These are just some of the topics
discussed in this commonplace book. The genre, including pseudohistory,
popular beliefs and spurious anecdotes, was popular at the time.
The engraved frontispiece shows an anthromorphic horse and rider,
composed out of various animals.
Sammlung Mayer 5399 ‘selten und gesucht’; OCLC: Berlin, Munich.
Book-binding Manual
57 GREVE, Ernst Wilhelm. Hand- und Lehrbuch der Buch binde
und Futteralmache-Kunst. In Briefen an einen jungen Kunstverwandten
nach vieljährigen eigenen Erfahrungen gründlich und
möglichst vollständig ausgearbeitet... Mit nützlichen Anmerkungen,
Verbesserungen und einer Vorrede von Dr. S. F. Hermbstädt...
Erster Band. Die Buchbindekunst. – [Zweiter Band. Die Futteralmachekunst].
Berlin, G. Hayn for Maurer, 1822–23. £4,800
Two volumes, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece, pp. [ii], xvi, 526, [iv]
advertisement & errata, one letterpress table in the text and four large
folding lithographed plates (one bound upside down); pp. [iv], [xvi],
xx subscribers, preface, [ii] errata, 388, with seven lithographed folding
plates, [iv] advertisements of Greve’s supplies, 16 advertisements;
paperfault to p. 209/210 in volume I, and some light browning,
mostly marginal; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines
decoratively gilt, with matching but not identical designs, partially
using tools illustrated on the folding plate; spines a little bumped;
modern ownership inscription to front free endpapers reading ‘?Nils
Palmbourg’; an attractive set.
First edition, rare, of this practical introduction to bookbinding and boxmaking
in the form of letters. Greve begins with a brief introduction to
the history of papermaking, printing, type-casting and book production,
and then concentrates on the diVerent processes involved in bookbinding.
A special chapter deals with cutting and the colouring of fore-edges.
DiVerent covering materials are discussed, such as varieties of paper,
leather, vellum and cloth (especially velvet). Marbling and various forms
of leather treatment are described, before Greve concentrates on gilt
decoration, achieved through tooling, both by individual stamps and rolls,
and Wnishing. In the last chapter of the Wrst volume Greve gives numerous
recipes and information on chemicals and materials used.
The second volume concentrates on the related craft of box-making
and working with a variety of papers, papier-maché and boards, and their
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decoration and illustration. Numerous specialised gilding and marbling
techniques are introduced. In the Wnal chapter Greve gives a report of
innovative bookbinding techniques, such as Bertin’s new paper bindings
and discusses the application of clasps, the mounting of maps and charts,
and other related crafts. This copy also has the advertisement of Greve’s
bookbinding and gilding ‘kits’, materials and specialist papers.
Particularly attractive are the large folding, lithographic plates, illustrating
various stages of bookbinding, bookbinding tools, and more than
180 stamps and devices. These decorative hand tools, gouges and pallets,
decorative wheels and Wllets, give a fascinating overview of the designs
available to the bookbinder at the time. Rather attractively, some of the
designs illustrated have been used on the matching, but not identical, bindings
of the two volumes.
Greve (born 1787) was originally from Copenhagen, but worked most
of his life in Berlin as a bookbinder and with pasteboard. His work on
bookbinding is accompanied by an introduction by Hermbstädt, professor
of technological chemistry at the University of Berlin.
Mejer I, 1804; Middleton 12; uncommon, outside of Germany, OCLC lists copies
at Amsterdam, Glasgow, Grolier Club, New York Public Library, and Rochester
Institute of Technology (Middleton copy) only. A second edition was published in
1832 and is equally rare, with just one copy at Cincinnati Public Library.

Comparative Linguistics
58 GUILLON, Aimé de Montleon, abbé de. De quelques
Préventions des Italiens contre la Langue et la Litterature des
Français. Lettre a Mr. Abbé Denina, Bibliothécaire ... a l’occasion de
son Opuscule: Dell’uso della lingua francese nel Piemonte. Paris and
Milan, Louis Dumolard and J. P. Giegler, 1805. £550
8vo, pp. [ii], 54, including both initial and Wnal blank; uncut and
unopened in contemporary pattern-paper wrappers, manuscript label to
upper wrapper; spine a little sunned; an attractive copy.
First edition of this response to Denina’s important contribution to comparative
linguistics Dell’uso della lingua francese nel Piemonte. Between 1782
and 1804 Denina, an Italian theologian and historian, lived in Berlin,
where he gave numerous talks at the Berlin Royal Academy. Here he also
produced his important comparative analysis of the European languages,
and especially their origin, La Clef de Langues. He was one of the Wrst
scholars to attribute equal importance to Italian, especially Piemontese
dialects and the ‘standard’ language.
Guillon supports Denina in stressing the importance of knowledge of
French language and literature for Italy, encourages comparative study, and
refers to the great importance that the French language had at the time at
the Prussian court, due to the inXuence of Frederick the Great.
Aimé Guillon de Montléon (1758–1842) was editor of the Journal
OYciel de Milan and later became conservator at the Bibliothèque Mazarine
in Paris.
Quérard, III, p. 69; OCLC lists copies at Harvard and Lyon.
Dictionary of Conjuring, Magic, Mathematics, and
Household Recipes
59 [HAFNER, Gotthard.] Onomatologia Curiosa ArtiWciosa et
Magica oder ganz natürliches Zauber-Lexicon welches das nöthigste,
nützlichste und angenehmste in allen realen Wissenschaften
überhaupt und besonders in der Naturlehre, Mathematick, der
Haushaltungs- und natürlichen Zauberkunst, und aller andern,
vornehmlich auch curieuser Künste deutlich und vollständig nach
alphabethischer Ordnung beschreibet zum Nutzen und Vergnügen
der Gelehrten, der Künstler, der Professionisten, der Handwerker
und des Landmanns. Ulm, Frankfurt and Leipzig, Gaum, [Ulm,
Christian Ulrich Wagner], 1759. £1,200
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [x], printed in 1524 (ie 1542) double
columns, with two engraved plates showing a fold-up bed bound after
Hh6; title page printed in red and black, large printer’s mark at end;
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some light browning throughout, due to paper stock; contemporary
paste-paper covered boards; front and Wnal endpaper with red sealing
wax marks.
Rare Wrst edition of this comprehensive dictionary of magic, conjuring,
card tricks, but also including entries on mathematics, physics, household
chemistry and recipes.
Clarke & Blind 55; see Zischka 260; Graesse, Bibliotheca Magica 117; Holzmann-
Bohatta III, 7645 for later editions of 1764 and 1784; Wrst edition very uncommon,
outside of Germany, OCLC lists copies at the Library of Congress (Houdini
Collection), and University of Philadelphia only.
60 HAMEL, Joseph von. Insegnamento Mutuo o Storia
dell’Introduzione e delle Propagazione di questo Metodo ... ed altri
Descrizione speciale della sua applicazione nelle scuole elementari
d’Inghilterra e di Francia, ed in altri Istituti. Florence, Guglielmo
Piatti, 1819. £600
8vo, pp. 80, 3 folding engraved plates; some light foxing due to paper
quality; uncut and partly unopened in the original pale blue wrappers;
some wear to spine covering and dog-eared; else a good copy, the plates
crisp and clean.
First Italian edition of an abbreviated version of Joseph Hamel’s account
of the Bell-Lancaster method of mutual education, also known as the
Monitorial System. The method was invented independently by the English
educators Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster, and centred around the
principle that older pupils were involved in the teaching process and passed
on the information they had learned to other younger students. This was an
economical way of making primary education more inclusive, by enlarging
class sizes. In eVect it was the application of the factory system to education.
The Monitorial System became highly popular all over Europe.
The three engraved plates bound at the end show an inside view of a
school, where literally hundreds of students are being taught, the second
plate shows young pupils, both boys and girls, attentively reading and

writing, the Wnal plates illustrates instruction in a small circle with an older
student-mentor instructing his fellow pupils, and another one checking the
written work of eight seated students.
A second Italian edition was published the following year; uncommon: OCLC:
NYPL, National Library of Scotland.
Swedish Books on Education
61 HAMMARSKÖLD, Lorenzo. Förtekning på de i Sverige,
från äldre, till närvarande tider, utkomna schole- och undervisningsböcker.
Till följe af kongl. uppfostrings-committéens anmodan
uppsatt och på dess bekostnad utgifven af L. Hammarsköld.
Stockholm, Hedmansk, 1817. £580
8vo, pp. xxiv, 298, [2]; faint dampstain at head and tail throughout
(extending into the text at foot but lighter than at head where it remains
in the margin), and some foxing, due to paper stock; contemporary
half calf and marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt and with gilt-lettered
spine label; with bookplate of the Swedish writer L. F. Rääf to front
pastedown.
First edition of the Wrst bibliography of Swedish educational books, and
still regarded as a standard work. Included are books on didactics, language
books for various languages, books for reading and writing practice,
followed by general educational titles covering history, geography, natural
sciences, religion and cultural history. A Wnal section covers encyclopaedias.
In all more than 1500 titles are described with full bibliographical details.
Petzholdt praises the quality of the bibliographical description, and
comments on the fact that many of the titles listed are accompanied by
references and reviews.
Lorenzo Hammarsköld (1785–1827) had been a friend of the Rääf
family since his early teens, and collaborated with the scientist and writer L.
F. Rääf, to produce the Wrst translation of Victor Hugo into Swedish.
Almquist 1181; Petzholdt, p. 604; rare, OCLC lists just the copy at the National
Library of Sweden.
Österreich über Alles
62 HERMANN, Benedikt Franz. Johann von Hornecks Bemerkungen
über die österreichische Staatsökonomie. Ganz umgearbeitet
und mit Anmerkungen versehen. [Vienna, Wucherer], 1784. £680
8vo, pp. [x], 253, [1] blank, [8] postscript by publisher; very clean
and crisp; contemporary half calf over buV boards, spine decoratively
gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; a very Wne copy, with
contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, and small
circular stamp to verso of title.
Revised and extensively rewritten edition of von Hörnigk’s classic Oester-
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reich über alles wann es nur will, Wrst published exactly a century earlier.
DeWning the wealth and power of a country in terms of its relation to
weaker and less powerful rivals, Hörnigk’s intention was to outline the
economic policy measures necessary to assure Austria’s supremacy in the
struggle of European powers. Hermann (1755–1815), a professor of technology,
credits him with having achieved this: a century earlier Austria was
a country with negligible trade and manufacturing and no Wnancial security;
in Hermann’s day, towards the end of the eighteenth century, Austria is at
the height of its economic and political power, with a large manufacturing
base.
Hermann keeps Hörnigk’s basic order and chapter headings, re-writes
the text, eliminates some of the redundant historical and anecdotal sections,
and in very extensive footnotes brings the work up-to-date, especially with
extensive statistical data.
This appears to be a pirated version of the edition published the same
year with a Berlin imprint. The publisher, Wucherer, adds an extensive
postscript, defending the practice of reprints with elaborate economic and
philosophical arguments.
Carpenter VI, 16; Goldsmiths’–Kress 12557.4–1 suppl.; Menger c.49; see Humpert
82.
Taxation of Basic FoodstuVs, and Beer in Particular
63 HERRMANN, Johann Baptiste. Ueber die Besteuerung
der ersten Lebensbedürfnisse im allgemeinen und über den
hohen Bier- und Malz-Aufschlag im K. Baiern insbesondere.
Eine staatswirthschaftliche Abhandlung. Munich, Franz Seraph
Hübschmann, 1819. £400
8vo, pp. viii, 107, [1] blank, [1] advertisement, [3] blank; original pale
blue wrappers.
First and only edition of this critical condemnation of the introduction of
higher taxes on basic foodstuVs in general and on malt and beer in Bavaria in
particular. Herrmann argues that this runs counter to the general principle
of keeping basic foodstuVs aVordable and subject to lower taxes. This, he
maintains, not only helps the poorer sections of society, but also helps
industry, and reduces social conXict. He maintains that in Bavaria at least,
beer is very clearly a basic foodstuV. He suggests replacing a beer tax with a
more justiWed luxury tax on coVee.
In the second half of the work, Herrmann concentrates on the economic
importance of the beer industry for the state. Not just agriculture and the
fertilizer industry depend on it, but also transport and the food industry.
He also comments on the abolition of tied bars, which restricted bars
and country inns to sell only the beer from the local brewery. He gives
a brief history of this phenomenon, and its only partially successful
implementation.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Humpert; OCLC lists just Munich.

64 HERTZBERG, Ewald Friedrich Count von. Dissertations qui
ont été lues dans l’Assemblée publique de l’Académie des Sciences et
des Belles-Lettres à Berlin. Les années 1784, 1785, & 1786. Pour le
jour anniversaire du Roi. Bassano, Remondini, 1787. £380
Tall 8vo, pp. [iv], 132; uncut in contemporary paste-paper wrappers;
faint dampstaining to upper margin of last signature, else very clean and
crisp; a Wne, wide-margined copy.
First edition of these essays by the Prussian statesman and foreign oYce
oYcial Ewald v. Hertzberg (1725–1795), written after the conclusion of
his political career and in his capacity as curator of the Berlin Academy. His
annual discourses here collected caused a great sensation at the time, since
he introduced in them a detailed review of the Wnancial situation of the
state. The three essays are entitled Sur la forme des Gouvernemens, & quelle
en est la meilleure?, Sur la population des États en general, & sur celles des États
Prussiens en particulier, and Wnally Sur la veritable richesse des États, la Balance
du Commerce & celle du Pouvoir.
Of these, the Wrst one is of particular interest. In his discussion of the most
favourable form of government, Hertzberg opposes the absolute sys tem
(following Montesquieu) and supports a limited monarchy. ‘The king governs
the state independently, but in accordance with fundamental laws and
Wxed rules, which he does not change without good reason; for if he violates
them, he degenerates into a despot. He campaigns for equal representation
and supports the rights of the peasant to be represented in government.
The second essay deals in great detail with population statistics. Hertzberg
quotes from contemporary authorities such as Süssmilch and Moheau,
and gives comprehensive population tables. He maintains that in Prussia
population growth is particularly pronounced, as births clearly outstrip
deaths in almost all areas. He also gives detailed Wnancial Wgures on
government expenditure to increase industrialisation of the county.
The Wnal essay deals in general with national wealth, balance of trade and
political strength and stability of the European powers.
Hertzberg, who had been one of Frederick the Great’s strongest political
advisors, and had been enobled for his eVorts, fared less well with his
successor Frederick William. He was highly inXuential in the establishment
of the Berlin Academy, of which he became curator in 1786. Wilhelm von
Humboldt deemed him ‘the most learned of all the Prussian ministers’. Even
though Hertzberg campaigned to free the Berlin Academy from French
inXuences, he gave and published his own talks in the French language.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 13314.
65 HÜBSCH, Johann George GotthelV. Herrn Andreae Gärtners
Langwirige Lampen, oder Sonderbare, ungemeine und durch
untrügliche Proben bestatigte ErWndung, Lampen auf eine leichte
Arth also zuzurichten, dass sie geraume Zeit und nach Erfordern
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Jarh und Tag ohne ferneres Anruehren Putzen und Zugiessen
einiges Oehls reichnlich in einer bestaendig gleichen Flamme, so
starck und schwach, als man es verlanget fortbrennen, auch in seinen
neu-inventirten und hierinnen eroeVneten Laternen vor Wind
und Wetter gesichert bleiben ... nebst angehängter Nachricht von
denen Antiquen und einer genauen Untersuchung derer vor immerbrennende
ausgegebenen Lampen. Leipzig, Frankfurt, 1725. £950
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [vi], 110; some light browning due to
paper stock; contemporary sprinkled boards, manuscript title label to
upper board; from the library of the Servite order Rossau in Austria,
with engraved book plate to front pastedown and small heraldic cipher
to Wrst page.
First edition thus of this description of a major innovation in lighting technology,
both for public and for private use, Wrst published in an abbreviated
form in 1721 (just extending to pp. 50). Developed by the royal cabinetmaker,
mechanic and model maker Andreas Gärtner (1654–1727), the
newly developed lantern corrected many of the disadvantages inherent in
earlier lamp designs, such as irregular burning, spillage, Wre danger, and
blackening of the lamps’ glass. By using a central burner, the fuel source was
tightly enclosed, and the amount of light emitted could be better controlled.
Gärtner’s invention is presented by Johann Georg Hübsch (1690–1773),
who added an extensive chapter on the development of eternity lamps, with
historical references.
Hübsch stresses the importance of street lighting for increased security
in towns, its function at special events, for the illumination of churches and
theatres. But he also points to the beneWts of superior lighting in private

households, as it allows reading and studying in the evening, enables artisans
to work round the clock, and reduces the danger of household accidents.
ADB VIII, p. 376; in addition to copies in Germany, OCLC lists Danish National
Library only.
66 [JAECK, Michael.] Über das Biertaxwesen in Baiern, aus dem
wissenschaftlichen Standpuncte betrachtet. Erlangen, J. J. Palm and
Ernst Enke, 1822. £450
8vo, pp. [ii], 58, [2], 1 errata; stitched as issued, uncut, paper spine
covering.
First edition of this comparative study of the newly introduced Bavarian
excise tax on beer, and the reaction to it in the popular and scientiWc press.
Jaeck gives an overview of the reasons for introducing an excise tax on basic
foodstuVs – to limit price rises and free imports from abroad – and gives a
handy calculation guide for the establishment of the correct tax level. The
second part contains a careful Wnancial assessment of the brewing industry
in general, expected return on investment, and proWt limitation because
of the taxation. Jaeck analyses the actually imposed excise tax further,
and establishes that it had a two-fold purpose, Wrst increasing tax revenue
for the state, encouraging medium to small sized brewers, with special
restrictions applying to large breweries, and combining a production with
a consumption tax. Detailed tax and proWtability calculations are included.
Jaeck (1783–1833) a judge at the court of appeal, published extensively
on questions of legal history and procedure.
Schöllhorn 1478; OCLC list Munich only.
The Ethical Foundation of the Welfare State
67 JUSTI, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von. Die Natur und das
Wesen der Staaten, als die Grundwissenschaft der Staatskunst, der
Policey und aller Regierungswissenschaften, desgleichen als die
Quelle aller Gesetze. Berlin, Stettin and Leipzig, Johann Heinrich
Rüdigers, 1760. £3,000
8vo, pp. xiv, 488, [32] index; woodcut head- and tail-pieces and
initials; contemporary full sheep, spine in compartments, gilt-lettered
spine label; head of spine repaired; a very clean and crisp copy from the
Donaueschingen Library.
First edition of Justi’s most explicit treatise on political philosophy. ‘An
advocate of enlightened despotism ... he uses the postulate of the general
happiness to provide an ethical foundation for the welfare state and explains
the formation of the state by the social contract, entered into when the
instinct for self-preservation impelled men to renounce their freedom.’ In
his work he combines the tendencies of the mechanistic and rationalistic
school represented by WolV and Pufendorf with the more organic ideas of
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Montesquieu. ‘He judges ‘internal administration’ to be the center of gravity
of the state’s power. After reaching the conclusion that a stable balance
of power is rendered impossible by the diversity of national character he
recommends the formation of universal monarchy in Europe’ (L. Sommer,
ESS, VIII, 508).
This treatise is also intended to show that ‘all the sciences embraced in the
general sense of the term ‘cameralism’ are deductions from a fundamental
political philosophy (Small, p. 400). (see Maria Machiavel, item 89)
Higgs 2415; Masui p. 916; Menger, c. 51; uncommon NUC, RLIN and OCLC
list copies at Harvard, Chicago, and Columbia.
Unrecorded Abécédaire
68 [JUVENILE.] ABÉCÉ ou Exposition méthodique des
Premiers Élémens de Lecture. Beziers, J. Fuzier, 1785. £750
8vo, pp. [v], 6–52, title vignette and decorative vignettes in the text;
print ed on strong paper; stitched as issued in contemporary buV
wrappers, lower corner of wrapper a little discoloured, wrapper with ink
cross and pencil trials ‘Desmerveilles, charmes present’ and calligraphic
Xourishes.
First and only edition, apparently unrecorded, of a provincial Abécédaire.
The Abécé gives a handy introduction to reading and writing, Wrst introducing
vowels and consonants, and then words with increasing numbers of
syllables. This is followed by information on spelling, diYcult words, either
for pronunciation or spelling, Roman and italic capitals and lower case
letters, abbreviations and accents. A Wnal section is devoted to numbers. In
the footnotes, the anonymous author gives some information on didactics
and relevant grammars.
The title of this work is highly unusual for France; whereas ABC books
in England or Germany were thus entitled, in France at the time they were
generally referred to as Abécédaire rather than in the form used here. The
Wrst Abécé listed in the French union catalogue is in the early twentieth
century.
Not in Gumuchian, no copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale, not recorded in OCLC
or KVK, not found in any children’s book bibliography.
Children’s Guide to Trades
69 [JUVENILE.] Petit Tableau des Arts et Métiers, où les
Questions de l’Enfance; avec plusieurs sujets gravés en taille-douce,
représentant divers ouvriers à leurs travaux. Paris, Blanchard,
1816. £880
12mo, engraved allegorical frontispiece, pp. 238, with 5 etched plates,
each with four images of trades, title within double border; faint
dampstain to lower margin, else clean; contemporary red roan-backed
marbled boards; extremities a little rubbed and corners bumped.

