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Exercising is Fun and Games
1.
ABÉCÉDAIRE GYMNASTIQUE. Description des Jeux de l'Enfance
les plus Propres a Développer ses Facultés Physiques, pour servir
d'Abécédaire Gymnastique. Ornée de 26 gravures. Lyon, M.me V.e
Buynand née Bruyset, 1813. £ 980
12mo, half-title, title and pp. 5-72, title within engraved border, ith
engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title and four engraved
plates (each divided in to two columns and three rows to give six
separate illustrations); ome browning and staining, never heavy. Uncut
except at head with plentiful outer and lower margins; modern calf
backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt; although not in the
original binding (presumably wrappers) very well preserved and mostly
clean and crisp.
First edition of this attractive work on exercise, in the style of the great Gutsmuths,
but here included in a little pocket primer for school children - both novel and
appealing. The work begins with three pages of handwriting exercises, followed by
nine related to grammar and a further two instructing the child in the rules of
punctuation. The 26 sports, games and exercises are then discussed in detail and with
reference to the engravings. The work ends with five pages of arithmetic and
numbers and two of proverbs.
The attractive illustrations, which nearly all include some kind of background, show
young boys running, jumping, vaulting, playing leapfrog, wrestling, pole climbing,
walking on stilts, see-sawing, playing with a ball, skipping, bowling a hoop, spinning
a top, flying a kite, and playing blind-man's buff, as well as ice skating, dancing,
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
on a hand-turned round-a-bout of the chair-a-plane sort.
The Most Famous German Book of Professions - with 280 Engraved Plates
2.
ABRAHAM A S. CLARA. [Megerle, Ulrich.] Etwas für alle, Das ist
eine kurtze Beschreibung allerley Stands- Ambts- und Gewerbs-
Personen, mit beygedruckter Sittlichen Lehre und Biblischen
Concepten. Würzburg, Hiob Hertzen, [volume II and III: Martin
Frantz Hertz], 1711, 1711, 1737. £ 6000
Three volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 532, [12] contents,
with 100 engraved plates; engraved frontispiece, pp. [xii], 793, [39]
contents, with 77 numbered plates; engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 886,
[ii], 887-974, [30] with 103 engraved plates; in all 280 engraved plates; all
titles printed in red and black; occasional very light browning, due to
paper quality; some of the plates in weak impressions, but
predominantly fine; contemporary full sheep, spines in compartments,
with raised bands, elaborately decorated in gilt, matching lettering and
numbering pieces; a very attractive set.
First edition of volume II, second edition of volumes I and III, of the most famous
German book of professions, trades and artisans, with nearly three hundred
engraved plates showing different professions at work, in their traditional costume
and surrounded by their tools or equipment. The plates are by Weigel after designs
by Jan and Caspar Luiken.
The volumes are a fascinating source of information both on the costumes of
representatives of different trades, but also their equipment and workshop
surroundings. Many of the scenes were drawn from life by Luiken, and thus preserve
a lifelike immediacy. Professions include printer, bookbinder, type caster, musical
instrument maker, as well as carpenter, bricklayer and builder. Professions like
doctor, dentist and lawyer are also included. The engraved plates are accompanied
by extensive chapters in prose, outlining the relationship of each craft to God and the
divine world plan. In addition to traditional professions and trades, Abraham a Santa
Clara also includes gamblers, acrobats and tobacco twisters.
Abraham a Santa Clara (1644-1709), an Augustinian friar and preacher, was the
author of numerous books of popular knowledge, presented with wit and humour.
They showed the influence of Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools). More
than a century later his fellow-Svabian Schiller summed up his verdict in a letter to
Goethe: 'This Father Abraham is a man of wonderful originality, whom we must
respect, and it would be an interesting, though not at all an easy task to approach or
surpass him in mad wit and cleverness'.
It is rare to find all three volumes together, complete with all plates and in a
contemporary binding.

Bertsche 38a -5, 56 a-2, 57a-1; Dünnhaupt 146, 35 II.1 and 35.III.1; Faber du Faur 1118-
1120; Jantz 313, 314; RLIN/OCLC record copies at the University of Chicago,
Columbia, Berkeley (volume I only), Duke, the Library of Congress, the University of
Philadelphia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a Dutch version was published
later.
Natural History Specimen Book
3.
ALLOM, Elizabeth Anne. The Seaweed Collector, an introduction to
the study of the marine algae, with directions from practical
observations of the best method of collecting and drying the weed.
Illustrated with natural specimens from the shores of Margate and
Ramsgate. Margate, T. H. Keble, 1841. £ 750
Square 12mo, pp. 102, [2] errata, with 42 mounted specimens; some offsetting
from the specimens, else clean; green original publisher's cloth,
with title blocked in gilt on upper board, within blind-stamped border,
binding a little rubbed; with the book-plate and signature of William
Wallford, dated August 1855.
First edition, very uncommon, of this charming natural history specimen book, with
forty-two seaweed specimens included. All the varieties of seaweed to be found on
the coast in Margate and Ramsgate are described and accompanied by a specimen,
with the exception of a few which were deemed to be too common or too large for
inclusion. The book was compiled by Elizabeth Jane Allom, a life-long resident of
Margate. She later published a volume of verse (1844) and a juvenile handbook,
entitled Sea-side pleasures (1845).
One copy at Oxford, no further copies found in KVK, OCLC, NSTC etc.
Presentation Copy by Ampère to his Son
4.
AMPÈRE, André-Marie. Essai sur la Philosophie des Sciences, ou
Exposition analytique d'une Classification naturelle de toutes les
Connaissances Humaines. Paris, Bachelier, 1834. £ 1600
8vo, pp. lxxx, 272, 1 fold-out printed plate with two tables bound at the
end; some staining to head of half title; occasional browning and light
spotting, due to paper stock; contemporary roan-backed marbled
boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; with presentation inscription in
ink by Ampère.

First edition of the work Ampère regarded as the 'capstone' of his work, and which
contains some of his most interesting reflections on psychology and philosophy,
presented to his son.
In this significant work Ampère attempts to align his scientific discovery with his
philosophy of the classification of the science. Not content with the mere description,
he endeavours to explain the origin of complex conscious phenomena through the
blending and association of simpler elements.
Published just two years before his death, the work 'seems at first glance to be a
fantastic and uncorrelated list of possible objects of investigation. If Ampère's
philosophical views are attended to, however, they all fall into a rather simple
pattern' (DSB). This pattern, which divides each science into fourfold divisions and is
carefully explained by L. Pearce Williams in DSB, depends on the interrelation of
undeniable phenomena and 'noumena', the objective causes of phenomena.
Noumena, according to Ampère, are known through the activity of the mind, which
hypothesizes certain real, material entities whose properties can be used to account
for phenomena. These two aspects of reality, however, are not all that we can know.
We also can know relations (rapports) between phenomena and relations between
noumena, and these relations are just as objectively real as the noumena' (DSB).
Ampère had rejected the philosophy of the Idéalogues, lead by Condillac, which
maintained that only sensations were real as this denied the existence of God. He
was drawn to Kant but as a mathematician could not agree that space and time were
subjective modes of human understanding. He therefore developed his own
philosophy, which allowed him to combine his beliefs in God and in the real
existence of objective phenomena. The classification expounded in this work 'reveals
Ampère's far-ranging mind and permits us to understand his occasional excursions
into botany, taxonomy, and even anatomy and physiology. He was, in large part,
seeking confirmation for his philosophical analysis, rather than setting out on new
scientific paths. By the time of his death, Ampère had found, to his great satisfaction,
that his scheme did fit all the sciences and, in his Essai sur la philosophie des
sciences, he maintained that the fit was too good to be coincidence; the classification
must reflect truth. Once again he had found certainty where his predecessors had
not' (DSB).
[Provenance:] Presented by Ampère to his son 'optimo et carissimo filio. A. Ampère'.
Jean-Jacques Ampère spent the second half of 1834 in Italy, which accounts for the
dedication in Italian. A note in pencil on the front free endpaper explains the later
ownership of the book. Nine years later, and seven years after Ampère's death, his
son posthumously edited a second volume of the Essai sur la Philosophie des
Sciences, which, of course, is not present here.
See DSB I, pp. 139-146.
The Founder of Scientific Anthropology
5.
BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich. De Generis Humani Varietate
Nativa Liber. Cum figuris aeri incisis. Naturae Species Ratioque.
Göttingen, Vandenhoeck, 1776. £ 2750

8vo, pp. [ii], 100, [1] errata, two engraved plates bound at the end; old
paper repair to verso of title; contemporary pastepaper boards, some
surface abrasions to spine, worm trace to inner hinge; from the
Breitenbauch library with engraved book plate to front pastedown; a
good copy.
First edition (second issue, with a cancel title page), uncommon, of Blumenbach's
doctoral dissertation and best known work, his 'On the native Varieties of the
Human Race', now considered as the foundation of the science of physical
anthropology - the study of the origin and evolution of the races of men.
He was preceded by Tyson and Linné who had prepared the ground for his studies
by relating man to the order of the primates. Linné had distinguished four races of
man chiefly by the colour of their skin. From these premises Blumenbach was able to
develop the thesis that all living races are varieties of a single species, homo sapiens,
and that their differences were small compared with those between man and the
nearest animal; 'innumerable varieties of mankind run into each other by insensible
degrees'. It is not surprising therefore that Blumenbach was opposed to the practice
of slavery and the then current belief in the inherent savagery of the coloured races.'
(PMM 219). 'In his dissertation one can find the first reliable survey of the
characteristics and distribution of the human races; its most significant points were
included in almost all later anthropological classifications.
The first issue was published without a date (apparently 1775) with the imprint F.A.
Rosenbusch, this is the second issue with a cancel title page.
Provenance: From the library of the writer, scientist, and government official Georg
August von Breitenbauch (1731-1817), friend of Goethe, Herder, and Lessing.
Garrison-Morton 156 (first issue 1775), Printing and the Mind of Man 219 (first issue);
Norman 250; Blake p. 51
On Generation
6.
BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich. Über den Bildungstrieb und das
Zeugungsgeschäfte. Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1781.
£ 1250
Small 8vo, pp. 87, [1] blank, large engraved title vignette by J.W. Meil,
one engraved plate; contemporary half tan calf over sprinkled boards,
spine in compartments, spine label; an attractive copy.
First edition, rare, of Blumenbach's work on the Bildungstrieb (nisus formativus),
which made a great impression on his contemporaries - as well as later scientists.
Influenced by Haller and the eighteenth-century school of vitalism, Blumenbach
conceived of the Bildungstrieb, ie the 'innate tendency in living creatures toward selfdevelopment.
This impulse was to be added to irritability, sensibility and
contractility as essential feature of vitalism' (PMM 219). In this theory of
reproduction and embryonic development, he rejected the 'preformation theory and

advanced the theory of epigenesis as the true explanation of the phenomenon of
evolution. They are of historical significance because they offered some new
arguments in favour of epigenesis to the conflict between it and preformation.
'Blumenbach had a great influence on the scientific explorers and travellers of the
time; among his pupils were Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Heinrich von
Langsdorff, Prince Maximilian zu Wied and others' (PMM 219).
Bound with it: Kurtzer Unterricht für den Landmann von den bewährtesten
Preservationsmitteln wider die Rindviehseuche. Wesel, F. J. Röder, 1780. pp. 31.
NDB II, p. 329; Blake p. 51; Garrison-Morton 104.
Carnival Costumes - Illustrated on 24 Colour Plates
7.
[CARNIVAL] Die Carnevals-Freuden oder kleines Ideenmagazin zu
geistreichen und leicht ausführbaren Masken. Mit 24 fein coloriten
Kupfertafeln. [cover title: Masken-Taschenbuch für Carnevals-
Freunde]. Nürnberg, Friedrich Campe, 1839. £ 4200
Oblong 8vo, pp.72, with 24 engraved coloured plates, one of them bound
as frontispiece; text with occasional light spotting, due to paper quality;
plates very clean with fine contemporary hand-colouring; original palegreen
printed boards, title on upper board within border, extremities a
little rubbed, faint dampstain to boards, but a very good copy.
First and apparently only edition of a fascinating introduction and illustration of
masks and costumes for carnival. The anonymous author begins with a brief history
of the festivities related to carnival, with its roots in the Roman Saturnalia, and the
theatrical costumes, disguises and masks worn for the event. Then twenty-four
elaborate costumes are described in the text and then illustrated on the finely
engraved and coloured plates. Some of them resemble charades or poses more than
modern costumes. The first costumes are static ones, ie elaborate disguises which do
not allow too much movement for the protagonist, such as the 'living dressing table',
a sign-post, or flowerpot. Further sections show symbolic juxtapositions, or group
disguises, such as a couple of slaves with their gang-master, or bear-dancing. Then
follow those disguises still popular today, adults in children's clothes, magicians,
gypsies etc.
A further section involves masks with extensive props, such as giant heads, with an
elaborate face masks, or the equilibrist, where the protagonist appears to be walking
on his hands. The separate section for children's masks tend to be of the more
traditional variety, just based on costume, make-up and head-dress. The adults
however certainly need some theatrical talent to pull off the complicated disguises.
Throughout historical background information is given.
KVK and OCLC lists just two copies, Staatsbibliothek Berlin and Munich; no copies
recorded elsewhere.

Female Beauty Maintained and Enhanced
8.
[CARON, Auguste.] La Toletta delle Dame ossia Trattato intorno alla
Bellezza. Che contiene delle Riflessioni intorno alla natura della
bellezza, alle cause fisiche e morali che la alterano, ai mezzi di
conservarla sino a un'età avanzata, a ciò che appo noi la costituisce e
alla cura che aver si deve di ogni parte del corpo; indi un Quadro
storico delle mode di Francia, e consigli di un buon-gustajo per la
toletta della Dame. Traduzione libera dal Francese. Tomo 1 [-Tomo
II]. Milan, Batelli and Fanfani, 1822. £ 580
Two volumes, small 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 256, [4] contents,
with two engraved plates; 240, [2] contents; crowned stamp to title page;
marbled boards, with two printed spine labels; a good copy.
First edition in Italian adapted from Auguste Caron's La Toilette des Dames, ou
Encyclopédie de la beauté, first published in French in 1806. In his well-structured
treatise Caron discusses female beauty from all angles, but stresses first that beauty
comes from within - though occasionally helped by some of his recipes. In the first
volume, which contains more of a historical overview, he comments on changing
fashions and changing historical, regional and national notions of beauty in women.
In individual chapters he discusses fashion, women and tobacco, women and luxury,
and the history of fashion before and after Henry IV. In the second volume he
concentrates on the practical aspects of preserving and enhancing beauty through
make-up, skin care and perfume. In individual chapters he deals with skin care,
various skin imperfections, and how to cure them. He treats both skin complaints
such as liver spots, birthmarks, but also skin complaints of pregnant women, again
giving detailed pharmaceutical advice on how to treat them. Lines and wrinkles - to
be treated amongst others by a boiled up concoction consisting of onions, honey and
wax, followed by recipes against sagging breasts. Recipes for hair care are given,
including colouring, and depilation of unwanted hair. Further chapters deal with
mouth and teeth, ears and nose, eyes, hands and nails. In each case Caron gives
careful advice on how to take care of them, and gives recipes for the most common
complaints, and advice on beautification. Throughout La Toletta delle Dame gives a
fascinating insight in the prevalence of cosmetics in early nineteenth century society.
The engraved plates show a scantily dressed woman having her hair done, and
images of Cloe and Zeffirina.
Uncommon .., see Cioranesco
Perpetual Peace
9.
CASTEL de SAINT-PIERRE, Charles-Iréné abbé de. Abrégé du Projet
de Paix Perpetuelle, Inventé par le Roi Henri le Grand, Aprouvé par

la Reine Elisabeth, par le Roi Jaques son successeur, par les
Republiques & par divers autres Potentats. Aproprié à l'Etat present
des Affaires générales de l'Europe. Démontré infiniment avantageux
pour tous les Hommes nés & à naître, en general & en particulier
pour tous les Souverains, & pour les Maisons Souveraines.
Rotterdam, Jean Daniel Beman, 1729. £ 850
8vo, pp. [viii], 227, [3]; title printed in red and black; occasional light
browning; contemporary half calf, spine gilt, spine label with gilt mostly
removed; extremities a little rubbed, still a good copy.
First edition of the abridgement of Castel de Saint-Pierre's famous peace proposal,
first circulated in manuscript and published between 1713 and 1717. In fact this is not
just a condensed version of the original work, but includes Castel de Saint-Pierre's
further considerations and his response to contemporary criticism.
Saint-Pierre had joined Polignac, the French ambassador, as secretary in the difficult
peace negotiations of Utrecht which concluded the great European war of the
Spanish succession, and this proposal for 'eternal peace' between political powers
was the direct outcome of this experience, even though he had started working on
this text as early as 1708. Saint-Pierre proposed the establishment of a 'European
parliament', with its seat at Utrecht, which would peacefully settle conflicts between
states. It would be a parliament composed of representatives of all European states;
European borders would be guaranteed, and any differences arising between states
would be solved in negotiations.
His proposal marked the beginning of the growing emphasis and reliance on
international relations and organisations in modern politics. Even though he was
mainly admired as a visionary in his time, his ideas can be traced in the charters of
the League of Nations and the United Nations. His pacifist plan was highly
influential amongst the intellectuals of his and later times. 'Rousseau published in
1761 Extrait du projet de paix perpétuelle which assured Saint-Pierre European
recognition. In addition to Rousseau, of the truly famous French writers of the
century, Montesquieu and Voltaire also voiced opinions about the Abbé's projects ...
Kant knew Rousseau's version of the Paix perpetuelle, and in his Zum ewigen
Frieden expresses similar ideas (M.L. Perkins, The Moral and Political Philosophy of
the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Geneva, 1959).
There appears to be a second issue of this edition with Briasson added to the imprint.
Goldsmiths'-Kress 6721; see En Français dans le Texte, no. 137; van den Dungen,
From Erasmus to Tolstoy, p. 67.
Book Peddlers
10.
[CAYLUS, Anne Claude Philippe comte de.] Memoires de
l'Academie des Colporteurs. [Paris], De l'Imprimerie ordinaire de
l'Academie, 1748. £ 1250

