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Susanne <strong>Schulz</strong>-<strong>Falster</strong><br />
RARE BOOKS<br />
22 Compton Terrace, London N1 2UN<br />
tel: + 44 20 7704 9845, fax: +44 20 7354 4202<br />
sfalster@btinternet.com www.schulz-falster.com<br />
The Antiquarian Book Fair Olympia 2008 Stand 118<br />
Olympia 2, Hammersmith Road, London W14 8UX<br />
Thursday 5 June 4pm – 9pm<br />
Friday 6 June 11am – 7pm<br />
Saturday 7 June 11am – 6pm<br />
Exercising is Fun and Games<br />
1.<br />
ABÉCÉDAIRE GYMNASTIQUE. Description des Jeux de l'Enfance<br />
les plus Propres a Développer ses Facultés Physiques, pour servir<br />
d'Abécédaire Gymnastique. Ornée de 26 gravures. Lyon, M.me V.e<br />
Buynand née Bruyset, 1813. £ 980<br />
12mo, half-title, title and pp. 5-72, title within engraved border, ith<br />
engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title and four engraved<br />
plates (each divided in to two columns and three rows to give six<br />
separate illustrations); ome browning and staining, never heavy. Uncut<br />
except at head with plentiful outer and lower margins; modern calf<br />
backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; although not in the<br />
original binding (presumably wrappers) very well preserved and mostly<br />
clean and crisp.<br />
First edition of this attractive work on exercise, in the style of the great Gutsmuths,<br />
but here included in a little pocket primer for school children - both novel and<br />
appealing. The work begins with three pages of handwriting exercises, followed by<br />
nine related to grammar and a further two instructing the child in the rules of<br />
punctuation. The 26 sports, games and exercises are then discussed in detail and with<br />
reference to the engravings. The work ends with five pages of arithmetic and<br />
numbers and two of proverbs.<br />
The attractive illustrations, which nearly all include some kind of background, show<br />
young boys running, jumping, vaulting, playing leapfrog, wrestling, pole climbing,<br />
walking on stilts, see-sawing, playing with a ball, skipping, bowling a hoop, spinning<br />
a top, flying a kite, and playing blind-man's buff, as well as ice skating, dancing,<br />
swimming and playing boulles. The frontispiece shows boys playing a game of what
appears to be team tag, whilst the additional title bears a vignette of boys and girls<br />
on a hand-turned round-a-bout of the chair-a-plane sort.<br />
The Most Famous German Book of Professions - with 280 Engraved Plates<br />
2.<br />
ABRAHAM A S. CLARA. [Megerle, Ulrich.] Etwas für alle, Das ist<br />
eine kurtze Beschreibung allerley Stands- Ambts- und Gewerbs-<br />
Personen, mit beygedruckter Sittlichen Lehre und Biblischen<br />
Concepten. Würzburg, Hiob Hertzen, [volume II and III: Martin<br />
Frantz Hertz], 1711, 1711, 1737. £ 6000<br />
Three volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 532, [12] contents,<br />
with 100 engraved plates; engraved frontispiece, pp. [xii], 793, [39]<br />
contents, with 77 numbered plates; engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 886,<br />
[ii], 887-974, [30] with 103 engraved plates; in all 280 engraved plates; all<br />
titles printed in red and black; occasional very light browning, due to<br />
paper quality; some of the plates in weak impressions, but<br />
predominantly fine; contemporary full sheep, spines in compartments,<br />
with raised bands, elaborately decorated in gilt, matching lettering and<br />
numbering pieces; a very attractive set.<br />
First edition of volume II, second edition of volumes I and III, of the most famous<br />
German book of professions, trades and artisans, with nearly three hundred<br />
engraved plates showing different professions at work, in their traditional costume<br />
and surrounded by their tools or equipment. The plates are by Weigel after designs<br />
by Jan and Caspar Luiken.<br />
The volumes are a fascinating source of information both on the costumes of<br />
representatives of different trades, but also their equipment and workshop<br />
surroundings. Many of the scenes were drawn from life by Luiken, and thus preserve<br />
a lifelike immediacy. Professions include printer, bookbinder, type caster, musical<br />
instrument maker, as well as carpenter, bricklayer and builder. Professions like<br />
doctor, dentist and lawyer are also included. The engraved plates are accompanied<br />
by extensive chapters in prose, outlining the relationship of each craft to God and the<br />
divine world plan. In addition to traditional professions and trades, Abraham a Santa<br />
Clara also includes gamblers, acrobats and tobacco twisters.<br />
Abraham a Santa Clara (1644-1709), an Augustinian friar and preacher, was the<br />
author of numerous books of popular knowledge, presented with wit and humour.<br />
They showed the influence of Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools). More<br />
than a century later his fellow-Svabian Schiller summed up his verdict in a letter to<br />
Goethe: 'This Father Abraham is a man of wonderful originality, whom we must<br />
respect, and it would be an interesting, though not at all an easy task to approach or<br />
surpass him in mad wit and cleverness'.<br />
It is rare to find all three volumes together, complete with all plates and in a<br />
contemporary binding.
Bertsche 38a -5, 56 a-2, 57a-1; Dünnhaupt 146, 35 II.1 and 35.III.1; Faber du Faur 1118-<br />
1120; Jantz 313, 314; RLIN/OCLC record copies at the University of Chicago,<br />
Columbia, Berkeley (volume I only), Duke, the Library of Congress, the University of<br />
Philadelphia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a Dutch version was published<br />
later.<br />
Natural History Specimen Book<br />
3.<br />
ALLOM, Elizabeth Anne. The Seaweed Collector, an introduction to<br />
the study of the marine algae, with directions from practical<br />
observations of the best method of collecting and drying the weed.<br />
Illustrated with natural specimens from the shores of Margate and<br />
Ramsgate. Margate, T. H. Keble, 1841. £ 750<br />
Square 12mo, pp. 102, [2] errata, with 42 mounted specimens; some offsetting<br />
from the specimens, else clean; green original publisher's cloth,<br />
with title blocked in gilt on upper board, within blind-stamped border,<br />
binding a little rubbed; with the book-plate and signature of William<br />
Wallford, dated August 1855.<br />
First edition, very uncommon, of this charming natural history specimen book, with<br />
forty-two seaweed specimens included. All the varieties of seaweed to be found on<br />
the coast in Margate and Ramsgate are described and accompanied by a specimen,<br />
with the exception of a few which were deemed to be too common or too large for<br />
inclusion. The book was compiled by Elizabeth Jane Allom, a life-long resident of<br />
Margate. She later published a volume of verse (1844) and a juvenile handbook,<br />
entitled Sea-side pleasures (1845).<br />
One copy at Oxford, no further copies found in KVK, OCLC, NSTC etc.<br />
Presentation Copy by Ampère to his Son<br />
4.<br />
AMPÈRE, André-Marie. Essai sur la Philosophie des Sciences, ou<br />
Exposition analytique d'une Classification naturelle de toutes les<br />
Connaissances Humaines. Paris, Bachelier, 1834. £ 1600<br />
8vo, pp. lxxx, 272, 1 fold-out printed plate with two tables bound at the<br />
end; some staining to head of half title; occasional browning and light<br />
spotting, due to paper stock; contemporary roan-backed marbled<br />
boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; with presentation inscription in<br />
ink by Ampère.
First edition of the work Ampère regarded as the 'capstone' of his work, and which<br />
contains some of his most interesting reflections on psychology and philosophy,<br />
presented to his son.<br />
In this significant work Ampère attempts to align his scientific discovery with his<br />
philosophy of the classification of the science. Not content with the mere description,<br />
he endeavours to explain the origin of complex conscious phenomena through the<br />
blending and association of simpler elements.<br />
Published just two years before his death, the work 'seems at first glance to be a<br />
fantastic and uncorrelated list of possible objects of investigation. If Ampère's<br />
philosophical views are attended to, however, they all fall into a rather simple<br />
pattern' (DSB). This pattern, which divides each science into fourfold divisions and is<br />
carefully explained by L. Pearce Williams in DSB, depends on the interrelation of<br />
undeniable phenomena and 'noumena', the objective causes of phenomena.<br />
Noumena, according to Ampère, are known through the activity of the mind, which<br />
hypothesizes certain real, material entities whose properties can be used to account<br />
for phenomena. These two aspects of reality, however, are not all that we can know.<br />
We also can know relations (rapports) between phenomena and relations between<br />
noumena, and these relations are just as objectively real as the noumena' (DSB).<br />
Ampère had rejected the philosophy of the Idéalogues, lead by Condillac, which<br />
maintained that only sensations were real as this denied the existence of God. He<br />
was drawn to Kant but as a mathematician could not agree that space and time were<br />
subjective modes of human understanding. He therefore developed his own<br />
philosophy, which allowed him to combine his beliefs in God and in the real<br />
existence of objective phenomena. The classification expounded in this work 'reveals<br />
Ampère's far-ranging mind and permits us to understand his occasional excursions<br />
into botany, taxonomy, and even anatomy and physiology. He was, in large part,<br />
seeking confirmation for his philosophical analysis, rather than setting out on new<br />
scientific paths. By the time of his death, Ampère had found, to his great satisfaction,<br />
that his scheme did fit all the sciences and, in his Essai sur la philosophie des<br />
sciences, he maintained that the fit was too good to be coincidence; the classification<br />
must reflect truth. Once again he had found certainty where his predecessors had<br />
not' (DSB).<br />
[Provenance:] Presented by Ampère to his son 'optimo et carissimo filio. A. Ampère'.<br />
Jean-Jacques Ampère spent the second half of 1834 in Italy, which accounts for the<br />
dedication in Italian. A note in pencil on the front free endpaper explains the later<br />
ownership of the book. Nine years later, and seven years after Ampère's death, his<br />
son posthumously edited a second volume of the Essai sur la Philosophie des<br />
Sciences, which, of course, is not present here.<br />
See DSB I, pp. 139-146.<br />
The Founder of Scientific Anthropology<br />
5.<br />
BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich. De Generis Humani Varietate<br />
Nativa Liber. Cum figuris aeri incisis. Naturae Species Ratioque.<br />
Göttingen, Vandenhoeck, 1776. £ 2750
8vo, pp. [ii], 100, [1] errata, two engraved plates bound at the end; old<br />
paper repair to verso of title; contemporary pastepaper boards, some<br />
surface abrasions to spine, worm trace to inner hinge; from the<br />
Breitenbauch library with engraved book plate to front pastedown; a<br />
good copy.<br />
First edition (second issue, with a cancel title page), uncommon, of Blumenbach's<br />
doctoral dissertation and best known work, his 'On the native Varieties of the<br />
Human Race', now considered as the foundation of the science of physical<br />
anthropology - the study of the origin and evolution of the races of men.<br />
He was preceded by Tyson and Linné who had prepared the ground for his studies<br />
by relating man to the order of the primates. Linné had distinguished four races of<br />
man chiefly by the colour of their skin. From these premises Blumenbach was able to<br />
develop the thesis that all living races are varieties of a single species, homo sapiens,<br />
and that their differences were small compared with those between man and the<br />
nearest animal; 'innumerable varieties of mankind run into each other by insensible<br />
degrees'. It is not surprising therefore that Blumenbach was opposed to the practice<br />
of slavery and the then current belief in the inherent savagery of the coloured races.'<br />
(PMM 219). 'In his dissertation one can find the first reliable survey of the<br />
characteristics and distribution of the human races; its most significant points were<br />
included in almost all later anthropological classifications.<br />
The first issue was published without a date (apparently 1775) with the imprint F.A.<br />
Rosenbusch, this is the second issue with a cancel title page.<br />
Provenance: From the library of the writer, scientist, and government official Georg<br />
August von Breitenbauch (1731-1817), friend of Goethe, Herder, and Lessing.<br />
Garrison-Morton 156 (first issue 1775), Printing and the Mind of Man 219 (first issue);<br />
Norman 250; Blake p. 51<br />
On Generation<br />
6.<br />
BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich. Über den Bildungstrieb und das<br />
Zeugungsgeschäfte. Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1781.<br />
£ 1250<br />
Small 8vo, pp. 87, [1] blank, large engraved title vignette by J.W. Meil,<br />
one engraved plate; contemporary half tan calf over sprinkled boards,<br />
spine in compartments, spine label; an attractive copy.<br />
First edition, rare, of Blumenbach's work on the Bildungstrieb (nisus formativus),<br />
which made a great impression on his contemporaries - as well as later scientists.<br />
Influenced by Haller and the eighteenth-century school of vitalism, Blumenbach<br />
conceived of the Bildungstrieb, ie the 'innate tendency in living creatures toward selfdevelopment.<br />
This impulse was to be added to irritability, sensibility and<br />
contractility as essential feature of vitalism' (PMM 219). In this theory of<br />
reproduction and embryonic development, he rejected the 'preformation theory and
advanced the theory of epigenesis as the true explanation of the phenomenon of<br />
evolution. They are of historical significance because they offered some new<br />
arguments in favour of epigenesis to the conflict between it and preformation.<br />
'Blumenbach had a great influence on the scientific explorers and travellers of the<br />
time; among his pupils were Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Heinrich von<br />
Langsdorff, Prince Maximilian zu Wied and others' (PMM 219).<br />
Bound with it: Kurtzer Unterricht für den Landmann von den bewährtesten<br />
Preservationsmitteln wider die Rindviehseuche. Wesel, F. J. Röder, 1780. pp. 31.<br />
NDB II, p. 329; Blake p. 51; Garrison-Morton 104.<br />
Carnival Costumes - Illustrated on 24 Colour Plates<br />
7.<br />
[CARNIVAL] Die Carnevals-Freuden oder kleines Ideenmagazin zu<br />
geistreichen und leicht ausführbaren Masken. Mit 24 fein coloriten<br />
Kupfertafeln. [cover title: Masken-Taschenbuch für Carnevals-<br />
Freunde]. Nürnberg, Friedrich Campe, 1839. £ 4200<br />
Oblong 8vo, pp.72, with 24 engraved coloured plates, one of them bound<br />
as frontispiece; text with occasional light spotting, due to paper quality;<br />
plates very clean with fine contemporary hand-colouring; original palegreen<br />
printed boards, title on upper board within border, extremities a<br />
little rubbed, faint dampstain to boards, but a very good copy.<br />
First and apparently only edition of a fascinating introduction and illustration of<br />
masks and costumes for carnival. The anonymous author begins with a brief history<br />
of the festivities related to carnival, with its roots in the Roman Saturnalia, and the<br />
theatrical costumes, disguises and masks worn for the event. Then twenty-four<br />
elaborate costumes are described in the text and then illustrated on the finely<br />
engraved and coloured plates. Some of them resemble charades or poses more than<br />
modern costumes. The first costumes are static ones, ie elaborate disguises which do<br />
not allow too much movement for the protagonist, such as the 'living dressing table',<br />
a sign-post, or flowerpot. Further sections show symbolic juxtapositions, or group<br />
disguises, such as a couple of slaves with their gang-master, or bear-dancing. Then<br />
follow those disguises still popular today, adults in children's clothes, magicians,<br />
gypsies etc.<br />
A further section involves masks with extensive props, such as giant heads, with an<br />
elaborate face masks, or the equilibrist, where the protagonist appears to be walking<br />
on his hands. The separate section for children's masks tend to be of the more<br />
traditional variety, just based on costume, make-up and head-dress. The adults<br />
however certainly need some theatrical talent to pull off the complicated disguises.<br />
Throughout historical background information is given.<br />
KVK and OCLC lists just two copies, Staatsbibliothek Berlin and Munich; no copies<br />
recorded elsewhere.
Female Beauty Maintained and Enhanced<br />
8.<br />
[CARON, Auguste.] La Toletta delle Dame ossia Trattato intorno alla<br />
Bellezza. Che contiene delle Riflessioni intorno alla natura della<br />
bellezza, alle cause fisiche e morali che la alterano, ai mezzi di<br />
conservarla sino a un'età avanzata, a ciò che appo noi la costituisce e<br />
alla cura che aver si deve di ogni parte del corpo; indi un Quadro<br />
storico delle mode di Francia, e consigli di un buon-gustajo per la<br />
toletta della Dame. Traduzione libera dal Francese. Tomo 1 [-Tomo<br />
II]. Milan, Batelli and Fanfani, 1822. £ 580<br />
Two volumes, small 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 256, [4] contents,<br />
with two engraved plates; 240, [2] contents; crowned stamp to title page;<br />
marbled boards, with two printed spine labels; a good copy.<br />
First edition in Italian adapted from Auguste Caron's La Toilette des Dames, ou<br />
Encyclopédie de la beauté, first published in French in 1806. In his well-structured<br />
treatise Caron discusses female beauty from all angles, but stresses first that beauty<br />
comes from within - though occasionally helped by some of his recipes. In the first<br />
volume, which contains more of a historical overview, he comments on changing<br />
fashions and changing historical, regional and national notions of beauty in women.<br />
In individual chapters he discusses fashion, women and tobacco, women and luxury,<br />
and the history of fashion before and after Henry IV. In the second volume he<br />
concentrates on the practical aspects of preserving and enhancing beauty through<br />
make-up, skin care and perfume. In individual chapters he deals with skin care,<br />
various skin imperfections, and how to cure them. He treats both skin complaints<br />
such as liver spots, birthmarks, but also skin complaints of pregnant women, again<br />
giving detailed pharmaceutical advice on how to treat them. Lines and wrinkles - to<br />
be treated amongst others by a boiled up concoction consisting of onions, honey and<br />
wax, followed by recipes against sagging breasts. Recipes for hair care are given,<br />
including colouring, and depilation of unwanted hair. Further chapters deal with<br />
mouth and teeth, ears and nose, eyes, hands and nails. In each case Caron gives<br />
careful advice on how to take care of them, and gives recipes for the most common<br />
complaints, and advice on beautification. Throughout La Toletta delle Dame gives a<br />
fascinating insight in the prevalence of cosmetics in early nineteenth century society.<br />
The engraved plates show a scantily dressed woman having her hair done, and<br />
images of Cloe and Zeffirina.<br />
Uncommon .., see Cioranesco<br />
Perpetual Peace<br />
9.<br />
CASTEL de SAINT-PIERRE, Charles-Iréné abbé de. Abrégé du Projet<br />
de Paix Perpetuelle, Inventé par le Roi Henri le Grand, Aprouvé par
la Reine Elisabeth, par le Roi Jaques son successeur, par les<br />
Republiques & par divers autres Potentats. Aproprié à l'Etat present<br />
des Affaires générales de l'Europe. Démontré infiniment avantageux<br />
pour tous les Hommes nés & à naître, en general & en particulier<br />
pour tous les Souverains, & pour les Maisons Souveraines.<br />
Rotterdam, Jean Daniel Beman, 1729. £ 850<br />
8vo, pp. [viii], 227, [3]; title printed in red and black; occasional light<br />
browning; contemporary half calf, spine gilt, spine label with gilt mostly<br />
removed; extremities a little rubbed, still a good copy.<br />
First edition of the abridgement of Castel de Saint-Pierre's famous peace proposal,<br />
first circulated in manuscript and published between 1713 and 1717. In fact this is not<br />
just a condensed version of the original work, but includes Castel de Saint-Pierre's<br />
further considerations and his response to contemporary criticism.<br />
Saint-Pierre had joined Polignac, the French ambassador, as secretary in the difficult<br />
peace negotiations of Utrecht which concluded the great European war of the<br />
Spanish succession, and this proposal for 'eternal peace' between political powers<br />
was the direct outcome of this experience, even though he had started working on<br />
this text as early as 1708. Saint-Pierre proposed the establishment of a 'European<br />
parliament', with its seat at Utrecht, which would peacefully settle conflicts between<br />
states. It would be a parliament composed of representatives of all European states;<br />
European borders would be guaranteed, and any differences arising between states<br />
would be solved in negotiations.<br />
His proposal marked the beginning of the growing emphasis and reliance on<br />
international relations and organisations in modern politics. Even though he was<br />
mainly admired as a visionary in his time, his ideas can be traced in the charters of<br />
the League of Nations and the United Nations. His pacifist plan was highly<br />
influential amongst the intellectuals of his and later times. 'Rousseau published in<br />
1761 Extrait du projet de paix perpétuelle which assured Saint-Pierre European<br />
recognition. In addition to Rousseau, of the truly famous French writers of the<br />
century, Montesquieu and Voltaire also voiced opinions about the Abbé's projects ...<br />
Kant knew Rousseau's version of the Paix perpetuelle, and in his Zum ewigen<br />
Frieden expresses similar ideas (M.L. Perkins, The Moral and Political Philosophy of<br />
the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Geneva, 1959).<br />
There appears to be a second issue of this edition with Briasson added to the imprint.<br />
Goldsmiths'-Kress 6721; see En Français dans le Texte, no. 137; van den Dungen,<br />
From Erasmus to Tolstoy, p. 67.<br />
Book Peddlers<br />
10.<br />
[CAYLUS, Anne Claude Philippe comte de.] Memoires de<br />
l'Academie des Colporteurs. [Paris], De l'Imprimerie ordinaire de<br />
l'Academie, 1748. £ 1250
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. viii, 319, with 8 unsigned engraved<br />
plates in the text, one an engraved title, title printed in red and black,<br />
with attractive title vignette; slight dampstain to fore-margin, and ink<br />
stains to final pages; contemporary full red cushed morocco, spine<br />
decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; sides with triple fillets, a.e.g.<br />
discreet repair to upper board; an attractive copy, with early<br />
bibliographical note to front free endpaper.<br />
First edition of this unusual and attractively illustrated work on Paris street peddlers,<br />
hawkers and distributors of pamphlets and books, allegedly published under the<br />
auspices of the Paris Guild of <strong>Books</strong>ellers and Printers. Caylus (1692-1765) was an<br />
amateur engraver, antiquarian and writer from a well-off aristocratic family which<br />
allowed him to follow his lifelong interest in the arts and antiquities. He played a<br />
prominent role in the Société du Bout du Banc, an informal group of writers and<br />
aristocrats who met at the home of the actress Quinault. They published a whole<br />
series of oeuvres badins, licentious and playful stories, mostly published under<br />
Caylus' name and in fact mostly written by him.This appears to be in the same vein,<br />
a collection of histories and sketches relating to the exploits and experiences of book<br />
peddlers and hawkers. Each anecdote is illustrated with an appealing and competent<br />
engraving, executed possibly by Caylus himself. The particularly attractive engraved<br />
title, showing a billposter putting up a poster or placard with the title, and partly<br />
obscuring it in the process, is according to Cohen possibly by Ch. N. Cochin.<br />
The work is also interesting in that the section beginning on p. 188 Le Malebosse<br />
describes and illustrates a scheming poet, i.e. Voltaire who is duped by a fake book<br />
peddlar. This is in fact one of the first anti-Voltaire caricatures (Apgar).<br />
Cioranescu XVIII 16265; Cohen, c 210; see Apgar, Trois siècles d'iconographie<br />
voltairienne.<br />
The First Telegraph Engineer<br />
11.<br />
[CHAPPE, Claude.] Il Telegrafo ossia Descrizione della Macchina<br />
nuovament retrovata in Parigi per Trasmettere in Brevissimo Tempo<br />
a Grandi Distanze qualunque Notizia. Con Figure. Estratta<br />
dall'Edizione Tedesca di Vienna presso Baumeister 1794. £ 650<br />
8vo, pp. xiii, [3] blank, 4 engraved plates bound at the end, decorative<br />
head-piece and initial; some spotting throughout, partly uncut in<br />
contemporary blue wrappers.<br />
First edition in Italian of Claude Chappe's 'optical' telegraph, which depended on<br />
visual signals and preceded the modern telegraph. His device consisted of an upright<br />
post, on the top of which was fastened a transverse bar, while at the ends of the latter<br />
two smaller arms moved on pivots. The position of these bars represented words or
letters; and by means of machines placed at intervals such that each was distinctly<br />
visible from the next, messages could be conveyed through 150 miles within a<br />
quarter of an hour. Chappe's contraption was adopted by the Legislative Assembly<br />
in 1792, and in the following year Chappe was appointed ingénieur-télégraphe. The<br />
optical telegraph was first used for an official transmission in 1794, and remained<br />
widely in use in France until 1855, when it was superseded by the electric telegraph.<br />