First edition of an attractive children’s guide to arts and crafts and related
professions. This children’s encyclopaedia is arranged in the form of
ques tions and answers between Paulin and Émilie Valville, aged 9 and
7 respectively, and their father, who utilises every opportunity for an
informative conversation on various everyday objects and professions. The
topics range from the source and production of basic foodstuVs, i.e. how
bread, Xour, wine, oil and beer are made, to household objects, such as
candles, mirrors, glass, porcelain, coins, hats, needles and baskets. More
advanced crafts are described: how wood is turned, where gold, silver,
tin and pearls come from, and how cotton, books, and gunpowder are
made. The father explains the working procedures and brings the children
to the relevant workshops, whose workers are illustrated in the charming
etchings.
Included are chapters on the making of paper, books, and engravings,
with sections on composition, imposition and presswork, and four of the
twenty illustrations relate to the book arts (compositor, letterpress printer,
papermaker, and rolling-press printer).
A second edition was published in 1820.
See Gumuchian 379 for second edition of 1820; rare, OCLC records no copies of
this edition in America, just two copies in the Netherlands (Haarlem and Leiden),
and two further copies at the Bibliothèque Nationale and the British Library.
Picture Encyclopaedia for Poorer Children
70 [JUVENILE.] Schauplatz der Schöpfung in Naturhistorischen
Alphabeten für die reifere Jugend. Worin die Naturgeschichte des
Thierreiches, des PXanzen- und Mineralreiches; die Merkwürdigkeiten
der Erde, des Wassers und der übrigen Elemente, nebst den
vorzüglichesten Naturbegebenheiten; wie auch die Naturgeschichte
des Menschen in alphabetischer Ordnung enthalten ist. Mit 1615
illuminirten Abbildungen auf 51 Kupfertafeln, und mit mehreren
nützlichen Registern versehen. Vienna, Joseph Riedl, 1812. £3,200
Oblong 4to, engraved title, pp. [ii], iv, 26 with 6 plates, [27]–54 with
6 plates; 55–95, [1] with 6 plates; 97–135, [1] with 6 plates, 137–158
with 4 plates, 159–172 with 8 plates, 173–200 with 6 plates, 201–231,
[1] with 4 plates, 233–272 with 5 plates; in all Wfty-one hand-coloured
engraved plates, each divided into four sections and with up to ten
images per quarter; late nineteenth century half cloth over marbled
boards, a little rubbed, head and tail of spine chipped, corners bumped.
First edition, very uncommon, of a fascinating comprehensive picture
encyclopedia for children, and, according to the preface, especially for
children from poorer families. The author is clearly aware of similar
projects such as the Orbis Pictus, Basedow’s Elementarwerk, the Schauplatz
der Künste und der Handwerke, and Bertuch’s well-illustrated encyclopaedia,
but maintains that his compilation, in alphabetical order, will comprise all
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the necessary information. He stresses the importance of structured and
alphabetical presentation, for ease of memorisation.
The work is subdvidied into sections on creation and natural history,
natural history of man, arts and crafts and industry, peoples of the world,
geography and topography, ancient history, antiques, costume, and mythology.
Each section is accompanied by a number of informative and vividly
coloured plates, illustrating the relevant subject. In the text the pictorial
information is explained in great detail. A Wnal alphabetical index of all the
terms and subjects described and illustrated adds to the usefulness of the
work.
The plates are particularly attractive. Of special interest are those illustrating
natural phenomena, such as volcanos, earthquakes, and thunderstorms.
OCLC: Braunschweig, Berlin, Santa Cruz, CA, and Frankfurt.
Chiromancy & Palmistry
71 [KELLNER, J. D.] Gantz neuer und accurater
Chiromantischer Wegweiser, Oder Neuerfundene kurtze und
leichte Anweisung, Wie man, mit Vermeydung aller Confusion und
Contradiction, nach einigen gegebenen General-Reguln In kurtzer
Zeit, Etwa binnen 14. abgewechselten Stunden, aus denen Händen

eines Menschen von allerhand BeschaVenheiten und Zufällen
desselben wahrscheinlich kan urtheilen lernen: Frag- und Antwortsweise
vorgestellet / von einem, Welcher unter andern guten Dingen
seine Lust suchet In Den Künsten. Frankfurt and Leipzig, Ludolph
Henirich [!] Hauenstain, 1707. £2,250
8vo, pp. [xvi] including frontispiece engraving, 113, [1] binder’s
instruction, with six engraved plates; some light browning throughout
due to paper stock; calf-backed marbled beech boards, paper covering a
little frayed at fore-edge; a very good copy.
First edition, very rare, of this treatise on chiromancy and palmistry in the
form of questions and answers. After an introduction into chiromancy
in general and its use in various cultures, the author deWnes the various
features of the hand (lines, mounts etc.), which are used to predict the
person’s character, attributes, or future, suggests possible interpretations
for these features, but also issues a warning against ‘over-interpretation’.
The Wnal chapter is devoted to chirometry, attempting not only to predict a
person’s future in general, but with time estimates. The work is illustrated
with six engraved plates of palms, with indication of the various lines and
features to be observed.
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The charming engraved frontispiece shows the two pathways to
knowledge, the long-winded snail’s pace route through the sciences, with
unknown outcome, and the direct shortcut through the four portals of
chiromancy.
Sabattini 575 ‘raro’; not in Ferguson or Graesse; OCLC lists copies at Göttingen,
Berlin, Bridwell Library, and the Danish National Library.
The Importance of Breakfast
72 KIRCHNER, G. F. Uiber Frühstücke einige Medizinal-
Bemerkungen. Mit einer Zeichnung. Mainz, Andreas Crass,
1797. £1,000
8vo, pp. 37, [1] blank, with two folding letterpress tables in the text and
one engraved plate bound at the end; contemporary half calf over buV
boards, spine ruled in gilt, contrasting gilt-lettered spine labels; small
surface worm trace to lower board, an attractive copy.
First and only edition of this self-help guide to breakfast, by the budding
medical doctor Kirchner. Kirchner maintains that after a good nights’ sleep,
which has put the body in a state of calm and inactivity, the body needs
stimulation. Depending on the activities of the night before, the body might
still be in a state of agitation and this necessitates careful calibration of the
degree of stimulation in the morning. Overall a variety of factors have to be
taken into account: degree of irritability, age, sex, active or inactive life style
etc., before the perfect breakfast can be decided on. Kirchner adds a helpful
table outlining the rousing or calming inXuences of various traditional
breakfast beverages and dishes, and another detailing the potential degree
of agitation in individuals depending on their age, sex, medical history etc.
A Wnal engraved plate shows the varying degrees of agitation, and how they
react to breakfast.
A separate section is devoted to coVee and its consumption, which has
both medical beneWts and dangers. Overall, however, Kirchner proposes a
mix of egg yolks and broth, sugar and cinnamon, or hot water, as the Wrst
calming beverage of the day.
Kirchner clearly followed the Brunonian system of medicine, a theory
of medicine which regarded and treated diseases as caused by defective or
excessive excitation. It was developed by the Scottish physician John Brown
and is outlined in his 1780 publication Elementa Medicinae. Although
Brown’s theory never became very popular in Britain, it had temporary
success in America, Italy, and in particular in the German-speaking part of
Europe.
Kirchner mentions in his introduction that he had originally planned to
write his doctoral dissertation on this subject and make it available to the
public, but the provision that medical dissertations had to be composed in
Latin prevented this.
Not in Wellcome; not in HünersdorV; OCLC records just one copy, at Gotha.

German Dialect Dictionary
73 KLEIN, Anton Ritter von. Deutsches Provinzialwörterbuch.
Erster Band [– Zweiter Band]. Frankfurt, Leipzig, [n.p.], 1792.
£380
Two volumes 8vo, pp. viii, [ii], 291; 252; contemporary full calf, sides
gilt, Xat spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered red numbering pieces, lacking
lettering pieces; extremities rubbed, and joints worn, still an attractive
set from the Carlingford library with heraldic bookplate to front pastedown.
First edition of a charming handy dictionary of German local dialect
expressions, many of which have entered general usage.
Klein (1746–1810), a linguistic historian and poet, was appointed
professor of Poetry and Philosophy at Mannheim in 1873. He held of
number of government positions, and his linguistic studies have proved
lasting and inXuential. He is also credited with introducing German as the
main language at schools in Mannheim.
His dialect dictionary was also published as part of the Schriften der
Kurfürstlichen deutschen Gesellschaft in Mannheim.
OCLC: Oxford, Cambridge, Amsterdam, BL, Berkeley, UCLA, Newberry,
Princeton.
Revolutionary Language
74 LA HARPE, Jean-François. Cosa sia il Fanatismo nel Dialetto
Rivoluzionario ossia della Persecuzione suscitata da’ Barbari del
Secolo Diciottesimo contra la Religione cristiana, ed i suoi Ministri.
RiXessioni di Gianfrancesco LaHarpe. Ragusi, [but Milan],
1798. £750
8vo, pp. xvi, 218, [2] blank; uncut in contemporary paste-paper
wrappers; a Wne copy.
First edition in Italian of this fascinating analysis of revolutionary language
by the French poet, playwright and critic La Harpe (1739–1803). As a
young man he associated closely with the philosophes and modelled himself
on Voltaire. Initially enthusiastic for the Revolution, he turned sharply
against it, and in this political polemic analysed the political fanaticism
of the French Revolution and showed how language is used for political
means. He attacked the verbal (and real) excesses, both in general terms
and in individual instances. He shows how language becomes a weapon in
the political debate.
The French original had been published the year before.
Parenti p. 174; this Italian edition is very rare, not found in OCLC, one copy in
ICCU.
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75 [LACHNEAULICUS, pseud.] Neuabgefaßte allgemeine und
stetswährende Haus- Land- und Wirthschafts-Regeln in zweyen
Abtheilungen; in deren ersten, als der theoretischen Abtheilung, von
den Jahren, Jahreszeiten, Planeten, Gestirnen, ... gehandelt wird;
in der zweyten aber, als der practischen Abtheilung, was in jedem
Monat sowol im Felde, als ... in dem Walde, bey der Vieh- und
Pferdezucht, ... zu verrichten und zu beobachten ist ... umständlich
abgehandelt und zusammen getragen worden. Jeden Hausvättern,
Pachtern, Verwaltern, Forstern, Forstbedienten und Landleuten
... zum Besten ... an das Licht gestellet. Mit vielen schönen
eingedruckten Kupfern gezieret. Nuremberg, Riegl, 1770. £1,950
4to, pp. [viii] engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black and
contents, 260; with engraved frontispiece, twelve allegorical engravings
symbolising the months (128 x 180mm) and 8 mostly half-page
engravings in the text; numerous tables; paper fault to lower corner of
S1 with loss of catchword; a Wne copy in contemporary boards, covered
with paste-paper, pattern paper endpapers.
A Wne copy of this sumptuously illustrated practical guide to the calendar,
astronomical data and weather phenomena for farming, forestry and
agriculture. This investigation into the secrets of nature stands in the
tradition of the Hausväter Literatur, a genre that attempted to explain
natural phenomena to the uneducated public.
After a detailed introduction to the calendar, including calculations

for saints’ days and religious holidays, the planetary system is described,
followed by moon and sun cycles, stars, planets and comets. Extensive
chapters are devoted to weather phenomena, such as the Northern lights,
thunderstorms and lightening, winds etc., with information on how such
phenomena historically aVected both people and their animals, and what
lessons may be drawn from them. This is accompanied by charming large
engravings showing comets, wind directions, and allegorical depictions of
the seasons.
The second half of the book contains a month by month survey of the
year with practical advice on what tasks need to be completed at what time,
and also which natural phenomena can be expected. The advice is directed
at farmer, forester, Wsherman and general householder alike, covering
livestock, plants, vineyards, and forests. Each month begins with a large
allegorical copperplate engraving, followed by tasks for the kitchen garden,
Xower bed, orchard, vineyard, in the forest, and a long list of which herbs
to collect at this time, for nutritional and medicinal use.
Weller, Pseudonym, p. 303; KVK/OCLC: Schwerin, Halle, Berkeley, Madison,
National Agriculture Library, Munich.
76 [LAW.] Elbe-SchiVfahrts-Acte. unterzeichnet zu Dresden den
23sten Junii 1821. Copenhagen, Schultz, [1821].
[bound with:] Convention zwischen Dännemark, Preussen, Sachsen,
Hannover und Mecklenburg, das Revisions-Verfahren auf der Elbe
betreVend. Copenhagen, Schultz, 1821.
[bound with:] Separat-Vertrag zwischen Dännemark, Hannover
und Mecklenburg über die Ernennung, Bestallung und Besoldung
eines gemeinschaftlichen Zoll-Commissairs zu Wittenberge.
Copenhagen, Schultz, 1821. £380
Three works in one volume, 4to, pp. 24, 8, large folding table, 4, 5,
[1] blank, [1], [1] blank; 8; 20; numerous tables and forms in the text;
two small burn holes to titles page, else very clean and crisp; stitched as
issued with pattern-paper spine.
First edition of the important regulation transforming the river Elbe
into an international waterway following the decree agreed at the Vienna
Congress in 1815. This prescribed that legislation should be passed for the
international use of rivers forming borders between European countries.
The Elbe SchiVfahrts-Acte, signed into law in 1821, speciWed legislation, tax
and tariV contributions due (on a sliding scale diVerentiated for various
products), and necessary paperwork. On separate tables individual tax rates
are listed, together with currency conversion tables and forms showing
examples of shipping documentation.
The Wnal document is a separate treaty between Denmark, Hanover and
Mecklenburg regarding the appointment, responsibility and payment of a
joint customs oYcial at Wittenberge.
Uncommon, OCLC and KVK record copies at Göttingen, Hamburg only.
Practical Students’ Guide to the Law
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77 [LAW.] Praxis Juridica welche die Applicationem Juris ad
factum in formirten Casibus, ausführlichen Rechtl. Sätzen darauf
ertheilten Bescheiden, nebst mit eingeXossenen Cautelen, besonders
nach den Stylo der Ober-Sächsischen Gerichte, kürtzlich doch deutund
nützlich zeiget. Erster [– Vierter Theil]. Jena, Christian Pohl,
1715–1718. £1,500
Four parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. 94; 128; 111, [1] blank; [iv], 138;
paper lightly browned; contemporary half vellum over marbled boards,
lower board with vellum covering to corner removed; early annotations
to front pastedown and a number of early ownership inscriptions in ink:
J. G. H. Herborn and J. M. Meier; a good copy.
First edition, very rare indeed, of this practical students’ guide to the law. In
his preface, the anonymous author states that the purpose of this publication
is to apply the theoretical knowledge that students have acquired at university
to practical cases, and to give law students and young lawyers an insight into
real life cases. Individual cases are presented, beginning with a brief outline,
the indictment, response by the opposing lawyer, citation of relevant legal
texts, sometimes a transcript of cross questioning, hearing of witnesses and
interrogation of plaintiVs, and Wnally the verdict and its justiWcation, often
followed by an appeal and further justiWcations. This very hands-on manual
gives a clear insight into the legal practice of the day. From the second part,
detailed legal forms (Formularien) are also included.

