Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFFO, Ireneo - Schulz-Falster Rare ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

The Founder of the History of Ideas 117 VICO, Giambattista. Principj di Scienza Nuova ... d’Intorno alla Comune Natura delle Nazioni in questa terza impressione dal medesimo Autore in un gran numero di luoghi Corretta, Schiarita, e notabilment Accresciuta. Tomo I [–Tomo II]. Naples, Stamperia Muziana, 1744. £3800 Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, pp. [ii] frontispiece portrait, [xvi], [ii] allegoric engraved frontispiece, 376, one folding printed table bound in; [377]–526 [vere 516], [4] index; engraved title vignette; a few signatures lightly browned, due to paper stock, and faint marginal damp-stain to Wrst signature; contemporary paste-paper covered boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; corners a little bumped, but in all a very good copy. Third and deWnitive edition of Vico’s masterpiece, which had originally been published in 1725, rewritten for the second edition (1730), and further extensively revised for this one. Ahead of his time, Vico was neglected during his life and forgotten for years after his death, but his Scienza Nuova laid the foundations for many of the most important intellectual developments of the following two centuries. It was in this deWnitive edition, published in the year of Vico’s death, that his ideas became known. The Principi di una Scienza Nuova has been justly called ‘the vehicle by which the concept of historical development at last entered the thought of western Europe’ (PMM 184). It remains one of the most inXuential treatises in the history of ideas. The concept of a history of human ideas, the principles of a universal history and its philosophical criticism, a recognition of the importance of social classes all begin with Vico. Vico was the Wrst to formulate a systematic method for historical research. He revived the Greek concept that the course of history was subject to cyclical phases (corsi e ricorsi). This however did not indicate an upward or forward move towards perfection: according to Vico there exists in history a pattern which repeats itself in each civilisation, a storia ideale eterna. Just as the individual man passes through successive states, so does the history of civilisation. Croce I, p. 53, Gamba 2493; see Printing and the Mind of Man 184 for Wrst edition. The Best of All Possible Worlds – Very Rare First Edition of Candide 118 [VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.] Candide, ou l’Optimisme, traduit de l’allemand de Mr. le Docteur Ralph. [Geneva, Cramer], 1759. £18000 12mo, pp. 299; last few pages with minute repaired worm trace in blank margin, not aVecting text; stamp expertly removed from title page; nineteenth century crushed dark green morocco, spine susanne schulz-falster rare books
in compartments with gilt-lettering directly to spine, elaborate gilt dentelles, a.e.g.; book plate crudely removed from front paste-down; with bibliographical details in pencil on front free endpaper, and a bookseller description loosely pasted in; a good copy. First edition of Voltaire’s best-known work, his philosophical fable and epitome of the French Enlightenment, which has remained a classic of Western Civilisation, ‘for the optimistic, innocent Candide, and his equally guileless if more worldly-wise mentor, Dr Pangloss, and their delicious adventures, still command our attention. The folly of philosophic and religious optim- catalogue fourteen
Page 1 and 2:
Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFF
Page 3 and 4:
Square 12mo, pp. 102, [2] errata, w
Page 5 and 6:
From the mid-sixteenth century the
Page 7 and 8:
signature with very light dampstain
Page 9 and 10:
Fifty Remarkable Women - A Discussi
Page 11 and 12:
On Generation 14 BLUMENBACH, Johann
Page 13 and 14:
jedem das ihm zukommende Quantum na
Page 15 and 16:
of older books and recent publicati
Page 17 and 18:
of the engraving studio and the cop
Page 19 and 20:
First and apparently only edition o
Page 21 and 22:
25 COLPANI, Giuseppe. I Sensi. Scio
Page 23 and 24:
Comenius (1592-1670) was the pionee
Page 25 and 26:
8vo, pp. [ii], 41, [7] blank, [96],
Page 27 and 28:
With the Arms of the Altieri Family
Page 29 and 30:
A detailed contents list at the end
Page 31 and 32:
In the second treatise he discusses
Page 33 and 34:
First and apparently only edition o
Page 35 and 36:
First edition of a curious language
Page 37 and 38:
et Imprimerie de Gillé Wls. Exposi
Page 39 and 40:
J. A. Pasteur, who himself issued a
Page 41 and 42:
8vo, pp. 46; uncut in contemporary
Page 43 and 44:
and the banking system). Of particu
Page 45 and 46:
First edition, rare, of this compre
Page 47 and 48:
Ermahnung deren vornehmsten und gel
Page 49 and 50:
8vo, pp. xii, 333, [1] errata, with
Page 51 and 52: prize-worthy products or inventions
Page 53 and 54: It is interesting to note that this
Page 55 and 56: First edition in French of Kant’s
Page 57 and 58: Ice Cream, Marzipan, Liqueur, and P
Page 59 and 60: paid in the past, were still out of
Page 61 and 62: Le Gallois presents a virtual tour
Page 63 and 64: the English system.’ (Carpanetto
Page 65 and 66: and then in detailed subject groupi
Page 67 and 68: the Wrst edition was privately publ
Page 69 and 70: Mirabeau’s Library - Incorporatin
Page 71 and 72: 1776 as an appendix to Restif de la
Page 73 and 74: are on oVer, German law and statecr
Page 75 and 76: on hospital statistics. She and Far
Page 77 and 78: handsome woodcuts include amphora o
Page 79 and 80: The work was written between 1734 a
Page 81 and 82: mine a person’s mental faculties.
Page 83 and 84: the Wrst, and earliest, book in the
Page 85 and 86: exile. Even in England his radical
Page 87 and 88: of journal contributions, both well
Page 89 and 90: oth direct translations of Persian
Page 91 and 92: education for primary schools. The
Page 93 and 94: First edition, uncommon, of this un
Page 95 and 96: First Edition of Adam Smith’s Fir
Page 97 and 98: 111 SONNENFELS, Aloys von. Controve
Page 99 and 100: Upstairs - Downstairs The Servants
Page 101: decorative wrappers; spine a little
Page 105 and 106: show what Englishmen thought. Much
Page 107 and 108: Not found in Kress or Goldsmiths’
Page 109 and 110: The Practicalities of Writing 125 [
Page 111 and 112: The Origin of Hebrew 127 ZENDRINI,
show all

Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFFO, Ireneo - Schulz-Falster Rare ...

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?