Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

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Catalogue Ten
1 ALBRECHT, Johann Christoph. Vollkommene Grund- und
Regulmässige Anweisung zur Schön- Schreib- Kunst, darinnen man
gar leicht die Current- Canzley- und Fractur-SchriVten, ingleichen
auch die lateinische cursive- rotund- auch romanische SchriVt u:
Zahlen ... wobeÿ auch ein groses Zier Fractur-Alphabet mit artigenauf
jeden Buchstaben sich schickenden Figuren beWndlich.
Nürnberg, Joh. And. Enter, [1776]. £3000
Oblong 4to, engraved title, ll. engraved plates I–XI, ll. 14 unnumbered
engraved plates; in all 26 engraved plates; recent half vellum over
sprinkled boards.
First edition of an attractive guide to calligraphy. The Wrst eleven plates illustrate
a course on basic calligraphic technique, with instructions on
calligraphic pen strokes, decorative letters, spacing and a number of
diVerent alphabets. Particularly appealing are the fourteen unnumbered
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plates, comprising an alphabet of extraordinary half-page decorative initials,
which incorporate appropriate Wgures, such as monkey (AVe) for A,
barber (Barbier) for B, a Wsherman (Fischer) for F, organ player (Organist)
for O and dentist (Zahnarzt) for Z.
Becker, 172; Bonacini 16; Doede 205.
Public Accounts in the French Revolution
2 ALLAIS, Robert. Constatons avant tout l’état des choses, ou
principes pour l’établissement et le maintien d’une bonne méthode
de Comptabilité. Paris, [n.p.], 1790. £850
4to, pp. 77, 5 large folding printed tables; marginal damp stain to lower
corner, not aVecting any text, but stronger on plates, with some fraying
of lower corner; a very wide-margined copy, apart from the stain very
clean; recent boards.
First edition, very rare, of a detailed introduction to double entry bookkeeping,
published in the midst of the French Revolution. The author argues
that especially at times of political turbulence it is of utmost
importance to apply strict accounting methods to public Wnance. He cleverly
combines a critique of Necker’s Compte Rendu with a general introduction
to the procedures of double-entry book-keeping. He proposes the
drawing up of draft accounts, with clear payment schedules, for both incoming
and outgoing funds, together with more detailed individual accounts,
all of which is demonstrated on the elaborate folding tables.
Not in Historical Accounting Literature or Herwood; not in Kress, Goldsmiths’,
RLIN or OCLC, just one copy recorded in Bibliothèque Nationale.
Before the Palm Pilot
3 [ALMANAC.] RIDERS, Cardanus [pseud.]. Riders (1724)
British Merlin. Adorn’ed with many delightful Varieties and Useful
Verities, for the Year of our Lord God, 1724. London E. R. Nutt,
1724. £650
12mo, pp. 48, Wrst part interleaved; title printed in red and black,
headlines and saints’ days printed in red throughout; half page
anatomical woodcut of the ‘zodiacal’ man; contemporary London red
goatskin, gilt, sides decoratively gilt; spine gilt in compartments, tooled
with royal cipher, gilt edges, original silver fore-edge pin-slots, 3 (of 4)
original silver bosses incised with abstract design, later metal stylus pin.
One paper and two heavy ass’s skin free endpapers for marking with the
stylus provided; tax stamp visible on title; contemporary manuscript
notes on blanks, including some sums, a page of accounts and two
recipes; an attractive copy.
Riders’ British Merlin was one of the longest running British almanacs, published
under the control of the Stationer’s Company from 1656 to the early
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nineteenth century. It contains a calendar of the year together with some
astronomical data, medical information, interesting facts and statistics,
moral precepts and proverbs. The almanac thus fulWlled a variety of roles,
providing information and entertainment at a time when reading matter
was scarce. At the same time it fulWlled a secondary role as a diary and notebook,
for which numerous blank pages were inserted, especially the two
inserted leaves of ass’s skin, or possibly specially coated paper, on which one
could easily write with a stylus, and subsequently erase the information.
The numerous manuscript annotations provide a fascinating insight into
early eighteenth century life.
Even though these almanacs were produced in large numbers, only few
examples have survived. It is particularly appealing to Wnd it well-preserved
in its original red goatskin binding.
The Constitutions of the Original United States of America – a
Blueprint for Reform
4 [AMERICAN CONSTITUTION.] Recueil des Loix
Constitutives des Colonies Angloises, Confédérées sous la
dénomination D’États-Unis de L’Amérique-Septentrionale. Auquel
on a joint les Actes de d’Indépendance, de Confédération & autres
Actes du Congrès général, traduit de L’Anglois. Philadelphie [i.e.
Paris], Cellot & Jombert, 1778. £850
12mo, pp. [xii], 370; woodcut vignettes; occasional light spotting;
contemporary full mottled calf, spine decoratively gilt in compartments,
gilt-lettered spine label, discreet repairs to corners and upper joint; from
the library for American Studies in Italy with bookplate to front pastedown
and circular stamp to title; a good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of the earliest collection of the constitutions of
the thirteen original states of the newly created United States of America.
Immediately after the Declaration of Independence, the thirteen former
British colonies began writing a new series of constitutions, the most important
being those of Pennsylvania and Virginia. These documents were
received with great interest abroad and were almost immediately translated.
The present translation being the earliest one. The work was compiled by
Regnier, and dedicated to Benjamin Franklin.
Included are a very early French translation of the Declaration of Independence,
the Acts of Confederation, the Recommendations of the Continental
Congress, the diploma given to General Washington by Harvard College,
and the Navigation Act, followed by the individual constitutions of the thirteen
original states, etc., as well as a population table of the states, with a
total number of inhabitants of just 3,056,678.
Sabin 68448; JCB 2507; Barbier IV 103; Howes R111.

Italian Child Care – Diet and Exercise
5 ANGELI, Luigi. Saggio di Medica Educazione per le fanciulle
chiamate a marito. Estratto dall Opera del Signor Venel dalla
Francese trasportato nella lingua Italiana, e di Note, ed interessanti
Instruzioni arrichita. Imola, Giovanni dal Monte, [1789]. £900
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. vi, xvi, [iv], clx,[ii], 171 including
errata; occasional light foxing, a few repaired worm traces to gutter
margin; contemporary half vellum, spine label removed, extremities a
little rubbed, short split to lower joint; a good copy.
First edition of Angeli’s translation of Jean-André Venel’s introduction to
women’s health education, obstetrics, and pediatrics entitled Essai sur la
Santé et sur l’Éducation médicale des Wlles destinées au Marriage (Wrst published
in 1776), increased to twice its original size by Angeli’s notes and additions.
These notes are of particular interest, Angeli contrasts French and Italian
customs, and cites from numerous Italian authorities. He applauds the
greater incidence of breast-feeding among Italian mothers, rather than using
wet-nurses. A large proportion of the work is devoted to questions of
diet for mother and child: he recommends fruit and vegetables, but warns
against eating meat, and is completely opposed to any drinking of wine.
Children should take plenty of exercise in fresh air, and preferably be exposed
to sunshine. Modern concerns are voiced over sugary sweets, not that
bad in small quantities at the end of a meal, but bad for teeth and only to be
eaten in moderation.
The appealing engraved frontispiece shows a young girl being handed a
tennis racket by her parents.
No copy found of this Italian version in RLIN or OCLC; see Blake 470, Waller
9860, and Hirsch/H. V,725 for French edition only.
Allegorical Poem on Political Economy
6 [ANON.] Pensées Philosophiques, Politiques, et Morales en
Prose rimée sur le Monde et sur le Bonheur de l’Homme
Rélativement à celui de l’Etat. L’Enigmie, anné [Vienna, Trattner],
1771. £950
4to, pp. [86], bound without the Wnal blank; with 6 full-page
engravings and three half-page engravings; contemporary full mottled
sheep, spine decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, discreet repairs to
head and tail of spine.
First edition of this unusual allegorical illustrated poem on political philosophy
and economics, more speciWcally in praise of the enlightenment
reforms initiated under Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, and Joseph II,
Holy Roman Emperor, with portraits of both of them included. In individual
poems scientiWc advances are praised, mentioning Newton and
Leibnitz, and the political system, legal reforms, military and strategic ad-
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vances, and public responsibility are discussed. In the poem on economics,
the anonymous author appears to combine Smith’s invisible hand with
Mirabeau’s physiocracy. Dutch commerce and overseas trade is applauded,
whereas excessive luxury is condemned as detrimental to the state.
The work is illustrated with Wne engravings by Ferdinand Landerer
(1730–1795).
Oravetz V, Impressions Françaises de Vienne, p. 122; RLIN and OCLC list two copies,
one at Harvard another at New York Public Library only.
Life in the Eighteenth Century – an Indictment of Modern Morals
7 [ANON.] Quadri originali di un Filosofo viaggiatore ovvero
riXessioni critiche curiose e interessanti sopra i costumi e gli usi del
secolo XVIII. Opera ragionata ed utile ad ogni genere di Persone.
Rimino, Giacomo Marsoner, 1786. £600
8vo, pp. 158; woodcut head and tail-pieces; uncut in contemporary
pattern paper wrappers; a very good copy.
First edition, rare, of this light-hearted view of Enlightenment culture. The
author, ‘a philosophical traveller’, studies the mores, habits and customs of

the eighteenth century. His observations are strikingly modern. He praises
life in the big city, where one can see the whole world go by; describes the
monetary gains of investment in property, castigates the luxury of constant
dinner parties, and the frequent sojourn in the cafe. His criticism of current
fashion is outspoken: jewellery is too ostentatious, art prices soar, and
bankruptcies are becoming more common. Women are particularly susceptible
to fashion, follow every fad, wear expensive jewellery, sport false hair
and keep the hairdressers in business.
There appear to be two issues of this work, the second one with a Foligno
imprint. Uncommon, RLIN and OCLC record copies at Berkeley, the University
of Chicago and the Canadian Center for Architecture.
Recipes for the Artist, Craftsman, Cook and Builder
8 [ANON.] Neu eröVnete Vorraths-Kammer allerhand rarer
und nützlicher auch lustiger Kunst-Stücke, Experimenten und
schönen Wissenschaften, welche mathematische, mechanische,
medicinische, chymische, öconomische, sympathetische, auch andere
vermengte Materien in sich begreifen. Neun Sammlungen, mit den
dazu gehörigen Kupfern und einem vollständigen Register versehen.
Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1760. £2250
Nine parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xii] including double-page title in
red and black, 13–556, [ii], 557–781 (vere 782), [44] index; with ten
engravings (nine of which folding); woodcut head and tail-pieces,
consecutive pagination, but with nine divisional title pages, dated
1758–1760; contemporary full mottled calf, spine in compartments,
decorated in gilt, lettering and numbering directly to spine; corners
bumped; an attractive copy, with contemporary manuscript inscription
to front paste-down.
First complete edition of this comprehensive book of secrets. A cornucopia
of recipes for the artist and craftsman, the cook and housekeeper, the
builder and technician. Extensive information on the working of gold, silver,
pearls and precious stones is included, on special methods for their
cleaning and preservation, and Wnally how to falsify them. A large number
of recipes deal with the preservation and preparation of food stuVs, ranging
from the incredible ‘roasting and serving of a live goose’, to recipes for beer,
wine, and tobacco. Medical information includes information on cosmetics
such as potions for a healthy skin colour or against dandruV and more serious
health questions, such as fainting, loss of hearing, fevers and vomiting.
The detailed Wnal index makes the recipes easily accessible. The Wrst part
was Wrst issued in 1756, with the remaining parts following between 1758
and 1760.
Weiss, Gastronomia 2704; uncommon OCLC and RLIN list just two complete
copies, at the Library of Congress and Winterthur Museum, and copies with four
parts only at New York State Library and the University of Illinois.
Port Royal Grammar
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9 ARNAULD, Antoine and Claude LANCELOT. Grammaire
Generale et Raisonnée contenant les fondemens de l’art de parler;
expliquez d’une maniere claire & naturelle. Paris, Pierre le Petit.
1664. £600
12mo in 8s and 4s, pp. 157, [4], [1] privilege; insigniWcant short worm
trace in lower gutter margin of a couple of signatures; title vignette,
decorated initials; contemporary vellum, a little dust-soiled; a good
copy.
Second edition, extensively revised, of the famous Port Royal grammar,
compiled by Claude Lancelot (1615–95) and Antoine Arnauld (1612–94)
and Wrst published in 1660. Written in French, the Port Royal Grammar
was part of a movement to displace Latin as the only possible expression of
academic enquiry. Together with Arnauld’s Cartesian La Logique, it shaped
Enlightenment thinking and beyond. The Port Royal grammar has been
cited by inXuential present-day theorists, in particular Chomsky, as embodying
some striking anticipations of modern linguistic thinking, such as
its notions of ‘surface structure’ and ‘deep structure’.
This second edition contains substantial revisions and corrections by
Lancelot.
See En Français dans le Texte, 99 and Cioranescu 8108 for Wrst edition.
10 [AUCTION.] Verzeichniss einer sehr vorzüglichen Bücher-
Sammlung aus allen wissenschaftlichen Fächern und in vielerley
Sprachen so wie von Kunstwerken und geographischen Carten
welche am 5. May 1806 und folg. Tagen in Frankfurt am Main
durch die geschwornen Herren Ausrufer öVentlich versteigert
werden soll. Frankfurt am Main, im Februar, 1806. £320
8vo in 4s, pp. [ii], 88; paper spine; title dust-soiled; a little dog-eared
and creased.
Interesting book auction catalogue listing over 1200 scientiWc books in
various Welds, including science, medicine, economics and philosophy, in
addition to maps and travel. Numerous German translations of foreign authors
are included, such as Hume, Hutcheson, Goldsmith, Fielding,
Ferguson and Robertson but many titles are listed in the original languages,
predominantly French, but also English, Italian, and of course Latin. The
books oVered are priced, and arranged alphabetically by author or title in
sections according to size. Interestingly extensive commentaries are included
for some ten percent of the titles oVered, always in the language of
the book.
Not found in Blogie.

Surveying Instrument
11 AURACHER VON AURACH, Joseph. Quarreograph ein
neues und einfaches Instrument um jede perspektivische Zeichnung
mit der strengsten Genauigkeit aufzunehmen, und selbe im
gehörigen Ton durch Schatten und Licht vollkommen zu entwerfen.
In zwei Abtheilungen. Mit zwei Kupfertafeln. Wien, Carl Gerold,
1819. £450
8vo, pp. 34, two engraved plates, paper fault in lower margin of p. 21,
no loss; faint stamp to title page and verso of title; later marbled
wrappers with gilt-lettered label to upper board.
First edition of Aurach’s Wrst description of his inovative perspectival surveying
and drawing device, the quarreograph. Aurach maintains that with
the help of the quarreograph perspective drawings can easily be achieved,
without the need for calculations of perspective. In his two-part article, he
Wrst describes in detail the device, and illustrates its design. Clear instructions
are given to facilitate the construction of the device.
The second part illustrates the use of the device.
PoggendorV I, 76; rare RLIN and OCLC list one copy at the Swiss National Library,
Harvard holds two of his later pamphlets.
The Art of Gesture
12 AUSTIN, Gilbert. Die Kunst der rednerischen und
theatralischen Declamation. Mit 25 Kupferplatten. Leipzig,
Baumgartner, [1818]. £450
8vo, pp. xvi, 184, [1] errata, with 25 engraved plates; contemporary
half calf over sprinkled boards, a Wne copy.
First edition in German of Austin’s Chironomia, his popular treatise on elocution,
countenance and gesture, Wrst published in 1806. Austin’s precepts
as regards voice, expression, gesticulation and body language are clearly
applicable not just to the stage and public speaking, but also in private life. In
individual chapters he discusses aspects of presentation and teaches ideal
posture to convery diVerent types of information. Austin’s notation system
for these postures makes the book particularly useful. One hundred and Wfty-
Wve postures are illustrated on the twenty-Wve engraved plates. Many of these
have been transferred directly into modern computer graphics and clip-art.
Rare, RLIN locates just two copies at New York State University and Berkeley.
13 AUXIRON, Claude-Francois-Joseph d’. Principes de tout
Gouvernement, ou Examen des Causes de la splendeur ou de la
foiblesse de tout Etat considéré en lui-même, & indépendamment
des moers. Tome Premier. [–Second.] Paris, J. Th. Herissant Fils,
1766. £2200
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Two volumes in one, 12mo, pp. lxxx, 213, [1] blank; [iv], 314, [4]
privilege and approbation; light dampstain to the upper corner of a
couple of leaves in the preliminaries; a nice crisp copy in contemporary
full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, with an armorial gilt stamp
to the bottom compartment; gilt-lettered spine label.
Rare Wrst edition of the major contribution to the population debate by
Claude-Francois-Joseph d’Auxiron (1728–1778), a major nonphysiocratic
economist before Malthus and a signiWcant early advocate of
the importance of mathematical economics. ‘Auxiron’s work is signiWcant
chieXy because of his analysis of the determinants of population capacity,
and his treatment of the relation between population growth and the
interoccupational and interclass movements and balance in society’
(Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, p. 296). Auxiron stressed the importance
of commerce in the attainment of maximum yield from the given
land area of any country, allowing for specialisation through trading,
thereby creating a wealth-induced population expansion which would be
impossible in a closed economy.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10259.1; Higgs 3943; INED 145; uncommon, further copies
recorded at Berkeley, Princeton, and Syracuse university.
14 BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and
Manufactures. London, Charles Knight, 1832. £500
32mo, steel-engraved title, pp. xxiv, 392; contemporary half calf over
marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; engraved title a little
browned.
Third enlarged edition of the Wrst detailed exposition of the economic impact
of the machine industry by the English mathematician and economist
Babbage. His analysis of the economics of the factory system played an important
role in supplanting classical economics of Adam Smith with the
political economy of Mill and Ricardo. Babbage’s work is a pioneering
work in ‘operations research’. The text of the third edition is the deWnitive
one, with the three additional chapters of the second edition inserted in

their proper place and extensive additions to six chapters. The fourth edition
of 1835 adds only an index.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 27926 ; Van Sinderen 45.
The Technical Language of Arts and Crafts
15 BALDINUCCI, Filippo. Vocabolario Toscano dell’Arte del
Disegno, nel quale si explicano i propri termini e voci, non solo della
Pittura, Scultura, & Architettura; ma ancora di altre Arti a quelle
subordinate, e che abbiano per fondamento il Disegno. Firenze,
Franchi, 1681. £1200
4to, pp. xii, 178, [177] blank, 178–188, xiii–xix, [1] colophon; printed
in double columns, with decorative head and tail-pieces and initials;
occasional light browning, old repair to tear in O4; contemporary full
vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; a very Wne and wide-margined
copy.
First edition, uncommon, of the Wrst dictionary of art terminology, dedicated
to the Accademia della Crusca, and in fact cited by the 1691 edition of
the Vocabolario della Crusca. Baldinucci (1624–1696), an Italian art historian,
businessman and writer, provides an extensive dictionary of the technical
language of painting, sculpture and architecture. Interestingly,
Baldinucci not only explains the proper terms and expressions of the Wne
arts, but also includes the vocabulary of the ‘minor’ arts. Thus he introduces
the vocabulary of jewellery and precious stones, metals, semi-precious
stones, marble, timber, colour pigments and recipes, artists’ tools, and
other materials.
In this copy, a second version of pp. 177/178 has been added, which
contains a few changes from the original, and deletes a long section on
‘Ventiera’.
Cicognara 2146; Gamba 95; Graesse I, 280; Michel, I, 352–11; Parenti 49;
Vinciana IV, 4326; Zischka p. 120.
Italian Manners and Customs
16 BARETTI, Giuseppe. Beschreibung der Sitten und Gebräuche
in Italien. Aus der zweyten Englischen Ausgabe übersetzt, und mit
Anmerkungen und Zusätzen begleitet von Johann Gottlieb
Schummel. Breslau, Joh. G. Korn, 1781. £480
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. x, [vi], 288; [viii], 263, with two folding leaves
of printed music; paper lightly browned; contemporary sprinkled
boards, a little rubbed and extremities a bit worn; still a nice set from a
convent library.
First edition in German of Baretti’s An Account of the Manners and Customs
of Italy, written in response to Samuel Sharp’s Letters from Italy, which Baretti
considered a grossly unfair and unXattering portrayal of his native land.
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Baretti (1719–89), an Italian writer and lexicographer, was a member of
Samuel Johnson’s circle and for many years lived in the house of Johnson’s
patron, Mrs. Thrale. Baretti’s amusing descriptions of his travels were arguably
responsible for the popularity of Italian literature in England in the
eighteenth century. Dr Johnson commented on his book: ‘His account of
Italy is a very entertaining book; and, sir, I know no man who carries his
head higher in conversation than Baretti’.
Hayn-G III 467; NUC and RLIN locate just one copy at Harvard.
17 BARETTI, Giuseppe. A Dictionary of the English and Italian
Languages ... to which is preWxed an Italian and English Grammar.
A new Edition. London J. F. and C. Rivington et al, 1790. £250
Two volumes, 4to, pp. [iii–xxxiv], A4–3M4, 3N; [ii], xxxix, [i] blank,
A4–Ggg2; unpaginated, printed in three columns; second volume with
faint damp-staining to upper margin of Wrst signature, else clean and
crisp; contemporary full sprinkled calf, boards with single gilt rule,
spine in compartments, with two gilt lettered spine labels; joints cracked
but cords holding Wrm.
First published in 1760, Baretti’s dictionary remained the ‘most authoritative
and most consulted Italian and English dictionary in the hundred years
after 1760’ (O’Connor p. 88). The current edition, published a year after
Baretti’s death, was revised by Peter Ricci Rota, master of languages.
Alston XII, 126; ESTC t 083928; Kennedy 2876*.
Rare Baudeau Printing
18 BAUDEAU, Nicolas abbé. Avis aux Honêtes Gens qui veulent
bien faire ... Sur le Commerce du Bled. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel
Rey, 1769. £1000
8vo, pp. 94; engraved title vignette and headpiece; uncut, stitched as
issued in contemporary pattern paper wrappers; some discreet
reinforcement to wrappers; insigniWcant dampstain to lower outer
corner; corners a little frayed, else a Wne copy.
Very rare separate printing of ideas Wrst put forward by Baudeau in two
articles published in the Ephémérides, written as a result of the scarcity of
corn after the bad harvest of 1767 which had driven up prices. Baudeau
points out that an improved system for grinding corn and baking bread
would enable bakeries to sell Xour and bread at a cheaper rate. Mirabeau set
up one of these economical Xour-mills, and sold good quality bread at one
third less than the current price. Baudeau argues that, despite the decrees of
1764, free trade in grain was not guaranteed.
Not found in NUC or RLIN; OCLC locates two copies in France (Haute-Alsace);
see Higgs 4377, INED 274, and Kress 6517 for the 1768 separate edition of Avis
aux honnêtes gens, published by Desaint.

Physiocrat Polemic
19 BAUDEAU, Nicolas abbe. Éclaircissements demandé à M.
N**, sur ses Principes Économiques, & sur ses projets de législation;
au nom des Propriétaires Fonciers & des Cultivateurs
François... [Paris, Didot] 1775. [verso of title:] Extrait des Nouvelles
Ephemerides Economiques. £1600
8vo, pp. x, 306, A1 and Q8 are cancels; a good crisp copy with wide
margins in contemporary mottled calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered
spine label, sides with triple gilt rule and gilt dentelles, a.e.g.;
extremities a little rubbed, a Wne copy.
Very rare Wrst separate edition of Baudeau’s famous Physiocratic polemic,
which according to Daire is one of the best productions of the Physiocratic
movement. The work was also printed the same year in the Nouvelles
Éphémerides Économiques. In the Eclaircissements Baudeau attacks Necker’s
De la législation des grains. Originally a protectionist, but converted to the
cause and in eVect the most eVective popularizer of Physiocratic ideas,
Baudeau here defends the laissez-faire principles of Quesnay and his followers,
against the doctrines of Colbert. The mother, Agriculture, is, he claims,
being sacriWced to the daughter, Industry.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 11256; Higgs 6259; INED 276.
Monetary Policy
20 BAUMHAUER, Michael Paul. Versuch eines neuen und
richtigen Lehr-Gebäudes der Politischen Münzwissenschaft im
Grund-Risse; nebst einer Vertheidigung des hohen Münz-Fußes.
Frankfurt und Leipzig, Gotthelf D. Schulz, 1766. £400
4to, pp. [xii], 122, [20] contents; some light dust-soiling to title, small
stamp to foot of title; uncut in the original pale blue boards.
First edition, uncommon, of a comprehensive study of coinage, currency
and monetary questions, with an impressive subject bibliography.
Baumhauer (1744–1811), a jurist, gives a brief historical overview, lists
necessary reference works, both on coin production and historical coinage,
and then discusses coinage and numismatics in the diVerent European
countries. He also includes brief sections on American, African and Asian
coinage. In the second half Baumann concentrates on the reform of the
German monetary system, again citing all the relevant literature.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10234.1; Humpert 11178.
21 [BECATTINI, Francesco attrib.] Istoria della Città di
Gibilterra in Spagna con la Descrizione della medesima, Porto, Baja,
FortiWcazioni antiche e recenti, ConWni e Planta in Rama della
suddetta. Firenze, Anton-Giuseppe Pagani e Comp., 1782. £400
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8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 44, with one further engraved portrait
and a large folding engraved map; contemporary vellum-backed pastepaper
boards; with defaced ownership label to front paste-down; a Wne
copy.
Second edition (Wrst 1781) of this history of Gibraltar, written during the
Grand Siege, when Spanish and French troops attempted to recapture the
Rock. Gibraltar had been declared a free port and it was under British rule
since the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). Becattini not only gives a history of
Gibraltar, but also describes the leaders of the opposing armies – the Duc de
Crillon and General Elliott, and gives details of the Spanish army. Particularly
appealing is the folding engraved map. The war, which was observed
with interest from all over Europe, ended the following year with a British
victory, the English having defended Gibraltar with the help of an ingenious
tunnel against the apparently overwhelming strength of the besieging
army.
The 1781 edition styles itself as the second edition; but there appears to
be no earlier printing.
OCLC and RLIN list copies at Berkeley, Yale, Chicago, Princeton, and the
Wellcome Library only.
22 BECCARIA, Cesare. Ricerche intorno alla Natura dello Stile.
Milano, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1770. £1800
8vo, pp. 164, [1] errata; title with double rule; uncut in the original
buV stiV wrappers; some worm damage to spine, with half of spine
covering lost, but stitching Wrm; a Wne, unsophisticated copy.
First edition, rare, of Beccaria’s main literary work, his important contribution
to philosophy and aesthetics. Beccaria discusses in detail the relationship
between form and content. He had included a preliminary article on

the subject in the periodical Il CaVè. His concept of ideas or sentiments is
clearly based on seventeenth century sensationalist philosophy.
Beccaria had originally planned to publish this work with Aubert, the
publisher of his most famous work, Dei Delitti e delle Pene (1764), but eventually
settled for the Milanese publisher Galeazzi. The work was meant to
be in two parts, but the second part was not published until 1809.
Firpo II, p. 512; L’Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli 43.
23 [BECCARIA, Cesare.] Traité des Délits et de Peines, Traduit
de l’Italien, d’après la troisième Edition, revue, corrigée et augmentée
par l’Auteur. Avec des Additions de l’Auteur, qui n’ont pas
encore paru en Italien. Nouvelle Édition. Philadelphie, 1766. £600
8vo, pp. xl, 239; typographic vignette to title page; title a little dustsoiled,
marginal stain to G1; contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt
in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; an attractive copy.
First French edition (?), one of seven editions published in 1766 of ‘the
most inXuential book in the whole history of criminology’ (PMM 209). It
was in this French version, translated and edited by Morellet, that the book
became well-known. ‘Beccaria maintained that the gravity of the crime
should be measured by its injury to society and that the penalties should be
related to this’ (PMM).
There are at least seven diVerent issues of the Wrst French translation, all
published in 1766. Manuppella apparently reproduces the title page of this
edition, but does not describe it bibliographically.
See Manuppella, 209, reproduction of title page facing p. 82; see Cioranescu
47363 and Higgs 3962–5 (diVerent issue).
Penal Classic in Swedish
24 BECCARIA, Cesare. Afhandling om Brott och StraV.
Öfversåttning. Stockholm, Wennberg och Nordström, 1770. £750
8vo, engraved title, with title vignette of Justice, pp. [viii], 238, [2]
contents; some light spotting and foxing, due to paper stock;
contemporary half sheep over sprinkled boards, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, chipped; a good copy with early
private ownership inscription to title.
First edition in Swedish of ‘the most inXuential book in the whole history of
criminology’ (PMM), attesting to Beccaria’s Europe-wide appeal. The
translation was prepared by Johan Henrik Hochschild.
Beccaria’s Dei Delitti e delle Pene was Wrst published in 1764 and marked
the foundation of the modern penal system. Beccaria insisted that the gravity
of the crime should be measured by its impact on society, and that the
punishment should reXect this. He rejected capital punishment and advocated
improvements of prison conditions. Within a short time the work was
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translated into all major languages and became the catalyst for penal reforms
all over Europe.
Just the Harvard copy found in NUC, RLIN, or OCLC; not listed in Giulio
Beccaria’s bibliography.
Marriage Law
25 BECK, Johann Jodocus. Tractatus de eo quod justum est circa
conjugalis debiti praestationem. Von der Leistung der ehelichen
PXicht. Worinnen in specie von der bosshaVt- und halsstarrigen
Entziehung der ehelichen PXicht, und der daraus entstehenden
Ehescheidung, und noch andern besondern Würckungen, in
Ansehung derer Heyrath- und anderer eingebrachten Güter,
Succession, ErrungenschaVt, ... ausführlich gehandelt wird.
Franckfurth und Leipzig, Johann Georg Lochner, 1756. £500
4to, engraved frontispiece, pp. [viii], [ii] blank, 264, [20] index; title
printed in red and black; contemporary boards, spine lettered in
manuscript; spine chipped, and upper board with indentation; a very
clean and crisp copy.
Second edition (Wrst 1733) of this study of marriage law and duties and
their legal implications. Beck had already discussed the topic in his doctoral
dissertation in 1706 (published in 1721). He deals with questions of marriage
law and discusses in detail medical problems, which might justify the
refusal of sexual relations, ranging from venereal diseases to impotence and
other infections. Divorce, separation, bigamy, inheritance questions are all
discussed. Beck is particularly concerned with establishing what might provide
suYcient reason for separation, annulment of marriage or divorce, but
at the same time encourages reconciliation.
The Altdorf jurist and professor of law Beck (1684–1744) published extensively,
and his writings were in great demand amongst practitioners, as
they dealt chieXy with matters of frequent controversy in courts.
RLIN records copies of this edition at Harvard and Chicago, and Library of Congress
and Berkeley of 1733 edition.
The Thinking Process
26 BELGRADO, Jacobo. Della Rapidità delle Idee, Dissertazione
d’un Corrispondente dell’Accademie delle Scienze di Parigi,
Membro dell’Istituto di Bologna, e Socio di molte altre Accademie.
Modena, Giovanni Montanari, 1770. £450
8vo, pp. [viii], 106; attractive title page vignette, showing an
astronomer with a telescope, decorative initials and head and tail-pieces;
uncut in the original buV limp boards, some light ink staining to upper
boards; spine a little worn with some early restauration; holding Wrm;
internally clean and crisp.

First edition of this study of thought and the thinking process by the scientist
Belgrado (1704–1789), a professor of mathematics and physics at the
university of Parma. Quoting from Locke, WolV, ‘sGravesande and others,
Belgrado studies the concept of ‘ideas’, before concentrating on the ‘thinking
process’, and the speed and fecundity of ideas. Belgrado even proposes a
test to measure the number of ideas within a speciWed time span.
DBI VII, 574; not found in NUC, where many of his other works are recorded;
RLIN lists two copies, at Berkeley and at Harvard.
Fertilisers in Agriculture
27 [BENEKENDORF, Carl Friedrich von.] Sistematischpraktische
Abhandlung der Lehre von richtiger Bedüngung der
Felder nebst einem genauen Verzeichnis aller möglichen sowohl
gewöhnlichen, als künstlichen Düngungsarten, wobey zugleich ein
gründlicher Unterricht von ihrere Vermehrung oder bequemen
AnschaVung, Zubereitung, Wirkung und richtigen Anwendung
mitgetheilt wird. Küstrin, Ferdinand Oehmigcke, 1784. £550
8vo, pp. 222; very clean and crisp in contemporary light blue boards,
spine label lettered in manuscript.
First edition of this comprehensive treatise on the use of fertilisers in agriculture.
Benekendorf advocates a more scientiWc approach to the use of fertilising
materials, and advocates, in addition to animal manure, the use of
‘artiWcial’ fertilisers. DiVerent kinds of animal manure are analysed with regard
to their eYciency and cost eVectiveness. In the second part he discusses
simple and composite ‘artiWcial’ fertilisers, such as marl, ash, lye, potash,
lime, horn and wood shavings etc. What distinguishes him from other writers
of the period is his scientiWc approach to the use of the aids, with a clear
view on the Wnancial implications.
ADB II, p. 324; not found in Kress or Goldsmiths’, or NUC (lists only his
Oeconomia Forensis – MH only).
28 [BERAINVILLE, Person de.] Etrennes patriotiques ou recueil
anniversaire d’allegories sur les Epoques du Regne de Louis XVI.
Première Suite. Paris, Desnos, 1778.
[bound with:] Le Secretaire des Dames et des M ou Dépositeur
Wdèle. £500
18mo, ll. 18, with 9 engravings by Voysard, text also engraved, pp. 96
(secretaire), [12] calendar 1778; contemporary full red vellum, sides
with triple gilt rule, gilt edges, with fore-edge pin-slots, later stylus.
Ingenious little calendar, with specially prepared paper that can be written
on with a stylus, and wiped oV up to twenty times with the help of a dampened
cloth.
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29 [BERGK, Johann Adam attr.] Taschenbuch der Wunder und
Seltenheiten in der Natur, der Kunst und im Menschenleben. Erstes
Bändchen. [all published]. Mit 12 Kupfern. Leipzig, Baumgärtner,
1818. £550
Square 8vo, pp. xiv, 273, [1] errata, [12] advertisements; with 12
engraved plates, one of them folding; some light foxing; original
printed wrappers; a little dog-eared; with contemporary circular library
stamp to title.
First and only edition of this short-lived periodical on natural curiosities,
inexplicable phenomena and magic attributed to Bergk. Clearly aimed at
the popular market, the publication collects some ninety-six brief articles on
curious or strange phenomena, some from the medical Weld, such as
terratological births, dwarfs etc, which are illustrated on the plates, or somnambulists.
Others describe curious incidents from far-Xung countries, the
African slave trade, a crocodile hunt – both illustrated with striking images,
and strange Englishmen: John Bigg, the Denton hermit, and the dwarfs
Andreas Whiston and Owen Farrel.
Not in Krieg; KVK, RLIN and OCLC locate copies at the California State Library,
and two in Germany; no further issues appear to have been published.

30 [BERINGTON, Simon.] Memoires de Gaudence de Luques,
Prisonnier de l’Inquisition: Augmentés de plusieurs Cahiers qui
avoient été perdus à la Douane de Marseille: Enrichis des savantes
Remarques de Mr. Rhedi. Premiere Partie [–Quatrieme Partie].
Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkst & Merkus, 1754. £500
Four parts in two volumes; 12mo, engraved frontispiece to all four
volumes, pp. [iv], lxiv, 98; [iv], 154; [iv], 148; [iv], 166, [1] errata;
titles printed in red an black, with title vignettes and typographic head
and tail-pieces; paper occasionally lightly browned; contemporary full
mottled calf, boards with triple gilt Wllet, Xat spines decorated in gilt,
with matching gilt-lettered label and lettering piece; an attractive set.
Second French translation of Berington’s utopia, the Memoires of Sigr.
Gaudentio di Lucca, Wrst published in 1737. With this translation by Dupuy
Demportes, which was Wrst published the previous year, Berington’s adventure-utopia
became a Europe-wide bestseller, and in addition to numerous
further French editions, two separate German translations appeared.
The utopia is based on the confessions of the main protagonist Gaudence
before the Inquisition, where he tells of his adventures and travels in the
land of the Mezzoranies. The inhabitants of this utopian land, connected
with just one road to the outside world, lived happily, in equality, without
restricting laws, and well-provided for with store-houses and abundant supplies.
Gove, p. 297; Hartig 40; Negley 93; see Lee M Ellison, Gaudentio di Lucca, a forgotten
utopia, 1935.
31 BETTINELLI, Saverio. Dell Entusiasmo delle Belle Arti.
Milano, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1769. £650
8vo, pp. xvi, 416; woodcut vignette to title; uncut in the original limp
boards; spine lettered in manuscript; some show-through to endpapers;
a Wne copy.
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First edition of Bettinelli’s inXuential treatise on aesthetics and cultural politics.
Saverio Bettinelli (1718–1808), a Mantuan Jesuit, stresses the power
of ‘nature’ and ‘feeling’ in literature, and calls for a reform of the Italian
poetic tradition. With this work he appeared to be at the forefront of enlightenment
thinking, although his later works proposed closer allegiance
to modern classicism in the Jesuit tradition.
Melzi I, 357; uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy at Columbia University.
Poem in Praise of Tuscan Economic Reforms
32 BETTINELLI, Saverio. Sciolti sopra il libro intitolato
Governo della Toscana sotto il Regno di sua Maestà il Re Leopoldo
Secondo. Firenze, Gaet. Cambiagi, 1791. £450
4to, pp. xvi; contemporary limp boards, with faint presentation
inscription in ink by the author to foot of title page.
First and only edition, very rare, of Bettinelli’s blank verse appraisal of
Leopold II, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and of Gianni’s Wnancial account
of the economic reforms carried out under his reign, before he became
Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1790. Leopold II was one of
the most capable and remarkable of the reforming princes of the eighteenth
century, and Bettinelli charts the diVerent areas of his reform, be they administration,
the legal system, or public accounting.
DBI IX, 738–744; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, no copy found in RLIN or OCLC.
Farming for Ladies
33 BEYER, Moritz. Landwirthschaft für Frauen. Der
GeXügelhof, die Schweizerei, das Milchwesen und die Zucht und
Benutzung der Schweine. Nach dem Englischen für Deutschland
bearbeitet von Moritz Beyer. Leipzig und Pesth, Verlags-Magazin,
1845. £150
8vo, pp. xviii, 374, numerous wood engravings in the text, some light
spotting and foxing; mid-nineteenth century boards, original pictorial
printed upper wrapper bound in; a good copy with unsigned
calligraphic presentation inscription on front free endpaper.
First edition in German of this introduction to agriculture for women.
Based on John French Burke’s Farming for Ladies: a guide to the poultry
yard, the dairy and piggery by the author of British Husbandry, this treatise
is translated and adapted to the German situation by Moritz Beyer, who is
best known for his guidebooks for emigrants to America.
Not in NUC or RLIN, no copy in Kress or Goldsmiths’; for Burke’s British Husbandry,
see Goldsmiths’–Kress 28471.

From Cradle to Grave
34 BIGLAND, Ralph. Observations on Marriages, Baptisms, and
Burials, as Preserved in Parochial Registers. With Sundry specimens
of the Entries of Marriages, Baptisms, &c. in foreign Countries.
London, printed by W. Richardson and S. Clark and sold by R. and
J. Dodsley. T. Payne, W. Bristow, 1764. £320
4to, pp. [ii], 96, [2] advertisement; some oV-setting to foremargin of
title; modern calf-backed boards; a clean, wide-margined copy, with
occasional manuscript corrections in ink.
First edition of an interesting work in which the author stresses the importance
of accurate parish registers ‘for the beneWt of society’ and the beneWt
of posterity. Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1755 had led to a general
improvement in the central recording of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths
and burials. However, up till then the parish registers had been erratic, and
their importance for providing reliable statistical information for population
Wgures was not fully appreciated until the population debate initiated
by Malthus’ Essay on Population (1798). Ralph Bigland (1711–1784), the
Garter King-of-Arms, argues persuasively for enforcing the Hardwicke act
and improving parish records.
Higgs 3287; Goldsmiths’–Kress 10029; McCulloch pp. 272; Lowndes I, 203 ‘a
very curious book, containing much valuable information for the genealogist’.
Early Feminism
35 BILLON, François de. Le Fort inexpugnable de l’Honneur du
Sexe Femenin, construit par Françoys de Billon Secretaire. Paris, Ian
d’Allyer, 1555. £5500
4to, ll. [vi], 257, [4] including Wnal blank, irregular pagination; large
woodcut vignette on title, decorated initials and woodcut head and tailpieces,
engraved portrait (repeated once) two full-page woodcuts
showing the ‘invincible fortress’ and the force of the pen (repeated four
times and twice respectively), title pages to all parts with elaborate
woodcut borders, showing military weaponry and a cannon Wred by a
woman; very clean, just the Wrst and last leaves a little browned; bound
at the turn of the century in full red crushed morocco, gilt, bound and
signed by Charles Lewis; from the library of René Choppin with his
engraved book-plate on front paste-down; a very Wne copy.
First edition of one of the most important sixteenth century treatises written
in defence of women. This cleverly-argued defence of female equality,
presented with the help of strategic and belligerent terminology, is a document
of early feminism, and, because of Billon’s extensive learning and research,
a valuable companion to all that was written on the question in the
preceding century together with a telling representation of liberal thought
in the sixteenth century.
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Adams 2046; BM French p. 69; Brunet I, 945; Index Aureliensis 119.358;
Rothschild II, 1837; see M. Albistur & D. Armogathe, Histoire du Feminism
Français, 1977, pp. 142–151; R. Kelso, Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance, Urbana
1956.
36 BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaire sur le Code Criminel
d’Angleterre, traduit de l’Anglais ... par M. l’Abbé Coyer. Paris,
Knapen, 1776. £480
Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, pp. xiv, 264; [ii], 252, [3]; woodcut
vignette to both titles; contemporary full sheep, spine decoratively gilt
with gilt-lettered spine label; short splits to both joints, but Wrm; head

and tail of spine chipped, and corners bumped, short worm trace to foot
of upper joint; a bit worn, but sound.
First edition of this translation and arguably Wrst edition in French of
Blackstone’s Of Public Wrongs, Book Four of his Commentaries on the Laws of
England (1765–9). The translator was the economist and satirical writer
Coyer (1707–1782), who is best known for his Noblesse de la France (1756).
Another French translation of all four volumes of Blackstone’s Commentaries
was being prepared by August Pierre Damiens de Gomicourt, and some
volumes had already been published in Brussels, starting in 1774 (–1776).
However, Coyer, in his preface, expresses his impatience with the slow
progress of the project, and therefore proposes to translate this important
fourth book, containing the Criminal Code himself, so that the French and
English legal system may successfully be compared. As the approbation is
signed February 1776 it seems reasonable to assume that this translation
predates the publication of Damiens de Gomicourt’s translation, which was
dismissed by Brunet as contradictory and mutilated.
Eller 180; Brunet (3rd edn), I, 218; NUC, RLIN, and OCLC list just Wve copies
(Yale, Harvard, Syracuse University, UCLA Law Library and Library of Congress).
How to Behave
37 BLONDEL, Jean. Des Hommes, tels qu’ils sont et doivent
être. Ouvrage de Sentiment. Londres, l’auteur, Paris, Duchesne.
1758. £350
12mo, pp. 210, [3]; faint dampstain to foremargin of last signature;
contemporary full sheep, extremities a little rubbed.
First edition of this wide-ranging study of social morality and public policy.
Blondel (1733–1810), studies human behaviour in all its aspects, covering
celibacy, marriage and luxury, slavery and life expectancy. An interesting
section is devoted to marriage, and the principles which should govern it. A
combination of reason and love should be applied when looking for a spouse.
However, he admits that love might well render reason ineVective. He condemns
a ‘modern’ class of women who live just for pleasure and ignore their
responsibility for starting a family. He concludes with comments on politeness
and good manners, deplores the present state of French morality.
Blondel’s observations were popular; they were also published with a
Hamburg imprint the following year, and in 1760, together with a German
translation (1760) and an Italian one (1759).
Cioranescu 12166; INED 540.
38 [BLONDEL, Jean.] Degli Uomini tali quali sono o come
dovrebbero essere. Opera di Sentimento. Amburgo, 1759. £250
8vo, pp. 103; title vignette; uncut in the original buV wrappers, spine
lettered in ink; a little dog-eared.
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First edition in Italian of Blondel’s study of French social morality and public
policy.
See Cioranescu 12166; INED 540 for Wrst edition; RLIN lists just one copy at
Princeton.
Tobacco Factory
39 BOCRIS, Georg Christian. Aufrichtige und gründliche
Unterweisung guten Rauch- und Schnupftabak auf holländische
Art zu verfertigen. Nebst einem Kupfer. Amsterdam und Leipzig,
1794. £650
8vo, pp. 107, [5], 1 folding engraving; engraved heraldic vignette to
title; uncut in contemporary pale blue wrappers, foot of spine chipped;
faint erased stamp to last leaf and to verso of engraved plate; a clean and
crisp copy.
First edition, rare, of this practical guide on how to set up a factory for the
production of smoking tobacco and snuV. Bocris gives advice on the most
suitable location, and the most saleable types of tobacco. Bocris lists prices
for raw tobacco, and applicable taxes and tariVs. He also includes information
on the necessary tools and equipment. The last section contains recommendations
for making most common kinds of roll tobacco, and for
producing various blends. Some trade names are also given.
The guide was clearly successful, with later editions following in 1799,
1801 and 1833.
Arents IV, 1116; see Engeelmann 44; RLIN and OCLC list copies at Harvard and
Duke only.
A Mini Manual of German History
40 BÖMER, Antonius. Germania Gloriosa, Majestate, Nobilitate,
Aliisq, Status Politici Praerogativis; Honoribus illustrissimi Domini
Julii Caesaris Comitis Dottori. Viennae, apud Susannam
Christinam, Matthiae Cosmerovii, 1700. £1200
12mo, pp. [viii], 154; contemporary gilt-printed Buntpapier, spine
faded; short worm trace to inner gutter margin of prelims, no loss; a
Wne copy, very clean and crisp.
Second revised edition (Wrst 1699) of this dissertation in praise of Germany,
giving an outline of German history, German rulers from Charlemagne
to Joseph I, their election, mottoes and achievements. An
interesting section deals with German inventions, praising in particular
Gutenberg’s invention of printing with movable type. Inventions in horology
and military equipment and the achievements of the military are also
outlined. The work concludes with a listing of German saints.
Uncommon, no copies in RLIN or OCLC, whereas KVK lists copies at the Bavarian
and Austrian State Libraries, and Wolfenbüttel.

InXuential German Merchants’ Handbook
41 BOHN, Gottfried Christian. Wohlerfahrener Kaufmann, oder
umständliche Nachricht mit was für Waaren, Münze, Maaße und Gewichte
die vornehmsten Städte in Deutschland, Spanien, Portugall,
Frankreich, England ... verkehren ... nebst einer ausführlichen Anweisung
zum italienischen Buchhalten dem kaufmännischen Briefwechsel,
und mehrern nöthigen Handelssachen beygefüget werden.
Viel vermehrte und verbesserte Ausgabe. Hamburg, Johann C. Bohn,
1762. £1400
8vo, pp. double-page engraved frontispiece, [ii], [vi], 884, [8] contents,
errata; title printed in red and black, numerous tables in the text,
frontispiece engraved by J. C. G. Fritzsch; contemporary full calf, gilt;
extremities a little rubbed, a Wne copy.
Fourth edition (Wrst 1719) of Bohn’s inXuential merchants’ handbook,
much praised for its comprehensiveness and detail. Beginning with Hamburg,
information is given on German and other European trading places,
covering exchange rates, weights and measures, products both for import
and export, trading practices etc. A substantial section, extending to 150
pages, contains an introduction to double-entry or Italian book-keeping for
merchants based on Rademann. In addition to basic accounts, complicated
transactions are included too, such as accounting for loans, lotteries, maritime
investments. Bohn’s handbook was the most popular German commercial
handbook of the eighteenth century.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 9762; Higgs 2782; Humpert 6356; see Historical Accounting
Literature p. 28 for 1750 edition; all early editions are uncommon.
Exploitation of Colonial Resources
42 [BOLTS, William.] Stato Civile Politico, e Commerciante del
Regno di Bengala ovvero Storia delle Conquiste e
dell’Amministrazione della Compagnia Inglese in quelle Contrade.
Opera Divisa in due Tomi. Che vengono a formare I Tomi XIX. E
XX in seguito della Storia FilosoWca, e Politica dell’Abate Rainal.
Tome Primo [–Tomo Secondo]. 1780. £680
Two volumes, pp. [ii], 199; [ii], 208, [1], with large folding engraved
map bound after the Wrst title; occasional light spotting and browning;
uncut in the original buV coloured limp boards; a Wne set.
Rare Wrst edition in Italian of Bolts’ Considerations on India aVairs; particularly
respecting the present state of Bengal and its dependencies (1772), his strident
attack on the East India Company’s management of Indian commerce.
Bolts exposed British exploitation of the resources of Bengal, and criticised
colonial government in general. Despite its sententiousness his work was a
valuable contemporary source on the conditions in Bengal and India, and
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was presumably used by Adam Smith, who had a copy of Bolts’ Considerations
in his library, when he wrote of the miserable state of Bengal and other
English settlements as being the fault of the policies of ‘the mercantile company
which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies’ ( Book I, chapter 8).
Rare, not found in NUC, RLIN and OCLC, where just one copy of the second
edition of 1782 ist listed (University of Chicago); for English edition see Goldsmiths’
10874 and Higgs 5488–90.
Climate and Human Development
43 BONSTETTEN, Charles-Victor de. L’Homme du Midi et
L’Homme du Nord, ou L’inXuence du Climat. Geneve, Paschoud,
Paris, 1824. £400
8vo, pp. [iv], xiii, [14]–234; contemporary roan-backed boards, spine
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; joints worn and head of spine
chipped.
First edition of Bonstetten’s best-known work, his much discussed anthropological
study of the inXuence of climate on human development. Despite
his broad-brush assessments of the more rational northerners and impulsive
southerners, his typology of national characters and psychology of the people
remains of interest. Bonstetten (1745–1832), a Swiss writer and government
oYcial, was strongly inXuenced by Rousseau and Bonnet.
Cioranescu 12825.
Management of the Tongue
44 BORDELON, Laurent. La Langue. On Connoistra en quoy
consiste l’utilité de cet Ouvrage, par la lecture des Avertissemens
qui le precedent. Suivant la copie de Paris, Rotterdam, Elie Yvans,
1705. £450
8vo, pp. [xxii], 302 [vere 402]; title vignette and engraved tail pieces;
some light even browning, due to paper quality, paper fault to title,
resulting in three small holes; contemporary half sheep over sprinkled
boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, extremities
a little rubbed; duplicate from the Uppsala university library, with small
stamp and printed book label to front pastedown.
First Rotterdam edition of this amusing advice on the use of language, Wrst
published the same year in Paris. Bordelon identiWes the importance of language
for our social standing and position in the world. Under twenty-seven
separate headings such as the babbler, the swearer, the complimenter, the
man who praises others, the Xatterer, the promiser, the complainer etc.,
maxims and advice on modes of speaking are given, ranging from ‘Never ask
any man a question, unless you think he can answer it’, ‘Great talkers spoil
their best actions, by speaking too much of ‘em’, to platitudes on women:
‘There is no secret, which a woman will keep better, than that of her age’.