Cases discussed include inheritance questions, embezzlement, bar room
scuZes and their legal consequences, commercial cases, money-lending and
usury, etc. A fascinating insight into the legal practice and teaching of the
early eighteenth century, especially in Saxony, but presumably applicable
with slight variations to other parts of the German speaking countries.
OCLC and KVK list just Leipzig.
The Enlightened Criminal Code under Joseph II
78 [LAW.] Universalis sanctio de delictis eorumque poenis.
Vienna, Johann Thomas Trattnern, 1787. £1,250
8vo, pp. [xii], 119, last blank; large Austrian seal title vignette; original
pale blue boards, illegible library discard stamp to verso of title.
First edition of the new legal code introduced by the enlightened Austrian
monarch Joseph II and generally known as the Sanctio Criminalis Josephina.
In this reformed penal code, torture was abolished and the death penalty
restricted, the punishment became proportionate to the crime – all the basic
tenets of Beccaria’s Dei Delitti e delle Pene were incorporated. The code
was meant to be part of a wholesale reform program designed to create a
centralized and uniWed state administered by a civil service based on merit
and loyalty rather than birth. Joseph II planned a series of Wscal, penal, civil,
and social laws to establish some measure of social equality and security for
the masses.
The introduction of this criminal code marked the abolition of the
Theresiana, the uniWed legal code for the Austrian Empire, which had been
introduced in 1769 and was an absolutist throwback, which ran counter to
the general spirit of criminal reform in the enlightenment.
OCLC: Konstanz, Osnabrück; Harvard Law School has a separate issue of the
same year.
Besançon Guild Rules
79 [LAW – GUILDS.] Ordonnances, Reglements et Statuts des
Arts et Metiers de la Cité Royale de Besançon. Besançon, Louis
Rigoine, Imprimeur du Roy, 1689. £1,250
Small 4to, pp. 146, [1], 10; large woodcut city arms to title;
decorative head- and tail-pieces and initials; occasional light browning;
contemporary mottled sheep, spine in compartments, decoratively
gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed and corners
bumped, still a good copy, with an early ownership inscription by one
D’Auxiron.
First edition, uncommon, of this important compendium of craft and
trade rules and regulations in force in the city of Besançon. The work gives
a most interesting insight into the rules and regulations covering trades
and professions in seventeenth century France. A brief introduction of
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general trade rules is followed by the regulations applying to the diVerent
guilds and artisans, including masons, carpenters, roofers, launderers,
metalworkers, farriers, pavers, gold- and silversmiths, pewterers, cabinetmakers,
hatters, tailors, shoemakers, weavers, tanners, saddlers, harnessmakers,
apothecaries, surgeons, bakers and pastry-makers, and butchers.
Each individual section extends to between four and six pages and covers
guild membership, apprenticeships, trade organisation, succession in case
of death of a guild member, and other regulations.
Interestingly an updated version of these guild rules was published
in 1784, when the guilds had become obsolete, and were about to be
abolished.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 2727; uncommon OCLC just lists Columbia.
80 [LENDING LIBRARY – LAST, Albert.] Bücher-Verzeichniss
der großen öVentlichen Leihbibliothek von Albert Last, Stadt,
Kohlmarkt Nr. 7, Hofgewölbe Nr. 13. Vienna, Albert Last, [E.
Jasper], 1867.
[bound with:] LAST, Albert. Catalogue des livres français, anglais,
italien, hongrois, espagnoles et polonaise, qui se trouvent dans la
bibliothèque d’abonnement de Albert Last. Vienna, Albert Last,
[E. Jasper], 1867. £550
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [iv], 230, [1] contents, [1] blank;
190, [1] contents]; occasional colour pencil markings, a little dog-eared,
contemporary cloth-backed boards with printed wrappers mounted;
corners worn.
An interesting pair of nineteenth century lending-library catalogues from
Vienna, one for German books, the other, a true testament to Vienna’s
multi-cultural society with books in French, English, Italian, Hungarian,
Spanish and Polish. After brief details of lending modalities, which clearly
indicate that many borrowers had their books sent to them by post, over eight
thousand titles are listed, with sections on history & biography, geography
& travel, education, theatre, poetry, and a vast selection of novels. The
foreign language catalogue lists over Wve thousand titles, more than half of
them French, and about one thousand in English. Last’s lending library was
by far the largest in Vienna, and a recognised cultural institution, with Wve
branches and an overall stock of 250,000 books.
Nineteenth century lending libraries had a great impact on the reading
habits of the public, but occasionally met with criticism from publishers who
maintained that the prevalence of lending libraries undermined their sales of
new novels. In an article to the Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel (the
German book trade publication), the operator of this lending library, Albert
Last, was outspoken in his defence of lending libraries and maintained that
the circulation and print runs of novels had increased in the second half
of the nineteenth century because of them. Throughout the nineteenth

century publishing Wgures, especially for novels, had increased and clearly
overtaken the religious titles, which had been the mainstay of publishers
up to then.
See Albert Last, ‘Der EinXuß der Leihbibliotheken auf den Roman-Absatz’ [The
InXuence of Lending Libraries on the Sale of Novels], in Börsenblatt für den
deutschen Buchhandel [Financial Newspaper for the German Book Trade] 51/162
(1884): pp. 3246–49.
Harvesting Technology
81 LEONHARDI, Friedrich G. Beskrifning pa en i England af
John Middleton uppfunnen Machine. Stockholm, Carl Delfen och J.
G. Forsgren, 1799. £150
8vo, pp. [ii], 13, [1] blank, one folding engraved plate; stitched as
issued in the original wrappers, a little dog-eared, else Wne.
First edition in Swedish of Leonhardi’s Abbildung und Beschreibung der von
John Middleton erfundenen neuen englischen Maschine zur schnellen Abführung
des Heues von den Wiesen, bei eintretenden Regenwetter oder schnell entstehender
Ueberschwemmung, 1797. This describes a useful invention by Middleton,
an early harvesting machine, which allows harvesting of hay in a matter
of minutes – especially useful when rain or Xoods are imminent. As so
often, the work was translated via the German rather than directly out of
English.
The rather attractive engraving shows a simple horse-drawn contraption
for the raking and collecting of hay.
For German edition see Engelmann p. 188; not found in NUC, RLIN or OCLC.
ButterXy ClassiWcation
82 [LEPIDOPTERA – ANON.] I. Tabelle von den Tagevögeln.
II. Tabelle, worinnend die Abendvögel (Sphinges Linnaeis)
angezeigt und den vornehmsten Umständen nach beschrieben
werden. III. Tabelle über die Nachtvögel. Manuscript in ink.
Germany, n.p., n.d., ca. 1780. £2,000
4to (250 x 172mm), ll 52, with 10 hand-coloured drawings of
butterXies (measuring between 56 x 67 and 75 x 106 mm) pasted
on to front and Wnal free endpapers; manuscript in ink, written in
a legible hand; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine
in compartments with gilt-lettered spine label (label possibly later);
marbled endpapers, with nineteenth-century armorial book-plate of
Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau with shelf mark in ink; Wrst text page
with ownership inscription of Cordula v. Ponickau.
A Wne and fascinating manuscript dealing with the classiWcation of butterXies
and moths, clearly in the tradition of the schemata proposed by the German
lepidopterist Johann Siegfried Hufnagel and illustrated with ten original
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hand-coloured illustrations of butterXies. The manuscript begins with a
brief general introduction, with the note that Linnaean classiWcation will be
followed where present, and that German names will also be given. On the
verso of the Wrst leaf, reference is made to August Christian Kühn’s guide
to collecting insects Anleitung Insekten zu sammeln, Eisenach, 1773, and
his classiWcation of the ‘Sommervögel’, i.e. butterXies, is copied. This allows
the dating of this manuscript to some time after 1773, as the main source,
Hufnagel’s articles, were published between 1765 and 1767.
Hufnagel, about whose life not much is known, published thirteen
papers on Lepidoptera (moths and butterXies), in the journal ‘Berlinisches
Magazin, oder gesammlete [sic] Schriften und Nachrichten für die Liebhaber
der Arzneywissenschaft, Naturgeschichte und der angenehmen Wissenschaften
überhaupt’, a short-lived mid-eighteenth-century learned journal which
covered a wide range of aspects in the Welds of natural history and medicine.
Most of his papers were in tabular form and covered the larger lepidoptera
of the Berlin area, which were represented in his collection. Later authors
often referred to this series of papers as ‘Die Tabellen’, the tables. These tables
have clearly been copied by the anonymous author of this manuscript.
Due to this form of presentation, the descriptions of new species are
very brief, on the other hand his classiWcation is clearly useful for amateur
lepidopterists as it gives brief characteristics similar to modern Weld
guides.
Each entry is divided into eight Welds and gives the Latin and German
name of the butterXy and its colour and charactistic markings, followed by
information on colour and characteristics of the butterXy pupae, location,
habitat, season and frequency when either butterXy pupae or butterXies
may be found. This classiWcation is very similar indeed, though not totally
identical, to Hufnagel’s published articles.

Libertine Novel in Letter Form
83 [LIBERTINE – FICTION.] Sei anni della vita galante del
signor dal Monte. [n.p.], Da’ ConWni d’Italia, 1818. £750
8vo, pp. 149, [3] blank; uncut in the original printed buV wrappers,
with typographical border to upper and lower wrapper, title printed
directly on spine; some dampstaining to gutter margin of front
pastedown, with some oV-setting to title page, else clean; a litte dogeared,
but a good copy.
Rare Wrst and only edition of this curious libertine novel in letter form.
The work begins with a dialogue between the main protagonist and his
publisher, who tries to establish whether the work is pure Wction, i.e. an
outcome of the author’s imagination, or whether the letters actually exist.
The author maintains that this collection is to be published as an education
to husbands and trusting fathers, so that they may have an idea what their
wives and daughters get up to.
The letters are exchanged between two friends, who muse on the
possibility of happiness, but also commiserate on each other’s aVairs.
Letters from various lovers of Signor dal Monte, the main character, are
also included. Dal Monte travels through Europe, reporting on another
lover, who relocated to Berlin, as being the best location for causing a high
number of young men to loose their heads. The confusing story line moves
back and forth between a number of protagonists and appears to Wnd a
happy ending.
Not found in OCLC, ICCU records two copies in Italy.
How to Organise your Books – Early Library Science
84 [LIBRARY.] Versuch einer praktischen Abhandlung von
Einrichtung der Bibliotheken, mit besonderer Rücksicht und
Anwendung auf die Klosterbibliotheken von einem barfüssigen
Karmeliter baierischer Provinz. Mit Erlaubniss der Obern.
Augsburg, Joseph WolV, 1788. £850
8vo, 103, [1]; title vignette and decorative head-piece; some spotting
and foxing, due to paper quality; original pale blue boards, gilt-lettered
spine label; shelf mark directly to spine, and in ink to verso of front free
endpaper and title page, from the library of the Servite order Rossau in
Austria, with engraved book plate to front pastedown and small heraldic
cipher to Wrst page.
First edition, uncommon, of this detailed introduction to the foundation
and organisation of a library. The anonymous author points out the extensive
beneWts of imposing some order on the book collection. Ample shelf space
should be available, books should be arranged by size, with folios on the
lowest shelves, 4tos above etc., and the books should be arranged by subject
area. He suggests sticking to a limited number of subject areas, and keeping
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incunables and manuscripts separate. The organisation of shelf marks and
the production of a catalogue are tackled next. The author suggests using
just the left hand side of catalogues, so that there may be room on the right
hand side for later additions. Alphabetical catalogues by author and a shelf
list should be produced. As for the users – reading rooms where users may
study the books are preferable to lending arrangements. In the Wnal chapter
he concentrates on monastic libraries.
He includes some valid cautionary comments on library buildings, and
warns against spending too much money on them, to the detriment of the
book purchasing budget.
OCLC: NLScotland, Tübingen, Freiburg, Berlin, Göttingen, Munich.
Polymaths of the Enlightenment
85 [LICHTENBERG, Georg Christoph (attrib.), JACOBI,
Johann Jacob and Frederick II of Prussia.] Leben der berühmtesten
vier Gelehrten unsers Philosophischen Jahrhunderts Rousseau’s,
Lambert’s, Haller’s und Voltaire’s. Frankfurt and Leipzig,
1779. £1,000
8vo, pp. 71, [1], 48; with portrait vignette of Homer to title page; a
little foxed throughout; marbled spine, a little dog-eared and title dustsoiled;
from a school library with faint stamp to title.
First collected edition of these biographical essays of the polymaths of
the enlightenment, published anonymously. The Wrst three were Wrst
published the year before in Wieland’s ‘Teutscher Merkur’, the Voltaire
biography by Frederick the Great has a separate title page, Auf Voltaire’s
Leben. Eine Ehrenrede in einer ausserordentlichen, besonders dazu berufenen,
öVentlichen Versammlung der königlichen hohen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften
und schönen Künste zu Berlin abgelesen den 26 des Wintermonats, 1778. Aus
dem Französischen. This was the German version of Frederick’s warm and
conciliatory Eloge which was read by Thiébault at the Berlin Academy.
Most interesting is the biography of Lambert, which has been attributed
to the German philosopher and essayist Lichtenberg in Max Steck’s
Bibliographia Lambertiana. The German philosopher, mathematician
and physicist Lambert (1728–1777) was one of the leading Wgures of
German intellectual life of the eighteenth century (DSB VII, 597), and
incidentally one of the few German representatives of the Enlightenment
that Lichtenberg was close to, which seems to support this attribution.
The Lichtenberg-Gesellschaft, however, rejected the attribution with
reference to Promies ‘War Lichtenberg Lamberts Biograph? In: Photorin
2, 1980, S. 15–23.
Uncommon, OCLC: Berlin, Gotha, Göttingen, Swiss National Library, Danish
National Library.

86 LIN-TROY, M. Theorie Générale de l’Art d’Écrire ou
Découverte de ses Élémens Primitifs. Paris, the Author [Imprimerie
de Lefebvre], 1812. £750
4to, pp. viii, 34 and one large folding engraved plate; uncut, stitched as
issued in contemporary pink paste-paper wrappers; a little dog-eared,
else Wne.
First edition of this basic introduction to calligraphy and hand-writing for
students, and an attempt to reduce writing to its basic principles. Lin-Troy
begins with a general introduction, gives advice on the preparation of the
quill and its correct length, posture and how to hold the quill. He then
illustrates the basic strokes, arch construction, entry and exit strokes and
how each letter is constructed scientiWcally out of these basic strokes. He
explains this in detail for every letter of the Roman alphabet, and concludes
with further advice on Wnal swash letters. The large folding engraved
plate bound at the end illustrates the basic strokes. Overall a thorough
introduction to everyday calligraphy and Wne hand-writing, no wonder that
Lin-Troy received a special commendation from the head of the accounting
and book-keeping class at the ministry of arts and manufactures.
There was apparently a second edition in 1823.
OCLC: Bibliothèque Nationale.
Therapeutic Use of Tobacco
87 LINDH, Anton. Om Hydrophobien och om tobaken såsom
ett häremot i Finsk popular-medicin begagnadt medel: Akademisk
Afhandling, med den vidterfarna Medicinska Fakultetens vid
Kejserliga Alexanders-Universitetet i Finland tillstånd. Helsingfors,
J. C. Frenckell & Son, 1847. £120
8vo, pp. [ii], 52; uncut and mostly unopened; stitched as issued.
First and only edition of this doctoral dissertation on the therapeutic use
of tobacco submitted to the medical faculty of the Imperial Alexander
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University, later University of Helsinki in Finland. The examination was
presided over by Immanuel Ilmoni.
OCLC lists copies at New York Public Library (Arents collection), Leipzig, Jena,
Tübingen, Munich, Greifswald and Sachsen-Anhalt.
In Search of the Lucky Number
88 [LOTTERY.] Das große egyptische Traumbuch, oder das
wahre Mittel für Spiellustige, aus der Lotterie zu gewinnen. Von
einem wohl erfahrnen italiänischen Sterndeuter in St. Marino
verfasset, und aus dem Italiänischen in das Deutsche übersetzet.
[n.p.], 1791. £650
8vo, pp. [vi], 120, [1] table, title vignette, title printed within double
border, last leaf quite frayed and creased, browned throughout and a
little dog-eared; contemporary boards, rubbed and creased, some loss of
spine covering, but Wrm.
Rare eighteenth century chapbook edition of a dream book, a manual listing
some ten thousand terms in alphabetical order, each with its associated
number, commonly used as an aid to determining lottery numbers. Any
dream or situation could be ‘interpreted’ with the help of the manual, and
translated into supposedly winning lottery numbers.
Lottery dream books were immensely popular and published in large
numbers, but only a few copies have survived.
No copy this early listed in KVK or OCLC; see Wahrsagespiele, Los- und Orakelbücher
aus fünf Jahrhunderten, exhibition catalogue 1997.
Anti-Cameralist Satire
89 MACHIAVEL, Maria [pseud.] Der volkommene Kameraliste
entworfen von Maria Machiavel aus der italiänischen Urschrift
des Verfassers ins Teutsche übersetztt. Erste rechtmäßige und mit
Anmerkungen vermehrte Ausgabe. Venice and Cologne, n.p.,
1765. £900
8vo, pp. [xvi], [17]–110, [2]; some light browning throughout, due
to paper quality; contemporary half calf over paste-paper boards; spine
decoratively gilt, lettering directly to spine; sides with some abrasions,
extremities rubbed.
First oYcial edition of this outspoken satire of cameralism. Maria Machiavel
argues that the science of cameralism, as embodied in the Wgure and
writings of Justi (see item 67), with its principles and rules, was in fact a
chimaera. The cameralists maintained that the well ordered system of human
and natural science, encompassing police science, economy, chemistry etc.
would yield prosperity. Revenue would be increased by harnessing this
knowledge. In reality, Maria Machiavel maintains, cameralists just focused
on the interest of princes and their treasure. The cameralist has just three

potential sources of income, from the people, the regalia of the king (such
as forestry rights etc.) and domain lands. The only one of these which could
be successfully exploited, was the people, who would have to provide the
increased revenue. The cameralists, she argues, were just masquerading
as friends of the people, in reality they justiWed the rapaciousness of the
princes.
In the introduction the pseudonym Maria Machiavel is explained
– whereas the real Machiavelli wrote a political treatise on power,
his opponent Frederick the Great in his Anti-Machiavel refuted him
theoretically, by maintaining that the ruler’s interest was the welfare of the
people. His oYcials, the cameralists, however managed to turn this maxim
on its head by organising the exploitation of the people. In a further aside,
the political murder of Jud Suess Oppenheimer is explained not as an antisemitic
outrage, but in fact as a revolt of the people against bloodsucking
cameralists.
OCLC lists just Harvard and Chicago outside of Germany; the work was Wrst
published in 1762; see K. E. Carpenter, Dialogue in political economy, 1977, p. 75.
Marital Happiness
90 MAILLARD, Claude. Le Bon Mariage ou le moyen d’estre
heureux et faire son salut en estat de mariage. Douai, Jean Serrurier,
1643. £1,950
4to, pp. [xxxii], 507, [1], [40], allegorical engraved additional title
by Du Tielt (included in foliation), engraved printer’s device on title,
woodcut tail-pieces and initials, Wnal errata leaf; B3 torn without loss,
a few corners creased; contemporary vellum over pasteboard, ms. title
on spine; contemporary ?purchase inscription at head of title (S. J. A.
1648 2 0 0).
First edition of a rare Jesuit treatise on marriage and marital happiness, in the
tradition of the medieval Speculum. The Counter-Reformation witnessed a
Xurry of books on marriage, inspired in part by the pressure to reevaluate the
goals and function of domestic life in light of the Trentine view of marriage
as sacrament (rejected by the Protestants). In this context, Maillard’s
detailed treatise, which makes ample use of classical, biblical and patristic
exempla and quotations and provides much information on contemporary
morals and customs, is distinguished for its explicit discussions of sexuality
(cf. Daumas), and its valorization of companionship and aVection as a
legitimate goal of Christian marriage.
Organizing his vast subject in seven parts within three books, Maillard
addresses in Book I the religious signiWcance of marriage: this section
includes a precise, if not entirely explicit, discussion of sex in marriage,
euphemistically referred to as l’usage du mariage (pp. 67–75). This is followed
by an examination of the beneWts and challenges of the conjugal state,
which provides companionship and love, children, and an outlet for sexual
concupiscence, while satisfying the aforementioned sacramental obligation;
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while its tribulations and drawbacks include adultery (held to be equally
reprehensible in either spouse, and whose prevalence Maillard attributes to
curiosity and desire for the new, female vanity, and male irresponsibility).
Book II consists of a manual of marital duties, outlining the reciprocal
obligations and behavioural expectations of husband and wife, the duties
of parents toward their children, and of master and mistress toward their
servants, and vice-versa. Maillard concludes with the Treatise on Widows
announced in the title, discussing the qualities and virtues expected of ‘true’
(i.e. virtuous) widows, ecclesiastical and civil laws governing widowhood,
and the sanctity of the widowed state.
The Wnal 36-page subject index evokes the tenor of the work, with
entries such as fecundity, diligence, women, make-up, beauty, Xesh, nudity,
clandestine marriage, disciplining children, clothing (many entries), nurses,
second marriages, riches, voluptuousness, etc.
Sommervogel V: 335; Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au
XVIIe siècle, v. IV: 403, no. 2182; Gay-Lemonnyer I: 413 (1647 edition); see M.
Daumas, La Sexualité dans les traités sur le mariage en France, XVI–XVIIe siècles,
Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 51–1(2004); and C. Carlin, La métaphore
du ‘Miroir du mariage’ dans quelques traités catholiques du XVIIe siècle, Wetsel
& Canovas, eds., La Spiritualité, L’Epistolaire, Le Merveilleux au Grand Siècle,
Actes du 33e congrès annuel du North American Society for Seventeenth-Century
Literature (Tübingen 2002), III:95–110, ill.; rare, no copies in American libraries
according to OCLC, listing the BnF and Bibliothèque Ste.-Geneviève copies only,
as well as four copies of the Paris 1647 reprint, of which one in the US (Univ. of
Wisconsin). The Rep. Bib. des livres imprimés in France au XVIIe siècle lists 6 copies
in France.
Economic Utopia in Popular Chapbook Form
91 [MARPERGER, Paul Jacob, attrib.] P. Mori Beatior Utopia,
oder EntwurV einer Paradigmatischen Policey, wodurch die Hohe
Obrigkeit recht mächtig, die Spaltungen, Gerichts-Zänckereyen,
böse Artzeneyen, ungleicher Vortheil im Handel, Untreu in Hand
und Ackerwercken gestillet, Gold und Silber fast unnöthig gemacht,
der Staat starck, reich vergnügt, alle Einwohner fett, wohlversorgt
und mit heimlichen Gewalt, TugendhaVt gemacht, ja fast ein
güldenes Seculum wiedergebracht wird. Cologne, Marteau,
ca 1720 . £1,400
4to, pp. [16]; paper browned, and with a few ink stains to title;
uncut, stitched, with some remains of glue; stamp of the library of the
Mecklenburg. Ritter and Landschaft to title, and shelf label to lower
margin.
Very rare contribution by the proliWc economist Marperger – a popular
utopian proposal for far-reaching economic reforms. In 49 paragraphs
Marperger depicts an ideal economic state, a form of state socialism. The
economy is under the complete control of high authority, ‘Hohe Obrigkeit’,

