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

full red morocco, sides with gilt floral decoration, flat spine with gilt
pattern; a.e.g.; a fine copy.
First edition of this rare contribution by the Austrian economist Joseph v.
Sonnenfels, on the role of academics in public discourse. In this commencement
speech to university students, Sonnenfels encourages belief in one’s
conviction, but at the same interest in the opinion of others, a desire to
learn, and restraint when expressing one’s opinion.
The first part of the work is taken up by an elaborate dedication to Maria
Theresia and seventy statements on political science by Johann Albrecht
Huber. Huber’s principles of politics and public administration bear a close
resemblance to those published by Sonnenfels.
Goedeke IV/1, 525, 27; OCLC lists just University of Kansas and Basel outside
of Germany.
99. SONNENFELS, Joseph von. La Scienza del Buon Governo.
Tradotto dal Tedesco in italiano. Edizione prima Veneta. Venice,
Giovanni Vitto, 1785. £450
8vo, pp. [vi], 208; uncut in contemporary boards; faint dampstaining
to front free endpapers.
First Venetian edition (first Italian was published in Milan the year
before) of the first part of Sonnenfels’ important treatise Grundsätze der
Polizey- Handlungs- und Finanzwissenschaft, the most important textbook
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of economics and statecraft in the Catholic German-speaking areas. His
treatise remained the standard textbook well into the 1840s.
Sonnenfels (1733–1817), professor of police and cameral science at
Vienna, held a number of high offices under Maria Theresa and Joseph
II, and was a main reprentative of the spirit of intellectual enlightenment
and practical philanthropy which marked those reigns. He ranks with
Justi as one of the most representative and important eighteenth century
Cameralists.
Carpenter, Economic Bestsellers, XXIII, 5; Cossa, p. 260.
Praising Law & Order
100. [SPEDALIERI, Nicolo.] Stanze di Nicolò Spitaleri … in
occasione d’essere stato restituita la tranquilita pubblica alla Sicilia
coll Estirpazione d’una Compania di Ladri dal Vicaripo Generale.
Palermo, Stamperia de’ SS. Apostoli in Piazza Vigliena, 1767. £580
4to, pp. [iv], 35, decorated initial; contemporary full calf, sides
decorated in gilt, with decorative devices in each corner; spine
decoratively gilt, damage to foot of spine, lacking spine covering to
bottom 30 mm; front endpaper renewed, possibly a remboîtage;
internally very clean and crisp; a wide-margined copy.
First edition of what is apparently Spedalieri’s first publication; a celebratory
poem on the restitution of law and order in Sicily by principe Don Giuseppe
Lanza di Trabia. Trabia managed to defeat a group of bandits headed
by Testalonga, which had terrorised the countryside. Nicolo Spedalieri
(1740–1795), Sicilian philosopher and reformer is best known for his
1791 publication I Diritti dell’Uomo, conceived as the catholic answer to
the Rights of Man, and to counterbalance revolutionary theories.
Mira II, p. 381; rare, not found in ICCU or OCLC.
Maritime Law and Maritime Insurance
101. STRACCHA, Benvenuto. Tractatus De Mercatura, seu
Mercatore, ..... Huc accessit Petri Santernae Lusitani Tractatus,
de Sponsionibus & Assecurationibus mercatorum. Alios praeterea
Tractatus aliunde excerptos, unum videlicet D. Ioan Nider, De
contractu mercaturae: alterum D. Bald. de Ubald. Perusini, de
Constituto, in Iureconsultorum gratiam adiunximus, duoque
D. Roberici Suarez Consilia, de Usu maris, & mercibus super illo
transuehendis, Cum Indice rerum singularium locupletissimo.
Lyon, Sebastian Honoratis, 1558. £3,400
8vo, pp. 635, 82, [2] colophon; contemporary flexible vellum, spine
lettered in ink; a little spotted and spine a little browned; contemporary
ownership notes to title-page and to blank margins.