The book proved popular: an English edition was published the following
year under the title Management of the Tongue.
Cioranescu 12888 (Paris edition).
Italian Literature
45 BORSA, Matteo. Del Gusto Presente in Letteratura Italiana. E
accompagnata da copiose Osservazioni relative al medisimo
Argomento da Stefano Arteaga. [Venice, Zatta & Figli]. 1784. £500
8vo, pp. xii, 150, [2] privilege & errata; contemporary marbled calf,
spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; a Wne copy.
First and only edition of this essay written in response to a prize question at
the Academy of Mantua on the topic of current taste in Italian literature.
Borsa (1751–1798), pupil and nephew of Bettinelli, identiWes a number of
inXuences on contemporary literature, such as that of French writing, Enlightenment
philosophy, and Xuid borders between literary genres. In a
separate chapter on how to elevate current taste to a higher level, he discusses
in detail English inXuences, which he argues have led to blind imitation
in Italy. The second half of the volume is taken up by Arteaga’s
response to and close analysis of Borsa’s work.
OCLC lists copies at Yale, Duke and University of Wisconsin only.
Large Paper Collectors’ Copy – from the De Thou Library
46 BOSSE, Abraham. Traicté des Manières de Graver en Taille
Douce sur l’Airin. Par le Moyen des Eaux Fortes, & des Vernix Durs
& Mols. Ensemble de la façon d’en Imprimer les Planches & d’en
Construire la Presse, & autres choses concernans les dits Arts. Paris,
A. Bosse, 1645. £5500
8vo, (204 x136 mm), pp. [vi], 75, with engraved title bound after the
printed title, and second engraved title bound after the preface, with
eleven leaves of plates, with sixteen full-page copperplate engravings
(numbered 1–16, some repeated); contemporary full tan calf, spine gilt
in compartments with de Thou’s monogram, sides with gilt supra-libros
of the arms of de Thou; short split to head of upper joint, upper corners
a little rubbed; a very attractive copy with the book plates of Hector de
Backer, Marcel Duchemin and Chevalier RuWgny to front paste-down.
Large paper copy from the de Thou collection of the Wrst edition of the Wrst
manual of copperplate etching and engraving and the printing of intaglio
plates. Bosse’s manual was aimed both at the amateur and the professional
engraver and is extensively illustrated, with Wne engravings by Bosse himself.
Bosse’s manual was highly inXuential, not only was it translated into
Dutch, French, English and German, but a number of subsequent editions
and revisions, updating the manual to contemporary practice, were published,
most notably in 1701 and 1745 by Le Clerc and Cochin respectively.
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This indicates that Bosse’s manual remained the standard work throughout
the eighteenth century, and is of use not just for the historian, but also for
the practicising engraver.
Provenance: It is particularly appealing to have the fundamental text in the
history of book production from the famous collection of de Thou, with
the characteristic tooling to both boards and monogram to spine. Jacques-
Auguste de Thou (1553–1617), a French diplomat, lawyer and historian
had one of the great private libraries of the sixteenth century. After his death
in 1617 his arms and monograms were continued to be used by his family,
which explains the use of his tools on this work published in 1654. After the
de Thou library was dispersed in 1788, further well-known collectors secured
the book, and for a period this copy was in the library of Hector de
Backer (1843–1925), the president of the Belgium bibliophiles, Marcel
Duchemin and Chevalier RuWgny.
Bigmore–Wyman, I, 72; Cicognara 254; En Français dans le Texte, 92; E. Olivier,
G. Hermal, de Roton II; Fletcher, Bookbinding in France, p. 37–39.
Etching, Engraving and Print-Making
47 BOSSE, Abraham. De la Maniere de Graver a l’Eau forte et au
Burin. Et de la Gravûre en Maniere noire. Avec la façon de
construire les Presses modernes, & d’imprimer en Taille-douce.
Nouvelle Édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée du double; et
enrichie de dix-neuf Planches en Taille-douce. Paris, Charles-
Antoine Jombert, 1745. £1800
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xxxii, 186, [6], with 19 numbered
engraved throw-out plates; some light browning and spotting,
especially in foremargin; small tear to last leaf; contemporary full
mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; head
of spine chipped and corners a little bumped; a good copy.

First Cochin edition (and third edition in all) of Bosse’s Traité des manières
de graver en taille douce, with extensive additions. Cochin added several pertinent
details on the construction of state-of-the art presses, and re-engraved
the corresponding plates. He also included an extensive section on
the process involved in colour printing, called by him à la manière noire,
which was based on the three colour technique developed by Le Blon a few
years earlier. As Le Blon’s work appeared in print only in 1756 this may in
fact be the earliest manual on colour printing to appear in France.
Bigmore–Wyman, I, 72; Cicognara 254; see En Français dans le Texte, 92.
German Translation of Bosse’s Manual for Printmakers
48 BOSSE, Abraham. Die Kunst in Kupfer zu stechen, sowohl
vermittlest des Aetzwassers als mit dem Grabstichel; ingleichen die
sogenannte schwarze Kunst, und wie die Kupferdrucker-Presse nach
ietziger Art zu bauen und die Kupfer abzudrucken sind. Dresden,
Gröllische Handlung, 1765. £1600
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xxxvi], 254, [36] index and errata, 19
folding engraved plates bound at the end; with engraved head and tailpieces
and three engravings in the text; some light but evenly browning;
contemporary sprinkled boards; faint stamp from the library of
Krassow-Divitz on title; a good copy.
First edition of this translation. This rare German translation is based on the
French edition of 1745 and was prepared by C. G. Nitzsche; earlier German
editions had appeared in 1689, 1714 and 1761. As Nitzsche writes in
his preface, the quality of previous translations made this new one necessary.
He adds a couple of text illustrations.
See Bigmore–Wyman, I, 72; Franklin 145; Graesse 501.
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49 [BOTERO, Giovanni.] Della ragione di stato, Libri dieci.
Milano, PaciWco Pontio, 1598.
[bound with:] Aggunite di Gio. Botero alla sua Ragion di Stato.
Venetia, Gio. Battista Ciotti, 1600.
[bound with:] Prencipi ... con le Aggionte alla Ragion di Stato.
Venetia, Gio. Battista Ciotti all’Aurora, 1601.
[bound with:] CALDERNI, Apollinaire de. Modo d’usar il Bossolo
per Pigliar Piante de luoghi murati, e non murati. Milano, Pandolfo
Malatesta, 1598. £3600
Four works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xvi], 402 (slightly irregular, but
ok); [5], [1] blank; [xvi], ll. 96; pp. 227; 24, with one folding printed
table, misbound; title vignettes and decorated initials; some light
browning; contemporary sprinkled sheep, spine gilt in compartments,
extremities a little rubbed, short split to upper joint.
Later editions of Botero’s important contributions to political economy
and political theory, including his Della Ragione di Stato (Wrst published in
1589), and Delle Cause della grandezza delle città (1588), an anticipation of
the ‘Malthusian’ principle of population – and one of the neglected masterpieces
in the history of economics. In his political work, Botero attempts to
deWne a ruler who combines Machiavellian shrewdness with moral
strength. His ‘Prencipi’ and the ‘Aggiunte’ include commentaries on international
law, neutrality, and oceanography.
Botero’s works are bound together with the rare Wrst edition of
Calderini’s treatise on surveying, in which he refers to Botero’s ideas on
town-planning and public organisation.
I. Index Aureliensis 122.735; II. I.A. 122.752; Adams B2550; III. see I.A.
122.750; IV. I.A. 129.316, Riccardi I/I, 210.
A Republican Constitution for Lombardy
50 BOTTA, Carlo. Proposizione ai Lombardi di una maniera
di governo libero. Milano, Stamperia alter volte di S. Ambrogio,
1797. £550
Large 12mo, pp. [ii], 381; title a little dust-soiled; uncut in attractive
contemporary pattern paper wrappers; a Wne copy.
First edition, rare, of Botta’s famous blueprint of the republican constitution
for Lombardy in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Botta favoured
a federation of republics for Italy, which would reXect regional
diVerences and municipal claims, but most importantly he favoured national
independence. To advance his constitutional ideas, he campaigned
for the convocation of a Lombard national convention. Of particular interest
are his economics proposals, as described in chapters V and VI, he demands
agricultural reform, to nationalise the large estates and redistribute
the land into small-holdings. Financial reforms are also proposed, leading

to a publication of state budgets and accounts, a reform of the tax system,
and the encouragement of trade and industry.
Salsotto, Opere di Carlo Botta, n. 6; DBI XIII, p. 365.
Can Animals Speak?
51 BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe de. Amusement
Philosophique sur le Langage des Bestes... Paris, Gissey, Bordelet,
Ganeau, 1739.
[bound after:] [MACY, L’abbe.] Traite de l’Ame des Betes Avec des
RéXexions physiques et morales. Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1737.
[bound with:] Lettre de Boujeant ... a Monsieur l’Abbe Savalette,
[colophon], Paris, Merigot, 1739.
[bound with:] [AUBERT de la Chesnaye des Bois.] Lettre a Madame
La Comtesse D*** pour servir de Supplément à l’amusement
philosophqiues... n.p., 1739.
[bound with:] [BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe de.] ReXexions
sur l’Ame des Bestes, en forme d’Amusemens Philosophiques, n.p.,
1740. £350
Five works bound in one volume; 12mo, pp. [iv], 157, [5]; [iv], 257,
11; 4; 46; [xii], 108; contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine gilt in
compartments, with gilt-lettered spine label, corners and head of spine a
little worn, else a very good copy.
First edition. A very interesting Sammelband centred around Bougeant’s
provocative philosophical conceit written in response to Cartesian doctrine
of the ‘animal-machine’, his satirical study of the language of animals.
Bougeant proposed a parallel between animal sensibility and human folly.
He concluded that the only solution, which would not threaten religion,
was to grant souls to animals, but to consider these souls of demons or
fallen angels inhabiting animal bodies as a punishment. This position
allowed him to concede reason and true language to beasts. This publication
caused widespread discussion, was translated into English and German,
and brought him stern disciplinary measures from the church
authorities.
I. Barbier I, 156; Cioranescu 13210, Sommervogel I, 1879; II. Barbier IV, 745;
III. Cioranescu 13211; IV. Cioranescu 13231.
Warning Against Anglomania
52 [BOURDON, Louis Gabriel.] Le Patriote, ou Préservatif
contre l’Anglomanie. Dialogue en Vers, suivi de quelques Notes, sur
les Brochures qui ont été publiées au sujet des États-Généraux.
Londres, Paris, Froullé, 1789. £280
8vo, pp. [iii]–xii, [13]–55, [1]; bound without the half title; uncut,
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stitched as issued in glazed paper wrappers, with later hand-lettered title
label.
First edition of Bourdon’s outspoken criticism of French Anglomania, and
especially the tendency to slavish imitation of the English legislative system
in contemporary political debate. In his verse dialogue with Lady Truebriton,
and especially the following notes the author expresses more whole-hearted
support for the American constitution, and maintains that this is an example
worth following, rather than the outdated English system. An important part
of the pamphlet is reserved for a strident criticism of English foreign policy,
with the intention of defending the young American republic.
Cioranescu 13526; ESTC t98809.
A Bibliophile Collection
53 [BOZE, Claude Gros de.] Catalogue des Livres du Cabinet de
M. De Boze. Paris, G. Martin, 1753. £350
8vo, pp. [ii], x, 552, with pp. 2 in manuscript bound after the titles;
prelims misbound; contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt lettered spine label; some discreet restorations to
foot of spine; manuscript annotations and estimates in the margins.
The auction catalogue of the famous library formed by the renowned academician
and historian Claude Gros de Boze (1680–1753). The Boze collection
was particularly important as it marked the turning point from the old
specialised scientiWc library to a modern bibliophile collection. This transition
is also noticeable in the annotations to some of the rarer titles. The
collection was particularly strong in block books and incunabula.
The auction never took place. After publication of the catalogue (2773
lots), two collectors – Boutin and Cotte – purchased the whole library for
the sum of 83,000. They retained some of the books for their own collections
and sold a number of precious incunables to Gaignat. The remainder
was handed to Gabriel Martin to sell by auction the following year. The
catalogue, which Archer Taylor considered to be one of Gabriel Martin’s
best productions, gives an interesting insight into eighteenth-century bookcollecting.
Blogie I 6; Brunet I, 1642; Guigard II, pp. 88–90; Krieg, Bibliotheca Bibliographica
263; Peignot, p. 83; Taylor, Book Catalogues, p. 233.

54 BREITHAUPT, Christian. Ars decifratoria sive Scientia
Occultas Scripturas solvendi et legendi. Praemissa est Disquisitio
Historica de variis Modis occulte Scribendi tam apud veteres
quam recentiores Visitatis. Helmstedt, Christ. Fried. Weiygand,
1737. £500
8vo, pp. 32, 160, [12] index, with one folding printed table bound in;
engraved cryptographic title vignette and numerous diagrams, tables
and specimens of encryption in the text; paper lightly browned, title
dust-soiled; indestructibly bound in modern half morocco over cloth
boards.
First edition of this valuable introduction to the history and art of cryptography.
Cryptographic methods included among others alphabetic substitutions,
ciphers, dislocation of letters, invented symbols, and corrupt forms of
foreign alphabets. Cryptography was mostly used in secret diplomacy.
Breithaupt, (1689–1749), a professor of philosophy in Helmstedt, covers
the period from Trithemius to Leibniz. Numerous methods are illustrated
in the text and the folding table shows Kircher’s Abacus numeralis. Ten
years earlier, Breithaupt had already published an essay entitled Disquisitio
historica, critica, curiosa de variis modis occulte scribendi, which is reprinted
here.
Ackermann I, 37; Galland, p. 29; Rosenthal 6031.
55 BROWN, Goold. The Wrst Lines of English Grammar; being a
brief Abstract of the Author’s larger Work. Designed for Young
Learners. New York, Samuel S. & William Wood, 1858. £60
8vo, pp. 108; some spotting due to paper stock; bound in the original
roan-backed printed boards, boards and corners a little rubbed.
A children’s introduction to English Grammar, condensed from Brown’s
more extensive work The Institutes of English Grammar. Judging by the date
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of the preface this epitome was Wrst published in 1826. Brown covers orthography,
etymology, syntax and prosody.
Not found in Kennedy.
English Society in Decline
56 [BROWN, John.] Les moeurs angloises, ou appréciation des
moeurs et des principes qui caracterisent actuellement la Nation
Britannique. La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1758. £300
12mo, pp. [iv], 194, [2], title vignette and typographic head and tailpieces;
uncut in contemporary marbled wrappers, slight wear to spine;
early ownership inscription to verso of front free endpaper.
First edition of Charles Chais’ French translation of John Brown’s popular
Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times; another edition (pp. 242)
had been publishd earlier the same year. John Brown had published his
blanket condemnation of ‘unmanly dissipation’ and his attack on ‘vain,
luxurious, and selWsh eVeminacy’ which he detected in English society at the
time in 1757. He maintained that luxury and reWnement were weakening
the moral Wbre of the nation, and were a consequence of an advanced commercial
society, foreign, especially French inXuences, and the increased role
of women in society. Brown explicitly makes this point when he complains
that ‘the one sex have advanced in boldness, as the other have sunk into
eVeminacy’ (after Brewer, p. 80). This English self-castigation clearly appealed
to the French, as another translation had been published the same
year.
Eddy 54 (listing four copies, Bodleian, National Library of Scotland, Newberry
Library and Stadtbibliothek Zürich).
Communism Made Easy
57 BUONARROTI, Philippe. Système politique et social des
Égaux ... extrait du livre de Ph. Buonarroti. Paris, Bureau du
Journal la Fraternité, 1842. £500
Small 16mo, pp. 108; some dust-soiling to title page, very faint
dampstain to gutter margin; uncut in contemporary half blue morocco,
spine decoratively gilt; some surface wear to upper boards, still an
attractive copy.
First edition, very rare, of these extracts from Buonarroti’s Conspiration de
l’Égalité dite de Babeuf, a blueprint for the establishment of communism by
force. Buonarroti (1761–1837), the lone survivor of the Babouvian plot
against the government, was the connecting link between the Babouvists
and the socialists of the July monarchy. Through his works the communist
ideas of an egalitarian revolution, the abolition of private property, starting
with Babeuf in the French Revolution, were carried over into the Revolution
of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871.

Buonarroti’s account of the principal concepts of the conspiracy of equals
was immediately translated into English and other European languages,
and became a handbook for nineteenth century socialist and communist
revolutionaries. The publication of these extracts even after Buonarroti’s
death attests to his continuing inXuence.
Very rare, KVK lists just the copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale; no copy in RLIN
or OCLC.
Buquoy’s Economic System
58 BUQUOY, Georg v. Auswahl des leichter Aufzufassenden
aus meinen philosophisch-wissenschaftlichen Schriften und kontemplativen
Dichtungen, für gebildete Leser und Leserinnen. Erstes
Bändchen, [–Drittes Bändchen] Prag, Enders, 1825–1827. £950
Three volumes, 8vo, pp. [vi], 177; [vi], 208; 259, [1] blank, [2]
contents; entirely uncut and mostly unopened in the original printed
buV wrappers, foremargin of title of volume I dust-soiled, else in very
Wne condition.
First and only edition of this collection of Buquoy’s shorter economical,
philosophical and literary works. He begins with an interesting autobiographical
sketch, outlining his scientiWc and ‘business’ career, which emphasises
his interest in the application of mathematics to all observations. Of
particular importance is the third volume, which includes his Staatswirthschaftliche
Betrachtungen, an extensive (pp. 200) essay on political economy,
discussing money and value, national consumption, prices, circulation of
money, the manufacturing industry and trade unions. He concludes with
an extensive discussion of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. The Wrst and
second volumes contain mostly his prose poems and literary eVorts.
The Austrian economist Buquoy (1781–1851) was a follower of Adam
Smith, and predecessor to Thünen and others in his use of calculus to establish
economic laws. He was also one of the Wrst German-speaking economists
to include a mathematical approach to economics.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Humpert; RLIN and OCLC list just one copy
at Syracuse University.
Burke on Aesthetics
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59 [BURKE, Edmund.] A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin
of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. With an introductory
Discourse concerning Taste, and several other Additions. Basil, J. J.
Tourneisen, 1792. £400
8vo, x, [vi], pp. 291; a few signature lightly browned and spotted;
contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with double gilt rule,
gilt-lettered spine label; old repairs to upper joint; a good copy.
First Continental edition of Burke’s important contribution to aesthetics,
Wrst published in 1757. It was with this work, originally written when he
was only nineteen, but Wrst published some nine years later, that Burke
made his name. He attacked the rationalist notion that clarity is an essential
quality of great art. He maintained that, on the contrary, the imagination is
most aVected by what is only hinted at or suggested, and that obscurity, not
clarity, is the attribute of the most powerfully moving art.
ESTC t42265; Todd 5s; see Barber, J. J. Tourneisen of Basle, p. 199.
60 BUSBY, Thomas. Costume of the Lower Orders of the
Metropolis, [n.p., n.d.], ca 1820. £750
8vo, (134x83mm) ll. 24, with twenty-four colour engravings including
title; cut rather close, just touching two of the images; recent full red
morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), panelled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt; an
attractive copy.

An attractive little volume showing the costume and tools of the London
working classes. Ranging from milkmaid, watchman and coalman, to sellers
of dog meat, chickens and doormats, the less well dressed side of London
is depicted. The work had earlier been published in a larger format and
was based on the engravings for the cries of London.
Lipperheide 13; Colas 492; not in Tooley or Abbey, Life.
61 BYRNE, Oliver. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
in which coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters
for the greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne surveyor of her
Majesty’s settlements in the Falkland Islands and author of
numerous mathematical works. London, William Pickering
[Chiswick, printed by C. Whittingham], 1847. £4200
4to, pp. xxix, 268; with numerous diagrams, symbols and letters
printed in four colours (red, blue, yellow and black), wood engraved
initials and decorations; a good copy, spotted as usual, but not as badly
as some copies; bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in gilt and
blind with Euclidean diagram on front board, spine expertly repaired.
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First edition of one of the most remarkable Victorian books. The familiar
Euclidian diagrams are transformed into Mondrian-like designs and the
text is littered with little coloured symbols representing angles, lines and
coded symbols to simplify Euclid and make the theorems stick in the
memory more readily. Byrne attempts to present Euclid’s proofs in terms of
pictures, using as little text – and in particular as few labels – as possible.
McLean in Victorian Book Design calls it ‘one of the oddest and most beautiful
books of the whole century ... a decided complication of Euclid, but a
triumph for Charles Whittingham’.
Keynes, p. 65.
62 CACCIALUPI-OLIVIERI, Antonio. Metodo di Contabilità
controllato dal Giornale Bilanciante ed applicabile ad Aziende di
qualunque specie private, pubbliche e mercantili. Sanseverino,
Benedetto Ercolani, 1858. £700
Folio, pp. 112, [3]; engraved head and tail-pieces, tables in the text;
recent sheep-backed boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; the work
was earlier bound together with another work, with manuscript
numbering in the upper corner.
Second enlarged edition (Wrst 1844), rare, of this detailed introduction to
double-entry book-keeping. Caccialupi takes Jones’ English system of Bookkeeping
as a starting point, but substantially modiWes it and clearly insists on
double-entry account keeping. He introduces the basic books, i.e. journal,
daybook, and ledger, and pays articular attention to the easy preparation of
end-of-year accounts. In the second half he concentrates on accounting for
stock retained beyond the Wnancial year and accounting for written-down
capital expenditure. He concludes with sample account forms of his own
design.
Cerboni p. 153; very rare, not in Historical Accounting Literature or Herwood; no
copy found in NUC, RLIN or OCLC.
63 CALIFANO, Carlo. Ragionamento sulla Fondiaria. Ossia sulla
giustizia, ed eguaglianza del Tributo diretto, ed indiretto. Napoli,
1820. £750
8vo, pp. [viii], 115; browning to one signature, else crisp;
contemporary full red straight-grain morocco; spine and sides decorated
in gilt, gilt-lettering.
First and only edition of this elegantly produced plea for a just and uniWed
system of tariVs and taxation. Califano deplores the large number of individual
taxes and especially the land tax. He quotes from Schmidt, Melon,
Broggia and David Hume, and discusses the relative beneWts of direct and
indirect taxes.
Cossa 125, 204; Goldsmiths’–Kress 22934.6.

Pensions for Civil Servants’ Widows
64 CAMERLOHER, Anton Ritter von. Ueber Versorgungsanstalten
für Staatsdiener-Witwen und Waisen... Mit fünf Tafeln.
Landshut, Joseph Thomann, 1825. £480
8vo, pp. 23, [1] blank, 5 tables on two folding sheets; contemporary
paste-paper wrappers.
First edition of this speciWc widows’ and orphans’ insurance for civil servants.
Because of their special position and function within the state, their
pension and life insurance schemes had to be adapted from the general
schemes. A further complication is caused by the strict hierarchy of civil
servants which even in death was not to be resolved. Therefore a rather
more complicated widows’ and orphans’ pension had to be developed. For
reasons of justice Camerloher also gives separate rates for those who are
married and those who are not, and those with children or childless. Extensive
calculations show the variations that ensue.
Not in Biblioteca Mansutti; KVK list just one copy at the Bavarian State Library;
not found in NUC, OCLC or RLIN.
Water Rights
65 CAPPEAU, Louis Jean Joseph Pierre. De la Compagnie des
Alpines d’Istres et Entressens, ou Recueil Raisonné des titres et
documents de cette Compagnie en particulier, et des
Concessionnaires des Eaux des Alpines en general. Aix, Tavernier,
1817. £650
Large 8vo, pp. xii, 364, [24] contents; p. 73 with paper fault to margin,
no loss; contemporary full calf, spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label,
chipped; sides with decorative border, and ‘Compagnie des Alpines’
stamped in gilt to sides; corners worn; but a nice copy.
First and only edition of this report on the history of the Compagnie des
Alpines d’Istres in the south of France, formed to build and subsequently
exploit the irrigation canal to make the land surrounding Istres suitable for
agriculture. The Compagnie had been formed twenty-four years earlier, and
this report is written by one of its founder members.
In the Wrst half Cappeau gives a clear outline of the history of the company,
the construction, Wnance and administration of the canals, with details
of the accounts and shareholders. Clear provisions are made for the
distribution of water amongst the diVerent shareholders, damage limitation
in case of accidents etc. In the second half Cappeau gives a detailed account
of the Wnancial situation, and usage rights – be it just for irrigation or to
power mills.
Rare, not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Harvard lists a
microWlm copy, no further copies listed in RLIN or OCLC.
Colour Printing
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66 [CARACCIOLI, Louis Antoine.] Le Livre à la Mode. A
Verte-Feuille, De l’Imprimerie du Printemps, au Perroquet, L’Année
Nouvelle. [Paris, Duchesne, 1759].
[bound with:] Le Livre de quatre couleurs. Ridendo, dicere verum
quid vetat? Aux Quatre-Éléments, De l’Imprimerie des Quatre-
Saisons 4444. [Paris, Duchesne, 1757]. £750
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. xx, 79, [1] blank, printed entirely
in green; pp. [iv], xxiv, 114; engraved title vignette (printed in black),
showing a cherub and female Wgure with winged mirror, title printed in
yellow, blue, brown and red; signature A–B, and I–L printed in yellow,
C–D in blue, E–F in brown; contemporary full sheep, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; an attractive copy.
A tour de force of colour printing. Caraccioli’s satire on the Wckleness of
eighteenth century fashion, printed entirely in green, followed by his colourful
satire on society and contemporary manners, printed in four colours
to indicate the variety of human nature. Appropriately the false imprints
also elaborate on the colour theme, claiming to have been printed at Verte-
Feuille in the springtime printworks, and the Four Seasons printworks respectively.
Caraccioli (1721–1803) a proliWc writer and member of the
Parisian society, managed to survive the French Revolution, despite close
ties to the aristocracy. His writings are of particular interest for the study of
eighteenth century manners and fashion.
The two works are bound together with an unfortunately incomplete
copy of the second issue of his Livre à la Mode, printed entirely in red.
I. Cioranescu 15474; II. Cioranescu 15478 (date 1760); Brunet III, 1122–23
(date 1757); Peignot 1810; Rosenwald 2501.
Rousseau Criticized
67 [CARLI, Gian Rinaldo.] L’Uomo Libero ossia Ragionamento
sulla Libertà naturale e civile dell’Uomo. Edizione Seconda Veneta,
dopo la Seconda di Milano. Riscontrata, corretta, ed accresciuta sull’
Originale dell’Autore. Venezia, Giovanni Gatti, 1783. £550
8vo, pp. 191; uncut in roan-backed marbled boards, spine decorated
and lettered in gilt.
Second enlarged edition (Venice printing) of this almost forgotten work,
which was considered of exceptional importance to the Italian Enlightenment.
Carli, one of the main Wgures of the Italian Enlightenment, was together
with Verri and Beccaria the leading intellectual of the école de Milan.
In this stringent criticism of Rousseau’s Contrat Social he formulates his picture
of an anti-egalitarian society in strict opposition to Rousseau. ‘Men are
condemned by nature to a state of permanent inequality, physical, moral
and economic. It is not an accident that society is divided into two classes,

ich and poor.’ Unlike Verri, for whom economic development had in itself
the power to improve the conditions of the poorer classes by allowing them
to participate in consumption, and unlike Beccaria who continued to see
inequality as the chief problem to be solved, Carli was convinced that development
would increase not only inequality but also class conXict.
The very rare Wrst edition was published in 1778, a second edition followed
in 1779, and this is the Venice reprint of this enlarged second edition.
Feltrinelli 99; OCLC lists two copies of the Wrst edition (Harvard, University of
Texas), and two of this third of 1783 (Chicago, Cambridge).
Printed on Blue Paper
68 CASTELLET, Jean Baptiste Constans de. Discours sur cette
Question: Est-il plus important de defricher les Terres incultes; ou
est-il plus utile de cultiver avec plus de soins, et de s’occuper
d’améliorer celles, qu’on a déjà mises en nature de rapport. Turin,
Frere Reycends, 1780. £1000
12mo, pp. [x], 106, [1] imprint; printed on blue paper; contemporary
full marbled sheep, double gilt rule to sides, spine ruled and decorated
in gilt, with Xoral motif, a.e.g., with silk page marker; a very Wne copy.
First edition, a very Wne copy, of this rare discussion on the optimisation of
the use of land. Castellet, who also published on silk manufacture, advocates
increasing the use of already cultivated land, with increased use of
machinery and applying the methods of scientiWc agriculture. He comments
of the economic viability of growing wine, but insists that it needs to
be done properly and with expertise to be proWtable. He suggests that wine
should be cultivated on hillsides, so that each vine is suYciently exposed to
the sun.
Finely printed on blue paper in Turin.
Einaudi 940; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; OCLC lists a copy at Harvard.
69 CHIARI, Pietro. La Cinese in Europa, ossia storia d’una
Principessa Cinese del Nostro secolo scritta da lei medesima.
Venezia, Fratelli Bassaglia, 1783. £450
Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, frontispiece, [iii]–viii, 216; [2] blank,
[iii]–viii, 207; paper slightly browned, contemporary inscription to p.
138 of part one, insigniWcant dampstain to upper margin of pp. 121–
150 of part two; contemporary half calf, spine ruled in gilt, with
lettering and numbering directly to spine; head and foot of spine worn,
but holding Wrm; private library stamp to title.
Second edition (Wrst published in 1779), uncommon, of one of Chiari’s
later novels, the adventures of a Chinese princess in Europe. These memoirs
of a well-born lady are written like many of Chiari’s novels from a Wrst person
point of view. Pietro Chiari (1712–1785), inXuenced by Richardson,
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Fielding, Voltaire and in particular Swift, is known for introducing the
novel into Italian literature.
No copies of either edition in RLIN or OCLC.
French for Women
70 [CHOFFIN, David Etienne.] Neue Französische Grammatick
auf eine besondere Art eingerichtet und in Tabellen gebracht; zum
Besten des Frauenzimmers, und anderer Personen die nicht Latein
verstehen. Berlin, Haude und Spener, 1777. £480
Two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], xii, 576; engraved
frontispiece, 592; contemporary or slightly later boards, corners a little
worn, else Wne.
Second edition of this very attractive French Grammar for German Ladies,
and others who have no classical education. In his title page statement and
in the preface, the author, the philologist and language teacher
(Sprachmeister) David Etienne ChoYn (1703–1773), emphasises that his
grammar is designed for teachers of French, especially French governesses.
He stresses the importance of practical exercises in language acquisitions
and throughout the Wrst volume there are numerous exercises given. The
entire second volume is taken up with diVerent practical exercises, beginning
with half a dozen pages of expressing thanks and compliments. The
entire volume is composed in French, with just brief sections in German.
Particularly appealing are the two engraved frontispieces showing a governess
and a child studying in front of a huge board with a grammatical table.
An earlier edition was published in 1747; NUC records two copies of a 1773 edition
(PPG, PPULC).
Of Great InXuence in Japan
71 CHOMEL, Noel. Algemeen Huishoudelijk, Natuur,
Zedekundig- en Konst-Woordenboek , vervattende veele middelen
om zijn Goed t Vermeederen, en zijne Gesondheid te behouden,
met verscheidene visse en beproef de Middelen voor een groot getal
van Ziektens, en schoone Geheimen, om to een hoogen en
gelukkigen ouderdom te geraaken... Tweede Druk geheel verbetert,
en meer als de helfte vermeerdert door J. A. de Chalmot, enz. Eerste
Deel -[ Zevende Deel] Verejkt met Kunstplaaten. Leyden, Joh le
Mair, and Leeuwarden, J. A. de Chalmot 1778. £3000
Seven volumes, 4to, I. engraved frontispiece, pp. 4370, with one
hundred Wnely engraved fold-out plates; title pages printed in red and
black, decorative typographic head-pieces and initials; very clean and
crisp; printed library label to front paste-downs; contemporary calfbacked
sprinkled boards; spines in compartments, with Wve raised
bands, gilt-lettered spine labels and gilt-numbering and decorating

directly to spine; covering paper replaced; a Wne set, very clean and
crisp, with the plates in Wne impressions.
Second edition in Dutch, much enlarged, of Chomel’s Dictionaire
Oeconomique. Chomel’s dictionary was to have an impact far beyond Europe.
It was in this second edition, edited by Chalmot and enlarged to more
than twice the original size, that Chomel’s dictionary was introduced by the
Dutch to Japan and was translated into Japanese, ‘the encyclopaedia that
proved so useful to the Japanese’ (Blussé, p. 111).
Chomel’s dictionary of agriculture and house-keeping covers an extensive
array of subjects, including gardening, botany, gastronomy, viticulture,
hunting, medicine, together with the more predictable topics of livestock
breeding, bee-keeping, farming, and farm management. The entries are illustrated
with one hundred Wnely engraved fold-out plates. Chomel’s dictionary
was Wrst published in 1709 and went through numerous editions.
An English translation was published in 1725, a German one in 1750.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 4560.5 for Wrst French edition; see Blussé, Bridging the Divide,
400 years the Netherlands – Japan, p. 111.
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72 CICILONI, Ferdinand. A Grammar of the Italian Language.
Florence, Ricordi and Co., 1838. £120
12mo, one folding table; contemporary vellum backed boards.
First Italian edition of this useful grammar of the Italian language, which
was Wrst published in London in 1825. Ciciloni gives a comprehensive
overview over Italian grammar and illustrates each section with numerous
examples and added word lists. The last section contains extensive exercises
for each chapter, with some vocabulary help.
NUC lists just one copy (NNC).
73 [CIPHERING BOOK.] Manuscript Account Book in French,
signed, n.p., 1803. £650
Tall folio (380x250mm), ll. 84, light-blue laid paper, written in a clear,
elegant hand, with numerous Xourishes and decorations, using black,
red and green ink; signed and dated by Lagarde, with a Wnal sketch of
cadet on last page; bound in full vellum
An attractive French ‘ciphering book’. The practice of teaching arithmetic
with the help of ciphering books rather than printed manuals continued
until well into the early nineteenth century. The student was equipped with
a blankbook, given a mathematical problem and told the rule for its solution.
This is a rather splendid example of such a book. Basic arithmetical
operations are only touched on, then more complicated commercial transactions
are explained and presented in beautiful script. In each case a brief
outline of the problem is given, then the calculation, followed in some case
by the rule applicable. Most of the examples are clearly commercial, covering
sales, investments, interest rates, and there is even a curious one calcu-

lating the price of a horse dependent on its life expectancy. Numerous
Xourishes adorn the pages, and especially towards the end the student appears
to have concentrated mostly on how to incorporate satirical proWles
into the design of his elaborate parentheses.
74 CLAPAREDE, David. Considerations sur les Miracles de
l’Evangile, pour servir de Response aux DiYcultés de Mr. J. J.
Rousseau dans sa 3.e Lettre Ecrite de la Montagne. Geneve, Claude
Philibert, 1765. £280
8vo, pp. xi, [I], 251; uncut in the original marbled wrappers, rebacked
and somewhat dog-eared; with bookplate of H. Tronchin on front
paste-down.
First and only edition of Claparede’s well-reasoned critique of Rousseau’s
theories on miracles. Claparede (1727–1801), Genevan professor of theology,
maintains ‘Rousseau n’admet ni ne rejette les miracles; il nie que notre
Seigneur les ait emplyés comme une preuve de sa mission; il entasse des
diYcultés contre ce genre de preuve; quelquefois même il emplye la raillery,
cette arme favorit des Incrédules’ p. v–vi).
Cioranescu 19716.
The Newton-Leibniz Dispute
75 CLARKE, Samuel. A Collection of Papers which passed
between the late Learned Mr. Leibnitz, and Dr. Clarke, In the Years
1715 and 1716. Relating to the Principles of Natural Philosophy
and Religion. London, James Knapton, 1717. £950
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xiii], [iii] advertisements and errata,
416, 46, [2] advertisements; the Wrst part in English and French on
facing pages; occasional light browning to paper; contemporary full
calf, sides with gilt and blind borders; spine gilt in compartments, with
gilt-lettered spine label, head and tail of spine lightly rubbed, single
worm hole to lower joint; a good copy.
First edition of the famous correspondence between Leibniz and Clarke. It
was started by Leibniz who had written to Caroline, Princess of Wales, in
1715 maintaining that Newtonian physics was contributing to the decline of
natural religion in England. This charge was taken seriously by Newton and
his followers. Samuel Clarke (1675–1729) was chosen to respond to
Leibniz, as being the one man in England qualiWed by suYcient knowledge
of both physics and theology, although he most certainly took instructions
from Newton himself. ‘The ensuing correspondence, contain[s] Leibniz’
most penetrating criticism of Newtonian philosophy’ (DSB). The longstanding
feud between Leibniz and Newton over the priority of the invention
of the calculus was fuelled by Princess Caroline eschewing her earlier tutor,
Leibniz, for Newton.
Babson 229; Wallis 62.1.
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76 CLAUSEWITZ, Carl von. Vom Kriege. Hinterlassenes
Werk. Erster Theil [–Dritter Theil]. Berlin, Ferdinand Dümmler,
1832–34. £3800
Three volumes bound in one, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 371, [1] imprint; vi, 456,
[1] imprint, [1] blank; viii, 386, [1] imprint; contemporary half green
roan, over ribbed cloth boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering
and numbering directly to spine; an attractive copy.
First edition of Clausewitz’s Philosophy of War. Less a manual of strategy and
tactics, then a general ‘inquiry into the interdependence of politics and warfare
and the principles governing either or both. War, Clausewitz (1780–
1831) maintained, must always be regarded ‘as a political instrument’; for
war, his most famous aphorism runs, ‘is nothing but politics continued with
diVerent means’. His basic conception, that military decisions must always be
subordinate to political considerations, is buttressed by the emphasis laid on
morals and morale as the decisive factors in war. He therefore condemns all
rigid blue-prints for campaigns and battles, [and] deWnes strategy as ‘a perpetual
alternation and combination of attack and defence’.’ (PMM 297)

Clausewitz’s Vom Kriege grew out of a series of aphorisms forming the
basis of his lectures at the Berlin military academy. After his early death
from cholera they were published together with his other writings on warfare,
and form the Wrst three volumes of his collected works.
Borst 1651; PMM 297.
The Guild System in France
77 [CLICQUOT-BLERVACHE, Simon de and Vincent de
GOURNAY.] Memoire sur les Corps de Métiers, qui a remporté
le Prix, au jugement de l’Académie d’Amiens, en l’année 1757. Par
M. Delisle. La Haye, [n.p.], 1758. £800
12mo in 8s and 4s, pp. [ii], 117; slight dust-soiling to title page, else
clean and crisp; early twentieth century boards, extremities rubbed.
First edition under this title of this comprehensive study of the guild system
in France, by Clicquot-Blervache (1723–96), who in 1766 was to become
director general of manufactures and commerce. He traces the history of
the guild system in France, analyses its eVects and advocates its abolition.
He is particularly concerned with commerce and industry, and, with the
help of extensive examples and case studies, demonstrates that strict guild
regulations hinder economic progress by not allowing competition. In his
uncompromising work Clicquot de Blervache also makes suggestions on
how to abolish the guild system. Rather interestingly he appears to anticipate
the European union in the labour market, and demands that there
should be no national restrictions to the admission to a guild.
The work was Wrst issued the same year under the title Considérations sur
le Commerce, et en particulier sur les Compagnies, Sociétés et Maîtrises, with an
Amsterdam imprint, but according to INED the present version contains
more extensive details regarding the rules and regulations of the guilds.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 9340; Higgs 1719; INED 1140.
Illustrated Enlightenment Verse
78 COLPANI, Giuseppe. Poemetti e Lettere in Versi Sciolte.
Brescia, Giammaria Rizzardi, 1769. £980
8vo, pp. engraved title, engraved frontispiece, pp. 164, sixteen smaller
engravings in the text; contemporary full red morocco, spine with giltrules
and Xoral tool, sides with rococo gilt design within border, a.e.g.,
foot of spine repaired.
First collected edition of the appealing representation of enlightenment
ideas in didactic verse, illustrated with Wne engravings by Cagnoni. Under
the headings ‘love’, ‘toiletry’, ‘commerce’, and ‘taste’, Colpani describes
eighteenth century customs, giving plenty of social detail. Particularly attractive
are the Wne engravings, the section ‘toiletry’ is illustrated with a
woman in her night shirt having her hair done, while her husband looks on;
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‘taste’ has two putti pouring over architectural drawings, and ‘economics’
show a harbour scene with merchant ships. The Wnal section is taken up by
a number of blank verse poems on various enlightenment Wgures, including
Beccaria and Voltaire. Colpani (1738–1822) was a friend of Beccaria and
Verri, contributed to the enlightenment journal Il CaVe.
Both Il Commercio and Il Gusto were Wrst published separately in 1767.
Uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list copies at Yale, Harvard and New York Public
Library only.
Sleight of Hand
79 [CONJURING.] Magie für gesellschaftliches Vergnügen und
zur Minderung des Glaubens an Schwarzkünstler, Wahrsager,
Hexen und Gespenster. Grätz, Trötscher, 1797. £950
8vo, pp. xxiv, 262; title vignette, some spotting and foxing throughout,
due to paper stock; original pale blue boards, spine label; extremities a
little rubbed and boards discoloured, still a good copy.
Second or third edition, rare, of a popular handbook of conjuring and
magic, Wrst published in 1793. More than three hundred party tricks and
deceptions are described, ranging from card tricks to the preparation of invisible
ink, scientiWc recreations, optical illusions, various tricks involving
appearing and disappearing rings, Wre-eating, etc. All tricks are carefully described
and explained with the express intention of reducing popular belief
in magic, witches and ghosts, and instead revealing the ‘artistic’ and
scientiWc background to these tricks.
The anonymous work was popular and went through two further enlarged
editions in 1799 and 1801.
NUC and OCLC locate two copies of this edition (Harvard and Brown University)
only, and one copy of the Wrst edition (DLC).

Early Marine Legislation
80 [CONSOLATO DEL MARE.] Libro del Consolato de’
Marinari. Nel quale si comprendono tutti gli statuti, & ordini
disposti da gli antichi per ogni caso di Mercantia, ò di Navigare, cosi
à beneWcio de’ Marinari, come de’ Mercanti, & Patron de’ Navilii.
Venetia, Andrea Ravenoldo, 1567. £2800
4to, pp. [viii], 233, [2]; printer’s device to title and decorative initials;
light spotting to title, else very clean and crisp; full vellum, spine
lettered in manuscript, endpapers some time renewed.
Early edition of the Consolato de Marinari, a highly important sourcebook
of maritime legislation. The institution of the Consolato del Mare made a
major contribution towards the codiWcation and development of shipping
law and laid the basis for present-day maritime law. It was Wrst published in
1494 in Barcelona, and based on fourteenth century surveys of maritime
customs. It achieved its widest circulation in Italian, more speciWcally
Venetian, editions in the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition to legal information
it also provides extensive information on the practical running of
the ship, maritime organisation, and taxes and tariVs.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 116.2; Palau, 59538 note, Adams C–2536; see BL Italian 194
for other edition.
Gone Fishing
81 [CUSSAC, Jean.] Pisciceptologie, ou l’Art de la Pèche a la
Ligne; Discours sur les Poissons, la manière de les prendre et de
les accommoder; la Peche aux Filets et autres Instruments; suivi
d’un Traité des Etangs, Viviers, Fossés, Réservoirs. Paris, de cussac,
1816. £700
12mo, pp. engraved frontispiece, xxiv, 388; with 28 engravings bound
in; tear to lower margin of D11, not touching any text; occasional
marginal spotting; contemporary full calf, spine gilt, with gilt-lettered
spine label; extremities a little rubbed, inner joint weak; sides with
decoration and gilt-lettering ‘Don d’Amitié’ and a manuscript gift
inscription to front free endpaper; an attractive copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this detailed and well illustrated introduction
to Wsh and Wshing. The author begins with a comprehensive description of
Xy Wshing, before continuing with Wshing with nets and hoop nets. He discusses
all manner of Wsh in detail, and not only makes suggestions on how
to catch them, but also how to preserve and cook them. He also includes
information on Wsh farming. The charming illustrations show anglers and
Wshermen at work. The work concludes with a multi-lingual glossary of Wsh
names and dictionary of Wsh. It was clearly popular and was reprinted a
number of times in the 1820s.
See Westwood & Satchell, Biblitheca piscatoria p. 171 for second edition.
The Free Port of Venice
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82 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. Wien, 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 enclosed free trade zone where ships could enter, load and unload, without
incurring any customs duties or inspections.
Czoernig (1804–1899), chief government statistician and president of
the Austrian statistical commission, reWned the purpose of government statistics.
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.
Eighteenth Century Music
83 [DALL’OLIO, Giambattista.] La Musica, Poemetto. Modena,
Società TipograWca. 1794. £650
Large 8vo, pp. 78, [1] imprint; occasional light ink or damp-staining,
stronger to pp. 30–31; paper repair to imprint leaf; Wnely printed on
blue paper; contemporary red crushed morocco, spine decorated in gilt
with Xower motif, gilt-lettered spine label; sides with Greek roll, small
repair to upper board; an attractive copy, with private circular
monogram stamp to title and dedication.
First edition, uncommon, of this verse appreciation of Italian music, especially
the musical scene of the long eighteenth century. Substantial information
is provided within the otherwise cloying verse, and especially in the
substantial footnotes, giving details of composers, musicians, instruments,
and musical performances, and showing a Europe-wide musical interest.
Dall’Olio writes about Italian composers and musical performers, including
Palestrina, Scarlatti, Stradella, Corelli, but also Gluck, Bach, and Haydn.
Dall’Olio concludes with a listing of the works of the proliWc Italian composer
Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816), whose vast output of operas, concertos
and quartets was very popular at the time.
Not in Gregory & Bartlett, Catalogue of early Books on Music; OCLC lists copies at
the University of California, Chicago, New York and Harvard.

