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

Criminal Slang
110. TRAIN, Josef K. von. Chochemer Loschen. Wörterbuch der
Gauner- und Diebs- vulgo Jenischen Sprache, nach Criminalacten
und den vorzüglichsten Hülfsquellen bearbeitet. Regensburg,
Friedrich Pustet, 1832. £1,000
8vo, pp. xiv, [ii] section title, 294, [1] errata, with ll. 2 folding
lithograph leaves showing secret writing systems, bound after p. 254;
contemporary black boards, gilt-lettered spine label; a very good copy
with early twentieth century book-plate of Albert Treier, see below.
Second edition of this handbook and dictionary of criminal language and
slang, also known as Jenisch. The first edition had been bought en bloc by
the Bavarian police force, or possibly had been an internal publication only.
The work is arranged in four separate sections: a German – Jenisch and
Jenisch – German dictionary, which takes up most of the work, is followed
by an introduction to criminal secret writing systems (with an example of
the lithograph plates) and finally a little scene from ‘criminal life’ written in
Jenisch and with its German translation.
Jenisch is the secret language of travellers in southwest Germany,
Switzerland and Austria, which contains some elements of Yiddish, but
mostly Gypsy elements and criminal slang. The glossary had been compiled
from interviews with criminals and court documents, and was particularly
designed for use in criminal investigations.
A second edition was published in 1833 with a Meissen imprint.
[Provenance:] From the library of the jurist and book-plate collector
Albert Treier (1886–1956), whose valuable reference work on book-plates
was published posthumously (A.Treier, Redende Exlibris. Geschichte und
Kunstform des deutschen Bücherzeichens, 1986).
Zaunmüller 65; uncommon, OCLC locates copies at UCLA, Colorado, New York
Public Library and London university.
111. TRIPPAULT, Léon. Coustumes generales, des bailliage, et
prevosté d’Orleans, & ressorts d’iceux. Revveuës, corrigées, & de
nouveau augmentées d’Annotations, avec le Proces verbal, par Leon
Trippault, Avocat au siege Presidial d’Orleans. Plus, un Extrait de
l’Antiquité, & choses plus notables d’icelle ville, fidelement recueilly
par le mesme autheur, des Comographes, & historiens qui en ont
escrit. Et Almanach, contenant les iours non plaidoiables, qui y sont
pour le present observez. Orleans, Eloy Gibier, 1570. £780
Small 8vo, pp. [xvi], 152, 69, [1], with initials and sideglosses; bound
without the final blank; faint staining to first few signatures; eighteenth
century marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, label with gilt
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue eighteen
lettering, red edges; a fine copy with early mss annotations, and early
ownership inscriptions to title page.
The rare first edition of this edition of the Coutumes of Orleans. The first
16 (unnumbered) pages contain among others Extrait de l’Antiquité, and
the Almanach. Some scribbling in blank portion of the title-page, and with
handwritten ex-libris, some pages with marginal handwritten annotations,
a longer handwritten note at the end of the Coutume, dated 1584. The last
70 pages contain the Proces-verbal.
Gouron & Terrin, Bibliographie des Coutumes de France, 1548; not in Caswell &
Sipkov, The Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress; Brunet, vol. v, col. 950.
Pottery and Porcelain Manufacturers’ Directory
112. TUNNICLIFFE, William. A topographical Survey of the
counties of Stafford, Chester, and Lancaster ... Concluding with
a directory of the principal merchants and manufactures, market
towns, and days on which their markets are held, and Principal
Inns in each Town, within the said Counties, &c. &c. Nantwich,
E. Snelson, 1787. £850
8vo, pp. iv, 118 (with ll. 4 of blanks between parts), [1] blank, [1]
advertisement, with three large folding maps, and pp. 8, 8, 16 engraved
plates of coats of arms; uncut in the original pale blue boards, printed
spine label; spine a little chipped and dust-soiled, but a good copy, with
pencil ownership inscription James Greenwood, Grasmere 1831 to
front free endpaper.
First and only edition of a charming topographical survey of Staffordshire,
Cheshire and Lancashire, which includes detailed trade directories, listing
the principal merchants and manufacturers in each county. Of particular
interest is the extensive listing of pottery and porcelain manufacturers in
Staffordshire, listing some 70 of them, arranged by place and including, of
course, Wedgwood. Whereas Manchester records a large number of tex tile
manufacturers and merchants, Liverpool depends predominantly on trade.
Each county report is prefixed by a list of subscribers, a detailed map of
the county and engraved plates with arms of the nobility. The final leaf is
an advertisement by the author for employment.
ESTC t51473; Norton 6; OCLC: US: DLC, Winterthur, NYPL.
Shoplifting in Venice – Police Report
113. [VENICE – THEFT.] Specifica degli effetti stati rubati per
opera di ignoti malfattori, ed a danno di Gacome Daci regattiere,
con bottega nella contrada di S. Basso, marcata al Civico N. 184. la
giornata dei 30 prossimo passato. [colophon:] Venice, 31 October,
1818. £450