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

First edition of this study of thought and the thinking process by the scientist
Belgrado (1704–1789), a professor of mathematics and physics at the
university of Parma. Quoting from Locke, WolV, ‘sGravesande and others,
Belgrado studies the concept of ‘ideas’, before concentrating on the ‘thinking
process’, and the speed and fecundity of ideas. Belgrado even proposes a
test to measure the number of ideas within a speciWed time span.
DBI VII, 574; not found in NUC, where many of his other works are recorded;
RLIN lists two copies, at Berkeley and at Harvard.
Fertilisers in Agriculture
27 [BENEKENDORF, Carl Friedrich von.] Sistematischpraktische
Abhandlung der Lehre von richtiger Bedüngung der
Felder nebst einem genauen Verzeichnis aller möglichen sowohl
gewöhnlichen, als künstlichen Düngungsarten, wobey zugleich ein
gründlicher Unterricht von ihrere Vermehrung oder bequemen
AnschaVung, Zubereitung, Wirkung und richtigen Anwendung
mitgetheilt wird. Küstrin, Ferdinand Oehmigcke, 1784. £550
8vo, pp. 222; very clean and crisp in contemporary light blue boards,
spine label lettered in manuscript.
First edition of this comprehensive treatise on the use of fertilisers in agriculture.
Benekendorf advocates a more scientiWc approach to the use of fertilising
materials, and advocates, in addition to animal manure, the use of
‘artiWcial’ fertilisers. DiVerent kinds of animal manure are analysed with regard
to their eYciency and cost eVectiveness. In the second part he discusses
simple and composite ‘artiWcial’ fertilisers, such as marl, ash, lye, potash,
lime, horn and wood shavings etc. What distinguishes him from other writers
of the period is his scientiWc approach to the use of the aids, with a clear
view on the Wnancial implications.
ADB II, p. 324; not found in Kress or Goldsmiths’, or NUC (lists only his
Oeconomia Forensis – MH only).
28 [BERAINVILLE, Person de.] Etrennes patriotiques ou recueil
anniversaire d’allegories sur les Epoques du Regne de Louis XVI.
Première Suite. Paris, Desnos, 1778.
[bound with:] Le Secretaire des Dames et des M ou Dépositeur
Wdèle. £500
18mo, ll. 18, with 9 engravings by Voysard, text also engraved, pp. 96
(secretaire), [12] calendar 1778; contemporary full red vellum, sides
with triple gilt rule, gilt edges, with fore-edge pin-slots, later stylus.
Ingenious little calendar, with specially prepared paper that can be written
on with a stylus, and wiped oV up to twenty times with the help of a dampened
cloth.
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten
29 [BERGK, Johann Adam attr.] Taschenbuch der Wunder und
Seltenheiten in der Natur, der Kunst und im Menschenleben. Erstes
Bändchen. [all published]. Mit 12 Kupfern. Leipzig, Baumgärtner,
1818. £550
Square 8vo, pp. xiv, 273, [1] errata, [12] advertisements; with 12
engraved plates, one of them folding; some light foxing; original
printed wrappers; a little dog-eared; with contemporary circular library
stamp to title.
First and only edition of this short-lived periodical on natural curiosities,
inexplicable phenomena and magic attributed to Bergk. Clearly aimed at
the popular market, the publication collects some ninety-six brief articles on
curious or strange phenomena, some from the medical Weld, such as
terratological births, dwarfs etc, which are illustrated on the plates, or somnambulists.
Others describe curious incidents from far-Xung countries, the
African slave trade, a crocodile hunt – both illustrated with striking images,
and strange Englishmen: John Bigg, the Denton hermit, and the dwarfs
Andreas Whiston and Owen Farrel.
Not in Krieg; KVK, RLIN and OCLC locate copies at the California State Library,
and two in Germany; no further issues appear to have been published.