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