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prize-worthy products or inventions. A further section lists those whose
inventions received an ‘honourable mention’, again with details of production.
A speech in praise of industrial exhibitions by the minister of the
interior concludes the work. The prize winners came from a wide range
of industries: textile industry, including linen, silk, and cotton weaving;
mechanical engineering; scientiWc and medical instruments; but also food
and wine production. Throughout Europe governments subsidized and
encouraged industrial exhibitions in the hope of stimulating industrialisation
and exports. Prizes were given and reports published to extend the
impact of the exhibition beyond its actual running time. The Wrst record of
an exhibition report for Milan is apparently for 1808.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 20257.5 lists an earlier report of 1810, not found in Einaudi
or Mattioli; Carpenter European Industrial Exhibitions before 1851 and their Publications,
p. 483 lists only later reports for anywhere in Italy.
60 ITH, Johann Samuel. Versuch einer Anthropologie oder
Philosophie des Menschen nach seinen körperlichen Anlagen. Erster
Theil [–Zweyter Theil]. Bern, Emanuel Haller, 1794. £550
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 308, [4]; viii, 354, [5] contents and
errata; contemporary half calf, spine ruled in gilt, with blue gilt-lettered
spine label, marbled boards; a very attractive set.
First edition of this important contribution to the study of anthropology,
the philosophy of the human being according to his corporal disposition,
Johann Samuel Ith’s main work. Ith was one of the main representatives of
romantic anthropology. According to v. Humboldt he attempts to describe
in it Wrst ‘what is corporal, physiological, then the spiritual, psychological,
and then the human being in relation to physical objects around him’. Ith’s
studies proved a major inXuence on v. Humboldt’s work on comparative
anthropology.
The Swiss philosopher, theologian and anthropologist Ith (1747–1813)
studied at Göttingen and Berlin, and later returned to Bern to teach at
the Academy. Here he became involved in the reform of the Bern school
system.
ADB XIV, 643 V; NDB X, 203; see Petermann, Geschichte der Ethnologie, p. 282.
Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
61 [JOLY, Maurice.] Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et
Montesquieu ou La Politique de Machiavel au XIXe siècle. Brussels,
A. Mertens et Wls, 1864. £650
8vo, pp. [iv], [iv] advertisement, 337, [1] blank, [1] errata;
contemporary half red roan over marbled boards, spine gilt in
compartments, corners worn and extremities rubbed; section cut
oV from front free endpaper, with nineteenth century ownership
inscription to title and verso of half-title.
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