84 DECREMPS, Henri. La Magie Blanche Dévoilée, ou
explicaiton des Tours surprenans qui sont depuis peu l’admiration de
la Capitale & de la Province. Avec des réXexions sur la Baguette
Divinatoire, les Automates joueurs de’Echecs, &c. &c. Ouvrage orné
de 101 Figures. Tome Premier, Paris, F. J. Desoer, 1789.
[bound with:] Supplément a la Magie Blanche Dévoilée. Paris, F. J.
Desoer, 1789.
[bound with:] Testament de Jérome Sharp, Professeur de Physique
amusante. Paris, F. J. Desoer, 1789.
[bound with:] Les Petites Aventures de Jérome Sharp. Professeur de
Physique amusante. Bruxelles, F. J. Desoer, 1790. £2400
Four volumes bound in two, 8vo, frontispiece, pp. viii, 118; viii, 270,
[1] approbation, with engraved frontispiece bound in; xvi, 262 [1],
woodcut music bound as frontispiece; xii, 266, frontispiece as part of
collation; all four volumes with frontispiece, numerous woodcut Wgures
in the text, some full page, including printed music; contemporary full
mottled calf, spine decoratively gilt in compartments, two contrasting
gilt-lettered spine labels; gilding a little faded, paper shelf marks to foot
of spine, and in crayon to front free endpaper; a Wne set from the library
of Freiherr von Wrede Melschede with oblong stamps to margin of
title.
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A very attractive collected edition of the most important works on conjuring,
mathematical games and scientiWc recreations by Henri Decremps, a
mathematician and avid conjurer, who attempted to explain magical phenomena
rationally as trickery or sleight of hand. Of particular interest are
his descriptions of speciWc tricks and illusions, based on magnetism, electricity,
geometry, perspective, optics, with illustrations of speciWc tricks. He
describes a wide array of automatons and machinery, for the performance
of marvels, which according to the author were attributable to magnets,
concealed canaries and other devices. Some of Decremps’ ‘scientiWc explanations’
and mathematics, were later revealed to be fanciful themselves, as
was pointed out by Fiard.
Some of Decremps’ works were written under the Wctional guise of Prof.
Jérome Sharpe. The works proved immensely popular both in France, and
in England, where La Magie Blanche Dévoilée was published under the title
The Conjurer Unmasked in the translation of Thomas Denton.
See Caillet 2861 (Magie Blanche, Wrst edition 1784–5), Caillet 2862 (Testament de
Jerome Sharp, Wrst edition 1786), Caillet 2864 (Petites Aventures, Wrst edition
1789).
Goldoni and the Revival of Italian Theatre
85 DE ROSSI, Giovanni Gherardo. Del Moderno Teatro comico
Italiano, e del suo restauratore Carlo Goldoni. Bassano, Remondini,
1794. £650
8vo, pp. 127; uncut and mostly unopened in contemporary stiV pastepaper
wrappers; a Wne copy.
First edition of this contemporary study of the eighteenth century Italian
stage and in particular of Goldoni, who was instrumental in reviving the
dramatic tradition. De Rossi gives an account of earlier Italian theatre, especially
its Commedia dell’Arte tradition and contrasts it with the French tradition
of Molière. He provides an overview of the decline of the Italian
theatre in the middle of the eighteenth century. Goldoni’s revival of the
comic tradition was achieved through greater reliance on characters and
situations taken from contemporary life, as a mirror of social life. Goldoni
utilised the performance practices of comic opera for his comic stage plays.
RLIN lists copies at New York Public Library, Yale, Princeton, Chicago and the
Getty Library.
86 [DELALEU – AUCTION CATALOGUE.] Catalogue des
Livres de la Bibliothèque de Feu M. Delaleu, secretaire du Roi, et
Notaire a Paris; Don’t la Vente se fera en sa Maison, Hôtel de la
Tour-du-Pin, Vieille Rue du Temple, le Mardi deux Mai & jours
suivans, de relevée, au plus OVrant & dernier Enchérisseur. Paris,
Saillant & Nyon, 1775. £350
8vo, pp. xx, 138, 118; lxix (vere lxvii); Wrst and last leaves reinforced in

gutter margin, else clean; recent paste-paper boards, gilt-lettered spine
label.
Auction catalogue of the library of Delaleu, secretary to the King. Delaleu
was a very active purchaser at auctions, and his collection was one of the richest
of the time. In all there are 1956 lots, all priced in a contemporary hand.
The catalogue is presented in strict subject order and includes a Wnal index of
authors. There is also a list with reference numbers to Debure, so that the
reader may obtain further bibliographical information on selected lots.
The catalogue is sometimes found bound with the independently published
Collection des Estampes du Cabinet du Roi (pp. 6). This is not present
here.
Blogie II, 12; Peignot, p. 94; Pollard & Ehrman, p. 292; RLIN lists copies at the
Grolier Club and the Pierpont Morgan Library, OCLC adds a copy at UCLA.
87 DELLA PURIFICAZIONE, Alessandro. Arimmetica pratica.
Divisa in quindici Trattati. Seconda edizione. Roma, S. Michele a
Ripa, 1749. £750
4to, pp. xxiv, 824; numerous Wgures in the text, title vignette, woodcut
head and tail pieces and initials; lightly browned throughout, due to
paper stock, more pronounced in some signatures; contemporary full
vellum, gilt-lettered spine label; extremities rubbed, and some staining
to upper board.
Second edition (Wrst 1714) of this important introduction to arithmetic
and commercial mathematics, regarded by Riccardi as ‘one of the best and
most extensive treatises on practical arithmetic’. Della PuriWcazione
presents a thorough course of arithmetic, dealing with basic calculations,
interest and exchange calculations, of arithmetic and geometric progression,
calculations for gold and silversmiths, etc.
The Wnal chapter is devoted to calendars, and is illustrated with a halfpage
woodcut showing a ‘Cerchio perpetuo per l’epatta et auro numero’.
Cerboni p. 80; Riccardi I, c. 325; not in Historical Accounting Literature or
Herwood; uncommon, OCLC lists two copies, at Columbia and the University of
Michigan.
The First Modern Demographic Study
88 DES POMMELLES, Chevalier. Tableau de la Population de
toutes le Provinces de France, et de la Proportion, sous tous les
Rapports, des Naissance, des Morts & des Mariages depuis dix Ans,
d’après les registres de chaque Généralité, accompagné de Notes &
Observations. Mémoire sur les Milices, leur Création, leur
vicissitude & leur État actuel. Paris, 1789. £1600
4to, pp. [ii], 68, large printed folding table bound at end; uncut in
modern marbled boards, original wrappers, slightly dust-soiled, bound
in; a good copy.
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First edition, rare, of a detailed study of French population Wgures and their
changes, anticipating the methods of modern demography. Des
Pommelles’ study was prompted by the desire to calculate the numbers of
potential recruits for the milice, the defensive military forces of France. He
begins by giving an estimate of the French population, a Wgure which is
then veriWed by extensive calculations. He gives details of the male/female
ratio of births and deaths, the ratio of married to widowed, the number of
celibates of either sex, Wgures for the clergy and the nobility. In addition, he
adds comparative Wgures of births and deaths, diVerentiated by type of occupation,
type of residence (i.e. country or city dwellers) and according to
average temperature. A compilation of these Wgures is documented on the
large folding table. His detailed commentary on the table not only explains
his methods of calculation, but also gives details of the various factors
inXuencing the level of population.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 13816; INED 1396; Martin & Walter 10541; NUC lists just
two copies (MH-BA, NjP); RLIN lists only microWlms.
New Words
89 DESFONTAINES, Pierre François Guyot]. Dictionaire
neologique, à l’usage des beaux Esprits du Siècle avec l’Eloge
historique de Pantalon-Phoebus. [n.p.], 1727. £320
12mo, pp. [xx], 194; paper a bit browned; contemporary full blindstamped
calf, gilt-lettered spine label; a Wne copy.
Second edition (Wrst 1726) of this fascinating dictionary of newly coined
words, phrases, linguistic barbarities and neologisms which threatened the
purity of the French language. With biting irony Desfontaines reveals linguistic
weaknesses, pomposities and irregularities in the works of his fellow
authors. He certainly does not refrain from naming names and antagonising
his literary opponents. His linguistic criticisms include a list of authors
and titles mentioned and is followed by a satirical piece entitled Éloge
historique de Pantalon-Phoebus, the Wctitious biography of a composite personage
made up of the authors satirised. Desfontaines (1685–1745), a
former Jesuit and writer, is best remembered for his controversies with
Voltaire and his translation of Gulliver’s Travels.
Cioranescu 23305, Querard II, 507.
Coaches and Carriages
90 [DELISLE de SALES, Jean-Baptiste.] Lettres de Brutus, sur
les Chars Anciens et Modernes. Londres [i.e. Paris], 1771. £400
8vo, pp. xvi, 287; contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards; corners
worn; very faint dampstain to lower margin of Wrst two leaves.
First edition of this curious early work on coach traYc, accidents and traYc
congestion. Delisle de Sales (1741–1816) gives a brief history of carts and
carriages, featuring those of antiquity, Greece, Rome and China. He

identiWes ‘fancy’ coaches and carriages as one of the more visible signs of
luxury. He condemns luxury as the ‘lack of balance between exuberance and
want, and maintains that it causes idleness in a large section of the population
and weakens the national spirit.
The book was reprinted together with a number of other pieces in his
‘Paradoxes’, 1775.
Cioranescu 22814; Contades, Le Driving en France, 69; ESTC t112982.
91 DIDEROT, Denis. Jakob und sein Herr, aus Diderots
ungedrucktem Nachlasse. Erster Theil [– Zweiter Theil]. Berlin,
J. F. Unger, 1792. £2250
Two volumes 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], 330, [2]; 339;
circular title vignette to volume one; some light foxing to Wrst two
leaves, else very clean; printed on ‘papier velin’; entirely uncut in the
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original marbled paper stiV wrappers, some creases to spine, joints
repaired; a very Wne copy on special paper.
First edition, very rare, of Diderot’s Jacques le Fataliste, Wrst published in this
German translation, with the French version not printed until 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 the nineteenth and twentieth century
literary techniques, exchanging the rational and classical for shifting perspectives
of time, personality, and viewpoint.
Curiously the volumes were issued unstitched, held together just by the
stiV wrappers, which were glued to the spine. 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.
Uncut in Wrappers – as Issued
92 [DIDEROT, Denis.] Pensés Philosophiques. Amsterdam,
1772. £220
8vo in 8s and 4s, pp. 90; title page vignette; uncut in the original blue
wrappers, spine very worn, with small portion missing at foot of spine,
corners bent; a wide-margined copy.
Later edition of Diderot’s brilliant Wrst independent publication, Wrst published
in 1746, which is full of eminently quotable epigrams in the tradition
of Pascal or La Rochefoucauld, such as ‘It can be required of me that I look
for the truth, but not that I should Wnd it’ (XXIX). The Pensées demonstrate
the existence of God through the order of nature. However, of all the
philosophico-religious positions presented in this work, scepticism is argued
most persuasively, and can be seen as Diderot’s chosen position at the
time. The work made a considerable impact and earned the compliment of
being condemned to be burned by the Paris Parlement, as ‘presenting to
restless and reckless spirits the venom of the most criminal opinions that the
depravity of human reason is capable of’. It became one of the most popular
of Diderot’s works, and went through no fewer than eighteen editions during
the eighteenth century. This separately issued volume formed part of
the Wrst collected edition of Diderot’s works.
For Wrst edition see Tchemerzine IV, p. 427; separate issue of one part from the
Wrst collected edition of Diderot’s works.

Economics at German Universities
93 DITHMAR, Justus Christoph. Einleitung in die
Oeconomische Policei- und Cameral-Wissenschaften, nebst
Verzeichniss eines zu solchen Wissenschaften dienlichen
Büchervorrathes und ausführlichem Register. Neue vermehrte
Edition. Franckfurth an der Oder: Joh. Chr. Kleyd, 1748. £1800
8vo, pp. xvi, 304, including bibliography and index; title printed in red
and black; bound in contemporary half vellum over sprinkled paper
boards, printed spine label; some surface wear to boards; occasional light
browning and spotting; insigniWcant worm hole to lower inner hinge.
Third edition, Wrst published in 1731. Dithmar’s Einleitung in die Cameral-
Wissenschaften held a central position in the spreading of economic theory
in Germany, and is especially directed at the teaching of the science at university.
The scope of the university course was to teach ‘how wealth may be
acquired, how acquired wealth may be retained or employed with moderation
to the honour of God’ (ISS, V, p. 174). The author not only gives an
introduction into the current rules and regulations of Prussia as regards agriculture,
manufacturing, Wnance, and taxes, but also gives legal and social
information. The very detailed index shows the wide variety of subjects
treated, from the rights of Jews in the community to banking, bankruptcy,
and admission to universities among others.
Dithmar (1677–1737) was the Wrst professor of political economy at the
Viadrina University at Frankfurt/Oder, and in the preface reprints the foundation
document for the chair of political economy (Cameralia Oeconomica).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 8358.2; quite scarce, NUC records earlier editions in 1731 and
1745 only; no edition in Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi; the text was certainly popular,
reaching Wve editions in all.
The Law Student’s Guide
94 DODDRIDGE, Sir John. The Lawyers Light: or, A due
direction for the study of the Law; ... to which is annexed for the
aYnitie of the Subject, another Treatise, called the Use of the Law.
Imprinted at London for Benjamin Fisher, and are to be sold at his
shop in Aldergate street at the signe of the Talbot. 1629. £1600
Two works in one volume, separate pagination, 4to, pp. [xvi] including
two blanks, 119, [1] blank; [viii], 93, [3] blank, with separate title
page; with typographic head-pieces and decorated initials; bound in
contemporary full English blind-ruled calf, expertly rebacked and
recornered, with some discreet repairs to upper board.
First edition, uncommon, of this fascinating student manual of the principles
of law written by Sir John Doddridge (1555–1628) and Francis Bacon
(attributed), and published posthumously. Both of them were intent on
presenting legal principles in a more structured fashion.
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I. Clearly meant as a beginner’s guide, Doddridge’s work gives not only
an introduction to the principles of law, but also to its application, with
copious reference to the relevant authorities. Doddridge was solicitor general,
justice of the king’s bench, and wrote numerous works on legal questions,
which were all published posthumously.
II. Bacon’s The Use of the Law was reprinted a year later together with his
Maxims of the Law. Bacon can here be seen to apply his methodology of
science to the law, his original profession. Before becoming Lord Chancellor,
Bacon (1561–1626) had been solicitor general and attorney general.
Bacon maintained that the legal maxims in English common law, just like
the axioms of nature in science, were grounded on induction from individual
cases and, once formulated, could then be applied back to determine
new particulars.
Dodderidge: Sweet & Maxwell IV, 18; STC 6983; Bacon: Gibson 192; Sweet &
Maxwell IX, 5; STC1175.
Fraud and Embezzlement in Public Accounts
95 DÖPLER, Jacob. Der getreue Rechnungs-Beamte. Franckfurt,
Joh. P. Andreä, 1697.
[together with:] Der ungetreue Rechnungs-Beamte, Darin eine entdeckte
GruVt allerhand Finanzen, Practiken und Silpers-GriVe,
wodurch ungetreue Her- und PXichtvergessene Beamte, Rechnungsbediene,
Verwalter und Vormünder ihre Herrschaft und PXegbefohlene
listiger und tückischer Weise zu hintergehen, vervortheilen
und zu betrigen, hingegen aber sich zu bereichern und ihre Beutel
wohl zu bespicken pXegen. Franckfurt, Joh. P. Andreä, 1697. £900
Three parts in one volume, [4to], pp. [viii], 604, [12] register; [iv],
584, [8] register, with one folding printed table; [viii], 288, [20]
register; title printed in red and black, extremities of Wrst title frayed,
with some loss to imprint, Wrst section with worm trace in blank
margin, not aVecting text; a few signatures with narrow worm trace,
touching text, but never obscuring sense; generally clean; contemporary
full panelled sheep, rebacked and recornered.
Second edition, rare, of this comprehensive legal handbook of private and
public administration and accounting, Wrst published in 1680 (parts I and
II) and 1688 (part III), which is particularly interesting for its third and
Wnal volume analysing fraud and embezzlement in accounting and public
administration. Döpler (active 1679–1682), a lawyer and public oYcial at
the Saxon court, describes in great details the various aspects of public administration
and details the legal obligations of public oYcials. The third
and last book contains his detailed analysis of fraud in public administration,
and reveals various areas where this can take place.
Very rare in this early edition, see Historical Accounting Literature p. 25 for 1680–
84 edition; Goldsmiths’–Kress 2347.1 for edition of 1708; Humpert 2908 for
1724 edition; RLIN lists copies at Princeton, Berkeley and Syracuse.

Tally Ho! In German
96 DOMBROWSKI, Ernst Ritter von. Deutsche Waidmannssprache.
Mit Zugrundelegung des gesamten Quellenmaterials für
den praktischen Jäger bearbeitet. Neudamm, 1897. £180
Tall 4to, pp. 132, [4] advertisements; uncut in the original green
printed wrappers, frayed and spine very worn; internally Wne.
Second edition, revised and enlarged of this glossary of hunters’ jargon, Wrst
published in 1892 as a supplement to the hunting journal Deutsche
Jägerzeitung. The author notes that more than three thousand hunting
terms are included and maintains that no other language can oVer such a
rich range of hunting jargon.
Not in NUC, just one copy of second edition recorded (MH).
97 DOMENGET, Gaspard. Nouvelle Méthode pour la Tenue des
Livres, qui conserve tous les Avantages de celle à Parties Doubles.
Lyon, Ballanche père et Wls, 1809. £1200
Large 4to, pp. 60, [2] blank; uncut in contemporary paste-paper
wrappers; foot of spine strengthened; a Wne copy with Domenget’s
authenticating signature to verso of title.
First edition, rare, of this detailed introduction to double-entry book-keeping
adapting some features of Jones’ English System of Book-keeping, but insisting
on double-entry account keeping. In his brief introduction,
Domenget states his intention of combining the salient features of both
methods, to allow for immediate proWt calculations with little administrative
eVort, while at the same time introducing a number of account books, a
simpliWed journal, and a daybook.
Stevelinck argues that Domenget might have overstated his claim to
originality, but maintains that with Domenget a new phase in the development
of the double-entry book-keeping begins. Features like the doubleentry
journal with additional columns, and the squared balance have
remained features of modern book-keeping.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 19887.8; Stevelinck 100; not in Historical Accounting Literature,
not in Herwood; RLIN and OCLC list copies at Duke and Harvard only.
Household Accounts
98 DOUAIRE van ATHLONE, born van Tuyl van
Serooskerken. Voor de Huishouding. Ten nutte van alle Standen, en
van al de geenen, die voor de orde zijn, om eene gemaklijke en
naauwkeurige rekening van de Kosten hunner huishouding te
houden, door Berekenings-Tafelen, te zamen gesteld, en op de
ondervdinding gestaafd. Den Haag, Pieter van Daalen Wetters,
1804. £400
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Folio, pp. 52; title vignette, numerous tables in the text; uncut in the
original pale blue stiV wrappers; a mint copy.
First and only edition, very rare, of an early book-keeping manual for
household accounts. Detailed sample forms are given, to calculate expenses
in household management, subdivided into the cost for butcher and baker,
journal entries for general household expenses, and weekly accounts. In addition
to practical accounting information, the work gives a vivid impression
of housekeeping cost in early nineteenth century Netherlands.
Not in Historical Accounting Literature, Steevelinck or Herwood; RLIN and OCLC
list just one copy at NEHA.
99 DU MOLINET, Claude. Le Cabinet de la Bibliothèque de
Sainte Genevieve. Divisé en deux Parties. Contenant les Antiquitez
de la Réligion des Chrétiens, des Egyptiens, & des Romains; des
Tombeaux, des Poids & des Médailles; des Monnoyes, des Pierres
antiques gravées, & des Mineraux; des Talismans, des Lampes
antiques, des Animaux les plus rares & les plus singuliers, des
Coquiles les plus considérables, des Fruits étrangers, & quelques
Plantes exquises. Paris, Antoine Dezallier. 1692. £3000
Folio, two engraved titles, engraved frontispiece, pp. [viii], 224, [8],
with 45 Wnely engraved plates (Wve of which double-page), engraved
headpieces and initials; a few leaves with light browning, some spotting,
light vertical damp-stain to engraved title and intermittent stain to
upper corner; Wnely bound in contemporary mottled calf with triple gilt
Wllets around sides, marbled edges, spine with six raised bands, richly
gilt with Xoral decoration, gilt-lettered spine label; still an attractive and
wide-margined copy.
First and only edition of this very attractive catalogue of the cabinet of coins,
medals, antiquities, gems and natural history specimens at the Bibliothèque
de Sainte-Geneviève in Paris. Claude du Molinet (1620–1687), who created
the cabinet, states in the preface the belief that the new library, would be
much enhanced if accompanied by a cabinet of rare and curious pieces which

could have a bearing on learning and serve the literary arts. The work is
illustrated with Wne engravings by Franz Ertinger. Particularly attractive are
the double-page plates at the beginning showing the interior of the library
and the cabinet. The collection at St Geneviève was praised for its scientiWc
order, both by contemporaries and throughout the eighteenth century. Du
Molinet had shown John Locke around in 1677, and Martin Lister noted in
1698: ‘Nothing pleased me more, than to have seen the remains of the cabinet
of the noble Peiresc’ (Lister, A Journey to Paris, 1699, p. 123).
Cicognara 2935; Nissen ZBI 2861; Murray, Museums I, 218 and III, 80; see W.
Schupbach in The Origins of Museums, ‘The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and
Seventeenth-Century Europe’, pp. 231–243.
Mineral Waters – Sparkling or Still ?
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100 DUCHANOY, Claude-François. Essais sur l’Art d’imiter les
Eaux Minérals, ou de la Connaissance des Eaux Minerals, et de la
manière de se les procurer en les composant soi-même dans tous les
tems et dans tous les lieux. Paris, Méquignon l’aîné, 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. 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.
Wellcome II, 491; Duveen 182; not in Ferguson.
Rousseau’s Last Years
101 DUSAULX, Jean. De mes Rapports avec J. J. Rousseau, et de
notre Correspondance, suivie d’une notice très importante. Paris,
Didot Jeune, l’An VI – 1798. £380
8vo, pp. viii, [9]–294; very clean and crisp; contemporary sheep-backed
sprinkled boards, spine with double gilt rules, contrasting gilt-lettered
spine labels; extremities a little worn; a nice copy with presentation
inscription by the author to his cousin ?Servier de Trémémont to head
of title.
First edition of Dusaulx’s perceptive biographical essay on Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, concentrating on the last decade of Rousseau’s life. At this time
Rousseau, though suVering from bouts of insanity, was accessible to visitors
and maintained a wide-ranging correspondence. Dusaulx, an admirer
of Rousseau, had been introduced to him by Deleyre. His correspondence
with Rousseau is reprinted here, with a detailed commentary by Dusaulx,
analysing Rousseau’s varying and at times unpredictable reactions. Dusaulx
brings to his analysis the same psychological insight that characterised his
portrait of a gambler in De la Passion du Jeu. Their brief friendship came to
a rather abrupt end, when Dusaulx was less than impressed by Rousseau’s
Confessions.
Conlon 1052; Sénélier 2040.

102 EBERHARD, Johann August. Synonymisches Handwörterbuch
der deutschen Sprache für alle, die sich in dieser Sprache
richtig ausdrücken wollen. Halle, Schimmelpfennig und
Compagnie. 1802. £280
8vo, pp. xvi, 459; bound in contemporary sprinkled half calf over
sprinkled boards, spine ruled in gilt, with gilt-lettered and decorated
spine label; typographic bookplate on front paste-down, and early
ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper and title; a very Wne
copy.
First edition of this handy guide to the synonyms of the German language,
an invaluable help to correct German usage. Since language is the expression
of thought, Eberhard argues, it is of the highest importance to express
it correctly and actually convey all the nuances desired. This handy guide to
the German language evolved out of Eberhard’s six volume Versuch einer
allgemeinen deutschen Synonymik (1795–1802), which was long reckoned
the best work on the synonyms of the German language.
Zaunmüller 57: ‘Gute Behandlung der Bedeutungsunterschiede der deutschen
Synonymik’.
103 ECKARTSHAUSEN, Karl von. Der Prinz und sein
Freund ein Buch für Fürstenkinder. München, Joseph Lindauer,
1789. £550
8vo, pp. [viii], including engraved frontispiece by Mettenleiter, 414;
engraved title vignette; uncut in the original pale blue boards, spine
sunned; stamp erased from title, resulting in small hole; still a very
wide-margined and good copy.
First edition of a rare courtesy book, Eckartshausen’s treatise on the education
of princes. In a dialogue between the future prince and his ‘friend’ the
teacher, human passions are discussed. In the second half the prince is en-
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couraged to develop a thorough knowledge of the human psyche. This
courtesy book is a clear outcome of the enlightenment with the prince encouraged
to regard himself as a servant to the people, not a Machiavellian
ruler. Education, culture and enlightenment are the guiding principles, and
a thorough knowledge of legal principles is recommended. In the last section
a number of representative excerpts from the works of Montesquieu,
La Bruyère and Justi complete the education of the prince.
This Wrst edition was also published with a Pest imprint. A second edition
was published in 1790.
Faivre 46.
104 [ECONOMIC SAMMELBAND.] [ANON.] Sammlung
auserlesener und nützlicher Abhandlungen, zu Verbesserung und
Aufnahme des Nahrungs-Standes, der Landes-Oeconomie, Cameralund
Finanz-Wissenschaften, wie auch der Geschichts- und Staats-
Kunde nebst einer ganz neuen auf die Grundsätze einer ächten
Staatskunst und die Erfahrung gebaueten Anleitung zu Anlegung
und Verbesserung der Wollen-Manufacturen in einem Staate.
Frankfurt und Leipzig, August L. Stettin, 1766. £750
8vo, pp. 16, 17–96, 167–394, collation irregular, but complete;
woodcut head-piece and initials; contemporary boards, spine label
faintly lettered in ink; from the Donaueschingen library with
characteristic shelf mark and small stamp to verso of title.
First edition of this compilation of a number of rare contributions to economic
thought and practical economics. Included are Johann Peter von
Ludewig’s Von der neu angerichteten Profession, in Oeconomie-Policey- und
Cammer-Sachen, a panegyric on economics and economic policy under
Friedrich Wilhelm I. Ludewig (1670–1743) emphasises the fact that sound
economic policy is the real basis of military power. He exempliWes this in
the successful reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIV in France, with their wise
economic policy. This is followed by Henrich von Bode’s Fürstliche Macht-
Kunst, based on Asche Christoph von Marenholz’s original work of 1702.
Heinrich von Bode (1652–1720) gives a comprehensive introduction to
state economics and administration for a prospective ruler. He covers all
aspects of administration, guild laws, interest rates, and even a clever ‘getrich-quick’
scheme, demonstrating how careful investment and moneylending
can lead to riches.
The Wrst, anonymous publication concentrates on the wool trade and
commercial politics. Also included is a German translation of Berchs’ study
on balance of payments of cities, Wrst published 1754, and the anonymous
Beschreibung des Staats von Pfalz-Zweybrücken, ca 1680.
According to the preface some contributions were included in Ludewig’s
Oekonomische Anmerkungen über von SeckendorV’s Fürstenstaat (1753).
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not found in RLIN or OCLC, just one copy in KVK
at the Bavarian State Library.

Royal Protocol
105 EDMONDSON, Joseph. Precedency ... Mowbray Herald.
Engraved and printed for the Editor, n.d. [1780–1785?]. £220
Small 8vo, ll. [ii], 14, heraldic vignette to title, both title and text
entirely engraved; contemporary red morocco, gilt sides and spine;
joints very worn; from the library of Gordon Castle.
An attractive little volume, engraved throughout, outlining the hierarchy of
the British royals, both male and female. Followed by the ceremonial order
or priority to be observed in English society at various speciWc occasions.
ESTC t13707.
106 EDWARDS, George. Idées pour former une nouvelle
Constitution, et pour assurer la Prospérité et le Bonheur de la
France et d’autres Nations. Paris, H. J. Jansen, 1793. £250
8vo, pp. [iv], 82; some browning due to paper quality; disbound, in
modern paper wrappers.
First and only edition of Edwards’ helpful comments on the French revolution.
Edwards (1752–1823) was a medical doctor with a penchant for social
reform. In the present work, one of very few actually published in
French, he addresses French legislators and advises the French people how
they should form their next, or reform their present, constitution.
His brief treatise touches on agriculture, ‘culture mentale’, medicine, arts
and sciences, political re-organisation of the country, police, and public liberty.
He ends with a table outlining his conception of the human spirit, or
‘culture mentale’.
Martin & Walter II, 12650; rare, NUC and RLIN locate just two copies, at Cornell
and New York Public Library.
Agricultural Policy
107 ELSNER, Johann Gottfried. Die Politik der Landwirthschaft.
Erster Band [–Zweiter Band]. Stuttgart und Tübingen, J. G.
Cotta’sche Buchhandlung. 1835. £320
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 272; vi, 309, [1] imprint, [4]
advertisements; paper occasionally a little foxed and browned;
attractively bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine
decorated in gilt and blind, with two gilt-lettered spine labels; from the
town library of Olten, with two stamps on title page, and gift
inscription on front free endpaper; still a Wne set.
First edition of this comprehensive treatise on German agricultural economics.
Elsner maintains that agriculture forms a uniWed system within the
state and sets out to deWne its role, and the rules and customs that regulate
it. He gives a clear outline of farm management, agricultural credit and co-
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operation. In the Wrst part he is concerned with the actual estates and farms,
discussing estate sizes, forms of their organisation and legal constraints. A
Wnal section of the Wrst volume is devoted to agricultural products and their
current market value. The second volume covers the role and position of the
farming communities within the state. Discussed are education, the social
position of farmers, agricultural legislation, and special organisations.
Elsner also gives brief outlines of agricultural production in other European
countries, points out potential competition for the German market, and the
incentive for higher quality products.
This work not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, where some of his other works are listed;
NUC and RLIN list three copies (MH; CtY; MiU).
The Bloodstock Agency of the Austrian Empire
108 ERDELNI, Michael von. Beschreibung der einzelnen Gestüte
des österreichischen Kaiserstaates, nebst Bemerkungen über
Hornviehzucht, Schafzucht und Ökonomie. Wien, Carl Gerold,
1827. £220
8vo, pp. xvi, 250, with 2 folding printed tables bound in, last 9 leaves
folding, with two lithographed plates with horse brands bound at the
end, last plate torn in gutter, no loss; contemporary marbled boards,
gilt-lettered spine label, extremities a little chipped and worn; private
collection stamp on front paste-down and title-page.
First edition of an account of horse-breeding and bloodstock agencies in the
Austrian Empire. In the introduction Erdelni or Erdelyi (1782–1837)
gives a general account of horse-breeding both on private stud farms and on
the royal military stud farms. Detailed statistics are given on the extent of
the horse population at the time. In the main part, the diVerent stud farms
are described, including the famous royal stud at Lippiza, and numerous
Hungarian studs, together with Austrian, Bohemian, and Transylvanian
farms. Detailed folding tables summarise the information, and the two folding
lithographed tables show all the diVerent brands used in the respective
stud farms.
GV 34, 42; RLIN lists a copy at the University of Michigan.
The Classic German Printers’ Manual
109 ERNESTI, Johann Heinrich Gottfried. Die wol-eingerichtete
Buchdruckerey, mit hundert und achtzehen Teutsch-Lateinisch-
Griechisch- und Hebräischen SchriVten, vieler fremden Sprachen
Alphabeten, musicalischen Noten, Calender-Zeichen und
Medicinischen Characteren, ingleichen allen üblichen Formaten
bestellet. Nürnberg, Johann Andreä Endters seel. Sohn und Erben,
1721. £2800

Oblong 4to, pp. [58] including engraved frontispiece and title page
printed in red and black, 140, 24; all text printed within a black border,
partly printed in red and black, numerous tables and Wgures and thirteen
engraved printers’ portraits in the text; G4 music type face engraved;
bound without the unsigned leaf of correction marks sometimes inserted
between signature F and G; very clean; bound in contemporary full
vellum; spine lettered in manuscript; vellum a little creased; but in all a
very attractive copy, with early ownership inscription to front paste-down.
First edition, rare, of this classic German printers’ manual. The charming
engraved frontispiece shows the interior of the print shop, with two presses
and nine people actively involved in type-setting, inking, proof-reading,
and printing. The main text contains a complete practical treatise of the art
of printing, many diVerent specimens of type are introduced (including
forty-seven black letter types, twenty-one Roman, fourteen Italic forms) in
addition to many Slavic, Greek and Hebrew founts, music founts, and special
symbols for astrological and calendar signs. A variety of diVerent type
case arrangements are shown.
Boghardt, Typographische Lehrbücher, 14; Bigmore & Wyman, I, 205 (second edition
of 1733); Ornamentstich Katalog Berlin, 5340; Gaskell, P. et al, G6.
Of Laws and Lords
110 [ERTEL, Anton Wilhelm.] Neu-eröVnete Schau-Bühne von
dem Fürsten-Recht. Nürnberg, Peter Paul Bleuls, 1702.
[bound with:] Des heiligen Römischen Reichs ohnmittelbahrer
Freyer Ritterschaft der Sechs Ort in Francken, erneuerte, vermehrte
und conWrmierte Ordnungen, samt deroselben von denen
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Römischen Kaysern und Königen allerhöchst-löblichster Gedächtniis
erlangten, renovirten und ConWrmirten Privilegien und
Befreyeungs-BrieVen auch Kayserlichen Rescription. 1696. £650
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. [viii] including engraved
frontispiece & title in red and black, [xvi], 394; [iv] including engraved
frontispiece, 169, [4], 22 [Anhang]; second work with some spotting
and browning, else very clean and crisp; contemporary full vellum.
An interesting volume combining a theoretical treatise on feudal law with
its practical application in the law as applied to the Ritterschaft of Franconia.
I. First edition, uncommon, of this compendium of the law as applied to
kings and rulers, by Anton Wilhelm Ertel, a proliWc writer on matters of
taxation and the law. Ertel discusses all aspects of good practice as relating
to king and ruler under the ‘contract’ provided by the feudal system. In one
hundred chapters or ‘exercises’, individual questions are discussed and resolved
citing all relevant legislation. Questions include procedural problems,
international law, Wnancial questions, and civil law.
II. Second edition, Wrst published in 1694 of the privileges of the Franconian
knighthood. The statutes begin with the basic rules of conduct, including
some interesting information on the relationship between the knight and
his servants. A number of special privileges granted within the seventeenth
century are reprinted, including a number regulating Wefdoms and land. A
special privilege regulates the life and business of the local Jewish population.
Humpert 7436; Jöcher II, 390; uncommon, I. NUC and RLIN list Harvard Law;
II. Harvard Law Library lists later edition of 1870 only.
The Future of Europe – as Predicted by Nostrodamus et al
111 [EUROPE.] Die Wohlfarth von Europa in einem
bedenklichen Zustand betrachtet. Cöln, 1758.
[bound with:] Europäischer Staats-Wahrsager, oder wundersame
Propheceyungen von dem jetzigen Zustand der moisten und
vornehmsten Europäischen Staaten, in sich haltend des Irländischen
Ertz-BischoVs Malachia, des Französischen Astrologi Nostradami,
Bruder Herman von Lehnin, des Mönchs Sebalds und vieler anderer
rare und sonderbare Weissagungen ... FünVte, mit vielen Zusätzen
und Anmerkungen versehene AuXage. Bremen, in der
Saurmannischen Buchhandlung, 1758. £480
Two works in one volume, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xiv, 288;
[viii], 402, [4]; engraved head and tail-pieces; paper occasionally lightly
browned, but in all clean; contemporary paste-paper covered boards,
spine label lettered in manuscript, extremities chipped and corners a
little worn; a sound copy from the Seckendorf library with armorial
book plate to front paste-down.
I. First edition, very rare, of this political polemic against the union of

France and Austria in the Seven Years’ War, with a clear warning of the
dangers of upsetting the equilibrium of forces within Europe. The Seven
Years’ War (1756–1763) had started because of the coalition between Austria,
France, Russia, Sweden and Saxony against Prussia, in an attempt to
curtail the power of Frederick the Great. This polemical article, written
from the Prussian viewpoint, warns against France and Austria joining
forces. A supplement traces the history of Franco-Austrian alliances.
II. Later edition of a fascinating compilation of predictions and prophecies
regarding European politics and the fate of individual states. The prognostications
by Nostradamus, Lichtenberger, Paracelsus etc. are arranged
by country, and deal in turn with the papal states, the Austrian Empire,
England, and France; followed by individual prophecies by Lichtenberger,
Carione, Aegidius, and Suschken.
I. Weller I, 93; not found in NUC and RLIN, KVK lists just one copy at the Bavarian
State Library.
112 FABRICIUS, Johann Christian. Von der Volks-Vermehrung
insonderheit in Dännemark. Hamburg und Kiel, Carl Ernst Bohn,
1781. £350
Small 8vo, pp. 88, engraved title vignette, head and tail-pieces; title
dust-soiled and a little stained, else clean and crisp; late nineteenthcentury
buckram-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt;
extremities chipped.
First edition of an early and much-discussed contribution to the literature
on population and demographics. Fabricius (1743–1808), a professor of
economics at Kiel, argues for the importance of population increase, as only
a large population guarantees a strong economy and a prosperous state. He
deplores the population decrease in the Nordic states, especially Denmark.
This, he explains, is caused by the system of serfdom (which though abolished
by law under Frederick IV continued in practice) and the concentration
of a large proportion of the land in the hands of few landowners. Farm
sizes are constantly increasing, with a subsequent lack of arable ground for a
large number of mid-sized farmers. The ever-growing size of the army and
navy is a further reason for decreasing population Wgures.
ADB VI, 521; Goldsmiths’–Kress 12130.4; NUC lists just one copy at the university
of Chicago, OCLC adds Göttingen University and the US Air Force Academy.
The Earliest Printed Laws of a Major European Trade Fair
113 [FAIR – LYON.] Ordonnances et Privileges des Foires de
Lyon: et leur Antiquité: auec celles de Brie, & Champaigne. Lyon,
Pierre Fradin, 1560.
[bound with:] Lettres du Roy François Deuxième du nom,
ConWrmatives des privileges, et franchises des quart Foires de Lyon.
Lyon, Pierre Fradin, 1560. £4000
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8vo, ll. 115, [9]; [4] with the woodcut arms of the city of Lyon to both
titles, printer’s device to last leaf; large decorated initials throughout;
some light browning, small individual worm hole in upper outer
corner, occasionally touching page number; light marginal dampstain
towards the end of the volume; contemporary limp vellum, head of
spine chipped, with some loss; an attractive, unsophisticated copy.
First edition, very rare, of one of the earliest and most important printed
sources for the history of international trade fairs: the fair privileges granted
to the city of Lyon, location of arguably the most important trade fairs of
the Wfteenth and sixteenth century. Fairs are ancient institutions with great
importance for the development of international commerce and mercantile
law. The Lyon Fair was the central exchange point for the spice trade, for
silver brought from the New World, and for vast quantities of silk and textiles
manufactured in Lyon. The year of publication, 1560, marks the
highpoint of the fair’s fortunes, and depicts the fair during its most thriving
period, from about 1529 to 1560. In addition to all the royal edicts governing
the conduct of merchants, it contains a brief introductory essay on the
origin of trade fairs in antiquity and on the beginnings of the fair at Lyon.
J. Baudrier, Bibliographie lyonnaise, XI, p. 153; not in BM STC French or Adams;
uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list copies at Harvard Law School, the University of
Minnesota and Northwestern University.
114 FARRAR, Frederic William. Families of Speech: Four
Lectures delivered before the Royal Institution of Great Britain in
March 1869. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870. £60
8vo, pp. xiii, [i] blank, 192, 2 coloured folding maps, 2 tables (1
folding); publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, tail of spine a
little worn, and discreet repair to lower joint.
First edition of Farrar’s essays, dedicated to Max Müller. Farrar was an English
representative of the ‘family tree’ theory of languages, which had been
introduced by Schleicher.
Not in Kennedy.
Food for Thought
115 FARSETTI, Daniele [editor]. Quattro elegantissime Egloghe
Rusticali, Venezia, Paolo Colombani, 1760. £1150
4to, pp. 70; engraved title vignette, four full page engravings, one head
piece, four tail pieces and Wve engraved initials; some spotting to title
page and occasional slight dust-soiling; uncut in the original buVcoloured
limp boards, with leather cords; boards a little dust-soiled;
ownership inscription in ink to front free endpaper.
First edition of this Wnely printed collection of ‘culinary’ poems collected
and edited by Daniele Farsetti. Included are Il Moreto, attributed to
Gasparo Gozzi (1713–1786), Il Batino by Francesco Bracciolini (1566–

1645), Celeo e l’Orto by Bernardino Baldi (1553–1617), Pane by Marco
Aurelio Olimpio Nemesiano, translated by Tommaso Giuseppe Farsetti.
The Wnely engraved title vignette summarises the culinary topic of the poems.
The poems deal in turn with ‘Il Moreto’, a paste of crushed garlic, onion,
parsley and herbs mixed with cheese, oil and vinegar. ‘Il Batino’ is
dedicated to the pig and pork sausages. In ‘Celeo e l’Orto’ the production of
polenta with butter and cheese is described, whereas the Wnal one’ Pane’
(vere Pan) is dedicated to wine. The work is illustrated throughout by
Antonio Baratta after P. A. Novelli, and by Francesco Bartolozzi.
Gamba 2225; Morazzoni, p. 251; B.IN.G, II, 1584, p. 1377; RLIN and OCLC
locate just three copies at Harvard, New York Public Library, and the National Art
Library.
The Value of Estates in Mecklenburg
116 FERBER, Christian Karl Friedrich von. Grundzüge zur
Werthschätzung der Landgüter in Mecklenburg. Berlin, Joh. F.
Unger, 1796. £440
Tall 8vo, pp. [ii], x, 286, [1] errata, one printed table outside of
pagination; bound in contemporary half sheep, spine ruled in gilt, giltlettered
spine label, extremities a little rubbed, head of spine worn and
upper joint tender; private bookplate on front paste-down, library
stamp on verso ot title page; a very clean and crisp copy with a few
marginal crayon markings.
First edition of this interesting treatise on the valuation of estates in the
predominantly agricultural nothern German state of Mecklenburg. Ferber
(1761–1838) deplores the recent development whereby estates have become
a form of investment for rich city dwellers and industrialists. This
phenomenon is particularly pronounced in Mecklenburg, because of its
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relatively liberal property laws. Overall the work gives a very clear account
of the Wnancial and legal situation of agricultural estates at the end of the
eighteenth century – together with an assessment of the economic situation
at this time, with more capital in private hands than ever before.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 16649.2.
117 FERGUSON, Adam. An Essay on the History of Civil
Society. Third edition, corrected. London, A. Millar and T. Cadell,
1768. £750
8vo, pp. viii, 464; contemporary full speckled calf, spine gilt, giltlettered
spine label; short split to upper joint; a very attractive copy.
A Wne copy of the third edition of Ferguson’s History of Civil Society (Wrst
1767), generally regarded as the Wrst English work in empirical sociology.
The work was frequently reprinted, both in England and America, and
translated in German and French.
Ferguson (1723–1816), professor of Moral Philosophy at the University
of Edinburgh and leader of the Scottish Enlightenment, describes the
stages of social evolution. Marx credited him with being the Wrst in modern
times to develop the theory of the division of labour in economy and society,
and Gumplowicz, the advocate of the conXict theory of society, described
the essay as ‘the Wrst natural history of society’, and Ferguson
himself as ‘the Wrst sociologist’.
ESTC t075304; Goldsmiths’–Kress 10407.5; Higgs 4258; Jessop 122.
118 [FERRARA – LAW.] Capitoli del Sacro Monte di Pietà eretto
in Ferrara ... Distesu sù la norma di quelli del Sacro Monte di Roma.
Ferrara, Stampa Camerale, 1671. £1000
Tall 4to, pp. xii, 180, [4], woodcut arms to title, head-pieces and
initials; very clean and crisp in contemporary full vellum.
First edition, thus, of the revised statutes of the Monte di Pietà, the savings
and loan association, of Ferrara, based on those of the Monte di Pietà of
Rome. The Monte di Pietà was a combined pawn-shop and charity institution,
which also oVered some banking facilities. Organisation and procedures
are explained in great detail, ranging from the election of oYcials to
how to deal with lost pawn tickets.
A special section deals Jewish money-lenders, and loans to Jews, which
are subject to special regulations, such as Wxed interest rates and limitations
on the accpetance of pawns. There clearly was some competition between
the money-lending practices of the Monte de Pietà and of Jewish moneylenders.
Extensive regulation is included, partly applying identical limitations
to the Monte di Pietà and other pawnshops, partly applying stricter
rules to the Jewish moneylenders. A Wnal table gives the interest rates established
by the Monte di Pietà.
No copies found in RLIN and OCLC.

The Closed Commercial State
119 FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb. Der geschloßne Handelsstaat. Ein
philosophischer Entwurf als Anhang zur Rechtslehre, und Probe
einer künftig zu liefernden Politik. Tübingen, J. G. Cotta’sche
Buchhandlung, 1800. £2000
8vo, pp. [xxii], 290; title lightly browned and occasional spotting
throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine ruled and
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; boards with decorative gilt
panelling; extremities a little rubbed; an attractive copy with manuscript
notes to endpapers, and ownership cipher to title page.
The philosopher Fichte, though not an economist in the strict sense, has
indirectly exercised great inXuence on economists. In Der geschloßne Handelsstaat,
he presents the Wrst modern socialist concept of the state. His ‘closed
commercial state’ is a corporate one, with a controlled economy and autarchy.
To ensure the eYcacy of domestic controls and maintain the value of
money, the state must also regulate international economic relations. Once
the state is ‘isolated’, production and trading, prices and wages can be fully
regulated. The state guarantees the existence of the individual and his right
to work, but there is no free choice of occupation. Fichte is a socialist, but not
a communist – private property, family life, and even the accumulation of
riches are an accepted part of his concept.
Baumgartner & Jacob, J. G. Fichte – Bibliographie, A1 50x.; Goldsmiths’–Kress
17957; Humpert 7668; Menger c. 163; Ziegenfuss I, 342.
120 [FLICK, Johann Friedrich.] Handbuch der Buchdruckerkunst
für angehende und praktische Buchdrucker. Als Anhang:
Anweisung, Papiere auf alle Art zu färben. Berlin, Theod. Christ.
Fried. Enslin, 1820. £950
8vo, pp. viii, 280, 1 large folding lithograph plate (printed in red and
black), 4 lithograph plates of type cases; title page lightly browned;
contemporary buV boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label;
corners bumped.
First edition of a rare German printers’ manual. After a brief history of printing
and some preliminary remarks on the recent development of lithographic
printing, Flick (1783–1826) concentrates on a detailed practical introduction
to the art and craft of printing. In the Wrst part he deals with preparatory
work and gives extensive information on type-setting, the distribution of
new type, choice of typefaces, title page composition, page make-up, tables,
marginalia, music etc. The second section concentrates on the practical printing
process, preparation and dampening of paper, preparing the press, inking
and cleaning of the form, padding, preparation of printing ink. He concludes
with information on the storing of printed sheets, folding and gathering.
Bigmore & Wyman I, 223; Boghardt, Typographische Lehrbücher 26; Gaskell et al,
G15; not in Jackson Burke.
Summary Justice
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121 [FLORENCE. BANDITS.] Provisione che’l Premio di
chi Ammazza Banditi che non si Paghi à chi non domanda in tra
l’anno. A dì 23. Di Gennaio. 1553. Fiorenza, Giorgio Marescotti,
[1575]. £150
4to, pp, [4], ducal arms to title, hand-coloured, modern boards.
Second edition of a ruling on the rewards paid out for the slaying or capture
of bandits or fugitive criminals. Following a number of false claims for these
rewards, it was decided that claims have to be made within the year. Apparently
quite frequently money had been claimed by fellow bandits with spurious
proof and substantial time delay.
BM STC Italian, p. 261; not found in RLIN, OCLC or KVK.
Book Madness
122 FRAENKEL, Maimon. Trifolium. Ueber Prophetismus,
Zahlensymbolik und Bücherreiz. Hamburg, Friedr. Perthes,
1832. £900
8vo, pp. [viii], 102, [2] publisher’s advertisements; lightly browned and
spotted, due to paper quality; contemporary paste-paper boards, spine
label lettered in manuscript; extremities a little rubbed; manuscript note
of contents to front free endpaper; a good copy.
First edition of this rare collection of three essays on prophecies, number
symbolism and the addictive properties of books and bookshops. Fraenkel
describes the symptoms of ‘book madness’ – men are aVected to the extent
that they pay ‘silly’ prices for books, women attempt to put together big
libraries (more for show than to read them) or become addicts of the lending
library, and even insects, especially the bookworm, are aVected.
Fraenkel’s work is bound together with two other works, one of them
appropriately by the manic book collector Karl Pölitz (1772–1838), whose
library catalogue, published in 1839 lists 13360 titles. Karl Pölitz’s
Andeutungen über politische, besonders parlamentarische Beredsamkeit. Leipzig,
[1832], and J. W. F. HöXing, Mysticismus. Erlangen, Carl Heyder,
1832.
Fürst I, 293; Kosch V 384; rare, NUC, RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Harvard,
Princeton and the Library of Congress only.
JeVerson was a Member
123 [FRANCE – AGRICULTURE.] Annuaire de la Société
d’Agriculture du Département de la Seine. Pour l’An 1809. Paris,
Madame 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.
French Constitution
124 [FRANCE – CONSTITUTION.] Constitution Française et
Acceptation du Roi. Dijon, P. Causse, 1791. £600
12mo, pp. [ii], 163; contemporary full red morocco with simple gilt
rule to sides and spine, gilt-lettering directly to spine; early owner’s
signature ‘John Greenwell, Broomshields’ to front free endpaper.
An attractive copy of this rare provincial printing of the Revolutionary constitution,
together with the King’s letter of September 13th, 1791 to the
Assemblée Nationale, his acceptance of September 4th, and the response of
the president to the King. The constitution is preceded by the Declaration
of Rights, and the work concludes with a useful alphabetical subject index.
Another Dijon edition without the King’s response, was published the
same year.
125 [FRANCE – CONSTITUTION.] Analyse, Dictionnaire et
Texte de la Constitution Française; précédés d’une Introduction.
Paris, Didot, 1792. £750
Large 8vo, pp. 157; [1] blank; [ii], 61, [1] serment du Roi; some light
spotting, but in all clean and crisp; early nineteenth century green roanbacked
boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt; with inoVensive
stamp to title, Bibliothèque des Chapelles; a good copy.
First and only edition of this handy introduction to the new French Constitution
including a general outline of the constitution, an analysis of the
main arguments, a dictionary of all the terms, and Wnally the complete text.
For easy cross-referencing every statement of the constitution has been
given a number, which is also listed in the analytical table and the dictionary.
Particularly useful is the dictionary, as it enables the reader to Wnd the
relevant section of the constitution with ease.
In the Bibliothèque Nationale, no copy traced in RLIN or OCLC.
126 [FRANKLIN, Benjamin.] La Science du Bonhomme Richard,
ou Moyen Facile de payer les Impôts. Philadelphie, et se trouve à
Paris, Ruault, 1777.
[bound with:] [GUIDI, L. abbé.] Dialogue entre un Éveque et un
Curé, sur les marriages des Protestans, n.p., 1775. £1200
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Two works bound in one volume, 12mo, pp. 151, [1] blank, 4
advertisement; iv, 5–120; title vignette; occasional light browning, due
to paper stock; contemporary mottled sheep, sides with triple gilt rule,
spine decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; discreet repairs to joints;
an attractive copy.
Very rare Wrst separate French translation of Franklin’s Way to Wealth, containing
his shrewd maxims and proverbs against idleness, pride and folly.
The work, Wrst published in Poor Richard’s Almanac for 1758, and then
separately issued in 1760 under the title of Father Abraham’s Speech, gained
instant popularity as a gospel of bourgeois thrift and common sense.
The translation is by F. A. Quétant and J. B. Lecuy. Included are also
translations of Examination of Dr Franklin before the British Parliament
translated by Dupont de Nemours, the Constitution of Pennsylvania, as established
in 1776, and the Examination of Mr Penn, at the bar of Parliament in
1776.
Bound with it is the Wrst edition of Guidi’s treatise on Protestant marriage,
written in form of a dialogue.
I. Faij 10; Echeverria, p. 54; see Sabin 25583 for 1778 edition. II. Barbier I, 945;
INED 2205.
127 FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Kleine Schriften meist in der Manier
des Zuschauers, nebst seinem Leben. Aus dem Englischen von G.
Schatz. Mit Franklins doppeltem Bildnisse. Erster Theil [–Zweyter
Theil]. Weimar, Verlag des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1794. £750

Two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xvi], 352; engraved
frontispiece, [ii], 428, [2]; contemporary half calf over buV boards,
spine gilt in compartments, with gilt-lettered spine label, and circular
numbering piece; a very attractive set, with neatly crossed out early
signature stamp by J. J. Schefold.
First German edition of Franklin’s life and works, translated from the standard
two-volume edition published in 1793. Volume one contains
Franklin’s autobiography – revised by Vaughan with reference to the manuscript,
wheras volume two gives translations of his most popular essays,
both economical, philosophical, and entertaining. He includes observations
on politics, the slave trade, economics, public morality etc.
The two engraved portraits at the beginning of the volumes are particularly
striking. This edition was reprinted in 1802 and 1822.
Ford 444; Sabin 25520; not in Streeter or Howes.
An Ode to the Sausage
128 [FRIZZI, Antonio.] La Salameide, poemetto giocoso con
le note. Venezia, Guglielmo Zerletti, 1772. £1000
8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and title page, pp. [viii], 135, [1]
blank; Wnely engraved vignette to title page and at head of the main
text; uncut in the original buV boards; spine a little rubbed, and head
and tail of spine chipped; small private library stamp to foot of title; a
good copy.
First edition of a charming work, a light-hearted eighteenth century heroic
poem dedicated to the ‘salamina’, the little sausage, by the Ferrara historian
Antonio Frizzi. In his poem he utilises the traditions of the epic poem, but
sings the praises not of chivalry and love, but of the pork sausage. In a little
aside he even maintains that the ‘salame’ might have been invented by John
Locke ‘chi ne può dubitar, che un tal prodotto non sia da Londra, donde a
noi son tratte tante moderne cose manufatte?’ (canto quarto, xii).
The engraved frontispiece is particularly appealing, showing a ‘salumeria’
with numerous sausages, and hams suspended from the ceiling and a boar
being slaughtered in the background. An elegant customer converses with
the shopkeeper and takes an appreciative whiV at a salami, while his dog is
about to stel a sausage from the table.
Bing 852; Lapirella 170; Simon 1342; Westbury p. 197.
129 [FULIGNATI, Giuntino.] Della famosissima Compagnia della
Lesina. Dialogo, Capitoli, e Ragionamenti. Vicenza, Giorgio Greco,
1601.
[bound with:] Continuatione de gl’Ordini, & Capitoli della
Compagnia della Lesina, nella quale si contiene il modo di ricevere
Novici & le punitioni, che si danno à chi trangredisce gl’ordini di
detta Compagnia. Vicenza, Giorgio Greco, 1601.
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[with:] Consulto delle Matrone, seconda Additione à gl’ordini, &
Capitoli della Lesina. Vicenza, Giorgio Greco, 1601. £600
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, ll. [viii], 111, 1 blank; 28; 29–82; all
three title pages with woodcut vignette of an awl; woodcut initials
throughout; contemporary limp vellum, a little stained, lacking ties;
front free endpaper with some holes to paper.
First edition to include the separate Wnal part directed at women members.
Rare edition of the statutes and achievements of the Compagnia della Lesina,
an intriguing Wctitious organisation devoted to promoting general savings
and thrift. Founded originally in Florence around 1570, the statutes were
Wrst published in 1580. The Compagnia appears to have survived well to the
end of the seventeenth century, since numerous further editions were published.
In the Wrst part the original twenty-four rules are published, which
advise thrift in all aspects of life. The author of the work has not yet been
identiWed, some bibliographies indicate Tommaso Buoni, others point to a
collaborative eVort.
Westbury, p. 97; see Goldsmiths’–Kress 4750–1 for 1618 French edition; see
Bibliotheca Vinciana 3495–3502 (not this edition).

