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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Physiocrat Polemic<br />
19 BAUDEAU, Nicolas abbe. Éclaircissements demandé à M.<br />
N**, sur ses Principes Économiques, & sur ses projets de législation;<br />
au nom des Propriétaires Fonciers & des Cultivateurs<br />
François... [Paris, Didot] 1775. [verso of title:] Extrait des Nouvelles<br />
Ephemerides Economiques. £1600<br />
8vo, pp. x, 306, A1 and Q8 are cancels; a good crisp copy with wide<br />
margins in contemporary mottled calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered<br />
spine label, sides with triple gilt rule and gilt dentelles, a.e.g.;<br />
extremities a little rubbed, a Wne copy.<br />
Very rare Wrst separate edition of Baudeau’s famous Physiocratic polemic,<br />
which according to Daire is one of the best productions of the Physiocratic<br />
movement. The work was also printed the same year in the Nouvelles<br />
Éphémerides Économiques. In the Eclaircissements Baudeau attacks Necker’s<br />
De la législation des grains. Originally a protectionist, but converted to the<br />
cause and in eVect the most eVective popularizer of Physiocratic ideas,<br />
Baudeau here defends the laissez-faire principles of Quesnay and his followers,<br />
against the doctrines of Colbert. The mother, Agriculture, is, he claims,<br />
being sacriWced to the daughter, Industry.<br />
Goldsmiths’–Kress 11256; Higgs 6259; INED 276.<br />
Monetary Policy<br />
20 BAUMHAUER, Michael Paul. Versuch eines neuen und<br />
richtigen Lehr-Gebäudes der Politischen Münzwissenschaft im<br />
Grund-Risse; nebst einer Vertheidigung des hohen Münz-Fußes.<br />
Frankfurt und Leipzig, Gotthelf D. <strong>Schulz</strong>, 1766. £400<br />
4to, pp. [xii], 122, [20] contents; some light dust-soiling to title, small<br />
stamp to foot of title; uncut in the original pale blue boards.<br />
First edition, uncommon, of a comprehensive study of coinage, currency<br />
and monetary questions, with an impressive subject bibliography.<br />
Baumhauer (1744–1811), a jurist, gives a brief historical overview, lists<br />
necessary reference works, both on coin production and historical coinage,<br />
and then discusses coinage and numismatics in the diVerent European<br />
countries. He also includes brief sections on American, African and Asian<br />
coinage. In the second half Baumann concentrates on the reform of the<br />
German monetary system, again citing all the relevant literature.<br />
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10234.1; Humpert 11178.<br />
21 [BECATTINI, Francesco attrib.] Istoria della Città di<br />
Gibilterra in Spagna con la Descrizione della medesima, Porto, Baja,<br />
FortiWcazioni antiche e recenti, ConWni e Planta in Rama della<br />
suddetta. Firenze, Anton-Giuseppe Pagani e Comp., 1782. £400<br />
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten<br />
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 44, with one further engraved portrait<br />
and a large folding engraved map; contemporary vellum-backed pastepaper<br />
boards; with defaced ownership label to front paste-down; a Wne<br />
copy.<br />
Second edition (Wrst 1781) of this history of Gibraltar, written during the<br />
Grand Siege, when Spanish and French troops attempted to recapture the<br />
Rock. Gibraltar had been declared a free port and it was under British rule<br />
since the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). Becattini not only gives a history of<br />
Gibraltar, but also describes the leaders of the opposing armies – the Duc de<br />
Crillon and General Elliott, and gives details of the Spanish army. Particularly<br />
appealing is the folding engraved map. The war, which was observed<br />
with interest from all over Europe, ended the following year with a British<br />
victory, the English having defended Gibraltar with the help of an ingenious<br />
tunnel against the apparently overwhelming strength of the besieging<br />
army.<br />
The 1781 edition styles itself as the second edition; but there appears to<br />
be no earlier printing.<br />
OCLC and RLIN list copies at Berkeley, Yale, Chicago, Princeton, and the<br />
Wellcome Library only.<br />
22 BECCARIA, Cesare. Ricerche intorno alla Natura dello Stile.<br />
Milano, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1770. £1800<br />
8vo, pp. 164, [1] errata; title with double rule; uncut in the original<br />
buV stiV wrappers; some worm damage to spine, with half of spine<br />
covering lost, but stitching Wrm; a Wne, unsophisticated copy.<br />
First edition, rare, of Beccaria’s main literary work, his important contribution<br />
to philosophy and aesthetics. Beccaria discusses in detail the relationship<br />
between form and content. He had included a preliminary article on