This work was translated from a German publication issued the same year with the<br />
title Beschreibung und Abbildung des Telegraphen oder der neuerfundenen<br />
Fernschreibemaschine in Paris, but clearly published in Italy. A brief introduction to<br />
the principles of the device is followed by an eyewitness account of the first<br />
conveyance of a message from a device mounted on top of the Louvre. This is<br />
depicted on the first of the finely engraved plates. The other plates show the agreed<br />
signals and the transcription of a message in German.<br />
There was another Italian edition, printed in Rome (Roma, si vende presso Agapito<br />
Franzetti) the same year; not traced in NUC, RLIN or the Italian on-line catalogue;<br />
see E. Jacquez, Claude Chappe, notice biographique, 1893 for further information on<br />
the optical telegraph; Newton, Encyclopedia of Cryptology, p. 205.<br />
Chemical Cleaning Products for Hospital Sanitation<br />
12.<br />
[CHEMISTRY.] Istruzioni per la Preparazione e per l'Uso delle<br />
Profumazioni con Acidi minerali. [Venice], Pinelli, zio e nipote,<br />
1790s. £ 350<br />
Folio, pp. 19, large armorial vignette to title; very clean and crisp in<br />
original yellow wrappers; a little dog-eared, else fine.<br />
First and only edition of an anonymous publication analysing the chemical processes<br />
involved in the production of mineral acids, especially for cleaning and disinfecting<br />
purposes, and as a form of air-purifier to reduce the risk of infection. A number of<br />
recipes are given, both for household use and, more importantly, for use in hospitals.<br />
The anonymous author stresses in particular its application in hospitals or on ships,<br />
to sanitise after the outbreak of infectious diseases, such as yellow fever, and the<br />
plague.<br />
No copy found in OCLC or KVK.<br />
Enlightenment in Letters to a Lady<br />
13.<br />
CHIARI, Pietro. Lettere scelte di varie materie piacevoli, critiche, ed<br />
erudite scritte ad una Dama di Qualità … Tomo Primo [- Tomo<br />
Terzo]. Venezia, Angelo Pasinelli, 1752. £ 550
Three volumes in one, 8vo, pp. 8 including engraved frontispiece, 223,<br />
[1] blank; [viii], 224; [iv], 204 - prelims of volume two bound after first<br />
signature; occasional light spotting, but clean and crisp overall;<br />
contemporary full vellum; corners a little worn.<br />
Most complete edition of Chiari's wide-ranging letters addressed to a lady. The finely<br />
engraved unsigned frontispiece shows three figures in a Venetian carnival scene, one<br />
having unmasked the other, with mask and hat tumbling down, a masked female<br />
figure is looking on.<br />
Chiari was an astute social observe and his letters are of great interest, as they cover<br />
topics such as games and gambling, the theatre, coffee, and carnival. He also treats<br />
scientific subjects as the Copernican system, medicine, food and drink etc. Chiari<br />
(1712-1785), one of the most prolific Italian playwrights and authors, was influenced<br />
by Richardson, Fielding, Voltaire and Swift, and is known for introducing the novel<br />
into Italian literature.<br />
First published in one volume in 1750, expanded to two also in 1750 and finally<br />
completed with a third volume in 1751. There are editions with imprint 1750 -1752<br />
published by Pasinelli and then this final one all with a 1752 imprint. The letters were<br />
reprinted in 1764.<br />
See Lanckronska 66; the Harvard copy of the 1750-52 printing apparently has a<br />
genealogical table bound in, which does not appear to be asked for and is not present<br />
either here nor in the British Library copy; all the editions are uncommon, with<br />
RLIN/OCLC locating copies at Harvard, Princeton (1752), Yale, Chicago, Johns<br />
Hopkins and New York Public Library in the US.<br />
Jansenist Publications<br />
14.<br />
[COLONIA, Dominique de.] Bibliotheque Janseniste, ou Catalogue<br />
alphabetique des principaux Livres Jansenistes, ou suspects de<br />
Jansenisme, qui ont paru depuis la Naissance de cette Héresie, avec<br />
des Notes Critiques sur les veritables Auteurs de ces Livres, sur les<br />
Erreurs qui y sont continues & sur les condemnations qui en eut été<br />
faites par la Saint siege, ou par l'Eglise Gallicane, ou par les Evêques<br />
dicesains. [n.p., but Lyon], 1722. £ 480<br />
12mo, pp. [xxxxviii], 307, [1] errata; a few signatures lightly browned,<br />
paper fault to foremargin of Bb3, no loss; woodcut and fleuron<br />
decorations in the text; contemporary sheep, spine in compartments,<br />
gilt-lettered spine label; surface rubbed and edges worn, but sound;<br />
from a religious school library with faint stamp to title and number in<br />
ink to front paste-down.<br />
First edition, uncommon, of this comprehensive annotated bibliography of Jansenist<br />
publications, which also includes a brief section of quietist works. The compiler de
Colonia (1660-1741), a Jesuit and fervent anti-Jansenist detected Jansenist tendencies<br />
in many publications, including many by popular religious writers of the day. The<br />
work itself was controversial and was listed on the index. Despite this it was popular<br />
and was reprinted with additions in 1731, 1735, 1739, and, after Colonia's death<br />
substantially enlarged by Patouillet in 1752 and 1755. The work remained on the<br />
index until the early twentieth century.<br />
Jansenism was the single most divisive religious movement within the Catholic<br />
Church between the Reformation and the French Revolution. It threatened<br />
seventeenth and eighteenth century religious unity, but is today seen as one of the<br />
modernizing influences to have come out of 17th century Catholicism. It is<br />
interesting to note that the revival of Jansenism in France was eased by the post 1715<br />
relaxation of censorship and of royal ecclesiastical policies. More than 2500 Jansenist<br />
and anti-jansenist works were published in France between 1713 and 1765 (For a full<br />
account see Israel, Enlightenment contested, pp. 704-712).<br />
Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes I, c. 418-419; Petzholdt p. 517 (favourable); OCLC<br />
lists copies at UCLA, University of Arizona, Yale, Library of Congress, Strasbourg<br />
and Utrecht.<br />
The First Western Languages Edition of Comenius' Janua Linguarum<br />
Reserata<br />
15.<br />
[COMENIUS, Johann Amos.] Porta Linguarum Trilinguis reserata et<br />
aperta. Sive Seminarium Linguarum & Scientiarum omnium, Hoc<br />
est, Compendiaria Latinam, Anglicam, Gallicam & quamvis aliam …<br />
[The Gate of Tongues Unlocked and Opened, or else a Seminarie or<br />
seed-plot of all Tongues and Sciences. That is a short way of teaching<br />
and thorowly learning within a yeare and a half at the farthest, The<br />
Latin, English, French, (and any other) tongue, together with the<br />
ground and foundation of Arts and Sciences, comprised under an<br />
hundred Titles, and a thousand periods. … Johan Anchoran. London,<br />
George Miller, for Michael Sparkes and Thomas Slater, 1631. £ 7500<br />
8vo, pp. [xxiv], 226, [4], pages 66, 93, and 117 misnumbered 96, 63 and<br />
107; decorated initials and head-and tail-pieces; lightly browned<br />
throughout, title dust-soiled, small hole to gutter margin, offsetting and<br />
slight discolouring to gutter margin of first title; contemporary full<br />
sheep, rebacked and recornered; with small oval circular stamp of the<br />
private library of Marcel Bekus (- 1938) to front paste-down and verso of<br />
second title page.<br />
First Western languages edition, very rare, of Comenius' innovative and<br />
revolutionary Janua Linguarum Reserata, his first school book, a guide to learning<br />
languages as well as teaching the basics of all arts and sciences. It was, in fact, the<br />
first modern language textbook, teaching the language, in this case Latin, by
providing background and context, rather than just providing a list of words. This<br />
had first been published in Latin and Czech in the same year. His Latin, French and<br />
English primer revolutionized seventeenth century education, it is arranged in one<br />
hundred lessons, covering a thousand subjects. This first Western languages edition<br />
teaches Latin, French and English, attractively printed in three columns in Roman,<br />
Gothic and Italic type respectively. 'His 'Open Door to Langues', Janua Linguarum<br />
Reserata secured the fairly uniform teaching of latin throughout the continent' (PMM<br />
139). It is not to be confused with the earlier 'Janua linguarum' of William Bathe and<br />
others, which it is an entirely different work.<br />
Comenius (1592-1670) was the pioneer of contemporary developments in education,<br />
his proposals and maxims have shaped educational thinking ever since, and, even<br />
though some his suggested methods are outdated, his final goals are still valid today<br />
and some have still not been completely attained. To mention just some of his<br />
pronouncements regarding education: he stressed the importance of pre-school<br />
education within the family, maintained that education had to pleasurable to be<br />
effective, proclaimed life-long education, and demanded international education for<br />
the international community of nations. Everybody should learn two languages, his<br />
own vernacular language and a 'lingua franca', which at the time was clearly Latin.<br />
All these demands have a surprisingly modern ring to them and are all contained in<br />
modern textbooks of education.<br />
This is one of three states printed the same year with different combinations of<br />
names in the imprint and different signatories in the dedication. Here the dedication<br />
is signed by Anchor and Comenius, but not Sam. Hartlieb. No priority has been<br />
assigned. Young identifies the version also signed by Hartlieb as a pirated edition.<br />
The publisher and social reformer Samuel Hartlieb or Hartlib (c 1600 –1662), who<br />
originally came from Poland, was a notable figure in the English republic of letters.<br />
He specialised in the organisation and distribution of knowledge, was a keen<br />
follower of Comenius pansophic ideas, and in fact issued a pirated edition of his<br />
early work on the subject. This seems to support Young’s suggestion, that the edition<br />
with Hartlieb as a signatory of the dedication is a pirated edition.<br />
Marcel Bekus' library was sold at auction in Nantes in 1985 by his grandson.<br />
STC (2nd edn) 15078.5 (Cambridge); not in Naarden, Comenius Museum; see Robert<br />
Fitzgerald Young, Comenius in England, p. 61; on Hartlib see Greengrass, M.<br />
‘Samuel Hartlib and the Commonwealth of Learning.’ In The Cambridge History of the<br />
Book in Britain, edited by John Barnard and D. F. Mc Kenzie. Vol. 4, pp. 304–322.<br />
Cambridge, U.K., 2002.<br />
Civilité Type<br />
16.<br />
[CORDIER, Mathurin.] La Civilité puerile et honneste, pour<br />
l'instruction des Enfans, en laquelle est mise au commencement la<br />
maniere d'apprendre à bien lire, prononcer & écrire; corrigée de<br />
nouveau, & augmentée à la fin d'un beau Traité pour bien apprendre<br />
l'Orthographe. Dressée par un Missionnaire. Avec des precepts &
Instructions pour appreendre à la Jeunesse à se bien conduire dans<br />
les Compagnies. Paris, Herissant, 1785. £ 1000<br />
12mo, pp. [vi], 102, [2]; title a little dust-soiled, lower corner worn and a<br />
little frayed; stitched in early manuscript leaf of an ?army list; ownership<br />
inscription of Robin Servon on the inside wrapper, with date in ink on<br />
upper wrapper. Servan also appears as one of the names on the army<br />
list; a little dog-eared and dampstain to lower wrapper.<br />
Later edition of a rare combined ABC and courtesy book, printed almost entirely in<br />
civilité type. After a brief introduction to the letters of the alphabet, vowels and<br />
consonants and some spelling exercises, the young readers are instructed on proper<br />
behaviour at church, at school, in polite company, while playing, at the table etc. The<br />
work concludes with a brief introduction to numbers and arithmetic, and 126 verses<br />
by De Pybrac, followed by a listing of homonyms. The first edition of this version<br />
was apparently published in 1753.<br />
This is an attractive example of a civilité book, named for the type designed by<br />
Robert Granjon in 1557 and based on the gothic cursive handwriting in vogue at the<br />
time. 'As early as the sixteenth century a particular French type face was given the<br />
name civilité after a French work by Marthurin Cordier, which combined doctrines<br />
from Erasmus's treatise with those of another humanist, Johannes Sulpicius. And a<br />
whole genre of books, directly or indirectly influenced by Erasmus's treatise,<br />
appeared under the title civilite or civilité puerile; these were printed up to the end of<br />
the eighteenth century in this civilité type'. (Norbert Elias, On Civilization, Power<br />
and Knowledge, 1998, p. 76.) Civilité type being similar to handwriting was mostly<br />
used for popular books, such as chapbooks, schoolbooks, songbooks etc.<br />
Provenance: The work is bound in a vellum manuscript leaf, apparently with<br />
military listings; included in a list of names is an officer Servon, which corresponds<br />
to the ownership inscription of Robin Servon on the inside wrapper.<br />
See Gumuchian 1763 (similar ed. of 1813); Carter-Vervliet 471 (similar Paris edition<br />
of 1757).<br />
How to Make Paper Flowers<br />
17.<br />
DE MARIA, Claudio. La Fiorista dà fiori artificiali con varie ricette<br />
per diversi colori. Compilato da Claudio DeMaria. Cesari, 1856.<br />
Manuscript in ink. £ 3750<br />
8vo, pp. [ii], 41, [7] blank, [96], with one very large folding plate (420 x<br />
520 mm), 28 blank, folding plate with short splits to fold; specially<br />
produced vellum notebook with envelope-style flap and remains of<br />
linen ribbon, with memo pockets at front and back, with four sheets of<br />
notes; binding a little rubbed, but very well preserved.
A charming original manuscript in ink on the production of paper flowers,<br />
illustrated extensively in colour, with the inclusion of numerous colour recipes. The<br />
manual is extremely well organised, with diagrams and tables, marked and<br />
referenced in the text.<br />
The first section, extending to forty-one pages, contains detailed recipes for the<br />
production of different dyes, with descriptions of the necessary ingredients and<br />
procedures. The second, more extensive part contains a comprehensive introduction<br />
to the production of paper flowers, with full colour illustrations of different flowers,<br />
and the various steps in production, such as pattern cutting, advice on how to form<br />
leaves, petals etc, and final assembly of the different parts. There are many colour<br />
illustrations in the text, illustrating either work steps, or the finished product. The<br />
large folding plate shows the different tools used in paper flower production.<br />
This manual must have been a notebook of either a master or an apprentice of paper<br />
flower production, though clearly one with an artistic bend, as the illustrations are<br />
both charming and competent. There is no publication recorded with a similar title,<br />
and moreover, the spontaneous writing style makes it highly unlikely that this is a<br />
copy of an existing book. It was possibly meant for future publication, with a few<br />
later corrections in the text. However, no such book appears to have been published.<br />
European paper flower production apparently originated in Italy, but in the<br />
eighteenth century the French made great advances in the accuracy of their<br />
reproductions and towards the end of the century Paris manufacturers enjoyed a<br />
world-wide reputation.<br />
Conjuring, Mathematical Games and Magic<br />
18.<br />
DECREMPS, Henri. La Magie Blanch Dévoilée, ou explicaiton des<br />
Tours surprenans qui sont depuis peu l'admiration de la Capitale &<br />
de la Province. Avec des réflexions sur la Baguette Divinatoire, les<br />
Automates joueurs de'Echecs, &c. &c. Ouvrage orné de 101 Figures.<br />
Tome Premier, Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1789.<br />
[bound with:] DECREMPS, Henri. Supplément a la Magie Blanche<br />
Dévoilée. [Tome Second]. Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1789.<br />
[bound with:] DECREMPS, Henri. Testament de Jérome Sharp,<br />
Professeur de Physique amusante; où l'on trouve, parmi pluseurs<br />
Tours de subtilité, qu'on peut executer sans aucune dépense, des<br />
precepts & des exemples sur l'Art de faire des Chansons impromptu.<br />
Pour servir de Complément a la Magie Blanche Dévoilée. [Tome<br />
Troisème]. Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1789.<br />
[bound with:] DECREMPS, Henri. Les Petites Aventures de Jérome<br />
Sharp. Professeur de Physique amusante: Ourvage contenant autant<br />
de Tours ingénieux que de Leçons utiles, avec quelques petits<br />
Portraits à al manière noire.18 Figures. Bruxelles, F.J. Desoer, 1790.<br />
£ 2400
Four volumes bound in two, 8vo, frontispiece, pp. viii, 118; viii, 270, [1]<br />
approbation, with engraved frontispiece bound in; xvi, 262 [1], woodcut<br />
music bound as frontispiece; xii, 266, frontispiece as part of collation; all<br />
four volumes with frontispiece, numerous woodcut figures in the text,<br />
some full page, including printed music; contemporary full mottled calf,<br />
spine decoratively gilt in compartments, two contrasting gilt-lettered<br />
spine labels; gilding a little faded, paper shelf marks to foot of spine, and<br />
in crayon to front free endpaper; a fine set from the library of Freiherr<br />
von Wrede Melschede with oblong stamps to margin of title.<br />
A very attractive collected edition of the most important works on conjuring,<br />
mathematical games and scientific recreations by Henri Decremps, a mathematician<br />
and avid conjurer, who attempted to explain magical phenomena rationally as<br />
trickery or sleight of hand. In the eighteenth century scientific discovery and the<br />
belief in magic and occult phenomena mixed uneasily. Everything had to be<br />
explained scientifically, and Decremps was on the forefront of attempting to debunk<br />
'magic'.<br />
Of particular interest are his descriptions of specific tricks and illusions, based on<br />
magnetism, electricity, geometry, perspective, optics, with illustrations of specific<br />
tricks. He describes a wide array of automatons and machinery, for the performance<br />
of marvels, which according to the author were attributable to magnets, concealed<br />
canaries and other devices. Some of Decremps' 'scientific explanations' and<br />
mathematics, were later revealed to be fanciful themselves, as was pointed out by<br />
Fiard.<br />
Some of Decremps' works were written under the fictional guise of Prof. Jérome<br />
Sharpe. The works proved immensely popular both in France, and in England, where<br />
La Magie Blanche Dévoilée was published under the title The Conjurer Unmasked in<br />
the translation of Thomas Denton.<br />
See Caillet 2861 (Magie Blanche, first edition 1784-5), Caillet 2862 (Testament de<br />
Jerome Sharp, first edition 1786), Caillet 2864 (Petites Aventures, first edition 1789).<br />
Cogito, Ergo Sum<br />
19.<br />
DESCARTES, Réné. Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam, Ludovic<br />
Elzevir, 1644.<br />
[bound with:] DESCARTES, Réné. Specimina philosophia: seu<br />
dissertation de methodo rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in<br />
scientiis investigandae: dioptrice, et meteora. Ex Gallico translato, &<br />
ab auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendate. Amsterdam,<br />
Ludovic Elzevir, 1644. £ 8000<br />
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. [xxii], [ii] blank, 310, [2] blank,<br />
woodcut device on title and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text;
[xvi], 331, [1] blank, woodcut device on title and numerous woodcut<br />
illustrations in the text; a fine copy in full contemporary vellum, with<br />
overlapping edges, manuscript title to spine.<br />
First edition of the Principia and first Latin edition (translated by Etienne de<br />
Courcelle) of Descartes' Discours de la Méthode (1637), which had been revised by<br />
Descartes. Although issued independently, these two works are often found bound<br />
together. Descartes was the first of modern philosophers and one of the first modern<br />
scientists; in both branches of learning he was immensely important.<br />
I. The Principia is one of the most influential books in the history of science,<br />
presenting Descartes' system of physics and cosmologies, and the 'principles of his<br />
philosophy in four parts: [1] metaphysical and cognitive principles; [2] the principles<br />
of nature (laws of motion, etc); [3] the structure of the universe (celestial physics); (4)<br />
an explanation of physical phenomena such as fermentation, magnetism etc.' (T.<br />
Verbeek in Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers, I,<br />
(p. 254-260).<br />
II. The Discours de la Méthode is here in the Latin translation, by which it reached its<br />
greatest circulation, and the first to contain the famous dictum 'cogito, ergo sum'. The<br />
Discours is Descartes' fundamental work in philosophy and on the method of<br />
science. 'Descartes's purpose is to find the simple indestructible proposition which<br />
gives to the universe and thought their order and system. Three points are made: the<br />
truth of thought, when thought is true to itself (thus cogito, ergo sum), the inevitable<br />
elevation of its partial state in our finite consciousness to its full state in the infinite<br />
existence of God, and the ultimate reduction of the material universe to extension<br />
and local movement. From these central propositions in logic, metaphysics and<br />
physics came the subsequent inquiries of Locke, Leibniz and Newton; from them<br />
stem all modern scientific and philosophic thought' (PMM 129).<br />
I. Guibert p. 118; Norman 22; Willems 1008; Ashworth 1; II. Guibert p. 104; Norman<br />
623; Willems 1008; PMM 129.<br />
With the Arms of the Altieri Family<br />
20.<br />
DORIA, Luigi Romano. Elementi della Coltivazione de' Grani ad uso<br />
dell'Agro Romano, Dedicati alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Pio<br />
Sesto… In Roma, pel Salomoni, 1777. £ 2950<br />
8vo, pp. xvi (imprimatur leaf misbound), 236, five engraved plates (three<br />
folding) bound at the end; title printed in red and blue, with portrait<br />
medallion of Pope Pius VI and a medallion showing an overflowing<br />
grain vat surrounded by the words 'spes publica'; bound in<br />
contemporary full tan calf, spine gilt in six compartments, gilt-lettered<br />
spine label, sides gold-tooled with outer roll border, corner ornaments<br />
built up from individual tools including leafy sprays, small stars,<br />
blossoms and flower tools; a.e.g., Italian pattern paper endpapers,
ookplate removed from front paste-down; repair to to compartment of<br />
spine, else a fine copy.<br />
First edition, rare, of this attractively illustrated reform proposal for Roman<br />
agriculture in a fine binding. Doria begins with advice on the assessment of different<br />
types and qualities of soil and prospective harvests, which need to be taken into<br />
account when assessing the viability of estates and their leases. This is followed by<br />
detailed advice on the whole process of practical agriculture, such as how to organise<br />
and arrange the fields for maximum efficiency, how the fields are prepared, manure<br />
applied and ploughed under, then ploughing, sowing, hoeing, etc. up to the<br />
harvesting. He makes some useful suggestions for the more efficient use of existing<br />
fields and the incorporation of fallow ground.<br />
Doria also supplies a detailed calendar of projects by month, and an interesting<br />
glossary of agricultural terms and procedures, with labour prices where appropriate.<br />
A final section gives an account of salaries paid in farming, and the average<br />
maintenance cost for various farm workers. Particularly attractive are the emblematic<br />
plates, showing scenes of farming and agriculture, common wind directions, field<br />
divisions, and planting instructions.<br />
'These were the years which saw a stepping up of specifically agronomic<br />
propaganda, in the manner of Giovanni Salvini's Instructions to his land agent<br />
(1775). Here too we can detect a Tuscan and also a Venetian influence and it is<br />
apparent that the proposed agrarian changes (introduction of Tarelli's method, etc.)<br />
would necessitate modifications in economic relationships and mentality ...... Above<br />
all, one great hope: 'We are ever on the point of achieving the impossible .... so that<br />
the structure of property will be transformed and the workers will no longer be<br />
poor.' In 1777 Luigi Doria's Principles of Cereal Growing for the use of the Agro<br />
Romano was published (the present work). 'A time of enlightenment like the<br />
eighteenth century', said the preface, 'and a most cultured capital city like my own<br />
would take it amiss if I thought it necessary to convince them of the importance of<br />
that art which is the subject of the present instructions' (Venturi, Italy and the<br />
Enlightenment, Studies in a Cosmopolitan Century, pp. 245-246).<br />
Doria's work was reprinted in 1798, and this first edition appears to be very rare.<br />
The arms of the binding are those of the Roman noble family Altieri. The Altieri<br />
family produced over the centuries a pope, Clemens X, cardinals, and other<br />
important personages in Rome. The artist who made the binding was almost surely a<br />
Roman binder.<br />
Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi, not found in NUC, OCLC lists just one copy at<br />
UC Davis; see Re, Dizionario ragionato di libri d'agricoltura, p. 207, for 1798 edition<br />
only, commenting that he never saw the first edition; for Altieri family see<br />
Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana: famiglie nobili e titolate viventi riconosciute<br />
dal R. governo d'Italia compresi: citta, comunita, mense vescovili, abazie, parrocchie<br />
ed enti nobili e titolati riconosciuti / promossa e diretta da Vittorio Spreti .<br />
Pubblicazione Milano : Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana, 1928-1935.<br />
Falling out of Love<br />
21.