Double-Entry Book-Keeping
130 FUSS, Franz. Anweisung zur Verfassung einer neuen,
verlässlichen und so viel möglich einfachen Wirthschaftsrechnung.
Prag, Herrlische Buchhandlung, 1800. £1200
4to, pp. [viii], 366, [1]; short worm-trace to Wrst two leaves, single
wormhole; contemporary pale blue boards, spine label; manuscript
purchase note to front free endpaper; and remains of sealing wax, from
the Haid library, with early stamp to title.
First edition, very rare, of this comprehensive introduction to double-entry
book-keeping. Fuss (1745–1805) gives a brief introduction to administration
and especially accounting for agricultural estates. The main body of the
book is taken up with a detailed presentation of all the books necessary for
reliable accounts. He presents the journal for the year 1800 followed by
individual account books, which are accompanied by a running commentary.
Mostly his introduction to double-entry book-keeping is based on example,
showing the diVerent procedures.
Very rare, not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Historical Accounting Literature or
Herwood, just one copy located in RLIN and OCLC, at Syracuse University.
Economics at University Level
131 GASSER, Simon Peter. Einleitung zu den Oeconomischen
Politischen und Cameral-Wissenschaften, worinnen für dieses mal
die Oeconomico-Cameralia von den Domainen- oder Cammer- auch
andern Gütern, deren Administration und Anschlägen, nebst einem
Vorbericht von der Fundation der neuen oeconomischen Profession,
und des Allerdurchlauchtigsten Stifters eigentlichen allergnädigsten
Absicht. Halle, Verlegung des Waisenhauses, 1729. £2250
4to, pp. viii, 24, 347, two folding printed tables bound after 149;
signature K misbound; title page a little browned, occasional browning
in the text; paper repair to margin of T3; original pale blue boards, with
discreet repairs to head and tail of spine and corners; private library
stamp to title, erased stamp to verso of title and on L4.
First edition, rare, of this important introduction to cameralistic science,
published just two years after Gasser had been appointed as the Wrst holder
of the chair of economics at Halle. His work is of particular interest as it
documents the ‘new’ thinking of the time, with its emphasis on teaching the
basics of economics to young civil servants, to prepare them for their role in
administration. Gasser dedicates his treatise to Friedrich Wilhelm I, on
whose instigation the chair of economics had been founded, and in his preface
comments on the king’s desire to promote the science of economics as a
professional discipline.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 6642.3; Humpert 783; Palgrave II, 187; Roscher, pp. 371–6;
ADB VIII, 401–2; see A. M. Small, The Cameralists, pp. 206–211.
Economist’s Library
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132 GERANDO, Joseph Maria Baron de. Catalogue des Livres
composant la Bibliotheque de feu M. Le Baron de Gérando,
Conseiller-d’État, membre de l’Académier des Inscriptions ...
Don’t la vente se fera, le Mercredi 20 Mars 1844, et jours suivants ...
Rue de Vaugirard, no 52 bis, par le ministère de M. Sauvan,
commissaire-priseur. Paris, J. F. Delion, 1844. £550
8vo, pp. 108, [2]; contemporary blue wrappers, with original printed
wrappers bound in; manuscript spine labels, some ink and pencil
annotations.
First and only edition of the sale catalogue of the library of Joseph Maria
Baron de Gerando, (1772–1842), lawyer, government oYcial, economist
and philanthropist. He is best known for his publications on the administration
of charities and public works, such as De la Bienfaisance Publique.
His library covering more than 1400 lots is particularly strong in the areas
of political economy, charity and the poor law and education. In the
introduction the auctioneer oVers these sections for purchase ‘en bloc’ to
avoid the dispersal of the collection.
Not found in KVK, RLIN, and OCLC; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in
Granier.
Silk Industry in Italy
133 GHILIOSSI-DE-LEMIE, Joseph-Ignace. Mûriers et vers-asoie
... Coni [Cuneo.], Pierre Rossi, 1812. £320
8vo, pp. [viii], 74, [2] index; printed on pale green paper;
contemporary glazed decorated paper, resembling tree calf, sides with
decorative blind panelling; extremities a little worn; traces of a spine
label, book plate removed from front paste-down; a attractive copy.
First edition of an attractive little treatise on silk production, i.e. mulberry
trees and silk worms in Piedmont. Ghiliossi-de-Lemie (1749–1823), government
oYcial in Cuneo, gives a brief history of the introduction of the
silk worm to northern Italy, which goes back to the time of Justinian.
Ghiliossi-de-Lemie gives a detailed description of the propagation of silk
worms, and their common diseases, followed by practical information on
silk manufacture. The whole treatise is accompanied by detailed references
both to the legal edicts regulating the silk manufacture and trade, and to
relevant technical reference works.
Not found in NUC; not in Einaudi, where his main work on the silk worm Il baco
da seta e sua educazione is listed (Einaudi 2533).
134 GHIRLANDA, Gaspare. Negoziazione e Nobiltà a sua
Eccellenza il Sig. Conte Carlo de Firmian. [colophon:] Milano,
Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1773. £600

8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 126; title within decorative border;
elegantly printed on strong paper; contemporary full mottled sheep,
rebacked with gilt-lettered spine label, endpapers renewed.
First edition of an interesting and well-researched debate concerning the
involvement of the nobility in trade and commerce. Coyer’s Noblesse
Commercante was clearly the starting point of a general debate on this question,
but Ghirlanda maintains that his arguments are directed at the situation
in Milan in particular. He comments on the fact that nations
dependent on trade and commerce are more likely to form alliances, live
amicably with their neighbours, and make scientiWc advances in navigation
and technology. Despite their ‘natural’ occupation in the army or the government,
the nobility has a valuable contribution to make in advancing
trade and commerce. Ghirlanda cites extensively from earlier writers and his
contemporaries in his historical overview, and compares the situation in
ancient Rome, sixteenth century Holland, and the Italian city states.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10994.3–1
135 GIOJA, Melchiorre. Esercizio Logico sugli Errori d’Ideologia
e Zoologia ossia Arte di Trar ProWtto dai Cattivi Libri ... Milano,
Giovanni Pirotta, Maggio 1824. £320
8vo, pp. xv, [i], 320; some light spotting, contemporary roan-backed
marbled boards; spine decoratively gilt; an attractive copy.
First edition of a fascinating treatise on logic in relation to human nature and
evolutionary theory. Gioja argues that through the application of logic and
common sense proWt and knowledge can be derived from ‘bad books’. He
applies his principles to various theories of human evolution, and classiWes
the arguments into ‘false’, ‘inexact’, ‘contradictory’ and ‘incomplete’. Despite
his even-handed approach, the work was put on the index. Gioja (1767–
1829) wrote mostly on economics, statistics, morals and logic.
Einaudi 2569.
136 GIOJA, Melchiore. Problema quali sono i Mezzi più spediti,
più eYcaci, più economici per alleviare l’attuale Miseria del Popolo
in Europa. Discorso popolare dell’autore del Nuovo Prospetto delle
Scienze Economiche. Milano, Gio. Pirotta, Gennaio 1817. £300
8vo, pp. 112; entirely uncut, in the original wrappers; a Wne copy.
First edition of Gioja’s pertinent analysis of the economic problems of Europe,
due to the vagaries of climate and weather. These are the cause for the
high price of provisions and also the lack of work, or increase in unemployment.
Gioja refers to public works projects by Rumford in Munich, Baron
Voght in Hamburg and recommends similar projects for Italy. As the way
forward he recommends the increase in manufacturing industry, especially
large sized ones. To combat the high price of provisions, he suggests more
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stringent government interventions to stabilise grain prices and guarantee
suYcient supplies.
Cossa 97 (72); Goldsmiths’–Kress 21934.7; not in Einaudi; a second edition was
published the same year.
Energy Conservation
137 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 ... Lisboa, 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, insulation
materials, high pressure cookers and improved chimneys, based on the
developments of Rumford, Chaptal, Derosne et al. In this very detailed treatise
he adapts numerous energy saving devices for use in Portugal, with information
on their construction, illustrated on the lithographed plates.
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. The fact that fruit trees are cut to provide
Wre wood he terms a particular sacrilege and argues for wide-scale organised
reforestation.
No copy found in RLIN or OCLC, where some of his other publications on wine
and economics are listed.
Vienna Rental Market
138 GNOL, von. Meine Gedanken über die Zimmerherren in
Wien. Wien, Sebastian Hartl. 1782. £300
8vo, pp. 22, [2] blank; woodcut vignette to title, head- and tail-piece;
recent marbled boards.
Sub-letting in eighteenth century Vienna – an intriguing study of the
‘rental’ market. After some initial comments on the reasons for subletting a
room in the spacious apartments of Vienna, Gnol describes the requirements
of those looking for a room to rent. Young upstarts will make some
initial inquiries as to the generosity of the apartment owner, the presence of
pretty young women in the house etc. Once they have moved in, they will
ingratiate themselves with the housewife, Xirt with the daughters, and generally
irritate the head of the household.
Rare, KVK lists a copy at the Austrian National Library; RLIN and OCLC add a
further copy at the University of Minnesota.

139 [GODWIN, William.] Vie et Mémoires de Marie Wollstonecraft
Godwin, Auteur de la Défense des droits de la Femme, d’une
Réponse à Edmond Burck, des Pensées sur l’Education des Filles.
Traduit de l’Anglais. Paris, Testu, et al., 1802. £1200
12mo, frontispiece portrait, pp. [iv], xii, 156; lightly browned and
spotted, due to paper quality; recent cloth-backed marbled boards.
Rare Wrst edition in French of the Wrst and standard biography of Mary
Wollstonecraft, by her lover and husband William Godwin. It was Wrst published
in English under the title Memoir of the author of A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman in 1798. Godwin’s frank account of his wife’s life shocked
contemporary readers. ‘The modern reader is likely to be moved by the life
and by Godwin’s spare, honest account of it. But at the time of violent reaction
against the French revolution, its ideology and its British sympathisers,
the frank record was a gift to conservative polemicists and it was lavishly
exploited: Wollstonecraft became a whore, whose books aimed, in the
words of the Anti-Jacobin, at the propagation of whores (Todd & Butler, p.
12–13).
CBEL II, 1250; this Wrst French edition is very rare, OCLC and RLIN list copies at
Harvard and New York Public Library; see Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler in the
preface to Pickering Masters edition of The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1989, pp.
12–13).
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140 GONZAGA DI CASTIGLIONE, Luigi. L’Homme de Lettres,
bon Citoyen, Discours philosophique & politique de son Altesse
Monseigneur le Prince Louis Gonzaga de Castiglione: pronounce à
l’Académie des Arcades, Rome, 1776. Geneve, 1777. £450
4to, engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. cxxiv, with title vignette and
decorated initials; printed on heavy paper; contemporary full mottled
calf, spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label, sides with decorative gilt
Xoral tooling; a few manuscript corrections in the text; heraldic bookplate
to front paste-down and contemporary ownership inscription to
front free endpaper; possibly a large paper copy.
First edition, privately printed and rare, of the French translation of Il
Letterato Buon Cittadino, by the Italian Enlightenment author Luigi Gonzaga
di Castiglione, together with his Essay Analytique sur les Decouvertes
Capitales de l’Esprit Humain, a speech he had given at the London Royal
Society the same year, and Wnally his essay on poetry, RéXexions sur la Poesie.
Gonzaga di Castiglione (1745–1819), a maverick Enlightenment Wgure, of
noble birth and independent means but who renounced his title, was clearly
inXuenced by Rousseau and other Wgures of the European Enlightenment.
He was at home in Venice, Rome, Paris and in London, where he spoke at
the Royal Society.
Barbier II, 855 (edition limited to one hundred copies only); RLIN lists just one
copy, at Harvard.
141 GORDON, George William. A Lecture before the Boston
Young Men’s Society on the subject of Lotteries. Delivered March
12, 1833. Boston, Temperance Press, Ford & Danrell. 1833. £150
8vo, pp. 79, [1], corner torn from inner margin of p. 73 and lower
blank margin of Wnal leaf cut oV, without loss of text; uncut; occasional
light spotting; original printed wrappers, rebacked, a little dust-soiled.
First edition of a short historical lecture on lotteries, prompted by the legalisation
and subsequent privatisation of the lottery in Rhode Island.
Gordon begins with the origin of lotteries, with reference to the Roman
Congiaria, or the distribution of gifts among the Roman army and continues
with its development up to the nineteenth century. The extensive appendix
has numerous ‘case studies’ of gamblers, of the loss on lottery tickets
by insolvent debtors.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 28073.23; Sabin 27978.
Music & Ballet in Eighteenth Century Venice
142 GOUDAR, Sarah and Ange. De Venise Rémarques sur la
Musique & la Danse ou Lettres de Mr G... a Milord Pembroke.
Venise, Charles Palese, 1773.
[bound with:] GOUDAR, Sarah. Supplement aux Remarques sur la

Musique, & la Danse ou Lettres de Mr. G... A Milord Pembroke.
Venise, Charles Pales, 1773.
[with:] GOUDAR, Sarah. Supplement au Supplement sur les
Remarques de la Musique et de la Danse ou Lettres de Mr. G...
A Milord Pembroke. [n.p.], 1774. £1800
Three parts bound in two volumes, 12mo, pp. [iv], 136; 95; 112 (tear
to p. 99); woodcut vignettes to all three titles; one signature coming
loose in part one; parts one and two bound together in contemporary
half calf over sprinkled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; part three
uncut in contemporary stiV paste-paper wrappers; a good set.
First edition, very rare, of this fascinating ‘inside’ view of the Italian and
especially Venetian musical scene of the second half of the eighteenth century,
and in eVect the Wrst book to describe in detail the foundation of theatrical
dance and ballet. In the form of letters addressed to Lord Pembroke,
the emergence of ballet in Venice is described, with special emphasis on the
contribution of Noverre and Angiolini. Noverre is generally acknowledged
to have been the eighteenth century reformer of ballet, with his emphasis on
conveying dramatic action through movement, pantomime, and dramatic
gesture. Goudar provides Wrst-hand information on the dancers, their technique,
repertoire and life. In the second supplement the emphasis shifts to
opera, given an account of the Italian opera, its interpreters and the contemporary
theatrical scene.
Gregory & Bartlett, Catalogue of Early Books on Music, p. 112 (lacking part III);
Mars 97, 100, and 102 (apparently attributing the work to Ange Goudar alone);
OCLC records copies at Harvard, the Library of Congress and Brigham Young
only.
Argot Dictionary
143 [GRANDVAL, Nicolas Racot de.] Le Vice Puni, ou Cartouche.
Poeme, Nouvelle edition, plus belle, plus correcte, & augmentée par
l’auteur. Paris, Hague, M. G. de Merville, 1728. £300
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], 119, with 16 engraved plates in the
text, all after Bonnart; title printed in red and black, paper a little
browned throughout; bound in contemporary full calf, central blindstamped
vignette to upper board; a good copy with private book label
to front paste-down.
An interesting Argot dictionary is added at the end of Grandval’s satirical
poems, a parody of Voltaire’s Henriade, together with a take-oV on
Corneille and Racine. These poems were inspired by the story of the legendary
robber Louis Dominique Bourguignon (1693–1721), known as
Cartouche, who Wgured in more than one play of the period. His satirical
attacks are partly expressed in Argot, the dialect of the French underworld –
and the origin of the English term ‘Argot’. The Wrst edition had appeared in
1723, and it appears that the Argot dictionary and the plates were Wrst
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added to the 1725 edition. The Wfteen-page dictionary is in two parts: Argot-French
and French-Argot.
Bonaparte 3798; Gay III 1328; see Yve-Plessis, Bibliographie raisonné de l’Argot, p.
82 for other edition; Zaunmüller 142 (1750).
144 GRIENDEL VON ACH, Johann Frantz. Micrographia Nova:
oder Neu-Curieuse Beschreibung verschiedener kleine Körper,
welche vermittlst eines absonderlichen von dem Author
neuerfundenen Vergrösser-Glases verwunderlich groß vorgestellt
werden. Nürnberg, J. Ziegers, 1687. £3000
4to, pp. [viii], 64 with 31 (27 of which folding) plates with 55 Wgures;
typographic head and tail-pieces; title page discreetly mounted;
engraved plates irregularly trimmed, but no loss to images; occasional
light dust-soiling and browning; late eighteenth century stained vellumbacked
sprinkled boards; contemporary ownership inscription to front
pastedown, Bibliotheca M. Balthasar HoVman.
First edition of the German answer to Hooke’s Micrographia, and the Wrst
German book to be devoted entirely to the microscope, combining detailed
descriptions with intricate illustrations. Griendel’s design of the microscope
was a distinct improvement on Hooke’s and Leeuwenhoeck’s instruments,
as the object could be viewed at a greater distance from the lense, thereby
greatly increasing the Weld of vision. His instrument is of great interest ‘as

eing the Wrst instrument in which there was an attempt made to improve
the objective; for in this microscope the objective consists of two planoconvex
lenses mounted with their curved surfaces facing one another. This
construction was not copied by any other make and for the next hundred
years the objective was universally made of a single lense, usually bi-convex’
(Clay & Court p. 84). Similar to Hooke, Griendel illustrates various
insects, including the Xea and the louse, blown up to frightening proportions,
but also shows plants and details of their construction, and textile
materials.
A Latin edition was published the same year, both editions are rare.
Poggendorf I, p. 963; see Clay & Court, History of the Microscope, 132; rare, RLIN
lists copies of the German edition at the Harvard, Chicago, Cornell and the American
Philosophical Society only, six copies of the Latin edition are listed.
Accounting in Agriculture
145 GÜNTHER, Ludwig Christian. Praktische Bemerkungen über
Pacht- und Kaufanschläge, Abnahme, Uebergabe und Verwaltung
der Domainen-Aemter und Rittergüther. Mit Anmerkungen
begleitet von M. F. G. Leonhardi. Leipzig, Joh. G. I. Breitkopf,
1795. £450
8vo, pp. iv, 124; numerous tables in the text; some spotting, due to
paper quality; faint damp-staining to lower corner of some leaves; uncut
in contemporary pale blue boards.
First edition, uncommon, of this introduction to accounting in agriculture.
Günther gives an overview of diVerent crops, and advises on how to assess
them for tax and sale purposes. At the same time he gives an insight into
agricultural accounts, sale inventories, and the legal requirements in insurance
and sale. In the second half, he departs from the theoretical and legal
approach and concentrates on more practical advice on farming and estate
management.
Not in Humpert, no copy found in OCLC or RLIN.
146 GULDENER VON LOBES, Edmund Vincenz. Beobachtungen
über die Krätze gesammelt in dem Arbeitshause zu Prag.
Prag, J. B. Calve, 1791. £600
8vo, pp. [viii], 180 (vere 188), [4]; contemporary blue paste-paper
boards, spine label lettered in manuscript, some surface abrasions to
spine and corners; printed on heavy paper, very clean and crisp, with
corrections marked in ink.
First edition of this detailed study of scabies, and its etiology based on an
outbreak at the Prague workhouse. Guldener von Lobes (1763–1827),
medical doctor in Vienna and at Prague University, begins with a detailed
description of the Prague work house and gives details of the prevalent
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weather conditions in the period of 1785–88, together with an account of
the public health situation in Prague and more speciWcally the workhouse.
He then discusses scabies, a contagious skin disease, caused by a mite and
characterised by intense itching, in great detail, presents diVerent kinds of
the complaint and makes suggestions for its treatment.
Blake p. 190; Hirsch II, 911; Wolfenbüttel 693; rare, OCLC and RLIN list copies
at the University of Chicago and the National Library of Medicine only; a second
edition was published in 1795.
Predecessor of Malthus
147 [HANCARVILLE, Pierre-François Hugues de.] Essai de
Politique et de Morale calculée. Tome Premier [all published].
1759. £900
8vo, pp. xl, 270; contemporary tan mottled calf, spine gilt with
contrasting spine labels, head of spine chipped, and extremities worn;
still a Wne crisp copy.
First public edition of a very rare original contribution to the eighteenth
century population debate in France. There is in fact an edition dated 1752,
but the entire print-run, with the exception of just thirty copies, was destroyed
by the author. Hancarville begins with an analysis of the distribution
of wealth in society and identiWes a causal link between population
growth and a distribution of the resources. He furthermore calculates the
ratio between those in possession of the resources and their dependents,
and attempts to come up with an ‘ideal’ ratio. Without expressing it in the
same terms as Malthus, he appears to identify a relationship between subsistence
level and population growth. Hancarville (1719–1805), a mathematician
and linguist, was a member of the academies of London and
Berlin.
This second edition is a direct reprint of the Wrst edition and diVers only
in two respects from the Wrst, the avis, explaining the destruction of the
whole print-run, is only present in the Wrst edition, whereas the contents list
is only present in the second edition.
INED 2225; very rare, only the Kress copy known of the 1752 edition (Goldsmiths’–Kress
8759); no further copies listed in NUC and RLIN, not in Higgs or
Einaudi.
The First National Bibliography
148 [HAYM, Nicola Francesco.] Biblioteca Italiana, o sia Notizia
de’ Libri Rari nella lingua Italiana. Venezia, Angiolo Geremia,
1728. £300
4to, pp. [xxiv], 264; woodcut initials; contemporary full vellum, spine
lettered in mansucript; with censor’s stamps of M. A. Parenti and B.
Bonelli, of the Duchy of Modena, to foot of title page and last leaf; a
good copy.

Second edition, substantially enlarged, of ‘the Wrst or one of the Wrst national
catalogues’ (Taylor, p. 15), and the standard bibliography of Italian
books for most of the eighteenth century. Haym Wrst published his Italian
bibliography under the title Notizia de Libri rari nella Lingua Italiana with a
London imprint in 1726 with the original intention of listing only rare
books. However, subsequent editors, beginning with Angelo Geremia, so
enlarged the work that it came to be considered as a library of Italian literature.
Bestermann 921; Krieg, Bibliotheca Bibliographica, 36 (1741 edition); Taylor,
Catalogues of rare books, p. 15.
149 HELWIG, Joseph. Zeitrechnung zu Erörterung der Daten in
Urkunden für Deutschland ... Mit einer Vorrede des Herrn Michael
Ignaz Schmidt. Wien, Joseph Edlen von Kurzbek, 1787. £750
Folio, pp. [viii], [x], 190, [2] errata, 13 folding printed tables,
numbered A-N (table M on three leaves); engraved title vignette by
Blaschke after Weinkopf; some light, insigniWcant spotting;
contemporary half tan calf, spine ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered spine
label; a Wne copy, with faint stamp to lower corner of title.
First edition, rare, of this important contribution to the study of historical
chronology and calendars in historical documents, and highly useful bibliographical
tool, especially for documents relating to the Holy Roman Empire.
Helwig (1730–1799), a Viennese historian and archivist points out
the importance of establishing speciWc dates for historical study – even before
the further confusion caused by the French revolutionary calendar.
He gives comparative tables for the Gregorian and Julian calendar, for
movable religious holidays, for Wxed holidays, the Roman calendar, medieval
terms for speciWc holidays and their explanations.
ADB XI, p. 718; Wurzbach VIII, p. 297; uncommon, NUC locates just two copies
(NcU, CU), and RLIN and OCLC add no further locations.
Österreich über Alles
150 HERMANN, Benedikt Franz. Herrn Johann von Horneks
Bemerkungen über die österreichische Staatsökonomie. Ganz
umgearbeitet und mit Anmerkungen versehen... [n.p.] [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
Oesterreich 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
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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 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-todate,
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.
Elocution and Articulation
151 HERRIES, John. The Elements of Speech. London, Edward
and Charles Dilly, 1773. £800
8vo, pp. xvi, 259; large folding printed table (short tear at inner fold)
bound in; uncut in contemporary half calf, gilt-lettered spine label;
corners bumped and edges rubbed, some wear to marbled paper sides; a
clean and crisp copy.
First edition of one of the most important eighteenth century treatises on
elocution, with a detailed treatment of articulation. Herries (died 1781), an
itinerant lecturer who taught at Dublin, Edinburgh, Oxford and London,
concentrates on the mechanisms of speech production. He deals with the
physiology of the organs of speech, the classiWcation of sounds, formation
of vowels, the alphabet, cultivation of the voice in children, speech impediments,
and teaching the deaf and dumb. His advice on correct breathing,
emphasis and eVective delivery is useful for the public speaker, singer, or
actor alike.
Alston VI 373; ESTC t8393.
Critique of the Anti-Machiavel
152 HESS, Heinrich Ludwig von. Historische und Politische
Anmerkungen über den Antimachiavel. Wismar und Leipzig, Joh.
A. Berger, 1751. £950
8vo, pp. [xvi], 494; title vignette; contemporary full sheep, spine gilt in
compartments, a little rubbed, spine label missing, but lettering in blind
directly to spine; a clean and crisp copy.
First edition of this close reading of the Frederick the Great’s Anti-
Machiavel, his enlightenment response to Machiavel’s Prince, which can be
summed up in the famous sentence ‘the prince is not the absolute master,
but only the Wrst servant of his people’. Hess carefully goes through the text
chapter by chapter and annotates it with further observations and comments
by classical and enlightenment philosophers. Hess (1719–1784), a

historian and philosophical writer, was exiled from Hamburg and Denmark
because of his critical publications. His wide learning was generally acknowledged;
his study met with interest and further editions followed in
1760 and 1766.
ADB XII, 277; not in Goedecke; uncommon, RLIN and OCLC locate copies at
the University of Chicago and Princeton only.
153 HINDOGLU, Artin. Theoretisch-pracktische Türkische
Sprachlehre für Deutsche. Wien, Anton Edlen von Schmid,
1829. £600
4to, pp. [iv], ii, 110, [2], [111]–178, [2] errata; some spotting and
foxing and some marginal damp-staining in the last signatures; uncut in
the original printed wrappers; extremities a little worn, but a good Wrm
copy.
First edition of this uncommon introduction to the Turkish language, apparently
one of the earliest such handbooks. Aimed at the business man and
traveller, Hindoglu, a native speaker of both Turkish and Armenian, and
resident in Vienna gives a thorough, but practical introduction to the main
components of the Turkish language, pronunciation, and grammar. He
points out that his phonetic transcription is based on actual spoken Turkish,
rather than written Turkish, as was common at the time and which must
have been of particular use to the traveller.
No copy in NUC, where his other works are listed; not in Zenker, not in Bonaparte.
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Back to Nature – an International Bestseller
154 [HIRZEL, Hans Kaspar.] Le Socrate Rustique, ou description
de la conduite economique & morale d’un paysan philosophe.
Traduit de l’Allemand de M. Hirzel ... par un oYcier Suisse [J. Frey
de Landes]. Zurich, Heidegguer & compagnie, 1762. £800
8vo, pp. 280, typographic head and tail-pieces and initials;
contemporary mottled calf-backed boards, spine ruled in gilt, giltlettered
spine label; single insigniWcant worm hole to foot of spine; a
very Wne copy.
First French edition, rare, of this economics besteller. The Socrate Rustique
was not a theoretical work of economic analysis, but rather a description of
the philosophy of life of a ‘noble’ peasant, Kliyogg, based on an actual person,
even though the name was Wctitious. Hirzel (1725–1803) describes
the model farm of Jakob Gujer (1716–1785), a farmer philosopher, who
through this book became famous all over Europe. Goethe came to visit
him twice, and Lavater portrayed him in his famous work on physiognomy.
The praise of the simple, rural life coincided with the back to nature theme
and the agriculture-mania of the mid-eighteenth century, and explains its
immense success.
This Wrst French edition appears to be very rare, most sources cite the
1763 edition with the Zürich and Limoges imprint as the Wrst French.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 9743.2–0; Carpenter, Dialogue in Political Economy, 1977, 15.
Dictionary of Horsemanship
155 [HORSEMANSHIP.] Der geöfnete Reit-Stall: worinnen
nicht allein die vornehmsten und üblichsten Kunst-Wörter der Reit-
Kunst durch kurtz-gefasste Beschreibung erkläret, sondern auch was
zu Kennung und Judicirung eines Pferdes absonderlich nöthig.
Denen Liebhabern solcher Wissenschaft deutlich und bequem vor
Augen gestellet werden. Hamburg, Benjamin Schiller, 1700. £350
12mo, pp. 100, with one folding engraved plate bound in, decorative
initials; contemporary blue boards, small chip to foot of spine.
First edition of this informative little booklet on horsemanship. A brief introduction
is given into the general characteristics of diVerent breeds of
horses. The folding plate depicts a horse’s skull showing both lower and
upper teeth, to illustrate how to ascertain the age of a horse. The main part
consists of a glossary of the terminology of horsemanship, to equip the
reader for the study of the French manuals of horsemanship. This glossary is
in fact a bilingual version of the Dictionnaire de l’Homme d’Epée.
Together with a number of similar volumes on hunting, shooting and
other pursuits, this was included in Der geöVnete Ritter-Platz in the same
year (Graesse VI, 132).
GV 116, p. 145.

Baltic German
156 [HUPEL, August W.] Idiotikon der deutschen Sprache in
Lief- und Ehstland (!). Nebst eingestreueten Winken für Liebhaber.
Riga, Joh. Friedr. Hartknoch, 1795. £480
8vo, pp. xx, 272, [3] errata; paper lightly browned throughout; uncut
in contemporary blue boards, rebacked; ownership inscription to front
pastedown; a good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this detailed study of the Baltic German language
as spoken in Lithuania and Estonia. Hupel (1737–1819) was a specialist
in Baltic history,
Zaunmüller 74.
157 [ITALY – ROAD MAINTENANCE.] Regie Patenti
d’approvazione dell’annesso Regolamento per la manutenzione, e
riparazione delle Strade Reali, e pubbliche. in data de’ 11. Settembre
1771. Torino, Stamperia Reale, 1771. £250
Folio, pp. 8; folded as issued, uncut; paper a little browned, but evenly
so; a Wne copy.
Decree by the Government of Charles Emanuel III ordering a general survey
of all public roads for maintenance and repair work – a typical example
of his wide-ranging managerial reforms. In thirty-eight numbered paragraphs
all aspects of road maintenance, planning of new roads, Wnancial
responsibility for the maintenance work, Wscal reimbursement schemes, and
proper disposal of waste materials are organised. Technical questions, such
as surface grading for drainage and the construction of run-oV ditches are
also discussed.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; not found in NUC or RLIN.
Time Management
158 JULLIEN, Marc-Antoine. Essai sur l’Emploi du Tems, ou
Méthode qui a pour objet de bien régler sa Vie, premier moyen
d’ètre heureux; destinée spécialement à l’usage des jeunes Gens.
Paris, Dondey-Dupré Père et Fils, 1824. £350
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. viii, 568, with one engraved plate in the
text; uncut in the original pink printed wrappers; upper joint
strenghtened.
Third, much enlarged, edition of Jullien’s interesting study on the conduct
of life and time management for the nobility, based on the educational principles
of Locke and Bacon, and foreshadowing modern business management
schemes. Jullien stresses the importance of time management, both
for individual happiness and for achieving one’s full potential. At an early
age – he suggests between Wfteen and twenty-Wve – students should become
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accountable for their time, and optimise their use of time. All decisions
should be guided by utilitarian principles, and be accompanied by the question:
why and to what end. He suggests the keeping of time sheets, where
all activities of the day are recorded, and which provide an account of physical
and mental progress. The time sheets are explained in more detail in his
Memorial Horaire.
The Wrst edition had appeared in 1808, followed by a second edition in
1810; this third edition is much enlarged and incorporates previously separately
published works by Jullien, such as his Biomètre, ou Mémorial Horaire.
159 JUSTI, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von. Die Chimäre des
Gleichgewichts der Handlung und SchiVahrt, oder: Ungrund und
Nichtigkeit einiger neuerlich geäußerten Meynungen von denen
Maaßregeln der freyen Mächte gegen die zu befürchtende Herrschaft
und Obermacht zur See. Altona, David Iversen, 1759. £1000
4to, pp. 86; decorative initials, engraved head and tail-pieces; title a
little dust-soiled and stained; uncut in recent calf-backed boards; a good
copy.
First edition of Justi’s eloquent defence of the free trade doctrine as espoused
by England and Prussia. Justi maintains that the idea of free trade is

incompatible with the concept of balanced trade and naval commerce, as
the interests of diVerent nations will always be mutually exclusive. In extremis
the diVerences will lead to war, which by deWnition damages the
trade balance of all combatants. Justi gives a detailed introduction to the
principles that characterise international trade, i.e. the proper balance between
free enterprise and state intervention. He concludes with an interesting
chapter on the trade of neutral powers in time of war, one of the basic
principles of international law.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 9482.4; Humpert 10090; OCLC records copies at Harvard,
the University of Wisconsin and Keio University.
Balance between State Intervention and Free Enterprise
160 JUSTI, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von. Die Grundfeste zu
der Macht und Glückseeligkeit der Staaten; oder ausführliche Vorstellung
der gesamten Policey-Wissenschaft. Königsberg und
Leipzig, Joh. H. Hartung, 1760, 1761. £3200
Two volumes, 4to, pp. [xxiv], 782, with Wve folding plates; [xvi], 651;
woodcut head and tail-pieces and initials; some light browning, due to
paper quality; entirely uncut in contemporary pale blue beech boards,
gilt-lettered spine label to spines, gilt supralibros to upper boards; a
little chipped, and corners bent; from a Swedish noble library.
First edition, uncommon, of Justi’s important comprehensive handbook of
cameralistic science, in particular public policy – his blueprint for the welfare
state. In it Justi presented a strikingly modern view of the proper balance
between free enterprise and state intervention. While he championed
the welfare state, and accepts the state’s responsibility for the moral and
economic conditions of life, in particular for everyone’s employment and
livelihood, he stopped short of advocating excessive state intervention. He
was aware of the inherent logic of economic phenomena, and attempted to
limit government interference in price and interest rate Wxing. Justi ‘saw the
practical argument for laissez-faire not less clearly than did A. Smith, and his
bureaucracy, while guiding and helping where necessary, was always ready
to eVace itself when no guidance or help seemed needed. Only he saw much
more clearly than did the latter all the obstacles that stood in the way of its
working according to design... (Schumpeter, p. 172). In his Grundfeste he
devotes much attention to government statistics, population and subsistence,
manufacturing industry and commerce, with the second volume concentrating
more on public and civic administration, including insurance,
Wre services, poor law etc.
Einaudi 3103; Goldsmiths’–Kress 9637.4; Humpert 8496; Menger c 50; RLIN
lists copies at Michigan, Princeton, and New York Public Library.
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161 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 und Leipzig, Joh. H. Rüdigers,
1760. £3000
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
Montesquieu. In his treatise he 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).
Higgs 2415; Masui p. 916; Menger, c. 51; uncommon NUC, RLIN and OCLC
list copies at Harvard, Chicago, and Columbia.

162 [JUVENILE.] The Book of English Trades, and Library of the
Useful Arts. With seventy engravings. A new Edition Enlarged.
London; stereotyped by G. Sidney, for Richard Phillips, J. Souter,
1818. £780
8vo, pp. vi, 442, [2] advertisements, with 74 plates, one bound as
frontispiece; contemporary full blue roan, spine ruled in gilt, giltlettering
directly to spine; a good copy with contemporary ownership
inscription to front paste-down.
First edition thus, of an appealing introduction to the industrial arts, trades
and professions. Originally published as the Book of Trades in 1804, the
work was revised, condensed into one volume and illustrated with new style
plates. The plates show diVerent professions at work with their tools and
equipment in their working environment. The arrangement of the chapters
is by profession in alphabetical order, ranging from ‘apothecary’ and ‘attorney’
to ‘wheelwright’, ‘wire-drawer’ and ‘wool-comber’.
See Goldsmiths’–Kress 23175 and Opie B31 for later edition.
Zoology for Children
163 [JUVENILE.] Histoire des Animaux, a l’Usage des Jeunes
Gens, et de ceux qui ont du Goût pour l’Histoire Naturelle.
Nouvelle Édition, ornée de 200 Wgures. Hambourg, 1799. £500
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12mo, pp. xii, 490, [1] spine label; with two hundred woodcuts in the
text; contemporary full sheep, Xat spine decoratively gilt, with giltlettered
spine label; upper joint with short splits, head of spine chipped;
an attractive copy.
Later edition of a rare and charming introduction to zoology for children,
Wrst published in 1780. In alphabetical order all manner of animals are described,
and illustrated with sixteenth century style woodcuts. The animals
covered range from the domestic and farm animals, to panthers, lions,
whales etc, and include a few fanciful ones too, such as the unicorn and
sphinx. The work was clearly popular and went through a number of editions,
all of which are apparently rare.
Not in Brüggemann; RLIN and OCLC record copies at UCLA (this edition), the
National Library of Australia (1786), Berkeley (1780).
Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child – Discuss!
164 KANT, Immanuel. Über Pädagogik. Herausgegeben von
D. Friedr. Th. Rink. Königsberg, Friedrich Nicolovius, 1803. £450
8vo, pp. vi, 146; entirely uncut in contemporary boards, spine partially
lettered in manuscript: K. Päd; extremities a little bent, else a Wne and crisp.
First edition of Kant’s only speciWc contribution to educational theory.
Kant, as professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Königsberg also had to lecture
on subsidiary subjects, such as education. Eventually he handed his
lecture notes to his friend, Theodor Rink, and they were Wnally published in
1803, a year before Kant’s death. This brief treatise, in itself not a systematic
study of educational theories but a collection of thoughts and maxims,
shows Kant strongly inXuenced by Rousseau’s Emile.
Borst 946; Warda 219.
165 KANT, Immanuel. Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer
Entwurf... Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1796. £180
8vo, pp. 95; a little spotted, due to paper quality; original marbled
wrappers, a little discoloured; with contemporary discreet private
library stamp to title, a nice copy.
Pirated edition, in fact a straight reprint of the Wrst edition published the
previous year, without the additions included in the second edition. Kant,
who knew Rousseau’s Extrait du Projet de Paix perpetuelle, which in turn was
based on Saint-Pierre’s fundamental work of the beginning of the eighteenth
century, here details the basis of practical paciWsm. In his far-reaching
analysis of preconditions for the establishment of peace, Kant anticipates
twentieth century developments, such as the League of Nations and the
United Nations Charter.
Adicke 84; Warda 157.

166 KIESEWETTER, Johann Gottfried. Lehrbuch der Hodegetik
oder kurze Anweisung zum Studiren. Berlin, G. C. Nauck,
1811. £250
8vo, pp. viii, 263, [1] errata; bound in contemporary marbled boards,
extremities rubbed and corners worn; still a good clean copy from a
school library, with stamp and shelf-mark on title-page, and occasional
marginal manuscript annotations, mostly listing further bibliographical
references.
First edition of this advice on studying by the professor of philosophy
Kiesewetter (1766–1819), meant for future university students. Beginning
with a general introduction into university education and the acquisition of
knowledge, the author attempts to deWne who is a suitable student, which
classes should beneWt from university education, and which individual characteristics
are necessary for the successful and proWtable completion of a
university education. The last two sections give general bibliographical information
about reference books for the relevant Welds, followed by general
reference works, dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
ADB XV, p. 730; rare, no copy of this work listed in NUC, where some of his other
works are recorded.
167 KIRCHMAYER, Matthias. Gramatica della Lingua Todesca
... in questa seconda Edizione augmentata e dedicata al’illustriss.
ed Eccellentiss. Sig. Marches Clemente Vitelli, Ambasciatore
Straordinar. Firenze nel Garbo, Giuseppi Manni, [?1698, or
1702]. £450
12mo, pp. viii, 278, [2] approbation; woodcut initials and typographic
head-pieces; contemporary full vellum, spine numbered in manuscript.
Second edition of this charming pocket grammar of the German language.
In addition to grammar and grammatical exercises the work also contains a
glossary of the most important words, arranged in subject areas.
Kirchmayer concludes with a number of dialogues on areas useful to the
tourist or traveller. Finding lodgings, food and drink, shopping, but also
the necessary terminology for engaging in card games, betting and gambling.
A curious Wnal section deals with German idioms, ‘Del Germanismo’,
and gives numerous examples.
GV 24, 102; not found in NUC, OCLC and RLIN just locate one copy at Harvard
(Mattia Chirchmair).
Advice on Manners and Conduct for the Middle Classes
168 KNIGGE, Adolph Freiherr v. Ueber den Umgang mit
Menschen. In zwey Theilen. Zweyte verbesserte AuXage. Frankfurt
und Leipzig, 1789. £850
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], vi, [10]–240; xvi, 263; paper slightly
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browned; contemporary full marbled sheep, spine gilt, with matching
gilt-lettered labels; labels and head of spine chipped, some light
staining; still an attractive set from a noble library, with blind-stamped
heraldic book plate.
First pirated edition, in fact a straight reprint of the second edition of
Knigge’s well-known and highly inXuential compendium of manners and
social conduct. A typical representative of the Enlightenment, Knigge reconciles
the aristocratic tradition of the courtesy book such as Il Cortegiano
with the value system of the developing middle classes. He places great emphasis
on marital and family life, and stresses the value of the individual
independent of rank or background.
Kayser III, 369; Knigge 25.003.
169 KNIGHT, Charles. The old printer and the modern press.
London: John Murray, 1854. £150
Small 8vo, pp. xii, 314, [2] imprint, [32] publisher’s catalogue, original
brown blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt; neatly recased,
endpapers renewed; a nice clean copy.
First edition of Knight’s history of printing. The Wrst part is a reprint of
Knight’s biography of Caxton (Wrst published in 1844), whereas the second
part provides a general history of the printing press up to 1854. Of particular
interest are his comments on the subject of cheap popular literature.
Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 389.
170 KÖRTE, F. H. Wilhelm. Die Sprichwörter und sprichwörtlichen
Redensarten der Deutschen. Nebst den Redensarten der
Deutschen Zech-Brüder und Aller Praktik Grossmutter, d.i. der
Sprichwörter ewigem Wetter-Kalender. Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus,
1837. £180
8vo, pp. xl, 567, [1], title printed in red and black; bound in
contemporary full brown cloth, gilt-lettered green spine label,
extremities rubbed, but in all a good copy.
First edition of this comprehensive guide to German proverbial expressions,
which provide evidence of considerable similarities across cultures. In
many instances similar English or French proverbs are given. Cross-references
for proverbs expressing similar sentiments are given. At the end more
than a hundred euphemistic terms for being drunk are given, – in ascending
order, such as ‘er sieht die Buchstaben doppelt, er is benebelt, er hat was in
der Krone, er hat schief geladen... ’ Old wives’ tales and popular beliefs regarding
the weather and the seasons follow this.
ADB XVI, p. 728; see Collins 9388 for later edition of 1861.

