Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Eighteen - International League ...

12mo, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Quevedo, pp. 144;
contemporary half sheep over buff boards, spine ruled in gilt, giltlettered
spine label, corners a little worn, else a good copy.
First edition, rare, of this compilation of revolutionary songs. It is interesting
to note that it includes a couple of abolitionists hymns, such as ‘Cantique
d’une Négresse dans les Colonies en apprenant le Décret de la Convention
Nationale qui proclame la Liberté des Nègres’, ‘La Liberté de nos Colonies’, and
‘Chant d’une Esclave affranchie’. Also included is a song in praise of printing
and the free press, entitled ‘Hymne à l’Imprimerie’.
A year later another edition was published under a virtually identical title,
which seems in fact a second issue with a cancel title.
Grand-Carteret, Les almanachs français, 1196; Catalogue des Livres composant la
Bibliothèque Poétique de M. Viollet le Duc, II, p. 30 (Chansons): Choix de pièces
correctes, au moins, de Chénier, Saint-Ange, François de Neufchateau, de Ximenès, etc.;
OCLC: Bibliothèque Nationale.
Inspired by Kaspar Hauser
44. FROST, Wenzel and Wenzel KOTATKO. Der Mensch im
Symbole. Ein Spiegel für Jeden, dem daran liegt, Mensch zu seyn.
Prague, Gottlieb Haase, 1846. £1,000
Tall 8vo, pp. [viii], 180, with 16 lithograph plates, partly heightened in
gilt; contemporary green roan, flat spine decorated and lettered in gilt,
sides with double gilt filet; a.e.g.
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue eighteen
First edition of this attempt to found a theory of anthropology, psychology,
and ethics, based on close observation of deaf-mutes. Frost and Kotatko,
director and instructor at the Prague institute for deaf-mutes, argued that
it is through his gestures (the unspoken language of the soul) that the true
nature of man can be seen. They aim to examine the relationship between
body and soul. Various organs are considered by the authors to correspond
with the instruments of the spirit and a number of the remarkable illustrations
represent this. Others show subjects using sign language – quite possibly
portraits of actual students at the authors’ private institute for the deaf and
dumb in Prague.
OCLC records copies at University of Manchester, UCLA, Harvard; a Czech
edition was published the same year.
The Original Sheets – Uncut
45. FUGGER, Maria Joseph von. Patriotische Gedanken von den
leibfälligen Bauren-Gütern in Schwaben. Ulm, Stettin, 1785. £300
8vo, pp. 70, [2] blank; title vignette and head- and tail pieces; entirely
uncut, folded, the original sheets.