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

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.