[DURANDI, Jacobo.] Amore Disarmato Poemetto. Naples, Pomatelli,<br />
1768. £ 850<br />
8vo, folding engraved frontispiece, pp. 166; some spotting throughout;<br />
uncut in the original buff limp boards, with sprinkled paper spine,<br />
manuscript spine label, some surface abrasions; library shelf mark to<br />
spine, early manuscript ownership inscription to front free endpaper,<br />
recording purchase date 19 August 1772 and price.<br />
First edition of an extensive narrative poem on falling out of love. Revenge seems on<br />
the cards: 'Ora voi Beltà neglette, ed amanti disperati, preparate le vendetta contra<br />
chi v'ha maltrattati'. Particularly appealing is the finely engraved frontispiece entitled<br />
'amor disarmato' where a determined lady breaks Amor's bow and arrows.<br />
Durandi (1737-1817) is particularly known as the author of numerous opera libretti.<br />
Ersch, p. 354; OCLC lists just one copy at Harvard; see Ferri and Castreca-Brunetti,<br />
Biblioteca feminile Italiana, p. 295.<br />
A Woman's Philosophy<br />
22.<br />
[EHRMANN, Marianne.] Philosophie eines Weibs. Von einer<br />
Beobachterin. [n.p.] [Kempten], Im Jahr 1784. £ 960<br />
8vo, pp. 72, [1] errata; title vignette; contemporary blue paste-paper<br />
wrappers, rebacked; a very clean and crisp copy.<br />
First edition, rare, of Marianne Ehrmann's first publication. Influenced by Rousseau,<br />
in this work traditional notions of womanhood compete with progressive political<br />
and ideological thought. Marianne Ehrmann (1753-1795), was one of the most<br />
outspoken German literary women writers of the eighteenth century. She was<br />
particularly interested in the relations between the sexes, and is important for her<br />
treatment of women's lives rarely found in eighteenth century literature. She<br />
founded two important women's magazines , namely Amaliens Erholungsstunden<br />
and Die Einsiedlerin aus den Alpen. The former is regarded as one of the best<br />
magazines for women in eighteenth century Germany. It contained an impressive<br />
array of articles on all manner of subjects, poetry by some of the best writers of the<br />
time and also stories and essays by Marianne Ehrmann herself, which were<br />
remarkable for their style and candour.<br />
The Philosophie eines Weibs was translated into French under the title Philosophie<br />
d'une Femme.<br />
OCLC lists just Yale; see Stipa Madland, Marianne Ehrmann, 1998 and K.M. Wilson,<br />
An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers.
Energy Efficiency - A Comparative Report<br />
23.<br />
[ENERGY SAVING.] Beschreibung neuer holzsparenden Oefen und<br />
Feuerherde, zum Militär- und Civil-Gebrauch. Vienna, v. Schönfeld,<br />
1808. £ 2750<br />
Folio, pp. xvi, xv-xxxiv, 47, [1] blank, xliii (pp. xxxiii, xxxiv, xliii, and<br />
xliiii are folding printed leaves printed on recto only), 22 engraved<br />
plates, one of which folding; very clean and crisp in contemporary calfbacked<br />
paste-paper boards; from the library of the architecture<br />
department of Ljubljana (Laibach), with stamps to front free endpaper<br />
and one small faint stamp to title; a fine crisp copy.<br />
First and only edition, rare, of this detailed comparative report on energy-saving<br />
heating and cooking systems. The first tests were run by an Austrian government<br />
commission charged by archduke Karl with reducing the use of firewood, comparing<br />
existing types of stoves, ovens, cooking ranges etc and developing the most energyefficient<br />
model for each application. Not only energy consumption was studied, but<br />
also manufacturing costs and energy needs for constructing the ovens in question.<br />
The very detailed report covers military institutions, (distinguishing between the<br />
needs of large dormitories and smaller more intimate officer housing) hospitals,<br />
prisons, schools, but also private usage. The finely engraved plates show various<br />
kinds of ovens, with technical specifications and detailed instructions for use. Of<br />
particular interest is the supplement showing on comparative tables heating<br />
efficiency measured and contrasted with construction costs, building materials and<br />
ease of handling. Two forms to be completed after further experiments are also<br />
included.<br />
There was a flurry of publications on energy-saving ovens and cookers in the late<br />
eighteenth and early nineteenth century. What differentiates this publication from<br />
them is its great attention to detail and the scientific approach to assessing the energy<br />
efficiency of the final installation. Moreover, rather than just heating for public or<br />
private spaces, calculations are also made for use in manufacturing industry, such as<br />
dyeing works.<br />
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths'; uncommon, RLIN/OCLC list just two copies at Chicago<br />
and Minnesota, KVK adds copies at Bavarian State Library, Dresden and Deutsches<br />
Museum, Munich.<br />
24.<br />
FAVRE, Emile de. Les Quatre Heures de la Toilette des Dames,<br />
poëme éortique en quatre chants, dédié à son Altesse, Sérénissime<br />
Madame la Princesse de la Lamballe, Chef du Conseil, &<br />
Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine. Paris, Jean-François Bastien,<br />
[de l'imprimerie de Philippe Denys Pierres 1778]. 1779. £ 850
Tall 8vo, pp. engraved title, pp. [xii], 84, with 4 full-page engravings and<br />
five half page engraved vignettes after LeClerc; printed on 'stout Dutch<br />
paper' (Lewine), occasional light brownig; contemporary full mottled<br />
calf, triple gilt fillet to sides, flat spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label,<br />
a.e.g; an attractive copy.<br />
First edition of this erotic poem illustrated with charming vignettes and engravings<br />
by after LeClerc, executed by Arrivet, Halbou, Legrand, Leroy and Patas. The work is<br />
dedicated to the princess de Lamballe with her arms included in the first vignette,<br />
and her portrait on the engraved frontispiece and the last vignette. The princesse de<br />
Lamballe (1749-1792) was a confidante of Marie Antoinette's and was guillotined in<br />
17892.<br />
'The plates, though fine, are lacking in grace; on the other hand the tailpieces are<br />
superb, particularly the one said to represent the head dressed with plumes of the illfated<br />
princess de Lambelle. The original drawings of the frontispiece and the heraldic<br />
vignette form part of the collection of M. Portalis' (Lewine). "Belles illustrations, bien<br />
qu'un peu lourdes; les culs-de-lampe sont superbes" (Cohen-R. 376-7).<br />
The poem was reprinted in 1780 and numerous times in the nineteenth century.<br />
Cioranescu 28418; ; Cohen-Ricci 376; Gay- Lemonier III, 903; Lewine 179; Sander 644;<br />
uncommon, OCLC lists copies at Yale, Williams College, Rotterdam, National<br />
Library of Sweden, and Munich.<br />
Fournier's Magnificent Type Specimen<br />
25.<br />
FOURNIER. Pierre Simon. Manuel Typographique, utile aux Gens de<br />
Lettres, & à ceux qui exercent les différents parties de l'Art de<br />
l'Imprimerie. Par Fournier, le jeune. Tome I [-II]. Paris, the Author, J.<br />
Barbou, 1764/1766 [vere 1768]. £ 4800<br />
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv] two engraved frontispieces, xxxii, 323, [1]<br />
errata, [4] privilege, and 8 folding engraved plates; [iv] frontispiece and<br />
title, xliv, [ii], 306, and 8 folding engraved plates, pages 177-186 as foldout<br />
pages with printed music; type specimen printed within decorative<br />
border; contemporary full calf, spine decoratively gilt, with two giltlettered<br />
labels and numbering pieces, sides with greek rule, gilt<br />
dentelles, a.e.g.; a little rubbing to joints, front free endpaper removed; a<br />
fine copy, with engraved book-plate to front pastedown.<br />
First edition, a fine copy, Fournier's masterpiece, a magnificent type specimen, which<br />
is regarded as 'the most important book on French eighteenth century typography'<br />
(Birrell & Garnett 37) and his types dominated European printing for fifty years<br />
(PMM II, 112). It includes 186 pages of specimens of type and 101 alphabets, ancient<br />
and modern, and was 'intended to explain to the layman the intricacies and nuances
of the typographic art' (Jackson Burke 527). This copy also includes the portrait of<br />
Fournier after Bichou, which is often missing.<br />
In his preface to volume I Fournier gives a brief overview of the earlier French<br />
publications on the history of printing and type, and outlines the scope of his book.<br />
He gives technical information on punch-cutting, matrix-making, and type-founding,<br />
and includes here his innovative point system of type sizes. In a series of tables he<br />
indicates the respective number of each character to be supplied in making up fonts<br />
of Roman, Hebrew, Greek, music types etc. and concludes with eight engraved<br />
plates, which show tools and equipment employed in the various processes<br />
described in the text.<br />
In the second volume Fournier emphasises the importance of utilising the full range<br />
of printing types, and gives details of the principal type foundries of Europe. The<br />
main section of the book consists of type specimens of every type and size<br />
imaginable. They represent the types of Fournier l'ainé, the Paris founders Cappon<br />
and Hérissant and Breitkopf (Leipzig) and are grouped under six headings: I. Types<br />
in ordinary use, II. Ornaments, III. Types peculiar to particular countries or of special<br />
forms, IV. Oriental types, V. Music and plain-song, VI. Types of ancient and modern<br />
languages with explanatory notes.<br />
The very attractive type specimen shows Roman, italic, Greek, Hebrew fonts, with<br />
many additional exotic type faces, such as Syriac, Arabic, Coptic and Armenian. It<br />
presents the amazing repertory of Fournier's foundry, ranging from the tiny<br />
'Parisienne' and 'Nonpareille' sizes to the grand size of 'Grosse Nonpareille', an<br />
unusually large face for cast type. A further highlight of this type specimen is the<br />
extensive choice of ornaments, which were clearly designed to compose into a great<br />
variety of combinations and patterns.<br />
Fournier's contribution to typography cannot be over-estimated. 'His grasp of<br />
typography was so complete and so firm that he could venture into every corner of<br />
it, its literature, its history, its relation to greater things, writing, architecture, music.'<br />
His first contribution had been his 'table des proportions qu'il faut observer entre les<br />
caractères', an attempt to standardize type sizes by a point system - a standard which<br />
is still in use today. He was a great innovator and moderniser of type faces, and his<br />
type specimen gives ample proof of this.<br />
Fournier had planned this work to consist of four volumes, but died before its<br />
completion.<br />
Audin, 55,56; Bigmore & Wyman I p. 228; Birrell & Garnett 37; Jackson Burke 527;<br />
Printing and the Mind of Man (Exhibition Catalogue) II, 112; see Updike, Printing<br />
Types, 1951, I, pp. 250-266 with numerous sample pages.<br />
French Constitution<br />
26.<br />
[FRANCE - Constitution]. Constitution Française et Acceptation du<br />
Roi. Dijon, P. Causse, 1791. £ 600<br />
12mo, pp. [ii], 163; contemporary full red morocco with simple gilt rule<br />
to sides and spine, gilt-lettering directly to spine; early owner's signature<br />
'John Greenwell, Broomshields' to front free endpaper.
An attractive copy of this rare provincial printing of the Revolutionary constitution,<br />
together with the King's letter of September 13th, 1791 to the Assemblée Nationale,<br />
his acceptance of September 4th, and the response of the president to the King. The<br />
constitution is preceded by the Declaration of Rights, and the work concludes with a<br />
useful alphabetical subject index.<br />
Another Dijon edition without the King's response, was published the same year.<br />
The Earliest Catalogue of '<strong>Books</strong> in Print'<br />
27.<br />
[FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR.] WILLER, Georg. Catalogus novus<br />
nundinarum vernalium Francoforti ad moenum, anno M.D.LXXXV<br />
… Verzeichnuss fast aller neuwer Bücher, welche seyther der<br />
nechtsverschiene Herbstmess, biss auf dise gegenwertige Fastenmess<br />
in offentlichem Druck seyn ausgangen. Frankfurt am Mayn, Willer,<br />
1585. £ 2800<br />
4to, pp. [45], some light browning; recent sprinkled boards, with printed<br />
title to cover.<br />
First edition thus of this early Frankfurt Book Fair catalogue. The Augsburg bookdealer<br />
and book-distributer Georg Willer (c. 1514-1594) was the first to issue regular<br />
(bi-annual) catalogues of new books available for purchase, which had been<br />
presented at the Frankfurt book fair. To facilitate their sales' promotion he issued<br />
regular catalogues, first with an Augsburg imprint, and later to save time, with a<br />
Frankfurt imprint. The first such catalogue was issued in 1564.<br />
The books listed are arranged by subject, and for the first time place, publisher and<br />
date are always mentioned. The catalogue first records books in Latin, then books in<br />
German, with a few French books also listed. Within this division, the books are<br />
arranged under the following headings: Protestant theology, followed by Catholic<br />
books, law, medicine, history and geography, philosophy and humanities, poetry<br />
and finally music. Clearly a much larger number of books was published in Latin<br />
than in the vernacular.<br />
For Willer the catalogues produced increased sales and proved an innovative sales'<br />
tool. But the catalogues also served a secondary function as an early form of '<strong>Books</strong><br />
in Print' and were used by his competitors and librarians alike. With these early sales<br />
catalogues the book trade was well ahead of other retail businesses. Despite growing<br />
competition Willer continued to issue his catalogues until 1627, even though as early<br />
as 1598 an official Frankfurt book fair catalogue was issued under the title<br />
Frankfurter Ratsmeßkatalog (see Wittmann, Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels<br />
pp. 66 ff).<br />
All issues of Willer's catalogue are very rare.
Lexikon des gesammten Buchwesens III 585; see Breslauer & Folter 24 (for the issue<br />
of 1568); OCLC list one copy of the issue of 1583 at the Library of Congress, and<br />
another of the issue 1592 at the Newberry Library; Harvard apparently has an issue<br />
of 1568.<br />
In Praise of Middle Class Civic Values<br />
28.<br />
[FREDERICK THE GREAT.] Discorso fatto per suo passatempo dall<br />
M. di F. il. G. R. di P… Fantasianopoli, 1760. £ 500<br />
4to, pp. 26, large engraved vignette on title; contemporary pale red<br />
vellum; a fine copy, with manuscript note tipped in on front pastedown.<br />
First edition in Italian of Frederick the Great's satirical funeral oration on the death of<br />
the cobbler and shoemaker Jacob Mathias Reinold, translated from the French by the<br />
Italian Enlightenment philosopher, the count Algarotti. Frederick used the occasion<br />
to praise his workmanship, dedication and honesty, and, by extension, bourgeois<br />
civic values. He combined it with an underlying criticism of the corruption of the<br />
aristocracy.<br />
Melzi 1848; rare, OCLC just lists one copy, at UCLA.<br />
An Ode to the Sausage<br />
29.<br />
[FRIZZI, Antonio.] La Salameide, poemetto giocoso con le note.<br />
Venezia, appresso Guglielmo Zerletti, 1772. £ 1000<br />
8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and title page, pp. [viii], 135, [1]<br />
blank; finely engraved vignette to title page and at head of the main text;<br />
uncut in the original buff boards; spine a little rubbed, and head and tail<br />
of spine chipped; small private library stamp to foot of title; a good copy.<br />
First edition of a charming work, a light-hearted eighteenth century heroic poem<br />
dedicated to the 'salamina', the little sausage, by the Ferrara historian Antonio Frizzi.<br />
The publisher, Zerletti, writes in his preface that while being occupied with printing<br />
a ponderous theological work he has decided to present his customers with a not-soserious<br />
offering. In his poem Frizzi utilises the traditions of the epic poem, but sings<br />
the praises not of chivalry and love, but of the pork sausage. In a little aside he even<br />
maintains that the 'salame' might have been invented by John Locke 'chi ne può<br />
dubitar, che un tal prodotto non sia da Londra, donde a noi son tratte tante moderne<br />
cose manufatte?' (canto quarto, xii). He discusses various types of sausages, with<br />
quite detailed information on their production. In extensive footnotes reference is<br />
made to the Vocabolario della Crusca, other authors, and the history of sausage<br />
production.
The engraved frontispiece is particularly appealing, showing a 'salumeria' with<br />
numerous sausages, and hams suspended from the ceiling and a boar being<br />
slaughtered in the background. An elegant customer converses with the shopkeeper,<br />
and takes an appreciative whiff at a salami, while his dog is about to steal a sausage<br />
from the table.<br />
Bing 852; Lapiccirella 170; Simon 1342; Westbury p. 197.<br />
30.<br />
[GALIANI, Ferdinando.] Del Dialetto Napoletano. Naples, Vincenzo<br />
Mazzola-Vocola, 1779. £ 2800<br />
8vo, pp. 184; woodcut initials and head and tail-pieces; some light<br />
spotting and browning due to paper quality; paper fault to lower corner<br />
of title page; contemporary full vellum over boards, gilt-lettering<br />
directly to spine, a few small wormholes to spine, but an attractive copy.<br />
<strong>Rare</strong> first edition of the first scientific study of the Neapolitan dialect by the<br />
economist and enlightenment writer Galiani. He gives a detailed history and<br />
grammar of this dialect, which he maintains was the primitive language of Italy. In<br />
his preface Galiani stresses the importance of dialect and language as a patriotic<br />
bond, and means for preserving national heritage even in times of political and social<br />
turbulence. He defends the Neapolitan dialect against the influences of Tuscan<br />
Italian, and points to the importance of dialect poetry for Neapolitan literature. He<br />
begins with a general assessment of the characteristics of Neapolitan dialect and its<br />
grammar, covering syntax, spelling etc. In the second part he deals with origin of the<br />
language, and its changing fortunes. He covers Sicilian and Puglian language, and<br />
traces its influence in Italian. He gives numerous bi-lingual examples from Boccaccio,<br />
relevant glossaries, and concludes with a catalogue of works written in Neapolitan<br />
dialect.<br />
The second edition, published ten years later also included the beginnings of a<br />
dictionary of words unique to the Neapolitan dialect, later completed by Galiani's<br />
fellow academicians and entitled Vocabolario delle parole del dialetto napoletano,<br />
che più siscostano dal dialetto toscano, con alcune ricerche etimologiche sulle<br />
medesime degli Accademici Filopatridi.<br />
Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787), a Neapolitan envoy to the Court of Paris, is better<br />
known as the author of Della Moneta, 'the best of many treatises published in Italy<br />
on money'. Galiani, who during his ten years in France had immersed himself in the<br />
ideas of the French enlightenment, but kept intact his Italian heritage, the ideas of<br />
Vico and Machiavelli, and his interest in the Italian language. He was an important<br />
figure in the principal salons of Paris, and was in close contact with the most<br />
influential figures of the time.<br />
Not in Zaunmüller, or Robert A. Hall, A bibliography of Italian linguistics, 1941, who<br />
only records the second edition (Hall 3357); OCLC records copies at Berkeley, Yale,<br />
Harvard, Maryland, Austin, Texas, Cornell and Oxford.