all citizens are dependent workers, especially so farmers and farmworkers,
who receive only partially convertable currency (Ackermanns Lust). Thus
economic production and transaction can be eYciently controlled and
directed. Surplus workers can be deployed at will. Overall the project has
strong similarities to state socialism.
According to Peter Hammer, in his history of the clandestine publisher
Pierre Marteau, this anonymous work is in fact by the proliWc economics
writer Marperger, who uses this populist news sheet format and more
colloquial style to address the general public. He normally addresses a more
academic audience.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not found in Humpert; OCLC lists two copies at
Leipzig and Tübingen, mistakenly identifying it as a German adaptation of More’s
Utopia; see Peter Hammer, Die Geschichte des Verlages Pierre Martau, Cologne.
Eighteenth Century Marriage Guidance
92 [MARRIAGE – ANON.] Der Spiegel unglücklicher
Eheleute, welcher die abscheuliche Gestalt zanksüchtiger Männer
und beissiger Weiber, diesen zur Beschämung und Besserung,
andern aber zum Abscheu und Wanung, lebhaft vor Augen stellet.
Nebst den gewissesten Mitteln, welche diesem Unheil gänzlich
abhelVen und solches verhüten werden. Haarburg, [Halberstadt,
Gross], 1756. £750
8vo, pp. [ii] 196, [10] index; woodcut title vignette of Wghting couple,
quite browned throughout, due to paper quality; uncut in the original
pink wrappers; a little dog-eared.
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First edition of this curious manual of marital strife and how to avoid it.
Despite a rather laborious style, the work has a certain common sense
quality, and is full of practical advice on potential causes of marital tension,
and how to avoid them. The ideal is of course the Christian marriage, but
the anonymous author is clearly aware that reality does not necessarily
follow this ideal.
Interestingly the most extensive section deals with oppressed, abused, or
battered women. The anonymous author identiWes a number of possible
reasons for this: forced marriages, Wnancial diYculties, but also overbearing
parents, and bad upbringing. Getting married too young, is seen as a con tributing
factor, as is incompatibility, be it of background, age, or education.
On the man’s side, causes for unreasonable behaviour are temperament,
alcohol, general disaVection, which can result in brutality and adultery.
Women might well be the contributing factor by being headstrong,
excessively talkative, too interested in clothes, spending too much money, or
concentrating too much on the children, and thus ignoring their husband.
Parents are seen as a major culprit, when it comes to the causes of unhappy
marriages: they are advised not to interfere and not to force marriages.
Hayn-Gotendorf VII, 376; Weller, Druckorte I, 90; rare, OCLC and KVK list
Göttingen and Munich only; a second edition was published in 1760.
Prison Administration
93 MARTENS, Andreas Ehrenfried. Das Hamburgische
Criminal-Gefängniss genannt: Das Spinnhaus und die übrigen
Gefängnisse der Stadt Hamburg anch ihrer inner BeschaVenheit und
Einrichtung beschrieben, nebst einigen Ansichten und Ideen über
Verbesserung ähnlicher Anstalten überhaupt. Hamburg, HoVmann
and Campe (printed Johann Georg LanghoV’s widow), 1823. £750
4to, lithograph frontispiece, pp. [x], 70, ll. 19, 22 tables (numbered
5–24), and forms, partly letterpress, partly lithograph; one lithograph
plate in the text, bound after p. 33; contemporary half calf, Xat spine
decorated in gilt, with faint gilt-lettered spine label; a very good copy,
with engraved bookplate on front paste-down.

First edition of this comprehensive account of the Hamburg prison/
workhouse, in the early nineteenth century, by the head of the board of
all of Hamburg’s penitentiary institutions, the merchant Martens (1755–
1828). Martens begins with a concise overview of the Hamburg prisons
and workhouses during and after the French occupation under Napoleon,
and points out the speciWc ‘clientele’ of individual prisons – a kind of class
system applied even to the prison population.
He then gives a history of the Spinnhaus, founded in 1666, and thus
named because its Wrst inmates were prostitutes and thieves, who were
taught spinning and weaving to keep them oV the streets. He describes the
general lay-out of the prison, the arrangement of cells and work halls, and
facilities for prisoners kept in solitary conWnement. In the early nineteenth
century it was decided to introduce lanterns so that the work day could be
extended, especially in the winter months. Details are given of the lanterns
and they are illustrated on the lithograph plate.
A separate section deals with the administration of the prison, its
accounting procedures, recorded in numerous separate account books, and
with samples bound in. In addition to city subsidies, the day-to-day running
of the prison is Wnanced by the work of the inmates. Spinning of wool,
further wool work and chopping of Wrewood are the main occupations of
the prisoners. The prisoners get paid for their work, as an incentive for
productivity and so that they may leave the prison with some savings.
The Wnal section is taken up by general considerations on the purpose of
prisons, improvements of prison discipline, and further help in reintegration
of prisoners into society. Martens considers employing prisoners in their
original professions, wherever possible, to enable them to continue in a paid
profession after their release. He discusses the best balance of punishment,
compensation and education in the treatment of prisoners, and advocates
that the stigma of a prison sentence be reduced, so that a fresh start may
remain possible.
The work concludes with extensive forms detailing the accounts of the
prison, with details of expenses for food, heating and lighting, together with
listings of prisoner numbers for all Hamburg prisons. To this are added
salary tables for the inmates, cost and occupation of the prison hospital, and
curiously a little price list of the prison ‘tuckshop’. Detailed accounts of raw
materials and wool and linen output are also included.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 23930; not in Humpert.
Business Calculator- Rare First Edition
94 MARTIN, C. François. Le Régulateur Universel des Poids et
Mesures, invention nouvelle, pour apprendre, seul et sans maitre, a
trouver les rapports réciproques du nouveau Système et des Poids
et Mesures de tous les Pays, ainsi que des francs, livres tournois et
monnaies étrangères, Précédé d’une instruction générale, suivi d’un
Barême décimal complet en 34 pages, de tables d’intérêts depuis un
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huitième jusqu’à quinze pour cent, des opérations de change avec
les principales villes de l’Europe. Prix 6 francs avec le régulateur en
carton, et 8 francs avec le régulateur en cuivre. Avignon, Alphonse
Berenguier, Guyot, and Paris, M. Courcier, 1809. £1,500
8vo, pp. 487, [1] blank, with two large folding tables bound in the
text; tables throughout, with two card ‘regulateurs’ loosely inserted;
short tear to gutter margin of title-page; Wnely bound in contemporary
straight-grain red goatskin, with decorative triple gilt roll to sides,
Xat spine with extensive architectural gilt decoration, edges of the
boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt rolls, a.e.g., dark blue pastepaper
endpapers; a little rubbed, but a very Wne copy with the three
authenticating signatures to verso of title.
A very Wne copy, clearly bound for presentation purposes, of the Wrst
edition of Martin’s ingenious tables for calculating the metric equivalents
of a wide variety of units of length, width, and capacity, and for executing
currency exchanges and the calculations for interest rates. The volume of
tables is issued with two computing cards, small rectangular pieces of card
(or in the more prestigious editions metal), with square apertures. These
cards are positioned over the tables, with one aperture aligned with the ‘old
value’, the new metric value is then visible in the next aperture, conveniently
divided into units. In the way of a slide rule, successive powers of ten of the
original measures can be converted.
The work was enormously successful; an earlier version, much smaller in
scope and extending to just 123 pages had been published in 1807 under
the title Le parfait régulateur (Honeyman 2163); it went through numerous
further editions until at least 1824; a German translation was published
under the title Regulator für die Berechnung in doppelter Buchhaltung.

Fine Copy with Silver-Plated Regulateur
95 MARTIN, C. François. Le Régulateur Universel des Poids et
Mesures, invention nouvelle, pour apprendre, seul et sans maitre,
a trouver les rapports réciproques du nouveau système et des Poids
et Mesures de tous les pays, ainsi que des francs, livres tournois et
monnaies étrangères. Bordeaux, J. Foulquier, Avignon, M. Ray, and
Paris, M. Courcier, 1809. £1,400
8vo, pp. 4, [iv], 5–533, [1] errata, with three large folding printed
tables, one bound as frontispiece; and two regulateurs (one silverplated,
one card) preserved in a special sleeve on the front pastedown;
contemporary full red straight-grained goatskin, sides and Xat spine
decoratively gilt; edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt rolls,
a.e.g., with green silk endpaper and sleeve for regulateurs; a very Wne
copy, printed on strong paper.
Second edition (Wrst the same year – see above), a very Wne copy clearly
bound for presentation purposes, of Martin’s ingenious tables, with the
silver-plated regulateur.
This second edition (actually one of several published the same year
under diVerent imprints) also includes a third table, not present in the Wrst
edition, which properly explains the use of the ‘regulateur’ with practical
examples
Monumental Guide to Calligraphy
96 MARTUSCELLI, Pasquale. Trattato di CalligraWa analiticamente
esposto ed dedicato ai suoi cari allievi. Naples, Fibreno,
1840. £1,450
Large folio (494 x 352mm), pp. 27, including title page, [1] blank, and
25 engraved plates by Brasseux and G. Baroni; Wrst plate with a portrait
of the author; occasional light foxing and spotting, but overall clean and
crisp; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; spine decoratively and
elaborately gilt, gilt-lettering directly to spine, a little rubbed, but a very
attractive copy indeed.
First edition of a Wne, and rather monumental, guide to calligraphy. After a
detailed technical introduction to calligraphy in general, with information
on the cutting of the quill, posture and relevant strokes, Martuscelli gives
advice on speciWc scripts. The second half is taken up with twenty-Wve
engraved plates, the Wrst of which includes a portrait of the author. Quills
and posture are illustrated, followed by calligraphy specimens, surrounded
by elaborate Xourishes and decoration. Scripts illustrated include Italian
bastarde, cursive script, English copper plate, and German fraktur.
See Marzoli, Calligraphy 49, Bonacini 1132 (diVerent issue); OCLC: Amsterdam,
Newberry, Getty, Austin Tx,
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97 MERCIER, Louis Sébastien. Tableau des Empires, ou
Notions sur les Gouvernemens. Premier Partie [– Quatrieme Partie].
Amsterdam, n.p., 1788. £250
Four parts in one volume, 12mo, pp. [ii] title, xxii, 119, [1] table
of contents; 125, [2] table of contents, [1] blank; 145, [2] table of
contents, [1] blank; 146, [2]; title vignette, and typographic headpieces;
contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments, head
and tail of spine chipped; repair to lower corner of upper board; corners
bumped.
First edition under this title of Mercier’s Wrst explicitly political publication,
a wide-ranging collection of essays on European history, politics, and
economics. The Wrst two volumes are on politics in general, the third
concentrates on economics, both ancient and contemporary, with typical
chapters such as on luxury, taxes etc. The Wnal volume also includes
observations on law and social order, political writing, books, and
America.
Darnton comments on Mercier’s writing, which despite a lack of coherent
structure, was truly popular at the time, in part because of Mercier’s ability
to observe the world around him and make it come alive in anecdotes and
essays. ‘There is no better writer to consult if one wants to get some idea of
how Paris looked, sounded, smelled, and felt on the eve of the Revolution.’
(Darnton, p. 118).
Girard, Bibliographie des Oeuvres der Mercier, in: H. Hofer, L.-S. Mercier, 1977,
p. 332; not in Sabin.
How to Make a Fortune and Keep it
98 [MONEY – ANON.] Der unfehlbare Weg Vermögen zu
erwerben und wohl damit umzugehen: oder Die allgemeinen
Grundsätze einer vernünftigen Oekonomie. Karlsruhe, Michael
Macklot, 1766. £800
8vo, pp. 116, woodcut title vignette and decorated initials;
contemporary dark grey boards; a little rubbed, but a good copy printed
on strong paper.
First edition of this anonymous handy guide to the economy and personal
Wnance. Capital security and investments are discussed, and distilled into
basic principles: 1 – investment security: invest safely in a well run business,
where money can be traced and embezzlement is avoided. 2 – information:
keep track of investments, check the ratio between yearly income and
expenses, and keep some funds back against unexpected set-backs. 3 –
saving & economising. 4 – independence: follow your own judgement, do
not spend to impress others or to upset others. 5 – make the money work:
exploit every investment to its highest point before starting new schemes,
and use surplus money, rather than just saving it – either for charity or
further investments. Once an investment has reached its pinnacle, surplus
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funds should be invested in other schemes, to maximise proWts. These are
apparently the ground rules for making money and keeping it.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10234.18; other than a number of copies in German libraries,
OCLC lists just the Danish National Library copy.
A Bibliographical Curiosity
99 [MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, baron de.] Le
Temple de Gnide. Nouvelle Edition. Londres [prob. Netherlands],
1755.
[bound with: [MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, baron de.]
Essai sur le Goût. Fragment. [n.p., n.d.]. £650
8vo, pp. 110; 75 (part of signature E misbound); contemporary full
mottled calf, Xat spine gilt with recent gilt-letterd spine label; a Wne
copy.
A bibliographical curiosity – containing the Wrst book edition of the Essai
sur le Goût and adding two poems to the text the Temple de Gnide. This is
the well-known edition of the Temple de Gnide of 1755 (EST t202945)
in 108 pages, here followed by a further leaf headed ‘Vers recouvrés depuis
l’édition faite’, signed H and numbered 109/110. Following this is the Wrst
book edition of Montesquieu’s Essai sur le Goût, commencing with a form
of half title, but no imprint. The text was Wrst published in the Encyclopédie
in 1757, two years after Montesquieu’s death and was later included in the
Oeuvres (1758).

The two poems were included in the 1758 Oeuvres edition of Montesquieu,
which makes it most likely that this printing is of the same year.
Not found in Montesquieu bibliographies; a copy recorded at the Bibliothèque
de l’Arsenal.
Tri-lingual Parallel Text – A Typographer’s Nightmare
100 MONTESQUIEU, Charles Louis de Secondat de. Der
Tempel zu Gnidus, von Herrn von Montesquieu mit einer
italienischen und der Übersetzung in Versen des Herrn Collardeau
begleitet. Zweybrücken, P. J. B. Migneret, 1782. £780
Small 4to, pp. xii, 122, 1 (avis and errata), pagination irregular, but
complete; partly printed in double columns; contemporary buV
boards, a little spotted; with private book label of Georg D. Schild,
Donaueschingen, to front pastedown.
First edition of this double translation of Montesquieu’s prose poem,
Le Temple de Gnide, in a bi-lingual Italian-German version, printed on
facing pages with the French original. The print-run was apparently just
190 copies. Of particular interest is the printer’s preface (Nachricht des
Typographen) discussing the problems of printing the German and Italian
versions side-by side, in line with the French original.
Montesquieu’s Temple de Gnide (Wrst published 1725), a tale of love
and pleasure, which reveals the melancholic tendencies of one of the
Enlightenment’s foremost philosophers. Dismissed by literary and
intellectual historians as an aberration, this minor work nevertheless occupies
an important place in the history of eighteenth century publishing, not just
on account of its popularity in France, but also because of the large number
of translations published, and its reincarnation in music and drama.
Hayn-Gotendorf VII, p. 605; not in Fromm; not in Herdmann, Montesquieurezeption
in Deutschland im 18ten Jahrhundert.
First Edition Printed in Scotland
101 [MONTESQUIEU, Charles-Louis de Secondat.] De l’Esprit
des Loix. Tome Premier [– Tome Seconde]. Nouvelle Edition, avec
les dernieres Corrections & Illustrations de l’Auteur. Edinburgh, G.
Hamilton & J. Balfour, 1750. £1,200
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 458, [1] errata, [2] blank; vii, [i] errata,
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487, [1] blank; occasional light foxing; bound in contemporary full
polished calf, spine in compartments, with gilt Wllets, numbering in gilt
directly to spine, gilt-lettered red roan label.
First Scottish edition of De l’Esprit des Loix, (Wrst 1748), ‘in many ways
one of the most remarkable works of the eighteenth century’ (PMM).
David Hume, who corresponded with Montesquieu, helped to see this
publication through the press. This edition was published to coincide with
the brief excerpt in English published under the title Two Chapters of a
Celebrated French Work, entitled, De l’Esprit des Loix, by the same publisher.
These excerpts, covering the two chapters most likely to attract interest in
England, dealt with the separation of power, and the relation between the
English system of government and the morals, manners, and character of
the nation.
In April 1749, after reading l’Esprit des Loix, Hume had written to
Montesquieu, with extensive comments and corrections to the work, which
had been gratefully received by Montesquieu: ‘Lettre de M. David Hume
... elle est pleine de lumière et de bon sens. Il y a quelques remarques qui
pourront être utiles pour ma dernière edition de l’Esprit des Loix, et je puis
dire que, d’une inWnite des papiers qui ont été écrits là-dessus, c’est peutêtre
celui qui a autant de sens...’ (Correspondence de Montesquieu, II, 169 n
cited from Greig, p. 133). Many of these corrections found their way into
this edition (see Greig footnote p. 135).
Montesquieu identiWed the interrelationships between the laws of state
and various factors, both material and immaterial, which shape the ‘esprit
général’ of a society. He was one of the Wrst to consider the nature of
government in broadly secular terms. His empirical, comparative and nondoctrinaire
approach shaped the future not only of political science, but
social science in general... ‘His theories underlay the thinking which led up
to the American and French revolutions, and the United States Constitution
in particular is a lasting tribute to the principles he advocated’ (PMM).
ESTC t121684; Dangeau, Montesquiue p. 16; not in Cabeen; see J. Y. T. Greig,
The Letters of David Hume, 1932, pp. 133–135.
102 MOUHY, Charles de Fieux, chevalier de. Tablettes
dramatiques, contenant l’abrégé de l’Histoire du Théâtre François,
L’établissement des Théâtres à Paris, un Dictionnaire des Pièces
et l’abrégé de l’Histoire des Auteurs & Acteurs. Paris, Sébastien
Jorry, 1752.
[bound with:] Supplément aux Tablettes dramatiques pour les
Années 1752 & 1753. Paris, Pissot, Jorry, Duchesne, 1753.
[bound with:] Supplément ... pour 1753 & 1754.
Paris, Jorry, Duchesne, 1754.
[bound with:] Supplément ... pour 1754 & 1755.
Paris, Jorry, Lambert et Duchesne, 1755.

