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

First edition, uncommon, of this introduction to the game of Tarot, as
played in Bologna with 62 cards. Pisarri explains the basic rules, how to
declare, how to score points, and which laws of probability to observe.
But he warns that this is just a basic guide, practice and a lucky hand are
needed to perfect the game. He gives a brief history of the game and
explains its specific terminology, comments on ‘gambling etiquette’ and
penalties incurred when contravening the rules. In the last chapter Pisarri
discusses other games played with Tarot cards, some involving more than
four participants.
Although the Tarot cards were originally used for fortune telling, they also
found extensive use for gambling. Many Tarot cards bear representations of
symbolic and mythological character.
Lensi, p. 24; rare, NUC and OCLC record just three copies, at the Warburg
institute, Yale, and Cleveland Public Library.
Charming Aquatint Plates
88. [RAHBEK, K.L., translator.] Gallerie for de fornemste
Kunster og Haandvaerk. En laererig og undervisende Billedbog for
Ungdommen. Copenhagen, Brummer, 1814. £1,200
8vo, pp. [iv], 60, with 22 hand-coloured aquatint plates (bound in
landscape); contemporary marbled boards, spine repaired, corners a
little bumped.
First edition in Danish this guide to trades and professions with charming
and unusual illustrations. The guide was apparently first published in
1804/5 under the title Gallerie der vorzüglichsten Künste und Handwerke, and
is here translated and adapted by Rahbek. The fine hand-coloured aquatints,
similar to Geissler’s, depict workshop scenes in alphabetical order. Included
are an apothecary’s shop, with a crocodile suspended above the counter, a
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bakery, a sculptor surrounded by large statues, a book-binder and printer,
but also a blacksmith, a painter, and a bricklayer, etc. All the illustrations
include a number of artisans or professionals engaging in their work, within
their workshop and surrounded by tools, equipment or customers.
See Wegehaupt I, 703; Seebass 697 (both for German edition with 40 plates);
OCLC: Princeton, Danish National Library.
How to Organise a Workhouse
89. RULFFS, August Friedrich. Ueber die Preisfrage der Königl.
Societät der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: von der vortheilhaftesten
Einrichtung der Werk- und Zuchthäuser… Mit einer Vorrede
von Johann Beckmann. Göttingen, Friedri. Andr. Rosenbusch,
1783. £450
4to, pp. [vi], 74; engraved title vignette, head- and tail-pieces;
numerous tables in the text; contemporary pink glazed boards,
faded, with decorative gilt rules and ornaments to sides; corners a
little bumped, else fine; from the Abo library with stamp to title;
presentation inscription by the author in ink.
First edition, uncommon, of Rulffs’ detailed suggestion for the most
opportune and economically viable organisation of correctional institutions,
both workhouses and prisons, written in response to a prize question of
the Göttingen Royal Society. Rulffs concentrates on the organisation
of a workhouse, which should be an economically viable addition to the
local community. Therefore it should not be in competition with already
existing manufacturing industry. Spinning and weaving of flax and linen are
identified as the most promising branch of industry, because of low initial
investment in machinery and because the end product could be exported at a
multiple of the price of the raw product. Rulffs includes detailed calculations
for economical running of the workhouse, with intricate cost calculations,
including buildings, subsistence costs and salaries of the foremen. In the
second part he contrasts this with the running of workshops in prisons,
which have to be organised in a different way, because work there is part of
the punishment.
August Friedrich Rulffs (1736–1800) was a government official and also
published on the related question of orphanages and their organisation.
Uncommon, a second edition was published in 1785 (Goldsmiths’-Kress
13094.4).
90. SALMUTH, Heinrich. Responsum juris pro matrimonio
principis cum virgine nobili. Jena, Johann Nisius for Zacharias
Hertel, 1660. £650
4to, pp. [iv], 194, [2] blank; lightly but evenly browned, contemporary
full sheep, spine in compartments, spine label, and paper shelf label to
spine; extremities rubbed.