8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. viii, 319, with 8 unsigned engraved
plates in the text, one an engraved title, title printed in red and black,
with attractive title vignette; slight dampstain to fore-margin, and ink
stains to final pages; contemporary full red cushed morocco, spine
decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; sides with triple fillets, a.e.g.
discreet repair to upper board; an attractive copy, with early
bibliographical note to front free endpaper.
First edition of this unusual and attractively illustrated work on Paris street peddlers,
hawkers and distributors of pamphlets and books, allegedly published under the
auspices of the Paris Guild of Booksellers and Printers. Caylus (1692-1765) was an
amateur engraver, antiquarian and writer from a well-off aristocratic family which
allowed him to follow his lifelong interest in the arts and antiquities. He played a
prominent role in the Société du Bout du Banc, an informal group of writers and
aristocrats who met at the home of the actress Quinault. They published a whole
series of oeuvres badins, licentious and playful stories, mostly published under
Caylus' name and in fact mostly written by him.This appears to be in the same vein,
a collection of histories and sketches relating to the exploits and experiences of book
peddlers and hawkers. Each anecdote is illustrated with an appealing and competent
engraving, executed possibly by Caylus himself. The particularly attractive engraved
title, showing a billposter putting up a poster or placard with the title, and partly
obscuring it in the process, is according to Cohen possibly by Ch. N. Cochin.
The work is also interesting in that the section beginning on p. 188 Le Malebosse
describes and illustrates a scheming poet, i.e. Voltaire who is duped by a fake book
peddlar. This is in fact one of the first anti-Voltaire caricatures (Apgar).
Cioranescu XVIII 16265; Cohen, c 210; see Apgar, Trois siècles d'iconographie
voltairienne.
The First Telegraph Engineer
11.
[CHAPPE, Claude.] Il Telegrafo ossia Descrizione della Macchina
nuovament retrovata in Parigi per Trasmettere in Brevissimo Tempo
a Grandi Distanze qualunque Notizia. Con Figure. Estratta
dall'Edizione Tedesca di Vienna presso Baumeister 1794. £ 650
8vo, pp. xiii, [3] blank, 4 engraved plates bound at the end, decorative
head-piece and initial; some spotting throughout, partly uncut in
contemporary blue wrappers.
First edition in Italian of Claude Chappe's 'optical' telegraph, which depended on
visual signals and preceded the modern telegraph. His device consisted of an upright
post, on the top of which was fastened a transverse bar, while at the ends of the latter
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
visible from the next, messages could be conveyed through 150 miles within a
quarter of an hour. Chappe's contraption was adopted by the Legislative Assembly
in 1792, and in the following year Chappe was appointed ingénieur-télégraphe. The
optical telegraph was first used for an official transmission in 1794, and remained
widely in use in France until 1855, when it was superseded by the electric telegraph.
This work was translated from a German publication issued the same year with the
title Beschreibung und Abbildung des Telegraphen oder der neuerfundenen
Fernschreibemaschine in Paris, but clearly published in Italy. A brief introduction to
the principles of the device is followed by an eyewitness account of the first
conveyance of a message from a device mounted on top of the Louvre. This is
depicted on the first of the finely engraved plates. The other plates show the agreed
signals and the transcription of a message in German.
There was another Italian edition, printed in Rome (Roma, si vende presso Agapito
Franzetti) the same year; not traced in NUC, RLIN or the Italian on-line catalogue;
see E. Jacquez, Claude Chappe, notice biographique, 1893 for further information on
the optical telegraph; Newton, Encyclopedia of Cryptology, p. 205.
Chemical Cleaning Products for Hospital Sanitation
12.
[CHEMISTRY.] Istruzioni per la Preparazione e per l'Uso delle
Profumazioni con Acidi minerali. [Venice], Pinelli, zio e nipote,
1790s. £ 350
Folio, pp. 19, large armorial vignette to title; very clean and crisp in
original yellow wrappers; a little dog-eared, else fine.
First and only edition of an anonymous publication analysing the chemical processes
involved in the production of mineral acids, especially for cleaning and disinfecting
purposes, and as a form of air-purifier to reduce the risk of infection. A number of
recipes are given, both for household use and, more importantly, for use in hospitals.
The anonymous author stresses in particular its application in hospitals or on ships,
to sanitise after the outbreak of infectious diseases, such as yellow fever, and the
plague.
No copy found in OCLC or KVK.
Enlightenment in Letters to a Lady
13.
CHIARI, Pietro. Lettere scelte di varie materie piacevoli, critiche, ed
erudite scritte ad una Dama di Qualità … Tomo Primo [- Tomo
Terzo]. Venezia, Angelo Pasinelli, 1752. £ 550

Three volumes in one, 8vo, pp. 8 including engraved frontispiece, 223,
[1] blank; [viii], 224; [iv], 204 - prelims of volume two bound after first
signature; occasional light spotting, but clean and crisp overall;
contemporary full vellum; corners a little worn.
Most complete edition of Chiari's wide-ranging letters addressed to a lady. The finely
engraved unsigned frontispiece shows three figures in a Venetian carnival scene, one
having unmasked the other, with mask and hat tumbling down, a masked female
figure is looking on.
Chiari was an astute social observe and his letters are of great interest, as they cover
topics such as games and gambling, the theatre, coffee, and carnival. He also treats
scientific subjects as the Copernican system, medicine, food and drink etc. Chiari
(1712-1785), one of the most prolific Italian playwrights and authors, was influenced
by Richardson, Fielding, Voltaire and Swift, and is known for introducing the novel
into Italian literature.
First published in one volume in 1750, expanded to two also in 1750 and finally
completed with a third volume in 1751. There are editions with imprint 1750 -1752
published by Pasinelli and then this final one all with a 1752 imprint. The letters were
reprinted in 1764.
See Lanckronska 66; the Harvard copy of the 1750-52 printing apparently has a
genealogical table bound in, which does not appear to be asked for and is not present
either here nor in the British Library copy; all the editions are uncommon, with
RLIN/OCLC locating copies at Harvard, Princeton (1752), Yale, Chicago, Johns
Hopkins and New York Public Library in the US.
Jansenist Publications
14.
[COLONIA, Dominique de.] Bibliotheque Janseniste, ou Catalogue
alphabetique des principaux Livres Jansenistes, ou suspects de
Jansenisme, qui ont paru depuis la Naissance de cette Héresie, avec
des Notes Critiques sur les veritables Auteurs de ces Livres, sur les
Erreurs qui y sont continues & sur les condemnations qui en eut été
faites par la Saint siege, ou par l'Eglise Gallicane, ou par les Evêques
dicesains. [n.p., but Lyon], 1722. £ 480
12mo, pp. [xxxxviii], 307, [1] errata; a few signatures lightly browned,
paper fault to foremargin of Bb3, no loss; woodcut and fleuron
decorations in the text; contemporary sheep, spine in compartments,
gilt-lettered spine label; surface rubbed and edges worn, but sound;
from a religious school library with faint stamp to title and number in
ink to front paste-down.
First edition, uncommon, of this comprehensive annotated bibliography of Jansenist
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
in many publications, including many by popular religious writers of the day. The
work itself was controversial and was listed on the index. Despite this it was popular
and was reprinted with additions in 1731, 1735, 1739, and, after Colonia's death
substantially enlarged by Patouillet in 1752 and 1755. The work remained on the
index until the early twentieth century.
Jansenism was the single most divisive religious movement within the Catholic
Church between the Reformation and the French Revolution. It threatened
seventeenth and eighteenth century religious unity, but is today seen as one of the
modernizing influences to have come out of 17th century Catholicism. It is
interesting to note that the revival of Jansenism in France was eased by the post 1715
relaxation of censorship and of royal ecclesiastical policies. More than 2500 Jansenist
and anti-jansenist works were published in France between 1713 and 1765 (For a full
account see Israel, Enlightenment contested, pp. 704-712).
Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes I, c. 418-419; Petzholdt p. 517 (favourable); OCLC
lists copies at UCLA, University of Arizona, Yale, Library of Congress, Strasbourg
and Utrecht.
The First Western Languages Edition of Comenius' Janua Linguarum
Reserata
15.
[COMENIUS, Johann Amos.] Porta Linguarum Trilinguis reserata et
aperta. Sive Seminarium Linguarum & Scientiarum omnium, Hoc
est, Compendiaria Latinam, Anglicam, Gallicam & quamvis aliam …
[The Gate of Tongues Unlocked and Opened, or else a Seminarie or
seed-plot of all Tongues and Sciences. That is a short way of teaching
and thorowly learning within a yeare and a half at the farthest, The
Latin, English, French, (and any other) tongue, together with the
ground and foundation of Arts and Sciences, comprised under an
hundred Titles, and a thousand periods. … Johan Anchoran. London,
George Miller, for Michael Sparkes and Thomas Slater, 1631. £ 7500
8vo, pp. [xxiv], 226, [4], pages 66, 93, and 117 misnumbered 96, 63 and
107; decorated initials and head-and tail-pieces; lightly browned
throughout, title dust-soiled, small hole to gutter margin, offsetting and
slight discolouring to gutter margin of first title; contemporary full
sheep, rebacked and recornered; with small oval circular stamp of the
private library of Marcel Bekus (- 1938) to front paste-down and verso of
second title page.
First Western languages edition, very rare, of Comenius' innovative and
revolutionary Janua Linguarum Reserata, his first school book, a guide to learning
languages as well as teaching the basics of all arts and sciences. It was, in fact, the
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
had first been published in Latin and Czech in the same year. His Latin, French and
English primer revolutionized seventeenth century education, it is arranged in one
hundred lessons, covering a thousand subjects. This first Western languages edition
teaches Latin, French and English, attractively printed in three columns in Roman,
Gothic and Italic type respectively. 'His 'Open Door to Langues', Janua Linguarum
Reserata secured the fairly uniform teaching of latin throughout the continent' (PMM
139). It is not to be confused with the earlier 'Janua linguarum' of William Bathe and
others, which it is an entirely different work.
Comenius (1592-1670) was the pioneer of contemporary developments in education,
his proposals and maxims have shaped educational thinking ever since, and, even
though some his suggested methods are outdated, his final goals are still valid today
and some have still not been completely attained. To mention just some of his
pronouncements regarding education: he stressed the importance of pre-school
education within the family, maintained that education had to pleasurable to be
effective, proclaimed life-long education, and demanded international education for
the international community of nations. Everybody should learn two languages, his
own vernacular language and a 'lingua franca', which at the time was clearly Latin.
All these demands have a surprisingly modern ring to them and are all contained in
modern textbooks of education.
This is one of three states printed the same year with different combinations of
names in the imprint and different signatories in the dedication. Here the dedication
is signed by Anchor and Comenius, but not Sam. Hartlieb. No priority has been
assigned. Young identifies the version also signed by Hartlieb as a pirated edition.
The publisher and social reformer Samuel Hartlieb or Hartlib (c 1600 –1662), who
originally came from Poland, was a notable figure in the English republic of letters.
He specialised in the organisation and distribution of knowledge, was a keen
follower of Comenius pansophic ideas, and in fact issued a pirated edition of his
early work on the subject. This seems to support Young’s suggestion, that the edition
with Hartlieb as a signatory of the dedication is a pirated edition.
Marcel Bekus' library was sold at auction in Nantes in 1985 by his grandson.
STC (2nd edn) 15078.5 (Cambridge); not in Naarden, Comenius Museum; see Robert
Fitzgerald Young, Comenius in England, p. 61; on Hartlib see Greengrass, M.
‘Samuel Hartlib and the Commonwealth of Learning.’ In The Cambridge History of the
Book in Britain, edited by John Barnard and D. F. Mc Kenzie. Vol. 4, pp. 304–322.
Cambridge, U.K., 2002.
Civilité Type
16.
[CORDIER, Mathurin.] La Civilité puerile et honneste, pour
l'instruction des Enfans, en laquelle est mise au commencement la
maniere d'apprendre à bien lire, prononcer & écrire; corrigée de
nouveau, & augmentée à la fin d'un beau Traité pour bien apprendre
l'Orthographe. Dressée par un Missionnaire. Avec des precepts &

Instructions pour appreendre à la Jeunesse à se bien conduire dans
les Compagnies. Paris, Herissant, 1785. £ 1000
12mo, pp. [vi], 102, [2]; title a little dust-soiled, lower corner worn and a
little frayed; stitched in early manuscript leaf of an ?army list; ownership
inscription of Robin Servon on the inside wrapper, with date in ink on
upper wrapper. Servan also appears as one of the names on the army
list; a little dog-eared and dampstain to lower wrapper.
Later edition of a rare combined ABC and courtesy book, printed almost entirely in
civilité type. After a brief introduction to the letters of the alphabet, vowels and
consonants and some spelling exercises, the young readers are instructed on proper
behaviour at church, at school, in polite company, while playing, at the table etc. The
work concludes with a brief introduction to numbers and arithmetic, and 126 verses
by De Pybrac, followed by a listing of homonyms. The first edition of this version
was apparently published in 1753.
This is an attractive example of a civilité book, named for the type designed by
Robert Granjon in 1557 and based on the gothic cursive handwriting in vogue at the
time. 'As early as the sixteenth century a particular French type face was given the
name civilité after a French work by Marthurin Cordier, which combined doctrines
from Erasmus's treatise with those of another humanist, Johannes Sulpicius. And a
whole genre of books, directly or indirectly influenced by Erasmus's treatise,
appeared under the title civilite or civilité puerile; these were printed up to the end of
the eighteenth century in this civilité type'. (Norbert Elias, On Civilization, Power
and Knowledge, 1998, p. 76.) Civilité type being similar to handwriting was mostly
used for popular books, such as chapbooks, schoolbooks, songbooks etc.
Provenance: The work is bound in a vellum manuscript leaf, apparently with
military listings; included in a list of names is an officer Servon, which corresponds
to the ownership inscription of Robin Servon on the inside wrapper.
See Gumuchian 1763 (similar ed. of 1813); Carter-Vervliet 471 (similar Paris edition
of 1757).
How to Make Paper Flowers
17.
DE MARIA, Claudio. La Fiorista dà fiori artificiali con varie ricette
per diversi colori. Compilato da Claudio DeMaria. Cesari, 1856.
Manuscript in ink. £ 3750
8vo, pp. [ii], 41, [7] blank, [96], with one very large folding plate (420 x
520 mm), 28 blank, folding plate with short splits to fold; specially
produced vellum notebook with envelope-style flap and remains of
linen ribbon, with memo pockets at front and back, with four sheets of
notes; binding a little rubbed, but very well preserved.

A charming original manuscript in ink on the production of paper flowers,
illustrated extensively in colour, with the inclusion of numerous colour recipes. The
manual is extremely well organised, with diagrams and tables, marked and
referenced in the text.
The first section, extending to forty-one pages, contains detailed recipes for the
production of different dyes, with descriptions of the necessary ingredients and
procedures. The second, more extensive part contains a comprehensive introduction
to the production of paper flowers, with full colour illustrations of different flowers,
and the various steps in production, such as pattern cutting, advice on how to form
leaves, petals etc, and final assembly of the different parts. There are many colour
illustrations in the text, illustrating either work steps, or the finished product. The
large folding plate shows the different tools used in paper flower production.
This manual must have been a notebook of either a master or an apprentice of paper
flower production, though clearly one with an artistic bend, as the illustrations are
both charming and competent. There is no publication recorded with a similar title,
and moreover, the spontaneous writing style makes it highly unlikely that this is a
copy of an existing book. It was possibly meant for future publication, with a few
later corrections in the text. However, no such book appears to have been published.
European paper flower production apparently originated in Italy, but in the
eighteenth century the French made great advances in the accuracy of their
reproductions and towards the end of the century Paris manufacturers enjoyed a
world-wide reputation.
Conjuring, Mathematical Games and Magic
18.
DECREMPS, Henri. La Magie Blanch Dévoilée, ou explicaiton des
Tours surprenans qui sont depuis peu l'admiration de la Capitale &
de la Province. Avec des réflexions sur la Baguette Divinatoire, les
Automates joueurs de'Echecs, &c. &c. Ouvrage orné de 101 Figures.
Tome Premier, Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1789.
[bound with:] DECREMPS, Henri. Supplément a la Magie Blanche
Dévoilée. [Tome Second]. Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1789.
[bound with:] DECREMPS, Henri. Testament de Jérome Sharp,
Professeur de Physique amusante; où l'on trouve, parmi pluseurs
Tours de subtilité, qu'on peut executer sans aucune dépense, des
precepts & des exemples sur l'Art de faire des Chansons impromptu.
Pour servir de Complément a la Magie Blanche Dévoilée. [Tome
Troisème]. Paris, F.J. Desoer, 1789.
[bound with:] DECREMPS, Henri. Les Petites Aventures de Jérome
Sharp. Professeur de Physique amusante: Ourvage contenant autant
de Tours ingénieux que de Leçons utiles, avec quelques petits
Portraits à al manière noire.18 Figures. Bruxelles, F.J. Desoer, 1790.
£ 2400

Four volumes bound in two, 8vo, frontispiece, pp. viii, 118; viii, 270, [1]
approbation, with engraved frontispiece bound in; xvi, 262 [1], woodcut
music bound as frontispiece; xii, 266, frontispiece as part of collation; all
four volumes with frontispiece, numerous woodcut figures in the text,
some full page, including printed music; contemporary full mottled calf,
spine decoratively gilt in compartments, two contrasting gilt-lettered
spine labels; gilding a little faded, paper shelf marks to foot of spine, and
in crayon to front free endpaper; a fine set from the library of Freiherr
von Wrede Melschede with oblong stamps to margin of title.
A very attractive collected edition of the most important works on conjuring,
mathematical games and scientific recreations by Henri Decremps, a mathematician
and avid conjurer, who attempted to explain magical phenomena rationally as
trickery or sleight of hand. In the eighteenth century scientific discovery and the
belief in magic and occult phenomena mixed uneasily. Everything had to be
explained scientifically, and Decremps was on the forefront of attempting to debunk
'magic'.
Of particular interest are his descriptions of specific tricks and illusions, based on
magnetism, electricity, geometry, perspective, optics, with illustrations of specific
tricks. He describes a wide array of automatons and machinery, for the performance
of marvels, which according to the author were attributable to magnets, concealed
canaries and other devices. Some of Decremps' 'scientific explanations' and
mathematics, were later revealed to be fanciful themselves, as was pointed out by
Fiard.
Some of Decremps' works were written under the fictional guise of Prof. Jérome
Sharpe. The works proved immensely popular both in France, and in England, where
La Magie Blanche Dévoilée was published under the title The Conjurer Unmasked in
the translation of Thomas Denton.
See Caillet 2861 (Magie Blanche, first edition 1784-5), Caillet 2862 (Testament de
Jerome Sharp, first edition 1786), Caillet 2864 (Petites Aventures, first edition 1789).
Cogito, Ergo Sum
19.
DESCARTES, Réné. Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam, Ludovic
Elzevir, 1644.
[bound with:] DESCARTES, Réné. Specimina philosophia: seu
dissertation de methodo rectè regendae rationis, & veritatis in
scientiis investigandae: dioptrice, et meteora. Ex Gallico translato, &
ab auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendate. Amsterdam,
Ludovic Elzevir, 1644. £ 8000
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. [xxii], [ii] blank, 310, [2] blank,
woodcut device on title and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text;