[bound with:] Supplément ... pour 1755 & 1756.
Paris, Jorry, Lambert et Duchesne, 1756.
[bound with:] Supplément ... pour 1756 & 1757.
Paris, Jorry, Lambert et Duchesne, 1757.
[bound with:] Supplément ... pour 1757 & 1758.
Paris, Jorry, Lambert et Duchesne, 1758. £2,800
8vo in 4s, pp. [ii] (series title dated 1763), xxii, [ii], 244, 88; 48 (the
pagination of the six supplements is continuous); text printed within
woodcut border; partly uncut, Wnely bound in late nineteenth century
crushed blue morocco, spine in compartments, gilt-lettering directly
to spine, tooled with theatrical mask to spine and to all four corners of
upper and lower board, upper edge gilt, gilt dentelles; a Wne copy.
First edition, very rare with all six supplements present, of this detailed
account of French theatre up to the middle of the eighteenth century. The
supplements, which were published separately over the course of six years,
are very rarely present. Here they are collected with a general title page,
dated 1763, published ‘at the expense of the author’, and bound in a Wne
‘theatrical’ binding.
The Tablettes dramatiques are a most valuable source for the history of
French theatre, covering Wrst the history of the theatre, the history of the
foundation of speciWc theatres, an inventory of plays performed or printed
for the period 1552 to 1752, with critical commentary, and Wnally a biographical
dictionary of authors and actors. The supplements generally
follow the same format and give information on new plays, a performance
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calendar for the period in question, details of ballets, and biographical
information on new emerging actors. A fascinating overview of French or
more speciWcally Parisian theatre history, documenting the transition from
medieval theatre to the highly organised and politicised drama up to the
middle of the eighteenth century.
The chevalier de Mouhy (1701–84), was a playwright and proliWc author
on the theatre, he also published an Histoire du theatre français depuit son
origine jusqu’en 1780.
Grand-Carteret (Almanachs Français) 192; Dufour, Bibliographie de Paris, p. 395;
Soleinne, IV, 283; OCLC locates a number of copies of the main work, but only
Dutch Royal Library, Lyon and Bibliothèque Nationale for the full complement
of supplements.
Portuguese Merchant Manual
103 MOURA REIS, D. L. C. Repertorio Commercial ou, Novo
tratado das moedas eVectivas, e conta: pêzos, e medidas, preço e
curso de cambios das 36 praças da Europa. Mais commerciantes,
redigido em ordem Systematica, e cada Praça sobre si, a respeito
d’Inglaterra, França, Cadix e Madrid, Amsterdao, Hamburgo.
Porto, TypograWa Commercial Portuense, 1836. £650
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. 86, [6], folding table, printed on
recto and verso; 112; titles printed within elaborate typographic border;
very clean and crisp; contemporary half calf over marbled boards,
extremities a little rubbed, but a very nice copy.
First and only edition of a detailed Portuguese merchants’ handbook, which
is of particular interest as the trading places discussed include the Americas,
especially Brazil, and also the West Indies and Jamaica etc.
The detailed manual begins with a brief introduction into the monetary
system in general, covering currency and exchange rates, banking, direct and
indirect exchange rates, and the practicalities of exchange operations and
calculations. Weights and measures and their conversion are also discussed.
In the Wrst part Moura Reis introduces all manner of trading places, all over
Europe, giving local currency and their units, and explaining conversion
patterns with the Portuguese currency. At the end we Wnd a detailed list of
subscribers, judging from the names mostly from the Iberian peninsular,
but with a substantial number of English names.
The second half gives more practical examples of exchange rate calculations
and here includes many South American countries, not just Brazil,
with a combination of currency and production details, but also the West
Indies, Jamaica, and Mexico. This is followed by the East Indies, such as
Bengal, Bombay, Goa, and Malabar.
The Wnal section covers accounting procedures according to diVerent
trading places.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 29538.101; OCLC lists copies at Harvard, Princeton, and the
BL.

The Sights of Berlin, with Details of Libraries,
Tradesmen and Shops
104 NICOLAI, Friedrich. Wegweiser für Fremde und Einheimische
durch die königl. Residenzstädte Berlin und Potsdam und die
umliegende Gegend, enthaltend eine kurze Nachricht von allen
daselbst beWndlichen Merkwürdigkeiten. In einem bis jetzt
fortgesetzten Auszuge der grossen Beschreibung von Berlin und
Potsdam. Nebst einem Grundrisse der Stadt Berlin. Berlin, Friedrich
Nicolai, 1799. £1,250
8vo, pp. [xxxii], 261, [4] advertisement, with one folded printed
table bound in the text and one engraved map bound at the end;
contemporary buV boards, spine ruled in gilt, with gilt-lettered spine
label; extremities a little rubbed, head and tail of spine chipped and
some surface wear to boards; a good copy, internally clean and crisp.
First edition thus of this compact guide to the cities of Berlin and Potsdam,
both for foreigners and locals, covering the sights and the cities’ history, but
more importantly their industry and commerce. The publisher Nicolai had
published an earlier more comprehensive history of Berlin and Potsdam,
entitled Beschreibung von Berlin.
The main aim of the publication is to provide a handbook for the inhabitants.
Demographic data is included, as is information on the government
and its departments, scientiWc and literary institutions, educational
establishments, charities and religious institutions, libraries, museums
and galleries. A separate section is devoted to manufacturing industry,
with details of main manufacturers and their respective specialities; this is
accompanied by trade and guild information.
A particularly charming section includes information on all manner of
practical concerns, such as carriage rentals, coVee houses, restaurants and
lodging houses, newsagents, cleaners, lottery ticket sellers etc.; followed
by information on weekend excursions, from local attractions like Charlottenburg,
to Potsdam with its royal attractions.
The large folding engraved map of Berlin is by Carl Ludwig von Oesfeld,
and dated 1798.
See Holzmann-Bohatta I,11918 and Engelmann 340, both later editions, this
edition not in Berlin-Bibliographie.
Secret Societies in Prussia
105 NIEBUHR, Barthold Georg. Ueber geheime Verbindungen
im preussischen Staat, und deren Denunciation. Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung,
1815. £320
8vo, pp. [iii], 3–32; contemporary blue wrappers, remains of library
shelf mark to upper wrapper; faint private library stamp to title.
First and only edition of this important pamphlet by the German
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historian and statesman Niebuhr, published in response and opposition
to Schmalz’ publication ‘Berichtigung ... über politische Vereine’, a wholesale
condemnation of freemasons and similar secret societies in Prussia by
Schmalz (1760–1831), rector of Berlin university and well-known jurist.
Schmalz had maintained that the prevalence of revolutionary sentiment
in Prussia was due to underground secret associations, similar to the
Tugendbund. Niebuhr, together with Schleiermacher and other historians,
published this refutation, rejected Schmalz’s statement that there were
secret societies active in Prussia, and demanded a thorough investigation
of such claims. Niebuhr’s rebuttal was generally well received because of
its factual superiority (ADB XXXI, 624 V.). This escalated into a veritable
pamphlet war, and led in January 1816 to a total ban of publications on
secret societies, and an order being issued prohibiting all secret societies.
The German historian and statesman Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–
1831) is of great importance in modern historiography.
Goedeke VI, 335, 6; Wolfstieg II, 27472; uncommon.
Illustrated Manual of Etiquette and Deportment
106 NIVELON, François. The rudiments of genteel behavior.
London, n.p., 1739. £4,500
4to, pp. [ii] engraved title, [28] and twelve full-page engraved plates
by L. P. Boitard after Dandridge, numbered in two series of six; some
light dust-soiling (mostly marginal) and foxing, but overall clean;
contemporary full sheep, sides with decorative gilt roll, gilt-lettered
label to upper board, neatly rebacked; corners rounded, but still an
attractive copy.

First edition of this charming illustrated guide to eighteenth century
etiquette and deportment. Written by François Nivelon, a French dancing
master, the volume consists of a set of twelve engravings with facing
letterpress text. The plates depict proper deportment in all situations of
daily and court life, standing, walking, courtseying, dancing, giving and
receiving etc. – the Wrst set of six plates are for women, the second six for
men. The plates are accompanied by explanatory text, which explains in
great detail posture and position. The work is not only interesting from a
social history point of view, but also of great relevance as a guide to how to
present oneself with elegance and manners.
Nivelon was an émigré dancing master and performer in London, and
one of the informal ambassadors of French style, which was to permeate
English upper class culture at the time. The illustrations were supplied by
the English portrait painter Bartholomew Dandridge (1691–1754), and
engraved by the French engraver Louis-Philip Boitard.
ESTC; t113093; Heltzel, V. B. Courtesy books in the Newberry; 1049; Malkin, M.
A. O. Dancing by the book (2003), 81.
107 [NOGHERA, Giambattista.] RiXessioni su la WlosoWa del
Bello Spirito. Stamperia di Bassano, Remondini, 1767. £400
8vo, pp. [ii] engraved title within decorative border, xxxii, 223; some
light spotting, due to paper quality; uncut in contemporary limp
marbled boards, head of spine rubbed and corners bumped, else Wne.
First edition of one of Noghera’s earliest publications. In this philosophical
treatise he contrasts philosophy and religion, especially epicurean and
libertine philosophy. Noghera discusses the function of philosophy
and religion in politics, for public and private happiness, and the role of
Christianity.
Noghera (1719–1784), a Jesuit theologian and professor of rhetoric
at Vienna, wrote a number of philosophical works, which are mostly
characterised by a strictly anti-Jansenist stance.
Melzi, II, 442. Sommervogel 1798, 10; uncommon.
Neapolitan Cotton Industry
108 [ONORATI, Nicola.] Memoria sul coltivamento e su
l’industria della bambagia nel Regno di Napoli. Naples, Angiolo
Trani, 1810. £680
8vo, pp. 70, with one folding engraved plate; a few ink marks in the
margins, some light foxing to last signature; contemporary paste-paper
wrappers; contemporary annotations in ink to front free endpaper.
First edition of this detailed depiction of the Neapolitan cotton industry,
written in response to de Lasteyrie’s Du Cotonnier et de sa culture, published
in 1808. Onorati begins with some general requirements for successful
cotton cultivation and an overview of diVerent varieties of cotton and
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their characteristics. Following this the cotton industry of the province of
Naples is discussed in greater detail, with its particular problems and areas
of improvement. A separate chapter is devoted to various cotton pests, their
symptons and methods to prevent infection.
The second part is devoted to economic calculations on the proWtability
of cotton production, taking account of cultivation, land rental, etc. Onorati
gives production Wgures for Naples, Calabria, Basilicata, Bari and Otranto,
but points out that proWt would be far higher for cotton fabrics rather than
Wbres. He describes a simple foot operated spinning machine, and suggests
an improved design, which is explained in detail and illustrated on the
folding plate. His design is an improved version of a design proposed by
Lasteyrie.
The contemporary ink annotation on the front free endpaper contains
a list of books to order ‘libri da commandarsi’, such as Targioni’s Sulla
industria del Cotone, 1809, which is recommended in the text.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; OCLC lists Berlin only.
Guidebook to Prague
with Prague City Cries
109 [OPITZ, Johann Ferdinand.] Vollständige Beschreibung der
königlichen Haupt- und Residenzstadt Prag, von den ältesten bis auf
die ietzigen Zeiten. Besonders für Fremde und Reisende bearbeitet.
Nebst einem Anhange von 24 Kupfern und einem Plane. Erster
Theil [– Zweyter Theil]. Prague and Vienna, Schönfeld, 1787.
£2,250
Two volumes, small 8vo, pp. [viii], 416; [ii] title-page, 347, [34] index,
[1 blank], with 24 engraved plates in vol. II (no. 21 a little dust-soiled)
and large folding engraved town plan in vol. I; attractive and wellpreserved
contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines elaborately
gilt in compartments and with red and green gilt-lettered labels.

First edition, uncommon, of a particularly nice copy of the uncommon
handbook and guide to the city of Prague, illustrated not just with a large
folding engraved street-map and city plan, with sights marked, but also with
twenty-four unsigned Wne engravings, half of them depicting memorable
events in Prague’s history, the other half Prague city cries, depicting small
trades and professions, from parasol seller to postman, mousetrap dealer
and jewish street hawker.
A general topographical description of the various parts of the city, its
most notable monuments and especially the Jewish ghetto, is followed by
detailed information on its political constitution and government, with its
various oYces and representatives, and a brief survey of its history. The
second volume concentrates more on military and educational institutions,
such as Prague university with its various branches and departments, with
individual chapters on diVerent faculties. Extensive information is given
on libraries, both public and private; Wunderkammer, Wne art and medal
collections are all carefully described.
An separate section deals with trade and manufacturing industry in
Prague, the abolition of various guilds and further information regarding
the business community. Natural disasters such as Xooding and major Wres
are also listed in the Wnal ‘current aVairs’ section of the guide.
The detailed index makes the information contained in the volume
easily accessible, and a listing of the engraved plates explains their historical
signiWcance.
Autumnal Arcadia
110 [PASQUALONI, Pietro.] L’Uccellagione, discorso pastorale
di Telesindo Matunno, P.A. recitato nel Bosco Parrasio Il di 6.
Settembre dell’Anno 1798. Ornitopoli, n.p., 1798. £480
4to, pp. [20] including Wnal blank; some spotting and light foxing,
mostly to margins of Wrst and last leaf; uncut, recent boards; from the
collection of the Turin collector Giorgio Fanan, with bookplate to front
pastedown.
First and only edition of this pastoral poem by Pietro Pasqualoni, with the
charming and appropriate imprint of Ornitopoli – the city of the birds. In
reference to Wfteenth century Arcadian poetry and prose, Pasqualoni praises
the fecundity of Autumn with reference to classical Wgures and history.
The work was for recitation in the Bosco Parrasio – the mythical and real
Arcadian garden in Rome, located near the Capitoline Hill and the meeting
place for the members of the Accademia degli Arcadi.
Lancetti, p. 264; not in Melzi or Parenti; no copy found in OCLC, and just one in
ICCU (University Library Turin); see Susan M. Dixon, Between the Real and the
Ideal, The Accademia degli Arcadi in Eighteenth-Century Rome, 2006.
The Importance of the Spoken Language
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111 PERGAMINI DI FOSSOMBRONE, Giacomo. Il Memoriale
della Lingua Italiana ... estratto dale scritture de’ migliori, e più
Nobili Autori Antichi. Ridotto in ordine d’Alfabeto per commodità
del Lettore. Opera, per la copia delle Voci, dell’Osservationi, e d’
Documenti, ch’in essa si contengono, necessaria non solo à Segretarii,
& à Poeti: ma à ciascuno, che desideri di scriver regolamente. Et
oltre aciò, utilissima à gli Stranieri, per poter’apprender con facilità,
e con regola la purità della favella Italiana. Venice, Giovanni Battista
Ciotti, [colophon: Fioravante Prati], 1617.
[bound with:] PERGAMINI DI FOSSOMBRONE, Giacomo.
Indice, overo Aggiunta e Supplimento al Memoriale della Lingua ...
nel quale oltra tutte le Voci del Memoriale repigliate ad una ad una
secondo l’ordine dell’Alfabeto, si sono restituite e rimesse a luoghi
loro alcune voci, & elocutioni di Scrittori Antichi tralasciate; &
aggiunte quelle de Moderni. Venice, Fioravante Prati, 1617. £550
Two parts in one volume, folio, pp. [xii], 609, [1] imprint; [viii], 236;
Wrst title printed in red and black, very occasional light spotting, a few
rust spots and faint dampstaining to upper outer corner towards the
end; title page with ink inscriptions, and with small hole due to ink
erosion; contemporary full vellum over boards; spine in compartments,
lettered in ink; some worm holes to foot of spine; a good tight copy
with some early lexicographical manuscript annotations in ink;
ownership inscription to title reading Giuseppe Mavrini (?).
Second edition (Wrst published in 1602) of the most comprehensive early
Italian dictionary. Pergamini’s dictionary was notable for distinguishing the
vocabulary of poetry from that of prose writing, and was one of the Wrst
to identify vulgar or colloquial usage. It testiWes to the growing appeal of
‘living language’ as a guiding principle both for linguistic study and for
literary style: ‘essendo la lingua nostra viva e non morta come la Greca, la
Latina e tutte le altre che solo s’imparano da’ libri’ [Aggiunta, p. iii] (see
Faithfull, p. 290). Interestingly he speciWcally directs the dictionary also to
foreigners.
The dictionary was frequently reprinted (1656, 1688 et al) even after
the publication of the Vocabolario della Crusca, presumably because of its
faithful record of the living and spoken language, whereas the dictionary
compiled by the Accademia della Crusca attempted to codify the language.
Zaunmüller 209 – erroneously listing a non existent 1568 edition as the Wrst; this
edition not in Cordell; see Gamba 2757 and Fontanini I, 83; Gunnar Tancke,
Die italienischen Wörterbücher, von den Anfängen bis zum Erscheinen des Vocabolario
degli Accademici della Crusca. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 198.
Tübingen, 1984; see R. Glynn Faithfull, The Concept of ‘Living Language’ in
Cinquecento Vernacular Philology’ in: The Modern Language Review, vol. 48, no.
3 (Jul, 1953), pp. 278–292.

Dutch Peepshow Demonstrated by a Harlequin
112 [POCK, Jan.] Harlequin, Reysende met zyn Rarekiek van
Wynendaal en Ryssel naar de Amsteldamse Kermis, en van daar te
rug naar de grensen van Vrankryk. Laatende op een Geestige wys, in
Drie Vertooningen Zien, het voorgevallene van den 28 September,
tot het eynde van ‘t Jaar 1708. Agter aan zyn gevoegt, eenige
Vreugdeliedren en Zegesangen, over de gelukkige Veldtocht van ‘t
selve Jaar. Met Figuuren. Amsterdam, Andries Rempelaar, Andries
van Damme, 1709. £3,200
8vo, pp. 82, with three full-page engraved plates in the pagination, one
positioned as frontispiece, title page in red and black; stitched as issued
in contemporary pattern paper wrappers, a little frayed and dog-eared,
spine chipped.
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Very rare pamphlet of a Harlequin demonstrating his ‘Rarekiek’ or peepshow
at a Dutch street fair, illustrated with three Wnely engraved plates.
The plates show the Harlequin with his peep show, a wooden box
with a viewer, through which architectural or topographical engravings
could be viewed, giving an illusion of depth and perspective. The show
was traditionally accompanied by the Harlequin reciting verse explaining
or dramatising what was on view inside, or singing and sounding musical
instruments to attract and amuse the crowds patiently waiting their turn to
look through the viewer. This was a typical fair ground attraction, popular
all over Europe, and, of course, a precursor of newsreel and cinema.
The text in this case is a political one, recounting the history of the battle
of Wijnendale and the siege of Ryssel/Lille, by the Duke of Marlborough
in the War of the Spanish Succession, followed by successive events in
Flanders. This presumably also explains the serious look on the faces of
both Harlequin and spectators. The last section is taken up with a number
of celebratory songs.
The plates are similar to the ones used in Pook’s Rommel-Zoodjen,
Amsterdam, Ten Hoorn, 1709. The text is partly by Pook (?–1714), Dutch
writer and satirist and partly by the burlesque writer Jan van Gysen (1668–
1722).
OCLC: Leyden, Nijmegen, Amsterdam, BL has incomplete copy; see Balzer,
Peepshows a visual history, 1988.
113 PODA, Nicolaus. Kurzgefasste Beschreibung der bey dem
Bergbau zu Schemnitz in Nieder-Hungarn, errichteten Maschinen,
nebst XXII. Tafeln zu derselben Berechnung; zum Gebrauch
der, bey der Schemnitzer Bergschule, errichteten mechanischen
Vorlesungen. Mit 35 Vignetten. Prague, Walther, 1771.
[bound with:] PODA, Nicolaus, edited by Daniel BREITENHEIM.
Akademische Vorlesung über die zu Schemnitz in Niederhungarn
errichteten Pferdegöpel. Mit Kupfern. Dresden, Walther,
1773. £1,500
Two works in one volume, tall 8vo, pp. [xii], xix, 84; 70, and two
folding engraved plates; Wrst work with 35 engravings in the text,
second work with 5; contemporary half sheep over sprinkled boards,
spine in compartments, decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; head
and tail of spine repaired; an attractive copy.
First edition, uncommon, of two works on mining technology by Nicolaus
Poda von Neuhaus (1723–1798), mining engineer in Schemnitz, today
Banská Štiavnica in Slovakia. The Wrst is an extensively illustrated handbook
of all the instruments and mining machinery in use at the local mine, a
handbook meant for the students at the local mining college. Included are
detailed descriptions, careful calculations and detailed engravings of parts
of the machinery.

