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

4to, pp. xvi, 218, xvii–xx (misbound end of the preliminaries), [2]
advertisements, with one large folding engraved table and several
printed tables in the text; occasionally lightly spotted, one fold of
the table browned, and two leaves with marginal coVee spots; well
preserved in contemporary glazed boards, spine ruled in gilt, modern
lettering piece; contemporary ownership-inscription in ink and note
of price of the book, and of the binding to title, manuscript shelfmark
number on rear endpaper.
First edition of a general theory of accountancy and book-keeping, the result
of a prize question posed by the Austrian Emperor in 1812, deploring
the lack of a single work covering all Welds of economic mathematics. The
Emperor further requested that the work should serve as a textbook for
schools and also give an outline of book-keeping for merchants, bankers,
landowners and civil servants in the ministry of Wnance. Johann von Puteani
had submitted this work and when no response was forthcoming, he
decided to have it published by Gerold and be judged by the public. He
explains methods and gives examples for establishing and listing assets and
their commercial values, compiling inventories, assessing liabilities, estimating
income of businesses, managing accounts, budgeting, and drawing
up balance sheets.
The large folding table displays the relations of prices of diVerent groups
of natural materials, goods and products in an economic system, ranging
from natural building stone or leather goods to fertilizers, tar, potassium,
iron and glass – all seen in relation to labour as well.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 22036.18; Humpert 2955; Historical Accounting Literature, p.
47; OCLC locates copies at Indiana, Hillsdale College, and Georgetown University.
The First Statement of Italian Unity – Swift’s Modest Proposal
96 RADICATI, Alberto, comte de Passeran. Recueil de Pieces
curieuses sur les Matières les plus intéressantes. Rotterdam, chez la
Veuve Thomas Johnson et Fils [possibly The Hague], 1736. £1000
8vo, pp. x, 14, [ii], [15]–384; title page vignette and typographic headand
tail-pieces; some light foxing and browning; contemporary full
calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, rebacked with
original spine laid down, short split to foot of upper joint; a good copy.
First edition, rare, of a central text of the European Enlightenment. Radicati
de Passerano, a Piedmontese nobleman had been exiled from Italy for
his attempt to carry to its logical conclusion the conXict between state and
church. He wanted to establish more Wrmly the control of political over
ecclesiastical power, and expressed this demand in his Discours moraux, historiques
et politiques. He pursued his vision of a ‘perfect democracy’, in which
church and state, government and society would be so fused as to render
men happy and equal in nobility, in power and in wealth. But his proposals
proved too radical for Victor Amadeus II, and Radicati was forced into
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