[xvi], 331, [1] blank, woodcut device on title and numerous woodcut
illustrations in the text; a fine copy in full contemporary vellum, with
overlapping edges, manuscript title to spine.
First edition of the Principia and first Latin edition (translated by Etienne de
Courcelle) of Descartes' Discours de la Méthode (1637), which had been revised by
Descartes. Although issued independently, these two works are often found bound
together. Descartes was the first of modern philosophers and one of the first modern
scientists; in both branches of learning he was immensely important.
I. The Principia is one of the most influential books in the history of science,
presenting Descartes' system of physics and cosmologies, and the 'principles of his
philosophy in four parts: [1] metaphysical and cognitive principles; [2] the principles
of nature (laws of motion, etc); [3] the structure of the universe (celestial physics); (4)
an explanation of physical phenomena such as fermentation, magnetism etc.' (T.
Verbeek in Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers, I,
(p. 254-260).
II. The Discours de la Méthode is here in the Latin translation, by which it reached its
greatest circulation, and the first to contain the famous dictum 'cogito, ergo sum'. The
Discours is Descartes' fundamental work in philosophy and on the method of
science. 'Descartes's purpose is to find the simple indestructible proposition which
gives to the universe and thought their order and system. Three points are made: the
truth of thought, when thought is true to itself (thus cogito, ergo sum), the inevitable
elevation of its partial state in our finite consciousness to its full state in the infinite
existence of God, and the ultimate reduction of the material universe to extension
and local movement. From these central propositions in logic, metaphysics and
physics came the subsequent inquiries of Locke, Leibniz and Newton; from them
stem all modern scientific and philosophic thought' (PMM 129).
I. Guibert p. 118; Norman 22; Willems 1008; Ashworth 1; II. Guibert p. 104; Norman
623; Willems 1008; PMM 129.
With the Arms of the Altieri Family
20.
DORIA, Luigi Romano. Elementi della Coltivazione de' Grani ad uso
dell'Agro Romano, Dedicati alla Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Pio
Sesto… In Roma, pel Salomoni, 1777. £ 2950
8vo, pp. xvi (imprimatur leaf misbound), 236, five engraved plates (three
folding) bound at the end; title printed in red and blue, with portrait
medallion of Pope Pius VI and a medallion showing an overflowing
grain vat surrounded by the words 'spes publica'; bound in
contemporary full tan calf, spine gilt in six compartments, gilt-lettered
spine label, sides gold-tooled with outer roll border, corner ornaments
built up from individual tools including leafy sprays, small stars,
blossoms and flower tools; a.e.g., Italian pattern paper endpapers,

ookplate removed from front paste-down; repair to to compartment of
spine, else a fine copy.
First edition, rare, of this attractively illustrated reform proposal for Roman
agriculture in a fine binding. Doria begins with advice on the assessment of different
types and qualities of soil and prospective harvests, which need to be taken into
account when assessing the viability of estates and their leases. This is followed by
detailed advice on the whole process of practical agriculture, such as how to organise
and arrange the fields for maximum efficiency, how the fields are prepared, manure
applied and ploughed under, then ploughing, sowing, hoeing, etc. up to the
harvesting. He makes some useful suggestions for the more efficient use of existing
fields and the incorporation of fallow ground.
Doria also supplies a detailed calendar of projects by month, and an interesting
glossary of agricultural terms and procedures, with labour prices where appropriate.
A final section gives an account of salaries paid in farming, and the average
maintenance cost for various farm workers. Particularly attractive are the emblematic
plates, showing scenes of farming and agriculture, common wind directions, field
divisions, and planting instructions.
'These were the years which saw a stepping up of specifically agronomic
propaganda, in the manner of Giovanni Salvini's Instructions to his land agent
(1775). Here too we can detect a Tuscan and also a Venetian influence and it is
apparent that the proposed agrarian changes (introduction of Tarelli's method, etc.)
would necessitate modifications in economic relationships and mentality ...... Above
all, one great hope: 'We are ever on the point of achieving the impossible .... so that
the structure of property will be transformed and the workers will no longer be
poor.' In 1777 Luigi Doria's Principles of Cereal Growing for the use of the Agro
Romano was published (the present work). 'A time of enlightenment like the
eighteenth century', said the preface, 'and a most cultured capital city like my own
would take it amiss if I thought it necessary to convince them of the importance of
that art which is the subject of the present instructions' (Venturi, Italy and the
Enlightenment, Studies in a Cosmopolitan Century, pp. 245-246).
Doria's work was reprinted in 1798, and this first edition appears to be very rare.
The arms of the binding are those of the Roman noble family Altieri. The Altieri
family produced over the centuries a pope, Clemens X, cardinals, and other
important personages in Rome. The artist who made the binding was almost surely a
Roman binder.
Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi, not found in NUC, OCLC lists just one copy at
UC Davis; see Re, Dizionario ragionato di libri d'agricoltura, p. 207, for 1798 edition
only, commenting that he never saw the first edition; for Altieri family see
Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana: famiglie nobili e titolate viventi riconosciute
dal R. governo d'Italia compresi: citta, comunita, mense vescovili, abazie, parrocchie
ed enti nobili e titolati riconosciuti / promossa e diretta da Vittorio Spreti .
Pubblicazione Milano : Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana, 1928-1935.
Falling out of Love
21.

[DURANDI, Jacobo.] Amore Disarmato Poemetto. Naples, Pomatelli,
1768. £ 850
8vo, folding engraved frontispiece, pp. 166; some spotting throughout;
uncut in the original buff limp boards, with sprinkled paper spine,
manuscript spine label, some surface abrasions; library shelf mark to
spine, early manuscript ownership inscription to front free endpaper,
recording purchase date 19 August 1772 and price.
First edition of an extensive narrative poem on falling out of love. Revenge seems on
the cards: 'Ora voi Beltà neglette, ed amanti disperati, preparate le vendetta contra
chi v'ha maltrattati'. Particularly appealing is the finely engraved frontispiece entitled
'amor disarmato' where a determined lady breaks Amor's bow and arrows.
Durandi (1737-1817) is particularly known as the author of numerous opera libretti.
Ersch, p. 354; OCLC lists just one copy at Harvard; see Ferri and Castreca-Brunetti,
Biblioteca feminile Italiana, p. 295.
A Woman's Philosophy
22.
[EHRMANN, Marianne.] Philosophie eines Weibs. Von einer
Beobachterin. [n.p.] [Kempten], Im Jahr 1784. £ 960
8vo, pp. 72, [1] errata; title vignette; contemporary blue paste-paper
wrappers, rebacked; a very clean and crisp copy.
First edition, rare, of Marianne Ehrmann's first publication. Influenced by Rousseau,
in this work traditional notions of womanhood compete with progressive political
and ideological thought. Marianne Ehrmann (1753-1795), was one of the most
outspoken German literary women writers of the eighteenth century. She was
particularly interested in the relations between the sexes, and is important for her
treatment of women's lives rarely found in eighteenth century literature. She
founded two important women's magazines , namely Amaliens Erholungsstunden
and Die Einsiedlerin aus den Alpen. The former is regarded as one of the best
magazines for women in eighteenth century Germany. It contained an impressive
array of articles on all manner of subjects, poetry by some of the best writers of the
time and also stories and essays by Marianne Ehrmann herself, which were
remarkable for their style and candour.
The Philosophie eines Weibs was translated into French under the title Philosophie
d'une Femme.
OCLC lists just Yale; see Stipa Madland, Marianne Ehrmann, 1998 and K.M. Wilson,
An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers.

Energy Efficiency - A Comparative Report
23.
[ENERGY SAVING.] Beschreibung neuer holzsparenden Oefen und
Feuerherde, zum Militär- und Civil-Gebrauch. Vienna, v. Schönfeld,
1808. £ 2750
Folio, pp. xvi, xv-xxxiv, 47, [1] blank, xliii (pp. xxxiii, xxxiv, xliii, and
xliiii are folding printed leaves printed on recto only), 22 engraved
plates, one of which folding; very clean and crisp in contemporary calfbacked
paste-paper boards; from the library of the architecture
department of Ljubljana (Laibach), with stamps to front free endpaper
and one small faint stamp to title; a fine crisp copy.
First and only edition, rare, of this detailed comparative report on energy-saving
heating and cooking systems. The first tests were run by an Austrian government
commission charged by archduke Karl with reducing the use of firewood, comparing
existing types of stoves, ovens, cooking ranges etc and developing the most energyefficient
model for each application. Not only energy consumption was studied, but
also manufacturing costs and energy needs for constructing the ovens in question.
The very detailed report covers military institutions, (distinguishing between the
needs of large dormitories and smaller more intimate officer housing) hospitals,
prisons, schools, but also private usage. The finely engraved plates show various
kinds of ovens, with technical specifications and detailed instructions for use. Of
particular interest is the supplement showing on comparative tables heating
efficiency measured and contrasted with construction costs, building materials and
ease of handling. Two forms to be completed after further experiments are also
included.
There was a flurry of publications on energy-saving ovens and cookers in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth century. What differentiates this publication from
them is its great attention to detail and the scientific approach to assessing the energy
efficiency of the final installation. Moreover, rather than just heating for public or
private spaces, calculations are also made for use in manufacturing industry, such as
dyeing works.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths'; uncommon, RLIN/OCLC list just two copies at Chicago
and Minnesota, KVK adds copies at Bavarian State Library, Dresden and Deutsches
Museum, Munich.
24.
FAVRE, Emile de. Les Quatre Heures de la Toilette des Dames,
poëme éortique en quatre chants, dédié à son Altesse, Sérénissime
Madame la Princesse de la Lamballe, Chef du Conseil, &
Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine. Paris, Jean-François Bastien,
[de l'imprimerie de Philippe Denys Pierres 1778]. 1779. £ 850

Tall 8vo, pp. engraved title, pp. [xii], 84, with 4 full-page engravings and
five half page engraved vignettes after LeClerc; printed on 'stout Dutch
paper' (Lewine), occasional light brownig; contemporary full mottled
calf, triple gilt fillet to sides, flat spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label,
a.e.g; an attractive copy.
First edition of this erotic poem illustrated with charming vignettes and engravings
by after LeClerc, executed by Arrivet, Halbou, Legrand, Leroy and Patas. The work is
dedicated to the princess de Lamballe with her arms included in the first vignette,
and her portrait on the engraved frontispiece and the last vignette. The princesse de
Lamballe (1749-1792) was a confidante of Marie Antoinette's and was guillotined in
17892.
'The plates, though fine, are lacking in grace; on the other hand the tailpieces are
superb, particularly the one said to represent the head dressed with plumes of the illfated
princess de Lambelle. The original drawings of the frontispiece and the heraldic
vignette form part of the collection of M. Portalis' (Lewine). "Belles illustrations, bien
qu'un peu lourdes; les culs-de-lampe sont superbes" (Cohen-R. 376-7).
The poem was reprinted in 1780 and numerous times in the nineteenth century.
Cioranescu 28418; ; Cohen-Ricci 376; Gay- Lemonier III, 903; Lewine 179; Sander 644;
uncommon, OCLC lists copies at Yale, Williams College, Rotterdam, National
Library of Sweden, and Munich.
Fournier's Magnificent Type Specimen
25.
FOURNIER. Pierre Simon. Manuel Typographique, utile aux Gens de
Lettres, & à ceux qui exercent les différents parties de l'Art de
l'Imprimerie. Par Fournier, le jeune. Tome I [-II]. Paris, the Author, J.
Barbou, 1764/1766 [vere 1768]. £ 4800
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv] two engraved frontispieces, xxxii, 323, [1]
errata, [4] privilege, and 8 folding engraved plates; [iv] frontispiece and
title, xliv, [ii], 306, and 8 folding engraved plates, pages 177-186 as foldout
pages with printed music; type specimen printed within decorative
border; contemporary full calf, spine decoratively gilt, with two giltlettered
labels and numbering pieces, sides with greek rule, gilt
dentelles, a.e.g.; a little rubbing to joints, front free endpaper removed; a
fine copy, with engraved book-plate to front pastedown.
First edition, a fine copy, Fournier's masterpiece, a magnificent type specimen, which
is regarded as 'the most important book on French eighteenth century typography'
(Birrell & Garnett 37) and his types dominated European printing for fifty years
(PMM II, 112). It includes 186 pages of specimens of type and 101 alphabets, ancient
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
Fournier after Bichou, which is often missing.
In his preface to volume I Fournier gives a brief overview of the earlier French
publications on the history of printing and type, and outlines the scope of his book.
He gives technical information on punch-cutting, matrix-making, and type-founding,
and includes here his innovative point system of type sizes. In a series of tables he
indicates the respective number of each character to be supplied in making up fonts
of Roman, Hebrew, Greek, music types etc. and concludes with eight engraved
plates, which show tools and equipment employed in the various processes
described in the text.
In the second volume Fournier emphasises the importance of utilising the full range
of printing types, and gives details of the principal type foundries of Europe. The
main section of the book consists of type specimens of every type and size
imaginable. They represent the types of Fournier l'ainé, the Paris founders Cappon
and Hérissant and Breitkopf (Leipzig) and are grouped under six headings: I. Types
in ordinary use, II. Ornaments, III. Types peculiar to particular countries or of special
forms, IV. Oriental types, V. Music and plain-song, VI. Types of ancient and modern
languages with explanatory notes.
The very attractive type specimen shows Roman, italic, Greek, Hebrew fonts, with
many additional exotic type faces, such as Syriac, Arabic, Coptic and Armenian. It
presents the amazing repertory of Fournier's foundry, ranging from the tiny
'Parisienne' and 'Nonpareille' sizes to the grand size of 'Grosse Nonpareille', an
unusually large face for cast type. A further highlight of this type specimen is the
extensive choice of ornaments, which were clearly designed to compose into a great
variety of combinations and patterns.
Fournier's contribution to typography cannot be over-estimated. 'His grasp of
typography was so complete and so firm that he could venture into every corner of
it, its literature, its history, its relation to greater things, writing, architecture, music.'
His first contribution had been his 'table des proportions qu'il faut observer entre les
caractères', an attempt to standardize type sizes by a point system - a standard which
is still in use today. He was a great innovator and moderniser of type faces, and his
type specimen gives ample proof of this.
Fournier had planned this work to consist of four volumes, but died before its
completion.
Audin, 55,56; Bigmore & Wyman I p. 228; Birrell & Garnett 37; Jackson Burke 527;
Printing and the Mind of Man (Exhibition Catalogue) II, 112; see Updike, Printing
Types, 1951, I, pp. 250-266 with numerous sample pages.
French Constitution
26.
[FRANCE - Constitution]. Constitution Française et Acceptation du
Roi. Dijon, P. Causse, 1791. £ 600
12mo, pp. [ii], 163; contemporary full red morocco with simple gilt rule
to sides and spine, gilt-lettering directly to spine; early owner's signature
'John Greenwell, Broomshields' to front free endpaper.

An attractive copy of this rare provincial printing of the Revolutionary constitution,
together with the King's letter of September 13th, 1791 to the Assemblée Nationale,
his acceptance of September 4th, and the response of the president to the King. The
constitution is preceded by the Declaration of Rights, and the work concludes with a
useful alphabetical subject index.
Another Dijon edition without the King's response, was published the same year.
The Earliest Catalogue of 'Books in Print'
27.
[FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR.] WILLER, Georg. Catalogus novus
nundinarum vernalium Francoforti ad moenum, anno M.D.LXXXV
… Verzeichnuss fast aller neuwer Bücher, welche seyther der
nechtsverschiene Herbstmess, biss auf dise gegenwertige Fastenmess
in offentlichem Druck seyn ausgangen. Frankfurt am Mayn, Willer,
1585. £ 2800
4to, pp. [45], some light browning; recent sprinkled boards, with printed
title to cover.
First edition thus of this early Frankfurt Book Fair catalogue. The Augsburg bookdealer
and book-distributer Georg Willer (c. 1514-1594) was the first to issue regular
(bi-annual) catalogues of new books available for purchase, which had been
presented at the Frankfurt book fair. To facilitate their sales' promotion he issued
regular catalogues, first with an Augsburg imprint, and later to save time, with a
Frankfurt imprint. The first such catalogue was issued in 1564.
The books listed are arranged by subject, and for the first time place, publisher and
date are always mentioned. The catalogue first records books in Latin, then books in
German, with a few French books also listed. Within this division, the books are
arranged under the following headings: Protestant theology, followed by Catholic
books, law, medicine, history and geography, philosophy and humanities, poetry
and finally music. Clearly a much larger number of books was published in Latin
than in the vernacular.
For Willer the catalogues produced increased sales and proved an innovative sales'
tool. But the catalogues also served a secondary function as an early form of 'Books
in Print' and were used by his competitors and librarians alike. With these early sales
catalogues the book trade was well ahead of other retail businesses. Despite growing
competition Willer continued to issue his catalogues until 1627, even though as early
as 1598 an official Frankfurt book fair catalogue was issued under the title
Frankfurter Ratsmeßkatalog (see Wittmann, Geschichte des deutschen Buchhandels
pp. 66 ff).
All issues of Willer's catalogue are very rare.

Lexikon des gesammten Buchwesens III 585; see Breslauer & Folter 24 (for the issue
of 1568); OCLC list one copy of the issue of 1583 at the Library of Congress, and
another of the issue 1592 at the Newberry Library; Harvard apparently has an issue
of 1568.
In Praise of Middle Class Civic Values
28.
[FREDERICK THE GREAT.] Discorso fatto per suo passatempo dall
M. di F. il. G. R. di P… Fantasianopoli, 1760. £ 500
4to, pp. 26, large engraved vignette on title; contemporary pale red
vellum; a fine copy, with manuscript note tipped in on front pastedown.
First edition in Italian of Frederick the Great's satirical funeral oration on the death of
the cobbler and shoemaker Jacob Mathias Reinold, translated from the French by the
Italian Enlightenment philosopher, the count Algarotti. Frederick used the occasion
to praise his workmanship, dedication and honesty, and, by extension, bourgeois
civic values. He combined it with an underlying criticism of the corruption of the
aristocracy.
Melzi 1848; rare, OCLC just lists one copy, at UCLA.
An Ode to the Sausage
29.
[FRIZZI, Antonio.] La Salameide, poemetto giocoso con le note.
Venezia, appresso Guglielmo Zerletti, 1772. £ 1000
8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and title page, pp. [viii], 135, [1]
blank; finely engraved vignette to title page and at head of the main text;
uncut in the original buff boards; spine a little rubbed, and head and tail
of spine chipped; small private library stamp to foot of title; a good copy.
First edition of a charming work, a light-hearted eighteenth century heroic poem
dedicated to the 'salamina', the little sausage, by the Ferrara historian Antonio Frizzi.
The publisher, Zerletti, writes in his preface that while being occupied with printing
a ponderous theological work he has decided to present his customers with a not-soserious
offering. In his poem Frizzi utilises the traditions of the epic poem, but sings
the praises not of chivalry and love, but of the pork sausage. In a little aside he even
maintains that the 'salame' might have been invented by John Locke 'chi ne può
dubitar, che un tal prodotto non sia da Londra, donde a noi son tratte tante moderne
cose manufatte?' (canto quarto, xii). He discusses various types of sausages, with
quite detailed information on their production. In extensive footnotes reference is
made to the Vocabolario della Crusca, other authors, and the history of sausage
production.

The engraved frontispiece is particularly appealing, showing a 'salumeria' with
numerous sausages, and hams suspended from the ceiling and a boar being
slaughtered in the background. An elegant customer converses with the shopkeeper,
and takes an appreciative whiff at a salami, while his dog is about to steal a sausage
from the table.
Bing 852; Lapiccirella 170; Simon 1342; Westbury p. 197.
30.
[GALIANI, Ferdinando.] Del Dialetto Napoletano. Naples, Vincenzo
Mazzola-Vocola, 1779. £ 2800
8vo, pp. 184; woodcut initials and head and tail-pieces; some light
spotting and browning due to paper quality; paper fault to lower corner
of title page; contemporary full vellum over boards, gilt-lettering
directly to spine, a few small wormholes to spine, but an attractive copy.
Rare first edition of the first scientific study of the Neapolitan dialect by the
economist and enlightenment writer Galiani. He gives a detailed history and
grammar of this dialect, which he maintains was the primitive language of Italy. In
his preface Galiani stresses the importance of dialect and language as a patriotic
bond, and means for preserving national heritage even in times of political and social
turbulence. He defends the Neapolitan dialect against the influences of Tuscan
Italian, and points to the importance of dialect poetry for Neapolitan literature. He
begins with a general assessment of the characteristics of Neapolitan dialect and its
grammar, covering syntax, spelling etc. In the second part he deals with origin of the
language, and its changing fortunes. He covers Sicilian and Puglian language, and
traces its influence in Italian. He gives numerous bi-lingual examples from Boccaccio,
relevant glossaries, and concludes with a catalogue of works written in Neapolitan
dialect.
The second edition, published ten years later also included the beginnings of a
dictionary of words unique to the Neapolitan dialect, later completed by Galiani's
fellow academicians and entitled Vocabolario delle parole del dialetto napoletano,
che più siscostano dal dialetto toscano, con alcune ricerche etimologiche sulle
medesime degli Accademici Filopatridi.
Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787), a Neapolitan envoy to the Court of Paris, is better
known as the author of Della Moneta, 'the best of many treatises published in Italy
on money'. Galiani, who during his ten years in France had immersed himself in the
ideas of the French enlightenment, but kept intact his Italian heritage, the ideas of
Vico and Machiavelli, and his interest in the Italian language. He was an important
figure in the principal salons of Paris, and was in close contact with the most
influential figures of the time.
Not in Zaunmüller, or Robert A. Hall, A bibliography of Italian linguistics, 1941, who
only records the second edition (Hall 3357); OCLC records copies at Berkeley, Yale,
Harvard, Maryland, Austin, Texas, Cornell and Oxford.