The second work, published two years later is a detailed transcript of a
lecture by Poda on the Pferdegöpel, a horse-driven hoist structure, again
with detailed calculations to its proper use and construction and detailed
engravings illustrating the machinery. The transcript was prepared by
Daniel Breitenheim, who writes in his preface of his disappointment that
contrary to his promises, Poda had not yet published this.
This delay in publication can possibly be explained: Poda’s Wrst work,
the comprehensive technical handbook, which is here bound Wrst, had been
published under the auspices of Ignaz von Born, at the time Assessor at
the Bohemian Mining and Mining Directorate. This brought von Born
into conXict with his immediate superior, Kolowrat, who maintained
that such technical information should not have been published, as it was
regarded sensitive intelligence at times of tension and international conXict.
Born, threatened with charges of treason over this matter, resigned. Poda
presumably decided that further publications of this kind were to be
avoided for the time being. Born dedicated himself instead to playing an
active role in promoting the arts and sciences, and public culture generally:
he founded one of the Wrst learned reviews in Bohemia, the Prager gelehrte
Nachrichten, after the model of the Leipzig Nova acta eruditorum, and
established a Private Society for Mathematical Undertakings, the forerunner
of the Bohemian ScientiWc Society. Shortly afterwards he was back in favour
and asked to arrange and describe the imperial collection for Empress Maria
Theresia.
Both works are particularly well illustrated, especially with the forty
nearly half page illustrations in the text.
PoggendorV, II, 478 V.; see Alex Drace-Francis, ‘A Provincial Imperialist and a
Curious Account of Wallachia: Ignaz von Born’ in European History Quarterly, Vol.
36, No. 1, 61–89 (2006); uncommon: I. OCLC records Cornell, Smithsonian,
Delaware and Claremont College in the US; II. outside of Germany OCLC lists
just the Natural History Museum.
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114 [PRINTING – GIESECKE.] Das Etablissement von Giesecke
& Devrient in Leipzig, 1852–1862. Leipzig, Giesecke, 1862. £1,150
Large 4to (295 x 232mm), frontispiece, pp. 18, [2], ll. 12 plates; text
pages printed within border, lightly browned; original ribbed cloth,
sides with double gilt Wllet, quadruple gilt Wllet and gilt lettering; framelike
indent in boards, bevelled edges; lower board blindstamped; a Wne
copy.
First edition of this commemorative volume documenting the history of the
Leipzig specialist printers, the Typographical Institute, founded by Hermann
Giesecke and Alphonse Devrient in 1852. Specialising in high quality
illustrated books, the Wrm quickly expanded, and this volume documents
its most elaborate productions, illustrating various printing processes used,
not just lithography, stereotyping, electrotype cuts and ornaments, but also
guilloche, relief, and watermarked printing.
Giesecke & Devrient specialised in particular in the highly sophisticated
printing processes for bank note printing.
Numerous examples are given, including one combining all known
printing processes on one sheet, an example of a glyphotype, and various
guilloche methods for bank note printing. This is followed by a series of
views of the press rooms, and the plans for the various buildings within the
printing oYce.
St. Bride Foundation Library 7030; OCLC: New York Public Library, Chemnitz,
Dresden.
115 [PROSPECTUS.] POUGENS, Charles. Trésor des Origines
et Dictionnaire Grammatical raisonné de la Langue Française.
Specimen. Paris, L’Imprimerie Royale, 1819. £350
4to, pp. xx, 447, [1] blank; a couple of leaves roughly opened with loss
to upper blank margin; uncut and mostly unopened in the original pink
paste-paper boards, extremities a little rubbed and spine faded, a very
good copy.
First and only edition of the prospectus and extensive specimen of two
lexicographical works to be published by Charles Pougens (1755–1833).
The Trésor des Origines, an etymological dictionary of the French language
was to be published in six folio volumes, with a handy ‘pocket edition’ in
three quarto volumes, entitled Abrégé du Trésor des Origines. Pougens is
also advertising his projected Dictionnaire grammatical raisonné de la langue
Française in four folio volumes.
The specimen makes full use of the extensive selection of type faces
available at the Imprimerie Royale, introducing into this specimen not only
Arabic and Hebrew letters, but also Runic letters, Persian, Chinese etc.,
which makes it a rather impressive production.
Cioranescu 51131; R. Levy, ‘Une Bibliographie supplementaire des dictionnaires
du francais moderne’. PMLA, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Jun., 1947), pp. 556–571, 303.

116 [PROSPECTUS – ROUSSEAU.] Biblioteca dell’Uomo
Repubblicano ovvero Corso di Politica, di Morale, di Economia
civile e di Educazione, estratto dall’opere de’ più celebri autori
moderni. [colophon:] Venice, Giustino Pasquali, 1797. £100
Folio sheet, folded twice to form 8vo in 4s, pp. [viii]; uncut, as issued,
folded.
A Wne copy of the prospectus for a series of books for the Uomo Repubblicano,
the new ‘Republican’, after the French and Italian Revolution. The series
was to contain a new translation into Italian of Rousseau’s main works,
i.e. Discours sur l’Inegalité, Contrat Sociale and Émile together with excerpts
from other enlightenment authors. The editor clearly had great plans – the
series of works was to cover not just Rousseau, but also Helvetius, Voltaire,
Mably, Condillac, Necker, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Raynal, and
others. This series was to extend to Wfteen volumes, publication was to
begin in September 1797 with the Wrst volume; the other volumes were to
follow at monthly intervals.
In the end, just two volumes were published, containing Rousseau’s
works and some excerpts from other Enlightenment authors.
Freeport of Genoa
117 [PROVINI, Giambattista.] Al Serenissimo Senato della s.
Repubblica di Genova Umile Remostranza difensiva per la Città de
Sarzana, contro la nuova Legge del Porto Franco di Genova. Lucca,
Domenico CiuVetti, 1729.
[bound with:] [LAW.] Sommario de Documenti Fridericus divina
favente clementia Romanorum Imperator simper Augustus,
Ungariae, Dalmatiae, Cloatia... [colophon:] Lucca, Domenico
CiuVetti, 1729. £850
Two works bound in one volume, 4to, pp. [ii], 58; 28, [2]; decorative
vignette to title, head- and tail-pieces, decorative initials; occasional
light spotting, but generally very clean; contemporary full vellum, spine
lettered in manuscript.
First edition of this plea by the city of Sarzana to the authorities in Genoa
against the legislation protecting the free port of Genoa, which led to tax
rises and loss of tariVs in Sarzana. Sarzana, a city located on the border
between Liguria and Tuscany, just east of La Spezia, had been part of the
Genoese Empire since 1572. In this detailed letter the city authorities
give a brief history of Sarzana, with an outline its city statutes, system of
taxation, import tariVs, and pride in independence, at least as far as taxation
is concerned.
Genoa, which had seen its maritime strength undermined by the
emergence of Livorno and its growing importance as a commercial port,
had strengthened its own free port, where goods could transit duty free.
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This in turn damaged the tax income of Sarzana, and reduced trade, both
for local consumption and tariVs applied for goods passing through.
The second work contains important legal documents concerning
Sarzana, such as statutes regulating trade along the Magra River and the
governance of the Genoese Republic. The last section is taken up with
detailed calculations illustrating how the Genoese tax regime limits the
competitiveness of Sarzana in business terms, as routes avoiding Sarzana
turn out to incur fewer taxes and are therefore cheaper.
Not in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi; rare, OCLC and KVK record just one copy
at the Clarence Bicknell museum, Bordighera; II. OCLC lists just the copy at Yale
law school.
Safe Property Deals – How to Avoid Negative Equity
118 [REAL ESTATE – ANON.] Der vorsichtige Güterkäufer: eine
Auseinandersetzung der vorzüglichsten Puncte, worauf es bei Kauf,
Tausch oder Pacht eines Landguts ankommt, um nicht in Verlust
und Prozesse zu geraten; Nebst gerichtlichen Verhandlungen und
Entscheidungen merkwürdiger Fälle dieser Art. Berlin, Gädicke,
1819. £850
8vo, pp. vi, [xi]–xvi, 237, [1] imprint, [6] advertisements; irregular
pagination, but complete; Wrst and Wnal leaf a little spotted, else clean
and crisp; contemporary full tree sheep, spine decoratively gilt, giltlettered
spine label; an attractive copy with early library cipher to title.
First edition of a detailed introduction into the law of property transactions,
especially as applied to large country estates. In his introduction the
anonymous author describes a recent phase of property speculation, which
led to numerous cases of legal disputes. His publication, with detailed
descriptions of the various processes and precautions to be taken when
embarking on property transactions, was designed to remedy this. He
stresses the importance of the initial viewing of the property, careful scrutiny
of the accounts, preparation of contracts, guarantees, organised hand-over
of the property, either empty or with certain Wxtures and Wttings in place
– in the case of country estates also with an inventory of livestock and
machinery. For each stage of the property transaction, relevant legal texts
are cited, and possible pitfalls outlined. The process is further illustrated
by two case studies, with their ensuing legal conXicts. This is accompanied
by legal citations and excerpts from the relevant legal authorities and
commentators.
Overall the publication is clearly directed at the hapless property
purchaser, with warnings against possible pitfalls, advice on due diligence,
and information on legal recourse.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 22521.47.

Printing with Movable Type before Gutenberg
119 REQUENO Vincenzo. Osservazioni sulla chirotipograWa ossia
antica arte di stampare a mano di D. Vincenzo Requeno Accademico
Italiano. Rome, De Romanis, 1810. £900
8vo, pp. [ii], 106; uncut in contemporary marbled wrappers; tear to
front free endpaper and spine strengthened.
First edition of this interesting contribution to the debate on the origins
of the art of printing with movable type. Requeno argues that metal type
was available long before Gutenberg, certainly for individual metal letters,
which were used for stamping or branding. He investigates in detail letter
forms in various codices in the monastry of Subiaco and early illuminated
manuscripts in Roman collections and comes to the conclusion that the
even lettering is only possible with the help of some form of printing, rather
than purely manuscript. He maintains that individual letter stamps were
used – no more than sixty-four needed to be available – as there was some
clear indentation in the paper. These letter stamps, made out of ivory or soft
metal, were a closely guarded secret within the monastries, to keep up the
value of their manuscripts.
Requeno (1743–1811), a Spanish Jesuit, who found refuge in Rome,
published a number of interesting contributions on subjects like art history,
Greek and Roman painting, and the art of mime and gesture.
Bigmore & Wyman II, 253; De Backer-Sommervogel VI, 1671.5; see de Vinne,
p. 127.
Signalling Numbers
120 REQUENO, Vincenzo. Soperta della Chironomia ossia
dell’Arte di Gestire con le Mani. Parma, Gozzi, 1797. £650
8vo, pp. viii, 141, [1] imprint, [1] errata, 3 engraved plates; uncut in
the original pale blue wrappers; spine a little chipped and corners worn;
a crisp and very wide-margined copy.
First edition of this very attractive and curious introduction into the art of
‘chiromania’, or talking with one’s hands, used not only in mime, but in a
wide range of situations. The author begins with a historical overview, and
then discusses the use of hands and Wngers in counting and calculating in
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classical antiquity. The left hand indicates numbers up to ninety, whereas
the right hand gives hundreds. The three Wnely engraved plates, in fact
illustrate this use, and give the hand signs for diVerent Wgures and numbers.
He also deals with the representation of the letters of the alphabet with both
the left and the right hand.
In the second and more substantial part the author deals with the use of
hands and gestures in mime, pantomime, and classical theatre in general.
He deplores in particular that modern mime does not utilise the hands in
the same ‘meaningful’ way as was common in antiquity.
Brunet IV, 1244; Graesse VI, 92; De Backer-Sommervogel VI, 1671.5.
Livestock Trading Legislation
121 RITTER, Georg Heinrich. Vom Verkaufe und Kaufe
der Nüzlichsten Haustiere, mit Vorschlägen zu einer bessern
Gesezgebung, auf die Kentnis des tierischen Organismus gegründet;
zugleich: Grundzüge zu einer, nicht scheinbaren, sondern
warhaft rationellen Heilmethode der meisten Tierkranheiten
[!]; Ein Handbuch für Gesezgeber, Richter, Advokaten,
Statsärzte, Tierärzte, Ökonomen, Postmeiser, Stalmeister und
KavallerieoYziere; Allen Gesezgebungskommissionen zur
Beherzigung empfolen. Mannheim, [Kathol. Bürgerhospitals-
Buchdruckerei], 1821. £680
8vo, [vi], 113, [1] index; a little foxed throughout due to paper stock;
contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards, spine ruled in gilt, giltlettered
spine label; an attractive copy.
First edition of an interesting publication on veterinary law, outlining the
rules and regulations applicable to the trade in animals, especially horses.
Ritter begins with a brief historical overview, and shows that while it has
always been illegal to hide the faults of animals when selling, questions of
redress have been diYcult to enforce. Warranty on live animals is clearly
more complicated than than on objects. He cites extensively from legal
authorities, and digresses into veterinary questions of equestrian com plaints.
He suggests a reform of the laws regulating sale and purchase of livestock,
and proposes their supervision by three trained livestock commissioners,
who have to examine the animals in question and compose a detailed tabular
report. For livestock auctions a large number of commissioners need to be
employed. Once these commissioners have agreed on a ‘clean bill of health’
for the animal in question, the purchaser will not have any regress. Ritter
suggests that these livestock commissioners be recruited from the ranks of
those who work with animals, have a reputation for honesty and are capable
of reading and writing, such as shepherds, farriers, butchers, etc. and be
given a brief training. They will be paid a commission on a sliding scale,
depending on the purchase price, by both the seller and the purchaser. The

Wnal chapter concentrates on the diagnostics of various animal illnesses.
Ritter concludes with various examples of purchase contracts for animals.
The work is printed using reform spelling.
Schrager, 15398; OCLC: Göttingen and Leipzig only.
122 RIVE, Joseph Christian Herman. Ueber die Aufhebung
der Fideicommisse, als Folge der Einführung des Französischen
Civil-Gesetzbuches. Eine juridische Untersuchung. Cologne, J. P.
Bachem, 1822. £550
8vo, pp. [ii], viii, 132, [1] errata; uncut in contemporary blue wrappers.
First edition of this assessment of the inXuence of the Napoleonic Code on
the feudal concept of ‘entailment’ within property law, where the inheritance
of land was limited to the owner’s lineal descendants, and normally
restricted to the eldest son. Rive discusses whether the Napoleonic Code,
which was introduced in phases in diVerent parts of Germany, abolished
these rights, or whether existing entailments were exempt from the inXuence
of the Napoleonic Code. He cites extensively from legal authorities
and contemporary legal opinion. He discusses the situation in Westphalia
in particular, and includes various subsequent rulings by the Prussian
government, regulating inheritance law and entailments in particular.
Overall a detailed and well documented investigation of this legal
problem.
OCLC lists copies at Harvard Law School, Berlin and Göttingen.
123 RIZZI, Filippo. Memoria sul Tempo della Potature delle Viti.
[Naples], Giuseppe Grossi, 1810. £650
8vo, pp. [viii], 43, [5] blank, including front blank; printed on strong
pale blue paper; contemporary woodblock printed pattern paper; with
presentation inscription to the Aquila Agricultural Society by the author
on front blank leaf; a Wne copy.
First edition of this detailed article on the best period for pruning vines.
Rizzi begins with a general overview of the importance of alcoholic drink in
Western civilisation, citing from the classics and medical literature, before
concentrating on the importance of pruning for healthier growth of the
vines and better yields. He debates the particular period of pruning, be it
autumn or spring, and clearly supports pruning in the autumn, in line with
the cycle of vegetation. He cites numerous cases in support, but then takes
the opportunity to advocate the foundation of an agricultural academy for
further research and education in wine production. His appeal was actually
heard and a fellow member of the Academy of the GeorgoWli, Cosimo
RidolW, founded the Wrst agricultural school in Italy at his farm of Meleto
in 1831.
Rizzi, a lawyer by profession, practiced in Ascea (Salerno). He was a
member of the Academy of the GeorgoWli, the Wrst scientiWc institution
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devoted to agriculture, of the Florentine Royal Academy, and numerous
other scientiWc societies, and published extensively on agricultural subjects,
amongst them another title on wine Memoria sull’abuso di cuocere il mosto
(1811), on fermented grape syrup or ‘vin cotto’.
An earlier shorter article on the subject of pruning had already appeared
in 1802, and is equally rare.
Fumi 631; Costabile L. and Patalano R. Repertorio bio-bibliograWco degli scrittori di
economia in Campania, prima parte (dal 1594 al 1861), 2000, p. 478; ICCU records
copies at Bari and Vicenza, the earlier edition of 1802 at UC Davis.
124 ROSNATI, Bartolomeo Gabriele. Sui Mezzi piu vantaggiosi
al Conseguimento ed alla Conservazione della Prosperità Wsica
dell’Uomo civilizzato. Considerazioni medico-WlosoWche. Milano,
Giovanni Bernardoni, 1821. £500
8vo, pp. 193, [2]; very faint dampstain aVecting the upper corner of the
second half; uncut in the original pale blue wrappers.
First edition, uncommon, of this introduction to health and how to maintain
it. Rosnati, public health oYcial and surgeon, stresses the importance
of healthy living for general happiness. He Wrst discusses nourishment,
giving advice on food, drink, fresh air, heat, and light: he advises city
dwellers to regularly go into the country to combat the eVects of living
deprived of fresh air and light. The next section concentrates on excretions,
followed by another on the right balance of rest and exercise. For those in
sedentary occupations he advises games and sport, to achieve the necessary
exercise, citing for example ice-skating practiced in northern countries,
dancing, trampolining, or (when funds permit) hunting. In particular he
recommends the beneWcial eVects of travelling, as it combines physical
exertions with intellectual stimuli. The importance of regular and suYcient
sleep is also stressed.
He concludes with some advice on medication, and the use of hot baths
and spas for the preservation of health. Throughout he cites from medical
authorities.
Apparently rare, no copy found in OCLC.
125 RUMPLER, Christoph Anton v. Ueber die körperliche Strafe
im Miltair. In Briefen zweier OYciere. Nuremberg, Jobst Wilhelm
Wittwer, 1808. £750
8vo, pp. viii, 135, [1] blank, [2] errata; throughout somewhat browned
and spotted, due to paper stock; contemporary green limp boards.
First and apparently only edition of an interesting discussion on the use
and function of corporal punishment in the military. Arranged in the form
of letters between two oYcers, the dialogue covers the function of military
discipline in general for instantaneous and instinctive obedience, which is
of utmost importance. One of the correspondents maintains that this can

