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

Surveying Instrument
11 AURACHER VON AURACH, Joseph. Quarreograph ein
neues und einfaches Instrument um jede perspektivische Zeichnung
mit der strengsten Genauigkeit aufzunehmen, und selbe im
gehörigen Ton durch Schatten und Licht vollkommen zu entwerfen.
In zwei Abtheilungen. Mit zwei Kupfertafeln. Wien, Carl Gerold,
1819. £450
8vo, pp. 34, two engraved plates, paper fault in lower margin of p. 21,
no loss; faint stamp to title page and verso of title; later marbled
wrappers with gilt-lettered label to upper board.
First edition of Aurach’s Wrst description of his inovative perspectival surveying
and drawing device, the quarreograph. Aurach maintains that with
the help of the quarreograph perspective drawings can easily be achieved,
without the need for calculations of perspective. In his two-part article, he
Wrst describes in detail the device, and illustrates its design. Clear instructions
are given to facilitate the construction of the device.
The second part illustrates the use of the device.
PoggendorV I, 76; rare RLIN and OCLC list one copy at the Swiss National Library,
Harvard holds two of his later pamphlets.
The Art of Gesture
12 AUSTIN, Gilbert. Die Kunst der rednerischen und
theatralischen Declamation. Mit 25 Kupferplatten. Leipzig,
Baumgartner, [1818]. £450
8vo, pp. xvi, 184, [1] errata, with 25 engraved plates; contemporary
half calf over sprinkled boards, a Wne copy.
First edition in German of Austin’s Chironomia, his popular treatise on elocution,
countenance and gesture, Wrst published in 1806. Austin’s precepts
as regards voice, expression, gesticulation and body language are clearly
applicable not just to the stage and public speaking, but also in private life. In
individual chapters he discusses aspects of presentation and teaches ideal
posture to convery diVerent types of information. Austin’s notation system
for these postures makes the book particularly useful. One hundred and Wfty-
Wve postures are illustrated on the twenty-Wve engraved plates. Many of these
have been transferred directly into modern computer graphics and clip-art.
Rare, RLIN locates just two copies at New York State University and Berkeley.
13 AUXIRON, Claude-Francois-Joseph d’. Principes de tout
Gouvernement, ou Examen des Causes de la splendeur ou de la
foiblesse de tout Etat considéré en lui-même, & indépendamment
des moers. Tome Premier. [–Second.] Paris, J. Th. Herissant Fils,
1766. £2200
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Two volumes in one, 12mo, pp. lxxx, 213, [1] blank; [iv], 314, [4]
privilege and approbation; light dampstain to the upper corner of a
couple of leaves in the preliminaries; a nice crisp copy in contemporary
full mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, with an armorial gilt stamp
to the bottom compartment; gilt-lettered spine label.
Rare Wrst edition of the major contribution to the population debate by
Claude-Francois-Joseph d’Auxiron (1728–1778), a major nonphysiocratic
economist before Malthus and a signiWcant early advocate of
the importance of mathematical economics. ‘Auxiron’s work is signiWcant
chieXy because of his analysis of the determinants of population capacity,
and his treatment of the relation between population growth and the
interoccupational and interclass movements and balance in society’
(Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, p. 296). Auxiron stressed the importance
of commerce in the attainment of maximum yield from the given
land area of any country, allowing for specialisation through trading,
thereby creating a wealth-induced population expansion which would be
impossible in a closed economy.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10259.1; Higgs 3943; INED 145; uncommon, further copies
recorded at Berkeley, Princeton, and Syracuse university.
14 BABBAGE, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and
Manufactures. London, Charles Knight, 1832. £500
32mo, steel-engraved title, pp. xxiv, 392; contemporary half calf over
marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; engraved title a little
browned.
Third enlarged edition of the Wrst detailed exposition of the economic impact
of the machine industry by the English mathematician and economist
Babbage. His analysis of the economics of the factory system played an important
role in supplanting classical economics of Adam Smith with the
political economy of Mill and Ricardo. Babbage’s work is a pioneering
work in ‘operations research’. The text of the third edition is the deWnitive
one, with the three additional chapters of the second edition inserted in