Pocket Bibliography of Italian Literature
31.
[GAMBA, Bartolommeo.] Indice Manuale tratto dal libro: Serie d'
Testi di Lingua Italiana, opera nuovamente compilata ed arrichita di
un'appendice conteniente altri scrittori di purgata favella da
Bartolommeo Gamba. Milano, dalla Stamperia Realer 1812, parti due
in 18. Milan, Giovanni Pirotta, 1812. £ 250
32mo, pp. 96; contemporary red-roan backed red boards, spine ruled
and lettered in gilt, sides with gilt rule; extremities a little rubbed, a fine
copy.
First edition of this handy abbreviated pocket version of Gamba's bibliography of
Italian literature.
Renouard 3380.
Critique of Women's Luxury
32.
[GAZANO, Michele Antonio.] Invettive contro il Lusso Femminile
Odierno. [Cagliari, Stamperia Reale.], 1780. £ 650
Small 12mo, pp. [12] with 40 numbered stanzas; contemporary patternpaper
wrappers.
First and apparently only edition of this outspoken critique of female luxury and
wastefulness of the time. Written in forty numbered eight-line stanzas, the author
pillories extravagance, which impoverishes fathers and husbands alike. He
complains that women are decked out as if on their way to a carnival, decorated with
flashy watches, pearls etc, and deplores the fatal attraction of women.
The author Gazano (1712-1785) also wrote on the history of Sardegna.
Melzi, II, p. 41; very rare, just the British Library copy located; not in RLIN/OCLC.
Ladies Depicted
33.
[GEISLER, Adam Friedrich ed.] Gallerie edler Deutscher
Frauenzimmer mit getroffenen Schattenrissen, nebst andern Kupfern
und Vignetten. 1stes Heft, Band I [-4tes Heft. Band II]. [engraved
title: Schattenrisse edler deutscher Frauenzimmer]. Dessau und
Leipzig, Buchhandlung der Gelehrten, 1784-85. £ 3500

Four parts bound in two volumes, 8vo, engraved title, pp. [viii], 168 with
four hand-coloured silhouettes; [xvi], [169]-264, 267-384, [4] blank, with
five hand-coloured silhouettes; [x], 201 with six hand-coloured
silhouettes and one black and white silhouette ; [30], [203]-356 with four
hand-coloured silhouettes; contemporary half calf over paste-paper
covered boards, spine gilt in compartments, two gilt-lettered lettering
and numbering pieces; foot of spine chipped, with small portion missing
from spine covering of volume I; a fine set from the Königl. Sächsischen
Schullehrer Seminar Borna, with stamp to both titles, and an early
ownership inscription from a woman reader.
First edition, rare found complete, of this charming gallery of German women,
giving biographical, literary and social information illustrated with hand-coloured
silhouettes. Included are ladies of political importance such as Catherine the Great,
Elisabeth Christina of Russia, Sophie Charlotte, wife of George III, and Marie
Antoinette, but also writers, such as Philippine Engelhard, née Gatterer, and the
actress and writer Sophie Albrecht, Sophie von La Roche. The final section is taken
up by aristocratic and middle class ladies who presumably paid for the privilege of
being included. The articles give extensive biographical information on the public
figures, more personal details on the less well known ones. In all a charming set,
documenting women in the late eighteenth century. The extensive subscribers' list
indicates that the volume was popular.
The finely engraved silhouettes within an oval decorated frame are particularly
appealing, and very unusual in their detailed hand-colouring. The initial decorated
frames are left empty, for the inclusion of the silhouette of the purchaser.
The work is bibliographically complicated, as it often gets confused with another
publication entitled Schattenrisse edler teutscher Frauenzimmer; oder offenherzige
und unpartheyische Nachrichten von jetzt-lebenden, berühmten, schönen und
biedern Damen, also published in 1784, 85 but concentrating exclusively on ladies
from Upper and Lower Saxony.
Jahrbuch der Sammlung Kippenberg, vol I, 1921, no. 29; see Hayn-Gotendorf VII, 126
(rar)(volume I) and Hayn-Gotendorf II, p. 492; very rare, OCLC lists just one copy at
Goettingen.
Speech at the Royal Society
34.
GONZAGA DI CASTIGLIONE, Luigi. L'Homme de Lettres, bon
Citoyen, Discours philosophique & politique de son Altesse
Monseigneur le Prince Louis Gonzaga de Castiglione: prononce à
l'Académie des Arcades, à Rome l'année 1776. Traduit de l'Italien.
Geneva, 1777. £ 450

4to, engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. cxxiv, with title vignette and
decorated initials; printed on heavy paper; contemporary full mottled
calf, spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label, sides with decorative gilt
floral tooling; a few manuscript corrections in the text; heraldic
bookplate to front paste-down and contemporary ownership inscription
to front free endpaper; possibly a large paper copy.
First edition, rare, of the French translation of Il Letterato Buon Cittadino, by the
Italian Enlightenment author Luigi Gonzaga di Castiglione, together with his Essay
Analytique sur les Decouvertes Capitales de l'Esprit Humain, a speech he had given
at the London Royal Society the same year, and finally his essay on poetry,
Réflexions su la Poesie. Gonzaga di Castiglione (1745-1819), a maverick
Enlightenment figure, of noble birth and independent means but who renounced his
title, was clearly influenced by Rousseau and other figures of the European
Enlightenment. He was at home in Venice, Rome, Paris and in London, where he
spoke at the Royal Society.
In the title essay Gonzaga di Castiglione differs from his 'hero' Rousseau and
professes the importance of literature as a source of happiness and a means to
illuminate politics, the law and all human activity. The contribution of the writer is as
important as that of the scientist in fighting ignorance and falsehood, and as an
embodiment of the new values of intelligence, creativity and virtue. Gonzaga di
Castiglione comes out in support of a constitutional monarchy, and was arguably the
first to talk of liberty and democracy in Rome.
In his Royal Academy essay he suggests the application of modern scientific methods
to the study of modern social and political questions, to the relationship between the
Church and the State, and praises the enlightened rulers of the time, who have
turned their back on despotism.
Barbier II, 855 (edition limited to one hundred copies only); RLIN lists just one copy,
at Harvard.
Goudar's European Peace Project
35.
[GOUDAR, Ange.] La Paix de l'Europe ne peut s'etablir qu'a la suite
d'une longue treve ou Projet de Pacification génerale. Combiné par
une suspension d'Armes de vingt ans, entre toutes les Puissances
Politiques. Par M. le Chevalier G***. Amsterdam, Chatelain, 1757.
£ 2400
12mo, pp. [viii], xxxviii, with one blank; 3-244,, xxiv, marginal paper
fault in A2, no loss; contemporary half tan sheep over pale yellow
boards, spine in compartments, ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label,
foot of spine chipped, and leather a little dry; a fine and very clean and
crisp copy, from the L.G. Larue collection, and with circular stamp of
Bibliotheca Comitum de Goertz to title page.

First edition, very uncommon, of Ange Goudar's world peace plan, published before
Rousseau's Extrait led to a revival of the European peace plan by Castel de Saint
Pierre. Goudar proposes to replace the culture of war with a kind of European
republic and anticipates the model of a League of Nations, with an international
army. Within it all the European powers were bound by a system of treatises, in
effect a system of truces, with stringent penalties for breaking the truce. The
offending state would be liable for all expenses incurred.
His treatise is clearly arranged, he studies various reasons that cause war, points in
particular to economic ones, and maintains that the transatlantic colonies, the influx
of excess gold etc have contributed to the instability of the European system. He
concludes with an eleven-point plan for a twenty-year European truce
Interestingly Goudar's work was translated into Russian in 1789, and possibly
influenced Malinowski's Réflexions sur le problème de la guerre et de la paix.
Goudar's peace plan was re-issued in 1760 and 1761, presumably to coincide with
Rousseau's publication Extrait du projet de paix perpetuelle de Monsieur l'abbe de
Saint-Pierre.
Mars 37; Van den Dungen, From Erasmus to Tolstoy. The Peace Literature of Four
Centuries; Jacob ter Meulen's Bibliographies of the Piace Movement before 1899, p.
70; see Raumer, Ewiger Friede, p. 177; OCLC records copies at Cambridge, Berkeley,
Hagley Museum, Newberry, New York Historical Society and John Carter Brown
only.
Arts & Society
36.
GOUDAR, Ange and Sara. Relation Historique des divertissemens de
l'Automne de Toscane ou Lettre de Madame Sara Goudar sur ce Sujet
à Mylord ***. [1775?]. £ 1200
8vo, pp. 46; uncut in contemporary decorative wrappers; lower wrapper
frayed and with some marginal loss; a little dog-eared and spine
chipped; an attractive copy.
An interesting report on contemporary ballet and theatre by Sara Goudar, wife of the
adventurer, political writer and friend of Casanova, Ange Goudar. The work is in the
form of letters addressed to their acquaintance John Child, second Earl Tilney, who
lived for over thirty years between Florence and Naples, and was very interested in
music and dance. The letters were published in a number of editions, all very
uncommon between 1774 and 1776.
After some general remarks on the respective merits of music, theatre, ballet and
dance, Sara Goudar gives reviews of a number of performances in Florence,
beginning with Perseus and Andromeda, with the music by Giuseppe Gazaniga, and
Corneille's Le Cid, with details of the plot, leading artists and the orchestra. Practical
information is also included, such as prices of tickets, visiting troupes, programs of
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
1124 and Magreil, A Bibliography of Dancing, p. 112.
Mars 114; Childs, Casanoviana 445; no further copies found of this edition in RLIN
and OCLC; two other editions with different pagination were published the same
year, OCLC lists copies at Yale, Chicago and Utrecht of one (pp. 64) and Utrecht and
UCLA of the other one (pp. 35,1).
On Love and Sexuality
37.
HAEDUS, Petrus. Anterotica, sive de Amoris Generibus. [colophon]
Accuratissime impressum Tarvisii per Gerardum de Flandria. Anno
saluts M.CCCC.XCII, die XIII Octobris sub magnifico Praetore
Augustino Foscarini. [Traviso, Gerardus de Lisa de Flandria, 13
October 1492. £ 8500
Small 4to, [197 x 146mm] ll. [vi], 97, including final blank; printed in a
distinctive Roman font, initial spaces with guide letters; very small
single wormhole to blank margin of first few leaves; very light spotting
to title, else clean and crisp; eighteenth century vellum boards, giltlettered
spine label, spine discoloured; eighteenth century manuscript
note to front free endpaper.
First and only incunable edition of this early courtesy book composed for the benefit
of the author's nephew, a student a Padua university. Written in the form of a
dialogue between Haedus, the poet Aemilianus Cimbriacus, who takes the position
in praise of love, and the priest Antonino Filermo, who exposes all the evils and
problems caused by love and passion. Haedeus sides with Filermo, and gives advice
on love and sexuality. He covers passion, sexual attraction, marital relations, conduct
and behaviour. Interestingly he also discusses of more practical concerns such as
jewellery and hairstyles. The work is prefixed by an introductory poem by
Aemilianus Cimbriacus.
Haedus's early work Amores, written under the influence of being rejected by his
beloved, can be seen as an earlier treatment of the same subject. It was clearly
popular, with later editions following in 1503 and 1607
Not much is known about Haedus (1427-1504), also known as Pietro Cavretto. He
was a priest from the Pordenone in Friuli, and part of the circle around Gerardo di
Lisa, Cimbriacus, and Iacopo Gordino. Brunet (III 10) praised the elegant small
Roman type face and described the book as rare.
Bodleian Library XVth Century Books, H-001; BMC VI 885; Gesamtkatalog der
Wiegendrucke 12109; Goff H2; Hain Copinger 8343; Polain (B) 1843; Wellcome, 3040;
not in Gay; DBI 19, pp. 186-189; Brunet III 10 'Lédition est Impr. En petits caract.
Forts nets. Et les exemplaires en sont rares.'

Orthopedic Museum Catalogue - Bound in Blue Silk
38.
HEINE, Johann Georg. Verzeichniss des systematischen Bestandes
des Modellen-Kabinettes im Carolinen-Institut zu Würzburg oder
Systematische Darstellumg aller orthopädischen Krankheitsformen
an besondern Kunstfiguren mit den entsprechenden
Heilungsapparaten, und ähnlichen, die Beinbrüche und
Ausrenkungen darstellenden, Figuren nut ihren gehörigen
Heilungsapparaten und einer historischen Sammlung der bereits
behandelten orthopädischen Krankheitsformen in Gips-Abdrücken,
so wie der Modelle aller orthopädischen Maschinen, welche von
Andern älterer und neuerer Zeiten erfunden worden, als specieller
oder technischer getrennter Theil des 1826 erschienenen ersten Theil
des Werkes vom Lehrsystem der Orthopädie. Würzburg: for the
Authors, 1827. £ 1200
4to, title-page and pp. lxx, 46, [4] index, [1] errata; deep blue silk, covers
bordered in gilt and with central device in gilt, spine ruled in gilt and
with paper label, spine faded and slightly rubbed at head and foot, lilac
end-papers, all edges gilt; a splendid copy.
First edition, a description of the cabinet of instruments of Johann Georg Heine, the
forefather of German orthopaedics. In 1798 Heine was appointed to the post of
instrument maker to Würzburg university. In 1816 he founded the first orthopaedic
institution in Germany. Set up in the former Stephans monastery in Würzburg, in
1822 he was given permission by Queen Caroline of Bavaria to call it the Carolinen-
Institute.
Contained here are the descriptions of all the instruments and apparatus in the
Kabinet at the Institute together with a history of their design, development and use.
OCLC lists copies at Minnesota Biomedical Library, the National Library of
Medicine, and Bavarian State Library only.
Medical Negligence Trial
39.
HORN, [Anton Ludwig] Ernst. Oeffentliche Rechenschaft über meine
zwölfjährige Dienstführung als zweiter Arzt des Königl. Charité-
Krankenhauses zu Berlin, nebst Erfarhungen über Krankenhäuser
und Irrrenanstalten. Mit 6 Kupfern. Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung,
1818. £ 550

8vo, pp. xii, 333, [1] errata, with five printed tables in the text and six
engraved fold-out plates bound at the end; contemporary pale-blue
glazed boards, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; some wear to
foot of spine where a shelf-label has been removed; with discard stamp
of the Standesherrschaft Königsbrück and Sächsische Landesbibliothek
to title and verso of title; a very clean and crisp copy; manuscript note to
front free endpaper.
First edition of this detailed account of hospital management and procedures by
Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn, head of the Berlin Charité between 1806 and 1818. Horn
begins with a brief description of the structure and history of the Charité, before
giving a very close account of its economic situation, with detailed figures of patient
numbers, expenses for pharmaceuticals, food and drink, salaries, building and
maintenance etc. In the second half Horn concentrates on the mental hospital within
the Charité, of which he was the head physician. He gives a detailed account of
medical procedures and the treatment of patients. Sample therapy sessions are
described and analysed on the folding tables. Some of the more bizarre equipment
used to restrain and treat mental patients is illustrated on the folding engraved plates
at the end.
Horn (1774-1848) is generally considered the first practicing psychiatrist at the
Charité Hospital. In the early nineteenth century psychiatry as a scientific discipline
was still in its infancy. It was generally believed that mental illness was largely due
to physical suffering, and mechanical devices were used for therapeutic purposes.
Horn was well-known for the use of various restraining and coercive devices in his
treatment of mental patients, centrifugal devices, such as rotating beds and rotating
chairs for treatment of hysteria. Horn had to leave his position at the Charité, when
he was denounced by a colleague for his treatment of mental patients. This
publication was written as a documentation of his work at the Charité and a defence
of his procedures.
Not in Wellcome; OCLC lists National Library of Medicine, Chicago, and Yale.
40.
[INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.] Rapporto della Pu bblica Esposizione
di Arti e Manifatture Toscane eseguita in Firenze nel Settembre 1841
redatto da una Deputazione eletta dalla Commissione incaricata
dell'esame delle Manifatture e dell'aggiudicazione de' Premi.
Florence, Stamperia Piatti, 1841. £ 550
8vo, pp. xvi, 47, [1] blank, second signature misbound, but complete, last
signature folded; some insignificant worming to lower margin; recent
wrappers.
First edition of the official report of the Second Tuscan Industrial Exhibition, held in
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.
However, this second exhibition already took place in 1841, to coincide with the
national conference of Italian scientists.
The report begins with a running account of the various fields included, naming
winners in the difference categories, but also pointing out general developments in
industry. Covered are silk, felt, leather, straw hats, wool, cotton and linen fabrication,
paper manufacturing, metal works, chemical production, glass manufacture, optical
instruments, and luxury goods. The industrial exhibition is clearly designed to
represent 'unique' industrial products, rather than similar items from a variety of
producers. At the end the 120 exhibitors are listed, with their special product, and
where applicable the prizes won.
Not in Carpenter, European Industrial Exhibitions Before 1851 and their
Publications, where the reports of the 1839 and the 1844 exhibitions are listed.
Uncommon, KVK lists just one copy at Oxford…??
St. Petersburg Printing
41.
JOVELLANOS, Gaspar Melchior. L'Identité de l'Intérêt général avec
l'Intérêt individuel, ou la libre action de l'Intérêt individual est la
vraie source des richesses des nations. Principe exposé dans le
rapport sur un projet de loi agraire, adressé au conseil supreme de
Castille au nom de la société économique de Madrid. St. Petersbourg,
Drechsler, 1806. £ 750
8vo, pp. [x], 282, printed on thick paper; contemporary full calf, spine
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, sides with gilt rue; a.e.g;
extremities a little rubbed, but a fine copy.
First edition in French of this landmark in liberal reform in the Spanish
enlightenment. First published in 1795, Jovellanos' 'Informe .. en el expediente de la
ley agraria', is translated by Rouvier and dedicated to the Russian minister of the
Interior, count de Kotchoubey. Together with Campomanes, Jovellanos was is the
main exponent of Spanish economic Liberalism, a heroic statesman dedicated to
progressive change in a conservative society.
The present work is in fact a report made to the Supreme Council of Castille for the
Sociedad Económica of Madrid. 'The document, still a classic in Spain contains a
clear and methodical exposition of the obstacles to Spanish agricultural progress,
obstacles including not only the nature of the soil and adverse climatic conditions,
but also existing law and custom. To remedy the situation he advocated irrigation
and improved roads, the break up, for sale of lease, of the commons and waste lands,
the abrogation of the privileges of the Mesta and the education of the peasants. He
favoured free trade in grain within the country but objected to its export and
believed that its importation should be limited.' (IESS). Jovellanos was strongly
influenced by Adam Smith whom he cites here, and in fact he translated parts of the
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
reform' (Robert Sydney Smith, The Wealth of Nations in Spain and Hispanic America
1780-1830, JPE 65, no. 2, pp. 106-108).
It is interesting to note that this first French translation was published in St.
Petersburg, sumptuously produced and with a more political title, which pointedly
indicates the convergence of private and public interest. Jovellanus, who had a rather
varied political career, was in the late 1790s called to become Ambassador to Russia,
but before he left Spain was made instead Minister of Justice; shortly afterward,
however, he was arrested again for political reasons and spent the following 7 years
in exile in Mallorca.
Goldsmiths'-Kress 19186; OCLC lists copies at Yale and NEHA only; see Colmeiro
235 and Palau 125242 for first edition.
Ice Cream and Sorbet
42.
LANDRIANI, Gioseffantonio. La Pratica del Distillatore, e
Confettiere Italiane…In cui s'insegna a far Conserve di Frutti, e di
Agrumi, ed a formar Gelati, Mazapani, e Rosoglj d'ogni qualità.
Pavia, [n.p.], 1785. £ 1000
12mo, pp. 76; uncut in contemporary decorated paper boards; some light
damp-staining; corners worn; upper board lettered in manuscript.
First edition, very rare, of this guide to the production of sorbets, ice creams and
granitas. Of particular interest is the detailed description of cream ices and frozen
custard, made with eggs, cream and sugar rather than flavoured water and sugar.
Detailed instructions are given for the production of ices in the shape of various
fruits - still today a mainstay of the elegant Italian gelateria. The second part is
devoted to various recipes for marzipan, and the manufacture of marzipan fruits and
vegetables. Smaller sections deal with liqueurs and flavoured drinks.
Frozen custards became popular at the time, and this work was reprinted in 1816,
1820, and 1823.
Rare, this first edition not in B.IN.G, Paleari, Westbury, Vicaire or Bitting; no copy of
this first edition found in RLIN, OCLC or NUC; see B.IN.G 1084 and 1085 for later
editions.
Hamburg Maritime Law
43.
LANGENBECK, Herman. Anmerckungen über das Hamburgische
Schiff- und See-Recht, wie solches in den XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII,
XVIII und XIX Tituln des andern Theils Stadt-Buchs enthalten, und