only be achieved when the ultimate punishment, the shame of corporal
punishment is present, whereas the other one supports the idea of individual
responsibility and honour, which is undermined by corporal punishment.
The discussion is widened by contrasting a German sense of discipline and
perfect submission (frequently underlined by a strike with the whip) with
the French approach, which is based on a contract of conWdent individuals,
whose self-esteem should not be undermined by corporal punishment.
Overall an interesting discussion of military discipline and how to achieve
it, contrasting what is perceived to be German hierarchical structure with
the French nation in arms.
OCLC: Weimar, Berlin, Munich only.
Lottery Legislation
126 [SACRIPANTE, Carlo Maria.] Editto per lo ristabilimento
in Roma d’un nuovo givoco di lotto. Rome, Camera Apostolica,
1731. £300
Folio, pp. xi, [1]; arms of Clemens XII to title, title page with faint
spotting; contemporary pink wrappers, a little dog-eared.
First edition of the edict to revive the lottery in Rome, as a strategic measure
to improve the Wnancial situation of the Papal States. Gambling and the
Roman lottery had been outlawed under Benedict XIII, but his successor
Clement XII saw the Wnancial advantage, and re-introduced it. The papal
treasury beneWted to the tune of half a million scudi, thus Wnancing the
building programs for which Clement XII is chieXy remembered.
Uncommon, OCLC records copies at the National Library of Australia and
Brigham Young, KVK adds National Library of Italy.
127 [SAINT-JOSEPH, Pierre de.] Catechisme des Partisans, ou
Resolutions Theologiques touchant l’Imposition, Levées & Employ
des Finances. Dressé par Demandes & Responses, pour plus grande
facilité. Par le R.P.D.P.D. S.J. Paris, Cardin Besongne, 1649.
[bound with:] Suite du Catechisme des Partisans ou des Resolu tions
Theologiques touchant l’Imposition, Levées & Employ des
Finances. Par M. J.B.D.E.T.E.R.O.D.P.M. Paris, Besonge,
1649. £200
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. 32, with large title vignette; 32;
some spotting and light browning, due to paper quality; modern grey
boards.
First edition of this contribution to the pamphlet war of the Fronde, a
pamphlet in the form of questions and answer, voicing opposition to
the unlimited power of Mazarin. The main arguments concern Wnancial
matters, especially royal power in Wscal matters and the raising of taxes.
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The second pamphlet is clearly by a diVerent author and uses contrary
arguments.
Moreau, Bibliographie des Mazarinades, 652 (‘très remarquable pamphlet’);
INED 4055 (only Wrst part).
Adam Smith in Germany
128 SARTORIUS, Georg. Handbuch der Staatswirthschaft zum
Gebrauche bey akademischen Vorlesungen, nach Adam Smith’s
Grundsätzen ausgearbeitet. Berlin, Johann Friedrich Unger,
1796. £1,500
8vo, pp. xxxix, [1], 234, [2] advertisements; very clean and crisp;
nineteenth century blue boards; small stamp of Amsterdam library to
verso of title; a Wne copy.
First edition, very rare, of this early synopsis of Adam Smith’s Wealth
of Nations for use at universities. Sartorius (1766–1828), professor at
Göttingen university, was the Wrst to introduce the teaching of Adam Smith
at a German university. Here he presents his outline of Smith’s work, with
the addition of his own critical and practical remarks.
[Sartorius’] ‘selections from the Wealth of Nations, published as early
as 1796 revealed a capacity to present the principles and implications of
‘laissez faire’ in a manner suited to the tastes and needs of German students’
(K. Pibram in ESS). This abridgement was largely overlooked by Smith
scholars; Haldane was the Wrst to acknowledge the work (referring to a
later edition) while it had been missed by Rae, Scott and Hirst. However,
a Swedish translation appeared in 1800, and spread Smith’s concepts of
‘laissez faire’ to Northern Europe.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 16557; Menger c. 93; Vanderblue p. 32; for a detailed study
see Roscher, Geschichte der National-Oekonomik in Deutschland, pp. 615–619.
Physiocracy in Germany
129 SCHLETTWEIN, Johann August. Die wichtigste
Angelegenheit für das ganze Publicum oder die natürliche Ordnung
in der Politik überhaupt, besonders aber Die allgemeine Freyheit
im Handel und Wandel; die ungestöhrte Ein- und Ausfuhr des
Getraides; Die Ordnung der Vollkommenheit in der Cultur der
Ländereien, und in dem Verbrauche der Waaren; Die zur Wohlfahrt
der Staaten einzuführende einzige AuXage auf den reinen Ertrag der
Grundstücke, und die damit zu verbindende Einrichtung des Frohnwesens
auseinandergesetzt [zweyter Theil. 1. Die AbschaVung der
Naturalfrohndienste, und die Einführung eines Frohngeldes. 2. die
wirtschaftliche Ordnung zur Aufrechterhaltung der Länder, und
zum wahren besten eines jeden Menschen, aus den Grundsätzen der

Gerechtigkeit und des Wohlthuns auseinandergesetzt]. Carlsruhe,
Michael Macklot, 1772–73. £1,800
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. 333, [1] errata; [xii], 372; contemporary half
vellum over marbled boards, vellum spine label; very occasional light
browning, and faint dampstain towards end; early illegible ownership
inscription in ink to title, dated 1774; remains of shelf marks to foot of
spines; a very nice copy.
First edition, very rare and complete, of Schlettwein’s most important work
on economics, and one of the best representations of physiocratic doctrine
in Germany. In this collection of essays Schlettwein covers the main tenets
of physiocratic doctrine – free trade in grain, single tax, the abolition of the
corvée, and the importance of the improvement of human society.
Schlettwein (1731–1802), a cameralist and professor of economics, is
regarded as the head of the physiocrats in Germany. He was ‘converted’
to Quesnay’s teachings together with the Margrave of Baden through the
periodical Ephémérides du Citoyen, published from 1767 by Baudeau and
later Du Pont, and later put these ideas into practice in Dietlingen, where
he collaborated with the Margrave of Baden.
‘Like all German physiocrats he went beyond the original French
physiocratic principles in bringing into sharper relief the moral-philosophical
basis of the doctrine. InXuenced especially by the views of the Scottish moral
philosophers with their emphasis upon the altruistic instinct of men and
professing the theory of the perfectibility of the German Enlightenment,
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Schlettwein saw in the physiocratic principles of natural rights, laissez faire
and cosmopolitanism the surest means of achieving universal happiness for
mankind – the supreme goal of all individual and social eVort’ (L. Sommer
in ESS).
Humpert 7517; Menger c. 61; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; OCLC lists copies at
Chicago, Harvard, the State Library of Lower Saxony, the Dutch Royal Library,
and Cambridge only. The 1972 reprint is of course widely available.
Festival Shooting Contest in 1590 – Treated Poetically
and Technically
130 SCHMIDT, Bernhard. Eygentliche unnd ordentliche
Beschreibung, deß löblichen Übungsschiessens, mit groben Stucken
oder halben Schlangen. Strasbourg, Bernhard Jobin, 1590.
[bound with:] BUGER, Kaspar. Kurtzer unnd gründtlicher
underricht wie man auV Wählen und im Feld, das grob Geschütz,
von grossen Stucken, Streichbüchssen und Bölern laden, richten,
und gewiß darauß schiessen und werVen, soll, und kan. Strasbourg,
Bernhard Jobin, 1590. £3,500
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. [32] [A-D4]; [30],[A-D4]
including Wnal blank; I. printer’s mark to title, woodcut initial and Wne
woodcut endpiece, text printed in double columns; II. title in red and
black, with large gun barrel woodcut to title and six large woodcuts
of scientiWc instruments in the text, large printer’s mark to verso of

last leaf; early limp vellum, remains of original silk ties, sides with gilt
Xeurons to corners and centre; binding a little bent, else Wne.
I. First edition of this detailed account, in verse form, of the festival shooting
contest on 15 May in Strasbourg, by the Strasbourg poet and composer
Berhard Schmidt, (1535–1592). Between 1562 and 1592 Schmid was
organist both of the Thomaskirche and of Strasbourg Cathedral, where he
played for Christmas services. This poem is the only one of his works that
survives. He may also have contributed to the epic poem about Petrus von
StauVenberg.
II. First edition of this technical contribution to the festival shooting
described by Schmidt. Buger gives technical details of artillery, Wring of
canons both for ceremonial purposes and in earnest, discussing in particular
the use of explosives, instruments for measuring necessary amounts of
gun powder, and calculations of the correct composition of shot and gun
powder. A separate section is devoted to a technical discussion of the gun
quadrant, used to set the angle of a gun barrel, and the use of the plumb line.
The detailed woodcuts show a canon barrel with the plumb line, quadrants
and various measuring devices.
1. STC 790; VD16 S 3129; Ritter 2083; Goedeke II, 327, 14; Hohenemser
4462; OCLC lists Wolfenbüttel, Weimar, Berlin and BL; II. IA 127 102; VD16
B9528; Muller 595, 204; OCLC list Wolfenbüttel, Weimar, Berlin, Newberry and
Michigan.
The Sociology of Carnival in Germany
131 SCHMIDT, Johann Peter. Fastel-Abends-Sammlungen, oder
Geschichtsmäßige Untersuchung der Fastel-Abends-Gebräuche
in Mecklenburg, darinnen die feyerlichen Fastnachts-Gastereyen,
und wesentliche Fastel-Abends-Gerichte, nahmentlich Kreuz-
Kringel, und Heefwecken, geräucherte Schweins-Schincken,
Mettwurst und RindXeisch; dann auch das Fastnachts-GesöV, ...
nach ihrem ersten Ursprung, Nahmens-Ableitung, Grund, Ursache
und Gelegenheit, erläutert, und anbey verschiedene landübliche
Sprich- und Scheltwörter, abergläubische Meinungen, Weisen und
Gewohnheiten, aus denen Geschichten und Alterthühmern erklähret
werden. Rostock, Martin Warnigk, [1742]. £650
4to, pp. [xii], 180; head- and tail-pieces and decorative woodcut
initials; occasional light browning, due to paper stock; contemporary
half vellum and marbled boards, a little rubbed.
First edition, rare, of this fascinating ethnological description of carnival
rituals in the German-speaking countries. In his introduction Schmidt
(1708–1790), a law professor from Rostock, points out how important a
study like his is for social and cultural history, since these areas are not usually
dealt with in traditional historical studies, which concentrate on political
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events only. In addition to detailed accounts of various customs concerned
with feasting and merry-making during the last few days preceding Lent, he
gives information on dress code for these festivities, traditional foods, and
related proverbs and sayings. Schmidt begins his account with details of the
pagan rituals, such as the Roman Saturnalia and Bacchanalia, which were
incorporated or tolerated in the carnival rituals of the Catholic church, and
links them to solstice celebrations.
Amongst the traditional foods, he describes yeast-based rolls and breads,
similar to ‘hot cross buns’. He reveals the background for the tradition of
dressing up for carnival celebrations, and describes traditional ‘games’. The
text is accompanied by very detailed references, which serve as a veritable
bibliography of the subject. Schmidt apparently realised that his work might
have a rather limited market with a title concentrating just on Mecklenburg,
so he craftily also issued the identical text with German carnival customs in
the title. Both issues are rare.
GV 127, 330; Heess 928; Grewolls, Personenlexicon, p. 386; the work proved
popular and a second edition was published 1752; uncommon, in addition to
copies in Germany, OCLC notes Berkeley, Chicago, Cleveland Public Library, and
the New York Academy of Medicine.
132 [SCRIBES – CALLIGRAPHERS.] Tableaux de la
Communauté des Maitres Ecrivains, Expéditionnaires,
Arithméticiens, teneurs de Livres à Parties doubles & simples,
créé par Charles IX, & rétabli par Edit d’Aout 1776. Pour l’Année
M.DCC.LXXXI. Paris, D’Houry, 1781. £750
Folio broadside (611 x 451 mm), printed within decorative border;
frayed and with repaired central vertical fold.
Fine broadside listing the ‘Maitre Écrivains’, the guild of scribes,
calligraphers, and accountants founded in 1590 under Charles IX, and reestablished
in August 1776, after the abolition of the guilds by Turgot.
The Maîtres Écrivains covered a wide-ranging Weld of activity, from copying
documents, both for merchants, business men and bankers, to involvement
in the judicial system, by verifying signatures, and detecting forgeries, and
an occupation as teachers for writing and basic arithmetic.
Listed are the oYcers in charge, two syndics and a vice-syndic, followed
by a listing of the twenty-four deputes, all recruited from the 96 maîtres,
The maîtres are listed in the order of their admission to the guild, beginning
with Nicolas Jon and Jean-Etienne d’Autrepe, both members since 1734,
together with their full business address. The second table records the
Maîtres de l’ancienne Communauté (all 61 of them), and then the Wve
permissionnaires, and the legal counsel active for the guild. Amongst the
scribes are some well-known calligraphers, such as d’Autrepe, Paillasson,
Bedigis.
Not found in any of the calligraphy bibliographies; no copies listed on OCLC
or KVK; for further information on the guild, see Christine Métayer, ‘Normes

graphiques et pratiques de l’écriture. Maîtres écrivains et écrivains publics à Paris
aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles’, in: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 2001, vol. 56,
no 4–5, pp. 881–901 and H. C. Barnard, ‘The Educational Work of the Parisian
Maîtres-Écrivains’, in: British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Nov.,
1960), pp. 39–47.
133 [SILHOUETTES.] [Biographien jetzt lebender Gelehrten und
gelehrter Künstler nebst ihren Silhouetten en Bou-Magie]. [Leipzig,
Johann Carl Müller, 1779.] £900
Small 4to, pp. 16, [18], with 8 silhouettes by Joh. C. Müller; here
bound without the general title and preface; contemporary buV boards,
spine a little sunned.
First and only edition of both issues (all published) of the anonymous
publication combining silhouette portraits of German scientists and artists
with brief biographical essays and bibliographical information on their
publications. Unfortunately the printed title and introduction (pp. [iv])
were not bound with this copy.
Silhouettes were popular in the eighteenth century as a cheaper alternative
to full miniature portraits, and were, before photography, the cheapest way
of recording a person’s likeness. This particular production is unusual, in
that the dark black silhouettes are presented within an incongruous etched
ornamental frame by J. C. Müller.
Included are the jurist and educationalist Carl Ferdinand Hommel
(1722–81), the philologist Ernestine Christine Reiske (1735–98), the
theologians Johann Friedrich Burscher (1732–1805) and Johann Gottfried
Körner (1726–85), the teacher of the deaf and dumb Samuel Heinicke
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(1727–90), the jurist Josias Ludewig Püttmann (1730–96), Anton
Wilhelm Plaz (1708–84) a pharmacist and professor of natural history, and
the philosopher and philologist Johann August Dathe (1731–91).
A. Kippenberg, ‘Die Technik der Silhouette’, in Sammlung Kippenberg I, p. 171,
no 22; see Christa Pieske, ‘Jacob von Döhren und die Silhouettenbücher’. In:
Philobiblon XI, 1 (1967), p. 12; very uncommon, OCLC lists copies at Leipzig,
Dresden and Basel only.
With Turgot’s ReXections
134 SMITH, Adam & Anne Robert Jacques TURGOT. An
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations... Vol.
I [– Vol. IV]. Basel and Paris, James Decker and Levrault brothers,
1801. £1,350
Four volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 68, 406; vi, 344; iv, 358, [5] appendix, [1]
blank; v, [1] blank, 374, [52] index; contemporary half tan sheep over
marbled boards; from the Sieveking Library with book plate to front
pastedowns.
Second Continental edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and the
only edition to include an English translation of Turgot’s RéXexions sur la
formation et la distribution des richesses, a work which had a great inXuence
on Adam Smith, and which McCulloch describes as ‘the best work on the
science published previously to the Wealth of Nations’.
Smith’s Wealth of Nations, more than any other work, changed the
course of economic history. It was the ‘Wrst expression of the freedom of
the individual’ (PMM).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 18148; Vanderblue, p. 20; not in Einaudi.
Regulations for Pharmacists
135 [STATUTES – ROUEN.] Statuts, Ordonnances, Arrests et
Règlemens des marchands Apoticaires-Epiciers & des Marchands
Epiciers-Ciriers Droguistes & ConWseurs de la Ville, Fauxbourgs
& Banlieue de Rouen. Lesdits Statuts accordés par la Cour de
l’Echiquier sous Louis XIII, & par Henry III, conWrmés par Henri
IV, Loüis XIII, Loüis XIV, & renouvelés & augmentés par Loüis
XV. Rouen, Jacques-Joseph le Boullenger, 1742. £1,250
4to, pp. [xvi], 292, including the Wrst blank; title printed in red and
black, title vignette, with woodcut guild armorial shield, headpieces
and decorative initials; contemporary full mottled calf, rebacked with
original spine laid down, joints repaired, with recent spine labels; spine
with monogram of J.-P. Daul, nineteenth century bookplate of M
Delasize to front pastedown, and modern bookplate of Bernard Jean.
First edition of this compilation of the statutes and legal organisation and
legal position of the pharmacists, druggists, confectioners and spice traders

of the city of Rouen, from their Wrst incorporation in 1508, through to the
mid eighteenth century. All the statutes, ordinances, and oYcial rulings
are reprinted in full. The volume thus traces the development of the guild
through the centuries, and outlines a number of disputes between individual
pharmacists and the authorities.
Interestingly the modern professions of pharmacists, spice traders, and
confectioners were not clearly separated, pharmacists produced sugar
confections, jam and even candles, whereas confectioners, who had no
speciWc medical training made and sold creams, and popular medical
concoctions. This led to frequent disputes, and eventually to a more obvious
separation between these professions. Apothecaries and pharmacists were
heavily regulated and frequently inspected, with special emphasis on the
freshness of their drugs and the correctness of their weights & measures.
Information is also given on training, which was by apprenticeship lasting
four years with a further four years to reach master status. Admission to the
guild was strictly limited to French nationals.
Special regulations, issued at Versailles in 1682, limited the use of
pharmaceuticals by sorcerers and magicians, and especially regulated the
sale of poisons, such as arsenic etc., with information on punishments
incurred for mis-selling.
OCLC: Leeds, University of Maryland.
Runic Characters, Cuneiform Writing and Chinese
136 THAM, Pehr. Bref till Herr Doctor Münter, Professor i
Köpenhamn. [Skara, F. J. Leverentz], 1803. £900
Folio, pp. [8]; contemporary wrappers; illustrations, runic and Chinese
characters drawn by hand in ink by the author, extensive manuscript
annotations; author’s presentation inscription to Mikael Anckarsvärd,
dated 1803.
First edition, with extensive manuscript material, of this curious investigation
into runic characters and their relation to cuneiform writing and Chinese
characters, developed in a letter to Dr. Münter in Copenhagen. Examples
of runic and Chinese letters are drawn in by hand, as is the detailed drawing
of an ancient vase, an archaeological Wnd.
Pehr Tham (1837–1820), from a well oV landed gentry family, was an
avid collector of artefacts, manuscripts and works of art, especially those
related to early Swedish history. He was an early adherent of the theory that
the foundation of Sweden was not in East Sweden, but in Västergötland, and
used methods of etymology and language research to prove his theory. The
theory, generally termed Götaland theory, never found much acceptance
in scientiWc circles, but was enthusiastically followed in Sweden. Tham
is regarded as an ideological successor of Olof Rudbeckius, the professor
of medicine who was convinced that Sweden was the true location of the
sunken Atlantis. Tham published extensively on early Swedish history and
archaeology and was a member of numerous scientiWc societies, such as
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the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Fine Art. After his death his
extensive collections of archeological artifacts was dispersed at auction in
1828.
The recipient of the pamphlet was Mikael Anckarsvärd (1742–1838),
county governor of Kalmar (1790–1810) after a military career as advisor
for king Gustav III.
Bibliotheca danica II:585; OCLC lists just two copies, at the National Library of
Sweden and the National Library of Denmark.
Berlin Theatre Costume
137 [THEATRE.] Kostüme auf dem Kön. National-Theater in
Berlin. Erster Band, oder erstes bis achtes Heft. [– Dritter Band,
oder XVIItes bis XXIItes Heft]. Berlin, L. W. Wittich, 1805, 1808,
1812. £5,200
Three volumes, 4to, pp. frontispiece portrait, [ii] engraved title with
view of the theatre and ll. 63 aquatint plates; [ii], ll. 64 aquatint plates;
[ii] 47 aquatint plates, all plates hand-coloured, with vivid colouring,
in all 174 plates (possibly of 175); plates mostly by Jügel and Wittich
after Dähling; occasional light spotting, title a little dust-soiled;
contemporary half calf over marbled boards, Xat spines with gilt-lettered
spine label, and faint gilt decorating directly to spine; extremities a little
rubbed, and corners bumped, but an attractive set.
First edition, rare, of this fascinating document of theatre history and
practice, illustrating theatre costumes in use at the Berlin National Theatre,
which under IZand had become the foremost German theatre at the
beginning of the nineteenth century. The plates show the costumes used
in various comedies and tragedies, operas and operettas, performed at the