Education for Industry
171 KRÜNITZ, D. Johann Georg. Land-Schulen sowohl wie
Lehr- als auch Arbeits- oder Industrie-Schulen betrachtet...
Berlin, Pauli, 1794. £500
8vo, frontispiece, pp. [viii], 620, 3 folding engraved plates bound at
end; later half calf over marbled boards; plates somewhat creased, two
signatures with some worming in foremargin.
First separate edition of this description of the late eighteenth century country
school system together with a proposal for the introduction of special
schools for industry and manufacturing. The text was also included in the
Krünitz’sche Oekonomisch-technologisch Enzyklopädie, the most detailed encyclopaedia
ever to be published in the German language. The so-called
Industrieschule is run in conjunction with the normal country school. Pupils
take part in some of the instruction of the ‘normal’ school, but then train for
diVerent professions, such as weaving, spinning etc, or to prepare girls for
positions in domestic service. Krünitz adds reports from a large number of
such schools, from all over Germany.
From Guilds to Trade Unions
172 LA FARELLE, François Félix de. Plan d’une Réorganisation
Disciplinaire des Classes industrielles en France, précédé et suivi
d’Études historiques sur les formes anciennes et modernes du Travail
humain. Paris, Guilhaumin, 1842. £280
12mo, pp. [iv], 246; contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, spine
decorated in gilt in two compartments, central lettering to spine; a Wne
copy.
First edition of La Farelle’s inXuential study of the organisation of industrial
labour in France. In the Wrst section he gives an historical overview and
outlines the legislation which led to the abolition of ancient corporations,
with their systems of masters and journeymen. In the second he proposes a
reorganisation of the labour force through a Wfty-point program. He aims
to ‘distribute oYcially through the agency of administrative authority all
merchants, artisans, and workmen of the industrial classes and professions
either in societies or in diVerent localities’ (Palgrave II, p. 532). The extensive
appendices cover labour legislation in diVerent parts of the world.
Einaudi 3168; Goldsmiths’–Kress 33071; see Coquelin & Guillaumin II, p. 14;
Palgrave II. p. 532.
Single Tax
173 [LA MOTHE LE VAYER, Jean François de.] Essay sur la
Possibilité d’un Droit unique. Londres, 1764. £400
12mo, pp. 71; uncut, stitched as issued; a Wne copy, with scribble in ink
to verso of Wnal leaf.
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First edition, one of two issues, of this treatise on taxation and tax farming.
La Mothe Le Vayer proposes the introduction of a single tax, just like the
physiocrats, as a means of Wscal convenience, necessity and justice at a time
when the proXigacy of the court was Wnanced at the expense of the peasantry.
The author cites from a number of contemporary authors and argues
that only a tax on land can be just. He suggests the establishment of a reliable
cadastre, to assess values appropriately. Location and use were to be
used in the assessment of the relevant tax code, which would then be applicable
to all, including the nobility and the church.
Another edition, also with a ‘Londres’ imprint but with with a diVerent
collation, was published the same year; no priority has been ascribed.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10026.10 (other issue), Higgs 3259 (other issue); RLIN and
OCLC list one further copy at the Library of Congress.
174 LA PORTE, Mathieu de. La Science des Negocians et
Teneurs de Livres ou, instruction générale pour tout ce qui se
pratique dans les Comptoirs des Négocians, tant pour les aVaires
de Banque, que pour les Marchandises, & chez les Financiers pour
les comptes. Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, Charles Osmont, 1604
[vere 1704]. £1950
Oblong 8vo, pp. [vi], x, 505, [3] including tables, approbation and
privilège du roi, some light marginal browning; one signature slightly
loosened in gutter; last leaf with faint damp stain; contemporary full
mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments, joints cracked, but holding
Wrm; clearly a copy that has been put to use, but still a good copy with a
contemporary inscription in ink to advertisement leaf ‘à mon père
Gouzé(?)’.

Rare Wrst edition of one of the most successful accounting books of all
times. With it, says Deschamps, ‘accounting takes the classic form we
know’. Its numerous editions certainly indicate its success. La Science des
Négocians was Wrst published in 1704 and was partly rewritten from de La
Porte’s earlier publication La guide des negocians et teneurs de livres, 1685. De
La Porte’s treatment of double-entry bookkeeping was highly inXuential,
was translated into Dutch and Portuguese and served as a basis for a
number of other books on the subject in German, Latin, Italian and French.
Even the oblong shape of La science des négocians was taken over by some of
his followers.
On the advertisement leaf De la Porte is described as an accountant, who
provides a wide array of accounting services: ‘L’auteur fait & veriWe toute
sorte de Calculs. Il tient & veriWe les Livres chez les Negocians’, which
seems to indicate that he was a certiWed accountant, clearly an early ancestor
of Wrms like Ernst & Young.
Historical Accounting Literature, p. 157; Hausdorfer p. 193–4; no further copies
recorded in NUC, OCLC or RLIN; Bywater & Yamey, pp. 142–145, this edition
not in Kress or Goldsmiths, for later edition see Goldsmiths’–Kress 5243.9.
175 LAISTNER, Ludwig. Germanische Völkernamen.
(Sonderabdruck aus den Württembergischen Vierteljahresheften für
Landesgeschichte. Neue Folge. 1892). Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer,
1892. £80
8vo, pp. 57, extensive marginal annotations in pencil; loose in the
original buV-coloured printed wrappers, wrappers discoloured, spine
chipped and repaired.
Original oVprint of Laistner’s philological study on the history and origin
of the names of Germanic tribes, and social and geographic groups.
Ice Cream and Sorbet
176 LANDRIANI, GioseVantonio. La Pratica del Distillatore, e
Confettiere Italiane... In cui s’insegna a far Conserve di Frutti, e di
Agrumi, ed a formar Gelati, Mazapani, e Rosoglj d’ogni qualità.
Pavia, [n.p.], 1785. £1500
12mo, pp. 76; uncut in contemporary decorated paper boards; some
light damp-staining; corners worn; upper board lettered in manuscript.
First edition, very rare, of this guide to the production of sorbets, ice creams
and granitas. Of particular interest is the detailed description of cream ices
and frozen custard, made with eggs, cream and sugar rather than Xavoured
water and sugar. Detailed instructions are given for the production of ices
in the shape of various fruits – still today a mainstay of the elegant Italian
gelateria. The second part is devoted to various recipes for marzipan, and
the manufacture of marzipan fruits and vegetables. Shorter sections deal
with liqueurs and Xavoured drinks.
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Frozen custards became popular at the time, and this work was reprinted
in 1816, 1820, and 1823.
Rare, this Wrst edition not in B.IN.G, Paleari, Westbury, Vicaire or Bitting; no
copy of this Wrst edition found in RLIN, OCLC or NUC; see B.IN.G 1084 and
1085 for later editions.
177 LANG, Johannes. Dictionnaire Universel des Synonymes de la
Langue Françoise, à l’usage des Allemands. Oder allgemeine
Französische Synonymik für die Deutschen. Ulm, A. L. Stettin,
1807. £140
8vo, facing title pages, pp. [ii], vi, 759, [1] advertisement, with both a
French and a German index; paper occasionally a little spotted, else
clean; contemporary pale blue boards, gilt-lettered orange spine label; a
nice copy.
First edition, rare, of a useful French-German dictionary of synonyms. Detailed
explanations are given to words of similar meaning, but the author is
fully aware that lexemes rarely have exactly the same meaning, and that stylistic,
regional, emotional, or other diVerences have to be considered. An
extensive commentary gives clear guidance to usage, idiomatical phrases,
and translations, supported by numerous examples.
Not found in NUC.
178 LAVATER, Johann Caspar.] Le Lavater Portatif, ou Précis de
l’Art de Connaitre les Hommes par les Traits du Visage. Cinquième
Édition, augmentée d’une Notice sur la vie de Lavater, d’un Recueil
d’anecdotes physionomiques, etc. etc. Avec Trente-Trois Planches.
Paris, Saintin, 1812. £220
16mo, hand-coloured frontispiece portrait, pp. 96, with 32 handcoloured
plates, i.e. thirty-three plates in all; contemporary sheep,
undestructibly re-backed, small stamp to front free endpaper.
Fifth edition of this appealing spin-oV from Lavater’s great work on physiognomy
– a mini physiognomy of men. Thirty-two diVerent ‘characters’ are
described and illustrated.
The earliest version of this work was apparently published in 1808, with
another one following in 1809, later editions followed in 1815 and 1826.
All editions are uncommon.
The Founder of National Statistics
179 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent. Résultats extraits d’un
Ouvrage intitulé: De la Richesse territoriale du Royaume de
France; Paris, l’Imprimerie Nationale. 1791. £2800
8vo, pp. [ii], 48; uncut in the original wrappers, bound with three
folding broadsides.

First edition, very rare, of this major contribution to the history of political
economy, the Wrst entirely modern assessment of economic and demographic
data for policy decisions. Lavoisier was the founder of national statistics
and records in this work for the Wrst time what is now known as the
law of probability (Duveen and Klickstein). In connection with having
been asked by the National Assembly to introduce a new scheme of taxation,
Lavoisier drew up a plan, which, though unWnished, turned out to be
his main economic contribution De la richesse territoriale de la France. Here
we have the abridged version, the only one ever to be published, printed on
demand of the l’Assemblée Nationale in 1791. It records his Wndings resulting
from his statistical investigations into population, and calculated consumption
and production, which are then expressed in terms of silver. The
result is the most detailed state Wnance, revenue and agricultural resource to
be published before the 20th century (INED).
Duveen & Klickstein 264; Einaudi 3272; INED 2690; not in Kress or Goldsmiths.
For a detailed analysis see Perrot, ‘Lavoisier, l’Auteur de La Richesse
territoriale du Royaume de France’ in: Un histoire intellectuelle de l’Économie
Politique, 1992, pp. 377–437.
180 [LAW]. Code des Nourrices, ou Recueil des Déclarations du
Roi, Arrêts du Parlement, Ordonnances et Sentences de Police;
concernant les Nourrices, les Recommandaresses, les Meneurs &
Meneuses. Paris, Philippe-Denys Pierres. 1781. £900
8vo, pp. iv, 68; with royal arms to title; printed on pale blue paper;
contemporary full polished calf, spine gilt with gilt-lettered spine label,
sides with triple gilt rule, a.e.g., gilt dentelles; short splits at joints and
extremities a little rubbed, still a very attractive copy, possibly bound for
presentation.
First edition of this attractively presented legal code for the provision of
nursing care and the registration of wet-nurses in late eighteenth century
France. It consists of a compilation of the relevant laws regulating nurses
and child-care, together with nursing agencies. Beginning with the act of
1715 all relevant legislation is reprinted. The wet-nurses were required to
register and were inspected by the police, they were only allowed to nurse
two babies at any one time, and had to inform the authorities of the details
of the babies they were nursing. Interestingly an important role was played
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by some form of nursing agency (Wrst two, then four for Paris), that acted as
an agent, and was paid a fee by the parents. The wet-nurses were to be paid
directly by the parents.
In eighteenth century Paris a large proportion of wealthy women placed
their infants with wet-nurses in the surrounding countryside, and thus the
provision of nursing care needed strict organisation.
Rare, the Bibliothèque Nationale records copies with this collation and also with an
additional 7 pages, presumably recording further changes in the legislation; RLIN
and OCLC list copies at the National Library of Medicine and the Wellcome Library.
181 [LAW – INHERITANCE.] RiXessioni sopra il Redintegro dei
Fideicomissi esposte in una Lettera d’un Veneziano ad un Amico.
Zurigo [Venezia], 1798. £450
8vo, pp. lxii, [2] Wnal blank; original wrappers; some wear to upper
outer corner, a little dog-eared; very clean and crisp.
First and only edition of this rare discussion of changes in inheritance law,
especially on entailments to limit inheritance to speciWc heirs, and to prohibit
the heirs from diminishing the assets. New legislation of 1796 had
curtailed the rights of the heirs, and the anonymous author maintains that
this is against natural and civil law.
Not found in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi; no copy in OCLC, RLIN lists just
one copy at the University of Hanover.
Lotteries: Pros and Cons
182 [LE CLERC, Jean.] RéXexions sur ce que l’on appelle Bonheur
et Malheur en Matiere de Loteries, et sur le bon usage qu’on en peut
faire. Amsterdam, George Gallet, 1696. £850
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 236; title in red and black;
contemporary full sheep, spine gilt in compartments, corners a little
rubbed; a Wne copy with private library book plate to front free endpaper.
First edition of this spirited discussion of what constitutes luck and misfortune
in gambling, especially lotteries. Lotteries were particularly popular at
the time, with a veritable lottery fever started by William of Orange’s proposal
for a national lottery in England. Le Clerc (1657–1736), a Protestant
cleric and friend of John Locke, takes a liberal standpoint in the debate
about the evils and beneWts of lotteries. He especially defends charitable
lotteries in Holland which at the time were making a serious come-back. In
his discussion of luck and misfortune Locke’s inXuence can be discerned.
The Wne engraved plate shows blind ‘Fortuna’ showering notes or lottery
slips onto two disgruntled gentlemen who clearly have drawn blanks,
whereas the crowd in the background is still eagerly awaiting its share.
The treatise was popular and translated into Dutch (the same year), German
(1716) and English (1758).
Cioranescu 41292; Goldsmiths’–Kress 3367.27; Zollinger, 1696.

183 [LE NOBLE, Eustache.] Carta TopograWca dell’Isola del
Maritaggio di Monsieur Le Noble per la prima volta tradotta dal
Francese in Italiano. Cosmopoli, 1765. £950
8vo, folding engraved map (platemark 250 x 365 mm), pp. 43; title
page a little soiled, else very clean and crisp; recently bound in calfbacked
marbled boards, gilt.
Rare Wrst edition in Italian of this satire on love and marriage, with an allegorical
map of the Island of Matrimony. The work is arranged like a travel
book, describing and illustrating in detail the journey to wedded bliss, passing
through the ports of ‘love’, ‘bad advice’, or ‘self-interest’. The travellers’
are invited to make their home in the ‘province of jealousy’, the ‘county of the
cuckolds’, or the mountain range of the ‘in-laws’. Once on the island it becomes
impossible to leave, though a transfer to the peninsulas of ‘widowhood’
and ‘divorce’ is still possible, as is a relocation to the ‘island of bigamy’.
The island is illustrated on an attractive large folding map, bound at the end.
The work appears to be adapted and translated from the Carte de’Isle de
Marriage by the proliWc Eustache La Noble de Tennelière (1643–1711),
Wrst published in 1705.
Rare, no copies listed in RLIN and OCLC, another issue with a Cosmopoli imprint
extending to just pp. 31, and with a slightly smaller map, was published the
same year.
184 LEGRAS, Charles. Dictionnaire de Slang et d’Expressions
Familières Anglaises. Paris, Garnier, 1922. £80
8vo, pp. xi, [i], 182, lightly browned throughout, half title loose;
original publisher’s cloth, spine and upper board lettered in black.
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Third edition of a dictionary of English slang and colloquial expressions
explained to the French, which had Wrst been published to acclaim in 1898.
The Journey to Knowledge and Happiness
185 [LEMIERRE, August-Jacques attrib. to GILLET, Miss.] The
Hundred Thoughts of a Young Lady – Cent Pensées d’une Jeune
Anglaise publiées en Anglais et en Français. Paris, Legras et Cordier,
1802. £450
12mo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xv, [16]–171, [8], with one folding
allegorical hand-coloured map; a number of stab holes to map; an
attractive copy in contemporary French calf, spine and edges gilt; giltlettered
spine label; a little rubbed, but a Wne copy.
Later edition of an attractive courtesy book, giving instructions to the
young in the form of one hundred maxims in parallel text in English and
French. The most appealing aspect of the book is the engraved hand-coloured
map illustrating the journey of the young to the country of happiness,
passing the valley of tears, sandbanks of patience, peninsular of
science, and avoiding possible wrong turns to the land of remorse, island of
dissipation. The Wnal goal is the Terre Ferme du Bonheur.
The work was apparently Wrst published in 1796 under the title The Pleasures
of Reason, and then reprinted in 1798, 1800 and 1801.
On Being Married
186 LEONARDI, Domenico Felice. I Doveri dello Stato
Coniugale. Canto. [colophon:] Lucca, Riccomini, 1767. £350
8vo, pp. xxxii; engraved title vignette, woodcut initials and head and
tail-pieces; contemporary limp boards, covered with gilt pattern paper;
a Wne copy.
First and only edition of this poem on marriage and the resultant duties of
the wife. Leonardi stresses the role of marriage as a social compact, with
love and mutual respect a necessary requirement. However, the main responsibility
lies with the woman, in raising the children and tending the
house – the custodian of marital happiness. In an educational aside
Leonardi comments extensively on the care for newborn babies, and condemns
the custom of swaddling babies with reference to European medical
opinion.
Not found in RLIN and OCLC.
Harvesting Technology
187 LEONHARDI, Friedrich G. Beskrifning På en i England af
John Middleton uppfunnen Machine ... Stockholm, Carl Delfen
och J. G. Forsgren, 1799. £150

8vo, pp. [ii], 13, [1] blank, 1 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.
Aide-Memoire for the Confessional
188 LEUTBREWER, Christophe. La Confession Coupée, ou la
Methode facile pour se préparer aux Confessions particulières et
générales. Dans laquelle est renfermé l’Examen général de tous les
pechez qui se commettent par les personnes de toutes sortes d’etats
& conditions; lesquels sont tous coupez, & disposez de maniere que
sans rien écrire on leve chaque article don’t on se veut confesser: & à
l’instant ou après la Confession, le tout se remet & confond avec les
autres pechez, comme il estoit auparavant, sans que d’autres
personne puissant connaitre les pechez, don’t on s’est accusé...
Revuë & corrigé en cette dernier Edition ... Paris, Denys Thierry,
1695. £1000
12mo, pp. [lii] including two full-page engravings, 188; printed
throughout within typographic border; pp. 1–80 printed on one side
only, pasted together in the margins and pre-cut; contemporary calf,
spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; head and tail of
spine chipped, upper joint worn, but holding Wrm.
Popular aide-mémoire for the confessional, Wrst published in 1677 and frequently
reprinted. The book is of great interest in book history, and with its
‘loose leaf’ arrangement has been regarded as an ancestor of the reference
card in knowledge management, and as such of the modern computer. A
list of sins for the confessional is given, arranged in the order of the Ten
Commandments. It is printed and pre-cut by the bookbinder in a way that
the little slips of paper with the ‘individual sin’ can easily be torn out, or
folded over. They can then be taken to confession as an aide-mémoire. After
confession it can be reinserted, and no-one needs to be the wiser.
See Graesse IV, 188 for the edition of 1688; see ‘Reparages et Navigation dans
l’Espace du Livre Ancien’ 17.
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189 LOCKE, John. Some Familiar Letters between Mr Locke
and several of his Friends. London, A. & J. Churchill, 1708. £550
8vo, pp. iv, 540; title within border; lower corner of O4 torn, no loss; contemporary
panelled calf, upper joint starting; a very clean and crisp copy.
First edition of the Wrst authorized collection of Locke’s Letters. The collection
contains letters to and from William Molineux, a copy of Leibniz’s
comments on the Essay, a letter to Ezekiel Burridge, the Irish translator for
the Latin edition of the Essay, correspondence with Thomas Molyneux,
and the Latin correspondence with Philippus van Limborch about Dutch
religious aVairs.
Attig 806; Yolton 346.
190 LOCKE, John. Some Thoughts concerning Education.
Sixth Edition enlarged. London, A. and J. Churchill, 1709. £300
8vo, pp. [viii], 390, [2] contents; Wnal endpaper with dampstain;
contemporary panelled calf, spine in compartments, joints repaired.
Later edition of this fundamental classic in the history of educational
theory. Some thoughts concerning education (Wrst published in 1693) was
the last of Locke’s Wve great books on the theory of liberty to be published.
The Wve – on human understanding, civil government, religious toleration,
interest, and education – together may be said to comprise a complete system
of thought, one which inspired the American and French Revolutions,
and liberal democracy in the modern world. Locke stressed the value of
experience in education, holding that ‘we are born with faculties and powers,
capable of almost anything; but, as it is with the body, so it is with the
mind, practice makes it what it is.’
Attig 527; Yolton 170.
Locke’s Treatise on Government
191 LOCKE, John. Oförgripelige Tankar om WerldXig Regerings
Rätta Ursprung / Gräntsor och Andamål; Ofwersatte ifrån Engelskan
af Hans Harmens, Stockholm, Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1726. £300
8vo, pp. [viii], 382, [2], title printed in red and black; contemporary
wooden boards, with sprinkled paper covering, back strip worn oV, but
cords holding very Wrm, small piece of paper torn oV from lower board;
preserved in a slip-case; a very clean and crisp copy.
First edition in Swedish of Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (Wrst
1690), the translation by Hans Harmens based on David Mazel’s French
version. Locke’s treatises on government can be considered the foundation
of liberal political thought in Britain. He was Wrst and foremost a defender
of individual liberty against pope or king, and it was his inXuential theories
of liberalism which lay behind those of the American revolutionaries.
Attig 216; Yolton 60.

Early Mining History
192 LOMMER, Christian Hieronymous. Bergmännischer Beytrag
zu der von der Königlichen Großbrittanischen Societät der
Wissenschaften, auf das Jahr 1781 ausgestellten Preißfrage: Wie
waren die Bergwerke bey den Alten eigentlich beschaVen und
eingerichtet? ... Freyberg, Carl Craz, 1785. £600
4to, pp. 44, Wne text engraving to dedication, engraved head piece;
contemporary paste-paper boards, spine a little chipped.
First and only edition of this response to a prize question by the Göttingen
Royal Society on the question of mining technology in earlier times. Interestingly
Lommer concentrates on the period of Agricola, and describes important
milestones of mining history. He begins with a brief introduction
to metallurgy and mine surveying, with reference to numerous authors.
Various mining professions are described, and signiWcant changes and advances
in technique are listed. In the second half he concentrates on advances
of modern mining technology, and maintains that this had led to a
more extensive exploitation of the mines, greater safety for the miners, and
more economical mining.
ADB XIX, 151; OCLC just lists copies at the University of Illinois and the State
Library of Lower Saxony.
Hawksmoor’s Churches
193 [LONDON – LAW.] The Acts of Parliament relating to the
Building of Fifty New Churches in and about the Cities of London
and Westminster. London, by John Baskett, 1721. £480
8vo, pp. 179, [1] blank, 20 contents; title printed within double
border; some oVsetting to margin of title and last leaf, else clean;
contemporary panelled tan calf, joints weak, but cords holding well,
head and tail of spine chipped and wear to corners, small library stamp
to verso of title.
First complete edition (Wrst 1716) of the oYcial acts regulating the building
of Wfty new churches in London and Westminster. This building program
was to be Wnanced by an additional duty on all coal brought into the port of
London, and a number of other fund-raising ventures, such as a special lottery.
To stabilise religious life in London, in the wake of Reformation and
Counter-Reformation, Parliament had established a commission for the
building of Wfty new churches in the great new suburbs of London, which
were regarded as strongholds of Dissent. Amongst the churches built as a
result of this act was one of Hawksmoor’s best-known designs,
Christchurch SpitalWelds, recently restored to its former glory.
The acts were Wrst published in 1716, in an edition extending to just 83
pages.
ESTC n30842.
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194 [LONDON – LAW.] Statutes relative to the Sewers, within
Westminster, and part of Middlesex. London, 1776. £520
Small 8vo, pp. vi, [3]–77, [1], title printed within double border; some
light dust-soiling and browning; contemporary half calf over marbled
boards; spine decorated in gilt, and gilt-lettered label to upper board;
extremities rubbed and lower joint beginning to crack; still a good copy
with ownership inscription of the Duke of Newcastle on front free
endpaper.
First edition of a compilation of the acts and statutes relating to the management
of water supply, sewers and drainage within Westminster, from
the original Bill of Sewers, passed by Henry VIII, with its various amendments
and modiWcations until the second half of the eighteenth century.
Until the early nineteenth century, the term ‘sewer’ meant a channel for the
removal of surface water, rather than today’s very speciWc toilet waste removal.
In the Wnal section the twelve sewers within Westminster and part of
Middlesex are described, with the relevant Commissioners of sewers, who
are named individually.
ESTC t93557 listing the Bodleian Library and the British Library only; RLIN
records one copy at Harvard with diVerent collation.
The Art of Engraving
195 LONGHI, Giuseppe. La CalcograWa propriamente detta ossia
l’Arte d’Incidere in Rame coll’Acqua-forte, col Bulino e colla Punta
... Volume I, concernent la Teoria dell’arte. Milano, Stamperia
Reale, 1830. £550

8vo, pp. [ii] engraved title, xxxii, 385, [1] blank, [389]–436, [1] errata;
two engraved plates; entirely uncut in the original boards, printed spine
label; a very clean and crisp copy.
First edition of Longhi’s elegantly printed treatise on copperplate engraving,
the Wrst of two projected volumes cut short by his death. Longhi gives
a brief historical introduction to the art of engraving, including a critical
account of various engravers and adding a priced list of prints to form a
collection. Giuseppe Longhi (1766–1831) was one of the most eminent of
the Italian engravers. In this volume, which was published posthumously,
the editor, F. Longhena, has added a biography of the author and an engraved
medallion portrait by Pietro Anderloni as well as a list of Longhi’s
pupils and a list of the engravings available from his heir.
Bigmore & Wyman p. 443.
Religion – an Utopian Satire
196 [LONGUE, Louis-Pierre.] Les Princesses Malabares, ou
Le Célibat philosophique. Andrinople [Paris], Thomas Franco,
1734. £420
12mo, pp. xii, 201, [3]; typographic head and tail-pieces, a couple of
signatures a little browned, else clean; contemporary full mottled calf,
spine decoratively gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, foot of
spine chipped and corners a little worn; still a good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of an allegorical utopian satire on religious and
philosophical beliefs. The main protagonists are disguised with anagrams,
but their identities are revealed in the last section. The allegorical critique
reveals how mankind has been tyrannised by its main religious systems. The
Princesses Malabares embody irreligion, antagonise society and eventually
are banished in perpetuity. Due to its contentious content, the work was
banned immediately after publication and burnt following an Arrêt du
Parlement in December 1734.
The work has also been attributed to Lenglet Dufresnoy and Quesnel
respectively.
Cioranescu 40825; Gay III, 861–2; Hartig & Soboul p. 46; NED 2941; Weller II,
p. 97; not in Negley.
Family Values? – Defence of Polygamy
197 [LYSER, Johan.] Discursus Politicus de Polygamia, Auctore
Theophilo althaeo... Friburgi, Henricum Cunrath, 1674. £1200
12mo, pp. 96; contemporary full vellum, gilt-lettered spine label;
occasionally weak impressions; bound tightly and cut rather close, with
two headlines shaved; later article pasted onto Wnal paste-down.
First edition, rare, of this vigorous defence of polygamy, which caused a
furore throughout Europe. The work was written at the behest of the
Swedish Count Königsmarck, who was tired of his wife and wanted to side-
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line her (see Hayn-Gotendorf, VI, pp. 234 V). Lyser maintained that polygamy
was allowed according to the Bible and natural law, and, moreover,
that it led to true happiness of the individual citizens, revitalised the country,
and created a higher standard of living.
This Wrst edition is very uncommon, a second edition was published in
1676 (enlarged to twice the size), followed by a third edition in 1682
(which extended to nearly 600 pages).
Gay-Lemmonier III, 842; Hayn-Gotendorf VI, 234; Peignot, Livres condamnés au
feu, I, 273.
198 MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot l’abbé de. De l’Étude de l’Histoire.
A Monseigneur le Prince de Parme. Mastreicht, Cavelier, Barrois,
Bailly, 1778. £300
12mo, pp. [iv], 380; title page vignette and engraved head and tailpieces;
contemporary full catspaw calf, spine richly gilt, gilt-lettered
spine label; a Wne copy.
First separate edition of Mably’s treatise on the study of history, which had
Wrst been published in 1775 as part of the Cours d’Étude pour l’Instruction du
Prince de Parme, prepared by Mably’s brother Condillac. In the Wrst half
Mably gives a general introduction to historical study and stresses its importance
in the education of future rulers. In a direct address to the prince
of Parma he maintains that true political and legal equality needs to be
based on economic equality. The second and more substantial part is devoted
to an analysis of recent political developments in European countries.
In an analysis of contemporary reforms and revolutions, Mably’s perceptive
comments on Poland and Sweden are particularly noteworthy.
Cioranescu 41183.
Quote Unquote
199 [MACDONNEL, David Evans.] A Dictionary of Quotations,
in most frequent use. Taken from the Greek, Latin, French,
Spanish and Italian Languages; translated into English. With
illustrations historical and idiomatic. London, C. G. and J.
Robinson, 1798. £350
8vo, pp. vii, [i], [208]; some pencil markings, and a few crayon underlinings;
bound in early nineteenth century glazed cloth, gilt-lettered
spine label; a Wne copy with later book plate on front paste-down.
Second edition of the Wrst English dictionary of quotations, Wrst published
the previous year. In this attractive dictionary Macdonnel includes quotations
from Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and Italian, with information on
their origin and meaning. Numerous mottoes of the nobility are included,
as are phrases used in law.
Alston III, 756; rare, RLIN locates just two copies in America, at Stanford and
New York Public Library.

The Classics Translated
200 MAFFEI, Scipione. Traduttori Italiani o sia Notizia de’ volgarizzamenti
d’antichi Scrittori Latine, e Greci , che sono in luce.
Aggiunto il Volgarizzamento d’alcune insigni Iscrizioni Greche,
e la notizia del nuovo Museo d’Iscrizioni in Verona. Venezia,
Sebastian Coleti, 1720. £480
8vo, pp. 213, [1] imprint, [2] blank; faint circular stain to margin of
title and Wrst leaf; some signatures lightly browned; contemporary full
vellum.
First and only edition of the Wrst bibliography of Italian translations of classical
literature, with information on the translators and editions. This is followed
by an essay on Greek inscriptions, including the one of the Marmora
Oxoniensia, today in the Ashmolean Museum, and details of the museum
of inscription in Verona. MaVei, (1675–1755), was one of the leading intellectual
Wgures of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
Petzholdt 353 (‘nicht ohne Wert’); RLIN lists copies at the Getty Library,
Harvard, Michigan University and Duke.
201 [MAILLET, M. Benoit de.] Telliamed ou Entretiens d’un
Philosophe indien avec un Missionnaire Francois sur la Diminution
de la Mer, la Formation de la Terre, l’Origine de l’Homme, &c.
Amsterdam, l’Honoré & Fils, 1748. £500
Two volumes, 8vo in 4s, pp. [x], cxix (vere 77), 1 blank, [7] contents, [1]
blank, 80, 77–92, 97–112, 121–208; [ii], 231, [I] blank, [3] addenda &
errata; volume one with irregular pagination, but complete; title vignettes
to both volumes; occasional light spotting and browning; bound in
contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, head of volume two chipped; a Wne
set with discreet crossed out ownership inscription to titles.
First edition, rare, of this early theory of evolution, published, for fear of
prosecution, posthumously and anonymously with the title forming an
anagram of the author’s name. Written and published before Haller, Linné,
Bonnet and Hutton, this early example of evolutionary speculation is remarkable.
Maillet clearly not only had a deWnite conception of evolutionary
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theory and of the production of existing species by modiWcation of their
predecessors, but he also undoubtedly applied the basic maxim of modern
geological science. The explanation of the structure of the globe is to be
sought in the application of the principles established inductively by the
study of the present course of nature to geological phenomena.
Cioranescu XVIII, 41376.
202 MANFREDINI, Vincenzo. Difesa della Musica Moderna e de’
suoi celebri Esecutori. Bologna, Carlo Trenti, 1788. £500
8vo, pp. 207, 1 imprint; uncut in the original printed pale blue
wrappers; unsympathetic reback, with title strengthened in gutter
margin.
First edition of a fascinating contemporary assessment of eighteenth century
music, written in response to Arteaga’s criticism of the respective values of
ancient and modern music. Manfredini shows a sound knowledge of the
vocal repertoire and the conditions of musical life in eighteenth century Italy.
Manfredini (1737–1799), composer and musical theorist, was for many
years Chapel Master of the Italian Opera Company at St Petersburg, Wrst
for Tsar Peter then for Catherine II. After leaving the court in 1769,
Manfredini continued to compose operas for a time but soon devoted most
of his time to writing and teaching. His writings reveal a man in tune with
Enlightenment thought, grappling with the changing nature of music, the
social status of composers and the role music has to play in public life.
Gregory & Bartlett, Catalogue of early Books on Music, p. 163.
Promoting the Manufacturing Industry
203 [MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY.] Das Maschinenwesen
und die darüber verbreiteten Vorurtheile. Leipzig, Otto Wigand,
1846. £420
8vo, pp. 40, including subscribers’ list; some marginal foxing; uncut,
with paper spine; from the Donaueschingen library with shelf mark in
mss. to verso of title.
First and only edition of this pamphlet in support of the manufacturing
industry. The express purpose of the publication was to raise public awareness
of the importance of the manufacturing industry, and to counteract its
negative reputation. Parts of it consist of a translation and German adaptation
of Taylor’s Factories and the Factory System. The pamphlet was published
on the occasion of the fourth meeting of German industrialists and
manufacturers in Leipzig, and used by the participants for promotional
purposes, as can be seen by the extensive subscribers’ list, who all ordered
multiple copies for distribution. The Wurttemberg Association of Industrialists
subscribed to 400 copies.
Engelmann supplement, p. 74; not in Holzmann/Bohatta, not found in Kress or
Goldsmiths’, no copy in RLIN or OCLC.

Anti-Revolutionary Satire
204 MARCHANT, François. La Constitution en Vaudeville,
Suivie des Droits de l’Homme, de La Femme & de plusieurs autres
Vaudevilles constitutionnels. Paris, Libraires Royalistes, 1792.
[bound with:] Folies nationales pour servir de Suite a la Constitution
en Vaudevilles. Paris, Libraires Royalistes, 1792.
[with:] La Révolution Française en Vaudevilles. Coblentz, 1792.
[bound with:] La République en Vaudeville. Prédédée d’un Notice
des principaux Événemens de la Révolution, pour servir de
Calendrier à l’année 1793. Paris, 1793. £800
Four works bound in two volumes, 16mo, pp. 160; 160; 160; 158, pp.
129–145 misbound; all four works with engraved frontispiece; faint
damp-stain to lower corner of Wrst signature in part I; contemporary
sheep backed boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; upper
joint beginning to crack, but holding Wrm, worm-trace to lower joint;
volume II joints cracked but holding Wrm.
First edition of these lively anti-revolutionary publications, giving a vaudeville
presentation of the achievements of the constitution and the declaration
of the rights of man. The individual statements are set to well-known
tunes, and satirise the ‘noble’ statements. This is followed by further airs,
commenting on the political situation in France.
The second work contains brief scenes, such as ‘Le nouveau Dom Quichotte
ou l’amant de la Liberté’, patriotic couplets directed to the Jacobins, a dialogue
between Robespierre and Camus on assignats to be sung to the
melody of ‘Jai du bon tabac’. The third work gives a running commentary of
the chief events of the Wrst years of the revolution, which is presented in
more detail, date by date in the Wnal work, concentrating on the excesses of
the revolution.
Marchant (1761–1793) manages to combine light-hearted satirical commentary
with strident criticism.
Cioranescu 42462; 42465, 42469; I. RLIN lists copies at Harvard, Princeton,
New York and the University of Virginia of parts I; no copies found of parts II and
III; IV. Harvard.
205 [MARTIGNONI, Ignazio.] Del Gusto in ogni Maniera
d’amene Lettere ed Arti. Como, Stamperia Ottinelli, 1793. £550
8vo, engraved title, pp. 208; front free endpaper removed; contemporary
vellum-backed buV boards, gilt-lettered spine label; a Wne copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Martignoni’s extensive treatise on taste and
aesthetics, an appreciation of beauty, harmony, imagination, and emotion.
He studies aVections, eloquence, imitation, decoration, order, and symmetry.
A number of chapters are devoted to style, style in general, and reWned
style, followed by artistic metaphor, harmony. He explains the relationship
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between aesthetics and language, and points to the pivotal role of language
in conveying aesthetics. He concludes with a chapter on laughter and the
ridiculous. Throughout he refers to earlier and contemporary writers on
similar questions.
Martignoni (1757–1815) also wrote on contemporary music. Appropriately
his work is dedicated to Bettinelli.
Uncommon, OCLC and RLIN list just Harvard and Duke.
206 MEINER, Johann Werner. Versuch einer an der menschlichen
Sprache abgebildeten Vernunftlehre oder Philosophische und
allgemeine Sprachlehre ... Leipzig, Joh. G. I. Breitkopf, 1781. £400
8vo, pp. [xiv], [iii]–xcvi, [ii], 488; title vignette and engraved head and
tail-pieces; contemporary half tan sheep spine ruled and decorated in
gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed, foot of spine
and spine label chipped; still an attractive copy.

First edition, uncommon, of the German philosophical grammar by
Johann Werner Meiner, written in opposition to the more rationalist grammars,
such as the Port Royal. In his philosophy of language he stressed the
communicative rather than the logical and cognitive side of grammar, and
saw the study of language and grammar as a study of human development
itself. Adelung reviewed the work positively.
Meiner (1723–1789) was headmaster of the grammar school at
Langensalza.
Rare, NUC, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy, at the University of Pennsylvania.
A Lot of Hot Air
207 MEISSNER, Paul Traugott. Die Heitzung mit erwärmter Luft
als das wohlfeilste, bequemste und zugleich die Feuersgefahr am
meisten entfernende Mittel zur Erwärmung größerer Räume, als:
der öVentlichen Gebäude, der Herrschaftswohnungen, Fabriken
&c ... Mit sechs Kupfertafeln, Wien, Carl Gerold, 1821. £300
Tall 8vo, pp. 41, 6 engraved plates bound at the end; paper somewhat
spotted and browned; uncut in the original printed wrappers; private
library stamp to title; a very wide-margined copy.
First edition of this early and important contribution to the technology of
central heating. Meissner (1778–1864), Professor of Technology and
Chemistry at the Technical Institute in Vienna, here presents valuable improvements
to the design of air ducts for central heating. Thanks to his contributions,
air-based systems were regarded as the most eVective central
heating system. Meissner gives models for the distribution of air ducts and
the design of the central heating systems for a variety of buildings, such as
private apartments, public buildings and factories, and illustrates them on
the folding plates.
Darmstädter p. 343; Engelmann p. 243; Humpert 4219; PoggendorV II, c. 106.
Gullible Scholars
208 [MENCKEN, Johann Burkhard.] De la Charlatanerie des
Savans ... avec des Remarques critiques de diVerens Auteurs.
Traduit en Français. La Haye, Jean van Duren, 1721. £500
Small 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xl], 242, [38] index; title printed
in red and black, Wnely engraved title vignette; contemporary
manuscript note to front free endpaper and title page; contemporary
full sheep, spine gilt in compartments, head of spine chipped, some
surface wear to boards, corners bumped; a clean and fresh copy from
the Donaueschingen library, with small stamp to verso of title and the
characteristic shelf labels to spine.
First edition in French of this outspoken exposé of the ‘charlatanry of the
learned’, which was Wrst published in Latin in 1715 and translated by David
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Durand, with additional remarks by contemporary critics. Menken pillories
the propensity of scholars to be fooled and tracks down quacks of all sorts.
He gives a comic review of the foibles of scholars, their vanity, and their
gullibility when confronted with fakes or frauds, their loud-mouthed advertising
methods, their money-grabbing publishing deals, etc. His claims are
supported by detailed bibliographical references, and an extensive index.
The Wnely engraved frontispiece shows the world as a stage, under the heading
‘Mundus vult decipi’ (the world wants to be deceived).
Interestingly, an extensive twenty-eight page sale catalogue of books
available at van Duren’s is included, listing amongst the newly published
books not only Menken’s treatise, but also Law’s Considerations sur le Commerce,
Swift’s Conte du Tonneau, and Locke’s Du Gouvernement Civil.
See Faber du Faur 1738 for German translation.
Menger’s Masterpiece
209 MENGER, Carl. Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre...
Erster, allgemeiner Theil. (All published). Wien, Wilhelm
Braumüller, 1871. £3500
8vo, pp. xii, 285, [1] errata; light spotting and discolouration to title,
number removed from foot of spine; contemporary half cloth over
marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine; a good copy, with lower
wrapper bound in.
Rare Wrst edition of Menger’s masterpiece, a work which ‘sets forth the
views of one of the pioneers of the use of psychological concepts to explain
the nature and determination of value’ (Batson). ‘The results of Menger’s
studies appeared in his Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre, the work on
which his fame mainly rests... In somewhat copious but always clear language,
it provided a more thorough account of the relations between utility,
value, and price than is found in any of the works by Jevons and Walras,
who at about the same time laid the foundation of the ‘marginal revolution’
in economics’ (Friedrich von Hayek in IESS).
Einaudi 3831; Menger, col. 86; Batson p. 52 (second edition) IESS, vol 10, p.
124–126; Menger c. 86.
210 MENURET de CHAMBAUD, Jean-Jacques. Essai sur la Ville
d’Hambourg considérée dans ses Rapports avec la Santé ou Lettre
sur l’Histoire medico-topographique de cette ville. Hambourg,
Pierre Chateauneuf, 1797. £450
8vo, pp. 119, [1]; bound after two issues of the Annales de Statistique;
contemporary calf-backed sprinkled boards, spine decorated and
lettered in gilt, some surface scratches to boards; a good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this interesting study of the eVects of climate,
water, topography and air on the health of the inhabitants of Hamburg.

Arranged in the form of eight letters, general medico-geographical information
is presented. Menuret studies the natural condition of life in the city
of Hamburg, particularly inXuenced by its geographical locations, with its
long winters, wet climate and lack of sunshine. He makes some interesting
comments on local diet: large consumption of strong tea and weak coVee,
dark bread favoured by the inhabitants, fresh fruit and vegetables cultivated
in Vierlanden. Menuret had earlier published similar surveys of Paris and
Montélimar.
Rare, NUC and RLIN record copies at the National Library of Medicine, and
Madison, Wisconsin only.
Eighteenth Century Periodical
211 MEUSEL, Johann Georg. Historische Untersuchungen.
Gesammlet und herausgegeben von Johann Georg Meusel.
Nürnberg, Joh. G. Lochnerische Buchhandlung, 1779–80. £420
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xvi], 182, one folding plate; [iv],
180; [iv], 240, [4]; title vignettes and head and tail-pieces;
contemporary half sheep, spine decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine
label, head of spine chipped, extremities a little rubbed.
First and only edition of a short-lived historical journal, edited and partly
written by the historian and statistician Meusel. His introduction is of particular
interest, as he gives an extensive overview of current journals and
periodicals. He points out the importance of this form of publication for
the spread of scientiWc, technical, and historical ideas. The emphasis appears
to be on early modern history, with contributions by contemporary historians
Spitteler, Fäsi, Stieber, Longolius, and Albinus. Of particular interest is
Spitteler’s demographic article on the population of Wurttemberg before
the Thirty Year War. The last issue contains articles by Meusel himself, an
interesting study on the history of language, and an extensive translation of
a review on Dalin’s Swedish history.
Kirchner 1102; very uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list only microWlm copies.
‘One Quarter be paid before the 2nd Quarter becomes due’
212 [MILITARY MANUSCRIPT.] An Establishment of his
Ma[jesty’s] Guards, Guarrisons, & Land Forces wi[thi]n the Kingdom
of England Dominion of Wales & Town of Berwick upon
Tweed & the Islands thereto belonging with their full Pay &
entertainment: to commence the 1st day of January 1683/4. £2000
8vo, ll. 23 manuscript, written in a clean and legible hand, on paper
ruled in red; Wnely bound in contemporary black calf, with intricate gilt
Xoral design to upper and lower board, with two panels; gilt a little
faded in parts; spine in compartments, silver clasps and catches in
perfect order; a near perfect example of a Restoration binding; small
chip to head of spine, a.e.g.; a very Wne copy.
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A very attractively bound seventeenth century English manuscript on the
army establishment in 1684, in fact a complete list of the British military
Establishment, its numbers and pay per day and per year ‘to commence the
1st day of January 1683/4’. It is possible that the manuscript was later
printed, as circulation in manuscript often preceded publication. The
manuscript appears to be complete, even though two leaves, the stub of one
having a fragment of writing, were removed at the end. Since the manuscript
covers a period near the end of the reign of King Charles, it is possible
that the Wnal leaves contained some expression of loyalty, or a concluding
prayer, neither of which would have been particularly appropriate under
the new and Catholic reign of James II. It is a very detailed document, setting
forth the condition of pay from drummer to general, concluding with
the excellent precept that everyone should be paid ‘so that one Quarter be
still paid before the 2nd Quarter becomes due’.
Harold Love, Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England, Oxford 1993.