die dahin gehörige Rechte der Admiralität, Assecurance, Avarie,
Dispache, Pilotage, des Schiff-Bauers, der Strand- und Bergung,
Dupe und Haven, wie auch der Grönlandischen Fahrt, nach dieser
Stadt, wie auch allgemeinen und verschiedener Nationen Uhralten,
Alten und Jüngern See-Rechten. Hamburg, auf Kosten des Herrn
Autoris, Johann Georg Piscator, 1727. £ 1000
4to, pp.60, 531, [37]; title page in red and black, woodcut initials and
head and tail pieces and vignettes; very lightly browned throughout,
due to paper quality; contemporary half vellum, sprinkled boards, gilt
lettering directly to spine; corners bumped and spine darkened; still a
good copy.
First edition of Langenbeck's important history of Hamburg's maritime law.
Langenbeck begins with the legislation of the Hanseatic League and Wisby's code of
law. He states and explains usage of all aspects of the law as it affects maritime life,
and gives clear reference to relevant codification. He starts with ship-building and its
inherent legal problems, and discusses questions regarding the ship's crew, i.e.
employment and discipline, lines of command, health and safety, and maritime
jurisdiction. An extensive section deals with bottomry, i.e. the contract whereby the
owner of a ship borrows money to enable the vessel to complete the voyage with the
ship being pledged as security - and marine insurance. Chapters deal with
shipwrecks, damaged ships, piracy, and mutiny.
In further sections Langenbeck specifies marine jurisdiction and procedure as
administered by the admiralty. Interestingly this also includes the wording of all
oaths to be sworn by the ship's command, and makes special provisions to assist
those seamen, who have been sold into slavery by pirates.
Langenbeck (1668-1729), Hamburg senator and lawyer, came from a family of noted
Hamburg jurists. A second edition of his work was published in 1740.
Kayser, Hamburger Bücher p. 106; Schröder IV, 2155.6; OCLC lists copies at Harvard,
Princeton, Columbia, Northwestern, University of Michigan Law Library and the US
Naval Library.
National Heritage Protected by Law
44.
[LAW - ART PROTECTION.] Chirografo della Santità di nostro
Signore Papa Pio VII in data del primo Ottobre 1802. sulle Antichità,
e Belle Arti in Roma, e nello Stato Ecclesiastico. Con editto dell' Eo, e
Rmo Signor Cardinal Giuseppe Doria Pamphili pro-Camerlengo di
Santa Chiese. Roma, Lazzarini Stampatore della Rev. Cam. Apost.,
1802.
[Together with:] Editto dell' Emo e Rmo Sig. Cardinal Pacca,
Camerlengo di S. Chiesa sopra le Antichità, e gli Scavi, publicato li 7.

Aprile 1820. Roma, Vincenzo Poggioli Stampatore della Rev. Cam.
Apost, 1820. £ 6500
Two works; Folio, pp. 16; 14, [2] blank; both with papal arms to title
page; uncut and folded, as issued; wrap-around title a little spotted (no.
I) and stained (no. II), but clean and crisp on the inside.
First edition, very rare, of these two highly important documents, which constitute
the first attempt to regulate the exportation of works of art and to protect national
heritage. Napoleon's spoliation of Italian art in the course of the French occupation
wreaked havoc on the Italian artistic and cultural landscape. Even though the looting
of art as one of the spoils of war and conflict has a long history, it experienced new
heights under Napoleon, and Paris became a repository for art treasures and its
collections were enriched by Napoleon's conquests.
In 1802 Pope Pius VII enacted new regulations for the Vatican in order to protect the
heritage. He requested that an art registry of all kinds of immovable and movable
pieces of art, belonging either to the church or to private citizens be listed, and their
export prohibited. This formed the first step toward cultural heritage planning and
was the beginning of a comprehensive body of law preserving national heritage.
The first comprehensive body of laws on this subject was the edict produced by
Cardinal Pacca and promulgated on 7th April 1820. It was intended to regulate the
licences for digging (which despite all the attempts paid in the past, were still out of
the control of the authorities); it aimed at checking the exportations of fine goods by
introducing heavy taxes; and it formed the foundation for an inventory map of the
fine arts that had to be strictly controlled by the Vatican.
It also drafted a system of administrative bodies appointed to guarantee the
preservation of the heritage through a permanent committee based in Rome and
other representatives spread across the territory.
This edict represents an important reference frame for the whole future of Italian
law.
On the basis of this legal framework Canova argued for the restitution of antiquities
and ancient masterpieces. He maintained that art and antiquities were part of a
context from which they neither could nor should be removed, and that it was the
context that gave them their fullest meaning.
Montorsi 28.1.24 and 28.1.43; OCLC lists copies at Louisiana State, the Uffizi in
Florence and University of Leiden; for further information see Christoph M.S. Johns,
Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage, 2003; F. Bottani, L'Italia dei Tesori,
Legislazione dei beni culturali, p. 73.
Zoological Wunderkammer
45.
LINDROTH, Peter Gustaf.. Museum naturalium Grillianum
Söderforssiense institutum anno 1783, & in catalogo redactum anno
1788. Stockholm, A. J. Nordström, 1788.

[bound after:] LUNDSTRÖM, Johan. Söderfors ankar-bruks historia.
Uppsala, J. Edmans enka, [1791]. £ 1150
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. 21, [3] blank; 47, [5] privilege,
explanation of the plates, with one large folding engraved map and one
folding printed table (printed on recto and verso); a wide-margined
copy; engraved title vignette and typographic head and tail pieces to I;
contemporary half calf with raised bands; discreet repairs to spine; with
the early ownership signature of P. E. Bergfalk and modern bookplate of
Gunnar Brusewitz.
First editions of both works, both relating to Söderförs.
I. The rare catalogue of the zoological Museum Grillianum in Söderfors in Sweden, a
collection which included forty-five mammals, 285 species of birds, and 576
conchiliae. The museum was kept by Adolph Ulric Grill (1752-1797), whose father
had purchased the dilapidated Söderfors iron works in 1748, and had with extensive
investment had turned them around, to become the biggest Swedish exporter of iron,
copper, lumber and naval stores. Grill's collection reflected the scholarly inclinations
of the period, in which wealthy amateurs were fascinated by the achievements of
Linnaeus and others. His father had corresponded with Linnaeus and donated a
collection of specimens to Uppsala University. Adolph Ulric, however, was wealthy
enough to send agents to far-away countries such as Greenland and China to bring
back specimens of the local fauna for his collections. His collection included the last
specimen of the extinct Kapska blåbocken, provided for him by the naturalist
Thunberg. The Grilli Museum was donated to the Stockholm Museum for Natural
History, where some of his specimen are still preserved today.
A contemporary anonymous reviewer in Magazin für das Neueste aus der Physik
und der Naturgeschichte comments on the fact that zoological museums have
become increasingly unfashionable and are clearly superseded by the natural history
collection
II. First edition of this early company history, the account of the process of founding
and running the Söderfors Anchor Works, an early modern iron works. Because of its
exemplary character, this publication has been translated and published as a special
publication by the Baker Library. Lundström gives a detailed account both of the
running of the iron works, but also of its original foundation, the investments
necessary, labour organisation and accommodation, in short a blueprint of
mercantilist factory organisation.
He also includes some information on the Museum Grillianum, giving details of the
exhibition space, how for example the birds are displayed in boxes with glass fronts,
and cover one whole wall. The collection of snails and shells are displayed on tables,
lined with blue silk, and arranged according to the Linnean system. Lundström
states that since Lindroth's catalogue of 1788 numerous additions to the collections
had been made, adding 9 mammals, 106 birds, and 50 snails and shells.
From the collection of the nineteenth century Swedish economist and professor at
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;
not in Grinke, no see Hedin, L.-H. (translated editor), Johan Lundström, the History
of Söderfors Anchor-Works,
The Electro-Magnetic Telegraph
46.
MAGRINI, Luigi. Telegrafo elettro-magnetico practicabile a grandi
distanze. Con Tavole. Venice, Alvisopoli 1838. £ 900
Tall 8vo (230 x 150mm), pp. 86, [1] contents, [1] blank, 4 fold-out plates
bound at the end; uncut and partly unopened in the original printed
wrappers; with a presentation inscription by the author to Prof.
Benedetto dal Vecchio in ink at head of upper wrapper.
First edition of this early paper on the invention of the electromagnetic telegraph by
Luigi Magrini (1802-1868), professor of physics and applied mathematics. He gives
an overview of telegraphs and electrical telegraphs before concentrating on the
electromagnetic telegraph of his own invention, based on the understanding of the
link between magnetic and electric phenomena. He includes extensive technical
detail and calculations, and various details of his device are illustrated on the
engraved plates.
Magrini concludes with an interesting appendix in which he explains that his own
discovery preceded the experiments by Wheatstone and Steinheil by a few months,
and how while his publication was already at the printers the first news of
Wheatstone's and Steinheil's experiments on the same subject became public.
Wheatstone had his first patent granted in 1837, and together with Cooke is credited
with the first commercial use of the electromagnetic telegraph, whereas Steinheil is
generally acknowledged to have founded electromagnetic telegraphy in Austria.
Ronalds, 316; Rossetti & Cantoni, Bibliografia italiana di elettricità e magnetismo, 56.
The First Marck Sale
47.
[AUCTION CATALOGUE - MARCK.] Bibliotheca Marckiana,
continens Theologicos, Juridicos, Politico, Philosophicos, Medicos,
Historiam naturalem, Mathematicos, Geographicos, Chronologicos,
Historicos, Genealogicos, Heraldicos, Vitas & Elegia, … quorum
omnium publica siet Auctio. in Taberna Libraria Abrahami de
Hondt, Bibliopolae ad diem 31. Octobr. & sequent. 1712. The Hague,
Abraham de Hondt, 1712. £ 1450
Three parts in one volumes, 8vo, engraved title by Bernard Picart, pp.
[xviii], 192; 250; 284, [1] one leaf bound in with mss addition of the

individual sales totals; decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces;
contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, sides
with triple gilt rule; head and tail of spine chipped, joints worn and
corners rubbed; from the library of Henry Grey, Duke of Kent with his
book-plate to front paste-down.
First edition, rare, of this extensive priced auction catalogue of the Marck library.
Nearly nine and a half thousand titles are listed, divided by format and then in
detailed subject groupings. Areas covered include predictably theology, but also law,
politics, philosophy, history, medicine, emblem and illustrated books, mathematics,
and travel. The collection includes many 15th and 16th century books as well as early
manuscripts. The catalogue is priced throughout in a contemporary hand, with a
final adding up of the sales' total on a separate leaf bound in at the end. Because of its
comprehensiveness this auction catalogue was recommended in early bibliographical
manuals (Struve-Jugler and Schelhorn, Anleitung für Bibliothekare und Archivare,
1791).
There appears to be some confusion as to whose library this really was: NUC puts it
under Henricus Hadrianus van der Marck, the British Library under Joannes à
Marck, a professor of theology and Blogie attributes the catalogue to Thomas
Nicolaas van der Marck.
The books, or at least are large proportion of them, were in 1727 sold at auction
again, entitled Bibliotheca Marckiana, but then with the owner Henricus Hadrianus
van der Marck mentioned on the title, this time the auction was conducted by Petrus
de Hondt, the son of Abraham. 'Except for the somewhat greater proportion of
incunabula and books from early sixteenth century presses in the 1727 catalogue, the
character of the catalogues is similar' (Taylor, p. 252).
[Provenance:] From the library of Henry Grey (died 1741), the Duke of Kent, with his
engraved book plate (1713) to front paste-down and a further bookplate by Thomas
Philip, earl de Grey of Wrest Park on the inside front cover. Books from Wrest Park
were sold by Sotheby's on 29 April - 2 May 1918; October 1920; 21 June 1922; 20 May
1926; 7 - 9 March 1932; 30 October - 1 November 1950 and 18, 19 October 1954, and
by Christie's on 8 November 1978. (Cambridge University Library website).
Taylor, A. Book catalogues. Their varieties and uses, New York, 1986, p. 252; Blogie
IV, 7 (lists under Thomas Nicolaas van der Marck); Book Sales of the Dutch Republic
414; Peignot p. 112.
48.
MELLANI, Giovanni. L'Uomo Straordinario ovvero la Filosofia, la
Politica, e la Morale dell'Incognito Persiano. Rome, Poggioli, 1820. £
550
8vo, pp 76; apparently removed from a Sammelband, as additional page
numbers are added in ink; recent wrappers.

First and apparently only edition of this novel, describing the life, philosophy,
morals and politics of an 'extraordinary man', a Persian Incognito. The novel claims
to be taken from an Arabic manuscript, translated first into Greek, then Latin and
finally Italian. Through the main protagonist 'Incognito' eighteenth century life and
morals are viewed. Well-travelled, both in the East and in the West, Incognito
apparently combines the knowledge of science of all continents. His philosophy
becomes clearer in the second half (pp. 37-73) when some of his writings entitled I
miei Sentimenti e Pensieri are reprinted, a collection of aphoristic statements on life,
philosophy, interpersonal relationships, religion etc in the tradition of Pascal, La
Rochefoucault, or Diderot. The novel ends with the report that the author of these
Sentimenti e Pensieri could not be established, despite research in the archives of
Oxford.
Not found in RLIN or OCLC.
The Economics of Prostitution
49.
[MOET, Jean-Pierre.] Code de Cythère, ou Lit de justice d'Amour.
Erotopolis, chez le Dieu Harpocrates, à l'Enseigne de la Nuit 7746,
[i.e. Paris, 1746].
[Bound with:] [LOUBAYSSIN DE LAMARCA, Francisco.] Histoire
des Cocus. La Haye [Paris], 1746. £ 2000
Two works in one volume, 12mo, pp. [viii], lx, 81, [3] blank; 183, [1]
blank; title vignette, typographic headpieces; contemporary cats-paw
calf, spine decoratively gilt; two-gilt-lettered spine labels; a fine copy
with blind-stamped monogram to title, reading CG with the motto
'toujours prêt'.
An interesting volume combining two clandestine eighteenth century publications,
one a spoof proposal for the economic running of prostitution in Paris, the second a
'roman à cornes', translated from the French.
I. First edition, rare, of this brilliant solution to the problem of prostitution, in fact a
facetious argument for the position that 'the world's oldest profession' is not a
problem at all, but a financial asset to the state. With the help of an elaborate display
of profit and loss accounting, Moet shows how, after nationalisation, prostitution
benefits society and enriches the nation. The Code de Cythère itself consists of fortyone
articles, regulating prostitution in minute detail, in the best tradition of the
Ancien Régime bureaucracy. The work concludes with the final balance sheet for the
state-run prostitution service, where prostitutes are carefully classified and assigned
a sliding scale of maintenance costs. The income generated, again on a sliding scale,
is offset against rent, clothing, administrative and medical costs. Even taking into
account extraneous expenses such as hairdressing and cosmetics, and printing costs
for receipts and 'billets doux', the profit generated for the state is impressive. The
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
writer, is best known for the translation of John Hill's Lucina sine concubitu.
II. Based on the Spanish novel Enganos deste siglo (first published in Paris 1615) this
French imitation with its more direct title History of the Cuckolds inspired the
Marquis de Paulmy to note in his copy that a mere 183 pages were 'bien peu pour un
sujet si étendu'. Earlier French versions had appeared under the more literal title Les
abus du monde (Paris 1618) and Les Tromperies de ce siècle (Paris 1639).
The similarity of the ornaments clearly indicates that the two works were printed at
the same press.
I. Barbier I, 622; Brunet, Imprimeurs imaginaries, p. 63; Cioranescu 45746; Conlon 46,
719; Gay-Lemmonyer I, 606; OCLC and RLIN list just two copies, at UCLA and the
University of Chicago; II. Gay-Lemmonyer II, 539; Jones, List of French Prose Fiction,
p. 92; see Palau 142661.
Entirely Engraved
50.
[MOREAU, Pierre.] Les Sainctes Prières de l'âme chrestienne escrites
et gravées après le naturel de la plume, par P. oreau Me Escrivuain
Juré à Paris. Paris, chez l'autheur, ou au Palais, à la Vérité, 1644.
£ 2400
12mo, ll. [106]; engraved throughout, each plate with engraved border;
paper lightly browned; contemporary Jansenist binding of red morocco,
spine discreetly labelled in gilt, gilt dentelles, a.e.g.; small repair to
upper board; an attractive copy.
A very attractive, entirely engraved, calligraphic prayer-book, designed and
executed by Pierre Moreau, and dedicated to Anne d'Autriche, the wife of Louis XIII.
The work is engraved throughout, in each case the richly decorated border is printed
from one plate, with the text and imagery printed on a separate plate. Particularly
attractive are the depictions of the Seven Deadly sins, the arms of Anne d'Autriche,
and numerous (repeated) flower images. The work was first published in 1631 and
was reprinted numerous times, ie in 1632, 1644, 1649 and 1656.
Moreau is best known as a calligrapher, but also of note for having developed
punches and matrices of some new script-types, in the style of handwriting, He
dedicted that first proofs of these to Louis XIII, which brought him the title of
'Imprimeur du Roy'(Updike I, p. 207).
Bonacini, Bibliografia delle arti scrittorie e della calligrafia, 1228 'rarissima edizione';
Brunet III, p. 1117; OCLC locates copies of this edition at Stanford, Library of
Congress, Newberry, Harvard and Virginia.
Enlightenment Legal Reform
51.

