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spine gilt in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, some surface abrasions to boards, bottom of upper joint tender; an attractive copy, with a few pencil markings; manuscript note to front pastedown identifying Morellet as the translator. First edition in French, rare, of Beccaria’s Ricerche intorno alla Natura dello Stile, his main contribution to philosophy and aesthetics. The translation was prepared by Morellet, who also translated his Dei Delitti e delle Pene, Beccaria’s inXuential work on criminology which revolutionized the modern penal system. Beccaria discusses in detail the relationship between form and content. He had included a preliminary article on the subject in the periodical Il Caffè. His concept of ideas or sentiments is clearly based on seventeenthcentury sensationalist philosophy. In the tradition of Vico, he identiWes ‘primitive’ style, as the most forceful and immediate. Beccaria rejected the archaisms and rhetoric of the Vocabolario della Crusca in favour of a language closer to common usage. Manuppella 292; uncommon, OCLC lists copies at New York Public Library, Chicago, Princeton and the University of British Columbia. Physical Anthropology – Physiology and Human Development 11 BERNOULLI, Christoph. Versuch einer physischen Anthropologie oder Darstellung des physischen Menschen nach den neuern Ansichten. Erster Theil. Physiologie oder Naturlehre des erwachsenen Menschen. [– Zweyter Theil. Entwickelungsgeschichte und Naturgeschichte des Menschen]. Halle, Hemmerde & Schwetschke, 1804. £550 Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, pp. [xiv], 285, [1]; [vi], 248; contemporary marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed and corners bumped, still an attractive copy. First edition of Bernoulli’s introduction to physical anthropology, with the Wrst volume dealing with human physiology, the second with the development of the physical person with reference to stages in human development. The Wnal part contains the natural history of man, with a curious chapter analysing the adaptability of man by comparing the physiology of an equatorial African with that of an inhabitant of the polar regions. The Swiss natural scientist Christoph Bernoulli (1782–1862), descended from the famous Basel Bernoulli family, studied at Göttingen and taught school at Halle, before returning to Basel, where he founded a technical institute. By 1818 he became professor at the university of Basel, Wrst of natural history, later of industrial sciences, and published extensively on natural science and social statistics. NDB II, p. 129; ADB II, p. 483; OCLC lists copies at Berkeley, Chicago, Countway Library, and New York. susanne schulz-falster rare books
Fifty Remarkable Women – A Discussion between ‘Truth’ and ‘Fame’ 12 BETUSSI, Giuseppe. Le Imagini del Tempio della Signora Donna Giovanna Aragona. Dialogo di M. Giuseppe Betussi. Venice, Giovanni de Rossi, 1557. £2250 8vo, ll. 52; contemporary limp vellum, spine faintly lettered in ink, early circular private heraldic stamp to title, shelf mark in ink to verso of front free endpaper. Second edition (Wrst published in Florence the previous year) of these dialogues between ‘Truth’ and ‘Fame’ on contemporary womanhood. In the temple erected to the glory of Joan of Aragon, a noblewoman of famed charm and courage, whose beauty was celebrated in the famous portrait by Raphael, Wfty contemporary women remarkable for their poetic achievements and their virtue are praised. Amongst those praised for their literary achievements are Lucia Bertani, Laodemia Forteguerri, Virginia Salvi, Alda Lunati, Francesca Baldi, Ippolita Gonzaga, Livia Borromeo Tornieli and Leonora Falletti Ravoira among others. The women’s achievements are outlined in the dialogue. Betussi concludes with a listing of the women whose portraits are included, of the women celebrated in the dialogue, a table of those who preserved the portraits, a table of contents, and Wnally a letter from Betussi to the ‘virtuous’ ladies. catalogue fourteen
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