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

thirty-six page Catalogue d’une bibliothèque d’économie politique, formé pour le
travail du nouveau Dictionnaire du commerce, which nearly two centuries
later formed the basis of the Einaudi collection.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10507; Higgs 4565; Einaudi 4024; McCulloch p. 62; in addition
to the Kress copy NUC lists copies at the Library of Congress, Yale, Library
Company of Philadelphia, and Indiana University only.
With a Bibliography of his Works
220 MOSER, Johann Jacob. Lebensgeschichte Johann Jacob
Mosers, von ihm selbst beschriben. [n.p.] [OVenbach], 1768. £550
8vo, pp. [viii], [9]–216; typographic vignette to title, head and tailpieces;
paper a little browned, title page loosened; contemporary buV
boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; extremities a little rubbed.
First edition of the autobiography of the ‘father of German law’, the proliWc
Johann Jacob Moser (1701–1785). Moser was in succession a lawyer, a
university professor at Tübingen and Frankfurt, a member of the government
of Wurtemberg and a founder of an academy for political science in
Hanau. He was imprisoned for his unwavering support of the estates-constitution
of the duchy of Wurtemberg. Moser concludes with a bibliography
of his publications, listing more than 220 individual works, not
counting newspaper and journal articles: ‘ich habe so vil geschriben, als
wenige andere Rechts-Gelehrte vor mir gethan und nach mir thun
werden...’ (preface). Moser’s autobiography appeared also with a Frankfurt
and Leipzig imprint, a third enlarged edition was published in 1777–1783.
Goedeke IV, 1, 233; RLIN lists Berkeley, Harvard and the university of Rochester;
see G. Kleinheyer & J. Schröder, Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, 1983, pp.
194–198.
German ‘Romantic’ Economist
221 MÜLLER, Adam Heinrich. Die Elemente der Staatskunst.
OeVentliche Vorlesungen vor Sr. Durchlaucht dem Prinzen Bernhard
von Sachsen-Weimar und einer Versammlung von Staatsmännern
und Diplomaten, im Winter von 1808 auf 1809, zu
Dresden, gehalten. Berlin, J. D. Sander, 1809. £2800
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 298, 1 plate; [ii], 375, 1
plate (pagination irregular, jumps from 366 to 369; [ii], 328, 1 plate
(pagination irregular, jumps from 323 to 326); irregular pagination,
but complete; very occasional light spotting and browning, else very
clean; recent dark green morocco, spine in compartments, with giltlettered
spine label, and numbering directly to spine, gilt dentelles; preserved
in a custom-made cloth box; a Wne copy with book plate to front
free endpaper and faint contemporary ownership inscription to title.
First edition of the main contribution by the ‘most important political
economist of the German Romantic school. Müller opposed the economic
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theories of Adam Smith and his successors, particularly their abstract and
isolated understanding of the individual and their emphasis on self-interest.
He also criticized Smith’s merely materialist notion of national wealth and
formulated a concept of spiritual capital encompassing cultural values and
the state of the sciences (books IV and V)’ (Hermann Reich in New
Palgrave). Like Fichte, Müller requested economic self-suYciency as an important
means of strengthening national unity. Müller can be seen as an
early critic of capitalism, which he considered a threat to the viability of the
absolute state. He objected to free enterprise, competition and free trade as
violating the ideal of a self-suYcient and independent state.
Humpert 1059; Kress B5552; Menger c 87; not in Einaudi or Goldsmiths’.
Enlightenment Legal Reform
222 MURATORI, Lodovico Antonio. Dei Difetti della
Giurisprudenza. Venezia, Giambatista Pasquali, 1742. £850
Folio in 4s, pp. [viii], 184; title printed in red and black, engraved title
vignette, decorated initials; marginal tear to R1, no loss of text;
contemporary marbled sheep-backed boards, spine ruled and decorated
in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, chipped; a Wne, wide-margined copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Muratori’s criticism of jurisprudence, in fact
the starting point of the critique of Roman law throughout the eighteenth
century, resulting in far reaching judicial reforms and the drawing up of
modern civil codes. In his treatise Muratori attacked the immobility of the
Italian legislative apparatus, and criticised the vast and often contradictory
accumulation of edicts, which made the execution of justice and power
diYcult. His critique proved inXuential on the reformed Tuscan legislature
and the presentation of the Codice Estense. The refusal of the curia to grant
reform eventually resulted in the radical enlightenment reform movement.
Muratori (1672–1750), archivist and librarian in Modena, was one of
the greatest scholars of his time and published extensively in the Welds of
history, philosophy, and political economy. This criticism of the legal system
proved poplar, further editions followed in 1743, 1744.
L’Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli 367; Sorbelli I, 154; OCLC and
RLIN list copies at Library of Congress, Harvard, Minnesota and Washington
University.
223 [MURATORI, Lodovico Antonio.] Primo Esame del Libro
intitolato dell’Eloquenza Italiana. n.p., n.d. [between 1736 and
1740?]. £420
4to, pp. [ii], 62; contemporary buV boards, spine chipped, recent label
untidily removed from upper board; a wide-margined copy, with
manuscript annotations to title page.
First separate edition, uncommon, of this forceful polemic against Giusto
Fontanini, written in response to the latter’s criticisms of Muratori’s Vita ed