MURATORI, Lodovico Antonio. Dei Difetti della Giurisprudenza.
Venezia, Giambatista Pasquali, 1742. £ 850
Folio in 4s, pp. [viii], 184; title printed in red and black, engraved title
vignette, decorated initials; marginal tear to R1, no loss of text;
contemporary marbled sheep-backed boards, spine ruled and decorated
in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, chipped; a fine, wide-margined copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Muratori's criticism of jurisprudence, in fact the starting
point of the critique of Roman law throughout the eighteenth century, resulting in
far-reaching judicial reforms and the drawing up of modern civil codes. Muratori
pillories the injustice of old feudal privileges and the role of the Catholic Church in
upholding these. He in particular criticises the vast and often contradictory
accumulation of edicts, which made the execution of justice and power difficult. His
critique proved influential on the reform of Tuscan legislature and the presentation
of the Codice Estense. In his treatise Muratori attacked the immobility of the Italian
legislative apparatus. The refusal of the curia to grant reform eventually resulted in
the radical enlightenment reform movement.
Muratori (1672-1750), archivist and librarian in Modena, was one of the greatest
scholars of his time and published extensively in the fields of history, philosophy,
and political economy. This criticism of the legal system proved popular, further
editions followed in 1743, 1744.
L'Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli 367; Sorbelli I, 154.
Presentation Copy - Inscribed by Florence Nightingale
52.
NIGHTINGALE, Florence. Notes on Hospitals. Third Edition,
Enlarged and for the most part Re-written. London, Longman, Green,
Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863. £ 7500
Large 8vo (254 x 178 mm), pp. ix, [i] blank, [i] list of plans, [i] blank, 187.
with 11 folding lithographed plans of hospitals and two very large
folding lithographed city plans, three folding letterpress tables and 35
woodcut illustrations within the text (three full-page); extreme outer
edges of title-page fragile, two leaves (pp. 133-134 and 185-186 with tears
in margins), some light marginal browning; original dark brown
straight-grained cloth, covers ruled in blind and with blind-stamped
central decoration; spine lettered in gilt, corners bumped, neatly and
sympathetically rebacked with the original spine laid down and
appropriate new brown end-papers; presentation copy from Florence
Nightingale inscribed at head of title and with further presentation
history (see below).

Third (first 1859) and most important edition of what is arguably Florence
Nightingale's most important work. "Based upon Nightingale's extensive knowledge
of English and Continental hospitals, the work was the most exhaustive study to date
of hospital planning and administration. She blamed the majority of hospital deaths
on overcrowding, lack of light and ventilation, and the collection of large numbers of
the sick under one roof" (Norman). Nightingale is best remembered, of course, for
alleviating these conditions at the barracks hospital in Scutari during the Crimea
War, gaining the hearts of the British nation and earning the epithet 'The Lady of the
Lamp'.
This edition contains the excessively important papers recommending uniform
hospital statistics together with the forms for achieving those. These were a
breakthrough both in hospital administration and in the gathering of statistical
information with a view to using that information for bettering situations.
Nightingale had first presented these papers at the International Statistical Congress
of 1861. The Congress, which took place in London, was chaired by Adolphe
Quetelet, whom Nightingale greatly admired. The first female to be elected a
member of the Statistical Society (in 1858), Nightingale had worked closely with
William Farr (the society's president and the Registrar General) preparing the
programme for the section of the Congress covering Sanitary statistics and preparing
the papers on hospital statistics. She and Farr did this with the help of Farr's assistant
and right-hand-man, Willliam Hammack (whom Nightingale invariable called
Hammick), to whom this present volume is dedicated. Hammick was amongst those
invited to use Nightingales' rooms in Old Burlington Street and to attend breakfast
parties there during the Congress. Several of Nightigale's letters to William Farr
contain references, or 'messages' to Hammick, usually ones thanking him for his
assistance with her work.
Provenance: This copy if inscribed in Nightingale's hand at the head of the title to
"Mr. Hammick in remembrance of much kind & efficient assistance rendered.
Florence Nightingale London Kinan/63." Twenty years later the book was presented
"To Dr. William Hammond of Nuneaton in remembrance of his kind attention to
James T. Hammick Summer-hill House 18 Dec. 1883" and in 1916 Hammond
presented the book to the Library of the British Medical Association (inscription at
foot of front free end-paper signed and dated September 21st). Tipped on to the inner
margin of the Preface is an accompanying presentation letter from Hammond to the
librarian and the volume bears the stamp of the BMA on the title-page, preface,
index, foot of p. 155 and verso of plan II.
James T. Hammick (Hammack until 1831) was first elected a Fellow of the Society of
Statisticians in 1846. He was employed at the General Register Office and worked as
one of the Census Commissioners. By 1870 he was an Assistant to the Registrar
General and was on two occasions an official representative at International
Statisitical Congresses. He served on the Society's Council from 1861 before
becoming the Treasurer in 1868 and he held that post until 1874 when he resigned
due to ill-health although he remained a member of Council, his name disappearing
from the lists of Council Members and of Fellows after 1878.
Bishop and Goldie 101; see Garrison-Morton 1611; Norman 1599.
53.

[NIGHTINGALE, Florence.] Remarkable six-page Autograph Letter
signed, [London,] 30 Old Burlington Str., 2 June, 1858. £ 900
2 sheets, folded, (181-113mm), written in brown ink, in French; in very
good condition, with traces of old fold marks.
Fine autograph letter signed, written in French addressed to Jean-Jacques Pélissier,
Marechal Duc de Malakoff, French Ambassador to England at the time. Florence
Nightingale writes to him directly, reminding him that they had met before in the
Crimean, 'Je n'ose espérer que votre Excellence daigne conserver un souvenir de
Florence Nightingale en Crimée, directrice du service des femmes dans les
ambulances anglaises' and that there had in fact been some correspondence in 1856,
regarding French ambulance services. She asks for his help, because she is planning
to send an English nurse, whom she had trained in the military hospital 'une dame
qui a déja servis dans mes ordres dans les Hôpitaux de la Guerre Anglais' to France,
to study the French nursing practices, which at the time were regarded as superior.
'la permission d'envoyer dans les Hôpitaux Militaire et Civils de la France pour y
étudier le service dans tous les détails'. She writes, that she could have approached
Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador to France, but that she prefers the more direct
approach, by drawing on the help of the Duc de Malakoff.
Jean-Jacques Pélissier, Maréchal Duc de Malakhoff, (1794-1864) was French
Ambassador to England in 1858-59. He had been made Duc de Malakhoff (1858) for
his capture of the fortress of Malakhoff in the Crimean War.
Florence Nightingale had after hearing the first reports of the suffering in the
Crimean war gone off to work at the large barrack hospital at Scutari. 'Within a few
months of her arrival at Scutari, the mortality rate among soldiers there fell from 42%
to 2%. Florence Nightingale went on to become the greatest figure in the history of
nursing (Garrison Morton 1612). After her return from the Crimea, a Royal
Commission on the Army was set up, and in 1758 she published a detailed a record
of her experiences on nursing, and what reforms necessary, entitled Notes on Matters
affecting the health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army. …
The reforms thus instituted … spread far beyond the confines of the British Army
and have revolutionized hospital practice throughout the world.
Man's best Friend
54.
[ORIOLI, Francesco.] Fatti per servire alla Storia psicologica del Cane
raccolti da N.N. coll'aggiunta di alcune riflessioni critiche in
occasione che mostravasi in bologna un cane molto bene istruito
nell'eseguire parecchie operazioni per le quail similava con molto
garbo la scienza dello scrivere, dell'intendere lao scritto, del
conteggiare ec. ec. Bologna, Tipi d'Annesio Nobili, 1823. £ 550

8vo, pp. 95, [1]; uncut in the original printed wrappers, some wear to
spine, but in all a fine copy, with private monogram stamp to title.
First edition of this interesting study of canine psychology, and presumably one of
the earliest attempts to scientifically assess the interaction between man and his best
friend. Orioli begins with a brief historical section, recounting earlier accounts of
canine behaviour, especially those forms of behaviour which apparently show an
increased understanding between a dog and its owner, quoting from sources such as
Beyerlinck, Plutarch, Aldrovandi and others. Orioli then studies examples which
show not just a particular reaction of dogs, but apparently demonstrate signs of
reflection, memory, or association. He makes some comments on how dogs learn and
how they are affected by human behaviour, and compares and distinguishes canine
reaction with the natural instinct of babies, and maintains that the relationship
between dogs and their masters is of a different quality.
Francesco Orioli (1783-1856) from Viterbo was apparently a man of wide-ranging
interests. After studying law, then medicine, and physics, and after the amnesty of
Pio IX he finally taught ancient history at the university in Rome. He published on a
range of subjects.
Uncommon; OCLC lists just the copy at the University of Amsterdam.
The First Practical Treatise on the Woodcut
55.
PAPILLON, Jean Michel. Traité historique de la gravure en bois.
Ouvrage enrichi des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa
gravure. Tome Premier. Contenant toute la partie Historique. [-Tome
Troisième]. Paris, Pierre Guillaume Simon, 1766. £ 3800
Three volumes, bound in two, 8vo, pp. xxxii including woodcut
frontispiece, 540, with one chiaroscuro woodcut plate bound in; xv, [i],
388; [iv], 124; part two with 5 plates illustrating progressive stages in
printing a chiaroscuro woodcut; in all seven plates, woodcut head and
tail pieces, title vignettes, and a large number of woodcuts printed in the
text; one initial printed in red (volume I, p. 369); some scattered foxing
and spotting, especially at beginning and end; a few signatures lightly
browned; contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine
labels; some surface scratches to sides, discreet repairs to head and tail of
spine; an attractive copy.
First edition of the first practical treatise on the woodcut. It is famous for a series of 5
progressive plates showing the successive stages of printing a chiaroscuro woodcut.
The first volume of the treatise deals with the history of printing and illustration and
has been criticised for lack of accuracy. Volume II deals with the methods of wood
cutting in detail with clear illustrations and tools and procedures, it also includes

information on design, perspective, and printing. Volume III, the supplement, is
autobiographical and also contains various testimonials, table of contents and errata.
Papillon (1698-1776), who came from a family of well-known wood engravers, was
one of the best French designers and engravers of woodcuts for book work,
employed by both French and Dutch publishers. The Traité can be seen as a
showcase for his work with its 136 woodcut head and tail pieces and 257 other
illustrations, large and small, incorporated in the text - only the portrait is by another
hand.
Papillon's comments on the use of different woods - apple, pear, and box - later made
an appearance in William Savage in his Practical hints on decorative printing
(London, 1822), who, however, failed to point out that Papillon was working on the
long grain of his blocks, whereas the English engravers by this time were working on
the end grain. Bibliographers now restrict the use of the term wood engraving for
end-grain engraving, and woodcut for cutting on the long grain of the wood with a
knife. Thus Papillon's 'gravure sur bois' is now translated as woodcut: but this is a
modern distinction. Jackson used wood engraving for both, as did Joseph Cundall in
his A brief history of wood-engraving (1895).
The work was written between 1734 and 1738, later revised and augmented and
printed 'avec quantité de fleurons et des plus beaux ouvrage que j'ai fait depuis 1712'
(author's note in a unique copy in the BN dated 1762, quoted by Bigmore and
Wyman).
Bigmore and Wyman II, p. 116; Jackson Burke 1034; Burch Colour printing and
colour printers pp. 77-78 ; see John Jackson, A treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical
and Technical (London, 1839) pp. 542-554. With thanks to Roger Gaskell for
additional information on Papillon's contribution.
Patent and Trade Catalogue for Artificial Slate
56.
[PATENT - COOK, Henry.] Patent Artificial Slate Manufactory,
Woodford Bridge, Essex, for covering Roofs, Fronts of Houses, and
Ricks; also Water Pipes and Gutters. London ca. 1786. £ 1200
8vo, pp. [iv], iv, 16, [ii], 17-28; four text illustrations; early twentieth
century full blue calf, gilt lettering to upper board; from the Beeleigh
Abbey Library, with book plate to front paste-down, contemporary
manuscript corrections and annotations in ink.
Sole edition of an interesting patent document for artificial slate, which is at the same
time used as trade catalogue, and a promotional brochure, to attract business. 'The
Artificial Slate, for cheapness, lightness, beauty and neatness, is allowed to equal, if
not excel most other coverings. Artificial slate was apparently first used in the West
Indies, before Henry Cook took over its production in Woodford, Essex. Cook
patented 'a composition to be used as a substitute for lead, slates or tiles in covering
churches, houses and all other buildings' in 1778. Eileen Harris, BABW comments
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
contained in the Building Act of 1774 (BABW, p. 412). However, at the same time the
Building Act, which had given the names and specifications of building materials
allowed to be used, limited the use of artificial slates in London, and the slates could
only be sold outside of London.
After a general description of the benefits of artificial slate, stressing its price
advantage, longevity, low maintenance, strict instructions are given as to the best
way of laying the slate. Numerous testimonials of satisfied customers are included,
the latest dated 1786.
It is interesting to see the use of the official patent document as a help for generating
business. Satisfied customers are quoted to encourage new clients.
ESTC t105424 (BL, Getty, Harvard, Brown); see Eileen Harris, British Architectural
Books and Writers 1556-1785 on Cook's invention.
Women of the World
57.
[PERROT, Ferdinand Victor. ]Tableau des Femmes des cinq Parties
du Monde Présentant les Caractères physiques qui les distinguent et
leurs costumes nationaux. Paris, Basset, Rue Stt Jacob, n.d. [ca 1830].
With: PERROT, Ferdinand Victor. Tableau Comparatif des Races et
des Costumes des principaux Peuples des cinq Parties du Monde. Par
Perrot, Ingénieur Géographe. Paris, Basset n.d. [ca 1830].
With: [ANON.] Tableau des principaux Grands Hommes qui se sont
illustrés dans toutes les paries du Monde. Par leurs belles Actions
leur Genie ou leur Courage. Paris, Maison Basset, n.d. ca 1850.
£ 1480
8vo, three hand-coloured aquatints, measuring 430x595mm, within
border, folded; bound in contemporary half roan over marbled boards.
A curious volume combining three large aquatint plates giving an overview of
women of the world, different races and their national costume, and finally
important and heroic historical figures. On each plate, the upper half is taken up by a
vividly coloured image, with head-line above, and brief explanatory text to each
figure below. The plate on women of the world depicts seventy-eight women from
all parts of the world in their respective national costume, from all four continents.
The plate on races and costumes of the world includes seventy figures, and on the
final plate 54 figures of historical importance are depicted, with a brief note on their
achievement, from Moses, Salomon, Conficus via Hannibal Charlemagne, Columbus,
Gustave Vasa Washington,and culminating in Napoleon. All these historical figures
stand in front of a temple with Doric columns 'Gloire Immortelle aux Hommes
Illustres'.

These plates are apparently very rare. The BL has the first two, and attributes them to
Aristide Michel Perrot, whereas the National Library of Australia has the same two,
but with an attribution to Ferdinand Victor Perrot.
OCLC and KVK list just British Library and National Library of Australia.
Food and Drink - Natural History, Preparation and Qualities of Food Stuffs
58.
PISANELLI, Baldassare. Trattato della Natura de' Cibi et del
Bere….Nel quale non solo tutte le virtù, & i vitij di quelli
minutamente si palesano; ma anco i rimedij per correggere i loro
difetti copiosamente s'insegnano: tanto nell' apparecchiarli per l'uso,
quanto nell'ordinare il modo di riceverli. Distinto in un vago, e
bellisimo partimento, tutto ripieno della dottrina de' piu celebrati
Medici, & Filosofi: con molte belle Historie Naturali. In Venetia,
appresso Gio. Battista Porta, 1584 £ 2750
4to, pp. [viii], [ii] blank,1- 144, 155-162, (vere 152); printed throughout
within a woodcut frame; woodcut title vignette, illustrated initial and
head-piece; barely noticeable repair to blank margin of title page;
contemporary full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; ties lacking; a
fine copy.
First public edition, uncommon, of this very early cookery and gastronomy book,
only preceded by a folio edition of 1583 published in Rome. Baldassare Pisanelli
describes the natural history, the usages, the qualities of fruits (such as apples,
strawberries, grapes etc) and vegetables (such as mushrooms, artichokes, carrots,
fennel, cucumbers etc), liqueurs, meats, game, fish, milk, cheese etc, and gives
detailed information of the conditions under which such food and drinks should be
used. The information is laid out in a very attractive form for easy reference. Two
types of food are described per page opening within a woodcut border, in each case
sub-headings are given in the left-hand margin, detailing selection of the food stuff,
benefits, its detrimental effects, its medical properties, and the time of year when
they are available or best used. On the opposite page the natural history of each item
is described. There is a special section devoted exclusively to wine, with its various
types and usage.
Pisanelli (fl. 1559-1583), a medical doctor from Bologna, became famous on the
strength of this book, which went through numerous subsequent editions until the
mid seventeenth century.
Most bibliographies list this 1584 edition as the first edition.
B.IN.G. 1498; BM STC Italian p. 521; Cagle 1168; Horn-Arndt 72; Simon Bibliotheca
Bacchica II.507; Simon Bibliotheca Gastronomica 1171; Vicaire 682 (listing this edition
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
copies of the first edition (DLC, University of Iowa).
The Earliest Printed Book on Economics
59.
PLATEA [PIAZZA], Franciscus de. Opus restitutionum usuarum et
excomunicationum edita per venerabilem Dominvm Fratrem
Franciscvm de Platea Ordinis Minorvm. [colophon: ] Venice,
Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Mathen, 22 January 1477. £ 8800
Chancery 4to, (200 x 151 mm), ll. [152] including initial and final blank;
in double columns, printed in Gothic letter, with initial spaces, some
with guide letters; a few leaves with insignificant marginal
dampstaining, some dust-soiling; contemporary full vellum, out of a
fifteenth century rubricated legal manuscript leaf, some wear to spine
with splits, and worm hole to upper cover; early manuscript ownership
inscription of ?Davitis, and a few contemporary marginal annotations; a
fresh unsophisticated copy in a contemporary binding.
A fine unsophisticated copy of an incunable edition of the first printed book to deal
with economics. Platea's Opus restitutionum, first printed in 1472 is the first, and
earliest, book in the Goldsmith and Kress catalogues respectively.
Platea, (also known as Fra Francesco Piazza) (?-1460), a Professor of law at the
University of Bologna and a well-known and acclaimed preacher, includes a detailed
discussion of monetary questions, the taking of interest and usury in this treatise on
canon law. The first part of the Opus Restitutionum deals with the return of illicit
gains. Also discussed are commercial transactions under a variety of different legal
circumstances, such as two creditors competing for the spoils of one debtor. The
second part concentrates on usury, which, as in all canon law, denotes not just high
interest but all interest. Platea is firmly aligned within the church authorities in his
condemnation of usury. The final section, De Excommunicationes deals with the
judicial exclusion of offenders from the rights and privileges of the Christian
community.
The printers de Colonia and Mathen had already published an earlier edition of
Platea's popular work in 1474, further editions were published in 1472 and 1473.
Bodleian Library XVth Century Books, P-337;Hain-Copinger 13040; BMC V, 227; Goff
P-758; Proctor 4312A; Walsh 1695; see Goldsmiths'-Kress 1 for first edition.
Magic Defended
60.
PREATI, Bartolomeo. L'arte magica dimostrata. Dissertazione contra
l'opinione del Signor Marchese Maffei. Venice, Stamperia Remondini,
1751. £ 480

