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

The First French Textbook for Basic Technical Education
270 SAINTE-PREUVE, Binet de. Notions les plus Essentielles
sur la Physique, la Chimie et les Machines, développées dans
l’Ordre du Programme OYciel en date du 18 Juillet 1837 Relatif
a l’Enseignment dans Les Écoles Normales Primaires. Paris,
L. Hachette, 1838. £500
12mo, pp. xii, 275, [1] table of contents, with four folding plates
bound at the end; some light damp-staining to lower corner;
contemporary green roan, sides and spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettering to
spine; from the Dietrichstein library.
First edition, uncommon, of what appears to be the Wrst school textbook in
French on machines and the machine question, the beginning of technical
education for primary schools. The textbook covers chemistry, physics and
basic technology. It is rather appealing that this textbook is published by
Hachette, even today the leading French publisher of school and university
textbooks.
Uncommon, not found in OCLC or RLIN.
Patent Remedy against Ill-Wtting Footwear
271 SAKOSKY, Albert. Formes et Embouchoirs Mécaniques,
propres à allonger, élargir et agrandir la Chaussure, suivant les incommodités
ou la conformation du pied: et pour lesquels l’Auteur
a obtenu in Brevet d’invention ... Paris, l’Auteurs, 1814. £250
8vo, pp. 15, [1] contents; modern boards.
First edition of this comprehensive description of a device to enlarge or
widen shoes to Wt the foot perfectly. Apparently a patent (Brevet
d’Invention) had been granted for this invention to Sakosky, bootmaker to
the Prussian king. Sakosky describes how the device operates, though, presumably
for fear of illegal copies, refrains from illustrating it. His device is
made to Wt the shape of the foot of each customer, and those customers who
cannot come to his workshop are invited to send a well-worn comfortable
shoe for Sakosky to make the necessary measurements.
KVK records just one copy, at the Wellcome Library; not found in NUC.
Spanish Investment in the Colonies
272 SANTA CRUZ de MARCENADO, Alvaro Navia Ossorio
Marques de. Comercio suelto, y en Companias general y particular,
en Mexico, Peru, Philipinas, y Moscovia: Poblacion, Fabricas,
Pesqueria, Plantios, Colonias en Africa: Empleo de Pobres, y de
Vagabundos. Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1732. £1800
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Small 8vo, pp. [xvi], 256; woodcut head and tail-pieces and initials;
contemporary full vellum, with the original ties and ebony buttons,
manuscript lettering to spine; a very attractive and fresh copy.
First edition, uncommon, of an interesting treatise on Spanish economics
by Navia Ossorio, Marques Santa Cruz de Marcenado, written in the form
of a dialogue between the author and a friend. Basically the work is a plea
for the improvement of economic infrastructure to counteract Spain’s
weakened position, and at the same time an attempt to encourage investment
in trading companies and colonial trade. Investment is particularly
targeted for South America and Africa.
Santa Cruz de Marcenado (1684–1732) had earlier published an extensive
military treatise under the title ReXexiones Militares, and some of the
military imagery and vocabulary are noticeable here too. He begins with the
maxim, that in war – just like in economics, three things are necessary:
‘money, money, money’. To protect free trade rather draconian measures
are proposed. Smuggling, for example, is to be met with the death penalty.
Colmeiro 354; Goldsmiths’–Kress 6980.6 (lacking the half-title); Palau 188832.
273 SAY, Jean-Baptiste. De l’Angleterre et des Anglais. Paris,
Arthus Bertrand & Londres, Berthoud, 1815. £850
8vo, pp. [iv], 56; uncut in the original buV wrappers; a Wne copy.
First edition of this critical assessment of the British economy at the beginning
of nineteenth century, written by one of the greatest economists of the
time. Less than impressed by the ‘British model’, Say pointed to the moral
corruption rife amongst both politicians and the population, stressed the
extreme material inequality and social hierarchy amongst the classes, and
pilloried the waste of production in luxury, needless expenditure and unproductive
labour. He also used his visit to meet many leading economists,
and was particularly impressed by Ricardo and Bentham.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 21109.
Economics the New Religion – Say’s Utopia
274 SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Olbie, ou Essai sur les Moyens de
Réformer les Moeurs d’une Nation ... Paris, Deterville, [1799/
1800]. £3200
8vo, pp. xi, [1], 132; entirely uncut in the original blue wrappers, foot
of spine strengthened; a Wne copy.
First edition of Say’s rare utopia – his second book, containing the beginnings
of his economic thought. In Olbie the basis of society is no longer
ethics but economics. ‘Having established that a good treatise on economic
theory should be the major moral book for society, the author naturally
looked to provide such a work for his country; Olbie anticipates the publication
of the Traité d’Economie politique which was to appear four years later