Pocket Bibliography of Italian Literature<br />
31.<br />
[GAMBA, Bartolommeo.] Indice Manuale tratto dal libro: Serie d'<br />
Testi di Lingua Italiana, opera nuovamente compilata ed arrichita di<br />
un'appendice conteniente altri scrittori di purgata favella da<br />
Bartolommeo Gamba. Milano, dalla Stamperia Realer 1812, parti due<br />
in 18. Milan, Giovanni Pirotta, 1812. £ 250<br />
32mo, pp. 96; contemporary red-roan backed red boards, spine ruled<br />
and lettered in gilt, sides with gilt rule; extremities a little rubbed, a fine<br />
copy.<br />
First edition of this handy abbreviated pocket version of Gamba's bibliography of<br />
Italian literature.<br />
Renouard 3380.<br />
Critique of Women's Luxury<br />
32.<br />
[GAZANO, Michele Antonio.] Invettive contro il Lusso Femminile<br />
Odierno. [Cagliari, Stamperia Reale.], 1780. £ 650<br />
Small 12mo, pp. [12] with 40 numbered stanzas; contemporary patternpaper<br />
wrappers.<br />
First and apparently only edition of this outspoken critique of female luxury and<br />
wastefulness of the time. Written in forty numbered eight-line stanzas, the author<br />
pillories extravagance, which impoverishes fathers and husbands alike. He<br />
complains that women are decked out as if on their way to a carnival, decorated with<br />
flashy watches, pearls etc, and deplores the fatal attraction of women.<br />
The author Gazano (1712-1785) also wrote on the history of Sardegna.<br />
Melzi, II, p. 41; very rare, just the British Library copy located; not in RLIN/OCLC.<br />
Ladies Depicted<br />
33.<br />
[GEISLER, Adam Friedrich ed.] Gallerie edler Deutscher<br />
Frauenzimmer mit getroffenen Schattenrissen, nebst andern Kupfern<br />
und Vignetten. 1stes Heft, Band I [-4tes Heft. Band II]. [engraved<br />
title: Schattenrisse edler deutscher Frauenzimmer]. Dessau und<br />
Leipzig, Buchhandlung der Gelehrten, 1784-85. £ 3500
Four parts bound in two volumes, 8vo, engraved title, pp. [viii], 168 with<br />
four hand-coloured silhouettes; [xvi], [169]-264, 267-384, [4] blank, with<br />
five hand-coloured silhouettes; [x], 201 with six hand-coloured<br />
silhouettes and one black and white silhouette ; [30], [203]-356 with four<br />
hand-coloured silhouettes; contemporary half calf over paste-paper<br />
covered boards, spine gilt in compartments, two gilt-lettered lettering<br />
and numbering pieces; foot of spine chipped, with small portion missing<br />
from spine covering of volume I; a fine set from the Königl. Sächsischen<br />
Schullehrer Seminar Borna, with stamp to both titles, and an early<br />
ownership inscription from a woman reader.<br />
First edition, rare found complete, of this charming gallery of German women,<br />
giving biographical, literary and social information illustrated with hand-coloured<br />
silhouettes. Included are ladies of political importance such as Catherine the Great,<br />
Elisabeth Christina of Russia, Sophie Charlotte, wife of George III, and Marie<br />
Antoinette, but also writers, such as Philippine Engelhard, née Gatterer, and the<br />
actress and writer Sophie Albrecht, Sophie von La Roche. The final section is taken<br />
up by aristocratic and middle class ladies who presumably paid for the privilege of<br />
being included. The articles give extensive biographical information on the public<br />
figures, more personal details on the less well known ones. In all a charming set,<br />
documenting women in the late eighteenth century. The extensive subscribers' list<br />
indicates that the volume was popular.<br />
The finely engraved silhouettes within an oval decorated frame are particularly<br />
appealing, and very unusual in their detailed hand-colouring. The initial decorated<br />
frames are left empty, for the inclusion of the silhouette of the purchaser.<br />
The work is bibliographically complicated, as it often gets confused with another<br />
publication entitled Schattenrisse edler teutscher Frauenzimmer; oder offenherzige<br />
und unpartheyische Nachrichten von jetzt-lebenden, berühmten, schönen und<br />
biedern Damen, also published in 1784, 85 but concentrating exclusively on ladies<br />
from Upper and Lower Saxony.<br />
Jahrbuch der Sammlung Kippenberg, vol I, 1921, no. 29; see Hayn-Gotendorf VII, 126<br />
(rar)(volume I) and Hayn-Gotendorf II, p. 492; very rare, OCLC lists just one copy at<br />
Goettingen.<br />
Speech at the Royal Society<br />
34.<br />
GONZAGA DI CASTIGLIONE, Luigi. L'Homme de Lettres, bon<br />
Citoyen, Discours philosophique & politique de son Altesse<br />
Monseigneur le Prince Louis Gonzaga de Castiglione: prononce à<br />
l'Académie des Arcades, à Rome l'année 1776. Traduit de l'Italien.<br />
Geneva, 1777. £ 450
4to, engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. cxxiv, with title vignette and<br />
decorated initials; printed on heavy paper; contemporary full mottled<br />
calf, spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label, sides with decorative gilt<br />
floral tooling; a few manuscript corrections in the text; heraldic<br />
bookplate to front paste-down and contemporary ownership inscription<br />
to front free endpaper; possibly a large paper copy.<br />
First edition, rare, of the French translation of Il Letterato Buon Cittadino, by the<br />
Italian Enlightenment author Luigi Gonzaga di Castiglione, together with his Essay<br />
Analytique sur les Decouvertes Capitales de l'Esprit Humain, a speech he had given<br />
at the London Royal Society the same year, and finally his essay on poetry,<br />
Réflexions su la Poesie. Gonzaga di Castiglione (1745-1819), a maverick<br />
Enlightenment figure, of noble birth and independent means but who renounced his<br />
title, was clearly influenced by Rousseau and other figures of the European<br />
Enlightenment. He was at home in Venice, Rome, Paris and in London, where he<br />
spoke at the Royal Society.<br />
In the title essay Gonzaga di Castiglione differs from his 'hero' Rousseau and<br />
professes the importance of literature as a source of happiness and a means to<br />
illuminate politics, the law and all human activity. The contribution of the writer is as<br />
important as that of the scientist in fighting ignorance and falsehood, and as an<br />
embodiment of the new values of intelligence, creativity and virtue. Gonzaga di<br />
Castiglione comes out in support of a constitutional monarchy, and was arguably the<br />
first to talk of liberty and democracy in Rome.<br />
In his Royal Academy essay he suggests the application of modern scientific methods<br />
to the study of modern social and political questions, to the relationship between the<br />
Church and the State, and praises the enlightened rulers of the time, who have<br />
turned their back on despotism.<br />
Barbier II, 855 (edition limited to one hundred copies only); RLIN lists just one copy,<br />
at Harvard.<br />
Goudar's European Peace Project<br />
35.<br />
[GOUDAR, Ange.] La Paix de l'Europe ne peut s'etablir qu'a la suite<br />
d'une longue treve ou Projet de Pacification génerale. Combiné par<br />
une suspension d'Armes de vingt ans, entre toutes les Puissances<br />
Politiques. Par M. le Chevalier G***. Amsterdam, Chatelain, 1757.<br />
£ 2400<br />
12mo, pp. [viii], xxxviii, with one blank; 3-244,, xxiv, marginal paper<br />
fault in A2, no loss; contemporary half tan sheep over pale yellow<br />
boards, spine in compartments, ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label,<br />
foot of spine chipped, and leather a little dry; a fine and very clean and<br />
crisp copy, from the L.G. Larue collection, and with circular stamp of<br />
Bibliotheca Comitum de Goertz to title page.
First edition, very uncommon, of Ange Goudar's world peace plan, published before<br />
Rousseau's Extrait led to a revival of the European peace plan by Castel de Saint<br />
Pierre. Goudar proposes to replace the culture of war with a kind of European<br />
republic and anticipates the model of a League of Nations, with an international<br />
army. Within it all the European powers were bound by a system of treatises, in<br />
effect a system of truces, with stringent penalties for breaking the truce. The<br />
offending state would be liable for all expenses incurred.<br />
His treatise is clearly arranged, he studies various reasons that cause war, points in<br />
particular to economic ones, and maintains that the transatlantic colonies, the influx<br />
of excess gold etc have contributed to the instability of the European system. He<br />
concludes with an eleven-point plan for a twenty-year European truce<br />
Interestingly Goudar's work was translated into Russian in 1789, and possibly<br />
influenced Malinowski's Réflexions sur le problème de la guerre et de la paix.<br />
Goudar's peace plan was re-issued in 1760 and 1761, presumably to coincide with<br />
Rousseau's publication Extrait du projet de paix perpetuelle de Monsieur l'abbe de<br />
Saint-Pierre.<br />
Mars 37; Van den Dungen, From Erasmus to Tolstoy. The Peace Literature of Four<br />
Centuries; Jacob ter Meulen's Bibliographies of the Piace Movement before 1899, p.<br />
70; see Raumer, Ewiger Friede, p. 177; OCLC records copies at Cambridge, Berkeley,<br />
Hagley Museum, Newberry, New York Historical Society and John Carter Brown<br />
only.<br />
Arts & Society<br />
36.<br />
GOUDAR, Ange and Sara. Relation Historique des divertissemens de<br />
l'Automne de Toscane ou Lettre de Madame Sara Goudar sur ce Sujet<br />
à Mylord ***. [1775?]. £ 1200<br />
8vo, pp. 46; uncut in contemporary decorative wrappers; lower wrapper<br />
frayed and with some marginal loss; a little dog-eared and spine<br />
chipped; an attractive copy.<br />
An interesting report on contemporary ballet and theatre by Sara Goudar, wife of the<br />
adventurer, political writer and friend of Casanova, Ange Goudar. The work is in the<br />
form of letters addressed to their acquaintance John Child, second Earl Tilney, who<br />
lived for over thirty years between Florence and Naples, and was very interested in<br />
music and dance. The letters were published in a number of editions, all very<br />
uncommon between 1774 and 1776.<br />
After some general remarks on the respective merits of music, theatre, ballet and<br />
dance, Sara Goudar gives reviews of a number of performances in Florence,<br />
beginning with Perseus and Andromeda, with the music by Giuseppe Gazaniga, and<br />
Corneille's Le Cid, with details of the plot, leading artists and the orchestra. Practical<br />
information is also included, such as prices of tickets, visiting troupes, programs of<br />
other theatres, etc., followed by general gossip regarding Lord Hamilton.
The works is of some importance as an early report on ballet, see Derra de Moroda<br />
1124 and Magreil, A Bibliography of Dancing, p. 112.<br />
Mars 114; Childs, Casanoviana 445; no further copies found of this edition in RLIN<br />
and OCLC; two other editions with different pagination were published the same<br />
year, OCLC lists copies at Yale, Chicago and Utrecht of one (pp. 64) and Utrecht and<br />
UCLA of the other one (pp. 35,1).<br />
On Love and Sexuality<br />
37.<br />
HAEDUS, Petrus. Anterotica, sive de Amoris Generibus. [colophon]<br />
Accuratissime impressum Tarvisii per Gerardum de Flandria. Anno<br />
saluts M.CCCC.XCII, die XIII Octobris sub magnifico Praetore<br />
Augustino Foscarini. [Traviso, Gerardus de Lisa de Flandria, 13<br />
October 1492. £ 8500<br />
Small 4to, [197 x 146mm] ll. [vi], 97, including final blank; printed in a<br />
distinctive Roman font, initial spaces with guide letters; very small<br />
single wormhole to blank margin of first few leaves; very light spotting<br />
to title, else clean and crisp; eighteenth century vellum boards, giltlettered<br />
spine label, spine discoloured; eighteenth century manuscript<br />
note to front free endpaper.<br />
First and only incunable edition of this early courtesy book composed for the benefit<br />
of the author's nephew, a student a Padua university. Written in the form of a<br />
dialogue between Haedus, the poet Aemilianus Cimbriacus, who takes the position<br />
in praise of love, and the priest Antonino Filermo, who exposes all the evils and<br />
problems caused by love and passion. Haedeus sides with Filermo, and gives advice<br />
on love and sexuality. He covers passion, sexual attraction, marital relations, conduct<br />
and behaviour. Interestingly he also discusses of more practical concerns such as<br />
jewellery and hairstyles. The work is prefixed by an introductory poem by<br />
Aemilianus Cimbriacus.<br />
Haedus's early work Amores, written under the influence of being rejected by his<br />
beloved, can be seen as an earlier treatment of the same subject. It was clearly<br />
popular, with later editions following in 1503 and 1607<br />
Not much is known about Haedus (1427-1504), also known as Pietro Cavretto. He<br />
was a priest from the Pordenone in Friuli, and part of the circle around Gerardo di<br />
Lisa, Cimbriacus, and Iacopo Gordino. Brunet (III 10) praised the elegant small<br />
Roman type face and described the book as rare.<br />
Bodleian Library XVth Century <strong>Books</strong>, H-001; BMC VI 885; Gesamtkatalog der<br />
Wiegendrucke 12109; Goff H2; Hain Copinger 8343; Polain (B) 1843; Wellcome, 3040;<br />
not in Gay; DBI 19, pp. 186-189; Brunet III 10 'Lédition est Impr. En petits caract.<br />
Forts nets. Et les exemplaires en sont rares.'
Orthopedic Museum Catalogue - Bound in Blue Silk<br />
38.<br />
HEINE, Johann Georg. Verzeichniss des systematischen Bestandes<br />
des Modellen-Kabinettes im Carolinen-Institut zu Würzburg oder<br />
Systematische Darstellumg aller orthopädischen Krankheitsformen<br />
an besondern Kunstfiguren mit den entsprechenden<br />
Heilungsapparaten, und ähnlichen, die Beinbrüche und<br />
Ausrenkungen darstellenden, Figuren nut ihren gehörigen<br />
Heilungsapparaten und einer historischen Sammlung der bereits<br />
behandelten orthopädischen Krankheitsformen in Gips-Abdrücken,<br />
so wie der Modelle aller orthopädischen Maschinen, welche von<br />
Andern älterer und neuerer Zeiten erfunden worden, als specieller<br />
oder technischer getrennter Theil des 1826 erschienenen ersten Theil<br />
des Werkes vom Lehrsystem der Orthopädie. Würzburg: for the<br />
Authors, 1827. £ 1200<br />
4to, title-page and pp. lxx, 46, [4] index, [1] errata; deep blue silk, covers<br />
bordered in gilt and with central device in gilt, spine ruled in gilt and<br />
with paper label, spine faded and slightly rubbed at head and foot, lilac<br />
end-papers, all edges gilt; a splendid copy.<br />
First edition, a description of the cabinet of instruments of Johann Georg Heine, the<br />
forefather of German orthopaedics. In 1798 Heine was appointed to the post of<br />
instrument maker to Würzburg university. In 1816 he founded the first orthopaedic<br />
institution in Germany. Set up in the former Stephans monastery in Würzburg, in<br />
1822 he was given permission by Queen Caroline of Bavaria to call it the Carolinen-<br />
Institute.<br />
Contained here are the descriptions of all the instruments and apparatus in the<br />
Kabinet at the Institute together with a history of their design, development and use.<br />
OCLC lists copies at Minnesota Biomedical Library, the National Library of<br />
Medicine, and Bavarian State Library only.<br />
Medical Negligence Trial<br />
39.<br />
HORN, [Anton Ludwig] Ernst. Oeffentliche Rechenschaft über meine<br />
zwölfjährige Dienstführung als zweiter Arzt des Königl. Charité-<br />
Krankenhauses zu Berlin, nebst Erfarhungen über Krankenhäuser<br />
und Irrrenanstalten. Mit 6 Kupfern. Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung,<br />
1818. £ 550
8vo, pp. xii, 333, [1] errata, with five printed tables in the text and six<br />
engraved fold-out plates bound at the end; contemporary pale-blue<br />
glazed boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; some wear to<br />
foot of spine where a shelf-label has been removed; with discard stamp<br />
of the Standesherrschaft Königsbrück and Sächsische Landesbibliothek<br />
to title and verso of title; a very clean and crisp copy; manuscript note to<br />
front free endpaper.<br />
First edition of this detailed account of hospital management and procedures by<br />
Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn, head of the Berlin Charité between 1806 and 1818. Horn<br />
begins with a brief description of the structure and history of the Charité, before<br />
giving a very close account of its economic situation, with detailed figures of patient<br />
numbers, expenses for pharmaceuticals, food and drink, salaries, building and<br />
maintenance etc. In the second half Horn concentrates on the mental hospital within<br />
the Charité, of which he was the head physician. He gives a detailed account of<br />
medical procedures and the treatment of patients. Sample therapy sessions are<br />
described and analysed on the folding tables. Some of the more bizarre equipment<br />
used to restrain and treat mental patients is illustrated on the folding engraved plates<br />
at the end.<br />
Horn (1774-1848) is generally considered the first practicing psychiatrist at the<br />
Charité Hospital. In the early nineteenth century psychiatry as a scientific discipline<br />
was still in its infancy. It was generally believed that mental illness was largely due<br />
to physical suffering, and mechanical devices were used for therapeutic purposes.<br />
Horn was well-known for the use of various restraining and coercive devices in his<br />
treatment of mental patients, centrifugal devices, such as rotating beds and rotating<br />
chairs for treatment of hysteria. Horn had to leave his position at the Charité, when<br />
he was denounced by a colleague for his treatment of mental patients. This<br />
publication was written as a documentation of his work at the Charité and a defence<br />
of his procedures.<br />
Not in Wellcome; OCLC lists National Library of Medicine, Chicago, and Yale.<br />
40.<br />
[INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.] Rapporto della Pu bblica Esposizione<br />
di Arti e Manifatture Toscane eseguita in Firenze nel Settembre 1841<br />
redatto da una Deputazione eletta dalla Commissione incaricata<br />
dell'esame delle Manifatture e dell'aggiudicazione de' Premi.<br />
Florence, Stamperia Piatti, 1841. £ 550<br />
8vo, pp. xvi, 47, [1] blank, second signature misbound, but complete, last<br />
signature folded; some insignificant worming to lower margin; recent<br />
wrappers.<br />
First edition of the official report of the Second Tuscan Industrial Exhibition, held in<br />
1841. By Royal decree a one-month exhibition of the products of Tuscan artisans and
manufacturing industry had been organised in 1839, to be repeated every third year.<br />
However, this second exhibition already took place in 1841, to coincide with the<br />
national conference of Italian scientists.<br />
The report begins with a running account of the various fields included, naming<br />
winners in the difference categories, but also pointing out general developments in<br />
industry. Covered are silk, felt, leather, straw hats, wool, cotton and linen fabrication,<br />
paper manufacturing, metal works, chemical production, glass manufacture, optical<br />
instruments, and luxury goods. The industrial exhibition is clearly designed to<br />
represent 'unique' industrial products, rather than similar items from a variety of<br />
producers. At the end the 120 exhibitors are listed, with their special product, and<br />
where applicable the prizes won.<br />
Not in Carpenter, European Industrial Exhibitions Before 1851 and their<br />
Publications, where the reports of the 1839 and the 1844 exhibitions are listed.<br />
Uncommon, KVK lists just one copy at Oxford…??<br />
St. Petersburg Printing<br />
41.<br />
JOVELLANOS, Gaspar Melchior. L'Identité de l'Intérêt général avec<br />
l'Intérêt individuel, ou la libre action de l'Intérêt individual est la<br />
vraie source des richesses des nations. Principe exposé dans le<br />
rapport sur un projet de loi agraire, adressé au conseil supreme de<br />
Castille au nom de la société économique de Madrid. St. Petersbourg,<br />
Drechsler, 1806. £ 750<br />
8vo, pp. [x], 282, printed on thick paper; contemporary full calf, spine<br />
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, sides with gilt rue; a.e.g;<br />
extremities a little rubbed, but a fine copy.<br />
First edition in French of this landmark in liberal reform in the Spanish<br />
enlightenment. First published in 1795, Jovellanos' 'Informe .. en el expediente de la<br />
ley agraria', is translated by Rouvier and dedicated to the Russian minister of the<br />
Interior, count de Kotchoubey. Together with Campomanes, Jovellanos was is the<br />
main exponent of Spanish economic Liberalism, a heroic statesman dedicated to<br />
progressive change in a conservative society.<br />
The present work is in fact a report made to the Supreme Council of Castille for the<br />
Sociedad Económica of Madrid. 'The document, still a classic in Spain contains a<br />
clear and methodical exposition of the obstacles to Spanish agricultural progress,<br />
obstacles including not only the nature of the soil and adverse climatic conditions,<br />
but also existing law and custom. To remedy the situation he advocated irrigation<br />
and improved roads, the break up, for sale of lease, of the commons and waste lands,<br />
the abrogation of the privileges of the Mesta and the education of the peasants. He<br />
favoured free trade in grain within the country but objected to its export and<br />
believed that its importation should be limited.' (IESS). Jovellanos was strongly<br />
influenced by Adam Smith whom he cites here, and in fact he translated parts of the<br />
Wealth of Nations. 'Jovellanos wrote boldly and extensively on other questions of
economic policy but his fame as an economist rests largely on his treatise on agrarian<br />
reform' (Robert Sydney Smith, The Wealth of Nations in Spain and Hispanic America<br />
1780-1830, JPE 65, no. 2, pp. 106-108).<br />
It is interesting to note that this first French translation was published in St.<br />
Petersburg, sumptuously produced and with a more political title, which pointedly<br />
indicates the convergence of private and public interest. Jovellanus, who had a rather<br />
varied political career, was in the late 1790s called to become Ambassador to Russia,<br />
but before he left Spain was made instead Minister of Justice; shortly afterward,<br />
however, he was arrested again for political reasons and spent the following 7 years<br />
in exile in Mallorca.<br />
Goldsmiths'-Kress 19186; OCLC lists copies at Yale and NEHA only; see Colmeiro<br />
235 and Palau 125242 for first edition.<br />
Ice Cream and Sorbet<br />
42.<br />
LANDRIANI, Gioseffantonio. La Pratica del Distillatore, e<br />
Confettiere Italiane…In cui s'insegna a far Conserve di Frutti, e di<br />
Agrumi, ed a formar Gelati, Mazapani, e Rosoglj d'ogni qualità.<br />
Pavia, [n.p.], 1785. £ 1000<br />
12mo, pp. 76; uncut in contemporary decorated paper boards; some light<br />
damp-staining; corners worn; upper board lettered in manuscript.<br />
First edition, very rare, of this guide to the production of sorbets, ice creams and<br />
granitas. Of particular interest is the detailed description of cream ices and frozen<br />
custard, made with eggs, cream and sugar rather than flavoured water and sugar.<br />
Detailed instructions are given for the production of ices in the shape of various<br />
fruits - still today a mainstay of the elegant Italian gelateria. The second part is<br />
devoted to various recipes for marzipan, and the manufacture of marzipan fruits and<br />
vegetables. Smaller sections deal with liqueurs and flavoured drinks.<br />
Frozen custards became popular at the time, and this work was reprinted in 1816,<br />
1820, and 1823.<br />
<strong>Rare</strong>, this first edition not in B.IN.G, Paleari, Westbury, Vicaire or Bitting; no copy of<br />
this first edition found in RLIN, OCLC or NUC; see B.IN.G 1084 and 1085 for later<br />
editions.<br />
Hamburg Maritime Law<br />
43.<br />
LANGENBECK, Herman. Anmerckungen über das Hamburgische<br />
Schiff- und See-Recht, wie solches in den XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII,<br />
XVIII und XIX Tituln des andern Theils Stadt-Buchs enthalten, und
die dahin gehörige Rechte der Admiralität, Assecurance, Avarie,<br />
Dispache, Pilotage, des Schiff-Bauers, der Strand- und Bergung,<br />
Dupe und Haven, wie auch der Grönlandischen Fahrt, nach dieser<br />
Stadt, wie auch allgemeinen und verschiedener Nationen Uhralten,<br />
Alten und Jüngern See-Rechten. Hamburg, auf Kosten des Herrn<br />
Autoris, Johann Georg Piscator, 1727. £ 1000<br />
4to, pp.60, 531, [37]; title page in red and black, woodcut initials and<br />
head and tail pieces and vignettes; very lightly browned throughout,<br />
due to paper quality; contemporary half vellum, sprinkled boards, gilt<br />
lettering directly to spine; corners bumped and spine darkened; still a<br />
good copy.<br />
First edition of Langenbeck's important history of Hamburg's maritime law.<br />
Langenbeck begins with the legislation of the Hanseatic League and Wisby's code of<br />
law. He states and explains usage of all aspects of the law as it affects maritime life,<br />
and gives clear reference to relevant codification. He starts with ship-building and its<br />
inherent legal problems, and discusses questions regarding the ship's crew, i.e.<br />
employment and discipline, lines of command, health and safety, and maritime<br />
jurisdiction. An extensive section deals with bottomry, i.e. the contract whereby the<br />
owner of a ship borrows money to enable the vessel to complete the voyage with the<br />
ship being pledged as security - and marine insurance. Chapters deal with<br />
shipwrecks, damaged ships, piracy, and mutiny.<br />
In further sections Langenbeck specifies marine jurisdiction and procedure as<br />
administered by the admiralty. Interestingly this also includes the wording of all<br />
oaths to be sworn by the ship's command, and makes special provisions to assist<br />
those seamen, who have been sold into slavery by pirates.<br />
Langenbeck (1668-1729), Hamburg senator and lawyer, came from a family of noted<br />
Hamburg jurists. A second edition of his work was published in 1740.<br />
Kayser, Hamburger Bücher p. 106; Schröder IV, 2155.6; OCLC lists copies at Harvard,<br />
Princeton, Columbia, Northwestern, University of Michigan Law Library and the US<br />
Naval Library.<br />
National Heritage Protected by Law<br />
44.<br />
[LAW - ART PROTECTION.] Chirografo della Santità di nostro<br />
Signore Papa Pio VII in data del primo Ottobre 1802. sulle Antichità,<br />
e Belle Arti in Roma, e nello Stato Ecclesiastico. Con editto dell' Eo, e<br />
Rmo Signor Cardinal Giuseppe Doria Pamphili pro-Camerlengo di<br />
Santa Chiese. Roma, Lazzarini Stampatore della Rev. Cam. Apost.,<br />
1802.<br />
[Together with:] Editto dell' Emo e Rmo Sig. Cardinal Pacca,<br />
Camerlengo di S. Chiesa sopra le Antichità, e gli Scavi, publicato li 7.