4to, pp. 95, [1] blank; title vignette, decorated initials; uncut in the
original buff limp boards; spine with marbled paper covering and
remains of spine label; early manuscript note to front free endpaper; a
good copy.
First and only edition of this publication against Maffei, demonstrating the existence
of the magic. This is specifically directed against Maffei's Arte Magica Dileguata,
1749. In separate chapters Preati discusses magic in general, where he carefully
distinguishes between diabolic magic and artificial magic, then studies demonic
magic and demonic influences in greater detail.
Cornell, Witchcraft collection, p. 451; Melzi 366; Pitrè, Bibliografia delle tradizioni
popolari d'Italia, 5160; Rosenthal, Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica, 2975;
uncommon, two copies listed in ICCU, none in OCLC.
Copyright and Intellectual Property
61.
PÜTTER, Johann Stephan. Der Büchernachdruck nach ächten
Grundsätzen des Rechts geprüft ... Göttingen, Wittwe Vandenhoeck,
1774. £ 2250
4to, pp. [xiv], 206; title vignette, head- and tail-pieces and initials;
contemporary full calf, spine in compartments, decoratively gilt, with
gilt-lettered spine label; a fine copy with the engraved bookplate of
Friedrich August II of Braunschweig-Öls to front paste-down.
First edition of the first detailed study of literary copyright law as it affects authors,
printers and booksellers. Pütter's interest in international copy-right law, protection
of intellectual property, and unauthorised reprints was sparked off by his own
experience of an unauthorised reprint of one of his works (Elementa juris publicis
germanici) appearing in Frankfurt, while the authorised version was still at the press
in Göttingen. He carefully analysed the legal implications of reprints and proved the
unlawfulness of unauthorised reprints because they violate the author's right to his
intellectual property. The work was highly important in the history of publishing,
and a French translation appeared under the title La Propriété Littéraire. In the last
section earlier German edicts and laws regarding printing rights, licensing
agreements, unauthorised reprints, and censorship are reprinted.
The German jurist Pütter (1725-1807) was 'undoubtedly the most important
expounder of the public law of the old Reich'. In his hands 'the law appears
disentangled from its difficulties, in a form which by virtue of its grace, rationality
and elegance rises above the ponderous structure of the old Reich … In the field of
public law, in which he made his chief contribution, Pütter had separated
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
founder of juristic dogmatism' (ESS).
ADB XXVI, pp. 749-777; Bigmore and Wyman II, 226; Katalog des Börsenvereins 461;
Der deutsche Buchhandel in Urkunden und Quellen, II, p. 331 ff; NUC/RLIN and
OCLC record copies at Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley, and the University of
Pennsylvania; for further information on the author see ESS.
The Diseases of the Ruling Classes
62.
RAMAZZINI, Bernardo. De Principum Valetudine Tuenda.
Commentatio Bernardini Ramazzini. Patavvii, Typgraphia Jo:
Baptistae Conzatti, 1710. £ 3000
4to, pp. [xvi], 160; title vignette and decorated initials; occasional light
browning, and light dampstain to gutter margin at head, unobtrusive
and never getting anywhere near the text; uncut in the original buff limp
boards, eighteenth century spine covering with paste-paper; corners
bumped; sowing strengthened; a very good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Ramazzini's study of occupational diseases, in fact a
companion volume to his earlier and better known De Morbis Artificum (1700),
where he concentrated on the diseases of manual workers.
In this work he concentrates on the occupational diseases incurred by those who
work with their brains rather than their hands, the diseases of princes, government
officials, and their advisors. He treats all physical aspects that influence the life and
health of princes, such as air, food, drink, sleep, digestion etc, before concentrating
on the psychological aspects, such as the pressure of government, responsibility, and
life at court. Interestingly he argues that a combination of these factors are likely to
produce psychosomatic symptoms. Ramazzini warns against the interference from
medical practitioners, who are most unlikely to properly diagnose the complaints.
Throughout Ramazzini backs up his findings with reference to medical authorites,
and refers in particular to the earlier studies by Marsilio Ficino, De studiorum
sanitate, 1489 and V. Fortunato Plembio, De Togatorum valetudine tuendo, 1670.
His work was published to Europe-wide acclaim, and an edition printed in Leipzig
followed in 1711, and another one in Uppsala in 1712, with Italian editions in 1713
and 1717, and an anonymous French translation in 1724.
Di Pietro 65; Blake, p. 370; Wellcome IV, p. 468; see Francesco Carnevale, La Salute
dei Principi ovvero come difendersi dalle malattie e dai medici, Florence, 1992, p. 202
for bibliography, a study of the text and its gestation; OCLC also record copies at the
University of Chicago, Oklahoma, and the New York Academy of Medicine.
Le Source du Bon Goût
63.

[PERFUME.] Etat des Marchandises qui se trouvent chez François
Rambert et Comp. Droguistes, Parfumeurs et Liquoristes, Rue
Calzioli, à coté de l'Eglise S.nt Michel, vis-à-vis la Place du Palais
Vieux à Florence. Ca 1795. £ 580
Broadsheet, folio, (420 x 297 mm) printed on both sides, with handcoloured
engraving at head (69 x 272 mm), products listed in triple
columns within border; a few short marginal tears, one with old repair
to verso; some light staining, corners frayed, with central fold marks.
A rare survival, a late eighteenth century trade list of a perfumer and druggist, based
in Florence, with premises near the Palazzo Vecchio. The broadsheet is headed by an
engraved banner across to top 'A la Source du bon Gout', below it address details of
the merchant are given, followed by a listing approx 300 products or flavours. The
listing is subdivided under separate headings: Droguerie, Perfumerie and Vins.
Amongst the perfume section, liquid pomades are listed in numerous flavours,
followed by firmer pomades, make-up (pomades pour le teint), essences, oils, eau de
toilette (again in countless different flavours), simple rose, and orange water, soaps,
vinegar-based clarifying lotions, rouge of different types, body powder, almond
crèmes, scented and unscented powders to mention but a few. Each of these products
is generally available in different flavours, which accounts for the large number of
individual products advertised. In addition to these items foreign luxury products,
such as gloves, stockings etc, followed by an extensive section of foreign wines.
Eighteenth century trade lists evolved out of the earlier trade cards and later
developed into fully priced price lists. Their purpose was to give a full list of the
bearer's stock in trade, and they were generally unpriced.
Rickards, The Encyclopedia of Ephemera, p. 336; not found in OCLC, KVK or ICCU.
Modern Historiography
64.
RANKE, Leopold von. Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtsschreiber... Eine
Beylage zu desselben romanischen und germanischen Geschichten.
Leipzig und Berlin, bey G. Reimer, 1824. £ 900
8vo, pp. xii, 202; contemporary quarter calf, spine with raised bands,
ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; from the 'Bibliothèque du Baron de
Noirmont' with printed armorial book label to front paste-down; an
attractive copy.
First edition of Ranke's revolutionary exposition of historiography. Ranke can be
called the first modern historian: he was the first to rely entirely on contemporary
sources, letters, diaries etc., and trained generations of disciples in the critical use of
original documents and the unbiased approach to every age and nation. He rejected
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
how things actually were, summed up in his well-known claim of writing history
'wie es eigentlich gewesen'.
'Ranke first applied to medieval and modern history the critical principles which
Niebuhr had established for ancient history. He thereby set up novel standards of
scholarship which have since become accepted by historians of every nation who are
not shackled by the straitjacket of a narrow dogma ... His 'Examination of Modern
Historians' takes its departure from Guicciardini, who had hitherto been regarded as
the chief authority on the period. Without belittling 'one of the great historical
productions which we have', Ranke deprives the Historia d'Italia of its claim to being
a primary source and shows the extent to which Guicciardini was dependent on
other writers, and even more important, how much his outlook is coloured by his
own private life, professional career and party prejudices. In other words, Ranke tries
to assess the value of a source through the explanation of the character of its author'
(PMM 286).
Printing and the Mind of Man 286; see Blackwell Dictionary of Historians.
Signalling Numbers
65.
REQUENO, Vincenzo. Scoperta della Chironomia, ossia dell'Arte di
Gestire con le Mani. Parma, Fratelli Gozzi, 1797. £ 650
8vo, pp. viii, 141, [1] imprint, [1] errata, 3 engraved plates; uncut in the
original pale blue wrappers; spine a little chipped and corners worn; a
crisp and very wide-margined copy.
First edition of this very attractive and curious introduction into the art of
'chiromania' , or talking with one's hands, used not only in mime, but in a wide range
of situations. The author begins with a historical overview, and then discusses the
use of hands and fingers in counting and calculating in classical antiquity. The left
hand indicates numbers up to ninety, whereas the right hand gives hundreds. The
three finely engraved plates, in fact, illustrate this use, and give the hand signs for
different figures and numbers. He also deals with the representation of the letters of
the alphabet with both the left and the right hand.
In the second and more substantial part the author deals with the use of hands and
gestures in mime, pantomime, and classical theatre in general. He deplores in
particular that modern mime does not utilise the hands in the same 'meaningful' way
as was common in antiquity.
Thomas Tooke's Russian Passport
66.
[RUSSIAN PASSPORT.] Auf Befehl Ihro Kayserlichen Majet;at der
Großen Frau und Kayserin Catharina Alexejena Selbstherrscherin

aller Reussen, Wird hiermit denen, welchen daran gelegen, und und
zu wissen gethan: daß Vorzeiger dieses der Engländer Thomas Tooke
aus Rußland zu Moskau über .. nach England abgelassen worden ….
St. Petersburg, 23. Juni 1785. Signed Carlo Giorgi General Major Peter
Kanowitsik?, Nikita Akrinin, secretary. £ 750
Oblong folio, (230 x336mm), pp. 4; printed in German and Russian,
completed in ink, with two red seals; with manuscript annotations in
Russian, folded, with remains of guard where it was presumably
mounted in an album, edges frayed and a little dust-soiled; else fine.
Original passport, issued by Catherine the Great for English financier and
businessman.Thomas Tooke, (1774-1858) was one of the leading scientific economists
of the age (Schumpeter), and one who brought to bear on his theories of economics
and finance the practical experience of business life. Born in St Petersburg, he left at
an early age, armed with the passport offered here, for London, where he soon
managed a large Russian house.
He is considered 'the founder of the contra-quantity theory of money the view that
monetary policy is powerless to influence prices because the supply of money
depends on the flow of money expenditure and hence is the result and not the cause
of price changes. His best-known works wre 'On the Currency in Connexion with the
Corn Trade, 1829, Considerations on the State of the Currncy, 1826 and Inquiry into
the Currency Principle, 1844.
Dowry List
67.
[SAVORGNAN, Benedetta.] Per sua Eccellenza la Signora co:
Benedetta Savorgnan sposa con sua Eccellenza il signor co: Pacifico
Camerata. 22 Febbraro 1802.
[With:] [GENTILUCCI, Giacomo conte .] Per le faustissime nozze di
sua Eccellenza il Signor Conte Pacifico Passionei Camerata de
Mazzoleni … con sua Eccellenza il Signora Contessa Benedetta
Savorgnan Patrizia Veneta in segno di sincera amicizia Giacomo
conte Gentilucci offer I seguenti Poetici componimenti. Macerata,
Tipi Capitaniani, 1802.
[With:] CRUCIANI, Vincenzo. Nelle acclamatissime Nozze già
seguite fra … Osimo, Domenicantonio Quercetti, 1802. £ 1400
4to, (290 x 200 mm) manuscript in ink, ll. 12, title within border; sm. 4to
pp. xii; pp. 2; manuscript in ink, written in clean, legible hand;

contemporary red boards, sides with decorative gilt rule; corners a little
worn, else a fine copy.
A fine early nineteenth century manuscript produced on the occasion of the wedding
of the Contessa Benedetta Savorgnan of Venice to the Count Pacifico Passionei
Camerata in 1802. The fascinating manuscript is in fact the dowry list of the bride,
covering 100 shirts, cuffs, handkerchiefs, scarves, stockings, all manner of outfits,
satin coats in a number of colours, sequined tops, fans, shoes etc. Also included are a
number of decorative articles and boxes. Unusually this just lists the private
clothings of the bride, rather than bed- and table linen.
The manuscript is continued a year later (dated January 1803) with details of laundry
and equipment for birth, and then on a further sheet, those items needed for a
baptism.
The title is designed to copy printed celebratory publication published on the
occasion of weddings.
Two further printed celebratory poems published on the occasion of the wedding are
also included.
Say’s Rare Utopia – Uncut in Wrappers
68.
SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Olbie, ou Essai sur les Moyens de Réformer les
Moeurs d'une Nation … Paris, Deterville, Libraire … An VIII
[1799/1800]. £ 3200
8vo, pp. xi, [1], 132; entirely uncut in the original blue wrappers, foot of
spine strengthened; a fine copy.
First edition of Say's rare utopia - his second book, containing the beginnings of his
economic thought. In Olbie the basis of society is no longer ethics but economics.
'Having established that a good treatise on economic theory should be the major
moral book for society, the author naturally looked to provide such a work for his
country; Olbie anticipates the publication of the Traité d'Economie politique which
was to appear four years later and thus forms part of the history of the science'
(Guillaumin, Avertissement des editeurs in Oeuvres diverses, 1848).
Goldsmiths'-Kress 17874.24; INED 4109; Monglond V, 108; Negley 1002; not in
Einaudi; RLIN lists copies at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvannia.
Calendars French and German
69.
SCHNEIDT, Joseph Maria. Abhandlung von dem teutschen und
französischen Calenderwesen. Nebst einem vollständigen Teutsch-
Französischen und Französisch-Teutschen Calender auf I. bis LV.

Französische oder LV teutsche Jahre von 1792 bis 1847 … Traité sur
le Calendrier allemande et Français. Würzburg, Rienner 1796.
£ 650
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], 130; numerous tables in the text;
printed throughout in double columns in both French and German;
contemporary tan calf, spine decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label
and circular date; a very attractive copy from the Fechenbach Library.
First edition of this charming German - French introduction to the Revolutionary
calendar, with a handy conversion table until the year 1847. Schneidt begins with a
brief history of both the German and the French calendar, with an explanation of
saint days, movable and immovable feast days etc. The French revolutionary
calendar, proposed by Fabre d'Eglantine, was adopted by the French First Republic
in 1793, calculated from September 22, 1792, and proved to be one of the more longlasting
innovations of the French Revolution. It was used until 1805. Schneidt
introduces the various idiosyncrasies of the French Revolutionary calendar, its
beginning on September 22nd 1792, the names of the individual months and festive
days etc. before giving a concordance between the German and the French calendar
until the year 1847.
Schneidt (1727-1808), a respected jurist, professor and government official also
published extensively on the law and numismatics.
ADB 32, p. 154ff; Meusel-Hamberger VII, 248; uncommon, OCLC lists just two copies
in Fulda and Göttingen.
70.
SCHULZE, Benjamin. Orientalisch- und Occidentalisches A, B, C -
Buch welches hundert Alphabete nebst ihrer Aussprache so bei
denen moisten Europäisch-Asiatisch-Africanisch- und
Americanischen Völckern und Nationen gebräuchlich sind, nebst
einigen Tabulis Polyglottis, verschiedener Sprachen und Zahlen vor
Augen leget. Naumburg und Zeitz, Christian Friedrich Gessner,
1769. £ 950
8vo, pp. [xii], 219, [5], with 12 engraved plates and one folding printed
table; with numerous alphabet specimen in the text; lightly browned
throughout, due to paper stock; a few sample leaves cut close at foot;
contemporary paste-paper covered boards, a little rubbed.
First edition thus, of this important work of eighteenth century linguistic studies,
illustrating the alphabets and pronunciation of one hundred European, Asian,
African and American languages, clearly aimed at the missionary market. Of
particular visual appeal are the numerous tables showing exotic alphabets and

numbers. Schultze includes such languages as Ethiopian, Malagassy, Singalese,
Marath, Mexican, Savannah, Virginia, Bralian or Guarini, Japanese, Chinese, etc. In
the brief section on American languages Schultze deplores the lack of information on
them, cites some of the early reports and gives some details of Algonquin, Huron,
Massachusetts (with a mention of Johan Elliot's Bible translation o 1666),,
Makentowonits languages amongst other, with numerous examples and some
bibliographical information on early studies.
The work is based on Schultze's earlier (1748) Orientalisch- und occidentalischer
Sprachmeister, which also contained the Lord's Prayer in multiple languages, and
edited by Johann Friedrich Fritz. Some of the engraved were apparently reused,
giving both plate count (for the 1748 edition) and page number for this edition.
Schultze (1689-1760) studied at Halle and in 1719 went out to the Tranquebar
Mission and learnt the Malabar dialect. He worked on the translation of the Tamil
bible and studied numerous other Indian languages. He returned to Halle in 1743 to
become director of the Halle orphanage, part of the famous Francke'sche Stiftungen
(Francke Foundations), a highly important charitable foundation, printing press, and
missionary establishment.
The work can also be used as a type-specimen of the famous German printing house
of Gessner, showing extensive holdings of exotic type.
Sabin 78008; see Maggs catalogue 891 Dictionaries and Grammars, no. 382
First Edition of Adam Smith’s First Book
71.
SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London, A. Millar;
Edinburgh, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759. £ 12500
8vo, pp. [vi], [viii], 550 [i.e. 530, pp. 317-336 omitted from pagination as
usual], [1], with half-title and errata present; early ownership inscription
to title, partly crossed out; some light foxing and browning, small ink
stain to last 3 leaves; recently bound in full sprinkled calf, spine gilt in
compartments, with gilt-lettered spine label.
First edition of Adam Smith's first book, the work that established his reputation as a
philosopher not only in London but also on the Continent.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments is of the highest importance because of the way in
which it supplements Smith's views on the nature of man and the way this world
runs, as set out in the more familiar Wealth of Nations. 'One of Adam Smith's major
claims to fame, in some ways his greatest, is his development of a unified concept of
an economic system with mutually interdependent parts. His development of this
came well before the Wealth of Nations: it is in the Theory of Moral Sentiments of
1759 and the Lectures of 1762-3' (D.P. O'Brien, The Classical Economists, 1975, p. 29).
Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments is, in brief, that they are founded not, as
Hume said, on self-interest, but on fellow-feeling - the ability one man has to put
himself in the place of another, and to judge others by himself and himself by others.
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
'invisible hand' of the latter work. 'The exposition in the Wealth of Nations is much
more particularized than that in the Moral Sentiments ... It occurs through the
beneficial results of the pursuit of self-interest (within a framework of law and
custom) and manifests itself in such phenomena as the division of labour (with its
origin in the propensity to barter), money, savings and investment, and trade', ibid,
p. 30. An understanding of Smith's views on the complex relationship between
Sympathy and Self-interest is also to be gained from the study of both works.
Goldsmiths' 9537; Kress S 5815; Vanderblue p. 38.
72.
SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects. …to which is
prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by
Dugald Stewart. Dublin, Wogan, Byrne, 1795. £ 1600
8vo, pp. cxxiii, [1] blank, 332; contemporary marbled calf, gilt rules to
spine, gilt-lettered red roan spine label; short splits to joints, corners a
little bumped; an attractive copy.
First Dublin edition, published the same year as the London edition, of Smith's
posthumously published works. These essays, which Smith had left in manuscript
form with friends, were written throughout his career, the article on astronomy
being one of his earliest works. They had been withheld from publication since Smith
had planned to write a connected history of the liberal sciences and the elegant arts.
The essays cover philosophy, aesthetics, and the history of sciences.
Stewart's Life, taken from the Transactions of the Royal Society, is here first
published in book form.
Vanderblue p. 43.
73.
SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth
of Nations … Vol. I [- Vol. IV]. Basel and Paris, James Decker and
Levrault brothers, 1801. £ 1350
Four volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 68, 406; vi, 344; iv, 358, [5] appendix, [1]
blank; v, [1] blank, 374, [52] index; contemporary half tan calf over
marbled boards; flat spines decoratively gilt, with red morocco lettering
and numbering pieces; extremities a little rubbed, else fine; with
blindstamp and book label of Adolf Jellineck in Brünn, and an
inscription in Greek to front free endpaper, with a quote from the Book
of Revelation X, 9; throughout there are some blue and red markings

and underlinings, and numerous early annotations in ink; an attractive
copy.
Second Continental edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, and the only edition
to include an English translation of Turgot's Réflexions sur la formation et la
distribution des richesses, a work which had a great influence on Adam Smith, and
which McCulloch describes as 'the best work on the science published previously to
the Wealth of Nations'.
This copy has some interesting annotations, including many marginal comments in
ink, mostly in English, which were clearly added before the book was bound in its
present binding, as the pages needed to be turned in, before the copy was trimmed
by the binder. The markings in red and blue crayon are of a later date, and can be
attributed to the owner Dr. Bobetz or Bobek, who signed all four volumes, and
interestingly dates his progress through the book from 15. August 1900 to 24
September 1901.
Goldsmiths' 18148; Kress B.4447; Vanderblue, p. 20; not in Einaudi.
Alcohol Addiction
74.
STUMP, Jakob and Robert WILLENEGGER. Graphische Tabellen mit
Begleit-Text zur Alkoholfrage. Zürich, Robert Willenegger, [1907].
£ 380
Oblong 4to (xx5 x 310mm), pp. xvi, 228, with four art reproduction
plates, 37 portrait plates with accompanying text and fifty-five fullcolour
statistical tables; original pictorial boards; red cloth spine;
bookplate of Vilm Ljungfors to front paste-down.
A fascinating manual of alcohol and its pervasive influence in society, illustrated on
striking statistical plates. Published clearly with a temperance message, the volume
covers the effect of alcohol consumption and alcohol abuse on all aspects of human
life and society, including crime rates, productivity, health, mortality rates, and the
economy. A whole series of statistical plates deals with the effect of alcohol
consumption on work, especially intellectual work, and shows that despite a shortterm
increase in creativity, the long-term results clearly show a decline in
productivity. A series of tests was done on young students, some plied with alcohol,
others left to cope with school work un'aided'. The fascinating compilation combines
statistics from different countries.
Conjugal Love - 'The Precious Treasure of Human Life'
75.

