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

ences to standard authorities. The well-written and amusing treatise clearly
pinpoints the intricacies of legal argument. The attractive engraved frontispiece
shows the Wgure of justice attended by a fool and a merchant who
oVers a pinch of snuV.
Jantz 1338; RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Princeton, New York Public Library
and Duke University only.
292 STAEL-HOLSTEIN, Anne-Louise-Germaine de. Lettres sur
les Ouvrages et le Caractère de J. J. Rousseau. [n.p.], 1788. £1250
Tall 12mo, pp. iv, 127, [1] blank; contemporary half sheep over
marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; a Wne copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Mme de Staël’s Wrst published work, her critical
essay on Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Written before the Revolution, when
she was just 22 years old. Her enthusiasm for Rousseau, the idol of her
generation, is clearly in evidence. She looked upon him as a ‘kindred spirit,
for he, too, had been a misunderstood and persecuted genius’ (Spencer,
French Women and the Age of Enlightenment, p. 313.).
Lonchamp 3.1.
Introduction to Statistics
293 [STATISTICS. ANON.] Introduzione Elementare ad una
Teoria Statistica aggiunto un Quadro Statistico degli Stati Europei.
Pavia, Fusi e Compagno, 1826.
[bound with:] HASSEL, Quadro Statistico degli Stati Europei tratto
dal Manuale Statistico degli Stati Europei? Pavia, V. Fusi e Comp.
1825. £350
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. viii, 104; xvi, one large folding
printed table; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine ruled in
gilt, and gilt-lettered spine label; two minute worm-holes to spine, and
small portion missing at foot of spine; a Wne crisp copy, with
manuscript note to verso of title.
First edition and Wrst edition in Italian. The anonymous author gives an
account of the history of statistics, and lists early reports containing statistical
information. All the main names of early statistics are mentioned, and
the main development of statistical investigation since Achenwall is documented
in a proper bibliography listing some sixty titles, mostly translations
from German, but also some Italian, French and English titles. An
introduction to statistical method follows, clearly distinguishing it from related
Welds, and a discussion of relevant Welds for statistical investigation,
such as geography, history, politics and political economy. A Wnal section
gives a comparative account of the organising systems of Schlözer, Gioja,
Zizius and Klotz.
I. not found in NUC or RLIN; II. Goldsmiths’–Kress 2446.9, no further copies in
RLIN and NUC.
Bavarian Fine Printing
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294 [STATUTES – BAVARIA.] Bairische LanndtsOrdnung.
[verso:] In disem Buch Bayrischer Landsordnung seind begriVen die
gmainen Landpot Satzung und Gepreuch des Fürstenthumbs Obern
unnd Nidern Bayern. [colophon:] Ingolstadt, [A. Weißenhorn],
1553. £3500
Folio, ll. [ix] including full-page title woodcut, cxcvii (with two section
titles bound in after l. 18 and l. 125), [xx] register, one full-page woodcut
of crayWsh and three folding leaves with six double-page woodcuts
illustrating ten life-size Wsh; decorative woodcut initials; printed
throughout in red and black; ll. ii with repair to lower and gutter
margin; occasional light spotting and browning; fore-margins occasionally
slightly frayed and dust-soiled; small hole to l. 184, with loss of
two letters; endpapers removed; contemporary blind-stamped pigskin
over wooden boards, some soiling; spine in compartments, head and
foot of spine chipped; with remains of lower clasps, a few individual
worm- holes to lower board; bookplate to front paste-down and small
ink stamp to verso of title and last leaf; overall an attractive copy.
First edition of the 1553 Bavarian Statute-Book by which Duke Albrecht V
of Bavaria renewed and superseded the older Landrecht of 1516. The work
is a masterpiece of Bavarian book production and printing in the sixteenth
century. It contains the Wrst life-like and life-size Wsh illustrations in Germany
(Belon’s L’Histoire naturelle des estranges Poisons Marins appeared in
Paris in 1551). The Wsh illustrated are trout, carp, pike, etc and depict the
minimum size any caught Wsh had to be in order to be lawfully sold or
eaten. This size limitation had been introduced to stop the over-Wshing of
Wsh before they were fully-grown.
BM STC German 71; VD 16 B 1034.
Guild Rules in Brescia
295 [STATUTES – BRESCIA.] Statuti della Mercanzia di Brescia
e suo Distretto con Aggiunta della Versione Italiana del Latino
Testo, non che di Ducali, Decreti, e Giudizj concernenti Privilegj
della detta Mercanzia e delle Parti e Provisioni relative al Governo
della Medesima il tutto arricchito di accurate Tavole, e d’Indice
copiose dell Materie. Brescia, Bossini, 1788. £1200
4to, pp. xvi, 254; engraved head- and tail-pieces; mostly printed in
double columns; contemporary boards, spine lettered in manuscript;
corners a little bumped and some light dust-soiling to boards; a Wne
copy.
First edition of the rules and regulations governing trade and commerce in
the city and province of Brescia. The statutes are of particular interest in that
they include the rules of the guilds, including training, poor relief and de-