Aprile 1820. Roma, Vincenzo Poggioli Stampatore della Rev. Cam.<br />
Apost, 1820. £ 6500<br />
Two works; Folio, pp. 16; 14, [2] blank; both with papal arms to title<br />
page; uncut and folded, as issued; wrap-around title a little spotted (no.<br />
I) and stained (no. II), but clean and crisp on the inside.<br />
First edition, very rare, of these two highly important documents, which constitute<br />
the first attempt to regulate the exportation of works of art and to protect national<br />
heritage. Napoleon's spoliation of Italian art in the course of the French occupation<br />
wreaked havoc on the Italian artistic and cultural landscape. Even though the looting<br />
of art as one of the spoils of war and conflict has a long history, it experienced new<br />
heights under Napoleon, and Paris became a repository for art treasures and its<br />
collections were enriched by Napoleon's conquests.<br />
In 1802 Pope Pius VII enacted new regulations for the Vatican in order to protect the<br />
heritage. He requested that an art registry of all kinds of immovable and movable<br />
pieces of art, belonging either to the church or to private citizens be listed, and their<br />
export prohibited. This formed the first step toward cultural heritage planning and<br />
was the beginning of a comprehensive body of law preserving national heritage.<br />
The first comprehensive body of laws on this subject was the edict produced by<br />
Cardinal Pacca and promulgated on 7th April 1820. It was intended to regulate the<br />
licences for digging (which despite all the attempts paid in the past, were still out of<br />
the control of the authorities); it aimed at checking the exportations of fine goods by<br />
introducing heavy taxes; and it formed the foundation for an inventory map of the<br />
fine arts that had to be strictly controlled by the Vatican.<br />
It also drafted a system of administrative bodies appointed to guarantee the<br />
preservation of the heritage through a permanent committee based in Rome and<br />
other representatives spread across the territory.<br />
This edict represents an important reference frame for the whole future of Italian<br />
law.<br />
On the basis of this legal framework Canova argued for the restitution of antiquities<br />
and ancient masterpieces. He maintained that art and antiquities were part of a<br />
context from which they neither could nor should be removed, and that it was the<br />
context that gave them their fullest meaning.<br />
Montorsi 28.1.24 and 28.1.43; OCLC lists copies at Louisiana State, the Uffizi in<br />
Florence and University of Leiden; for further information see Christoph M.S. Johns,<br />
Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage, 2003; F. Bottani, L'Italia dei Tesori,<br />
Legislazione dei beni culturali, p. 73.<br />
Zoological Wunderkammer<br />
45.<br />
LINDROTH, Peter Gustaf.. Museum naturalium Grillianum<br />
Söderforssiense institutum anno 1783, & in catalogo redactum anno<br />
1788. Stockholm, A. J. Nordström, 1788.
[bound after:] LUNDSTRÖM, Johan. Söderfors ankar-bruks historia.<br />
Uppsala, J. Edmans enka, [1791]. £ 1150<br />
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. 21, [3] blank; 47, [5] privilege,<br />
explanation of the plates, with one large folding engraved map and one<br />
folding printed table (printed on recto and verso); a wide-margined<br />
copy; engraved title vignette and typographic head and tail pieces to I;<br />
contemporary half calf with raised bands; discreet repairs to spine; with<br />
the early ownership signature of P. E. Bergfalk and modern bookplate of<br />
Gunnar Brusewitz.<br />
First editions of both works, both relating to Söderförs.<br />
I. The rare catalogue of the zoological Museum Grillianum in Söderfors in Sweden, a<br />
collection which included forty-five mammals, 285 species of birds, and 576<br />
conchiliae. The museum was kept by Adolph Ulric Grill (1752-1797), whose father<br />
had purchased the dilapidated Söderfors iron works in 1748, and had with extensive<br />
investment had turned them around, to become the biggest Swedish exporter of iron,<br />
copper, lumber and naval stores. Grill's collection reflected the scholarly inclinations<br />
of the period, in which wealthy amateurs were fascinated by the achievements of<br />
Linnaeus and others. His father had corresponded with Linnaeus and donated a<br />
collection of specimens to Uppsala University. Adolph Ulric, however, was wealthy<br />
enough to send agents to far-away countries such as Greenland and China to bring<br />
back specimens of the local fauna for his collections. His collection included the last<br />
specimen of the extinct Kapska blåbocken, provided for him by the naturalist<br />
Thunberg. The Grilli Museum was donated to the Stockholm Museum for Natural<br />
History, where some of his specimen are still preserved today.<br />
A contemporary anonymous reviewer in Magazin für das Neueste aus der Physik<br />
und der Naturgeschichte comments on the fact that zoological museums have<br />
become increasingly unfashionable and are clearly superseded by the natural history<br />
collection<br />
II. First edition of this early company history, the account of the process of founding<br />
and running the Söderfors Anchor Works, an early modern iron works. Because of its<br />
exemplary character, this publication has been translated and published as a special<br />
publication by the Baker Library. Lundström gives a detailed account both of the<br />
running of the iron works, but also of its original foundation, the investments<br />
necessary, labour organisation and accommodation, in short a blueprint of<br />
mercantilist factory organisation.<br />
He also includes some information on the Museum Grillianum, giving details of the<br />
exhibition space, how for example the birds are displayed in boxes with glass fronts,<br />
and cover one whole wall. The collection of snails and shells are displayed on tables,<br />
lined with blue silk, and arranged according to the Linnean system. Lundström<br />
states that since Lindroth's catalogue of 1788 numerous additions to the collections<br />
had been made, adding 9 mammals, 106 birds, and 50 snails and shells.<br />
From the collection of the nineteenth century Swedish economist and professor at<br />
Uppsale university P.E. Bergfalk, with his ownership signature to front paste-down.
A copy of this catalogue was in the collection of the natural historian Joseph Banks;<br />
not in Grinke, no see Hedin, L.-H. (translated editor), Johan Lundström, the History<br />
of Söderfors Anchor-Works,<br />
The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph<br />
46.<br />
MAGRINI, Luigi. Telegrafo elettro-magnetico practicabile a grandi<br />
distanze. Con Tavole. Venice, Alvisopoli 1838. £ 900<br />
Tall 8vo (230 x 150mm), pp. 86, [1] contents, [1] blank, 4 fold-out plates<br />
bound at the end; uncut and partly unopened in the original printed<br />
wrappers; with a presentation inscription by the author to Prof.<br />
Benedetto dal Vecchio in ink at head of upper wrapper.<br />
First edition of this early paper on the invention of the electromagnetic telegraph by<br />
Luigi Magrini (1802-1868), professor of physics and applied mathematics. He gives<br />
an overview of telegraphs and electrical telegraphs before concentrating on the<br />
electromagnetic telegraph of his own invention, based on the understanding of the<br />
link between magnetic and electric phenomena. He includes extensive technical<br />
detail and calculations, and various details of his device are illustrated on the<br />
engraved plates.<br />
Magrini concludes with an interesting appendix in which he explains that his own<br />
discovery preceded the experiments by Wheatstone and Steinheil by a few months,<br />
and how while his publication was already at the printers the first news of<br />
Wheatstone's and Steinheil's experiments on the same subject became public.<br />
Wheatstone had his first patent granted in 1837, and together with Cooke is credited<br />
with the first commercial use of the electromagnetic telegraph, whereas Steinheil is<br />
generally acknowledged to have founded electromagnetic telegraphy in Austria.<br />
Ronalds, 316; Rossetti & Cantoni, Bibliografia italiana di elettricità e magnetismo, 56.<br />
The First Marck Sale<br />
47.<br />
[AUCTION CATALOGUE - MARCK.] Bibliotheca Marckiana,<br />
continens Theologicos, Juridicos, Politico, Philosophicos, Medicos,<br />
Historiam naturalem, Mathematicos, Geographicos, Chronologicos,<br />
Historicos, Genealogicos, Heraldicos, Vitas & Elegia, … quorum<br />
omnium publica siet Auctio. in Taberna Libraria Abrahami de<br />
Hondt, Bibliopolae ad diem 31. Octobr. & sequent. 1712. The Hague,<br />
Abraham de Hondt, 1712. £ 1450<br />
Three parts in one volumes, 8vo, engraved title by Bernard Picart, pp.<br />
[xviii], 192; 250; 284, [1] one leaf bound in with mss addition of the
individual sales totals; decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces;<br />
contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, sides<br />
with triple gilt rule; head and tail of spine chipped, joints worn and<br />
corners rubbed; from the library of Henry Grey, Duke of Kent with his<br />
book-plate to front paste-down.<br />
First edition, rare, of this extensive priced auction catalogue of the Marck library.<br />
Nearly nine and a half thousand titles are listed, divided by format and then in<br />
detailed subject groupings. Areas covered include predictably theology, but also law,<br />
politics, philosophy, history, medicine, emblem and illustrated books, mathematics,<br />
and travel. The collection includes many 15th and 16th century books as well as early<br />
manuscripts. The catalogue is priced throughout in a contemporary hand, with a<br />
final adding up of the sales' total on a separate leaf bound in at the end. Because of its<br />
comprehensiveness this auction catalogue was recommended in early bibliographical<br />
manuals (Struve-Jugler and Schelhorn, Anleitung für Bibliothekare und Archivare,<br />
1791).<br />
There appears to be some confusion as to whose library this really was: NUC puts it<br />
under Henricus Hadrianus van der Marck, the British Library under Joannes à<br />
Marck, a professor of theology and Blogie attributes the catalogue to Thomas<br />
Nicolaas van der Marck.<br />
The books, or at least are large proportion of them, were in 1727 sold at auction<br />
again, entitled Bibliotheca Marckiana, but then with the owner Henricus Hadrianus<br />
van der Marck mentioned on the title, this time the auction was conducted by Petrus<br />
de Hondt, the son of Abraham. 'Except for the somewhat greater proportion of<br />
incunabula and books from early sixteenth century presses in the 1727 catalogue, the<br />
character of the catalogues is similar' (Taylor, p. 252).<br />
[Provenance:] From the library of Henry Grey (died 1741), the Duke of Kent, with his<br />
engraved book plate (1713) to front paste-down and a further bookplate by Thomas<br />
Philip, earl de Grey of Wrest Park on the inside front cover. <strong>Books</strong> from Wrest Park<br />
were sold by Sotheby's on 29 April - 2 May 1918; October 1920; 21 June 1922; 20 May<br />
1926; 7 - 9 March 1932; 30 October - 1 November 1950 and 18, 19 October 1954, and<br />
by Christie's on 8 November 1978. (Cambridge University Library website).<br />
Taylor, A. Book catalogues. Their varieties and uses, New York, 1986, p. 252; Blogie<br />
IV, 7 (lists under Thomas Nicolaas van der Marck); Book Sales of the Dutch Republic<br />
414; Peignot p. 112.<br />
48.<br />
MELLANI, Giovanni. L'Uomo Straordinario ovvero la Filosofia, la<br />
Politica, e la Morale dell'Incognito Persiano. Rome, Poggioli, 1820. £<br />
550<br />
8vo, pp 76; apparently removed from a Sammelband, as additional page<br />
numbers are added in ink; recent wrappers.
First and apparently only edition of this novel, describing the life, philosophy,<br />
morals and politics of an 'extraordinary man', a Persian Incognito. The novel claims<br />
to be taken from an Arabic manuscript, translated first into Greek, then Latin and<br />
finally Italian. Through the main protagonist 'Incognito' eighteenth century life and<br />
morals are viewed. Well-travelled, both in the East and in the West, Incognito<br />
apparently combines the knowledge of science of all continents. His philosophy<br />
becomes clearer in the second half (pp. 37-73) when some of his writings entitled I<br />
miei Sentimenti e Pensieri are reprinted, a collection of aphoristic statements on life,<br />
philosophy, interpersonal relationships, religion etc in the tradition of Pascal, La<br />
Rochefoucault, or Diderot. The novel ends with the report that the author of these<br />
Sentimenti e Pensieri could not be established, despite research in the archives of<br />
Oxford.<br />
Not found in RLIN or OCLC.<br />
The Economics of Prostitution<br />
49.<br />
[MOET, Jean-Pierre.] Code de Cythère, ou Lit de justice d'Amour.<br />
Erotopolis, chez le Dieu Harpocrates, à l'Enseigne de la Nuit 7746,<br />
[i.e. Paris, 1746].<br />
[Bound with:] [LOUBAYSSIN DE LAMARCA, Francisco.] Histoire<br />
des Cocus. La Haye [Paris], 1746. £ 2000<br />
Two works in one volume, 12mo, pp. [viii], lx, 81, [3] blank; 183, [1]<br />
blank; title vignette, typographic headpieces; contemporary cats-paw<br />
calf, spine decoratively gilt; two-gilt-lettered spine labels; a fine copy<br />
with blind-stamped monogram to title, reading CG with the motto<br />
'toujours prêt'.<br />
An interesting volume combining two clandestine eighteenth century publications,<br />
one a spoof proposal for the economic running of prostitution in Paris, the second a<br />
'roman à cornes', translated from the French.<br />
I. First edition, rare, of this brilliant solution to the problem of prostitution, in fact a<br />
facetious argument for the position that 'the world's oldest profession' is not a<br />
problem at all, but a financial asset to the state. With the help of an elaborate display<br />
of profit and loss accounting, Moet shows how, after nationalisation, prostitution<br />
benefits society and enriches the nation. The Code de Cythère itself consists of fortyone<br />
articles, regulating prostitution in minute detail, in the best tradition of the<br />
Ancien Régime bureaucracy. The work concludes with the final balance sheet for the<br />
state-run prostitution service, where prostitutes are carefully classified and assigned<br />
a sliding scale of maintenance costs. The income generated, again on a sliding scale,<br />
is offset against rent, clothing, administrative and medical costs. Even taking into<br />
account extraneous expenses such as hairdressing and cosmetics, and printing costs<br />
for receipts and 'billets doux', the profit generated for the state is impressive. The<br />
Code de Cythère was reprinted in 1776 as an appendix to Restif de la Bretonne's Le
Pornographe ou la Prostitution réformé. Jean-Pierre Moet (1721-1806), a prolific<br />
writer, is best known for the translation of John Hill's Lucina sine concubitu.<br />
II. Based on the Spanish novel Enganos deste siglo (first published in Paris 1615) this<br />
French imitation with its more direct title History of the Cuckolds inspired the<br />
Marquis de Paulmy to note in his copy that a mere 183 pages were 'bien peu pour un<br />
sujet si étendu'. Earlier French versions had appeared under the more literal title Les<br />
abus du monde (Paris 1618) and Les Tromperies de ce siècle (Paris 1639).<br />
The similarity of the ornaments clearly indicates that the two works were printed at<br />
the same press.<br />
I. Barbier I, 622; Brunet, Imprimeurs imaginaries, p. 63; Cioranescu 45746; Conlon 46,<br />
719; Gay-Lemmonyer I, 606; OCLC and RLIN list just two copies, at UCLA and the<br />
University of Chicago; II. Gay-Lemmonyer II, 539; Jones, List of French Prose Fiction,<br />
p. 92; see Palau 142661.<br />
Entirely Engraved<br />
50.<br />
[MOREAU, Pierre.] Les Sainctes Prières de l'âme chrestienne escrites<br />
et gravées après le naturel de la plume, par P. oreau Me Escrivuain<br />
Juré à Paris. Paris, chez l'autheur, ou au Palais, à la Vérité, 1644.<br />
£ 2400<br />
12mo, ll. [106]; engraved throughout, each plate with engraved border;<br />
paper lightly browned; contemporary Jansenist binding of red morocco,<br />
spine discreetly labelled in gilt, gilt dentelles, a.e.g.; small repair to<br />
upper board; an attractive copy.<br />
A very attractive, entirely engraved, calligraphic prayer-book, designed and<br />
executed by Pierre Moreau, and dedicated to Anne d'Autriche, the wife of Louis XIII.<br />
The work is engraved throughout, in each case the richly decorated border is printed<br />
from one plate, with the text and imagery printed on a separate plate. Particularly<br />
attractive are the depictions of the Seven Deadly sins, the arms of Anne d'Autriche,<br />
and numerous (repeated) flower images. The work was first published in 1631 and<br />
was reprinted numerous times, ie in 1632, 1644, 1649 and 1656.<br />
Moreau is best known as a calligrapher, but also of note for having developed<br />
punches and matrices of some new script-types, in the style of handwriting, He<br />
dedicted that first proofs of these to Louis XIII, which brought him the title of<br />
'Imprimeur du Roy'(Updike I, p. 207).<br />
Bonacini, Bibliografia delle arti scrittorie e della calligrafia, 1228 'rarissima edizione';<br />
Brunet III, p. 1117; OCLC locates copies of this edition at Stanford, Library of<br />
Congress, Newberry, Harvard and Virginia.<br />
Enlightenment Legal Reform<br />
51.
MURATORI, Lodovico Antonio. Dei Difetti della Giurisprudenza.<br />
Venezia, Giambatista Pasquali, 1742. £ 850<br />
Folio in 4s, pp. [viii], 184; title printed in red and black, engraved title<br />
vignette, decorated initials; marginal tear to R1, no loss of text;<br />
contemporary marbled sheep-backed boards, spine ruled and decorated<br />
in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, chipped; a fine, wide-margined copy.<br />
First edition, uncommon, of Muratori's criticism of jurisprudence, in fact the starting<br />
point of the critique of Roman law throughout the eighteenth century, resulting in<br />
far-reaching judicial reforms and the drawing up of modern civil codes. Muratori<br />
pillories the injustice of old feudal privileges and the role of the Catholic Church in<br />
upholding these. He in particular criticises the vast and often contradictory<br />
accumulation of edicts, which made the execution of justice and power difficult. His<br />
critique proved influential on the reform of Tuscan legislature and the presentation<br />
of the Codice Estense. In his treatise Muratori attacked the immobility of the Italian<br />
legislative apparatus. The refusal of the curia to grant reform eventually resulted in<br />
the radical enlightenment reform movement.<br />
Muratori (1672-1750), archivist and librarian in Modena, was one of the greatest<br />
scholars of his time and published extensively in the fields of history, philosophy,<br />
and political economy. This criticism of the legal system proved popular, further<br />
editions followed in 1743, 1744.<br />
L'Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli 367; Sorbelli I, 154.<br />
Presentation Copy - Inscribed by Florence Nightingale<br />
52.<br />
NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Notes on Hospitals. Third Edition,<br />
Enlarged and for the most part Re-written. London, Longman, Green,<br />
Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863. £ 7500<br />
Large 8vo (254 x 178 mm), pp. ix, [i] blank, [i] list of plans, [i] blank, 187.<br />
with 11 folding lithographed plans of hospitals and two very large<br />
folding lithographed city plans, three folding letterpress tables and 35<br />
woodcut illustrations within the text (three full-page); extreme outer<br />
edges of title-page fragile, two leaves (pp. 133-134 and 185-186 with tears<br />
in margins), some light marginal browning; original dark brown<br />
straight-grained cloth, covers ruled in blind and with blind-stamped<br />
central decoration; spine lettered in gilt, corners bumped, neatly and<br />
sympathetically rebacked with the original spine laid down and<br />
appropriate new brown end-papers; presentation copy from Florence<br />
Nightingale inscribed at head of title and with further presentation<br />
history (see below).