Berlin theatre, many of them with IZand in the title role. Included are
amongst others the well-known plays such as Merchant of Venice, Schiller’s
Wilhelm Tell and Maria Stuart, Goethe’s Egmont, Puccini’s Turandot, etc.,
but also many lesser known plays for popular entertainment, some of them
by IZand himself.
IZand (1759–1814), actor, dramatist and theatre director joined the
National Theatre in Berlin in 1796. He helped make Berlin one of the
premier stages, and as a result of his eVorts a new theatre building was
erected in 1801 and a greatly improved repertoire, featuring the best actors
of the time, was launched. IZand’s theatrical program, which produced
Shakespeare, Calderon, Lopes de Vega, and Corneille, led to his later
characterization as a sponsor of ‘world literature’ in Germany. IZand also
sponsored the German Classicists, when he featured Goethe’s Egmont and
Tasso as well as Schiller’s Fiesco and Wallenstein. IZand’s favorite, however,
remained bourgeois drama. In addition to producing his own plays, he
favored the plays of Kotzebue, August Friedrich von Ziegler, Bretzner,
Engel, and Großmann.
His popularity, which extended to England and America, continued
until his death in 1814. IZand wrote extensively for the theatre, and even
though his plays were not of exceptional artistic value, they remain of
particular interest as they reXect the tastes and values of the time. (McGraw
Hill Encyclopedia of World Theatre II, p. 18). A recent study of IZand’s
theatre identiWes his costumes as a mirror of the educated theatre public of
the time, the ‘Bildungsbürgertum’, whose social, educational and bourgeois
aspirations are characterised.
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The Kostüme auf dem Königlichen National-Theater in Berlin was originally
issued in parts and later issued in a collected edition in 1812, the collected
edition has apparently 175 plates (but possibly no frontispiece portrait),
detailed collations of the issue in parts are given for Coburg only, where
just 173 plates are recorded.
Lipperheide Ucd 8; very uncommon, OCLC and KVK list complete copies at
Coburg (173 plates) at the Swedish National Library, copies of parts I and II at
Frankfurt, Badische Landesbibliothek, and BuValo & Erie County Library, and
part I only at UCLA; see Klaus Gerlach, Das Berliner Theaterkostüm der Ära IZand.
August Wilhelm IZand als Theaterdirektor, Schauspieler und Bühnenreformer. Berlin
2009.
138 [THEATRE – IFFLAND.] HENSCHEL, Wilhelm and
Friedrich. Dramatische Scenen, den Darstellungen des Berliner
Theaters nachgebildet und herausgegeben von den Gebrüdern
Henschel. Erstes Heft, mit 6 Kupfertafeln. Berlin, Henschel,
1809. £2,600
Oblong folio, 274 x 328mm, platemark 205 x 247mm; ll. vi, set of six
aquatints by Wilhelm Henschel; proof prints before numbering; some
foxing to margins, and faint dampstain to lower inside corner, not
touching the image; bound in contemporary half sheep, lozenge shape
paper label to upper board, lettered in ink; extremities quite rubbed and
corners worn; front free endpaper loose.
A set of striking proof prints by Wilhelm Henschel, who together with his

others had embarked on an ambitious project of documenting the theatre
productions of the Berlin theatre director August Wilhelm IZand. IZand
was seen as the outstanding theatre actor of his time, and excelled in mimic
representations, and artistic characterisations of his roles.
The proof prints, before numbering and without the text, were clearly
done in a very small number, presumably to gage demand for the whole
series. They illustrate on three plates each scenes from Don Ranudo de
Colibrados by the Danish playwright Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), adapted
by Kotzebue, and Das Intermezzo, oder Der Landjunker zum erstenmal in der
Residenz, Kotzebue’s depiction of problems of social class.
The extensive series of sets of prints was apparently not continued, since
these six plates are the only ones ever issued. Instead, they documented the
productions with drawings, engravings and outline illustrations, entitled
IZands Mimische Darstellung für Schauspieler und Zeichner, (1809–1819), of
which they published 20 volumes (Thieme-Becker, vol. 16, p. 430).
G. Schoene, Portraitkatalog des Theatermuseums Muenchen, III, p. 11, (Series S2).
Thieme-Becker, XVI, p. 430; Sidney Jackson Jowers and John P. Cavanagh,
Theatrical costume, masks, make-up and wigs: a bibliography and iconography, 2000,
no 1918; very rare, OCLC and KVK record copies at Weimar and Hebrew Union
College only.
139 THORILD, Thomas. Det enda nödvändiga För et Rikes
Financer, eller Prinicpen i det stora ämne, hvaröfver man nu tvistar,
satt i den klaraste dag, Genom England Öde. Stockholm, Anders
Zetterberg, 1792. £180
8vo, pp. 32; disbound.
First edition of an interesting work on public credit by the Swedish
philosopher, critic, and economist Thomas Thorild (1759–1808). Thorild
was professor and librarian at the German university at Greifswald,
traditionally the teaching place for many Swedish exiles.
Thorild gives a spirited introduction into questions of credit and trade,
stressing his points visually with expressive typography. He contrasts the
economic position of Sweden and England.
Not found in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi; no copies found in OCLC.
Handmade Boots
140 [TRADE CARD.] Vincenzo Prampolini Calzolaio in Modena
abita in Rua Grande de rinpetto a S. Giorgio. Maniera di prendere la
misura da se stesso. Modena, n.p., 1810. £175
Single sheet engraving (107 x 198mm, platemark 100 x 188 mm),
unsigned engraving within decorative border.
A Wne engraved tradecard for the cobbler and boot-maker Vincenzo
Prampolini in Modena. Prampolini advertises the sale of English shoe
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polish, and, surrounding the simpliWed depiction of a leg and foot, gives
advice for measuring up at home before ordering handmade shoes and
boots.
141 [TRADEMARK LEGISLATION.] Notice sur la Législation
relative aux marques de Fabrique. Paris, Imprimerie Royale,
1841. £450
4to, pp. 42, [2] blank; large royal seal to title; some ink markings;
stitched as issued in orignal blue wrappers, a little dog-eared.
First and only edition of an interesting directive towards the regulation
of industry standards and protection of trade marks. The Wrst section is
taken up with a survey of earlier trademark regulation, outlining attempts
during the French revolution of trade mark protection and giving details of
extensive new legislation in the Wrst two decades of the nineteenth century.
Numerous individual cases are cited, from diVerent parts of industry,
including textile and soap manufacturers.
Information is given on the protection of trade marks, the prosecution
of infringements, and their penalties. The relevant legislation for the cases
cited is reprinted at the back.
Rare, OCLC lists just the Bibliothèque Nationale copy.
The Function of the Theatre
142 [TRENTO, Giulio.] Della Commedia Libro Uno. A sua
Eccellenza il signor Marchese Francesco Albergati Cappaceli,
Patrizio Senatore di Bologna. Treviso, the Author, 1768. £550
8vo, pp. xvi, 83, [1] errata; large engraving of a theatre building to
title page, signed F.G.B.D., decorative woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces;
uncut in contemporary carta rustica binding, spine covered with
marbled paper, binding with some surface worm traces, not extending
to text block; occasional light foxing, a good copy, with early ownership
inscription by Aloysius Vallisna to front free endpaper.

First edition of this critical study of the form and use of comedy, as a way
of transmitting ideas. Trento maintains that comedy just celebrates the
ridiculous and serves to entertain rather than educate.
Giulio Trento (1732–1814), was a writer and publisher from Trento,
with a proliWc output mostly of an anti-enlightenment bend, and particularly
critical of Rousseau, Voltaire and d’Alembert. In addition to editions of
the classics, he also published a number of periodicals, which stressed the
importance of local history and language. From the time of the Revolution,
Trento abandoned writing and concentrated exclusively on his work as a
printer and publisher.
A second edition was published in 1782.
Dizionario BiograWco Universale, V, p. 408.
Printing Money
143 [TYPE SPECIMEN.] BERNARDONI, WAGNER & C.
Saggi di lavori eseguiti nella oYcina per carte-valori Bernardoni,
Wagner & C. Diretta da C. O. Wagner. Milan, n.d., [1875]. £1,000
Tall 4to, ll. title page, ll. [30], all but two with the examples pasted
onto the page, in all 81 examples, of which 50 show bank notes and
share certiWcates, the remainder show stamps, portraits, attempts at
three dimensional printing, white on black scientiWc printing and map
printing; loosely inserted pp. 4 within paper wrapper of explanatory
text; later full cloth, a little rubbed.
A fascinating display volume documenting various printing processes oVered
by the Milan printers Bernardoni, Wagner and Co. Numerous examples
of security printing for use on documents, stamps and in particular bank
notes, share certiWcates and cheques are given, including Wfty examples of
bank notes, printed in a number of colours.
Not found in KVK or OCLC; not in St. Bride catalogue.
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144 [TYPE SPECIMEN.] ISTITUTO GEOGRAFICO.
Campionario dei Caratteri. Istituto GeograWco Militare. Florence,
1934. £620
Tall 8vo, ll. [60], type specimen printed in black within decorative
border printed in sienna; original printed limp boards, a little spotted,
else Wne.
First edition of this type specimen showing all the type faces, ornaments,
borders etc. produced for the Italian Military Geographic Institute (Istituto
GeograWco Militare), the major state printing house for cartography. It
evolved out of the regional topographical oYces existing before Italian
uniWcation in 1871. A large number of type faces are presented, and
illustrated in various sizes and arrangements, using rousing commentary
by Mussolini.
Not found in KVK or OCLC.
145 [TYPE SPECIMEN.] LA CISALPINA. Campionario dei
Caratteri di Testo Fantasia, Iniziali, Fregi, Filetti, Silhouettes, ecc.
Milan, Fonderia di Caratteri La Cisalpina, c. 1913. £500
Tall 8vo, pp. [ii], 324; partly printed in colour; occasional light dustsoiling
to borders; original cloth with title stamped in gilt to upper
board; extremities a little worn and upper cover bent and corners
bumped; internally a Wne copy.
Substantial type specimen of the Milan based type foundry Fonderia
Cisalpina. In addition to numerous type specimens in various sizes,
borders, and decorative devices, design examples for invitation, business
cards, menus etc. are given. Particularly attractive are the decorative devices,
mostly printed in colour.
The type specimen is in sections, covering text type faces, display faces,
various scripts, initials and borders, vignettes, and Wnally rules, lines and
Wllets. In the Wnal section type cases, rollers, composing sticks etc. are
illustrated.
Not found in KVK or OCLC; not in Jammes.
Printing in Sardinia
146 [TYPE SPECIMEN.] TIMON, Antonio. Saggio dello
Stabilimento TipograWco e Fonderia di Antonio Timon. Cagliari, A.
Timon, 1863. £1,350
Tall 8vo, colour printed title page (within gilt-printed mosaic border),
ll. [1] of explanation, ll. 122 of type specimen, with Wve elaborate
colour printed section titles; all printed within decorative borders;
contemporary full cloth; spine lettered and decorated in gilt; corners
a little bumped, and lower board with cloth cockled due to water
damage; a good copy.

First edition of this extensive type specimen, from the Wrm of Antonio
Timon, of Cagliari in Sardinia. Particularly impressive are multi-colour
divisionary titles, composed with elaborate borders, and utilising a large
number of diVerent type sizes and colours. The compositor of each of these
is named individually. The diVerent sections cover text type, both Roman
and italic, display types, wooden poster type, lines, Wllets and borders, and
a large number of display vignettes.
The printing Wrm was founded in 1815 or 1817, and took over all oYcial
printing in Cagliari in the 1830s.
Ciasca, BibliograWa Sarda, Rome, 1931–34, 19128; not in St. Bride catalogue,
not in Jammes.
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147 [TYPE SPECIMEN.] TIPOGRAFIA ARIOSTO. Saggio.
[Campionario]. Reggio Emilia, 1887. £950
Tall 8vo, pp. colour printed title page, [iv], ll. 35 of type specimen,
of which seven double page; mostly printed in two or three colours,
printed within decorative colour border; original yellow wrappers, with
‘Campionario’ printed across diagonally; a Wne copy.
First edition of this Wne type specimen of the Wrm TipograWa Ariosto of
Reggio Emilia. Included are numerous type specimens of text and display
faces in diVerent sizes, mostly printed within decorative colour border. In
the second half various design suggestions for cards, menus and invitations
are presented, followed by cheque forms and banking stationery, vignettes,
borders, and lines.
Not in St. Bride catalogue, not in Jammes.
Women’s Crafts Illustrated on Three Plates
148 [WOMEN.] Tecnologia Femminile ossia Arti e Mestieri
che al bel sesso s’ appartengono e di che ei puo piacevolmente
occuparsi, come a dire la Cucitura, il Ricamo, la Maglia, il Merletto,
la Tappezzeria, le Borse, i lavori in Rete, in Ciniglia, in Velo, in
Perle, in Capelli ecc. ecc. Opera adorna di rami anche miniati. Milan,
Giovanni Pirotta, 1826. £420
12mo (in 12s and 6s), pp. 281 [276 blank], [1] blank], [1] errata, [1]
blank; light spotting and some dampstaining at beginning of volume,
pp. 277–8 torn at head margin; with three folding engraved plates
(frayed at edges), two partially coloured; entirely uncut and occasionally

unopened in the original printed wrappers, faded and frayed; with a
label pasted onto upper wrapper indicating the distributor for Modena
and Reggio.
First and apparently only edition of this appealing manual of arts & crafts
for a female audience. The brief preface makes it clear that technology is
here understood as handicraft, both for practical household use, such as
mending, knitting and embroidery, but also developing into more artistic
crafts.
In the Wrst chapters embroidery with diVerent materials is explained,
followed by knitting of increasing compelixity and extent, covering
everything from socks to gloves, sweaters and jackets and Wnally diVerent
styles of lacework. Some of the designs are depicted on the folding plates
bound at the end.
The second half of the work covers more practical ground from wallpapers
to upholstery, and concludes with various chapters on the production
of bags of various materials. Eighty-eight Wgures on three folding plates
illustrate the respective designs.
OCLC lists just one copy at the Staatsbibliothek Berlin.
The Spa Casino – the Most Ancient in Europe
149 [XHROUET, Lambert, and Gerard DELEAU.] Maison
d’Assemblées, a Spa, Son Etablissement, ses Avantages, & les Regles,
qu’on y oberserva. Liege, F. J. Desoer, 1764. £1,750
8vo, pp. [viii], 10, [2]; printed on strong paper; two pages with
contemporary corrections in ink; original ribbed silk binding, spine
a little worn, gilt pattern paper paste-downs; a.e.g.; possibly a
presentation copy.
First edition, very rare, of the founding documents of the casino at the
Belgium resort town of Spa. It was founded on the initiative of Lambert
Xhrouet and Gérard de Leau, two mayors of the city, who were later to take
over the concession for running the ‘pleasure complex’. The purpose was
to create luxurious entertainment services, such as a ballroom, theatre and
casino, for the local nobility and as an added attraction for foreigners who
were visiting the hot springs of Spa.
Xhrouet and Deleau recount the initial problems which had to be overcome,
regarding the site of the building, planning questions, local opposition
and potential cost, until it was Wnally agreed upon in January 1764.
The second half is taken up with the rules of the establishment, such as
opening times for the ballrooms, either for dances, musical entertainment
or theatre, dress code, tea rooms and licensed bars. Tobacco was to be
forbidden. Men would have to pay for admission, women would enter for
free. Gambling would be available too, at a speciWed cost per table, for card
games. A separate room was to be devoted to billiards. A brief Wnal note
speciWed that numerous well-trained staV would be employed, capable of
speaking many foreign languages, to make the guests feel at home.
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The casino, called the Redoute after the famous Venetian gambling halls,
the Ridotto, was Wnally opened a few years later and remains today the oldest
casino in the world.
With its Wne silk binding and gilt edges, this copy was possibly meant for
presentation purposes.
Not found in OCLC, KVK lists just the BL copy.
Calligraphy and Handwriting Manual
150 ZUNNER, Adolph. Kunst richtige Schreib-Art, welche
allerley Teutsche Current- Canzley- Fractur- und auch Lateinische
SchriVten, mit ihren Fundamenten, in verschiedenen Tugend
Lehren, BrieVen und Ehren Tituln, vorstellet, Zu Xeißiger Übung
gründlichen Schreibens, in dieses Format verfasset und zusamen
geschrieben. Nuremberg, Christoph Weigel, 1709. £1,500
Oblong folio, ll. 26 all engraved, bound with pp. [iv], 39, text of
Michael Baurenfeind ‘Vollkommene Wieder-herstellung der bissher
sehr in Verfall gekommenen ... Schreib-kunst; without engraved title
or plates; title a little dust-soiled; and lightly browned throughout;
early nineteenth century half roan, rubbed, spine chipped and short
split up upper joint; with nineteenth century ownership inscription
Johann Kleingassen to front free endpaper; released from Stadtbucherei
Mühlheim-Ruhr, with stamp to verso of title page.
First and only edition of this entirely engraved copybook and calligraphy
manual, illustrating on twenty-six engraved plates examples of diVerent
scripts. Included are German Fraktur and Cantzlei, but also cursives –

German, French and Italian. The work is clearly meant as a copybook,
with instructions on how to lay-out business letters, formulate oYcial
correspondence etc. Numerous examples of elaborately decorated initials,
adorned with Xourishes are also included.
There is no theoretical printed text, which is presumably why this
copy has been bound with the text part of Baurenfeind’s Vollkommen
Wiederherstellung ... der Schreib-Kunst, 1716.
Doede 122; not in Becker, The Universal Penman, or Ekström; see Heisinger, H.
Die Schreib- und Rechenmeister des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts in Nürnberg, 1927;
OCLC lists copies at BL, Newberry Library, Columbia, Danish National Library,
Basel, Gotha,
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