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

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.