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

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 ?
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten
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.