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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227 NICOLAS, Pierre François. Méthode de préparer et conserver<br />
les Animaux de toutes les Classes, pour les Cabinets d’Histoire<br />
Naturelle. Paris, F. Buisson, An IX, [1800]. £400<br />
8vo, pp. [vi], viii, [9], 228, with 10 engraved plates; contemporary full<br />
marbled sheep, spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine label.<br />
First edition of this comprehensive practical treatise on taxidermy,<br />
speciWcally aimed at those preparing and supplying zoological specimens<br />
and cabinets of curiosities. The ten folding plates, drawn by Marechal and<br />
Wnely engraved by Sellier, show tools and equipment, and animals in various<br />
stages of preparation. Nicolas (1743–1816) had been a professor of<br />
chemistry and natural history.<br />
The work was popular and was translated into German in 1802.<br />
The Importance of the Study of Economics for Public Life<br />
228 OSTERWALD, Peter von. Akademische Rede welche bey<br />
Gelegenheit des höchsterfreulichen Geburthsfestes des durchlauchtigsten<br />
Fürsten und Herrn, Herrn Maximilian Joseph, ... Im grossen<br />
Saale der Churfürstli. Baierischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu<br />
München gehalten und darinnen der Zusammenhang und die<br />
Ordnung aller Wissenschaften nebst dem Nutzen, welchen sie<br />
dem gesellschaftlichen Leben der Menschen gewähren, dargethan<br />
worden ... München, 27. März, 1762. £100<br />
4to, pp. 27, woodcut head and tailpieces; as issued with paper spine; a<br />
Wne copy.<br />
First and only edition of this speech given at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences<br />
on the occasion of the birthday of king Maximilian Joseph.<br />
Osterwald, a member of the Academy, outlines the relative importance of<br />
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various branches of science, and stresses the importance of the study of economics<br />
for all Welds of public administration and public life.<br />
Not found in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Humpert.<br />
The Montaigne of the North – Philosophical Essays<br />
229 OXENSTIERNA, Johan Thureson. Recueil de Pensées du<br />
Comte J. O. sur divers sujets. Tome Premier [–Tome Cinquieme].<br />
Francfort, Antoine Heinscheit, 1725. £2800<br />
Five parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. 124, [3]; [viii], 102, 3; [viii], 109,<br />
[3]; 117, [3], 117 (bottom half of page cut), [2], engraved title vignette<br />
to all Wve title pages, one engraved half-plate; some light even<br />
browning, else very clean in contemporary full sheep, spine decoratively<br />
gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; discreet repairs to joints;<br />
a Wne copy preserved in a wooden box; from the library of Horatio<br />
Walpole with his book plate on front pastedown.<br />
Second issue (Wrst 1720–21) of the Wrst collected edition of the essays and<br />
social aperçus of Johan Thuresson Oxenstierna (1666–1733), nephew of<br />
Axel Oxenstierna, the Swedish chancellor. His brief, precise essays and<br />
aphorisms on a wide range of subjects earned him a signiWcant international<br />
reputation and the epithet ‘Montaigne of the North’ (Hoefer).<br />
This copy comes from the library of Horatio Walpole, (1813–1894), 4th<br />
Earl of Orford, a descendent of Horace Walpole’s cousin (see Hazen, p.<br />
xxvi). The bookplate is an extremely close imitation of Walpole’s Orford<br />
bookplate.<br />
Hoefer XXXVIII, 1018; this is generally regarded as the Wrst collected edition, even<br />
though there appears to be an earlier printing of 1720–21; OCLC lists just one<br />
copy at the Bodleian Library, RLIN adds a copy at the University of Chicago, together<br />
with a number of later editions in 1744, 1749 and 1762; a German translation<br />
was published in 1738, a Russian translation in 1792; see Hazen, Walpole’s<br />
Library, p. xxvi.<br />
The Philosophes under Attack<br />
230 [PALISSOT, Charles de Montenoy.] Petites Lettres sur des<br />
Grands Philosophes. Paris, 1757. £240<br />
12mo in 8s & 4s, pp. [ii], iv, 101, small worm trace in outer lower<br />
margin of last section; modern wrappers.<br />
First edition of Palissot’s popular satire on the encyclopédistes, coming at the<br />
beginning of a whole spate of attacks on philosophes. Palissot attacked the<br />
encyclopédistes for slavishly following Bacon, made fun of their sensitivity to<br />
criticism, accused them of becoming a ‘church’, and in passing also attacked<br />
d’Alembert for accepting a pension from France’s enemy Frederick the<br />
Great. The dramatist Palissot (1730–1814) was a renegade from the<br />
philosophe camp and a protégé of the highly inXuential Comte de Stainville,<br />
later Duc de Choiseul.<br />
Barbier III, 858e; Cioranescu 48774.