213 MILL, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women ... Second
edition. London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869. £120
8vo, pp. [iv], 188; original ochre cloth, blind stamped and lettered in
gilt on spine, corners and head and tail of spine slightly bumped;
ownership inscription in ink on half title; a good copy.
Second edition, published the same year as the Wrst. The Subjection of Women
was written in 1861, shortly after the death of Mill’s wife, but not published
for another eight years. The inXuence of his wife upon it was great, and
Mill, who idealized her, wrote in his Autobiography: ‘all that is most striking
and profound [in The Subjection] belongs to my wife’ – it has in fact
been argued that the book was basically written by her.
Mirabeau’s Library
214 MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de. Catalogue des
Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. Mirabeau l’Ainé, don’t la vente
se fera en l’une des salles de l’hôtel de Bullion, rue de J. J. Rousseau,
le Lundi 9 Janvier 1792 et jours suivans, à quatre heures de relevée.
Paris, Rozet Libraire ... Belin junior... 1791.
[bound with:] Mémoire du Comte de Mirabeau, supprimé
au Moment meme de sa Publication par ordre particulier de
Monsieur le Garde-des-Sceaux, [n.p.], 1784. £1200
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [iv], xxvi, 440, i.e. 434, [1];
pagination irregular, but complete (pp. 41 to 49 omitted), bound
without the price list which is sometimes found bound in; [iv], xx, 180;
contemporary half green crushed morocco, Xat spine ruled in gilt, two
gilt-lettered spine labels; a very good copy.
First edition of both works. Mirabeau’s library catalogue is here bound together
with his Memoire, which documents his acrimonious separation and
later divorce, highly controversial at the time and the cause for an extended
legal debate.
Mirabeau (1749–1791), son of the great economist, was one of the central
Wgures of the French Revolution, a great speaker and even more inXuential
politician. When his father’s library went up for sale in 1789, he decided to
begin collecting books, and with great determination embarked on forming
a collection which was meant to be a documentation of the history of printing.
The library of BuVon, the famous naturalist, he bought en bloc, thus
providing a strong representation of books on natural history, science, medicine
and biology. The auction catalogue presents the titles within subject
categories, and economics and political economy is well represented, including
titles by LeTrosne, Adam Smith, Cantillon, and Savary. This copy is
bound as originally issued, without the separately issued author index and the
price list, both of which were published later and are rarely present.
I. Blogie II, co. 18; Krieg, Bibliotheca Bibliographica, 410; Taylor, Book Catalogues,
pp. 145–146; II. Cioranescu 45202.
French ‘Departements’
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215 MIRABEAU, Honoré Grabriel Riquetti de. Plan de Division
du Royaume, et Réglement pour son Organisation. Imprimé par
ordre de l’Assemblée Nationale. Paris, Baudouin, 1789. £300
8vo, pp. [ii], 26; paper a little spotted and browned; uncut and mostly
unopened; recent boards.
First edition of a proposal by Mirabeau relating to the reorganisation of the
administrative system of France. French administration was to be rationalized
and a strict division into eighty-one departments of equal size, subdivided
in communes and cantons was proposed. Mirabeau accused the
drafting committee of excessive ‘geometrism’ and argued instead that a
more sensible unit would be population rather than simple geographical
extent. He suggested the formation of 120 departments. Eventually a compromise
was reached, France was divided into eighty-three departments, of
roughly equal population size. This reorganisation has remained in place
with only small modiWcations to the present day. It abolished the old provincial
distinctions, and clearly put an end to the Ancien Regime.
Berkeley, dated in Bib Nat. 3.XI.1789.
Freedom of the Press
216 MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti de. Sur la Liberté de la
Presse, imité de l’Anglois, de Milton. Londres, 1788. £450
8vo, pp. 66; entirely uncut in the original wrappers; corners frayed, and
edges a little dust-soiled; faint damp-stain lower corner of Wrst two
leaves.
First edition of Mirabeau’s pamphlet on the freedom of the press, based on
and in the tradition of Milton’s Areopagitica: A speech for the liberty of
unlicens’d printing. Published on the eve of the French Revolution, this
pamphlet came at the height of a campaign for greater freedom of the press
sparked oV by Malesherbes, the former directeur de la librairie who did
much to soften censorship of books.
Cioranescu 45152; see R. Darnton & D. Roche, Revolution in Print, the Press in
France 1775–1800, 1989, pp. 50–66.
The Role of Women in Wartime
217 MORARDO, Gasparo. Quali esser Debbano le Donne in
Tempo di Guerra. Torino, Michelangelo Morano, 1794. £450
8vo, pp. 62, [2] advertisement; title vignette; paper a little browned and
spotted; contemporary buV stiV wrappers; shelf label to upper wrapper;
a Wne copy.
First and only edition of a curious publication outlining the role of women
in wartime. Morardo, a noted political Wgure, maintains that in wartime

women have to be aware of the fact that the army protects their lives and
livelihood. Therefore they are advised to refrain from frivolous activity,
such as dancing, the theatre or idle gossip. Not only are women requested
to support the cause, they are also asked to instill patriotic fervour into their
husbands and dependents. Morardo cites numerous writings, from classical
texts to contemporary literature to support the claim that women occasionally
also actively participate in battle, and advises his contemporaries to
emulate these classical examples.
Not found in RLIN or OCLC.
218 MORELLET, André. Observations sur un ouvrage anonyme,
intitulé: Remarques morales, philosophiques et grammaticales sur
le Dictionnaire de l’Academie Françoise. Paris, l’Imprimerie de
l’Institution des Sourds-Muets. 1807. £200
8vo, pp. [iv], 79; recent buV wrappers.
First and only edition of Morellet’s spirited and detailed response to
Feydel’s criticism of the new edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie
Française. The Wfth edition had been practically ready for the press when the
Revolution broke out and the Académie was suppressed. The manuscripts
were preserved, thanks largely to Morellet and publication was eventually
undertaken by the Comité de l’Instruction Publique, in 1798. The pro-revolutionary
standpoint met with widespread opposition, especially because the
dictionary included some of the politically charged terminology of the revolution.
Even though Morellet himself was not in favour of including the
more extreme propaganda phrases of the French Revolution, he defends
the Dictionnaire against the more robust accusations by Feydel, who complained
about the large number of lower class expressions included in the
dictionary. Morellet analyses each of his complaints and gives his
deWnitions of the terms in question.
Cioranescu 47356.
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219 MORELLET, André Abbé de. Prospectus d’un Nouveau
Dictionnaire de Commerce En cinq volumes in-folio proposés par
Souscription... Paris, Les Freres Estienne, rue S. Jacques, à la Vertu.
1769. £7500
8vo, pp. viii, 381, [1] approbation, [ii], 34 ‘Catalogue d’une Bibliothèque
d’Économie Politique, formé pour le Travail du nouveau
Dictionnaire de Commerce’; typographic head and tail-pieces; occasional
light spotting and foxing, faint dampstain to gutter margin in signature a,
and barely noticeable traces of dampstaining at the head; contemporary
full calf, spine gilt in compartments, head of spine and upper joint
expertly repaired; from the library of the St. Bernard monastery in Paris,
with manuscript inscription to title, with the note ‘Ex Dono Autoris’.
First and only edition, very rare, of Morellet’s projected plan for a new commercial
dictionary, designed to supersede Savary’s Dictionnaire de Commerce.
Morellet gives a very detailed outline of the projected work –
discusses previous attempts at commercial dictionaries and then sets out the
diVerent areas covered by his dictionary. But despite the large library he
accumulated for the purpose (a catalogue of the most important works is
included in this volume) and the enormous amount of work he put into its
preparation it was never published. Exactly thirty years later, in 1799,
Peuchet published his commercial dictionary which was based on the material
collected by Morellet. Of particular interest is the above-mentioned

thirty-six page Catalogue d’une bibliothèque d’économie politique, formé pour le
travail du nouveau Dictionnaire du commerce, which nearly two centuries
later formed the basis of the Einaudi collection.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10507; Higgs 4565; Einaudi 4024; McCulloch p. 62; in addition
to the Kress copy NUC lists copies at the Library of Congress, Yale, Library
Company of Philadelphia, and Indiana University only.
With a Bibliography of his Works
220 MOSER, Johann Jacob. Lebensgeschichte Johann Jacob
Mosers, von ihm selbst beschriben. [n.p.] [OVenbach], 1768. £550
8vo, pp. [viii], [9]–216; typographic vignette to title, head and tailpieces;
paper a little browned, title page loosened; contemporary buV
boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; extremities a little rubbed.
First edition of the autobiography of the ‘father of German law’, the proliWc
Johann Jacob Moser (1701–1785). Moser was in succession a lawyer, a
university professor at Tübingen and Frankfurt, a member of the government
of Wurtemberg and a founder of an academy for political science in
Hanau. He was imprisoned for his unwavering support of the estates-constitution
of the duchy of Wurtemberg. Moser concludes with a bibliography
of his publications, listing more than 220 individual works, not
counting newspaper and journal articles: ‘ich habe so vil geschriben, als
wenige andere Rechts-Gelehrte vor mir gethan und nach mir thun
werden...’ (preface). Moser’s autobiography appeared also with a Frankfurt
and Leipzig imprint, a third enlarged edition was published in 1777–1783.
Goedeke IV, 1, 233; RLIN lists Berkeley, Harvard and the university of Rochester;
see G. Kleinheyer & J. Schröder, Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, 1983, pp.
194–198.
German ‘Romantic’ Economist
221 MÜLLER, Adam Heinrich. Die Elemente der Staatskunst.
OeVentliche Vorlesungen vor Sr. Durchlaucht dem Prinzen Bernhard
von Sachsen-Weimar und einer Versammlung von Staatsmännern
und Diplomaten, im Winter von 1808 auf 1809, zu
Dresden, gehalten. Berlin, J. D. Sander, 1809. £2800
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 298, 1 plate; [ii], 375, 1
plate (pagination irregular, jumps from 366 to 369; [ii], 328, 1 plate
(pagination irregular, jumps from 323 to 326); irregular pagination,
but complete; very occasional light spotting and browning, else very
clean; recent dark green morocco, spine in compartments, with giltlettered
spine label, and numbering directly to spine, gilt dentelles; preserved
in a custom-made cloth box; a Wne copy with book plate to front
free endpaper and faint contemporary ownership inscription to title.
First edition of the main contribution by the ‘most important political
economist of the German Romantic school. Müller opposed the economic
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theories of Adam Smith and his successors, particularly their abstract and
isolated understanding of the individual and their emphasis on self-interest.
He also criticized Smith’s merely materialist notion of national wealth and
formulated a concept of spiritual capital encompassing cultural values and
the state of the sciences (books IV and V)’ (Hermann Reich in New
Palgrave). Like Fichte, Müller requested economic self-suYciency as an important
means of strengthening national unity. Müller can be seen as an
early critic of capitalism, which he considered a threat to the viability of the
absolute state. He objected to free enterprise, competition and free trade as
violating the ideal of a self-suYcient and independent state.
Humpert 1059; Kress B5552; Menger c 87; not in Einaudi or Goldsmiths’.
Enlightenment Legal Reform
222 MURATORI, Lodovico Antonio. Dei Difetti della
Giurisprudenza. Venezia, Giambatista Pasquali, 1742. £850
Folio in 4s, pp. [viii], 184; title printed in red and black, engraved title
vignette, decorated initials; marginal tear to R1, no loss of text;
contemporary marbled sheep-backed boards, spine ruled and decorated
in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, chipped; a Wne, wide-margined copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Muratori’s criticism of jurisprudence, in fact
the starting point of the critique of Roman law throughout the eighteenth
century, resulting in far reaching judicial reforms and the drawing up of
modern civil codes. In his treatise Muratori attacked the immobility of the
Italian legislative apparatus, and criticised the vast and often contradictory
accumulation of edicts, which made the execution of justice and power
diYcult. His critique proved inXuential on the reformed Tuscan legislature
and the presentation of the Codice Estense. The refusal of the curia to grant
reform eventually resulted in the radical enlightenment reform movement.
Muratori (1672–1750), archivist and librarian in Modena, was one of
the greatest scholars of his time and published extensively in the Welds of
history, philosophy, and political economy. This criticism of the legal system
proved poplar, further editions followed in 1743, 1744.
L’Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli 367; Sorbelli I, 154; OCLC and
RLIN list copies at Library of Congress, Harvard, Minnesota and Washington
University.
223 [MURATORI, Lodovico Antonio.] Primo Esame del Libro
intitolato dell’Eloquenza Italiana. n.p., n.d. [between 1736 and
1740?]. £420
4to, pp. [ii], 62; contemporary buV boards, spine chipped, recent label
untidily removed from upper board; a wide-margined copy, with
manuscript annotations to title page.
First separate edition, uncommon, of this forceful polemic against Giusto
Fontanini, written in response to the latter’s criticisms of Muratori’s Vita ed

opere del L. Castelvetro (1727). Castelvetro (1505–1571) had been the
dominant literary critic of the Italian Renaissance and had been persecuted
by the inquisition, which led to his Xight from Italy and subsequent excommunication.
In his Dell’Eloquenza Italiana (1727), Fontanini had questioned
whether Castelvetro had in fact been a heretic, and whether this was
being accepted by Muratori. This clearly proved a sensitive issue for
Muratori, who combined a position as a librarian with religious oYce. After
a clearly polemic beginning, Muratori gives a very close analysis of
Fontanini’s work and refutes his allegations.
OCLC and RLIN just list the Stanford copy.
224 [NAPLES – ACADEMY.] Statuti della Real Accademia delle
Scienze e delle Belle Lettere eretta in Napoli dalla Sovrana
MuniWcenza. [Napoli], Stamperia Reale, 1780. £950
8vo, pp. ii, 164; Wnely engraved vignette to title page; front free
endpaper removed; contemporary marbled sheep, sides ruled in blind;
a.e.g.; some discreet repairs to head and tail of spine and upper joint.
First edition of the rules and regulations of the Naples Academy of Science
and Literature founded in the spirit of the Neapolitan enlightenment under
the patronage of Ferdinand IV. The Academy covers mathematics, medicine,
chemistry, botany, vulcanology, mineralogy, and mechanics, and, on
the literature side, ancient history and antiquities. In each case special research
emphasis is outlined, for full members, students, and ‘pensionati’. A
full list of local and foreign members is given, including, many foreign scientists,
such as Banks, Lagrange, d’Alembert, Bonnet, Spallanzani, and, of
course, Sir William Hamilton. The second half contains a thoughtful analysis
of the legal organisation, with a suitable separation of the Wnancial, academic,
and political leadership, and with separate Wnancial management.
Uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list copies at the University of Chicago and the
Getty Library only.
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225 NESSI, Giuseppe. Discorso sopra i pericoli della precipitosa
Sepoltura, di seppelire i morti in Chiesa, e sulla maniera di ravvivare
gli Astici. Como, Luigi Noseda, 1800. £280
8vo, pp. 52; some light browning, due to paper stock; stitched in the
original pale-blue wrappers, with attractive woodblock print within
double frame; with presentation inscription by the author to front free
endpaper.
First and only edition of this treatise on burial rights, death customs, and
taphophobia, the fear of being buried alive. At the time, with limited medical
knowledge, the erroneous verdict of ‘death’, just because the attending
physician could not detect breath, pulse or heartbeat, was not that remote.
Nessi (1741–1821), medical writer and obstetrician, identiWes asphyxia as
one of the conditions liable to being misidentiWed as death. He describes
incidents when asphyxia is likely to occur, such as the plague, drowning etc,
and recommends a check-list of procedures to make sure that death has occurred,
and additionally a waiting period of at least 24 hours before burial.
He describes various incidents where patients had been buried alive, quoting
from Pineau, Lovis and other authorities.
He suggests methods of reviving patients suVering from asphyxiation,
drowning, suVocation through breathing in poisonous air, or through falls
and strangulation.
Hirsch V, 343 V; rare, not found RLIN or OCLC.
Classic Defence of Women – Rare London Printing
226 NETTESHEIM, Henricus Cornelius AGRIPPA. Dell’
Eccellenza e Preeminenza del Femminil Sesso sopra il Maschile di
Cornelio Agrippa. Trasportato dal Latino nell’Italiano da Giuseppe
A. Graglia. Londra, Alessandro Grant, 1776. £750
8vo, pp. 108; a few signatures lightly browned, due to paper stock,
small hole to Wnal leaf with loss of one letter; contemporary mottled
calf, spine decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; upper and lower
board with leafy border; corners bumped, discreet repairs to upper joint
and head and tail of spine.
Rare London printing of Agrippa of Nettesheim’s ‘Declamation on the Nobility
and Preeminence of the Female Sex’ in Graglia’s Italian translation. Based on
a lecture given in Latin in 1509 at the University of Dôle, the Declamation
was not published until 1529. Since then, however, translations appeared in
French, English, Italian, and German. In this famous text Agrippa proclaims
the moral, intellectual, and physical superiority of women over men, and
supports this by clever arguments using biblical citations.
ESTC t88535 (British Library, Trinity College Cambridge, Bodleian Library, and
National Library of Medicine).

227 NICOLAS, Pierre François. Méthode de préparer et conserver
les Animaux de toutes les Classes, pour les Cabinets d’Histoire
Naturelle. Paris, F. Buisson, An IX, [1800]. £400
8vo, pp. [vi], viii, [9], 228, with 10 engraved plates; contemporary full
marbled sheep, spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine label.
First edition of this comprehensive practical treatise on taxidermy,
speciWcally aimed at those preparing and supplying zoological specimens
and cabinets of curiosities. The ten folding plates, drawn by Marechal and
Wnely engraved by Sellier, show tools and equipment, and animals in various
stages of preparation. Nicolas (1743–1816) had been a professor of
chemistry and natural history.
The work was popular and was translated into German in 1802.
The Importance of the Study of Economics for Public Life
228 OSTERWALD, Peter von. Akademische Rede welche bey
Gelegenheit des höchsterfreulichen Geburthsfestes des durchlauchtigsten
Fürsten und Herrn, Herrn Maximilian Joseph, ... Im grossen
Saale der Churfürstli. Baierischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu
München gehalten und darinnen der Zusammenhang und die
Ordnung aller Wissenschaften nebst dem Nutzen, welchen sie
dem gesellschaftlichen Leben der Menschen gewähren, dargethan
worden ... München, 27. März, 1762. £100
4to, pp. 27, woodcut head and tailpieces; as issued with paper spine; a
Wne copy.
First and only edition of this speech given at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
on the occasion of the birthday of king Maximilian Joseph.
Osterwald, a member of the Academy, outlines the relative importance of
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various branches of science, and stresses the importance of the study of economics
for all Welds of public administration and public life.
Not found in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Humpert.
The Montaigne of the North – Philosophical Essays
229 OXENSTIERNA, Johan Thureson. Recueil de Pensées du
Comte J. O. sur divers sujets. Tome Premier [–Tome Cinquieme].
Francfort, Antoine Heinscheit, 1725. £2800
Five parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. 124, [3]; [viii], 102, 3; [viii], 109,
[3]; 117, [3], 117 (bottom half of page cut), [2], engraved title vignette
to all Wve title pages, one engraved half-plate; some light even
browning, else very clean in contemporary full sheep, spine decoratively
gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; discreet repairs to joints;
a Wne copy preserved in a wooden box; from the library of Horatio
Walpole with his book plate on front pastedown.
Second issue (Wrst 1720–21) of the Wrst collected edition of the essays and
social aperçus of Johan Thuresson Oxenstierna (1666–1733), nephew of
Axel Oxenstierna, the Swedish chancellor. His brief, precise essays and
aphorisms on a wide range of subjects earned him a signiWcant international
reputation and the epithet ‘Montaigne of the North’ (Hoefer).
This copy comes from the library of Horatio Walpole, (1813–1894), 4th
Earl of Orford, a descendent of Horace Walpole’s cousin (see Hazen, p.
xxvi). The bookplate is an extremely close imitation of Walpole’s Orford
bookplate.
Hoefer XXXVIII, 1018; this is generally regarded as the Wrst collected edition, even
though there appears to be an earlier printing of 1720–21; OCLC lists just one
copy at the Bodleian Library, RLIN adds a copy at the University of Chicago, together
with a number of later editions in 1744, 1749 and 1762; a German translation
was published in 1738, a Russian translation in 1792; see Hazen, Walpole’s
Library, p. xxvi.
The Philosophes under Attack
230 [PALISSOT, Charles de Montenoy.] Petites Lettres sur des
Grands Philosophes. Paris, 1757. £240
12mo in 8s & 4s, pp. [ii], iv, 101, small worm trace in outer lower
margin of last section; modern wrappers.
First edition of Palissot’s popular satire on the encyclopédistes, coming at the
beginning of a whole spate of attacks on philosophes. Palissot attacked the
encyclopédistes for slavishly following Bacon, made fun of their sensitivity to
criticism, accused them of becoming a ‘church’, and in passing also attacked
d’Alembert for accepting a pension from France’s enemy Frederick the
Great. The dramatist Palissot (1730–1814) was a renegade from the
philosophe camp and a protégé of the highly inXuential Comte de Stainville,
later Duc de Choiseul.
Barbier III, 858e; Cioranescu 48774.

The Whore’s Rhettorick
231 [PALLAVICINO, Ferrante.] La Rettorica delle Puttane,
Composta conforme li precetti di Cipriano. Dedicata all’Università
delle Cortegiane più Celebri. Villafranca, [Amsterdam, Louis Daniel
Elzevier], 1673. £1200
12mo, pp. 124; printer’s mark to title page, decorated initials; light
even browning; eighteenth-century full crushed red morocco; a.e.g.,
sides with double-gilt border, spine ruled and lettered in gilt;
extremities a little rubbed and foot of spine chipped; an attractive copy.
Second edition of Pallavicino’s famous erotic narrative, translated as The
Whore’s Rhettorick, a burlesque modelled on Aretino’s Ragionamenti. The
work consists of Wctional dialogues between a poor young woman who is
trying to better her station in life, and a woman of pleasure. They debate the
relative merits of virtue versus using one’s female powers for pleasure and
personal gain. It was Wrst published in 1642, and in 1673 also issued as part
of Pallavicino’s Opere Scelte. Pallavicino (1615–44), a free-thinking intellectual
and rebellious monk, wrote religious novels, satirical Wction and erotic
narratives that can barely be characterised as novels. In 1644 he was beheaded
at Avignon for anti-papal writings.
Brunet IV, 327; Gay-Lemmonier III, 1012; Graesse V, p. 110; Melzi I, 432; H. B.
Copinger, Elzevier 3472; Willems 1488.
The First Practical Treatise on the Woodcut
232 PAPILLON, Jean Michel. Traité historique de la gravure en
bois. Ouvrage enrichi des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition &
de sa gravure. Paris, Pierre Guillaume Simon, 1766. £4200
Three volumes, bound in two, 8vo, pp. xxxii including woodcut
frontispiece, 540, with one chiaroscuro woodcut plate bound in; xv, [i],
388; [iv], 124; part two with 5 plates illustrating progressive stages in
printing a chiaroscuro woodcut; in all seven plates, woodcut head and
tail pieces, title vignettes, and a large number of woodcuts printed in the
text; one initial printed in red (volume I, p. 369); some scattered foxing
and spotting, especially at beginning and end; a few signatures lightly
browned; contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine
labels; some surface scratches to sides, discreet repairs to head and tail of
spine; an attractive copy.
First edition of the Wrst practical treatise on the woodcut. It is famous for a
series of 5 progressive plates showing the successive stages of printing a
chiaroscuro woodcut. The Wrst volume of the treatise deals with the history
of printing and illustration, Volume two covers the methods of wood cutting
in detail with clear illustrations and tools and procedures. It also includes
information on design, perspective, and printing. Volume three, the
supplement, is autobiographical and also contains various testimonials, table
of contents and errata. Papillon (1698–1776), who came from a family
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of well-known wood engravers, was one of the best French designers and
engravers of woodcuts for book work, employed by both French and
Dutch publishers. The Traité can be seen as a showcase for his work with its
136 woodcut head and tail pieces and 257 other illustrations, large and
small, incorporated in the text – only the portrait is by another hand.
Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 116; Jackson Burke 1034; see John Jackson, A treatise on
Wood Engraving, Historical and Technical (London, 1839) pp. 542–554.
233 PASTA, Giuseppe. La Tolleranza WlosoWca delle Malattie.
Bergamo, Stamperia Locatelli, 1787. £550
8vo, pp. viii, 284, [1]; contemporary half mottled sheep over boards,
spine ruled and decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; insigniWcant
worming to upper joint; very clean and crisp; a Wne copy.

First edition of this philosophical approach to medicine. Pasta (1742–
1823), a medical doctor from Bergamo makes some interesting observations
on medical practice, on the temptation to treat each and every
complaint with excessive pharmaceutical or surgical force. Instead, he
maintains, many complaints are just temporary and will improve without
medical intervention. He classiWes medical phenomena into three categories,
those that take care of themselves, or can be approached not as individual
‘illnesses’ but seasonal, age-related or endemic. Secondly treatable
complaints, divided into skin diseases, piles, ulcers, haemorrhaging, vomiting
and diarrhoea, venereal diseases and gout which respond to medication.
Finally incurable diseases such as hereditary diseases or cancer. He suggests
that more attention should be paid to the needs of the patients, rather than
submitting them to a relentless regime of treatment. In a brief chapter he
deals with medical diet.
The volume concludes with a number of hitherto unpublished letters by
Cocchi (1695–1758) on the same subject.
Blake p. 340; Wellcome IV, 313; OCLC lists further copies at Berkeley, and
Harvard, a second edition was published the same year.
234 PECCHIO, Giuseppe. Storia della Economia Pubblica in
Italia, ossia Epilogio critico degli Economisti Italiani, preceduto
da un’Introduzione. Lugano, G. Ruggia, 1829. £480
8vo, pp. 256, 253–310, including contents page; occasional light
foxing; contemporary half calf, spine gilt, with gilt-lettered two-tone
lettering piece; corners slightly bumped and some wear to upper joint;
crayon shelf mark to front pastedown; a good copy.
Uncommon Wrst edition of this history of political economy and economists
in Italy. This was originally meant as a kind of companion volume to
the large (though never completed) collection of Italian writers on economic
matters published at the beginning of the century by the Baron
Custodi. Special emphasis was laid on the relation between the Italian and
English authors, and on the inXuence that the economists had exercised on
reforms in eighteenth-century Italy. The work proved popular, was reprinted
several times, and was translated into French and German.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 25764; Howey 71; this Wrst edition not in Einaudi.
Calculation of Economic ProWtability
235 PERNITZSCH, Heinrich. Anweisung zur
Waldwerthberechnung. Leipzig, C. H. F. Hartmann, 1820. £900
8vo, pp. viii, 164, [2] errata, extensive calculations in the text;
contemporary green boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; boards a
little sunned and discoloured; a Wne copy.
First edition, very rare, of an innovative calculation of economic proWtability.
Pernitzsch, a forestry oYcial, dedicates his publication to Cotta, the
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doyen of modern scientiWc forestry. He Wrst demonstrates standard utility
calculations in forestry economics, based on Cotta’s standard text, but expands
them into further detail, with extensive sample calculations. In the
second part Pernitzsch applies his own more reWned calculation, taking into
account the longer cycles in forestry economics, and distinguishing between
intensively and extensively managed estates. His own formula for
proWtability calculations follows, supported by handy tables, giving the
proWtability assessment dependent of varying rates of interest.
Humpert 3459; Mantel I, 551; KVK and OCLC list just the Göttingen copy.
236 PERRIN, John. The Elements of Conversation in three
Languages, French, Italian and English with new, familiar and
easy Dialogues designed particularly for the use of Schools
[Elemens de la Conversation en trois langues... Elementi della
Conversazione in tre lingue...] The Fifth Edition. Leghorn, Glaucus
Masi, 1819. £120
Oblong 8vo, pp. 239; title page in three languages, text in triple columns
throughout; bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards,
hinges cracked and joints worn, small portions of leather chipped at head
and tail of spine; with contemporary leather book label by Miss Kirkaldy.
Later edition of a handy introduction to French and Italian in the form of
tri-lingual dialogues in English, French and Italian. A short introduction to
grammar and vocabulary is followed by an extensive collection of dialogues
of increasing complexity. This work is clearly meant for travellers and for
those on the ‘Grand Tour’, since most of the dialogues concern polite conversation,
discussions with servants and tailors and conversation about art,
music and food, rather than business transactions.
No earlier editions appear to be recorded in NUC, BL or RLIN; the book remained
popular, with further editions being issued in 1834 (11th), 1837 and 1840
(13th).
237 PETRI, Friedrich Erdmann. Gedrängtes Deutschungs-
Wörterbuch der unsre Schrift und Umgangs-Sprache selten oder
öfter, entstellenden fremden Ausdrücke zu verstehn und vermeiden.
Dresden, Arnold, 1817. £120
8vo, pp. xiv advertisements, xxxi, [1] abbr., 497, [1] imprint; paper
somewhat browned and spotted; contemporary full sheep, spine ruled
in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, joints rubbed with short splits, but
holding Wrm.
Third edition (Wrst 1804) of an attempt to protect the German language
from an unregulated inXux of foreign words, by giving German equivalents
and explanations for foreign terms. Even though the author accepts the integration
of some words into the German vocabulary as an inevitable proc-

ess in a living language, he voices opposition to the fashionable use of foreign
words, where there are perfectly adequate German equivalents. In the
preface he defends the use of foreign terminology in science.
NUC lists just one copy (NN), listed as part of Petri’s Sprachlehre &
Handwörterbuch. Frequent reprints appeared until 1903.
238 PETTY, William. Several Essays in Political Arithmetick ...
Fourth Edition, Corrected. To which are preWx’d, Memoirs of the
Author’s Life. London, D. Browne, et al, 1755. £550
8vo, pp. [iv], vi, 184; with the Wnal advertisement leaf removed;
numerous tables in the text; nineteenth century portrait inserted after
prelims, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, extremities quite
rubbed, joints worn, but cords holding; with the armorial book plate of
the Forbes-Leith family of Whitehaugh to front free endpaper.
Collected edition of Petty’s statistical publications, here issued for the Wrst
time together with the biographical essay. First published in 1699 the collection
contains his famous Political Arithmetick, together with essays on the
population of London, Dublin, Paris and Rome, with observations on social
conditions and population development. Petty’s main achievement was
the application of the new quantitative method to political science. This
involves a systematic search for the main characteristics of human society –
a fact well expressed by Petty’s favourite term for the object of his enquiries:
‘political anatomy’.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 8998; Keynes 48.
239 PEUCHET, Jacques. Essai d’une Statistique génerale de la
France. Paris, Testu, 1801. £400
8vo, pp. 78, with numerous tables in the text; entirely uncut in the
original pale blue wrappers, a little dog-eared, a Wne copy.
Very rare Wrst separate edition of Peuchet’s important contribution to the
study and preparation of statistical information in France. He was a pronounced
advocate of census-taking, since accurate statistical information
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would help in making just policy decisions. His essay was also published at
the same time as part of his Dictionnaire universel de commerce, but Peuchet
had a small number of extra copies of this essay printed, for distribution
among government oYcials.
INED 3553.
Eighteenth-Century Business Plan
240 PINI, Giovambatista. Memoria... coronata dalla Societa Patria
delle Arti e Manifatture ... [section title:] Piano di una Fabbrica di
LaniWcio in seguito del Programma della Società Patria delle Arti e
Manifatture. Genova, Adamo Scionico, 1791. £1500
4to, pp. [iii]–viii, 167; engraving on title of prize medallions; printed
on pale blue paper; contemporary cats-paw calf, sides with single
panelling; spine ruled and decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label;
some repairs to foot of spine.
First edition of a detailed eighteenth-century business plan for setting up a
woollen mill. In 1790 Pini had together with Giacometti been awarded the
prize for an essay on the question of which national manufacturing industry
should be singled out for special support and encouragement. A brief proposal
supporting the wool industry was published in 1790. The present
volume, published the following year, supplies further details to the proposal
already submitted. Here the author describes in great detail the
Wnancial and business implications of setting up such a factory, including an
assessment of the initial funds necessary, details of sources for supply of the
basic materials, selection of a suitable site, machines and utensils, workers’
salaries, organisation, cost and duties of base materials, running costs of the
machinery, and Wnally overall production costs, discussion of the international
competition, and an assessment of proWtability. At the end follows a
brief study by Francesco Giacometti on measuring the Wnesse of wool,
based on Daubenton’s scale.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 14697.10; uncommon, OCLC and RLIN record copies at
Duke and Göttingen University only.
A European Economic Model
241 [PINTO, Isaac de.] Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit.
Contenant une Analyse raisonnée des Fonds d’Angleterre, & de ce
qu’on appelle Commerce ou Jeu d’Actions. Amsterdam, Marc
Michel Rey, 1771. £3500
8vo, pp. xvi, 368, with additional [8] pages on the state of English
Wnance in 1770 (interim half-sheet H* inserted between signatures Y
and Z); title page a little dust-soiled, some dampstaining to gutter
margin, stronger in places; uncut in the original pale blue wrappers,
spine worn and slightly dog-eared; an entirely unpressed copy.

First edition, rare, of Pinto’s ingenious defence of the public debt. Pinto
(1715–1787), an economist and advisor to the Stathouder William IV,
maintained that the public debt supported ‘circulation’ and that England’s
economic advance had been promoted by her public debt and public credit.
‘Pinto’s Traité is written from a national as well as an international perspective.
His experience as a merchant and Wnancier in the Republic, along with
his knowledge of French and English economic thought, laid the foundations
for his European economic model. Pinto wanted above all to convince
his readers of the soundness of the British system of public debt.
This copy contains the sheet H*, entitled L’Etat des Finances en Angleterre
à la Wn de la session du Parlement en 1770, which is not always present and
not mentioned by Einaudi. It does not contain the Addition au Traité (pp.
369–384) and the errata leaf, which were later inserted in some copies.
Einaudi 4447; Goldsmiths’–Kress 10791; Higgs 5282; INED 3603; Stourm, p.
42; Szajkowski, Franco-Judaica, 868; see I. J. A. Nijenhuis, Een Joodse Philosophe.
Isaac de Pinto (1717–1787), Amsterdam, NEHA, 1992.
Natural History, Preparation and Qualities of Food StuVs
242 PISANELLI, Baldassare. Trattato della Natura de’ Cibi et
del Bere... Nel quale non solo tutte le virtù, & i vitij di quelli
minutamente si palesano; ma anco i rimedij per correggere i loro
difetti copiosamente s’insegnano. Venetia, Gio. Battista Porta,
1584. £2750
4to, pp. [viii], [ii] blank,1- 144, 155–162, (vere 152); printed
throughout within a woodcut frame; woodcut title vignette, illustrated
initial and head-piece; barely noticeable repair to blank margin of title
page; contemporary full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; ties
lacking; a Wne copy.
First public edition, uncommon, of this very early cookery and gastronomy
book, only preceded by a folio edition of 1583 published in Rome.
Baldassare Pisanelli describes the natural history, the usages, the qualities of
fruits (such as apples, strawberries, grapes etc) and vegetables (such as
mushrooms, artichokes, carrots, fennel, cucumbers etc), liqueurs, meats,
game, Wsh, milk, cheese etc, and gives detailed information of the conditions
under which such food and drinks should be used. There is a special
section devoted exclusively to wine, with its various types and usage.
Pisanelli (X. 1559–1583), a medical doctor from Bologna, became famous
on the strength of this book, which went through numerous subsequent
editions until the mid seventeenth century.
B.IN.G. 1498; BM STC Italian p. 521; Cagle 1168; Horn-Arndt 72; Simon
Bibliotheca Bacchica II.507; Simon Bibliotheca Gastronomica 1171; Vicaire 682 (listing
this edition as the Wrst); Westbury, p. 173.
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243 PLACCIUS, Vincentius. De Arte Excerpendi. Vom Gelahrten
Buchhalten Liber Singularis, quo Genera & pracepta excerpendi, ab
aliis hucusq; tradita omnia. Stockholm and Hamburg, Gottfried
Liebezeit, 1689. £1250
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [vi], 228, [6], with 6 engraved
plates, bound without the errata leaf; 80; some light browning and
spotting throughout, faint dampstain to upper margin of Wrst two
signatures; contemporary vellum-backed beech boards, covered with
marbled paper, lower corners chipped.
First edition, uncommon, of Placcius’ unusual system of note taking and
indexing – in eVect the forerunner of the card index catalogue. Placcius suggested
taking notes on slips of paper, to be stored in a specially designed
Scrinium Literatum, a ‘literary chest’. The slips of paper were stuck onto
hooks labelled according to their topic. He explains in detail his preference
for slips of paper over the more common bound notebooks, pointing out
that extra slips could easily be added or deleted and moved between
diVerent categories. With this method he avoided the usual problems of
running out of space in the notebooks, or having to copy out entries repeatedly.
He also used his Scrinium for Wling his notes, printed pamphlets, programmes
or fragments of books. The Wnely engraved plates show the slips,
and diVerent designs of the Scrinium, the literary chest. Leibniz is said to
have had one made according to Placcius’ design.
Placcius (1642–1699) a professor at Hamburg, was a proliWc writer and
is best known for his dictionary of pseudonymous works (1674).
Uncommon, NUC, OCLC list copies at Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Keio
University, Japan; see Petzholdt, p. 103 (note), see Ann Blair, Coping with Information
Overload in Early Modern Europe, talk delivered at Princeton, 14 February
2003.

244 PLANCY, Adrien Comte de. L’Administration de
l’Agriculture appliquée à un Exploitation. Paris, Mme Huzard,
1822. £650
Folio (437 x 280 mm), pp. 86, [1], one folding table in the text, part of
the pagination; some light foxing, due to paper stock; a very good copy
in contemporary paste-paper covered boards; discreet repairs to spine;
extremities a little rubbed; a good copy.
First edition of this application of strict accounting practices to the running
of an agricultural business. No detail is too small, no expense too minor to
be represented inde Plancy’s immensely detailed tables. All activities of the
farmer and his labourers are represented on the tables, arranged both by
subject and month of the year. In the second half a Wve year trial account is
given, followed by a table recording the averaged prices for both agricultural
products and labour for the early 1820s. Common prices of products
are also included. A further table deals with common ailments of farm animals,
their causes and remedies, based on various veterinary manuals, especially
that of Tessier. Of particular interest is a comparative table of
agricultural income for the farmer and larger landowner in Wve and ten year
periods.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 23489.12; rare, RLIN and OCLC list just the Harvard copy.
The Earliest Printed Book on Economics
245 PLATEA [PIAZZA], Franciscus de. Opus restitutionum
usuarum et excomunicationum edita per venerabilem Dominvm
Fratrem Franciscvm de Platea Ordinis Minorvm. [colophon:]
Venice, Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Mathen, 22 January
1477. £8800
Chancery 4to, (200 x 151 mm), ll. [152] including initial and Wnal
blank; in double columns, printed in Gothic letter, with initial spaces,
some with guide letters; a few leaves with insigniWcant marginal
dampstaining, some dust-soiling; contemporary full vellum, out of a
Wfteenth century rubricated theological manuscript leaf, some wear to
spine with splits, and worm hole to upper cover; early manuscript
ownership inscription of ?Davitis, and a few contemporary marginal
annotations; a fresh unsophisticated copy in a contemporary binding.
A Wne unsophisticated copy of an incunable edition of the Wrst printed book
to deal with economics. Platea’s Opus restitutionum, Wrst printed in 1472 is
the Wrst, and earliest, book in the Goldsmiths’ and Kress catalogues respectively.
Platea, (also known as Fra Francesco Piazza) (?–1460), a Professor of law
at the University of Bologna and a well-known and acclaimed preacher, includes
a detailed discussion of monetary questions, the taking of interest
and usury in this treatise on canon law. The Wrst part of the Opus
Restitutionum deals with the return of illicit gains. Also discussed are com-
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mercial transactions under a variety of diVerent legal circumstances, such as
two creditors competing for the spoils of one debtor. The second part concentrates
on usury, which, as in all canon law, denotes not just high interest
but all interest. Platea is Wrmly aligned within the church authorities in his
condemnation of usury. The Wnal section, De Excommunicationes deals with
the judicial exclusion of oVenders from the rights and privileges of the
Christian community.
The printers de Colonia and Mathen had already published an earlier edition
of Platea’s popular work in 1474, further editions were published in
1472 and 1473.
Hain-Copinger 13040; BMC V, 227; GoV P–758; Proctor 4312A; Walsh 1695;
see Goldsmiths’–Kress 1 for Wrst edition.

Danish Commerce and Industry
246 PLÜER, Carl. Christoph. Patriotiske Tanker over Manufacturog
Fabrik-Waesenet. Kiobenhavn, 1757. £450
8vo, pp. 87, [1] errata; contemporary stiV marbled wrappers; a little
creased, and foot of spine exposed; an attractive, wide-margined copy.
First edition, very rare, of Plüer’s proposal for the improvement of the Danish
manufacturing industry, issued in a German translation a year later. This is
one of the earliest accounts of Danish commerce and industry, including
trade with its Asian, African and American colonies. Plüer’s work is a perfect
example of a general trend in Danish economic writing. After 1755, when
censorship laws were eased, a number of publications dealing with economic
policy were issued in Denmark, and almost all were published more or less
simultaneously in German too, to reach the Danish ruling classes (for further
details see Carpenter, Dialogue in Political Economy, 1977, 4).
Only the Kress copy in NUC, RLIN and OCLC.
247 PRINTING BLOCK. Printing Block for Calico Printing,
Germany, ca 1810. £2000
Solid wood printing block, measuring 340 x 200 x 60 mm, with carved
out grip to verso, showing four alphabets within simple wood cut
border; some wear to parts of the border.
A fascinating survival of a wooden printing block for calico printing. Unu-
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sually the block represents four German alphabets, showing both lower and
upper case letters, apparently to be used for educational purposes as a kind
of child’s primer, similar to a hornbook.
Block printing on textiles was used in Europe since the Wfteenth century,
but it experienced renewed popularity towards the end of the eighteenth
and nineteenth century, through the import of printed cotton cloth from
India. Soon calico, or printed cotton cloth became the most important fashion
fabric in Europe. Smaller printing blocks, usually showing decorative
patterns are not that uncommon, but blocks of this size are rare.
See S. D. Chapman & S. Chassagne, European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century,
1981; F. Montgomery, Printed Textiles 1700 –1850, 1970.
248 [PROSPECTUS.] Libraire de Firmin Didot. Histoire de
L’Empire de Russie par M. Karamzin ... Publiée par souscription.
Prospectus. Paris, Didot, [1815]. £150
8vo, pp. 16; modern boards.
Interesting publisher’s prospectus advertising the forthcoming publication
by subscription of Karamzin’s famous History of the Russian Empire. The
prospectus gives a condensed version of the introduction, and then outlines
of the subscription plan. As soon as Wve hundred subscribers have been enlisted,
printing will begin. At the end a list is given of bookshops where subscriptions
will be accepted; seven of these are in Paris, and some twenty in
other European cities, including Masson & Bossange and Treuttel and
Wurtz in London.
Apparently the necessary number of subscribers never came forward, as
the French translation of Karamzin’s work was published by Belin instead.
Only the Bibliotheque Nationale copy located in RLIN, OCLC and KVK.
A Forerunner to Scott’s Miscellany
249 PULLEYN, William. The Etymological Compendium, or Portfolio
of Origins and Inventions; comprising language, literature, and
government. ... discoveries and inventions ... commerce and the use of
money ... names, trades and professions ... universities and religious
plots ... games, Weld sports etc ... seas, islands, cities, towns, colleges,
corporations, boroughs, &c. containing a particular account of London
and its public buildings... London, Thomas Tegg, 1828. £220
12mo, pp. xvi, 356; occasional foxing and browning; contemporary
straight-grain morocco, gilt roll-tooled border.
First edition of a wide-ranging encyclopaedia of origins, covering all manner
of interseting information, ranging from the origins of pub names to
sources of London street names, ancient games, and foodstuVs with religious
connotations. A general index is provided, which facilitates the use of
this great sourcebook of amusing information.

250 [RADONVILLIERS, Claude-Francois Lizarde de.] De la
Manière d’apprendre les Langues. Paris, Saillant, 1768. £500
8vo, pp. xxiv, 278; entirely uncut in the original pattern paper
wrappers; a little dog-eared, lower corner of upper wrapper worn away;
a very large wide-margined copy.
First edition of this introduction to language learning by the former Jesuit
Radonvilliers (1709–1789). In an entirely modern view, Radonvilliers
stresses the importance of practising ‘spoken language’ when learning a
foreign language. He rejects strict grammatical approaches, and maintains
that analogy will be the main help in language acquisition. He includes interesting
chapters on translation, and suggests that translation should be
approached in a number of steps, Wrst the individual words should be translated,
keeping the familiar word order, only later the syntax of the foreign
language should be introduced.
Radonvilliers was a language teacher at a number of Jesuit colleges before
he left the Jesuits in 1742. He also taught the French King Louis XVI, who
later elevated him to the rank of Conseiller d’État in 1774. After Marivaux’s
death he was elected to the Académie Française.
Cioranescu 52113; not in Sommervogel (VI, 1384).
251 [RANIER CHIARI, Francesco]. Pratica del Calendario in cui
col beneWzio delle suo Tavole si ritrovano senza fatica le Feste
Mobili di ciascun’anno in Perpetuo, si avanti, che dopo la
Correzione Gregoriana. Venezia, Antonio Bortoli, 1710. £650
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8vo, pp. [viii], 56; numerous tables in the text and one text-engraving;
modern cloth-backed boards.
First and presumably only edition of a rare work on calendars, speciWcally
designed to allow the determination of movable church holidays both in the
past and for the future. Detailed instructions are given on the use of the
tables, with corrections for the introduction of the Gregorian calendar.
Numerous tables are given, showing the golden number of any given year,
together with the epact to establish Easter, Dominical letters and the Roman
calendar.
This little volume is apparently very rare, and no copy has been located in RLIN,
OCLC or KVK.
252 [RAUCOURT de CHARLEVILLE, Antoine.] A Manual of
Lithography, or Memoir on the Lithographical Experiments made
in Paris, at the Royal School of the Roads and Bridges; clearly
explaining the whole Art, as well as all the Accidents that may
happen in printing, and the diVerent Methods of avoiding them.
Translated from the French by C. Hullmandel, Second Edition.
London, Rodwell and Martin, 1821. £1000
8vo, pp. xix, 138, 2 folding lithograph plates, [2] advertisements;
occasional light foxing, especially in Wrst two signatures; uncut in the
original boards, covered in paper; a good copy.
Second edition in English (Wrst 1820) of this major introduction to lithographic
printing in the translation by Hullmandel, who was most
inXuential in the development of lithography in England. Hullmandel’s
preface contans a brief history of lithographic printing, from the moment
that Senefelder took out the patent for his invention. Raucourt’s treatise
outlines the principles of lithographic printing, the preparation of inks,
both black and various colours, the tools and presses, instructions for
draughtsmen and printers, and the application of lithography. He describes
the presses utilised, which are illustrated on the Wnal plates.
Bigmore & Wyman, II, p. 240; Twyman, Lithography, pp. 110–114.
253 REDL, Anton. Addressen-Buch der Handlungs-Gremien und
Fabriken in der Kais[erlich] Kön[iglichen] Haupt und Residenz
Stadt Wien dann mehrerer Provinzial Staedte für das Jahr 1825.
Wien, Verfasser, 1824. £600
8vo, engraved f folding map (475 x 550 mm) printed in red and black,
bound as frontispiece, pp. [ii], [xvi] calendar, 501, [1] errata, [1]
advertisement; faint damp staining to lower corner of Wrst two
signatures; tear in map repaired; recent buV boards with original
wrappers mounted; overall a good copy.
A fascinating merchant directory for Austria and especially the city of Vi-

enna. Published under the auspices of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce
(Großhandelsgremium), the compendium, which presumably was published
annually, Wrst gives details of the oYcials of the court of commercial law in
Vienna, followed by details of the members of various merchants’ organisations
(arranged by specialisation), and divided into members of the nobility,
the bourgeoisie and Jewish merchants. In each case the business address
and details are given. The large folding map shows a street plan of Vienna,
with the most representative merchants and manufacturers listed in red.
This useful publication gives a unique insight into the industrial production
and merchant life of central Europe. It was apparently Wrst published in
1808, later editions, compiled by changing editors are listed for 1833 and
the 1850s; all editions are very rare.
RLIN and OCLC list copies for 1808, 1811, 1812, and 1820, with single copies
only; not in Humpert.
Common Sense
254 RESEWITZ, Friedrich Gabriel. Die Erziehung des Bürgers
zum Gebrauch des gesunden Verstandes, und zur gemeinnützigen
GeschäVtigkeit ... Zweyte veränderte AuXage. Kopenhagen,
Heineck und Faber, 1776. £400
8vo, pp. [xxiv], 244, with two-page printed table inserted facing p. 130;
bound in contemporary full marbled sheep, spine decoratively gilt, giltlettered
spine label, label chipped and gilding somewhat faded; a very
clean and crisp copy.
Second edition, enlarged, of Resewitz’s educational reform project with the
aim of educating the citizens in the use of common sense. Resewitz (1729–
1806), a theologian and educator, was a parson at the German church in
Copenhagen and taught at Copenhagen university. The result of his academic
activities was this project for the organisation of a school which was
to provide schooling and education for a modern age, to prepare all sections
of society for a useful and productive life.
ADB XXVIII, p. 241; RLIN and OCLC list copies at Columbia and Brigham
Young, with copies of the Wrst edition at Stanford and Northwestern only.
255 RICARD, Samuel. L’Art de bien tenir les Livres de Comptes
en parties Doubles a l’Italienne, avec une Table Alphabetique de
l’Explication des Termes qui sont le plus en usage dans le commerce.
Corrigée & augmentée par Jean Pierre Ricard. Amsterdam, David
Paul Marret, 1724. £2000
Folio, engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], 96, [ii], 113, [1], [xii], [iii], ll. 31
(double-page), [ii], ll. 6 (double-page); engraved title vignette, title in
red and black; some light browning, two circular stains to title, else
clean and crisp; contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, joints
and extremities worn, but holding Wrm; a good copy.
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Second, corrected (Wrst 1709), edition of one of the most inXuential French
treatises on double-entry book-keeping. Ricard, best known for his general
introduction to commercial practice ‘Traité Général du Commerce’, gives a
very thorough introduction to double-entry book-keeping, clearly
inXuenced by his own practical experience. He does not just rely on sample
entries, but clearly explains every procedure and every account book in double-entry
book-keeping. His extensive practical experience becomes obvious
in his comments on common pitfalls and problems, such as correcting
errors in account books and journal entries.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 6320; Historical Accounting Literature, p. 158; not in
Herwood; see Bywater & Yamey, p. 146–7.

Hamburg Dialect
256 RICHEY, Michael. Idioticon Hamburgense oder Wörter-
Buch, zur Erklärung der eigenen, in und um Hamburg gebräuchlichen
Nieder-Sächsischen Mund-Art. Hamburg, Conrad König,
1755. £1100
8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. [x], lii, 480; title in red and
black, with engraved vignette on title and at head; contemporary full
vellum, circular indentations to inside of boards, where commemorative
coins or medals had been imbedded; a good copy.
Second enlarged edition of the Wrst dictionary of the Hamburg dialect, as
diVerent from other Low German dialects. The Wrst edition appeared in
1743 and extended to just Wfty pages. Richey (1678–1761), history professor,
linguist and author, was a member of Hamburg’s Wrst Patriotische
Gesellschaft, and editor of the periodical Der Patriot. This dictionary of
Hamburg dialect and terminology is his most important publication.
Richey also gives a brief classiWcation of the most common diVerences between
the Hamburg dialect and other Low German dialects, and adds
Ziegler’s glossary of the terminology of Dithmarschen, a province north of
Hamburg.
Zaunmüller, c. 72; not in Faber du Faur or Jantz; a few copies of this edition were
issued with a publication date of 1754 (Kayser, 71).
257 RODDE, Jacob. Russische Sprachlehre... Vierte vermehrte
AuXage. Riga, Hartknoch, 1789.
[bound with:] ���������, ��������. Gespräche von Haussachen.
Riga, Hartknoch, 1789.
[bound with:] Sprüchwörter und Stellen aus russischen Autoren zum
Exponiren. [n.p., n.d.].
[bound with:] �������, ������. � ����������� ... Riga,
1789. £350
Four works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xxiv], 431, [1] imprint; 168; 112;
128; contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, spine label,
extremities rubbed, and corners worn.
Rare Russian grammar and phrasebook Wrst published in 1773, to provide
the sizable German community in Livonia with a concise Russian textbook.
In addition to the basics of grammar, Rodde gives an extensive listing of
irregular verbs. The second section is taken up with bi-lingual dialogues,
with numerous charming discussions about tea and coVee, meals and the
pleasures of tobacco. The last two sections contain Russian proverbs with
their German translations, and excerpts from Russian literature, with little
glossaries at the foot of the page.
Even though these textbooks of Russian grammar, phraseology, prov-
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erbs and literary excerpts were issued with a Riga imprint, they were in fact
printed in Leipzig, by Breitkopf and Son.
Maggs 363; NUC lists three copies of the Wrst two parts (CtY, ICN, PU).
258 [RODELLA, Giovanni Battista.] Vita costumi e scritti del
Conte Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Patrizio Bresciano. Brescia,
Giambatista Bossini, [1766]. £450
8vo, frontispiece portrait, pp. 120; title vignette; contemporary full
vellum, gilt-lettered spine label; some light staining to upper board; but
a very clean and crisp copy.
First edition of this comprehensive biography and bibliography of the author,
literary historian and cultural Wgure Giammaria Mazzuchelli (1707–
1765). Mazzuchelli is best known as the author of the vast study Scrittori
d’Italia (1753–1763), which was praised for the extreme detail of biographical
and bibliographical information on Italian writers. Started on a
truly comprehensive scale, citing all relevant authorities, the work only covered
the Wrst two letters of the alphabet, but the existing sections have been
singled out as prime examples of bio-bibliographical description (Petzholdt
p. 355).
OCLC and RLIN list copies at Stanford, Berkeley, Illinois, Harvard, and Duke.
Women and the Law
259 ROLLAND D’ERCEVILLE, Barthélmy Gabriel de.
Recherches sur les prérogatives des Dames chez les Gaulois, sur les
Cours d’Amour. Paris, Nyon l’aîné, 1787. £650
12mo, pp. [iv], xii, 212, [1] approbation and errata; contemporary full
marbled calf, spine decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; a Wne copy.
First edition, uncommon, of an interesting work on the social and legal
status of women in France up to the end of the eighteenth century. Rolland
d’Erceville analyses the inXuence of women at the time of the troubadours,
and their impact on the arts and sciences. He looks beyond the conWnes of
France and includes information on women throughout Europe. Of particular
interest are his chapters on the courts of love, and his detailed analysis
of works on the equality between the sexes. He also includes a
bibliography concerning the education of princes.
Rolland d’Erceville (1734–1794) was the Wrst president of the Chambre
de Requêtes of the Parlement de Paris.
Brunet 23212; Cioranescu 53906; Gay, III 939; INED 3889; ‘Ouvrage contenant
des détails curieux qui doivent le faire rechercher’ (Michaud); RLIN lists copies at
New York Public Library and the University of Michigan.