Third (first 1859) and most important edition of what is arguably Florence<br />
Nightingale's most important work. "Based upon Nightingale's extensive knowledge<br />
of English and Continental hospitals, the work was the most exhaustive study to date<br />
of hospital planning and administration. She blamed the majority of hospital deaths<br />
on overcrowding, lack of light and ventilation, and the collection of large numbers of<br />
the sick under one roof" (Norman). Nightingale is best remembered, of course, for<br />
alleviating these conditions at the barracks hospital in Scutari during the Crimea<br />
War, gaining the hearts of the British nation and earning the epithet 'The Lady of the<br />
Lamp'.<br />
This edition contains the excessively important papers recommending uniform<br />
hospital statistics together with the forms for achieving those. These were a<br />
breakthrough both in hospital administration and in the gathering of statistical<br />
information with a view to using that information for bettering situations.<br />
Nightingale had first presented these papers at the International Statistical Congress<br />
of 1861. The Congress, which took place in London, was chaired by Adolphe<br />
Quetelet, whom Nightingale greatly admired. The first female to be elected a<br />
member of the Statistical Society (in 1858), Nightingale had worked closely with<br />
William Farr (the society's president and the Registrar General) preparing the<br />
programme for the section of the Congress covering Sanitary statistics and preparing<br />
the papers on hospital statistics. She and Farr did this with the help of Farr's assistant<br />
and right-hand-man, Willliam Hammack (whom Nightingale invariable called<br />
Hammick), to whom this present volume is dedicated. Hammick was amongst those<br />
invited to use Nightingales' rooms in Old Burlington Street and to attend breakfast<br />
parties there during the Congress. Several of Nightigale's letters to William Farr<br />
contain references, or 'messages' to Hammick, usually ones thanking him for his<br />
assistance with her work.<br />
Provenance: This copy if inscribed in Nightingale's hand at the head of the title to<br />
"Mr. Hammick in remembrance of much kind & efficient assistance rendered.<br />
Florence Nightingale London Kinan/63." Twenty years later the book was presented<br />
"To Dr. William Hammond of Nuneaton in remembrance of his kind attention to<br />
James T. Hammick Summer-hill House 18 Dec. 1883" and in 1916 Hammond<br />
presented the book to the Library of the British Medical Association (inscription at<br />
foot of front free end-paper signed and dated September 21st). Tipped on to the inner<br />
margin of the Preface is an accompanying presentation letter from Hammond to the<br />
librarian and the volume bears the stamp of the BMA on the title-page, preface,<br />
index, foot of p. 155 and verso of plan II.<br />
James T. Hammick (Hammack until 1831) was first elected a Fellow of the Society of<br />
Statisticians in 1846. He was employed at the General Register Office and worked as<br />
one of the Census Commissioners. By 1870 he was an Assistant to the Registrar<br />
General and was on two occasions an official representative at International<br />
Statisitical Congresses. He served on the Society's Council from 1861 before<br />
becoming the Treasurer in 1868 and he held that post until 1874 when he resigned<br />
due to ill-health although he remained a member of Council, his name disappearing<br />
from the lists of Council Members and of Fellows after 1878.<br />
Bishop and Goldie 101; see Garrison-Morton 1611; Norman 1599.<br />
53.
[NIGHTINGALE, Florence.] Remarkable six-page Autograph Letter<br />
signed, [London,] 30 Old Burlington Str., 2 June, 1858. £ 900<br />
2 sheets, folded, (181-113mm), written in brown ink, in French; in very<br />
good condition, with traces of old fold marks.<br />
Fine autograph letter signed, written in French addressed to Jean-Jacques Pélissier,<br />
Marechal Duc de Malakoff, French Ambassador to England at the time. Florence<br />
Nightingale writes to him directly, reminding him that they had met before in the<br />
Crimean, 'Je n'ose espérer que votre Excellence daigne conserver un souvenir de<br />
Florence Nightingale en Crimée, directrice du service des femmes dans les<br />
ambulances anglaises' and that there had in fact been some correspondence in 1856,<br />
regarding French ambulance services. She asks for his help, because she is planning<br />
to send an English nurse, whom she had trained in the military hospital 'une dame<br />
qui a déja servis dans mes ordres dans les Hôpitaux de la Guerre Anglais' to France,<br />
to study the French nursing practices, which at the time were regarded as superior.<br />
'la permission d'envoyer dans les Hôpitaux Militaire et Civils de la France pour y<br />
étudier le service dans tous les détails'. She writes, that she could have approached<br />
Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador to France, but that she prefers the more direct<br />
approach, by drawing on the help of the Duc de Malakoff.<br />
Jean-Jacques Pélissier, Maréchal Duc de Malakhoff, (1794-1864) was French<br />
Ambassador to England in 1858-59. He had been made Duc de Malakhoff (1858) for<br />
his capture of the fortress of Malakhoff in the Crimean War.<br />
Florence Nightingale had after hearing the first reports of the suffering in the<br />
Crimean war gone off to work at the large barrack hospital at Scutari. 'Within a few<br />
months of her arrival at Scutari, the mortality rate among soldiers there fell from 42%<br />
to 2%. Florence Nightingale went on to become the greatest figure in the history of<br />
nursing (Garrison Morton 1612). After her return from the Crimea, a Royal<br />
Commission on the Army was set up, and in 1758 she published a detailed a record<br />
of her experiences on nursing, and what reforms necessary, entitled Notes on Matters<br />
affecting the health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army. …<br />
The reforms thus instituted … spread far beyond the confines of the British Army<br />
and have revolutionized hospital practice throughout the world.<br />
Man's best Friend<br />
54.<br />
[ORIOLI, Francesco.] Fatti per servire alla Storia psicologica del Cane<br />
raccolti da N.N. coll'aggiunta di alcune riflessioni critiche in<br />
occasione che mostravasi in bologna un cane molto bene istruito<br />
nell'eseguire parecchie operazioni per le quail similava con molto<br />
garbo la scienza dello scrivere, dell'intendere lao scritto, del<br />
conteggiare ec. ec. Bologna, Tipi d'Annesio Nobili, 1823. £ 550
8vo, pp. 95, [1]; uncut in the original printed wrappers, some wear to<br />
spine, but in all a fine copy, with private monogram stamp to title.<br />
First edition of this interesting study of canine psychology, and presumably one of<br />
the earliest attempts to scientifically assess the interaction between man and his best<br />
friend. Orioli begins with a brief historical section, recounting earlier accounts of<br />
canine behaviour, especially those forms of behaviour which apparently show an<br />
increased understanding between a dog and its owner, quoting from sources such as<br />
Beyerlinck, Plutarch, Aldrovandi and others. Orioli then studies examples which<br />
show not just a particular reaction of dogs, but apparently demonstrate signs of<br />
reflection, memory, or association. He makes some comments on how dogs learn and<br />
how they are affected by human behaviour, and compares and distinguishes canine<br />
reaction with the natural instinct of babies, and maintains that the relationship<br />
between dogs and their masters is of a different quality.<br />
Francesco Orioli (1783-1856) from Viterbo was apparently a man of wide-ranging<br />
interests. After studying law, then medicine, and physics, and after the amnesty of<br />
Pio IX he finally taught ancient history at the university in Rome. He published on a<br />
range of subjects.<br />
Uncommon; OCLC lists just the copy at the University of Amsterdam.<br />
The First Practical Treatise on the Woodcut<br />
55.<br />
PAPILLON, Jean Michel. Traité historique de la gravure en bois.<br />
Ouvrage enrichi des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa<br />
gravure. Tome Premier. Contenant toute la partie Historique. [-Tome<br />
Troisième]. Paris, Pierre Guillaume Simon, 1766. £ 3800<br />
Three volumes, bound in two, 8vo, pp. xxxii including woodcut<br />
frontispiece, 540, with one chiaroscuro woodcut plate bound in; xv, [i],<br />
388; [iv], 124; part two with 5 plates illustrating progressive stages in<br />
printing a chiaroscuro woodcut; in all seven plates, woodcut head and<br />
tail pieces, title vignettes, and a large number of woodcuts printed in the<br />
text; one initial printed in red (volume I, p. 369); some scattered foxing<br />
and spotting, especially at beginning and end; a few signatures lightly<br />
browned; contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine<br />
labels; some surface scratches to sides, discreet repairs to head and tail of<br />
spine; an attractive copy.<br />
First edition of the first practical treatise on the woodcut. It is famous for a series of 5<br />
progressive plates showing the successive stages of printing a chiaroscuro woodcut.<br />
The first volume of the treatise deals with the history of printing and illustration and<br />
has been criticised for lack of accuracy. Volume II deals with the methods of wood<br />
cutting in detail with clear illustrations and tools and procedures, it also includes
information on design, perspective, and printing. Volume III, the supplement, is<br />
autobiographical and also contains various testimonials, table of contents and errata.<br />
Papillon (1698-1776), who came from a family of well-known wood engravers, was<br />
one of the best French designers and engravers of woodcuts for book work,<br />
employed by both French and Dutch publishers. The Traité can be seen as a<br />
showcase for his work with its 136 woodcut head and tail pieces and 257 other<br />
illustrations, large and small, incorporated in the text - only the portrait is by another<br />
hand.<br />
Papillon's comments on the use of different woods - apple, pear, and box - later made<br />
an appearance in William Savage in his Practical hints on decorative printing<br />
(London, 1822), who, however, failed to point out that Papillon was working on the<br />
long grain of his blocks, whereas the English engravers by this time were working on<br />
the end grain. Bibliographers now restrict the use of the term wood engraving for<br />
end-grain engraving, and woodcut for cutting on the long grain of the wood with a<br />
knife. Thus Papillon's 'gravure sur bois' is now translated as woodcut: but this is a<br />
modern distinction. Jackson used wood engraving for both, as did Joseph Cundall in<br />
his A brief history of wood-engraving (1895).<br />
The work was written between 1734 and 1738, later revised and augmented and<br />
printed 'avec quantité de fleurons et des plus beaux ouvrage que j'ai fait depuis 1712'<br />
(author's note in a unique copy in the BN dated 1762, quoted by Bigmore and<br />
Wyman).<br />
Bigmore and Wyman II, p. 116; Jackson Burke 1034; Burch Colour printing and<br />
colour printers pp. 77-78 ; see John Jackson, A treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical<br />
and Technical (London, 1839) pp. 542-554. With thanks to Roger Gaskell for<br />
additional information on Papillon's contribution.<br />
Patent and Trade Catalogue for Artificial Slate<br />
56.<br />
[PATENT - COOK, Henry.] Patent Artificial Slate Manufactory,<br />
Woodford Bridge, Essex, for covering Roofs, Fronts of Houses, and<br />
Ricks; also Water Pipes and Gutters. London ca. 1786. £ 1200<br />
8vo, pp. [iv], iv, 16, [ii], 17-28; four text illustrations; early twentieth<br />
century full blue calf, gilt lettering to upper board; from the Beeleigh<br />
Abbey Library, with book plate to front paste-down, contemporary<br />
manuscript corrections and annotations in ink.<br />
Sole edition of an interesting patent document for artificial slate, which is at the same<br />
time used as trade catalogue, and a promotional brochure, to attract business. 'The<br />
Artificial Slate, for cheapness, lightness, beauty and neatness, is allowed to equal, if<br />
not excel most other coverings. Artificial slate was apparently first used in the West<br />
Indies, before Henry Cook took over its production in Woodford, Essex. Cook<br />
patented 'a composition to be used as a substitute for lead, slates or tiles in covering<br />
churches, houses and all other buildings' in 1778. Eileen Harris, BABW comments<br />
that 'the increased number of newly invented roofing materials in the last quarter of
the eighteenth century may be attributed in great measure to the fire regulations<br />
contained in the Building Act of 1774 (BABW, p. 412). However, at the same time the<br />
Building Act, which had given the names and specifications of building materials<br />
allowed to be used, limited the use of artificial slates in London, and the slates could<br />
only be sold outside of London.<br />
After a general description of the benefits of artificial slate, stressing its price<br />
advantage, longevity, low maintenance, strict instructions are given as to the best<br />
way of laying the slate. Numerous testimonials of satisfied customers are included,<br />
the latest dated 1786.<br />
It is interesting to see the use of the official patent document as a help for generating<br />
business. Satisfied customers are quoted to encourage new clients.<br />
ESTC t105424 (BL, Getty, Harvard, Brown); see Eileen Harris, British Architectural<br />
<strong>Books</strong> and Writers 1556-1785 on Cook's invention.<br />
Women of the World<br />
57.<br />
[PERROT, Ferdinand Victor. ]Tableau des Femmes des cinq Parties<br />
du Monde Présentant les Caractères physiques qui les distinguent et<br />
leurs costumes nationaux. Paris, Basset, Rue Stt Jacob, n.d. [ca 1830].<br />
With: PERROT, Ferdinand Victor. Tableau Comparatif des Races et<br />
des Costumes des principaux Peuples des cinq Parties du Monde. Par<br />
Perrot, Ingénieur Géographe. Paris, Basset n.d. [ca 1830].<br />
With: [ANON.] Tableau des principaux Grands Hommes qui se sont<br />
illustrés dans toutes les paries du Monde. Par leurs belles Actions<br />
leur Genie ou leur Courage. Paris, Maison Basset, n.d. ca 1850.<br />
£ 1480<br />
8vo, three hand-coloured aquatints, measuring 430x595mm, within<br />
border, folded; bound in contemporary half roan over marbled boards.<br />
A curious volume combining three large aquatint plates giving an overview of<br />
women of the world, different races and their national costume, and finally<br />
important and heroic historical figures. On each plate, the upper half is taken up by a<br />
vividly coloured image, with head-line above, and brief explanatory text to each<br />
figure below. The plate on women of the world depicts seventy-eight women from<br />
all parts of the world in their respective national costume, from all four continents.<br />
The plate on races and costumes of the world includes seventy figures, and on the<br />
final plate 54 figures of historical importance are depicted, with a brief note on their<br />
achievement, from Moses, Salomon, Conficus via Hannibal Charlemagne, Columbus,<br />
Gustave Vasa Washington,and culminating in Napoleon. All these historical figures<br />
stand in front of a temple with Doric columns 'Gloire Immortelle aux Hommes<br />
Illustres'.
These plates are apparently very rare. The BL has the first two, and attributes them to<br />
Aristide Michel Perrot, whereas the National Library of Australia has the same two,<br />
but with an attribution to Ferdinand Victor Perrot.<br />
OCLC and KVK list just British Library and National Library of Australia.<br />
Food and Drink - Natural History, Preparation and Qualities of Food Stuffs<br />
58.<br />
PISANELLI, Baldassare. Trattato della Natura de' Cibi et del<br />
Bere….Nel quale non solo tutte le virtù, & i vitij di quelli<br />
minutamente si palesano; ma anco i rimedij per correggere i loro<br />
difetti copiosamente s'insegnano: tanto nell' apparecchiarli per l'uso,<br />
quanto nell'ordinare il modo di riceverli. Distinto in un vago, e<br />
bellisimo partimento, tutto ripieno della dottrina de' piu celebrati<br />
Medici, & Filosofi: con molte belle Historie Naturali. In Venetia,<br />
appresso Gio. Battista Porta, 1584 £ 2750<br />
4to, pp. [viii], [ii] blank,1- 144, 155-162, (vere 152); printed throughout<br />
within a woodcut frame; woodcut title vignette, illustrated initial and<br />
head-piece; barely noticeable repair to blank margin of title page;<br />
contemporary full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; ties lacking; a<br />
fine copy.<br />
First public edition, uncommon, of this very early cookery and gastronomy book,<br />
only preceded by a folio edition of 1583 published in Rome. Baldassare Pisanelli<br />
describes the natural history, the usages, the qualities of fruits (such as apples,<br />
strawberries, grapes etc) and vegetables (such as mushrooms, artichokes, carrots,<br />
fennel, cucumbers etc), liqueurs, meats, game, fish, milk, cheese etc, and gives<br />
detailed information of the conditions under which such food and drinks should be<br />
used. The information is laid out in a very attractive form for easy reference. Two<br />
types of food are described per page opening within a woodcut border, in each case<br />
sub-headings are given in the left-hand margin, detailing selection of the food stuff,<br />
benefits, its detrimental effects, its medical properties, and the time of year when<br />
they are available or best used. On the opposite page the natural history of each item<br />
is described. There is a special section devoted exclusively to wine, with its various<br />
types and usage.<br />
Pisanelli (fl. 1559-1583), a medical doctor from Bologna, became famous on the<br />
strength of this book, which went through numerous subsequent editions until the<br />
mid seventeenth century.<br />
Most bibliographies list this 1584 edition as the first edition.<br />
B.IN.G. 1498; BM STC Italian p. 521; Cagle 1168; Horn-Arndt 72; Simon Bibliotheca<br />
Bacchica II.507; Simon Bibliotheca Gastronomica 1171; Vicaire 682 (listing this edition<br />
as the first); Westbury, p. 173; uncommon, OCLC lists just three copies of this edition
(UCLA, University of Indiana, National Library of Medicine), together with two<br />
copies of the first edition (DLC, University of Iowa).<br />
The Earliest Printed Book on Economics<br />
59.<br />
PLATEA [PIAZZA], Franciscus de. Opus restitutionum usuarum et<br />
excomunicationum edita per venerabilem Dominvm Fratrem<br />
Franciscvm de Platea Ordinis Minorvm. [colophon: ] Venice,<br />
Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Mathen, 22 January 1477. £ 8800<br />
Chancery 4to, (200 x 151 mm), ll. [152] including initial and final blank;<br />
in double columns, printed in Gothic letter, with initial spaces, some<br />
with guide letters; a few leaves with insignificant marginal<br />
dampstaining, some dust-soiling; contemporary full vellum, out of a<br />
fifteenth century rubricated legal manuscript leaf, some wear to spine<br />
with splits, and worm hole to upper cover; early manuscript ownership<br />
inscription of ?Davitis, and a few contemporary marginal annotations; a<br />
fresh unsophisticated copy in a contemporary binding.<br />
A fine unsophisticated copy of an incunable edition of the first printed book to deal<br />
with economics. Platea's Opus restitutionum, first printed in 1472 is the first, and<br />
earliest, book in the Goldsmith and Kress catalogues respectively.<br />
Platea, (also known as Fra Francesco Piazza) (?-1460), a Professor of law at the<br />
University of Bologna and a well-known and acclaimed preacher, includes a detailed<br />
discussion of monetary questions, the taking of interest and usury in this treatise on<br />
canon law. The first part of the Opus Restitutionum deals with the return of illicit<br />
gains. Also discussed are commercial transactions under a variety of different legal<br />
circumstances, such as two creditors competing for the spoils of one debtor. The<br />
second part concentrates on usury, which, as in all canon law, denotes not just high<br />
interest but all interest. Platea is firmly aligned within the church authorities in his<br />
condemnation of usury. The final section, De Excommunicationes deals with the<br />
judicial exclusion of offenders from the rights and privileges of the Christian<br />
community.<br />
The printers de Colonia and Mathen had already published an earlier edition of<br />
Platea's popular work in 1474, further editions were published in 1472 and 1473.<br />
Bodleian Library XVth Century <strong>Books</strong>, P-337;Hain-Copinger 13040; BMC V, 227; Goff<br />
P-758; Proctor 4312A; Walsh 1695; see Goldsmiths'-Kress 1 for first edition.<br />
Magic Defended<br />
60.<br />
PREATI, Bartolomeo. L'arte magica dimostrata. Dissertazione contra<br />
l'opinione del Signor Marchese Maffei. Venice, Stamperia Remondini,<br />
1751. £ 480
4to, pp. 95, [1] blank; title vignette, decorated initials; uncut in the<br />
original buff limp boards; spine with marbled paper covering and<br />
remains of spine label; early manuscript note to front free endpaper; a<br />
good copy.<br />
First and only edition of this publication against Maffei, demonstrating the existence<br />
of the magic. This is specifically directed against Maffei's Arte Magica Dileguata,<br />
1749. In separate chapters Preati discusses magic in general, where he carefully<br />
distinguishes between diabolic magic and artificial magic, then studies demonic<br />
magic and demonic influences in greater detail.<br />
Cornell, Witchcraft collection, p. 451; Melzi 366; Pitrè, Bibliografia delle tradizioni<br />
popolari d'Italia, 5160; Rosenthal, Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica, 2975;<br />
uncommon, two copies listed in ICCU, none in OCLC.<br />
Copyright and Intellectual Property<br />
61.<br />
PÜTTER, Johann Stephan. Der Büchernachdruck nach ächten<br />
Grundsätzen des Rechts geprüft ... Göttingen, Wittwe Vandenhoeck,<br />
1774. £ 2250<br />
4to, pp. [xiv], 206; title vignette, head- and tail-pieces and initials;<br />
contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, with<br />
gilt-lettered spine label; a fine copy with the engraved bookplate of<br />
Friedrich August II of Braunschweig-Öls to front paste-down.<br />
First edition of the first detailed study of literary copyright law as it affects authors,<br />
printers and booksellers. Pütter's interest in international copy-right law, protection<br />
of intellectual property, and unauthorised reprints was sparked off by his own<br />
experience of an unauthorised reprint of one of his works (Elementa juris publicis<br />
germanici) appearing in Frankfurt, while the authorised version was still at the press<br />
in Göttingen. He carefully analysed the legal implications of reprints and proved the<br />
unlawfulness of unauthorised reprints because they violate the author's right to his<br />
intellectual property. The work was highly important in the history of publishing,<br />
and a French translation appeared under the title La Propriété Littéraire. In the last<br />
section earlier German edicts and laws regarding printing rights, licensing<br />
agreements, unauthorised reprints, and censorship are reprinted.<br />
The German jurist Pütter (1725-1807) was 'undoubtedly the most important<br />
expounder of the public law of the old Reich'. In his hands 'the law appears<br />
disentangled from its difficulties, in a form which by virtue of its grace, rationality<br />
and elegance rises above the ponderous structure of the old Reich … In the field of<br />
public law, in which he made his chief contribution, Pütter had separated<br />
constitutional from administrative law and then had treated the particular branches
of administration as parts of a highly lucid system. In his method he became the<br />
founder of juristic dogmatism' (ESS).<br />
ADB XXVI, pp. 749-777; Bigmore and Wyman II, 226; Katalog des Börsenvereins 461;<br />
Der deutsche Buchhandel in Urkunden und Quellen, II, p. 331 ff; NUC/RLIN and<br />
OCLC record copies at Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley, and the University of<br />
Pennsylvania; for further information on the author see ESS.<br />
The Diseases of the Ruling Classes<br />
62.<br />
RAMAZZINI, Bernardo. De Principum Valetudine Tuenda.<br />
Commentatio Bernardini Ramazzini. Patavvii, Typgraphia Jo:<br />
Baptistae Conzatti, 1710. £ 3000<br />
4to, pp. [xvi], 160; title vignette and decorated initials; occasional light<br />
browning, and light dampstain to gutter margin at head, unobtrusive<br />
and never getting anywhere near the text; uncut in the original buff limp<br />
boards, eighteenth century spine covering with paste-paper; corners<br />
bumped; sowing strengthened; a very good copy.<br />
First edition, uncommon, of Ramazzini's study of occupational diseases, in fact a<br />
companion volume to his earlier and better known De Morbis Artificum (1700),<br />
where he concentrated on the diseases of manual workers.<br />
In this work he concentrates on the occupational diseases incurred by those who<br />
work with their brains rather than their hands, the diseases of princes, government<br />
officials, and their advisors. He treats all physical aspects that influence the life and<br />
health of princes, such as air, food, drink, sleep, digestion etc, before concentrating<br />
on the psychological aspects, such as the pressure of government, responsibility, and<br />
life at court. Interestingly he argues that a combination of these factors are likely to<br />
produce psychosomatic symptoms. Ramazzini warns against the interference from<br />
medical practitioners, who are most unlikely to properly diagnose the complaints.<br />
Throughout Ramazzini backs up his findings with reference to medical authorites,<br />
and refers in particular to the earlier studies by Marsilio Ficino, De studiorum<br />
sanitate, 1489 and V. Fortunato Plembio, De Togatorum valetudine tuendo, 1670.<br />
His work was published to Europe-wide acclaim, and an edition printed in Leipzig<br />
followed in 1711, and another one in Uppsala in 1712, with Italian editions in 1713<br />
and 1717, and an anonymous French translation in 1724.<br />
Di Pietro 65; Blake, p. 370; Wellcome IV, p. 468; see Francesco Carnevale, La Salute<br />
dei Principi ovvero come difendersi dalle malattie e dai medici, Florence, 1992, p. 202<br />
for bibliography, a study of the text and its gestation; OCLC also record copies at the<br />
University of Chicago, Oklahoma, and the New York Academy of Medicine.<br />
Le Source du Bon Goût<br />
63.
