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

183 [LE NOBLE, Eustache.] Carta TopograWca dell’Isola del
Maritaggio di Monsieur Le Noble per la prima volta tradotta dal
Francese in Italiano. Cosmopoli, 1765. £950
8vo, folding engraved map (platemark 250 x 365 mm), pp. 43; title
page a little soiled, else very clean and crisp; recently bound in calfbacked
marbled boards, gilt.
Rare Wrst edition in Italian of this satire on love and marriage, with an allegorical
map of the Island of Matrimony. The work is arranged like a travel
book, describing and illustrating in detail the journey to wedded bliss, passing
through the ports of ‘love’, ‘bad advice’, or ‘self-interest’. The travellers’
are invited to make their home in the ‘province of jealousy’, the ‘county of the
cuckolds’, or the mountain range of the ‘in-laws’. Once on the island it becomes
impossible to leave, though a transfer to the peninsulas of ‘widowhood’
and ‘divorce’ is still possible, as is a relocation to the ‘island of bigamy’.
The island is illustrated on an attractive large folding map, bound at the end.
The work appears to be adapted and translated from the Carte de’Isle de
Marriage by the proliWc Eustache La Noble de Tennelière (1643–1711),
Wrst published in 1705.
Rare, no copies listed in RLIN and OCLC, another issue with a Cosmopoli imprint
extending to just pp. 31, and with a slightly smaller map, was published the
same year.
184 LEGRAS, Charles. Dictionnaire de Slang et d’Expressions
Familières Anglaises. Paris, Garnier, 1922. £80
8vo, pp. xi, [i], 182, lightly browned throughout, half title loose;
original publisher’s cloth, spine and upper board lettered in black.
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Third edition of a dictionary of English slang and colloquial expressions
explained to the French, which had Wrst been published to acclaim in 1898.
The Journey to Knowledge and Happiness
185 [LEMIERRE, August-Jacques attrib. to GILLET, Miss.] The
Hundred Thoughts of a Young Lady – Cent Pensées d’une Jeune
Anglaise publiées en Anglais et en Français. Paris, Legras et Cordier,
1802. £450
12mo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xv, [16]–171, [8], with one folding
allegorical hand-coloured map; a number of stab holes to map; an
attractive copy in contemporary French calf, spine and edges gilt; giltlettered
spine label; a little rubbed, but a Wne copy.
Later edition of an attractive courtesy book, giving instructions to the
young in the form of one hundred maxims in parallel text in English and
French. The most appealing aspect of the book is the engraved hand-coloured
map illustrating the journey of the young to the country of happiness,
passing the valley of tears, sandbanks of patience, peninsular of
science, and avoiding possible wrong turns to the land of remorse, island of
dissipation. The Wnal goal is the Terre Ferme du Bonheur.
The work was apparently Wrst published in 1796 under the title The Pleasures
of Reason, and then reprinted in 1798, 1800 and 1801.
On Being Married
186 LEONARDI, Domenico Felice. I Doveri dello Stato
Coniugale. Canto. [colophon:] Lucca, Riccomini, 1767. £350
8vo, pp. xxxii; engraved title vignette, woodcut initials and head and
tail-pieces; contemporary limp boards, covered with gilt pattern paper;
a Wne copy.
First and only edition of this poem on marriage and the resultant duties of
the wife. Leonardi stresses the role of marriage as a social compact, with
love and mutual respect a necessary requirement. However, the main responsibility
lies with the woman, in raising the children and tending the
house – the custodian of marital happiness. In an educational aside
Leonardi comments extensively on the care for newborn babies, and condemns
the custom of swaddling babies with reference to European medical
opinion.
Not found in RLIN and OCLC.
Harvesting Technology
187 LEONHARDI, Friedrich G. Beskrifning På en i England af
John Middleton uppfunnen Machine ... Stockholm, Carl Delfen
och J. G. Forsgren, 1799. £150