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

Hamburg Dialect
256 RICHEY, Michael. Idioticon Hamburgense oder Wörter-
Buch, zur Erklärung der eigenen, in und um Hamburg gebräuchlichen
Nieder-Sächsischen Mund-Art. Hamburg, Conrad König,
1755. £1100
8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. [x], lii, 480; title in red and
black, with engraved vignette on title and at head; contemporary full
vellum, circular indentations to inside of boards, where commemorative
coins or medals had been imbedded; a good copy.
Second enlarged edition of the Wrst dictionary of the Hamburg dialect, as
diVerent from other Low German dialects. The Wrst edition appeared in
1743 and extended to just Wfty pages. Richey (1678–1761), history professor,
linguist and author, was a member of Hamburg’s Wrst Patriotische
Gesellschaft, and editor of the periodical Der Patriot. This dictionary of
Hamburg dialect and terminology is his most important publication.
Richey also gives a brief classiWcation of the most common diVerences between
the Hamburg dialect and other Low German dialects, and adds
Ziegler’s glossary of the terminology of Dithmarschen, a province north of
Hamburg.
Zaunmüller, c. 72; not in Faber du Faur or Jantz; a few copies of this edition were
issued with a publication date of 1754 (Kayser, 71).
257 RODDE, Jacob. Russische Sprachlehre... Vierte vermehrte
AuXage. Riga, Hartknoch, 1789.
[bound with:] ���������, ��������. Gespräche von Haussachen.
Riga, Hartknoch, 1789.
[bound with:] Sprüchwörter und Stellen aus russischen Autoren zum
Exponiren. [n.p., n.d.].
[bound with:] �������, ������. � ����������� ... Riga,
1789. £350
Four works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xxiv], 431, [1] imprint; 168; 112;
128; contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, spine label,
extremities rubbed, and corners worn.
Rare Russian grammar and phrasebook Wrst published in 1773, to provide
the sizable German community in Livonia with a concise Russian textbook.
In addition to the basics of grammar, Rodde gives an extensive listing of
irregular verbs. The second section is taken up with bi-lingual dialogues,
with numerous charming discussions about tea and coVee, meals and the
pleasures of tobacco. The last two sections contain Russian proverbs with
their German translations, and excerpts from Russian literature, with little
glossaries at the foot of the page.
Even though these textbooks of Russian grammar, phraseology, prov-
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erbs and literary excerpts were issued with a Riga imprint, they were in fact
printed in Leipzig, by Breitkopf and Son.
Maggs 363; NUC lists three copies of the Wrst two parts (CtY, ICN, PU).
258 [RODELLA, Giovanni Battista.] Vita costumi e scritti del
Conte Giammaria Mazzuchelli, Patrizio Bresciano. Brescia,
Giambatista Bossini, [1766]. £450
8vo, frontispiece portrait, pp. 120; title vignette; contemporary full
vellum, gilt-lettered spine label; some light staining to upper board; but
a very clean and crisp copy.
First edition of this comprehensive biography and bibliography of the author,
literary historian and cultural Wgure Giammaria Mazzuchelli (1707–
1765). Mazzuchelli is best known as the author of the vast study Scrittori
d’Italia (1753–1763), which was praised for the extreme detail of biographical
and bibliographical information on Italian writers. Started on a
truly comprehensive scale, citing all relevant authorities, the work only covered
the Wrst two letters of the alphabet, but the existing sections have been
singled out as prime examples of bio-bibliographical description (Petzholdt
p. 355).
OCLC and RLIN list copies at Stanford, Berkeley, Illinois, Harvard, and Duke.
Women and the Law
259 ROLLAND D’ERCEVILLE, Barthélmy Gabriel de.
Recherches sur les prérogatives des Dames chez les Gaulois, sur les
Cours d’Amour. Paris, Nyon l’aîné, 1787. £650
12mo, pp. [iv], xii, 212, [1] approbation and errata; contemporary full
marbled calf, spine decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; a Wne copy.
First edition, uncommon, of an interesting work on the social and legal
status of women in France up to the end of the eighteenth century. Rolland
d’Erceville analyses the inXuence of women at the time of the troubadours,
and their impact on the arts and sciences. He looks beyond the conWnes of
France and includes information on women throughout Europe. Of particular
interest are his chapters on the courts of love, and his detailed analysis
of works on the equality between the sexes. He also includes a
bibliography concerning the education of princes.
Rolland d’Erceville (1734–1794) was the Wrst president of the Chambre
de Requêtes of the Parlement de Paris.
Brunet 23212; Cioranescu 53906; Gay, III 939; INED 3889; ‘Ouvrage contenant
des détails curieux qui doivent le faire rechercher’ (Michaud); RLIN lists copies at
New York Public Library and the University of Michigan.