[PERFUME.] Etat des Marchandises qui se trouvent chez François<br />
Rambert et Comp. Droguistes, Parfumeurs et Liquoristes, Rue<br />
Calzioli, à coté de l'Eglise S.nt Michel, vis-à-vis la Place du Palais<br />
Vieux à Florence. Ca 1795. £ 580<br />
Broadsheet, folio, (420 x 297 mm) printed on both sides, with handcoloured<br />
engraving at head (69 x 272 mm), products listed in triple<br />
columns within border; a few short marginal tears, one with old repair<br />
to verso; some light staining, corners frayed, with central fold marks.<br />
A rare survival, a late eighteenth century trade list of a perfumer and druggist, based<br />
in Florence, with premises near the Palazzo Vecchio. The broadsheet is headed by an<br />
engraved banner across to top 'A la Source du bon Gout', below it address details of<br />
the merchant are given, followed by a listing approx 300 products or flavours. The<br />
listing is subdivided under separate headings: Droguerie, Perfumerie and Vins.<br />
Amongst the perfume section, liquid pomades are listed in numerous flavours,<br />
followed by firmer pomades, make-up (pomades pour le teint), essences, oils, eau de<br />
toilette (again in countless different flavours), simple rose, and orange water, soaps,<br />
vinegar-based clarifying lotions, rouge of different types, body powder, almond<br />
crèmes, scented and unscented powders to mention but a few. Each of these products<br />
is generally available in different flavours, which accounts for the large number of<br />
individual products advertised. In addition to these items foreign luxury products,<br />
such as gloves, stockings etc, followed by an extensive section of foreign wines.<br />
Eighteenth century trade lists evolved out of the earlier trade cards and later<br />
developed into fully priced price lists. Their purpose was to give a full list of the<br />
bearer's stock in trade, and they were generally unpriced.<br />
Rickards, The Encyclopedia of Ephemera, p. 336; not found in OCLC, KVK or ICCU.<br />
Modern Historiography<br />
64.<br />
RANKE, Leopold von. Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtsschreiber... Eine<br />
Beylage zu desselben romanischen und germanischen Geschichten.<br />
Leipzig und Berlin, bey G. Reimer, 1824. £ 900<br />
8vo, pp. xii, 202; contemporary quarter calf, spine with raised bands,<br />
ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; from the 'Bibliothèque du Baron de<br />
Noirmont' with printed armorial book label to front paste-down; an<br />
attractive copy.<br />
First edition of Ranke's revolutionary exposition of historiography. Ranke can be<br />
called the first modern historian: he was the first to rely entirely on contemporary<br />
sources, letters, diaries etc., and trained generations of disciples in the critical use of<br />
original documents and the unbiased approach to every age and nation. He rejected<br />
the task historians had formerly assigned to themselves, of being the judges of the
past and teachers of their contemporaries. Instead his first aim was merely to show<br />
how things actually were, summed up in his well-known claim of writing history<br />
'wie es eigentlich gewesen'.<br />
'Ranke first applied to medieval and modern history the critical principles which<br />
Niebuhr had established for ancient history. He thereby set up novel standards of<br />
scholarship which have since become accepted by historians of every nation who are<br />
not shackled by the straitjacket of a narrow dogma ... His 'Examination of Modern<br />
Historians' takes its departure from Guicciardini, who had hitherto been regarded as<br />
the chief authority on the period. Without belittling 'one of the great historical<br />
productions which we have', Ranke deprives the Historia d'Italia of its claim to being<br />
a primary source and shows the extent to which Guicciardini was dependent on<br />
other writers, and even more important, how much his outlook is coloured by his<br />
own private life, professional career and party prejudices. In other words, Ranke tries<br />
to assess the value of a source through the explanation of the character of its author'<br />
(PMM 286).<br />
Printing and the Mind of Man 286; see Blackwell Dictionary of Historians.<br />
Signalling Numbers<br />
65.<br />
REQUENO, Vincenzo. Scoperta della Chironomia, ossia dell'Arte di<br />
Gestire con le Mani. Parma, Fratelli Gozzi, 1797. £ 650<br />
8vo, pp. viii, 141, [1] imprint, [1] errata, 3 engraved plates; uncut in the<br />
original pale blue wrappers; spine a little chipped and corners worn; a<br />
crisp and very wide-margined copy.<br />
First edition of this very attractive and curious introduction into the art of<br />
'chiromania' , or talking with one's hands, used not only in mime, but in a wide range<br />
of situations. The author begins with a historical overview, and then discusses the<br />
use of hands and fingers in counting and calculating in classical antiquity. The left<br />
hand indicates numbers up to ninety, whereas the right hand gives hundreds. The<br />
three finely engraved plates, in fact, illustrate this use, and give the hand signs for<br />
different figures and numbers. He also deals with the representation of the letters of<br />
the alphabet with both the left and the right hand.<br />
In the second and more substantial part the author deals with the use of hands and<br />
gestures in mime, pantomime, and classical theatre in general. He deplores in<br />
particular that modern mime does not utilise the hands in the same 'meaningful' way<br />
as was common in antiquity.<br />
Thomas Tooke's Russian Passport<br />
66.<br />
[RUSSIAN PASSPORT.] Auf Befehl Ihro Kayserlichen Majet;at der<br />
Großen Frau und Kayserin Catharina Alexejena Selbstherrscherin
aller Reussen, Wird hiermit denen, welchen daran gelegen, und und<br />
zu wissen gethan: daß Vorzeiger dieses der Engländer Thomas Tooke<br />
aus Rußland zu Moskau über .. nach England abgelassen worden ….<br />
St. Petersburg, 23. Juni 1785. Signed Carlo Giorgi General Major Peter<br />
Kanowitsik?, Nikita Akrinin, secretary. £ 750<br />
Oblong folio, (230 x336mm), pp. 4; printed in German and Russian,<br />
completed in ink, with two red seals; with manuscript annotations in<br />
Russian, folded, with remains of guard where it was presumably<br />
mounted in an album, edges frayed and a little dust-soiled; else fine.<br />
Original passport, issued by Catherine the Great for English financier and<br />
businessman.Thomas Tooke, (1774-1858) was one of the leading scientific economists<br />
of the age (Schumpeter), and one who brought to bear on his theories of economics<br />
and finance the practical experience of business life. Born in St Petersburg, he left at<br />
an early age, armed with the passport offered here, for London, where he soon<br />
managed a large Russian house.<br />
He is considered 'the founder of the contra-quantity theory of money the view that<br />
monetary policy is powerless to influence prices because the supply of money<br />
depends on the flow of money expenditure and hence is the result and not the cause<br />
of price changes. His best-known works wre 'On the Currency in Connexion with the<br />
Corn Trade, 1829, Considerations on the State of the Currncy, 1826 and Inquiry into<br />
the Currency Principle, 1844.<br />
Dowry List<br />
67.<br />
[SAVORGNAN, Benedetta.] Per sua Eccellenza la Signora co:<br />
Benedetta Savorgnan sposa con sua Eccellenza il signor co: Pacifico<br />
Camerata. 22 Febbraro 1802.<br />
[With:] [GENTILUCCI, Giacomo conte .] Per le faustissime nozze di<br />
sua Eccellenza il Signor Conte Pacifico Passionei Camerata de<br />
Mazzoleni … con sua Eccellenza il Signora Contessa Benedetta<br />
Savorgnan Patrizia Veneta in segno di sincera amicizia Giacomo<br />
conte Gentilucci offer I seguenti Poetici componimenti. Macerata,<br />
Tipi Capitaniani, 1802.<br />
[With:] CRUCIANI, Vincenzo. Nelle acclamatissime Nozze già<br />
seguite fra … Osimo, Domenicantonio Quercetti, 1802. £ 1400<br />
4to, (290 x 200 mm) manuscript in ink, ll. 12, title within border; sm. 4to<br />
pp. xii; pp. 2; manuscript in ink, written in clean, legible hand;
contemporary red boards, sides with decorative gilt rule; corners a little<br />
worn, else a fine copy.<br />
A fine early nineteenth century manuscript produced on the occasion of the wedding<br />
of the Contessa Benedetta Savorgnan of Venice to the Count Pacifico Passionei<br />
Camerata in 1802. The fascinating manuscript is in fact the dowry list of the bride,<br />
covering 100 shirts, cuffs, handkerchiefs, scarves, stockings, all manner of outfits,<br />
satin coats in a number of colours, sequined tops, fans, shoes etc. Also included are a<br />
number of decorative articles and boxes. Unusually this just lists the private<br />
clothings of the bride, rather than bed- and table linen.<br />
The manuscript is continued a year later (dated January 1803) with details of laundry<br />
and equipment for birth, and then on a further sheet, those items needed for a<br />
baptism.<br />
The title is designed to copy printed celebratory publication published on the<br />
occasion of weddings.<br />
Two further printed celebratory poems published on the occasion of the wedding are<br />
also included.<br />
Say’s <strong>Rare</strong> Utopia – Uncut in Wrappers<br />
68.<br />
SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Olbie, ou Essai sur les Moyens de Réformer les<br />
Moeurs d'une Nation … Paris, Deterville, Libraire … An VIII<br />
[1799/1800]. £ 3200<br />
8vo, pp. xi, [1], 132; entirely uncut in the original blue wrappers, foot of<br />
spine strengthened; a fine copy.<br />
First edition of Say's rare utopia - his second book, containing the beginnings of his<br />
economic thought. In Olbie the basis of society is no longer ethics but economics.<br />
'Having established that a good treatise on economic theory should be the major<br />
moral book for society, the author naturally looked to provide such a work for his<br />
country; Olbie anticipates the publication of the Traité d'Economie politique which<br />
was to appear four years later and thus forms part of the history of the science'<br />
(Guillaumin, Avertissement des editeurs in Oeuvres diverses, 1848).<br />
Goldsmiths'-Kress 17874.24; INED 4109; Monglond V, 108; Negley 1002; not in<br />
Einaudi; RLIN lists copies at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvannia.<br />
Calendars French and German<br />
69.<br />
SCHNEIDT, Joseph Maria. Abhandlung von dem teutschen und<br />
französischen Calenderwesen. Nebst einem vollständigen Teutsch-<br />
Französischen und Französisch-Teutschen Calender auf I. bis LV.
Französische oder LV teutsche Jahre von 1792 bis 1847 … Traité sur<br />
le Calendrier allemande et Français. Würzburg, Rienner 1796.<br />
£ 650<br />
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], 130; numerous tables in the text;<br />
printed throughout in double columns in both French and German;<br />
contemporary tan calf, spine decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label<br />
and circular date; a very attractive copy from the Fechenbach Library.<br />
First edition of this charming German - French introduction to the Revolutionary<br />
calendar, with a handy conversion table until the year 1847. Schneidt begins with a<br />
brief history of both the German and the French calendar, with an explanation of<br />
saint days, movable and immovable feast days etc. The French revolutionary<br />
calendar, proposed by Fabre d'Eglantine, was adopted by the French First Republic<br />
in 1793, calculated from September 22, 1792, and proved to be one of the more longlasting<br />
innovations of the French Revolution. It was used until 1805. Schneidt<br />
introduces the various idiosyncrasies of the French Revolutionary calendar, its<br />
beginning on September 22nd 1792, the names of the individual months and festive<br />
days etc. before giving a concordance between the German and the French calendar<br />
until the year 1847.<br />
Schneidt (1727-1808), a respected jurist, professor and government official also<br />
published extensively on the law and numismatics.<br />
ADB 32, p. 154ff; Meusel-Hamberger VII, 248; uncommon, OCLC lists just two copies<br />
in Fulda and Göttingen.<br />
70.<br />
SCHULZE, Benjamin. Orientalisch- und Occidentalisches A, B, C -<br />
Buch welches hundert Alphabete nebst ihrer Aussprache so bei<br />
denen moisten Europäisch-Asiatisch-Africanisch- und<br />
Americanischen Völckern und Nationen gebräuchlich sind, nebst<br />
einigen Tabulis Polyglottis, verschiedener Sprachen und Zahlen vor<br />
Augen leget. Naumburg und Zeitz, Christian Friedrich Gessner,<br />
1769. £ 950<br />
8vo, pp. [xii], 219, [5], with 12 engraved plates and one folding printed<br />
table; with numerous alphabet specimen in the text; lightly browned<br />
throughout, due to paper stock; a few sample leaves cut close at foot;<br />
contemporary paste-paper covered boards, a little rubbed.<br />
First edition thus, of this important work of eighteenth century linguistic studies,<br />
illustrating the alphabets and pronunciation of one hundred European, Asian,<br />
African and American languages, clearly aimed at the missionary market. Of<br />
particular visual appeal are the numerous tables showing exotic alphabets and
numbers. Schultze includes such languages as Ethiopian, Malagassy, Singalese,<br />
Marath, Mexican, Savannah, Virginia, Bralian or Guarini, Japanese, Chinese, etc. In<br />
the brief section on American languages Schultze deplores the lack of information on<br />
them, cites some of the early reports and gives some details of Algonquin, Huron,<br />
Massachusetts (with a mention of Johan Elliot's Bible translation o 1666),,<br />
Makentowonits languages amongst other, with numerous examples and some<br />
bibliographical information on early studies.<br />
The work is based on Schultze's earlier (1748) Orientalisch- und occidentalischer<br />
Sprachmeister, which also contained the Lord's Prayer in multiple languages, and<br />
edited by Johann Friedrich Fritz. Some of the engraved were apparently reused,<br />
giving both plate count (for the 1748 edition) and page number for this edition.<br />
Schultze (1689-1760) studied at Halle and in 1719 went out to the Tranquebar<br />
Mission and learnt the Malabar dialect. He worked on the translation of the Tamil<br />
bible and studied numerous other Indian languages. He returned to Halle in 1743 to<br />
become director of the Halle orphanage, part of the famous Francke'sche Stiftungen<br />
(Francke Foundations), a highly important charitable foundation, printing press, and<br />
missionary establishment.<br />
The work can also be used as a type-specimen of the famous German printing house<br />
of Gessner, showing extensive holdings of exotic type.<br />
Sabin 78008; see Maggs catalogue 891 Dictionaries and Grammars, no. 382<br />
First Edition of Adam Smith’s First Book<br />
71.<br />
SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London, A. Millar;<br />
Edinburgh, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759. £ 12500<br />
8vo, pp. [vi], [viii], 550 [i.e. 530, pp. 317-336 omitted from pagination as<br />
usual], [1], with half-title and errata present; early ownership inscription<br />
to title, partly crossed out; some light foxing and browning, small ink<br />
stain to last 3 leaves; recently bound in full sprinkled calf, spine gilt in<br />
compartments, with gilt-lettered spine label.<br />
First edition of Adam Smith's first book, the work that established his reputation as a<br />
philosopher not only in London but also on the Continent.<br />
The Theory of Moral Sentiments is of the highest importance because of the way in<br />
which it supplements Smith's views on the nature of man and the way this world<br />
runs, as set out in the more familiar Wealth of Nations. 'One of Adam Smith's major<br />
claims to fame, in some ways his greatest, is his development of a unified concept of<br />
an economic system with mutually interdependent parts. His development of this<br />
came well before the Wealth of Nations: it is in the Theory of Moral Sentiments of<br />
1759 and the Lectures of 1762-3' (D.P. O'Brien, The Classical Economists, 1975, p. 29).<br />
Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments is, in brief, that they are founded not, as<br />
Hume said, on self-interest, but on fellow-feeling - the ability one man has to put<br />
himself in the place of another, and to judge others by himself and himself by others.<br />
Smith's teleological view of the universe, expounded in the Moral Sentiments,
permeates the Wealth, and perhaps the most famous example is to be found in the<br />
'invisible hand' of the latter work. 'The exposition in the Wealth of Nations is much<br />
more particularized than that in the Moral Sentiments ... It occurs through the<br />
beneficial results of the pursuit of self-interest (within a framework of law and<br />
custom) and manifests itself in such phenomena as the division of labour (with its<br />
origin in the propensity to barter), money, savings and investment, and trade', ibid,<br />
p. 30. An understanding of Smith's views on the complex relationship between<br />
Sympathy and Self-interest is also to be gained from the study of both works.<br />
Goldsmiths' 9537; Kress S 5815; Vanderblue p. 38.<br />
72.<br />
SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects. …to which is<br />
prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by<br />
Dugald Stewart. Dublin, Wogan, Byrne, 1795. £ 1600<br />
8vo, pp. cxxiii, [1] blank, 332; contemporary marbled calf, gilt rules to<br />
spine, gilt-lettered red roan spine label; short splits to joints, corners a<br />
little bumped; an attractive copy.<br />
First Dublin edition, published the same year as the London edition, of Smith's<br />
posthumously published works. These essays, which Smith had left in manuscript<br />
form with friends, were written throughout his career, the article on astronomy<br />
being one of his earliest works. They had been withheld from publication since Smith<br />
had planned to write a connected history of the liberal sciences and the elegant arts.<br />
The essays cover philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of sciences.<br />
Stewart's Life, taken from the Transactions of the Royal Society, is here first<br />
published in book form.<br />
Vanderblue p. 43.<br />
73.<br />
SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth<br />
of Nations … Vol. I [- Vol. IV]. Basel and Paris, James Decker and<br />
Levrault brothers, 1801. £ 1350<br />
Four volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 68, 406; vi, 344; iv, 358, [5] appendix, [1]<br />
blank; v, [1] blank, 374, [52] index; contemporary half tan calf over<br />
marbled boards; flat spines decoratively gilt, with red morocco lettering<br />
and numbering pieces; extremities a little rubbed, else fine; with<br />
blindstamp and book label of Adolf Jellineck in Brünn, and an<br />
inscription in Greek to front free endpaper, with a quote from the Book<br />
of Revelation X, 9; throughout there are some blue and red markings
and underlinings, and numerous early annotations in ink; an attractive<br />
copy.<br />
Second Continental edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and the only edition<br />
to include an English translation of Turgot's Réflexions sur la formation et la<br />
distribution des richesses, a work which had a great influence on Adam Smith, and<br />
which McCulloch describes as 'the best work on the science published previously to<br />
the Wealth of Nations'.<br />
This copy has some interesting annotations, including many marginal comments in<br />
ink, mostly in English, which were clearly added before the book was bound in its<br />
present binding, as the pages needed to be turned in, before the copy was trimmed<br />
by the binder. The markings in red and blue crayon are of a later date, and can be<br />
attributed to the owner Dr. Bobetz or Bobek, who signed all four volumes, and<br />
interestingly dates his progress through the book from 15. August 1900 to 24<br />
September 1901.<br />
Goldsmiths' 18148; Kress B.4447; Vanderblue, p. 20; not in Einaudi.<br />
Alcohol Addiction<br />
74.<br />
STUMP, Jakob and Robert WILLENEGGER. Graphische Tabellen mit<br />
Begleit-Text zur Alkoholfrage. Zürich, Robert Willenegger, [1907].<br />
£ 380<br />
Oblong 4to (xx5 x 310mm), pp. xvi, 228, with four art reproduction<br />
plates, 37 portrait plates with accompanying text and fifty-five fullcolour<br />
statistical tables; original pictorial boards; red cloth spine;<br />
bookplate of Vilm Ljungfors to front paste-down.<br />
A fascinating manual of alcohol and its pervasive influence in society, illustrated on<br />
striking statistical plates. Published clearly with a temperance message, the volume<br />
covers the effect of alcohol consumption and alcohol abuse on all aspects of human<br />
life and society, including crime rates, productivity, health, mortality rates, and the<br />
economy. A whole series of statistical plates deals with the effect of alcohol<br />
consumption on work, especially intellectual work, and shows that despite a shortterm<br />
increase in creativity, the long-term results clearly show a decline in<br />
productivity. A series of tests was done on young students, some plied with alcohol,<br />
others left to cope with school work un'aided'. The fascinating compilation combines<br />
statistics from different countries.<br />
Conjugal Love - 'The Precious Treasure of Human Life'<br />
75.
