Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFFO, Ireneo - Schulz-Falster Rare ...
Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFFO, Ireneo - Schulz-Falster Rare ...
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Le Gallois presents a virtual tour of libraries around Europe and beyond,<br />
po<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g out their history, highlights <strong>in</strong> their hold<strong>in</strong>gs, and other notable<br />
<strong>in</strong>formation. The early chapters, cover<strong>in</strong>g <strong>Hebrew</strong>, Egyptian, Phoenician,<br />
Greek and Roman libraries amongst others, are more historical, and give<br />
general <strong>in</strong>formation on book collect<strong>in</strong>g and libraries. The later sections on<br />
‘modern’ libraries cover <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>dividual chapters both private and public libraries<br />
<strong>in</strong> the Nordic countries, Flanders and Holland, Germany, France,<br />
Italy and especially the Vatican, Spa<strong>in</strong>, but also extend beyond Europe and<br />
cover Ch<strong>in</strong>a, Japan, Ethiopia, and Turkey (both Mohamedan and Christian<br />
libraries). As Le Gallois writes <strong>in</strong> the preface, the purpose of the publication<br />
is two-fold, on the one hand he wants to draw attention to famous<br />
collections, at the same time he wants to provide a service to travell<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>in</strong>dividuals.<br />
Le Gallois concludes with some advice on book collect<strong>in</strong>g and the choice<br />
of books <strong>in</strong> general. He does not come down speciWcally on either side of<br />
the debate of small choice collections versus large comprehensive libraries,<br />
but ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s that it depends on circumstance and research needs. ‘In the<br />
choice of books regard must be had to the Edition, Character, Paper, and<br />
B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g’ ... as for price, he mocks those, who choose items just for their<br />
‘exorbitant price’.<br />
A second edition of the English version was published <strong>in</strong> 1740.<br />
ESTCt34411; see Bigmore & Wyman I 239 for French edition.<br />
Are State-run Lotteries Illegal or Just Immoral?<br />
72 [LOTTERY.] Ueber die Rechtmässigkeit der Lotterien,<br />
<strong>in</strong>sbesonderheit der Zahlenlotterien. E<strong>in</strong> pro und contra vom Hrn.<br />
Geh. Justizrath Pütter und von e<strong>in</strong>em Ungenannten. 1781. £680<br />
8vo, pp. 76, with two pr<strong>in</strong>ted fold<strong>in</strong>g tables; Wnal table browned<br />
due to paper quality, else clean; contemporary green boards, sp<strong>in</strong>e<br />
label, rema<strong>in</strong>s of shelf-mark to foot of sp<strong>in</strong>e, sp<strong>in</strong>e a little rubbed and<br />
discoloured, a good copy.<br />
First edition of this response to Pütter’s contribution on the legality of lotteries,<br />
a brief pamphlet published the year before. The anonymous author<br />
basically repr<strong>in</strong>ts Pütter’s orig<strong>in</strong>al, with an extensive runn<strong>in</strong>g commentary.<br />
He ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s that Pütter had only cited all the arguments aga<strong>in</strong>st lotteries,<br />
rather than giv<strong>in</strong>g a balanced view, even though he does agree with the<br />
general rejection of lotteries on moral grounds.<br />
The debate had been caused by the spread<strong>in</strong>g of the ‘Lotto di Genova’<br />
all over Europe, <strong>in</strong>troduced and sanctioned by the governments, and open<br />
to all, oVer<strong>in</strong>g a chance of life-chang<strong>in</strong>g w<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>gs to the general public<br />
and not just the rich. By the second half of the century concern about the<br />
supposed excessive earn<strong>in</strong>gs of the ‘entrepreneurs’ who were runn<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
lotteries <strong>in</strong>creased. Lotteries had been run on diVerent Wnancial schemes<br />
either rental, share or wage contracts, with vary<strong>in</strong>g contractual arrange-<br />
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