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

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)