The earliest Bibliography of Books on Technology
260 ROSENTHAL, Gottfried Erich. Litteratur der Technologie
das ist: Verzeichniss der Bücher, Schriften und Abhandlungen,
welche von den Künsten, den Manufakturen und Fabriken, der
Handlung, den Handwerkern und sonstigen Nahrungszweigen, als
auch von denen zum wissenschaftlichen Betriebe derselben erforderlichen
Kenntnissen aus dem Naturreiche, der Mathematik, Physik
und Chemie handeln. Berlin & Stettin, F. Nicolai, 1795. £1500
4to, pp. ii, 420; possibly lacking a half title; bound without endpapers;
very light browning to title page; contemporary half sheep, paste-paper
covered boards; sometime rebacked; corners worn with some loss of
leather covering.
First edition of the Wrst great bibliography of technology in which the author
lists about 20,000 books and articles. Rosenthal (1745–1814), a baker
at Nordhausen, was a member of several important scientiWc societies and
the author of numerous scientiWc works. The book is arranged by subject
and is particularly important as Rosenthal includes a very large number of
journal contributions, both well-known and obscure. A very valuable
source book for historians of science and technology.
The bibliography was also issued as the Wnal part of Jacobssons technologisches
Wörterbuch oder alphabetische Erklärung aller nützlichen mechanischen
Künste, Manufacturen, Fabriken und Handwerker (1781–1795).
Besterman 6020; Petzholdt, p. 727; PoggendorV II. 696–97.
261 ROSNATI, Bartolomeo Gabriele. Sui Mezzi più vantaggiosi al
Conseguimento ed alla Conservazione della Prosperità Wsica dell’
Uomo civilizzato. Considerazioni medico-WlosoWche. Milano,
Giovanni Bernardoni, 1821. £650
8vo, pp. 193, [2]; very faint damp-stain 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 light and airless
living. The next section concentrates on excretions, followed by another on
the right balance of rest and exercise. For those of 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 bene-
Wcial eVects of travelling, as it combines the physical exertions with intellectual
stimuli. The importance of regular and suYcient sleep is also stressed.
Apparently rare, no copy found in RLIN, or OCLC
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262 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Del Contratto Sociale, ossia
Principi del Diritto Politico. Tradotto dal Citadino Niccolò Rota.
Venezia, Antonio Curti, 1797.
[bound with:] ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Discorso sopra
l’Economia Politica. Venezia, Antonio Curti, 1797. £1200
Two works bound in one volume, 8vo, pp. viii, 207, [1] blank; 68;
some occasional light foxing and spotting, else Wne; uncut in
contemporary marbled limp boards; spine label lettered in manuscript;
a good copy.
First edition in Italian of Rousseau’s important contribution to economics,
his Discours sur l’Oeconomie Politique, bound together with the second Italian
translation of the Contrat Social. It appears likely that both translations
are by Niccolò Rota, as the two are sometimes found bound together.
Economia Politica: Rousseau’s article on political economy, originally
written for publication in the Encyclopédie, remained his most explicit contribution
to the subject. His sustained argument against luxury and conspicuous
consumption of the rising European bourgeoisie implied a direct
criticism and rejection of the mercantilists. Taxation is ‘inevitable’, and he
suggests a tax on consumption, paid for by the buyer of non-essential items
or services, foreshadowing modern VAT. Most importantly his singleminded
opposition to economic inequality and his insistence that liberal
laissez-faire was no substitute for a theory of social relations, inXuenced
political reformers and political economists alike.
Contratto Sociale: First edition of this translation, but in fact the second
translation into Italian of Rousseau’s seminal work. Rousseau’s Contrat Social
had been Wrst published in 1762, and the Wrst Italian translation appeared
in 1796. ‘His fundamental thesis that government depends

absolutely on the mandate of the people, and his genuine creative insight
into a number of political and economic problems, gives his work an indisputable
cogency.
I. Bengesco 169; Sénelier 721; this edition not found in RLIN or OCLC; II.
Sénelier 1470; OCLC lists copies at McGill and the Wellcome Library.
263 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Du Contrat Social, ou Principes
du Droit Politique. Bordeaux, Phillipot, III. Année Républicaine
[1795]. £400
12mo, pp. 132, 129–223, [vere 227]; slight discolouring to paper;
attractively bound in vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine label;
unusual decoration to spine.
Revolutionary edition of Rousseau’s seminal work. It was, after all, the Wrst
great ‘emotional’ plea for the equality of all men in the state: others had argued
the same theoretically, but had themselves tolerated a very diVerent
government. Rousseau believed passionately in what he wrote, and when in
1789 a similar emotion was released on a national scale, the Contrat Social
came into its own as the bible of the revolutionaries in building their ideal
state’. Quite understandably there are numerous revolutionary editions of
Rousseau’s seminal work.
This edition not in Dufour.
First Amsterdam Edition
264 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Emile, ou de l’éducation. Selon la
copie de Paris. No place (i.e. Amsterdam, J. Néaulme), 1762. £950
Four parts bound in two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], viii, 224; [iv], 192;
[iv], 168; [iv], 243; with an engraved frontispiece and Wve engraved
plates by J. v. Schley and S. Fokke after C. Eisen; volume I with a small
dampstain in the upper blank margin; occasional dust-soiling;
contemporary polished calf, gilt ornamental border on sides, gilt back
with raised bands and gilt lettering; expert repairs to head and foot of
spines; a good copy with some pencil annotations in the blank margins.
First Amsterdam edition, very rare, of Rousseau’s Émile, one of the most
inXuential texts in the history of Western education. The Amsterdam printing
is especially rare, since it was banned before publication (for full details
see McEachern).
Émile represents to a large extent a synthesis and continuation of
Montaigne and Locke. The attack launched upon it by church and state – it
was banned by the archbishop of Paris, by the Sorbonne and by the civil
government – centred, however not on Rousseau’s pedagogical theory, but
on his statement on natural religion, which he proposed to substitute for
the dogma of revealed religion. Few books have had greater immediate
eVect on educational thought than Rousseau’s Emile.
McEachern, nr. 2; Dufour 195; Le Petit, p. 563–4; Peignot, ii, p. 94.
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One of the Rarest of Rousseau’s First Editions
265 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Rousseau juge de Jean Jacques.
Dialogues. Premier Dialogue. D’après le Manuscrit de M. Rousseau,
laissé entre les mains de M. Brooke Boothby. LichWeld, J. Jackson, ...
et se vend a Londres chez Dodsley, Cadell, Elmsley, et Strahan.
1780. £3000
8vo, pp. [xii], 334, including errata and editor’s note; entirely uncut in
the original wrappers; upper wrapper torn, with loss of lower corner,
subsequent dust-soiling to front free endpaper; contemporary
ownership inscription in ink by John Wright, Edinburgh; preserved in a
custom-made fold-over box.
First edition of this rare autobiographical work by Rousseau, much less well
known and less reWned than his Confessions, but of great biographical interest
about Rousseau at a critical stage in his life. Written between 1770 and
1776, this work presents an attempt by Rousseau to put the record straight.
It is a clear outcome of his persecution complex, which led to disagreements
with many of his former co-philosophers, especially Grimm, Diderot,
d’Alembert, and Voltaire. This work is in the form of a dialogue between
Rousseau himself and his alter ego, who, though distinct from Rousseau,
expresses his thoughts. The topic of discussion is the works of Jean-Jacques,
who again is treated as somewhat distinct from Rousseau the participant in
the dialogue.
Rousseau Wnished the text of three dialogues in 1776, and after some
misgivings about publishing it in France entrusted the manuscript to a
young Englishman Brooke Boothby (1743–1824), whom he had met earlier
in England and who at this time resided in France, and agreed with him
to have the Dialogues printed in England. Boothby left when Rousseau had
only Wnished copying the Wrst dialogue, which Boothby duly took with him
to England. This is the text which is printed in the present volume. The full
manuscript was not printed until after Rousseau’s death in a collected edition
of 1782.
In the note preWxed to the errata printed on the Wnal leaf, Boothby apologizes
of the printing errors, caused by the provincial typesetter in LichWeld.
Distribution was to be shared between Boothby and the Amsterdam publisher
Marc Michel Rey (see Dufour (344). Due to these complicated distribution
arrangements, this work is one of the rarest of Rousseau Wrst
editions.
Dufour 345; Senelier I, 153; ESTC t137132 recording copies at the British Library
and Oxford in the British Isles, and Yale and Rochester University in
America; there is also another variant of this 334 page edition (ESTC n013056,
not listing the names of the London booksellers), and a number of reprints of the
same year.

266 [ROUSSEAU.] TARDIANI, Scipione. Esame Analitico del
Contratto Sociale di G. G. Rousseau. Primo Volume [Secondo
Volume], Lucca, TipograWa Benedini e Rocchi, 1819. £480
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xxxii, 256, [1] errata; 413, [1] blank, [1] errata;
some light foxing, to Wrst and last signatures; contemporary sheepbacked
marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine labels and contrasting
numbering pieces.
First and only edition, rare, of this close critique of Rousseau’s Social Contract.
Tardiani comments on the fact how contemporary philosophers and
politicians appear to accept Rousseau’s basic tenets of the social contract
without questioning the underlying principles, and proposes to give a close
analysis of all his statements and demands.
Surprisingly uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list just the Harvard copy.
267 RUSKIN, John. The Political Economy of Art: Being the
Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures. Delivered at
Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857. London: Smith, Elder and
Co., 65, Cornhill. 1857. £90
8vo, pp. viii, 248, ownership inscription erased from upper outer
corner of title page, paper thinned and small hole; original green
printed publisher’s cloth, slightly creased in places, extremities sunned,
head and tail of spine lightly chipped.
First edition of Ruskin’s fascinating application of the concepts of political
economy on artistic production, based on his lectures in Manchester.
Ruskin analyses the social conditions that produce, or are favourable to the
creation of great works of art. ‘His lectures in Manchester in 1857 on the
political economy of art were followed by a series of works that castigated
Victorian society in general and political economy in particular for sanctioning
commercial immorality’ (New Palgrave).
Wise 71.
Russian Rulers
268 [RUSSIA.] Abrégé historique et chronologique des Règnes
de tous les Souverains de la Russie, enrichi de plusieurs Portraits et
d’un arbre généalogique. Paris, Librairie économique, 1806. £150
8vo, stipple engraved frontispiece, pp. [viii], viii, folding hand-coloured
genealogical table, xii, with 4 page prospectus bound in, 87, [1] errata,
avis au relieur misbound at end; with four further stipple engravings;
uncut and partly unopened in contemporary paste-paper wrappers,
corners a little dog-eared and foot of spine worn.
Uncommon Wrst edition of a brief history of the Russian sovereigns from
862 to 1801, divided into three main historical periods according to the
ruling houses. A brief biography of each of the rulers is given, and a genea-
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logical table shows their relations and descendants. The attractive large
hand-coloured table shows the family tree.
The work was also printed the same year with a Leipzig imprint.
The Importance of Education
269 [RUSSIA – EDUCATION.] Retch o deistvii prosvechtchenia
na sostoynié naradov proiznesennaia ... [Discourse on the inXuence
of education on the nation, a speech delivered in French by the
Rector of the University of Saint-Petersburg Gurov, and translated
by Prof. Nikolï Butyrski.] Saint-Petersburg, Press of the Imperial
Academy of Sciences, 1826. £220
4to, pp. [iv], 28; original pale blue wrappers; a Wne copy.
The author is a ‘loyal liberal’ defending the importance of education for the
well-being of the nation. The liberal Russian tsar Alexander the First had
just died, and there had been an attempt by the Russian militia
(“dekabrists”) to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic. This
attempt failed, and many members of the upper class believed that education
was to blame for perverting people, and that simple uneducated people
were much easier to control. The author insists that, on the contrary, it was
a lack of education that was to blame.

The First French Textbook for Basic Technical Education
270 SAINTE-PREUVE, Binet de. Notions les plus Essentielles
sur la Physique, la Chimie et les Machines, développées dans
l’Ordre du Programme OYciel en date du 18 Juillet 1837 Relatif
a l’Enseignment dans Les Écoles Normales Primaires. Paris,
L. Hachette, 1838. £500
12mo, pp. xii, 275, [1] table of contents, with four folding plates
bound at the end; some light damp-staining to lower corner;
contemporary green roan, sides and spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettering to
spine; from the Dietrichstein library.
First edition, uncommon, of what appears to be the Wrst school textbook in
French on machines and the machine question, the beginning of technical
education for primary schools. The textbook covers chemistry, physics and
basic technology. It is rather appealing that this textbook is published by
Hachette, even today the leading French publisher of school and university
textbooks.
Uncommon, not found in OCLC or RLIN.
Patent Remedy against Ill-Wtting Footwear
271 SAKOSKY, Albert. Formes et Embouchoirs Mécaniques,
propres à allonger, élargir et agrandir la Chaussure, suivant les incommodités
ou la conformation du pied: et pour lesquels l’Auteur
a obtenu in Brevet d’invention ... Paris, l’Auteurs, 1814. £250
8vo, pp. 15, [1] contents; modern boards.
First edition of this comprehensive description of a device to enlarge or
widen shoes to Wt the foot perfectly. Apparently a patent (Brevet
d’Invention) had been granted for this invention to Sakosky, bootmaker to
the Prussian king. Sakosky describes how the device operates, though, presumably
for fear of illegal copies, refrains from illustrating it. His device is
made to Wt the shape of the foot of each customer, and those customers who
cannot come to his workshop are invited to send a well-worn comfortable
shoe for Sakosky to make the necessary measurements.
KVK records just one copy, at the Wellcome Library; not found in NUC.
Spanish Investment in the Colonies
272 SANTA CRUZ de MARCENADO, Alvaro Navia Ossorio
Marques de. Comercio suelto, y en Companias general y particular,
en Mexico, Peru, Philipinas, y Moscovia: Poblacion, Fabricas,
Pesqueria, Plantios, Colonias en Africa: Empleo de Pobres, y de
Vagabundos. Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1732. £1800
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Small 8vo, pp. [xvi], 256; woodcut head and tail-pieces and initials;
contemporary full vellum, with the original ties and ebony buttons,
manuscript lettering to spine; a very attractive and fresh copy.
First edition, uncommon, of an interesting treatise on Spanish economics
by Navia Ossorio, Marques Santa Cruz de Marcenado, written in the form
of a dialogue between the author and a friend. Basically the work is a plea
for the improvement of economic infrastructure to counteract Spain’s
weakened position, and at the same time an attempt to encourage investment
in trading companies and colonial trade. Investment is particularly
targeted for South America and Africa.
Santa Cruz de Marcenado (1684–1732) had earlier published an extensive
military treatise under the title ReXexiones Militares, and some of the
military imagery and vocabulary are noticeable here too. He begins with the
maxim, that in war – just like in economics, three things are necessary:
‘money, money, money’. To protect free trade rather draconian measures
are proposed. Smuggling, for example, is to be met with the death penalty.
Colmeiro 354; Goldsmiths’–Kress 6980.6 (lacking the half-title); Palau 188832.
273 SAY, Jean-Baptiste. De l’Angleterre et des Anglais. Paris,
Arthus Bertrand & Londres, Berthoud, 1815. £850
8vo, pp. [iv], 56; uncut in the original buV wrappers; a Wne copy.
First edition of this critical assessment of the British economy at the beginning
of nineteenth century, written by one of the greatest economists of the
time. Less than impressed by the ‘British model’, Say pointed to the moral
corruption rife amongst both politicians and the population, stressed the
extreme material inequality and social hierarchy amongst the classes, and
pilloried the waste of production in luxury, needless expenditure and unproductive
labour. He also used his visit to meet many leading economists,
and was particularly impressed by Ricardo and Bentham.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 21109.
Economics the New Religion – Say’s Utopia
274 SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Olbie, ou Essai sur les Moyens de
Réformer les Moeurs d’une Nation ... Paris, Deterville, [1799/
1800]. £3200
8vo, pp. xi, [1], 132; entirely uncut in the original blue wrappers, foot
of spine strengthened; a Wne copy.
First edition of Say’s rare utopia – his second book, containing the beginnings
of his economic thought. In Olbie the basis of society is no longer
ethics but economics. ‘Having established that a good treatise on economic
theory should be the major moral book for society, the author naturally
looked to provide such a work for his country; Olbie anticipates the publication
of the Traité d’Economie politique which was to appear four years later

and thus forms part of the history of the science’ (Guillaumin, Avertissement
des editeurs in Oeuvres diverses, 1848).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 17874.24; INED 4109; Monglond V, 108; Negley 1002; not
in Einaudi; RLIN lists copies at Yale, Columbia, and the University of
Pennsylvannia.
Popular Beliefs
275 SCHMIDT, Johann Georg. Die gestriegelte Rockenphilosophia,
oder AuVrichtige Untersuchung derer von vielen
super-klugen Weibern hochgehaltenen Aberglauben. Chemnitz,
Conrad Stössel, 1706 [–1707]. £950
Four parts in one volume, part 1–2 and 3–4 paginated continuously,
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xiv, 381, 19 contents; 425, 7 contents;
title printed in red and black; decorative initials; some browning
throughout, slim worm trace to fore-margin of pp. 381–385;
contemporary full vellum.
First edition thus, of this entertaining and wildly varied set of superstitions
and popular beliefs, put about by old women – the proverbial ‘old wives’
tales’. In four sets of one hundred sections all manner of superstitions, legends,
cures, charms and curses prevalent in Germany at the time are described.
They cover a wide range of topics, including some of medical
interest, concentrating on love, courtship and marriage, pregnancy and
abortion, how to catch a husband and how to manage a household. Many
of the ‘superstitions’ here described were later collected in Jakob Grimm’s
inXuential ‘Deutsche Mythologie’ (1835). They constitute an important
source book for popular practices of the time.
Faber du Faur 1564; see Jantz 2238 for later edition; Holzmann-Bohatta 12457;
uncommon, RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Stanford, Brown University and
Yale only.
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276 SCHOEBEL, Charles. Analogies constitutives de la Langue
Allemande avec le Grec et le Latin expliquées par le Samskrit. Paris,
l’Imprimerie Royale, 1845. £75
Tall 8vo, pp. [iv], xxvii, [1] abbreviations, 184, [2] errata; numerous
tables in the text; contemporary half roan over marbled boards, spine
decorated and lettered in gilt, extremities a little rubbed.
First edition of this comprehensive word list of the analogies between the
German language and Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit, part of the German midcentury
emphasis on the study of the history of languages. In painstaking
detail, Schöbel gives German terms, their Sanskrit equivalents, the Germanic
root, and similar Latin and Greek terms, together with their translation
into French, explaining both its direct and Wgurative meaning.
Bonaparte 9554.
277 SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des
Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde. Rudolfstadt, 1813.
[bound with:] SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Ueber das Sehen und
die Farben, Leipzig, Hartknoch, 1816. £4500
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [ii], 148; 88. some light spotting,
second work lightly browned, due to paper stock; some annotations
and manuscript underlinings in pencil and ink; mid-nineteenth century
cloth-backed marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt.
First editions of Schopenhauer’s rare Wrst two publications: his rare doctoral
dissertation, translated as ‘On the Fourfold root of the Principle of
SuYcient Reason’, which is important for the understanding of his later
more mature works, and his work on colour, instigated by his encounter
with Goethe.
Schopenhauer (1788–1860), the German philosopher of pessimism, is
best known for his later ‘Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung’.
Hübscher 1, Griesebach 11; Hübscher 6; Griesebach, p. 11.

Tarantella Dance
278 SERAO, Francesco. Della Tarantola o sia Falangio di Puglia.
Lezioni Accademiche. Napoli, 1742. £1800
4to, pp. ii, 260; engraved title vignette and decorative initials; some
browning and spotting throughout, due to paper quality; contemporary
full vellum, gilt-lettering directly to spine.
First edition, uncommon, of this medical and psychological assessment of
the phenomenon of the Tarantola or Tarantella dance, a trance like ecstatic
dance. The origin of this dance is found in a therapeutic ritual, carried out
to fend oV the eVects of being bitten by the tarantola, the wolf-spider.
Popular belief was that the bite of this spider caused a disease called
‘tarantismo’, which led to a period of melancholy and ultimately death. The
only way to avoid death was a frenzied, uncontrollable dance, set to music,
and called the ‘tarantella’.
Serao studies the phenomenon in depth, beginning with the natural history
of the ‘tarantola’, with extensive reference to classical natural historians,
contemporary reports, and scientif study. The second, more
substantial, part is devoted to the study of the related frenzied dance, and its
origin in popular superstition, mixed with the perceived eVects of the spider’s
venom. Serao gathers the evidence, citing both medical literature and
contemporary eyewitness reports. After careful consideration he maintains
that the Tarantella cannot be wholely attributed to the venom of the spider,
nor that it can have such a strikingly diVerent eVect on the people of Puglia.
He comes to the conclusion that it is the music, that has the hypnotic eVect.
The Tarantella has become a part of musical repertoire, and one of the better-known
pieces, called ‘Antidotum Tarantulae’, the treatment for the spider
bite is even incorporated into Tchaikowsky’s Swan Lake.
Searo (1702–1783), one of the best-known naturalists and medical scientists
of the Neapolitan Reign, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences
and the London Royal Society.
In Wellcome, RLIN and OCLC locate further copies at New York Public Library,
the British Library and Edinburgh University.
A Nation in Arms
279 [SERVAN, Joseph.] Le Soldat Citoyen, ou Vues Patriotiques
sur la Maniere la plus avantageuse de pourvoir à la Défense du
Royaume ... Dans le Pays de la Liberté [Neufchâtel], 1780. £900
8vo, pp. [iv], 640, [2] errata; decorative head and tail-pieces, numerous
tables within the text; bound in contemporary full mottled calf, spine
decoratively gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, extremities
lightly rubbed, a Wne copy, with engraved armorial bookplate on verso
of title.
First edition of this revolutionary analysis of the position and function of
the army within the state which culminates in the proposal of the citizen
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army, which became the standard after the revolution. The work has also
been attributed to Guibert, the author of the well-known Traité de Tactique,
but it appears to be conWrmed that this work is by Servan.
Beginning with the proposition that the army should be useful for the
state, not just in war but also in peace time, Servan Wrst analyses how troups
are recruited, how they are supported, their remit and their discipline. His
most important suggestions, however, concern the citizen soldier – when
not needed for active duty, soldiers should work in agriculture and in public
works projects. Furthermore they should be allowed to marry, which in
turn would lead to population increase and beneWt both state and army.
Some of his suggestions sound remarkably similar to those of Turgot as
controller-general.
Servan (1741–1808) was minister of war from 1792, and later on head
of the Republican army. Denounced by Robespierre, he was imprisoned
during the terror, but became head of the army in 1799.
Barbier IV, 515, Cioranescu 18th, 31489; INED 4165; RLIN records copies at
Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and Cornell; see Charnay, Jean Paul. Guibert ou le Soldat
Philosophe, Chateau de Vincennes, 1981.
280 SHERER, John. An Abridgement of Crabb’s Dictionary of
English Synonymes. Penzance, E. Paddy, 1845. £60
Tall 12mo, pp. [ii], iii, [i] blank, 114, some spotting; original
publisher’s pink glazed cloth, rebacked, printed label to upper board;
corners a little worn; contemporary ownership inscription on front
paste-down and free endpaper.
First abridged edition. Attractive Penzance printing of this dictionary of
synonyms, abridged from Crabb’s dictionary, Wrst published in 1816.
Words of similar or related meaning are presented together and their relative
impact is explained.
Not in Kennedy, who only lists a later publication by Sherer entitled The desk-book of
English synonyms, (1864).
281 SILVESTRE, Augustin-François de. Essai sur les moyens
de perfectionner les Arts Economiques. Paris, Madame Huzard
[1801]. £340
8vo, pp. x, 11–176; recent half-calf over marbled boards, spine
decoratively gilt.
First edition of a detailed analysis of the use of agriculture within the French
economy. Inspired by Chaptal’s Essai sur le perfectionnement des Arts
chimique en France, Silvestre deplores the present state of agriculture in
France. He sets out to improve the situation through education. Special
schools are to be set up for all diVerent branches of economics and agriculture.
In addition to this, model farms are to be set up as an inspiration to the
local community, and botanical gardens and ‘economics museums’ are to be
encouraged. Silvestre also promotes an oYce for translations so that pub-

lished foreign scientiWc advances can immediately be utilised in the country.
In the second half he deals with agricultural society as a whole, its police and
internal organisation, including problems of mendicancy and poverty.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 18147; INED 4197.
The Importance of Recycling
282 SIMMONDS, Peter Lund. Waste Products and Undeveloped
Substances: or, Hints for Enterprises in Neglected Fields... London,
Robert Hardwicke, 1862. £220
8vo, pp. vi, [ii], 430, [2] advertisements; occasional light browning;
publisher’s maroon cloth, neatly recased.
First edition of this pioneering work on the commercial advantages of recycling
waste materials, and the use of hitherto unconsidered substitutes for
existing raw materials. Simmonds, deputy superintendent of the Colonial
Department, International Exhibition, begins with some general observations
on the importance of recycling and the use of waste materials. He
covers a wide variety of substances, including the use of rags, tea adulteration
and tea substitutes, the use of manure, the uses of bones in glue production,
the commerce in ice for cooling and food preservation.
283 SINCERUS, Alexius. Der curiose in allerley, sowohl für
hohe als niedrige Stands-Personen erdencklichen Back-Wercken, als
in unterschiedlichen Brod-Pasteten-Torten-Kuchen-Zucker und
Leb-Zelten & Backen Wohl-erfahrner und in jeder solcher Profession
allezeit wolbestehender Becker. Nürnberg, Johann Albrecht,
1713. £2500
8vo, fold-out engraved frontispiece, fold-out title printed in red and
black, pp. [viii], 426, 36 index; contemporary full vellum over boards;
upper joint discreetly strengthened; a Wne copy.
First and only edition, very rare, of a very attractive early handbook for the
baker and pastry chef. Bread plays an important role in the nation’s diet, and
the author stresses the importance of fair grain prices for public health. Beginning
with general information on bakeries, Xour qualities, and baking
procedures, a wide array of recipes for diVerent types of bread is given, covering
both yeast based and sour dough breads. This is followed by cakes,
cookies and pastries, ranging from the basic to very elaborate recipes, including
preserves, candies, and confectionary. The last quarter of the work
contains extensive information on the conservation of meat and meat products.
In the concluding chapter the preparation of various beverages is discussed,
ranging from fruit drinks, to wine, schnaps and Aquavit. A
comprehensive index concludes the work.
Particularly appealing is the Wnely engraved folding frontispiece, showing,
within a baroque border, four detailed scenes. Two of them show the
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insides of a bakery, the other two scenes show the inside of a slaughterhouse
and a wine cellar respectively.
Drexel 23; Georg 327; Schoene, Wein 4406; Walterspiel 487; Weiss 3616; not
found in Vicaire or Bitting; RLIN and OCLC locate just one copy, at Cornell University.
284 SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects... to which is
preWxed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by
Dugald Stewart. Dublin, Wogan, Byrne, 1795. £1600
8vo, pp. cxxiii, [1] blank, 332; contemporary marbled calf, gilt rules to
spine, gilt-lettered red roan spine label; short splits to joints, corners a
little bumped; an attractive copy.
First Dublin edition, published the same year as the London edition, of
Smith’s posthumously published works. These essays, which Smith had left
in manuscript form with friends, were written throughout his career, the
article on astronomy being one of his earliest works. They had been withheld
from publication since Smith had planned to write a connected history
of the liberal sciences and the elegant arts. The essays cover philosophy,
aesthetics, and the history of sciences.
Stewart’s Life, taken from the Transactions of the Royal Society, is here Wrst
published in book form.
Vanderblue p. 43.
285 SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London,
A. Millar; Edinburgh, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759. £12500
8vo, pp. [vi], [viii], 550 [i.e. 530, pp. 317–336 omitted from pagination
as usual], [1], with half-title and errata present; early ownership
inscription to title, partly crossed out; some light foxing and browning,
small ink stain to last 3 leaves; recently bound in full sprinkled calf,
spine gilt in compartments, with gilt-lettered spine label.
First edition of Adam Smith’s Wrst book, the work that established his reputation
as a philosopher not only in London but also on the Continent. The
Theory of Moral Sentiments is of the highest importance because of the way in
which it supplements Smith’s views on the nature of man and the way this
world runs, as set out in the more familiar Wealth of Nations.

Adam Smith’s theory of Moral Sentiments is, in brief, that it is founded
not, as Hume said, on self-interest, but on fellow-feeling – the ability one
man has to put himself in the place of another, and to judge others by himself
and himself by others. Smith’s views on the complex relationship between
Sympathy and Self-interest later shaped his Wealth of Nations.
Goldsmiths’ 9537; Kress S 5815; Vanderblue p. 38.
Adam Smith in Germany
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286 [SMITH, Adam.] SARTORIUS, Georg. Handbuch der
Staatswirthschaft zum Gebrauche bey akademischen Vorlesungen,
nach Adam Smith’s Grundsätzen ausgearbeitet. Berlin, Joh. Friedr.
Unger, 1796. £2500
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 the 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; the Wrst edition is
rare, RLIN records copies at Columbia, Cornell, and the Universities of Chicago
and Michigan only.
Eighteenth Century Pest Control
287 SMITH, Robert. The Universal Directory for taking alive
and destroying Rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged
Vermin, in a method hitherto unattempted. London, the author,
1768. £350
8vo, pp. iv, [iii]–viii, 218, with 6 engraved plates by Thomas Bowen, 4
of which folding, in the text; title page with small repaired hole at lower
blank margin, not touching any text, label removed from the verso of
the title page, upper corner of title a little creased; bound in
contemporary full sheep, ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; joints
cracking, but cords holding Wrmly, head and tail of spine chipped; still
an attractive copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this eighteenth century publication on pest
control. Smith, rat-catcher to Princess Amelia, outlines in great detail how
to get rid of ‘those animals, noxious to the community, describes their wonderful
wiliness and sagacity, and the uncommon and surprising methods
they take for self-preservation and getting their prey’ (p. iv). Irrespective of
one’s views on animal welfare in general, many of the animals listed by

Smith would today not be regarded as pests, such as otters, badgers, hedgehogs
and various breeds of birds of prey. Smith concentrates on the rat, and
makes a number of suggestions on how to catch them alive or, if necessary,
poison them. The rat-traps together with steel traps for foxes and cube traps
for birds of prey, are illustrated on the Wnely engraved plates.
ESTC t132212; see Goldsmiths’–Kress 330126 for 1841 edition; numerous further
editions were published.
288 [SONNENFELS.] ANON. Bordelle sind in Wien nothwendig.
Herr Hofrath von Sonnenfels mag dagegen auf seinem
Katheder predigen, was er will. [n.p.], 1786. £200
8vo, pp. 29; recent marbled boards; bookplate for Theodor Karajan to
verso of title with slight show through.
Reasoned response to Sonnenfels’s condemnation of brothels in Vienna.
The anonymous author defends the institution of brothels for public health
reasons. The bourgeois opponents of brothels are pilloried, especially since
they are, according to the author, most likely to have a mistress installed in
a comfortable apartment and therefore have no need to frequent brothels.
Not found in RLIN or OCLC.
289 SONNINI, Charles Sigisbert and Arsenne THIEBAUT de
BERNEAUD. Annuaire de l’Industrie Française, ou Recueil par
ordre alphabétique des inventions, decouvertes et perfectionnemens
dans les arts utiles et agréables, qui se font à Paris et dans les
Départements. Année 1811. Première Année. Paris, D. Colas,
[1811]. £750
24mo, pp. [xvi], xii, 416; contemporary roan-backed boards, spine
ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label and numbering piece, boards a little
faded, but a good copy.
First edition of a fascinating publication, an alphabetic listing of industrial
products, with their patent holders, producers and merchants, from all over
France. In eVect a catalogue of industrial innovation, together with the ‘Yellow
Pages’, for suitable addresses. More than seven hundred products are
listed and described, ranging from Aiguilles needles, formerly all imported
from England, but now produced in France, available at an address in Paris
to the Zymosimètre, a device invented by Charpentier-de Cossigny to
measure fermentation in wine, beer, cidre etc. The subject index allows easy
access to the individual entries, whereas the index of names gives inventors
and merchants.
RLIN and OCLC list two copies at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania,
with further copies at the Bibliothèque Nationale; there appears to be one copy at
the Bibliothèque Nationale, which extends to a second year.
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Builders’ Price List
290 SPINELLI, Giovanni Battista Bruno. Economia nelle Fabriche
e Regola di tutti li Materiali per Costruire ogni Fabrica Urbana,
e Rurale, per saperne di ciò distintamente la Spesa. Bologna, Gio
Pietro Barbiroli, 1708. £950
4to, pp. [xii], 120, with one folding printed table and numerous Wgures
in the text; decorative initials; paper lightly and evenly browned and
spotted, due to paper quality; contemporary buV Xexible boards, with
later marble paper spine, chipped; a good copy.
Second, substantially enlarged edition (Wrst 1698) of a price guide for
builders and construction workers together with practical information on
building practices. Spinelli covers construction, maintenance and renovation
of houses, and gives information on the cost of a variety of procedures,
such as making and installing window seats, plaster mouldings, ironwork,
decorative Xoor tiles, stone and wooden vaults, driveways, both public and
private. He gives a detailed list of the cost of materials and itemised lists of
various building projects together with labour costs. The price list is immensely
detailed, every skill or process is listed individually. Spinelli also
gives information on the contractual arrangements between foreman and
day labourers, and the general contractor. This includes not just legal questions,
but also of provisions, with details of the necessary quality and quantity
of wine to be made available to the workmen. He includes a brief Wnal
section with practical advice for occupational injuries.
Cicognara 453; Goldsmiths’–Kress 4479.4; RLIN and OCLC list copies at the
University of Chicago and the Kress library, with the Folger library and the National
Gallery of Art holding copies of the Wrst edition.
Up to SnuV
291 [SPINETTO, Albanus de, vere: HERTEL, Johann Friedrich.]
Politische Schnupf-Tobacs-Dose vor die wächserne Nase der Justiz
in sich fassend Juristische Streit-Fragen in Handel und Wandel
von denen Kauf- und Mieth- oder Pacht auch andern Contracten,
mit satyrischer Feder entworfen, und aus dem Italiänischen ins
Teutsche übersetzt. Franckfurth und Leipzig, 1739. £1200
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xxviii], 439; separate title-page for
second section; title-page a little dust-soiled, else clean throughout;
contemporary half vellum over sprinkled boards; an attractive copy.
First edition of this satirical criticism of the intricacies of legal argument and
the legal profession. Purportedly a translation from the Italian, but in fact
written by Hertel (1667–1743), a German jurist and professor of law, the
work satirises how under the present legal system cases can be won on
‘points’ rather than justice being done. Legal questions are presented in the
guise of snuV, and each nostril expels a solution to the problem. Both solutions
follow an intrinsic logic and are backed up by extensive legal refer-

ences to standard authorities. The well-written and amusing treatise clearly
pinpoints the intricacies of legal argument. The attractive engraved frontispiece
shows the Wgure of justice attended by a fool and a merchant who
oVers a pinch of snuV.
Jantz 1338; RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Princeton, New York Public Library
and Duke University only.
292 STAEL-HOLSTEIN, Anne-Louise-Germaine de. Lettres sur
les Ouvrages et le Caractère de J. J. Rousseau. [n.p.], 1788. £1250
Tall 12mo, pp. iv, 127, [1] blank; contemporary half sheep over
marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; a Wne copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Mme de Staël’s Wrst published work, her critical
essay on Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Written before the Revolution, when
she was just 22 years old. Her enthusiasm for Rousseau, the idol of her
generation, is clearly in evidence. She looked upon him as a ‘kindred spirit,
for he, too, had been a misunderstood and persecuted genius’ (Spencer,
French Women and the Age of Enlightenment, p. 313.).
Lonchamp 3.1.
Introduction to Statistics
293 [STATISTICS. ANON.] Introduzione Elementare ad una
Teoria Statistica aggiunto un Quadro Statistico degli Stati Europei.
Pavia, Fusi e Compagno, 1826.
[bound with:] HASSEL, Quadro Statistico degli Stati Europei tratto
dal Manuale Statistico degli Stati Europei? Pavia, V. Fusi e Comp.
1825. £350
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. viii, 104; xvi, one large folding
printed table; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine ruled in
gilt, and gilt-lettered spine label; two minute worm-holes to spine, and
small portion missing at foot of spine; a Wne crisp copy, with
manuscript note to verso of title.
First edition and Wrst edition in Italian. The anonymous author gives an
account of the history of statistics, and lists early reports containing statistical
information. All the main names of early statistics are mentioned, and
the main development of statistical investigation since Achenwall is documented
in a proper bibliography listing some sixty titles, mostly translations
from German, but also some Italian, French and English titles. An
introduction to statistical method follows, clearly distinguishing it from related
Welds, and a discussion of relevant Welds for statistical investigation,
such as geography, history, politics and political economy. A Wnal section
gives a comparative account of the organising systems of Schlözer, Gioja,
Zizius and Klotz.
I. not found in NUC or RLIN; II. Goldsmiths’–Kress 2446.9, no further copies in
RLIN and NUC.
Bavarian Fine Printing
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294 [STATUTES – BAVARIA.] Bairische LanndtsOrdnung.
[verso:] In disem Buch Bayrischer Landsordnung seind begriVen die
gmainen Landpot Satzung und Gepreuch des Fürstenthumbs Obern
unnd Nidern Bayern. [colophon:] Ingolstadt, [A. Weißenhorn],
1553. £3500
Folio, ll. [ix] including full-page title woodcut, cxcvii (with two section
titles bound in after l. 18 and l. 125), [xx] register, one full-page woodcut
of crayWsh and three folding leaves with six double-page woodcuts
illustrating ten life-size Wsh; decorative woodcut initials; printed
throughout in red and black; ll. ii with repair to lower and gutter
margin; occasional light spotting and browning; fore-margins occasionally
slightly frayed and dust-soiled; small hole to l. 184, with loss of
two letters; endpapers removed; contemporary blind-stamped pigskin
over wooden boards, some soiling; spine in compartments, head and
foot of spine chipped; with remains of lower clasps, a few individual
worm- holes to lower board; bookplate to front paste-down and small
ink stamp to verso of title and last leaf; overall an attractive copy.
First edition of the 1553 Bavarian Statute-Book by which Duke Albrecht V
of Bavaria renewed and superseded the older Landrecht of 1516. The work
is a masterpiece of Bavarian book production and printing in the sixteenth
century. It contains the Wrst life-like and life-size Wsh illustrations in Germany
(Belon’s L’Histoire naturelle des estranges Poisons Marins appeared in
Paris in 1551). The Wsh illustrated are trout, carp, pike, etc and depict the
minimum size any caught Wsh had to be in order to be lawfully sold or
eaten. This size limitation had been introduced to stop the over-Wshing of
Wsh before they were fully-grown.
BM STC German 71; VD 16 B 1034.
Guild Rules in Brescia
295 [STATUTES – BRESCIA.] Statuti della Mercanzia di Brescia
e suo Distretto con Aggiunta della Versione Italiana del Latino
Testo, non che di Ducali, Decreti, e Giudizj concernenti Privilegj
della detta Mercanzia e delle Parti e Provisioni relative al Governo
della Medesima il tutto arricchito di accurate Tavole, e d’Indice
copiose dell Materie. Brescia, Bossini, 1788. £1200
4to, pp. xvi, 254; engraved head- and tail-pieces; mostly printed in
double columns; contemporary boards, spine lettered in manuscript;
corners a little bumped and some light dust-soiling to boards; a Wne
copy.
First edition of the rules and regulations governing trade and commerce in
the city and province of Brescia. The statutes are of particular interest in that
they include the rules of the guilds, including training, poor relief and de-

tailed commercial procedure. Accounting procedures are prescribed, and
special measures are taken by the authorities to punish fraudulent dealings
and recover bad debts. In the second part all the relevant legislation is reprinted,
beginning with the statutes Wrst approved in October of 1429, and
containing all amendments and decrees up to 1787. A Wnal very detailed
general index extending to some thirty-Wve pages makes it easy to identify
all relevant rulings.
Chelazzi, Catalogo della Raccolta de Statuti, I, p. 273; Manzoni II, 22; RLIN lists
copies at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard and Michigan.
Statutes of the City of Siena – Regulating City Life
296 [STATUTES – SIENA.] Statuti dell’Università de’ Mercanti, e
della Corte de gl’OYziali della Mercanzia della Città di Siena.
Riformati per comandamento del Sereniss. Don Cosimo II, Gran
Duca Quarto di Toscana. Con la Tavola di tutte le Rubriche. Siena,
Bonetti, 1619. £3800
Folio, pp. [xii], 160, with woodcut and vignette to title and decorated
initials throughout; some spotting and light browning; contemporary
full limp vellum, some insigniWcant staining, with remains of the leather
ties; some worming to inner joints, with two worm-holes extending
through the Wrst and Wnal two leaves; not touching any text; extensive
early manuscript annotations, mostly marginal, but also to Wnal
endpaper; an attractive copy.
Second revised edition of the mercantile statutes of the city of Siena. These
statutes had a fourfold purpose: Wrst, to organise the election and appointment
of oYcials; secondly, to mediate in disputes and serve as a mercantile
court; thirdly, to organise the structure of diVerent guilds; and Wnally, to
organise business activity, taxation and politics in the city of Siena. In addition
to its obvious legal, Wnancial and economic interest for seventeenth
century Italian city state politics, the volume contains fascinating social and
historical information. The treatment of debtors, for example is explained
in great detail, as is inheritance and its fair division.
Biblioteca del Senato VII, p. 235; Goldsmiths’–Kress 477.1; Manzoni II, 20; not
in BM STC Italian; RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Harvard, the University of
Chicago, New York Public Library and the Library of Congress only.
City Law from the Bishop’s Library
297 [STATUTES – TRENTO.] Libro de Statuti et Ordini delli
Signori Sindici della MagniWca Communità, & Città di Trento. Con
l’aggionta dell Editto contro li danneggianti le Campagne, publicato
& conWrmato sotto l’Eminentiss. Cardinale Carlo Madruzzo
Vescono, & Prencipe di Trento. [Trento, 1640].
[bound with:] Nuovi Statuti, & Provisioni municipali, che riformano
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il tempo della Wera di Santo Michele, & regolano le cause de
concorsi de Creditori in qual si voglia evento, & emergenza,
d’osservasi nella Città di Trento, & sua Podestaria. Publicati, l’anno
MDCXL. Trento, Lorenzo Colino, 1640. £2200
Two parts in one volume, 4to, pp. [viii], 71, [blank]; [ii], 10; woodcut
initials, large city seal to end of part one, two heraldic vignettes to title
of second work; some browning and spotting throughout, marginal
dampstain to last signature of Wrst work and aVecting Wrst leaves of
second work; contemporary buV boards, spine lettered in manuscript,
boards somewhat dust-soiled and ink-stained; with contemporary
ownership inscription to title ‘ Card. Carlo Madruzzo V[escopo]’.
First edition of the revised city laws of the city of Trento, issued and renewed
under Cardinal Carlo Madruzzo in 1640. In the statutes all aspects
of city life are discussed and regulated. Of particular interest are the rules
regulating the trade fairs and markets, with regulations on merchandise,
speciWcally on food and drink. The second work deals more speciWcally with
the Wnancial aspects of the city laws, in particular as it applies to the trade
fair. SpeciWc regulations are made for money lending, debts, interest payments,
and bankruptcy and its consequences.
Provenance: From the library of the Trento bishop Cardinal Carlo Madruzzo
(died 1658), who was ultimately responsible for the renewed city
statutes issued here, with his manuscript ownership inscription to the title.
Biblioteca del Senato VIII, 1999, p. 168; Manzoni I, 495 *x; rare, not found in
RLIN or OCLC.

FireWghting
298 STEINBECK, Christoph Gottlieb. Feuersnoth- und Hülfsbuch
fürs teutsche Volk und seine Freunde. Nach dem Krügelsteinischen
System bearbeitet... Leipzig, Voß und Comp. 1802. £650
8vo, pp. xx, 300; woodcut to title page; contemporary half vellum over
paste-paper covered boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; spine
rubbed; a Wne copy from the Fugger family library in Augsburg.
First edition, Leipzig issue (there is also a Munich issue) of this popular
manual on Wre prevention, based on Krügelstein’s three-volume work
Vollständiges System der Feuer-Polizeiwissenschaft (1798–1800). Steinbeck
(1766–1826) gives a very practical introduction to Wre-prevention. After a
brief discussion of sources of Wre, Xammable materials, and the practical
organisation of Wre-Wghting, he concentrates on preventive measures: How
to Wre-proof building materials for use in construction, the use of lightning
rods, the need for implementing rules for Wre prevention in towns and cities.
To make the work more accessible for the general population it is composed
in the style of an almanach. After the introductory remarks,
individual problems are presented in dialogue form.
Not found in NUC, RLIN locates one copy at Harvard; two copies in German
libraries, at the Bavarian State Library and Göttingen University Library.
The Might of the Individual
299 STIRNER, Max [pseud. for Johann Kaspar Schmidt.] Der Einzige
und sein Eigenthum... Leipzig, Otto Wiegand. 1845. £1600
8vo, pp. [ii], 491, [1] imprint; occasional light browning, due to paper
quality; contemporary moiré cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt;
a Wne copy, with small private library stamp to verso of title.
First edition of Stirner’s inXuential and highly original main work, his proclamation
of individualistic anarchy which placed him in the tradition of
Godwin, and exerted considerable inXuence over the modern school of anarchists
in Germany and Russia. The revolutionary impact of his work, which
was mainly written for the proletariat, lay in this insistence on peoples’ individuality
and their right to self-determination, a bold anticipation of the
psychological basis of Marx’s class struggle. Max Stirner (1806–1856) is also
known for his translations of Adam Smith and other economists.
Stammhammer I, 241; Borst 2187; Menger c. 368.
German Spelling Reform
300 STOSCH, Samuel Johann Ernst. Kleine Beiträge zur nähern
Kenntnis der Deutschen Sprache. Berlin, August Mylius, 1778,
1780. £320
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], 214, [2] errata; [vi], 217, [1]
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errata; woodcut title vignette and decorative head and tail-pieces, paper
occasionally lightly browned and spotted; contemporary full marbled
calf, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, with two gilt-lettered
spine labels; an attractive copy.
First edition of Stosch’s rather entertaining, though entirely disparate commonplace
book on the German language. His observations range from
brief etymological studies, to orthography, grammar and lexicography,
without any clear order or progression. However, the detailed index at the
end of the second part helps in locating pertinent chapters.
He warns of over-zealous spelling reforms, which attempt to simplify the
spelling of foreign words, rendering ‘Genie’, ‘Journal’ and ‘Cambridge’ as
an unintelligible ‘Schenie’, ‘Schurnal’, and ‘Kambritsche’.
A third part was published in 1782,which is not present here.
Bonaparte 9597; NUC lists three copies (CU LCU, ICN).
301 STURZEN-BECKER, Wilhelm Theodor Patrick. Some Notes
on the Leading Grammatical Characteristics of the Principal Early
English Dialects. An Academical Dissertation. Copenhagen, S. Trier,
1868. £60
8vo, pp. 81, [2] abbreviations; uncut and mostly unopened, paper spine.
Original printing of this doctoral dissertation on the grammatical variations
of Old English dialects at the time of the Franco-Norman inXuence. The
dissertation was presented at the university of Lund.
302 [TARIFFS.] TariVa delle Gabelle Toscane. Firenze, Gaetano
Cambiagi Stampatore Granducale, 1781. £750
4to, pp. [ii], 68 [h and h2 misbound], 44, 271, [1] blank, 216, [1]
errata (one extra blank bound in; large title vignette; uncut in the
original limp boards; some light dust-soiling to boards, extremities
rubbed; a Wne copy.
First edition of the revised Tuscan import and export tariVs, following the
legislation of 1781, as part of the far reaching reforms implemented under

the rule of grand duke Leopold (1765–1790). A lengthy preface which is
attributed to Vicenzo Mugnai outlines the history of Tuscan tariVs and customs,
quoting from Hume and Muratori, and stresses greater equality in
the new tax codes, where old privileges have been abolished. The tax on
commodities is divided into separate categories, direct tariVs collected by
the Exchequer, customs, special taxes and tariVs due to other public accounts,
and local taxes. The extensive taxation tables give a fascinating insight
into the great variety of merchandise, which was produced in
Tuscany, imported and exported.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 12205; NUC and RLIN add a further copy at the Library of
Congress and the National Library of Medicine.
The First Swedish Printers’ Manual
303 TÄUBEL, Christian Gottlob. Boktryckarekonstens Practiska
Handbok för Nybegynnare. Götheborg, Samuel Norberg,
1823. £750
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, lithograph frontispiece, pp. iv, 209, [3]
blank, 169, [3], with 1 folding engraved plate; some light spotting and
foxing; entirely uncut and partly unopened in the original blue
wrappers, small section of spine covering missing, a very good copy.
First edition, rare, of the Wrst Swedish printers’ manual, in fact the Swedish
translation of Täubel’s Praktisches Handbuch der Buchdruckerkunst für
Anfänger, Wrst published in 1791, and here adapted to Swedish practice.
Part I gives a brief history of European printing, and covers format, composition,
including the setting of music, correction, and press work. The
second volume is taken up by an alphabetical dictionary of printing terms,
with detailed practical information. This is followed by an orthographical
dictionary, some information on grammar, common abbreviations, and a
Swedish glossary. The work concludes with the ceremonial for receiving
new members into the guild of printers.
See Bigmore & Wyman, III 2 and Gaskell et al, G 11 for German edition; not in
Jackson Burke; uncommon.
304 TAYLOR, Samuel. Sistema universale e completo di stenograWa,
o sià maniera di scrivere in compendio applicabile a tutti
gli’idiomi fondato sopra semplici e facili principi. Adattato alla
lingua Italiana da Emilio Amanti. Paris, E. Amanti, 1809. £200
8vo, engraved frontispiece and engraved title, pp. xxxix, [i], blank, 118,
with 8 engraved plates; uncut in contemporary calf-backed marbled
boards, gilt-lettered spine label; corners worn, else a good copy.
First edition in Italian, uncommon, of Taylor’s inXuential introduction to
shorthand. Amanti adaptation was the Wrst of a number of Italian
modiWcations of the original system.
NUC (NN, NcU, McSW).
Textile Industry in France
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305 [TEXTILE INDUSTRY – FRANCE.] Collection of 25 titles
pertaining to the discussions concerning the production of coloured
and colour printed fabrics in France, and the prohibition of their
export and the import of foreign cloth, during the period 1686–
1789. £1800
Twenty-Wve separate works, 4to and folio, including broadsides,
disbound and loosely collected in a protective folder.
An interesting collection of partly original Paris editions, partly provincial
editions, of regulations pertaining to the production and commerce of
French cloth, i.e. cotton, silk and wool, both colour-dyed and colourprinted,
and the limitations applicable to the importation of foreign cloth,
which conXicted with the interest of the French East India Company. This
collection is of particular interest, as the textile industry was the dominant
industry before the nineteenth century, and ‘modern’ production methods
and technical advances were Wrst introduced in this industry. The production
of cloth was the subject of an important debate in the 18th century
which divided France in two opposing camps and in which some of the
most illustrious 18th century economists participated. This collection illustrates
part of the debate between Colbert’s protectionism, mercantilism and
free trade (Morellet).
Full listing available on request.
306 [THAMES TUNNEL.] Descrizione della Strada che per di
Sotto al Tamigi conduce da Rotherhithe a Wapping in Londra.
Modena, Giovanni Zecchi, 1828. £600
8vo, pp. [ii], 8, with one large folding engraved plate bound at end,
showing four scenes; engraved title vignette; stitched as issued in the
original printed wrappers; imprint scored through, with hole resulting
from ink erosion; some spotting throughout, corners frayed.

