Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books
Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books
Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books
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women have to be aware of the fact that the army protects their lives and<br />
livelihood. Therefore they are advised to refrain from frivolous activity,<br />
such as dancing, the theatre or idle gossip. Not only are women requested<br />
to support the cause, they are also asked to instill patriotic fervour into their<br />
husbands and dependents. Morardo cites numerous writings, from classical<br />
texts to contemporary literature to support the claim that women occasionally<br />
also actively participate in battle, and advises his contemporaries to<br />
emulate these classical examples.<br />
Not found in RLIN or OCLC.<br />
218 MORELLET, André. Observations sur un ouvrage anonyme,<br />
intitulé: Remarques morales, philosophiques et grammaticales sur<br />
le Dictionnaire de l’Academie Françoise. Paris, l’Imprimerie de<br />
l’Institution des Sourds-Muets. 1807. £200<br />
8vo, pp. [iv], 79; recent buV wrappers.<br />
First and only edition of Morellet’s spirited and detailed response to<br />
Feydel’s criticism of the new edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie<br />
Française. The Wfth edition had been practically ready for the press when the<br />
Revolution broke out and the Académie was suppressed. The manuscripts<br />
were preserved, thanks largely to Morellet and publication was eventually<br />
undertaken by the Comité de l’Instruction Publique, in 1798. The pro-revolutionary<br />
standpoint met with widespread opposition, especially because the<br />
dictionary included some of the politically charged terminology of the revolution.<br />
Even though Morellet himself was not in favour of including the<br />
more extreme propaganda phrases of the French Revolution, he defends<br />
the Dictionnaire against the more robust accusations by Feydel, who complained<br />
about the large number of lower class expressions included in the<br />
dictionary. Morellet analyses each of his complaints and gives his<br />
deWnitions of the terms in question.<br />
Cioranescu 47356.<br />
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten<br />
219 MORELLET, André Abbé de. Prospectus d’un Nouveau<br />
Dictionnaire de Commerce En cinq volumes in-folio proposés par<br />
Souscription... Paris, Les Freres Estienne, rue S. Jacques, à la Vertu.<br />
1769. £7500<br />
8vo, pp. viii, 381, [1] approbation, [ii], 34 ‘<strong>Catalogue</strong> d’une Bibliothèque<br />
d’Économie Politique, formé pour le Travail du nouveau<br />
Dictionnaire de Commerce’; typographic head and tail-pieces; occasional<br />
light spotting and foxing, faint dampstain to gutter margin in signature a,<br />
and barely noticeable traces of dampstaining at the head; contemporary<br />
full calf, spine gilt in compartments, head of spine and upper joint<br />
expertly repaired; from the library of the St. Bernard monastery in Paris,<br />
with manuscript inscription to title, with the note ‘Ex Dono Autoris’.<br />
First and only edition, very rare, of Morellet’s projected plan for a new commercial<br />
dictionary, designed to supersede Savary’s Dictionnaire de Commerce.<br />
Morellet gives a very detailed outline of the projected work –<br />
discusses previous attempts at commercial dictionaries and then sets out the<br />
diVerent areas covered by his dictionary. But despite the large library he<br />
accumulated for the purpose (a catalogue of the most important works is<br />
included in this volume) and the enormous amount of work he put into its<br />
preparation it was never published. Exactly thirty years later, in 1799,<br />
Peuchet published his commercial dictionary which was based on the material<br />
collected by Morellet. Of particular interest is the above-mentioned