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First and apparently only edition of an interesting compilation of all the
deeds and legal documents relating to a particular house and grounds in
Paris from 1644. In minute detail every change of ownership, change of use
and modiWcation of the building and the adjoining land of no. 12, rue de
Rochefoucault is documented, and is thus of great interest to architectural
and legal historians alike. The property changed ownership through sale,
inheritance, and division. It seems astonishing how often the property was
in fact sold oV. Early documents allowing the building of fences and walls
are also included, as are local tax obligations, and exact Wnancial details of
later property transactions.
This curious publication was written by the Marquis de Fortia d’Urban
(1756–1843), the owner of the property in the early nineteenth century.
Descending from one of the oldest Catalan families, he excelled as a student
at the Paris military academy. However, instead of pursuing a military
career, he spent his life as an independent writer, historian and scientist,
and was a member of numerous literary and scientiWc societies. He wrote
on history, mathematics and geography, among them a well-known history
of China.
OCLC lists no copies in America, and just two copies in Paris libraries.
In Praise of Middle Class Civic Values
39 [FREDERICK THE GREAT.] Discorso fatto per suo
passatempo dall M. di F. il. G. R. di P... Fantasianopoli, 1760. £500
4to, pp. 26, large engraved vignette on title; contemporary pale red
vellum; a Wne copy, with manuscript note tipped in on front pastedown.
First edition in Italian of Frederick the Great’s satirical funeral oration on
the death of the cobbler and shoemaker Jacob Mathias Reinold, translated
from the French by the Italian Enlightenment philosopher, the count
Algarotti. Frederick used the occasion to praise his workmanship, dedication
and honesty, and, by extension, bourgeois civic values. He combined it
with an underlying criticism of the corruption of the aristocracy.
Melzi 1848; rare, OCLC lists copies at UCLA and Toronto.
Salami Rvvvvvecipes in Verse
40 [FRIZZI, Antonio.] La Salameide, poemetto giocoso con le
note. Venice, Guglielmo Zerletti, 1772. £1000
8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and title page, pp. [viii], 135, [1]
blank; Wnely engraved vignette to title page and at head of the main
text; uncut in the original buV boards; spine a little rubbed, and head
and tail of spine chipped; small private library stamp to foot of title; a
good copy.
First edition of a charming work, a light-hearted eighteenth century heroic
poem dedicated to the ‘salamina’, the little sausage, by the Ferrara historian
catalogue fourteen