SWEDENBORG, Emanuel. Delitiæ Sapientiæ, de Amore Conjugali;<br />
post quas sequuntur Voluptates Insaniæ de Amore Scortatorio.<br />
Amsterdam, 1768. £ 1200<br />
4to, pp. 328 ([2] blank); with woodcut head-piece and large initial on p.<br />
[3] and woodcut tail-piece on p. 328; small hole at inner blank edge of<br />
title, spotting towards end, light browning throughout; with manuscript<br />
notes at foot of p. 194; modern marbled boards; a good copy, entirely<br />
uncut.<br />
First edition of this rare treatise by Swedenborg, published four years before his<br />
death. The work is now a classic of mystical and philosophical love, describing 'how<br />
the understanding and will of man and wife may be conjoined by marriage into one -<br />
a conjunction resulting in eternal states of innocence, peace and happiness. The love<br />
which is the soul of marriage originates from the union of the Divine Love and the<br />
Divine Wisdom. This love is therefore celestial, spiritual and holy above all other<br />
loves, and after death remains with everyone such as it was in the world'.<br />
Swedenborg considered that 'the celestial beatitudes, the spiritual satisfactions, and<br />
from these the natural delights' emanated from the love of a man and woman within<br />
marriage (trans, p. 457). He: 'Explains the origin and essentially sacred character of<br />
love between a man and a woman in marriage as related to the marriage of good and<br />
truth in the Lord, the union of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. This definitive work<br />
on love and marriage describes the eternal quality of the conjugal state, and it also<br />
discusses the nature of human sexuality and the spiritual consequences of such<br />
disorders as adultery and deviant conduct' (N. Bruce Rogers, translator of the<br />
modern English version of the work).<br />
Hyde 2400; OCLC lists copies at Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Union College, Toronto,<br />
Glasgow only.<br />
The Delights of Conjugal Love<br />
76.<br />
SWEDENBORG, Emanuel. Traité curieux des charmes de l'amour<br />
conjugal dans ce monde et dans l'autre. … traduit du Latin en<br />
Français par M. de Brumore. Berlin and Basle, George-Jacques & J.<br />
Henri Decker, 1784. £ 600<br />
12mo, pp. [iv], 206; some spotting and browning at beginning and end,<br />
due to paper quality; contemporary calf-backed pastepaper boards,<br />
spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, with armorial bookplate with<br />
monogram CIVLR and motto 'Mors est vita sine literis' to verso of front<br />
free endpaper.
First French translation of Swedenborg's well-known work on the delights of<br />
marriage, which first appeared in Latin under the title Deliciae sapientiae de amore<br />
coniugalis in 1768. Swedenborg regarded marriage as the union between wisdom,<br />
embodied in the man, and love, embodied in the woman. Thus marriage is a union<br />
between the two qualities of reason and intention, a dualism that can be traced<br />
throughout his writings.<br />
The Swedish scientist and philosopher Swedenborg (1688-1772) is now best known<br />
for the spiritualist movement he founded, which exerted great influence on a wide<br />
range of artists, writers and philosophers, such as William Blake, Strindberg,<br />
Baudelaire, W.B. Yeats, Carl Jung and William James to mention but a few.<br />
Cioranescu 33411; OCLC lists copies at the Dutch Royal Library, Cornell, Wellcome<br />
Library, Graduate Union College, California.<br />
77.<br />
SWIFT, Jonathan. Directions to Servants in General; and in particular<br />
to the Butler, Cook, Footman, Coachman, Groom, House-Steward,<br />
and Land-Steward, Porter, Dairy-Maid, Chamber-Maid, Nurse,<br />
Laundress, House-Keeper, Tutoress, or Governess… Printed in the<br />
year 1746. £ 750<br />
8vo, pp. 58, [2], [2] blank; title with old repair to foremargin, repair to<br />
gutter margin of last three leaves; a little dust-soiled; recently bound in<br />
marbled boards.<br />
Pirated edition. Swift's Directions to Servants was apparently written around 1736<br />
but not published until after his death. It is a satirical take on a handbook of<br />
manners, addressed to all types of servants individually and collectively, and easily<br />
transferable to modern time. With his usual caustic wit Swifts pits servant against<br />
master in the ultimate 'upstairs/downstairs' struggle for order, power, and the best<br />
bits of the roast. He advises the servants on how to maintain the upper hand against<br />
their masters, how to disguise mistakes and errors, and how to get through the<br />
working day with as little effort as possible.<br />
A witty expression of the frustrations of a lifetime's poor service.<br />
The final unnumbered leaf contains a satire in pidgin Latin 'A consultation of four<br />
physicians upon a Lord that was dying' with no author statement.<br />
ESTC T231345 or N54501.<br />
The Beginning of the Enlightenment in Germany<br />
78.
THOMASIUS, Christian. Summarischer Nachrichten von<br />
auserlesenen, mehrentheils alten, in der Thomasischen Bibliotheque<br />
verhandenen Büchern. Erstes Stück [- 24. Stück]. Halle, Leipzig,<br />
Johann Friderich Zeitler, 1715 - 1718. £ 4500<br />
Twenty-four parts in two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 14,<br />
17-1114, [92] index; engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], 1044, [120] index; title<br />
vignettes and head- and tail-pieces; contemporary blind-stamped full<br />
calf, sides with extensive panelling and decoration; spines in<br />
compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered spine label; a very fine set.<br />
First edition, very rare, of this literary and bibliographical journal, documenting the<br />
library of the German enlightenment thinker Christian Thomasius. The philosopher<br />
and jurist Thomasius (1655-1728) had accumulated a large library, reflecting his<br />
interests in philosophy and the law. To assure its survival at least in spirit, he<br />
published the present series of publications, documenting rare publications present<br />
in the library. Thomasius was the editor, but most of the book reviews were actually<br />
written by a number of collaborators, among them John. Zacharias Platner and<br />
Christ. Aug. Salig (see Struve II, 857 and Jöcher IV, 54). Thomasius apparently added<br />
comments here or there, but mostly just signed off the reviews. Each issue of his<br />
journal contains detailed reviews of up to four individual works, together with a<br />
listing of approx. 45 further titles. In all the review discusses some 1200 books<br />
contained in the Thomasius' library.<br />
Amongst the titles reviews and discussed in greater detail are works by Bacon,<br />
Bodin, Kircher, Cudworth, Gassendi, Luther, Agricola's proverbs, Budeus' history of<br />
the university of Paris; the life of Hobbes, Hobbes' church history; the library of Fr.<br />
Du Sorel to mention but a few. Also included are critiques of Agrippa, Andreae,<br />
Guthmann, Iamblichus, and Scudery.<br />
Within a decade of his death Thomasius' library was dispersed in an auction sale<br />
(1739). Unlike other private libraries, Thomasius had publicised his holdings through<br />
the publication of this journal. It became a model for other private library catalogues<br />
or periodicals that followed. As Paul Raabe writes in his contribution to the<br />
symposium on Thomasius in Wolfenbüttel, his was the ultimate in<br />
Büchergelehrsamkeit, it documents Thomasius' life and work as jurist, philosopher,<br />
publicist and economist immediately after his death. The two engraved frontispieces<br />
show portraits of Christian Thomasius and Joh. Valentinus Andreae.<br />
Thomasius is of particular importance as a pan-Eurpean thinker, he was the first to<br />
lecture in German instead of Latin university, and added to his reputation as a<br />
controversial figure by publishing a journal on literary and current affairs, entitled<br />
'Entertaining and Serious, Rational and Unsophisticad Ideas of all Kinds of<br />
Agreeable and useful <strong>Books</strong> and Subjects, for which he encouraged especially<br />
women readers. His works are essential in understanding the beginnings of the<br />
Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of Locke<br />
in England.<br />
Rolf Lieberwirth, Christian Thomasius sein wissenschaftliches Lebenswerk. Eine<br />
Bibliographie, 269; Kirchner I 40; Jöcher IV 1158-1163; Jantz 2499; not in Faber du<br />
Faur, not in Petzholdt; see Paul Raabe, Christian Thomasius in Wolfenbüttel, in
Werner Schneider, Christian Thomasius. Interpretationen zu Werk und Wirkung. Mit<br />
einer Bibliographie zur neueren Thomasius Literatur. 1989 (Studien zum achtzehnten<br />
Jahrhundert, 11).<br />
79.<br />
[TYPE SPECIMEN.] Preces Sancti Nersetis Clajensis Armeniorum<br />
Patriarchae, vingti quatuor linguis editae. Venice, Mekhitarist Press,<br />
San Lazaro, 1837. £ 400<br />
12mo, pp. [iv], 432, [2], engraved frontispiece and title, medallion<br />
ornaments at head of dedication page; finely printed throughout;<br />
original dark green roan, elaborate gilt ornamentation to sides and spine,<br />
gilt-lettered green spine label; a.e.g.; a fine copy.<br />
Second edition (first 1823) of Saint Nerses' famous 'In faith I Confess' prayers printed<br />
in twenty-four languages and the appropriate typefaces, amongst them Armenian,<br />
Greek, Russian, Gothic, Illyrian, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Chaldaean, Syriac<br />
and Iberian. English, French, Irish, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Latin and Swedish<br />
versions are given in roman type. Because of the wide range of typefaces used, it also<br />
serves as a type specimen of the Mekhitarist Press. The work was printed by the<br />
Mekhitarist Congregation on the Venetian island of San Lazzaro, the foremost centre<br />
of Armenian culture.<br />
St. Nerses (d. 1173) was the most important Armenian writer of the twelfth century<br />
and the head of the Armenian church. This edition of his prayers was edited by<br />
Father Paschal (i.e. Haroutiun Aukerian, 1774-1827) who was admired by Lord<br />
Byron, who famously rowed out to the island of San Lazarus daily to take Armenian<br />
lessons and use the famous library.<br />
Earlier polyglot editions of his prayers had been printed in 1810 and 1811, but with<br />
fewer languages and typefaces. Further expanded editions appeared later.<br />
V. Nersessian, Catalogue of Early Armenian <strong>Books</strong> 1512-1850, 510; see Birrell &<br />
Garnett 30 for 1823 edition.<br />
80.<br />
VERRI, Pietro. Discorsi del Conte Pietro Verri dell'Instituto delle<br />
Scienze di Bologna Sull'Indole del Piacere e del Dolore; Sulla Felicità<br />
e sulla Economia Politica. Riveduti ed accresciuti dall'Autore. Milan,<br />
Giuseppe Marelli, 1781. £ 1400<br />
Tall 8vo, pp. [xviii], 100, [5], 102-183, [10], 186-394; portrait medallion<br />
vignette to title page, divisional titles and preliminaries not included in<br />
the pagination; contemporary half calf, over marbled boards, spine ruled<br />
in gilt with gilt-lettered spine label; some surface wear to marbled paper;<br />
a very good wide-margined copy.
First collected edition, uncommon, containing Verri's two important works on<br />
philosophy and aesthetics, his reflections on individual and collective happiness, and<br />
his most important economic work, his Meditazioni sull'economia politica, first<br />
published in 1771. At the centre of his writings are his reflections on luxury, on<br />
happiness, on the interpretation of laws, on economic liberalism and on the need for<br />
a radical modernisation of lifestyles and customs. They are a testament of one of the<br />
outstanding figures of Italy's cultural renewal.<br />
'Verri's Reflections is a complete treatise on political economy, reminiscent of<br />
Turgot's work (1766) with its tight logical framework and division into fairly short<br />
sections. Although these cover a wide range of subjects, they are interconnected by<br />
the basic theme of the work, the increase in annual reproduction of the nation<br />
through trade of surplus product which Verri related to the balance of production<br />
and consumption. … Some features of this analysis may be specifically noted… His<br />
emphasis on supply and demand (used to determine all prices including the rate of<br />
interest) combined with references to utility and scarcity in the context of value<br />
(section 4) explains why this part of his work has been linked with marginalist<br />
economics. … Verri's Reflections were highly regarded when they appeared, and<br />
could be found, for example, in Smith's library (Groenewegen in New Palgrave, IV p.<br />
807). Schumpeter praises Verri as 'a true econometrician - for example, he was one of<br />
the first economists to figure out a balance of payments - that is to say, he knew how<br />
to weave fact-finding and theory into a coherent tissue: the methodological problem<br />
that agitated later generations of economists he had successfully solved for himself'<br />
(Schumpeter, p. 178).<br />
Cossa I, 131; Einaudi 5875; Goldsmiths'-Kress 12128; Mattioli 3731.<br />
81.<br />
[VERRI, Pietro.] Essai sur les Principes Politiques de l'Économie<br />
Publique. Par M. D. Browne Dignan. London, A. Grant, 1776.<br />
£ 450<br />
8vo, pp. iv, [3]-66, 61-188; very clean and crisp in contemporary<br />
sprinkled boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; a fine copy.<br />
Curiously this adaptation was published under the name of Browne Dignan, and<br />
fulsomely dedicated to the Count Rochford, without any reference to the fact that it<br />
is in fact a translation. The text is clearly based on the earlier translation, with some<br />
omissions, and a few changes (see Venturi Europe des Lumières, p. 258-9).<br />
ESTC n45760 (Cambridge Trinity College, St Patrick's College Library, and Harvard<br />
only); Carpenter XXV, 9; Weller II, p. 200.<br />
The Founder of the History of Ideas<br />
82.
VICO, Giambattista. Principj di Scienza Nuova … d'Intorno alla<br />
Comune Natura delle Nazioni in questa terza impressione dal<br />
medesimo Autore in un gran numero di luoghi Corretta, Schiarita, e<br />
notabilment Accresciuta.Tomo I [-Tomo II]. Naples, Stamperia<br />
Muziana, 1744. £ 3800<br />
Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, pp. [ii] frontispiece portrait, [xvi], [ii]<br />
allegoric engraved frontispiece, 376, one folding printed table bound in;<br />
[377]-526 [vere 516], [4] index; engraved title vignette; a few signatures<br />
lightly browned, due to paper stock, and faint marginal damp-stain to<br />
first signature; contemporary paste-paper covered boards, spine label<br />
lettered in manuscript; corners a little bumped, but in all a very good<br />
copy.<br />
Third and definitive edition of Vico's masterpiece, which had originally been<br />
published in 1725, rewritten for the second edition (1730), and further extensively<br />
revised for this one. Ahead of his time, Vico was neglected during his life and<br />
forgotten for years after his death, but his Scienza Nuova laid the foundations for<br />
many of the most important intellectual developments of the following two<br />
centuries. It was in this definitive edition, published in the year of Vico's death, that<br />
his ideas became known.<br />
The Principi di una Scienza Nuova has been justly called 'the vehicle by which the<br />
concept of historical development at last entered the thought of western Europe'<br />
(PMM 184). It remains one of the most influential treatises in the history of ideas. The<br />
concept of a history of human ideas, the principles of a universal history and its<br />
philosophical criticism, a recognition of the importance of social classes all begin<br />
with Vico. Vico was the first to formulate a systematic method for historical<br />
research. He revived the Greek conception that the course of history was subject to<br />
cyclical phases (corsi e ricorsi). This however did not indicate an upward or forward<br />
move towards perfection: according to Vico there exists in history a pattern which<br />
repeats itself in each civilisation, a storia ideale eterna. Just as the individual man<br />
passes through successive states, so does the history of civilisation.<br />
Vico recognised the importance of myth, tradition, and language for our<br />
understanding of primitive people. His was the first comprehensive study of human<br />
society before Comte, and he presented the first detailed analysis of the class struggle<br />
prior to Marx. Vico's concept of recurring patterns or cycles in history greatly<br />
influenced Joyce whose cyclical novel Finnegans Wake presents an elaborate history<br />
of mankind. In an obvious acknowledgement, Joyce even named the stage manager<br />
of his panorama John Baptister Vickar, and Samuel Beckett's seminal essay on Joyce,<br />
published in 1929, was entitled 'Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Joyce'.<br />
Vico founded no school and though his book was well-known in Italy during his<br />
lifetime, his achievement met with little success and understanding until the<br />
nineteenth century, when the German Romantics turned to his ideas. Herder,<br />
Goethe, Hegel and later Spengler took up his contributions to historical philosophy<br />
and method, and through them he greatly influenced modern historical and<br />
sociological research, though often unacknowledged. Sir Herbert Read sums this up
in the statement 'Vico is probably the most unacknowledged source of ideas in the<br />
history of philosophy'.<br />
Croce I, p. 53, Gamba 2493; see Printing and the Mind of Man 184 for first edition.<br />
The First Washing Mashine<br />
83.<br />
[WASHING MACHINE.] Dell' Arte di Fare il Bucato a Vapore.<br />
Dialoghi el Dott. G.P. In Bologna, per Giuseppe Lucchesini, 1805. £<br />
880<br />
8vo, pp. 44, folding engraved plate with 5 illustrations bound at the end;<br />
uncut in contemporary blue wrappers; a little dog-eared, else fine.<br />
First edition, very rare, of this publication advertising the use of a steam-based<br />
washing machine. Presented in the form of a dialogue between the padrona, the lady<br />
of the house, and her two washerwomen, the benefits of this revolutionary new<br />
washing technique are expounded. The arguments used by the padrona could easily<br />
come out of a modern advertising jingle - whiter than white, with no hint of laundry<br />
bluing. In four dialogues the washerwomen are first persuaded to try out this new<br />
washing technique, which is then explained in great detail. In the course of the<br />
discussion various traditional methods of washing are explained, such as bleaching<br />
in the sun, using special soaps, ash or even soda. The garments are first soaked in<br />
baths of sulphoric acid diluted in water, and in caustic potash, then rinsed, and<br />
finally put into the 'washing machine'. The composition of this machine and its<br />
construction is explained in great detail and illustrated on the large folding plate.<br />
In his preface the anonymous author writes that his invention is based on an idea of<br />
the French scientist Cadet de Vaux (1743-1828). To increase its circulation and<br />
readership the author decided to present the ideas in the form of a dialogue, and to<br />
give further technical details which had not been included by Cadet de Vaux.<br />
OCLC lists one copy at Princeton, also recorded in the Bibliothèque Nationale.<br />
84.<br />
[WINE.] Accademia di Scienze ed arti degli Ardenti di Viterbo.<br />
Istruzione del Miglior Metodo de Fare il Vino. Viterbo, estratte dagli<br />
Atti della Classe IV. Arti, Agricoltura, Commercio ec. Torchj<br />
dell'Accademia degli Ardenti, 1823. £ 400<br />
8vo, pp. 8; later plain wrappers; paper a little spotted, woodcut<br />
illustration in the text.
First edition, rare, of this description of an innovative vinification method, based on<br />
the developments of Dom Nicolas Casbois (1728-1795) and apparently partly<br />
popularized by Elisabeth and Jean-Antoine Gervais.<br />
The method included the use of both covered and open vats and is illustrated on the<br />
woodcut illustration which shows the wine barrel with its covering lid and valve in<br />
place. The final paragraph sums up that this device would guarantee wine of more,<br />
body, strength, colour and fragrancy, would increase yields because less would<br />
evaporate etc.<br />
The Academia degli Ardenti of Viterbo, one of the earliest Italian academies of<br />
science and literature, was founded in 1480 and counted amongst its members<br />
Ariosto, Tasso, Michelangelo, Muratori and Leopardi, to mention but a few.<br />
Not in Oberlé, not in Cagle; Very rare, not found in Check Simon, Vinaria, Bitting, =<br />
Westbury; no copy found in ICCU or OCLC.<br />
Locks and Locksmiths<br />
85.<br />
ZIPPER, Jakob. Anweisung zu Schlosserarbeiten mit Zeichnungen.<br />
Erster Theil mit 12 Kupfern. [Zweyter Theil mit 12 Kupfern, Dritter<br />
Theil mit 12 Kupfern.]. Leipzig, Stage, n.d. [1803]. £ 2200<br />
4to, [viii], 56, with 12 engraved plates; xii, 60, with 12 plates (misbound);<br />
xii, 52, with 12 engraved plates, woodcut and fleuron decorations in the<br />
text; brown stain to upper margin of last four text pages and first plates<br />
of final section, occasionally a little dust-soiled, but overall clean; bound<br />
without the front endpaper; contemporary half roan over sprinkled<br />
boards, gilt-lettered spine label, spine quite rubbed, head and tail of<br />
spine chipped, paper on sides scratched, and slightly cockled on upper<br />
board.<br />
Later issue of first and only edition of this comprehensive technical and practical<br />
manual for locksmiths, for gates, door, chest and cupboard locks. The author<br />
deplores the lack of practical manuals, and maintains that apprentices just learn a<br />
few techniques from their master, without thorough knowledge of all the different<br />
kinds of locks available. In three parts, Zipper introduces increasingly sophisticated<br />
locks and keys, and describes their mechanisms, which are then illustrated on the<br />
very detailed plates. Master craftsmen used increasingly ornamented locks and keys,<br />
which are also illustrated; technical advances are outlined, such as the lever locks<br />
and spring latch locks, sophisticated padlocks, and finally in a complicated<br />
combination lock. All locks are illustrated on the engraved plates, with extensive<br />
explanation in the text.<br />
The work gives a clear indication both of the technical advances in locksmithing, but<br />
also of the workmanship of the artisan necessary to produce the highly decorated<br />
locks and keys.
The first part of this work was first published in 1801 by the author himself, but from<br />
part II Zipper used the services of a professional publisher, and parts two and three<br />
were issued with Stage imprints. The present issue is un-dated.<br />
In 1801 Zipper also published Theoretisch-praktische Anweisung zu<br />
Schlosserarbeiten nebst den dazu-gehörigen Zeichnungen und Rissen, which is a<br />
different work, and deals with architectural metal work, railings, etc.<br />
Berlin 1317; Thieme-Becker 36, 528; uncommon, OCLC list just one copy at the<br />
Chicago Center for Research Librarires.