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Franckfurt am Mayn, Johann Leonhard Buchner, 1730. £750
4to, pp. [xii], 216; woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces; paper
very lightly browned, else clean; full contemporary sprinkled calf, sides
ruled in blind; spine in compartments; some superWcial worm traces to
upper board; a good copy.
First edition of this comprehensive practical treatise on bankruptcy law,
designed to collect the assets of the debtor with the intention of selling
them and distributing the proceeds equitably amongst the creditors. It was
only at the beginning of the eighteenth century that this view of bankruptcy
resolution came into being, and was transformed from the earlier quasi
criminal proceeding to a liquidating device.
The present treatise gives a brief general introduction into the question,
reprints a couple of earlier bankruptcy regulations, and then concentrates
on practical resolution of the liquidation. The main principle is the equitable
treatment of the creditors, but with a distinction between oYcial and
private creditors. The treatise is clearly designed for oYcials who have to
administer debt resolution and bankruptcy proceedings. Numerous individual
cases are discussed, and model resolutions are provided. There
are provisions for widows and children, who inadvertently got involved
in bankruptcy proceedings. The latter part of the work consists of tables,
where payments depending on an agreed percentage of the original debt
can be checked.
The treatise was clearly of use, as it was reprinted in 1757.
Not in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Humpert; a number of copies listed in German libraries,
no copies found in the US.
Climate and Human Development
17 BONSTETTEN, Charles-Victor de. L’Homme du Midi et
L’Homme du Nord, ou L’inXuence du Climat. Geneva, Paschoud,
Paris, 1824. £400
8vo, pp. [iv], xiii, [14]–234; contemporary roan-backed boards, spine
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; joints worn and head of spine
chipped.
First edition of Bonstetten’s best-known work, his much discussed anthropological
study of the inXuence of climate on human development. He
assesses the impact of variations in climate on agriculture, political structure,
religion, national character, education, and the economy. Despite his
broad-brush assessments of the more rational northerners and impulsive
southerners, his typology of national characters and psychology of the
people remains of interest.
Bonstetten (1745–1832), a Swiss writer and government oYcial, was
strongly inXuenced by Rousseau and Bonnet. Due to his liberal ideas he
catalogue fourteen