First edition in Italian, with a fascinating and very detailed large engraving
showing four scenes of the projected work of the Thames Tunnel by Brunel.
The title vignette and the plate are both engraved by A. Nini, based on
designs by William Westall. The text begins with a typically Italian enthusiastic
description of other engineering ‘wonders of the world’, ranging from
the Egyptian pyramids, the labyrinth of Crete, the Roman water system, to
the Great Wall of China, before settling down to a more sober description
of the tunnel project, and in particular to an explanation of the illustrations.
Brunel’s Thames Tunnel was the Wrst underwater tunnel in the world, an
achievement only made possible by his invention of a tunnelling shield, one
of the greatest innovations in the history of civil engineering. From the outset
the project attracted enormous interest, in Europe as much as Britain, as
demonstrated by the present item, one of the earliest European publications
on the Tunnel.
Very rare, OCLC and RLIN record just one copy at the Smithsonian.
Political Theory
307 THOMAS AQUINAS. Tratado del Govierno de los Principes
del Angelico Doctor Santo Thomas de Aquino. Traducido en
nuestra Lengua Castellana por don Alonso Ordoñez das Seyja y
Tobar, señor de Sampyo, &c. Madrid, Iuan Goncalez, 1625,
[imprint 1624]. £1200
4to, ll. [vi], 112, 4, pagination occasionally erratic, but complete,
typographic title vignette and head and tail-pieces; very clean and crisp
in contemporary full vellum with yapp edges, leather ties, spine lettered
in manuscript; with small stamp on title and library shelf mark on front
paste-down; a Wne copy.
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First edition in Spanish, rare, of Thomas Aquinas’ De Regno, which contains
some of his most important contributions to political theory. This was
Wrst published as part of the Opuscula in 1473. Thomas Aquinas stressed the
ideal of the limited monarchy, i.e. the kind of state that Aristotle had called
the politeia. ‘Aquinas was the Wrst to depart from the traditional view,
formed by the Stoics and Augustine, that the civil power, like private property,
was propter peccatum, a remedy against our anti-social appetites.
Palau 300356; Bibliothèque Nationale; not found in NUC or RLIN; OCLC
records just one copy at the University of Wisconsin.
In Praise of Women
308 THOMAS, Antoine-Léonard. Saggio sul carattere, costumi e
spirito delle Donne nei diversi secoli ... Firenze, Allegrini, Pisoni ,
1773. £180
8vo, pp. viii, 239; printed within a border throughout; paper lightly
but evenly browned; uncut in the original buV wrappers; spine lettered
in manuscript; small shelf mark label to foot of spine; a Wne copy.
First edition in Italian of Thomas’ popular defence of the social position of
women, Wrst published the previous year under the title Essai sur le caractère,
les moeurs et l’esprit des femmes dans les diVérens siècles. Thomas surveys the
history and social condition of women from classical times to the eighteenth
century and questions why women have not equalled men in fame
and power. He discusses a large number of female writers and books on
women written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and pleads the
case for celebrated women writers.
Another Italian edition was published the same year, with a Venice imprint.
NUC lists two copies of the Venice edition (MH-H, CU); RLIN and OCLC add
Berkeley; for Wrst edition see Gay Lemonnyer II, 167; Cioranescu 61765;
Gerritsen Collection p. 8.
309 THOMAS, Northcot Whitridge. The Naval Wordbook. Ein
systematisches Wörterbuch marine-technischer Ausdrücke in
englischer und deutscher Sprache. Kiel & Leipzig, Lipsius &
Tischer, 1899. £50
8vo, pp. xiii, 146; publisher’s dark blue cloth, spine and upper board
lettered in gilt; corners a little worn, else Wne.
First edition of this English-German glossary of naval terms and phrases.
Arranged in numerous sections and subsections the marine vocabulary is
explained and translated, ranging from practical terms of parts of the ship,
to navigation, naval forces and their ranks, and even marine insurance.
Some terms remain a mystery, however, for the non-seafaring reader, such
as ‘Bowse taut lifts, and trusses’ translated as ‘Hol steif Toppenanten und
Racktaljen’.

310 [TOCQUEVILLE, Alixis de and Gustave de la Bonninière
BEAUMONT.] Amerika’s Besserungs-System, und dessen Anwendung
auf Europa. Mit einem Anhange über Straf-Ansiedelungen und
zwei und zwanzig Beilagen. Aus dem Französischen ... nebst
Erweiterungen und Zusätzen von Dr. A. H. Julius. Mit vier
Kupfertafeln, Berlin, T. C. F. Enslin, 1833. £700
8vo, pp. xxxviii, 458, [1] errata, 1 folding table in the text, 4 folding
engraved plates bound at end; paper Xaw to margin of p. 333, loss of a
few letters; uncut in the original pale blue wrappers; spine label lettered
in manuscript; extremities a little rubbed, and dog-eared; a good copy.
First edition in German of Beaumont and de Tocqueville’s important study
on the American penal system, Wrst published in French the same year.
In America a radically new system of prisons had evolved. Up to then
large numbers of inmates had been crowded into large rooms, but the
Pennsylvanians advocated a separate cell for each oVender, cutting him oV
from communication with his fellow criminals. This system was soon opposed
as costly and challenged by an alternative system named after the
prison in Auburn, which emphasized solitary conWnement at night but
communal work during the day, under the strict rule of silence. Both systems
are described and analysed in great length and the report is supplemented
by detailed statistics, giving both information on distribution of
crimes, severity of sentences, and ratio of sentences served, and an account
of the Wnancial beneWts of the Auburn system.
The work proved immensely inXuential in Europe. There were a number
of French editions, an English translation, and this German translation.
This German edition is of particular value, since it includes extensive original
information on poor laws and their administration in both Germany
and America. The translator Nicolaus Heinrich Julius (1783–1862) became
a leading advocate of prison reform, and eventually succeeded in introducing
prison reform in Prussia and other German states.
Sabin 4192; for further information on penology see ESS and on Julius see Teeters,
N. K. They were in prison, 1937, pp. 193 n.
Smoke-free Chimneys
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311 TOFFOLI, Bartolommeo. Saggio di una nuova Forma
di Cammini che non fumano. Padova, Stamperia del Seminario,
1790. £300
8vo, pp. 49, [1], 1 folding engraved plate bound at end; title within
decorative border; some light browning and dust-soiling; uncut in the
original wrappers, some damp-staining to wrappers; with decorative
initial stamp to foot of title page.
First and only edition of an attractive and well-illustrated treatise on an improved
chimney design, to avoid smoke-Wlled rooms, and, with the help of
heat ducts, use the Wreplace also as an oven for heating the house. ToVoli
(1755–1834) gives detailed test reports of various chimney designs installed,
and illustrates his perfected design on the engraved plate. He concludes
with a commentary on recently published reports on smoke-free
wood or charcoal in use in classical antiquity.
Just the Harvard copy recorded in RLIN and OCLC.
The End of the Napoleonic Wars
312 [TREATY OF PARIS.] Traité de Paix au nom de la Très-
Sainte et Indivisible Trinité. Fait a Paris, 30 Mai 1814. [extrait du
Moniteur, Paris, 1. June, 1814]. £450
8vo, pp. 15; with French Royal seal at head; uncut sheet, folded; a Wne
copy.
First public edition of the Treaty of Paris, the peace treaty between France on
the one hand and Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia on the other after
the abdication of Napoleon. The treaty conWrmed France in the borders of
1792, and guaranteed the return of all the French colonies save Tobago, St.
Lucia and Mauritius by England. This lenient outcome was chieXy due to the
diplomatic skill of Talleyrand, who had engineered the restoration of Louis
XVIII to the French Throne. The Congress of Vienna, to negotiate the territorial
settlement in Europe, was called for the following year.
OCLC and RLIN list Florida State University only, together with two provincial
printings.
Historical Lexicography
313 TRENCH, Richard Chenevix. A select Glossary of English
Words used formerly in Senses diVerent from their Present.
London, John W. Parker, 1859. £90
12mo, pp. xii, 232, [4] advertisements; contemporary blind-stamped
ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine a little worn;
private engraved bookplate on front pastedown.
First edition of Trench’s glossary. His dictionary is one of the Wrst examples

in England of the application of historical lexicography, with the aim of
showing the life history of every word, its origin and any changes of form
and meaning. He used quotations not to deWne the words, but to show
historical changes of sense. Trench was actively involved in the early stages
of the New English Dictionary (later Oxford English Dictionary), which was
based entirely on these principles.
Kennedy 1805.
314 VATER, Johann Severin. Grammaire abrégé de la Langue
Polonoise, consistant en Tableaux, Règles et Exemples. Halle, J. J.
Gebauer and Strasbourg, Levrault, 1807. £300
8vo, pp. [ii], vi, [7]–46, [2] errata and advice to the binder, 4 large
folding printed tables; paper a little browned and spotted due to paper
stock; uncut in the original wrappers; wrappers frayed and back strip
very worn; still a good copy.
First edition in French of this scarce Polish grammar, which was simultaneously
published in German. Vater (1771–1826), a professor of philosophy
and theology at Halle, wrote a number of works on philology, was a collaborator
of Rask’s and completed Adelung’s Mithridates.
NUC locates four copies (ICN, MB, NjP, CtY).
315 VENERONI, Giovanni. Des berühmten Herrn von Veneroni
viel-vermehrt-verbessert- und vollkommener Sprach-Meister. Zu
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fertig-gründlich und baldiger Erlernung dreyer Europäischer Hauptsprachen,
der Italiänisch-Deutsch und Französischen. Frankfurt am
Mayn und Leipzig, Joh. Phil. Andreä, 1702. £450
8vo, pp. xii (including double-page frontispiece and double-page title
page), 480; title printed in red and black, folded in at foot, frayed, with
loss of a small portion at outer corner, no loss of text; frontispiece of an
attractive Venice view, by I. Montalegre; preliminaries with short worm
trace in lower margin, just touching a couple of letters; very occasional
light browning to paper; bound in contemporary buV coloured boards,
extremities a little rubbed, but holding Wrm; a good copy.
Early edition of Veneroni’s classic introduction to the Italian language, specially
adapted for German readers. A brief introduction to Latin and French
for ‘Ladies’ and others without a classical education is followed by chapters
on the basics of Italian pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. The main
innovative feature of this guide to Italian is its organisation by subject matter.
This applies both to the vocabulary section, and to the sample dialogues.
Extensive sections of the vocabulary are devoted to food and drink,
its ingredients and preparation. A useful section deals with the appropriate
forms of address for diVerent ranks of society, both verbal and in letters and
other correspondence.
Veneroni’s guide to the Italian language became a much-reprinted classic.
No earlier edition located in NUC, which just lists single locations for the editions
of 1719 (KAS), 1755 (InU), 1763 (ICU), 1779 (Plats), and 1789 NN.
316 VENERONI, Giovanni. The Complete Italian Master;
containing the best and easiest Rules for Attaining that Language...
London, Wingrave and Collingwood, 1818. £80
8vo, pp. [iv], 440; bound in contemporary marbled sheep, spine ruled
in gilt; an attractive copy.
First published in 1711, Veneroni’s Complete Italian Master went through
numerous editions in English, and covers grammar, syntax, vocabulary and
Italian-English dialogues. The translator and editor praises amongst other
additions to the English translation, the ‘Discourse of Expletives, the energy
and beauty of which constitute a great part of the merit of most languages’.
Alston XII (2) 48*.
Handbook of Venetian Families
317 [VENICE.] Memorie concernenti l’Origine delle Famiglie de’
Veneti Cittadini estratte da due Codici del XVI secolo. Venezia,
Giuseppe Bettinelli. 1775. £420
8vo, pp. 64, title page vignette; uncut in the original buV stiV wrappers;
lower corner of back wrapper torn oV; a good copy.

First edition, uncommon of this handy biographical dictionary of noble
Venetian families. With its small format and colloquial style of writing, the
work is clearly designed to be carried around. Brief entries give basic information
on each family, details of their background, position and quite frequently
current holders of the title. According to the preface and title, the
information is mostly extracted from Zilliolo’s work, with additional information
drawn from an anonymous manuscript. For a number of entries,
the information is provided by the editor.
OCLC and RLIN list New York Public Library and Harvard only; there appear to
be diVerent issues of this work, since the New York Public Library copy measures
24 cm, whereas this uncut one measures just 15.5 cm.
318 [VENICE. ANON.] Squitinio della Liberta Veneta. Nel quale
si adducono anche le raggioni dell’Impero Romano sopra la Città &
Signoria di Venetia. Stampato in Mirandola, Giovanni Benincasa,
1612. £900
4to, pp. [ii], 77 [vere 75], [1] imprint, including Wnal blank; title within
double border; typographic title vignette, head- and tail-pieces and
decorated initials; paper lightly browned; contemporary full limp
vellum, spine and upper cover lettered in ink; bookplate removed from
inside front cover; a Wne copy.
First edition, rare, of this famous satirical study of Venetian history and its
political system, which appears to have been attributed to a wide number of
historians and political authors, the most likely appear to be the Augsburg
scholar Marcus Welser (1558–1614) and Alfonso de la Cueva Bednar
(1572–1655).
In this well-argued treatise the myth of Venetian liberty and independence
is debunked. Instead it is argued that ‘La Serenissima’ was in fact always
a dominion of the Empire and that therefore the emperor always
retained his ancient rights. It also argued that Venice is all but free, the government
is composed of the nobles only, with scant reference to the rest of
the population. This critical publication was immediately banned by order
of the Venetian senate, put on the index, and all copies in circulation were
burnt (Libreria Vinciana 1013).
Cicogna 894; Lozzi 6133; Libreria Vinciana 1014.
Tail Piece
319 [VERACI, Gaetano.] Cicalata sopra la Coda in forma di
Lettera indirizzata alla Signora N.N. e di Rami allusive fregiata.
[Florence], Campo Cauditano [for the author], 1765. £500
Large 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 49, [1], with two text engravings;
browned throughout, with some marginal staining; uncut in
contemporary pattern paper wrappers, spine lettered in manuscript,
spine worn, but Wrm; later label and library sticker to upper wrappers.
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First and only edition of this rare mock-scientiWc panegyric on the ‘tail’,
celebrating the birth of a male child. Illustrated with three evocative engravings
the anonymous author wittily exploits the analogy between tails and
the distinctive anatomical feature of male babies.
This anonymous publication, where the author is disguised under the
pseudonym ScarpaWco Codacci is a typical production of eighteenth-century
Florentine literary academies.
Melzi I, 205; Parenti, p. 45.
320 VERNES, Jacob. ConWdence Philosophique. Londres,
1771. £750
8vo, pp. viii, 381; woodcut vignette to title; contemporary tan calf,
spine decoratively gilt, gitl-lettered spine label; a very Wne copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Vernes’ outspoken and well-written critique
of the encyclopédistes and philosophes, in the form of ten letters. Vernes
(1728–1791), theologian in Geneva, singles out Voltaire, materialist philosophy,
especially LaMettrie and Holbach, and Rousseau. Immediate
translations into German and English contributed to the wide circulation of
this anti-materialist publication.
Despite this strident criticism, Vernes remained friends with Voltaire and
Rousseau, both of whom he had pilloried in his publication.
Cioranescu 63193; a second edition was published in 1776.

321 [VIENNA.] Uiber das neue Haus nächst der Schramme.
[n.p.], 1786. £250
8vo, pp. 23; recent marbled boards.
Rant against eighteenth century architects, who plan houses with miniscule
rooms, ignore basic requirements of their tenants, and generally design eyesores
and ‘carbuncles’. The speciWc wrath of the anonymous author is directed
against the Vienna’s new prison which for some reason has been built
right in the centre of town. Rather than facing inwards, all the prisoners’ cells
face the street, giving them ample chance to irritate the neighbours. Additionally
the prison sewage system causes concern, together with the knacker’s
yard which is located next door, and both raise public health questions.
Not found in KVK, RLIN or OCLC.
Washer Women’s Trade Secrets
322 [VIENNA – WASHER WOMAN.] Das Wiener Putzmacherund
Nähtermädchen. Zur Belehrung und zum Nutzen ihrer Mitschwestern
herausgegeben von einem Wiener Putzmacher- und
Nähtermädchen. Zweyte AuXage. Wien, 1801. £600
8vo, pp. viii, 174, [2] advertisement; occasional light spotting, faint
dampstaining to upper margin of Wnal signature; uncut in the original
pale blue wrappers; a little dog-eared.
Second edition (Wrst 1798) of a fascinating manual of all that is necessary
for the washer woman and seamstress, allegedly written by one member of
the profession. In Wve chapters all relevant tricks and recipes for a successful
career as a washerwoman are described. In the Wrst chapter all manner of
articles of clothing are washed, with careful recipes for soap and suitable
starch. The second chapter deals with spinning of Xax and linen, cotton and
wool. Stain removal of all types and from all materials occupies the following
extensive chapters – and clearly puts modern dry cleaners to shame. A
most extensive section deals with dyeing of all materials, using natural dyes,
and giving very detailed instructions on the dyeing process. The author
diVerentiates between colourfast dyeing, and short term dyeing for fashion
purposes, which will be removed in the next wash. The manual was clearly
popular and went through a number of further editions up to 1816.
Rare, no copies listed in RLIN and OCLC,KVK records copies in the Austrian
National Library and at Göttingen.
323 VILLATE, Cesaire. Parisismen – alphabetisch geordnete
Sammlung der eigenartigen Ausdrucksweisen des Pariser Argot.
Ein Supplement zu allen Franz.–Deutschen Wörterbüchern.
Berlin, Langenscheidt, 1884. £200
8vo, pp. [iv], x, [ii] list of abbreviations, 237, [1] blank, [2]
advertisements; contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, with
original printed wrappers bound in.
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First edition. The Argot-German dictionary is preceded by a brief introduction
to the history of Argot, the Paris slang and cant, and its sources. These
include remnants of old French, foreign language imports, adding of extra
syllables, abbreviations, substitution of cause and eVect (pleurant-weeping
for onion), switching of initial and Wnal consonants, to name but a few.
Not in Bonaparte.
324 [VILLENEUVE, Daniel Jost de.] Il Filosofo Viaggiatore in
un Paese incognito alli Abitanti della Terra. Selenopoli, 1771. £750
Two volumes, 12mo, engraved title, pp. 246; engraved title, 280; some
light foxing; contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, spine gilt,
gilt-lettered spine labels; label to volume I chipped, spine and corners of
volume one repaired; from the Enrico Romolini collection, with blindstamp
to last leaf.
First edition in Italian, very rare, of this enlightenment utopia Wrst published
in French in 1761. This account of life in the lunar outpost of
Sélénopolis contains detailed philosophical considerations of society versus
the natural state of man. The narrator, an experienced traveller, gives a close
account of life in Sélénopolis, its political system, education, legal system,

medicine, fashions etc, employing all the standard features of enlightenment
utopian cities – well-ordered, no crime, general happiness.
In a curious chapter he describes artefacts and books lost on earth, but
still present in Sélénopolis.
See Cioranescu 63462, Negley 1141 and Hartig & Soboul p. 57 for Wrst edition;
RLIN lists copies at Chicago and Duke universities.
Hanseatic League
325 VILLERS, Charles de. Constitutions des trois Villes Libres –
Anséatiques, Lubeck, Brêmen, Hambourg. Avec un Mémoire sur le
Rang que doivent occuper ces villes dans l’organisation commerciale
de l’Europe. Avec une carte coloriée. Leipzig, Fr. Arn. Brockhaus,
1814. £450
8vo, pp. [viii], 143, [1], one folding engraved and hand-coloured map
bound at the end; text in French and German; uncut and unopened in
the original glazed printed wrappers; a little dog-eared, else Wne, from
the Starhemberg, Schloss Eferding library, with faint stamp to head of
spine.
First edition of this study of the economic cooperation and power of the
Hanseatic towns and free cities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen, after
their annexation by France in 1810 to provide strategic control of the coast
and tighten Napoleon’s Continental Blockade. Their respective constitutions
are printed in French and German. Villers gives a clear outline of the
economic sphere of inXuence of the Hanseatic towns, which is illustrated
on the hand-coloured map. He deWnes them as a proto-European Union,
with beneWcial free trade agreements.
Charles de Villers (1765–1815) was very inXuential in German-French
relations, both through translations of publications by Reimarus etc, but
also through collaborations with Mme de Stael.
Not in Humpert or Goldsmiths’, OCLC lists copies Stanford, Kansas, Michigan,
New York, and Harvard.
326 VOIGT, Lodovico. Gramatica Tedesca dedicata
all’Illustrissimo, ed Eccellentissimo Signor Principe Marchese Don
Antonio Maria Melzi ... Prima Edizione esatamente corretta.
Milano, Domenico Bellagatta, 1729. £160
8vo, pp. xxxxviii, 655, some spotting, last leaf mounted; paper
occasionally a little spotted and browned; bound in contemporary full
vellum over boards, gilt-lettered spine label, later manuscript note to
foot of spine; eighteenth-century manuscript note to front paste-down;
a good copy.
First edition. After a detailed introduction to German pronunciation, German
vocabulary, syntax and the elements of grammar, the second half of the
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work is taken up with bi-lingual sample dialogues. The Wrst ones deal with
the usual topics: situations in the hotel, shopping, amusements, such as
dancing, and military concerns such as horse riding and fencing. Then the
‘dialoghi’ digress to more general, and philosophical topics. In one dialogue
two women discuss the question of whether women should study, and in
the process of the conversation, the more outspoken ‘feminist’ convinces
the other one of the superiority of women in general.
German idioms followed by proverbs and popular sayings take up the
Wnal sections.
Not found in NUC.
327 [VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.] Lettres Ecrites de
Londres sur le Anglois et autres Sujets. Par M. D. V.***. Basle, [i.e.
London, Bowyer], 1734.
[bound with:] Lettre sur les Panégiriques. Par Irenée Aléthès. La Haye,
Frederic Staatman, 1767. £850
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], 228, 19; 15; late eighteenthcentury
red boards, spine lettered in manuscript; head and tail of spine
chipped and corners lightly bumped, spine and sides a little faded; a
good copy.
First edition in French of this fascinating volume of great philosophical and
scientiWc interest, which was, in fact partly written in English and Wrst published
in English the previous year. It was written by Voltaire as a kind of
testimony of his love of ‘things English’, and then subsequently partly rewritten
in French for the French editions. Buruma observes that Voltaire
invented a new genre: instead of writing an ordinary travel book, he approached
his subject as an intellectual traveller and wrote a journey of ideas.
He made no eVort to describe what England looked like, but wanted to
show what Englishmen thought. Much of what he admired about England
and the English was, of course, taken as criticism of his own country, and
some attempts were made to suppress this French version.
Bound with it is the third issue of Voltaire’s Lettre sur les Panégiriques,
Wrst printed the same year.
I. Bengesco 1558, Vol II, p. 14–15; ESTC t138264; II. Bengesco 1740, 3.
Micromégas
328 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. Le Micromégas de
Mr. de Voltaire. Avec une Histoire des Croisades & un Nouveau
Plan de l’Histoire de l’Esprit Humain. Par le Même. Londres [i.e.
Gotha], 1752. £650
8vo, pp. [ii], 257; some dampstaining to lower inner corner, with slight
paper damage to last few leaves; contempoary sheep backed marbled
boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label.

One of a number of editions of Voltaire’s philosophical and utopian tale
published in the year of the Wrst edition. In the style of Gulliver’s Travels,
Voltaire’s tale exposes human pretentions by looking at them from the outside.
The title character is a giant from the planet Sirius who, accompanied
by a slightly smaller but still enormous companion from Saturn, visits Earth
to investigate it and its inhabitants. When they Wrst arrive, the Earth appears
void of any inhabitants; only the use of a magnifying diamond allows them
to see some humans, who appear microscopic. Micromégas is shocked and
surprised by the folly and cruelty of humanity, but impressed by their
scientiWc advances.
The two other works, the essay on the crusades and the ‘new plan’, had
both Wrst appeared in periodicals, and were to be incorporated in Voltaire’s
major historical work Essai sur les Moeurs.
Bengesco I 1429 note; B.N., 2908; see D. W. Smith, ‘The publication of
Micromégas’, in Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 219, 1983, pp 63–87.
329 [VOLTAIRE.] [VALENTI, Pietro.] Vita del Signor di
Voltaire estratta dalle di lui opere. Venezia, Giovanni Vitto,
1779. £600
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8vo, frontispiece portrait, pp. 80; contemporary paste-paper stiV
wrappers, spine label lettered in manuscript; corners a little dog-eared,
else Wne.
First edition in Italian, one of two issues published the same year, of this
brief biography of Voltaire, allegedly written by himself, and apparently the
Wrst account of his life and work in Italian. The biographical information is
accompanied by excerpts and quotations from his works. According to the
preface the work is translated from the French.
Particularly appealing is the engraved frontispiece showing Voltaire sitting
at his desk.
Not found in Bengesco or Cioranescu; OCLC and RLIN list just one copy at the
University of San Diego, another issue was published the same year, with a London
imprint (ESTC n56391), of which only the Harvard copy is listed.
The Socialisation of Health Care
330 VORDONI, Leonardo. Saggio di un Metodo per Formare dei
Buoni Medici. Padova, Nicolò Zanon Bettoni, 1808. £1200
Folio, pp. x, [ii], 284, [I] imprint, p. 253/254 large folding printed
table, prelims misbound; uncut in the original limp buV boards; a Wne
copy with presentation inscription in ink to front free endpaper.
First edition of this comprehensive introduction to medical education and
medical ethics. Vordoni takes a socialist approach to the provision of good
health care: the number of doctors has to be regulated, their education systematised,
their work analysed, and adequately compensated. They will be
Wnanced by contributions from the more aZuent part of the population.
Doctors who have reached retirement age are no longer required to practice
medicine, but will be called upon for administrative and judicial work, or in
public health oYces. Medical training will be provided by carefully selected
and suitably experienced doctors. For the assessment of good and competent
doctors he compares the requirements made by Rhases, Friend, Zimmermann
and Devolet, and then gives his own list of attributes. Helpfully
he also provides a list of how to detect bad doctors.
He gives a useful list of diagnostic procedures for the correct assessment
of ailments, dvises on how to learn from the medical authorities, how to
organise notes, and how to structure hospitals and medical practice.
Vordoni maintains that the strict quality control he proposes at every
level of medical training and practice will beneWt society, and the doctors
themselves, as their qualiWcations will be recognized, and easily distinguished
from charlatans.
Not in Blake; uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list copies at Cornell and the
Wellcome Library only.
Philosophy of Mathematics
331 WAGNER, Johann Jakob. Mathematische Philosophie.
Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1811. £550

8vo, pp. xii, 338, [2]; numerous Wgures in the text; contemporary
marbled boards, from the library of the house of Bourbon, Parma with
small crowned stamp to verso of title page.
First edition, very rare, of Wagner’s philosophy of mathematics. He attempts
to identify and establish a mathematical language and apply it to an
understanding of the underlying principles of human existence. He maintains
that only the science of mathematics is capable of understanding the
laws of the world, and develops a tetrad system. This tetrad structure became
the basis of all his later studies in the social sciences, political theory
and education.
Johann Jakob Wagner (1775–1841) studied law and philosophy before
being appointed professor of philosophy at Heidelberg and Würzburg. He
can be seen as a follower of Schelling’s natural philosophy. He published
extensively on social science, economics and politics.
The work was highly regarded, reprinted in 1851, and again in the
1980s.
Ziegenfuß II p. 815–7.
332 WAGNER, Samuel. Der HerrschaVten Städt und Länder
Volcks-Besatzung bequemliche Leben, gute Nahrung und
Reichthum. Erlangen, D. M. Schmatz, 1711. £450
8vo, pp. [xvi], 64, 63–206 (mis-signed 106), typographic head and tailpieces;
paper lightly browned throughout, but still very crisp, faint
stamp on title page; bound in contemporary boards, painted red, upper
joint discreetly repaired; a good copy.
First edition of this early work on population, stressing the important
inXuence of population density on the wealth and well-being of the state.
Wagner begins with some interesting information on population Wgures in
diVerent countries, before concentrating on generally mercantilist suggestions
for increasing both population and the wealth of the state. Increase of
trade and commerce is to be achieved through a wide variety of measures,
incentives to work, improved roads and other means of transport, encouragement
of manufacturing industry, but also protective tariVs and taxes.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 4721.19; no further copies in NUC or RLIN.
French Grammar Printed in St. Petersburg
333 WAILLY, Noel-François de. Abrégé de la Grammaire
Françoise. Revue et augmentée par Mr. D’Ariès, Chef d’une
Institution Françoise à Stockholm. St.-Petersburg, Pluchart et
Comp, 1814. £100
8vo, pp. 13, [1] abbreviations, [2] errata, 167; contemporary half calf
over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label, label chipped; a good
copy, duplicate from the Stockholm Royal Library.
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First Russian printing of Wailly’s French grammar, Wrst published in 1759
and, adopted as a university textbook, frequently reprinted. Wailly’s grammar
is here edited by Ariès, teacher at the French Institute in Stockholm.
The Spanish Economy – Measures of Reform
334 WARD, Bernardo. Proyecto Economico, en que se proponen
varias providencias, dirigidas á promover los intereses de España,
con los medios y fondos necesarios para su plantiWcacion. Madrid,
D. Joachin Ibarra, 1779. £1400
4to, pp. [iv], xxviii, 400, armorial woodcut to title; contemporary full
limp vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, tear to endpaper; a very Wne
and crisp copy with contemporary ownership note to title.
First edition, rare, of ‘perhaps the best digested and most methodical book
written on these topics [i.e. political economy] in Spain during the [eighteenth]
century, giving a clear insight into the causes of the decay of the
country, which, like his predecessors, Uztariz and Ulloa, Ward ascribes to the
neglect of trade and industry, and to the absurd system of taxation which had
prevailed for more than two centuries. Like them, Ward is a mercantilist, but
more discriminating and less extreme’ (Palgrave, III, p. 656).
Bernardo Ward (died around 1760), of Irish descent and in the employment
of King Ferdinand VI of Spain, travelled throughout Europe to study
the means of remedying the state of the poor and to promote trade and
manufactures in Spain. The clear outcome of these travels is this considered
and detailed report, and his proposals for reform.
Colmeiro 401; Goldsmiths’–Kress 13498.11; Palau 373988; Sabin 101282.
335 WEINHOLD, Karl. Ueber deutsche Dialectforschung. Die
Laut- und Wortbildung und die Formen der schlesischen Mundart.
Mit Rücksicht auf Verwandtes in deutschen Dialecten. Wien, Carl
Gerold, 1853. £90
8vo, pp. vi, [ii], 144; uncut and mostly unopened in the original
printed buV-coloured wrappers, spine chipped.
First edition of Weinhold’s early study of the Silesian dialect, an analysis of
its sound and word formation. Weinhold later published extensively on
grammar.
Bonaparte 9915.
336 [WEISHAUPT, Adam.] Über die Hindernisse der Baierischen
Industrie und Bevölkerung ... Aus des Freyherrn v. Zach’s Monatlicher
Correspondenz zur Beförderung der Erd- und Himmelskunde,
Januar-Stück 1802 besonders abgedruckt. [1802]. £140
8vo, pp. 26; very crisp and clean in contemporary pale blue wrappers.

Original oVprint of an analysis of the reasons for the diminished population
and deplorable state of Bavarian trade and commerce at the beginning of
the nineteenth century, Wrst published in Zach’s Monatlicher Corrspondenz.
Weishaupt (1748–1830), jurist, philosopher and leading member of the
Illuminaten (together with the Rosicrucians a special branch of the German
masons), distinguishes between outside factors, such as Bavaria’s landlocked
location, and internal problems, rooted in the Bavarian mentality.
The author maintains that Bavaria is too insular and inward looking. Their
insularity leads to an exaggerated view of their own importance. Instead of
encouraging manufacturing industry, they concentrate on the growing of
grain, which might make for plenty of bakeries, and even more breweries,
but does not result in a successful economy.
Not found in NUC and RLIN, KVK lists one copy at the Bavaria State Library.
337 WENZEL, Gottfried Immanuel. Alphabet edler
Vergnügungen und Freuden; oder: Angabe und Benützung der
physischen und moralischen Vergnügungsquellen für den Menschen
in der Natur. Wien, Anton Doll, 1800. £550
8vo, pp. 167 including engraved frontispiece, [1] advertisement; uncut
in contemporary vellum-backed paste-paper boards; spine label lettered
in manuscript; extremities a little rubbed, corners bumped; small
circular stamps erased from title page, barely noticeable; still a good
copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Wenzel’s advice on how to Wnd physical and
moral pleasure and amusement in nature, arranged in the form of brief articles
in alphabetical order. His wide-ranging articles, covering subjects as
diverse as fashion, walking, spring, acting, thunderstorms, women, drink,
behaviour and nature, give a clear picture of eighteenth-century social morality.
Other suggested diversions include hobbies, such as carpentry or
amateur dramatics, and also games such as card games and a variety of children’s
games. Wenzel makes some pertinent observations on the relationship
between the sexes, on education and on married life.
Wenzel (1754–1809) was a proliWc and popular writer, who was clearly
inXuenced by enlightenment ideas.
Wurzbach LV, pp. 13V.; uncommon, KVK lists two copies only; not found in
RLIN or OCLC.
Animal Language
338 WENZEL, Gottfried Immanuel. Neue auf Vernunft und
Erfahrung gegründete Entdeckungen über die Sprache der Thiere.
Wien, Anton Doll, 1800. £480
8vo, pp. 216, including engraved frontispiece; contemporary boards,
spine lettered in manuscript; corners bumped, foot of spine chipped;
private ownership inscription to front paste-down.
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First edition of Wenzel’s examination of the language and speech of animals,
and one of the earliest contributions to the study of animal psychology.
Wenzel’s treatise is based on close observations. He maintains that
animals can clearly communicate with one another and also with human
beings. He attempts to transcribe diVerent sounds made by animals and
translate them into human language, with reference to the emotions expressed.
He also includes separate sections on body language (Thierischpathognomisch
mimisches Alphabet) and a dictionary of animal language
(Versuch eines Wörterbuchs der Thiersprache).
Engelmann, p. 312.

Engraved throughout
339 WESTON, James. Stenography Compleated, or the Art of
Short-Hand brought to Perfection; being the most Easy, Exact,
Lineal, Speedy, and Legible Method extant... London, 1727. £450
Four parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [iv] [viii] letterpress printed preface,
xl, [28]; [iv] [36]; [iv] frontispiece & title, [84]; [iv], 16; each part with
engraved frontispiece and engraved title, apart from preface and
concluding observations engraved throughout; with four engraved
plates by Cole; contemporary full sheep, rebacked, corners worn, from
the library of Goerge Rose, with engraved heraldic book plate to front
pastedown, and blindstamped seal to upper corner of front board.
First edition of this comprehensive introduction to stenography. ‘Stenography
compleated ... was the largest book till then published on the art, and
contained 200 broad octavo pages, elaborately and beautifully engraved...
Little is known of Weston apart from what Byrom recorded in his journal,
and as they were deadly rivals, it is possible that the usually urbane doctor
allowed his heart to rule his head.’ (Brown & Haskell). In addition to the
comprehensive introduction to the shorthand system devised by Weston, a
dictionary is also included, giving the shorthand transcription of all the
words. Extensive sections of text are given in shorthand, all Wnely engraved.
Weston came from Edinburgh, and for some years taught his system
from manuscript.
Alston VIII, 185; Brown and Haskell, p. 195.
Glossary of Hunting Terminology
340 WILCKENS, H. D. Die Anfangsgründe der weidmännischen
Sprache von den Thieren. Braunschweig, K. Reichard, 1801. £950
8vo, pp. xvi, 272; contemporary paste-paper covered boards; spine with
gilt-lettered label; an attractive copy.
First and only edition, rare, of a curious handbook of hunting jargon, i.e. the
special language used in hunting and forestry for all kinds of game, the hunt,
and its paraphernalia. Presumably the limitation of hunting rights to the
upper classes led to this curious development of a special hunting jargon.
Wilckens gives a glossary of the terminology used, arranged under
diVerent headings depending on the kind of animal described. A special,
detailed section deals with dogs and hounds, giving descriptive adjectives
and terminology for their features, characteristics and duties.
OCLC lists just one copy, at Göttingen; Lindner 2223.01.
Army Finance
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341 WILLIAMSON, John. A Treatise on Military Finance;
containing the Pay of the Forces of the British and Irish
Establishment with the Allowances in Camp, Garrison and
Quarters, &c. London, T. Egerton, 1798. £500
12mo, pp. x, 151, [1] blank, [4] advertisements, with two engraved
folding tables bound in the text; contemporary full sheep, spine ruled in
gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, short splits to head and tail of joint; still a
very Wne copy.
Revised edition of this interesting documentation of the Wnancial organisation
of the military, Wrst published in 1782 and so substantially revised due
to new legislation (pay oYce act of 1783 and militia act of 1786), that according
to the author it can virtually be called a new book. A fascinating
socio-historical document in that it gives details of pay and conditions for
all military personnel in England and Ireland, including chaplains, surgeons
and musicians, cost of baggage, forage money, but also allowances for postage,
stationery etc. Information is given on the treatment and Wnancial
compensation of soldiers wounded in action.
ESTC t85348.
The Thermo-Lamp – Light, Heat and Energy for the Household
342 WINZLER, Zacharias Andreas. Die Thermolampe in
Deutschland; Oder: vollständige, sowohl theoretisch als praktische
Anleitung, den ursprünglich in Frankreich erfundenen, nun aber
auch in Deutschland entdeckten Universal-Leucht-Heiz-Koch-Sud-
Destillir- und Sparofen zu errichten. Mit vier Kupfertafeln. Brünn,
F. K. Siedler, 1803. £750
8vo, pp. [vi], [xiv] subscribers’ list, 227, [3], 4 engraved plates;
contemporary blue glazed boards, gilt-lettered spine label; a Wne copy,
with small contemporary private library stamp to title.
First edition of this comprehensive study of the thermo-lamp and oven in
Germany, based on the LeBon’s revolutionary design. In 1799 LeBon had
patented a method of distilling gas from wood and thus invented one of the
Wrst gas lights, called a thermo-lamp. The thermo-lamp was supposed to be
the answer to the energy problems of the time, wood having become scarce.
It was supposed to be a comprehensive lighting, heating and energy source
in the house – a truly ‘enlightened’ concept.
Winzler gives a very thorough description of the workings and construction
of the thermo-lamp, and explains the physical and chemical processes
involved in it. Detailed plans of the designs are given, both for the production
of the gas and for its use in heating, lighting, and cooking. evant publications,
with detailed annotations as to their usefulness. At the time there
was substantial interest in thermo-lamps, as can be seen both from the very

healthy subscribers’ list to this publication (more than 300 names) and also
from the Xurry of publications on the topic in the Wrst decade of the nineteenth
century. However, it was to take some more years, before plans for a
more centralized production and distribution of gas were successfully put
into practice.
Uncommon, not fund in RLIN; for a detailed discussion see W. Schivelbusch,
Lichtblicke, Zur Geschichte der künstlichen Helligkeit im 19. Jahrhundert, Munich
1983, p. 27V.
How to Keep them Happy
343 [WOMEN.] L’Art de Rendre les Femmes Fidelles, Paris &
Versailles, 1713.
[bound with:] [ANON.] Les Fanfaronades d’un Gascon en Vers
Burlesques. [colophon:] Paris, P. F. Emery, 1713. £550
Two works in one volume, 12mo, pp. [viii], 120; 16; contemporary full
sprinkled sheep; spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label;
discreet repairs to upper joint.
First edition of both works. ‘Most things in this world are meant to be
shared amongst men, but not the women’ – with these warning words the
anonymous author begins his pragmatic advice on how to keep women
happy, and avoid adultery. He stresses the importance of choosing the right
woman in the Wrst place. Loyal staV, Xattery and attention are recommended
for all women. Special provisions apply to rich women, who potentially
maintain greater independence. He warns against women addicted
to gambling, as they are more susceptible to temptations. In an apt juxtaposition
the second work is a rare burlesque satire of the misadventures of a
Gascon in Paris.
I. Gay I, 287; RLIN and OCLC list copies at Harvard, UCLA and Philadelphia
only. II. not found in RLIN or OCLC.
344 [WOMEN.] Hippolytus Redivivus id est remedium
contemnendi sexum muliebrem. Autore S.I.E.D.V.M.W.A.S.
[Netherlands], Anno 1644. £750
12mo, pp. 96, title page vignette; partly unopened in nineteenth
century polished tan calf, triple gilt rule to sides, spine decorated and
lettered in gilt, a.e.g.; engraved bookplate fo Jacques Vieillard to front
paste-down.
First edition (second issue) of this outspoken satire against women and collection
of proverbs, maxims and quotations about the female sex. Under
diVerent headings female weaknesses are exposed, such as vanity, secretiveness,
curiosity, talkativeness, price etc. The author, who has remained
anonymous, begins by confessing that although he abhors women in
theory, he adores them in practice. After outlining the temptations women
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provide, he comes up with the unusual suggestion, that masturbation
might be the only option for resisting their dangerous allure.
Another edition was published the same year.
Brunet III, 178; Gay II 482.
345 [ZANETTI, Girolamo Francesco.] Dell’Origine di alcune Arti
Principali appresso i Viniziani, Libri Due. Venezia, Stefano
Orlandini, 1758. £950
4to, pp. [iv], 100, one folding engraved plate bound in the text,
attractive tail-pieces and initial letters in the shape of dragons; old repair
to tear in G2; uncut in contemporary pattern-paper boards; a good
copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this history of early Venetian scientiWc and
technological advances. After deploring the recent decline in arts and technology,
Zanetti sets out to remind the Venetians of their earlier achievements,
with the intention of encouraging a revival of these arts. In the Wrst
part Zanetti concentrates on naval architecture and technology. The second
part is taken up with civil architecture, sculpture and goldsmiths’s techniques.
Girolamo Zanetti (1713–1782) was the brother of the better
known art historian Antonio Maria Zanetti, who wrote on Venetian history
of art.
Cicognara 62; RLIN and OCLC list copies at the Getty, Yale, Columbia University
and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
History and Bibliography of Early Statistics
346 ZIZIUS, Johann. Theoretische Vorbereitung und Einleitung
zur Statistik. Wien und Triest, Joseph Geistinger, 1810. £580
8vo, pp. [ii], xx, [21]–280, [2], 1 folding table; contemporary pastepaper
boards, three paper labels to spine, head of spine bent; small
library stamp to title page.
First edition of a comprehensive study of the science of statistics for use at a
university lecture course by Zizius, professor of economics and statistics at
Vienna university. After some initial comments on the use of statistics in
political economy, he concentrates mostly on descriptive statistics as described
by Achenwall, i.e. the thorough knowledge of the respective and
comparative situation of each state. Most importantly he includes a comprehensive
history of the science and teaching of statistics, discussing all the
most important representatives, and concludes with an extensive bibliography
of relevant contributions, listing some Wve hundred titles under
diVerent headings. Throughout the work, it is clear that Zizius is fully
aware of his European contemporaries and cites French, English and Italian
authors.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 20197.6; rare, RLIN and OCLC list just two further copies, at
Syracuse and Brigham Young.

Music and Dance Therapy
347 ZULATTI, Giovanni Francesco. Della Forza della Musica
nelle Passioni, nei Costumi, e nelle Malattie, e dell’Uso medico del
Ballo. Venezia, Lorenzo Baseggio, 1787. £900
8vo, pp. 69, marginal stain to Wrst signature, not touching text,
marginal tear to pp. 66; uncut in the original buV wrappers.
First edition, rare, of one of the earliest works on the beneWcial eVects of
music on mental, cognitive, and physical health – early music therapy.
Zulatti reviews classical and medical literature for information on the emotional
impact of music, and cites from Greek and Roman literature, to contemporary
authors, such as d’Alembert, Haller, and Tissot. He also points
to the trance-inducing faculty of music, such as the Tarantola dance. He
attributes the beneWcial, and especially calming eVect of music to the regular
beat. A further section is devoted to the study of melody, and its eVects on
the body.
In the second half Zulatti concentrates on the beneWcial eVects of dancing,
which combines the calming or reviving inXuence of music with physical
exercise and gymnastics. This is particularly appropriate for those in
sedentary occupations, or women who do not favour vigorous exercise.
Zulatti warns against excessively fast dancing, which in pregnant women
can lead to premature birth.
Zulatti, a medical doctor, also wrote on the plague.
RLIN and OCLC list a copy at New York Public Library; not in Blake.
Selective Subject Index
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Accounting 2, 41, 62, 73, 87, 95, 97, 98, 130, 174, 244, 255
Aesthetics 22, 31, 45, 56, 59, 78, 205
Agriculture 27, 33, 68, 71, 81, 96, 107, 108, 116, 123, 133, 145,
187, 235, 244, 281, 287
Americana 4, 52, 80, 123, 126, 127, 242, 246, 272, 310, 334
Animal Language 51, 338
Art & Architecture 8, 15, 31, 290
Bibliography 148, 219, 220, 260
Book-Collecting 10, 53, 86, 99, 122, 132, 148, 200, 214, 219
Biography 139, 220, 265, 292, 329
Book History 188, 243, 248
Book of Secrets 8, 29, 322
Business 39, 65, 240
Calendar & Chronology 3, 28, 149, 251
Calligraphy & Writing 1, 54, 73, 304, 339
Colour Printing 66, 232
Crime & Punishment 23, 24, 310, 321
Dictionary 15, 156, 218, 219, 249, 256
Economics 18, 19, 20, 32, 104, 131, 136
Education 93, 94, 131, 162, 163, 164, 171, 185, 190, 208, 228,
254, 269, 330
Enlightenment 7, 9, 26, 31, 37, 38, 45, 56, 67, 78, 83, 140, 222,
224, 262
Europe 111, 159, 165, 166, 325
Fiction 30, 69, 91, 328
Food & Drink 68, 128, 176, 242, 283
French Revolution 2, 50, 52, 106, 124, 125, 204, 215, 216, 279
Gambling 141, 182
Health 5, 8, 100, 146, 180, 210, 225, 233, 242, 261, 278,
330, 347
History 40, 198, 211
Hunting 96, 108, 155, 340
Illustrated Books 1, 6, 60, 61, 78, 115, 128, 162, 163, 178, 319
Industry 14, 203, 246, 253, 289, 290, 305
Labour 77, 172
Language 9, 44, 89, 151, 206, 250
Language Teaching 70, 72, 153, 167, 177, 236, 237, 257, 313, 135, 136,
326
Law 3, 23, 24, 25, 36, 80, 94, 95, 110, 113, 118, 121,
124, 125, 145, 180, 181, 222, 259, 291, 294, 295,
296, 297, 312, 325
Marriage 25, 183, 186, 197, 217, 343
Mathematics 61, 75, 235, 331
Military 76, 212, 279, 341
Money Lending 118, 245
Music, Theatre, & Ballet 12, 83, 85, 142, 151, 202, 278, 347
Philosophy 75, 92, 117, 119, 135, 262, 263, 264, 277, 284, 285,
307
Poetry 6, 78, 115, 319
Political Economy 6, 49, 58, 93, 119, 150, 154, 159, 160, 161, 209,
221, 241, 245, 262, 284, 285

Population 13, 34, 49, 88, 112, 147, 211, 238
Printing & Engraving 46, 47, 48, 109, 120, 169, 195, 232, 252, 303
Rousseau 67, 74, 101, 262-266, 292, 320
Russia 248, 257, 268, 269
Science & Technology 6, 8, 11, 14, 144, 192, 201, 203, 207, 270, 311, 342,
345
Slang 143, 184, 232
Socialism 57, 119, 299
Spain 21, 272, 307, 334
Statistics 238, 239, 293, 346
Taxation 63, 173, 302
Teaching Economics 93, 131, 228, 234, 286
Tobacco 8, 39, 229
Trade 82, 113, 134, 159
Translation 4, 5, 16, 23, 24, 36, 38, 48, 56, 91, 139, 187, 191,
246, 262, 307
Transport 157, 306
Utopia 30, 196, 274, 324, 328
Women 7, 25, 35, 139, 183, 185, 186, 213, 217, 226, 231,
259, 275, 288, 308, 322, 343, 344
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