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

310 [TOCQUEVILLE, Alixis de and Gustave de la Bonninière
BEAUMONT.] Amerika’s Besserungs-System, und dessen Anwendung
auf Europa. Mit einem Anhange über Straf-Ansiedelungen und
zwei und zwanzig Beilagen. Aus dem Französischen ... nebst
Erweiterungen und Zusätzen von Dr. A. H. Julius. Mit vier
Kupfertafeln, Berlin, T. C. F. Enslin, 1833. £700
8vo, pp. xxxviii, 458, [1] errata, 1 folding table in the text, 4 folding
engraved plates bound at end; paper Xaw to margin of p. 333, loss of a
few letters; uncut in the original pale blue wrappers; spine label lettered
in manuscript; extremities a little rubbed, and dog-eared; a good copy.
First edition in German of Beaumont and de Tocqueville’s important study
on the American penal system, Wrst published in French the same year.
In America a radically new system of prisons had evolved. Up to then
large numbers of inmates had been crowded into large rooms, but the
Pennsylvanians advocated a separate cell for each oVender, cutting him oV
from communication with his fellow criminals. This system was soon opposed
as costly and challenged by an alternative system named after the
prison in Auburn, which emphasized solitary conWnement at night but
communal work during the day, under the strict rule of silence. Both systems
are described and analysed in great length and the report is supplemented
by detailed statistics, giving both information on distribution of
crimes, severity of sentences, and ratio of sentences served, and an account
of the Wnancial beneWts of the Auburn system.
The work proved immensely inXuential in Europe. There were a number
of French editions, an English translation, and this German translation.
This German edition is of particular value, since it includes extensive original
information on poor laws and their administration in both Germany
and America. The translator Nicolaus Heinrich Julius (1783–1862) became
a leading advocate of prison reform, and eventually succeeded in introducing
prison reform in Prussia and other German states.
Sabin 4192; for further information on penology see ESS and on Julius see Teeters,
N. K. They were in prison, 1937, pp. 193 n.
Smoke-free Chimneys
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311 TOFFOLI, Bartolommeo. Saggio di una nuova Forma
di Cammini che non fumano. Padova, Stamperia del Seminario,
1790. £300
8vo, pp. 49, [1], 1 folding engraved plate bound at end; title within
decorative border; some light browning and dust-soiling; uncut in the
original wrappers, some damp-staining to wrappers; with decorative
initial stamp to foot of title page.
First and only edition of an attractive and well-illustrated treatise on an improved
chimney design, to avoid smoke-Wlled rooms, and, with the help of
heat ducts, use the Wreplace also as an oven for heating the house. ToVoli
(1755–1834) gives detailed test reports of various chimney designs installed,
and illustrates his perfected design on the engraved plate. He concludes
with a commentary on recently published reports on smoke-free
wood or charcoal in use in classical antiquity.
Just the Harvard copy recorded in RLIN and OCLC.
The End of the Napoleonic Wars
312 [TREATY OF PARIS.] Traité de Paix au nom de la Très-
Sainte et Indivisible Trinité. Fait a Paris, 30 Mai 1814. [extrait du
Moniteur, Paris, 1. June, 1814]. £450
8vo, pp. 15; with French Royal seal at head; uncut sheet, folded; a Wne
copy.
First public edition of the Treaty of Paris, the peace treaty between France on
the one hand and Great Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia on the other after
the abdication of Napoleon. The treaty conWrmed France in the borders of
1792, and guaranteed the return of all the French colonies save Tobago, St.
Lucia and Mauritius by England. This lenient outcome was chieXy due to the
diplomatic skill of Talleyrand, who had engineered the restoration of Louis
XVIII to the French Throne. The Congress of Vienna, to negotiate the territorial
settlement in Europe, was called for the following year.
OCLC and RLIN list Florida State University only, together with two provincial
printings.
Historical Lexicography
313 TRENCH, Richard Chenevix. A select Glossary of English
Words used formerly in Senses diVerent from their Present.
London, John W. Parker, 1859. £90
12mo, pp. xii, 232, [4] advertisements; contemporary blind-stamped
ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, head and tail of spine a little worn;
private engraved bookplate on front pastedown.
First edition of Trench’s glossary. His dictionary is one of the Wrst examples