SWEDENBORG, Emanuel. Delitiæ Sapientiæ, de Amore Conjugali;
post quas sequuntur Voluptates Insaniæ de Amore Scortatorio.
Amsterdam, 1768. £ 1200
4to, pp. 328 ([2] blank); with woodcut head-piece and large initial on p.
[3] and woodcut tail-piece on p. 328; small hole at inner blank edge of
title, spotting towards end, light browning throughout; with manuscript
notes at foot of p. 194; modern marbled boards; a good copy, entirely
uncut.
First edition of this rare treatise by Swedenborg, published four years before his
death. The work is now a classic of mystical and philosophical love, describing 'how
the understanding and will of man and wife may be conjoined by marriage into one -
a conjunction resulting in eternal states of innocence, peace and happiness. The love
which is the soul of marriage originates from the union of the Divine Love and the
Divine Wisdom. This love is therefore celestial, spiritual and holy above all other
loves, and after death remains with everyone such as it was in the world'.
Swedenborg considered that 'the celestial beatitudes, the spiritual satisfactions, and
from these the natural delights' emanated from the love of a man and woman within
marriage (trans, p. 457). He: 'Explains the origin and essentially sacred character of
love between a man and a woman in marriage as related to the marriage of good and
truth in the Lord, the union of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom. This definitive work
on love and marriage describes the eternal quality of the conjugal state, and it also
discusses the nature of human sexuality and the spiritual consequences of such
disorders as adultery and deviant conduct' (N. Bruce Rogers, translator of the
modern English version of the work).
Hyde 2400; OCLC lists copies at Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Union College, Toronto,
Glasgow only.
The Delights of Conjugal Love
76.
SWEDENBORG, Emanuel. Traité curieux des charmes de l'amour
conjugal dans ce monde et dans l'autre. … traduit du Latin en
Français par M. de Brumore. Berlin and Basle, George-Jacques & J.
Henri Decker, 1784. £ 600
12mo, pp. [iv], 206; some spotting and browning at beginning and end,
due to paper quality; contemporary calf-backed pastepaper boards,
spine gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, with armorial bookplate with
monogram CIVLR and motto 'Mors est vita sine literis' to verso of front
free endpaper.

First French translation of Swedenborg's well-known work on the delights of
marriage, which first appeared in Latin under the title Deliciae sapientiae de amore
coniugalis in 1768. Swedenborg regarded marriage as the union between wisdom,
embodied in the man, and love, embodied in the woman. Thus marriage is a union
between the two qualities of reason and intention, a dualism that can be traced
throughout his writings.
The Swedish scientist and philosopher Swedenborg (1688-1772) is now best known
for the spiritualist movement he founded, which exerted great influence on a wide
range of artists, writers and philosophers, such as William Blake, Strindberg,
Baudelaire, W.B. Yeats, Carl Jung and William James to mention but a few.
Cioranescu 33411; OCLC lists copies at the Dutch Royal Library, Cornell, Wellcome
Library, Graduate Union College, California.
77.
SWIFT, Jonathan. Directions to Servants in General; and in particular
to the Butler, Cook, Footman, Coachman, Groom, House-Steward,
and Land-Steward, Porter, Dairy-Maid, Chamber-Maid, Nurse,
Laundress, House-Keeper, Tutoress, or Governess… Printed in the
year 1746. £ 750
8vo, pp. 58, [2], [2] blank; title with old repair to foremargin, repair to
gutter margin of last three leaves; a little dust-soiled; recently bound in
marbled boards.
Pirated edition. Swift's Directions to Servants was apparently written around 1736
but not published until after his death. It is a satirical take on a handbook of
manners, addressed to all types of servants individually and collectively, and easily
transferable to modern time. With his usual caustic wit Swifts pits servant against
master in the ultimate 'upstairs/downstairs' struggle for order, power, and the best
bits of the roast. He advises the servants on how to maintain the upper hand against
their masters, how to disguise mistakes and errors, and how to get through the
working day with as little effort as possible.
A witty expression of the frustrations of a lifetime's poor service.
The final unnumbered leaf contains a satire in pidgin Latin 'A consultation of four
physicians upon a Lord that was dying' with no author statement.
ESTC T231345 or N54501.
The Beginning of the Enlightenment in Germany
78.

THOMASIUS, Christian. Summarischer Nachrichten von
auserlesenen, mehrentheils alten, in der Thomasischen Bibliotheque
verhandenen Büchern. Erstes Stück [- 24. Stück]. Halle, Leipzig,
Johann Friderich Zeitler, 1715 - 1718. £ 4500
Twenty-four parts in two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 14,
17-1114, [92] index; engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii], 1044, [120] index; title
vignettes and head- and tail-pieces; contemporary blind-stamped full
calf, sides with extensive panelling and decoration; spines in
compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered spine label; a very fine set.
First edition, very rare, of this literary and bibliographical journal, documenting the
library of the German enlightenment thinker Christian Thomasius. The philosopher
and jurist Thomasius (1655-1728) had accumulated a large library, reflecting his
interests in philosophy and the law. To assure its survival at least in spirit, he
published the present series of publications, documenting rare publications present
in the library. Thomasius was the editor, but most of the book reviews were actually
written by a number of collaborators, among them John. Zacharias Platner and
Christ. Aug. Salig (see Struve II, 857 and Jöcher IV, 54). Thomasius apparently added
comments here or there, but mostly just signed off the reviews. Each issue of his
journal contains detailed reviews of up to four individual works, together with a
listing of approx. 45 further titles. In all the review discusses some 1200 books
contained in the Thomasius' library.
Amongst the titles reviews and discussed in greater detail are works by Bacon,
Bodin, Kircher, Cudworth, Gassendi, Luther, Agricola's proverbs, Budeus' history of
the university of Paris; the life of Hobbes, Hobbes' church history; the library of Fr.
Du Sorel to mention but a few. Also included are critiques of Agrippa, Andreae,
Guthmann, Iamblichus, and Scudery.
Within a decade of his death Thomasius' library was dispersed in an auction sale
(1739). Unlike other private libraries, Thomasius had publicised his holdings through
the publication of this journal. It became a model for other private library catalogues
or periodicals that followed. As Paul Raabe writes in his contribution to the
symposium on Thomasius in Wolfenbüttel, his was the ultimate in
Büchergelehrsamkeit, it documents Thomasius' life and work as jurist, philosopher,
publicist and economist immediately after his death. The two engraved frontispieces
show portraits of Christian Thomasius and Joh. Valentinus Andreae.
Thomasius is of particular importance as a pan-Eurpean thinker, he was the first to
lecture in German instead of Latin university, and added to his reputation as a
controversial figure by publishing a journal on literary and current affairs, entitled
'Entertaining and Serious, Rational and Unsophisticad Ideas of all Kinds of
Agreeable and useful Books and Subjects, for which he encouraged especially
women readers. His works are essential in understanding the beginnings of the
Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of Locke
in England.
Rolf Lieberwirth, Christian Thomasius sein wissenschaftliches Lebenswerk. Eine
Bibliographie, 269; Kirchner I 40; Jöcher IV 1158-1163; Jantz 2499; not in Faber du
Faur, not in Petzholdt; see Paul Raabe, Christian Thomasius in Wolfenbüttel, in

Werner Schneider, Christian Thomasius. Interpretationen zu Werk und Wirkung. Mit
einer Bibliographie zur neueren Thomasius Literatur. 1989 (Studien zum achtzehnten
Jahrhundert, 11).
79.
[TYPE SPECIMEN.] Preces Sancti Nersetis Clajensis Armeniorum
Patriarchae, vingti quatuor linguis editae. Venice, Mekhitarist Press,
San Lazaro, 1837. £ 400
12mo, pp. [iv], 432, [2], engraved frontispiece and title, medallion
ornaments at head of dedication page; finely printed throughout;
original dark green roan, elaborate gilt ornamentation to sides and spine,
gilt-lettered green spine label; a.e.g.; a fine copy.
Second edition (first 1823) of Saint Nerses' famous 'In faith I Confess' prayers printed
in twenty-four languages and the appropriate typefaces, amongst them Armenian,
Greek, Russian, Gothic, Illyrian, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Chaldaean, Syriac
and Iberian. English, French, Irish, Spanish, Dutch, Hungarian, Latin and Swedish
versions are given in roman type. Because of the wide range of typefaces used, it also
serves as a type specimen of the Mekhitarist Press. The work was printed by the
Mekhitarist Congregation on the Venetian island of San Lazzaro, the foremost centre
of Armenian culture.
St. Nerses (d. 1173) was the most important Armenian writer of the twelfth century
and the head of the Armenian church. This edition of his prayers was edited by
Father Paschal (i.e. Haroutiun Aukerian, 1774-1827) who was admired by Lord
Byron, who famously rowed out to the island of San Lazarus daily to take Armenian
lessons and use the famous library.
Earlier polyglot editions of his prayers had been printed in 1810 and 1811, but with
fewer languages and typefaces. Further expanded editions appeared later.
V. Nersessian, Catalogue of Early Armenian Books 1512-1850, 510; see Birrell &
Garnett 30 for 1823 edition.
80.
VERRI, Pietro. Discorsi del Conte Pietro Verri dell'Instituto delle
Scienze di Bologna Sull'Indole del Piacere e del Dolore; Sulla Felicità
e sulla Economia Politica. Riveduti ed accresciuti dall'Autore. Milan,
Giuseppe Marelli, 1781. £ 1400
Tall 8vo, pp. [xviii], 100, [5], 102-183, [10], 186-394; portrait medallion
vignette to title page, divisional titles and preliminaries not included in
the pagination; contemporary half calf, over marbled boards, spine ruled
in gilt with gilt-lettered spine label; some surface wear to marbled paper;
a very good wide-margined copy.

First collected edition, uncommon, containing Verri's two important works on
philosophy and aesthetics, his reflections on individual and collective happiness, and
his most important economic work, his Meditazioni sull'economia politica, first
published in 1771. At the centre of his writings are his reflections on luxury, on
happiness, on the interpretation of laws, on economic liberalism and on the need for
a radical modernisation of lifestyles and customs. They are a testament of one of the
outstanding figures of Italy's cultural renewal.
'Verri's Reflections is a complete treatise on political economy, reminiscent of
Turgot's work (1766) with its tight logical framework and division into fairly short
sections. Although these cover a wide range of subjects, they are interconnected by
the basic theme of the work, the increase in annual reproduction of the nation
through trade of surplus product which Verri related to the balance of production
and consumption. … Some features of this analysis may be specifically noted… His
emphasis on supply and demand (used to determine all prices including the rate of
interest) combined with references to utility and scarcity in the context of value
(section 4) explains why this part of his work has been linked with marginalist
economics. … Verri's Reflections were highly regarded when they appeared, and
could be found, for example, in Smith's library (Groenewegen in New Palgrave, IV p.
807). Schumpeter praises Verri as 'a true econometrician - for example, he was one of
the first economists to figure out a balance of payments - that is to say, he knew how
to weave fact-finding and theory into a coherent tissue: the methodological problem
that agitated later generations of economists he had successfully solved for himself'
(Schumpeter, p. 178).
Cossa I, 131; Einaudi 5875; Goldsmiths'-Kress 12128; Mattioli 3731.
81.
[VERRI, Pietro.] Essai sur les Principes Politiques de l'Économie
Publique. Par M. D. Browne Dignan. London, A. Grant, 1776.
£ 450
8vo, pp. iv, [3]-66, 61-188; very clean and crisp in contemporary
sprinkled boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; a fine copy.
Curiously this adaptation was published under the name of Browne Dignan, and
fulsomely dedicated to the Count Rochford, without any reference to the fact that it
is in fact a translation. The text is clearly based on the earlier translation, with some
omissions, and a few changes (see Venturi Europe des Lumières, p. 258-9).
ESTC n45760 (Cambridge Trinity College, St Patrick's College Library, and Harvard
only); Carpenter XXV, 9; Weller II, p. 200.
The Founder of the History of Ideas
82.

VICO, Giambattista. Principj di Scienza Nuova … d'Intorno alla
Comune Natura delle Nazioni in questa terza impressione dal
medesimo Autore in un gran numero di luoghi Corretta, Schiarita, e
notabilment Accresciuta.Tomo I [-Tomo II]. Naples, Stamperia
Muziana, 1744. £ 3800
Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, pp. [ii] frontispiece portrait, [xvi], [ii]
allegoric engraved frontispiece, 376, one folding printed table bound in;
[377]-526 [vere 516], [4] index; engraved title vignette; a few signatures
lightly browned, due to paper stock, and faint marginal damp-stain to
first signature; contemporary paste-paper covered boards, spine label
lettered in manuscript; corners a little bumped, but in all a very good
copy.
Third and definitive edition of Vico's masterpiece, which had originally been
published in 1725, rewritten for the second edition (1730), and further extensively
revised for this one. Ahead of his time, Vico was neglected during his life and
forgotten for years after his death, but his Scienza Nuova laid the foundations for
many of the most important intellectual developments of the following two
centuries. It was in this definitive edition, published in the year of Vico's death, that
his ideas became known.
The Principi di una Scienza Nuova has been justly called 'the vehicle by which the
concept of historical development at last entered the thought of western Europe'
(PMM 184). It remains one of the most influential treatises in the history of ideas. The
concept of a history of human ideas, the principles of a universal history and its
philosophical criticism, a recognition of the importance of social classes all begin
with Vico. Vico was the first to formulate a systematic method for historical
research. He revived the Greek conception that the course of history was subject to
cyclical phases (corsi e ricorsi). This however did not indicate an upward or forward
move towards perfection: according to Vico there exists in history a pattern which
repeats itself in each civilisation, a storia ideale eterna. Just as the individual man
passes through successive states, so does the history of civilisation.
Vico recognised the importance of myth, tradition, and language for our
understanding of primitive people. His was the first comprehensive study of human
society before Comte, and he presented the first detailed analysis of the class struggle
prior to Marx. Vico's concept of recurring patterns or cycles in history greatly
influenced Joyce whose cyclical novel Finnegans Wake presents an elaborate history
of mankind. In an obvious acknowledgement, Joyce even named the stage manager
of his panorama John Baptister Vickar, and Samuel Beckett's seminal essay on Joyce,
published in 1929, was entitled 'Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Joyce'.
Vico founded no school and though his book was well-known in Italy during his
lifetime, his achievement met with little success and understanding until the
nineteenth century, when the German Romantics turned to his ideas. Herder,
Goethe, Hegel and later Spengler took up his contributions to historical philosophy
and method, and through them he greatly influenced modern historical and
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
history of philosophy'.
Croce I, p. 53, Gamba 2493; see Printing and the Mind of Man 184 for first edition.
The First Washing Mashine
83.
[WASHING MACHINE.] Dell' Arte di Fare il Bucato a Vapore.
Dialoghi el Dott. G.P. In Bologna, per Giuseppe Lucchesini, 1805. £
880
8vo, pp. 44, folding engraved plate with 5 illustrations bound at the end;
uncut in contemporary blue wrappers; a little dog-eared, else fine.
First edition, very rare, of this publication advertising the use of a steam-based
washing machine. Presented in the form of a dialogue between the padrona, the lady
of the house, and her two washerwomen, the benefits of this revolutionary new
washing technique are expounded. The arguments used by the padrona could easily
come out of a modern advertising jingle - whiter than white, with no hint of laundry
bluing. In four dialogues the washerwomen are first persuaded to try out this new
washing technique, which is then explained in great detail. In the course of the
discussion various traditional methods of washing are explained, such as bleaching
in the sun, using special soaps, ash or even soda. The garments are first soaked in
baths of sulphoric acid diluted in water, and in caustic potash, then rinsed, and
finally put into the 'washing machine'. The composition of this machine and its
construction is explained in great detail and illustrated on the large folding plate.
In his preface the anonymous author writes that his invention is based on an idea of
the French scientist Cadet de Vaux (1743-1828). To increase its circulation and
readership the author decided to present the ideas in the form of a dialogue, and to
give further technical details which had not been included by Cadet de Vaux.
OCLC lists one copy at Princeton, also recorded in the Bibliothèque Nationale.
84.
[WINE.] Accademia di Scienze ed arti degli Ardenti di Viterbo.
Istruzione del Miglior Metodo de Fare il Vino. Viterbo, estratte dagli
Atti della Classe IV. Arti, Agricoltura, Commercio ec. Torchj
dell'Accademia degli Ardenti, 1823. £ 400
8vo, pp. 8; later plain wrappers; paper a little spotted, woodcut
illustration in the text.

First edition, rare, of this description of an innovative vinification method, based on
the developments of Dom Nicolas Casbois (1728-1795) and apparently partly
popularized by Elisabeth and Jean-Antoine Gervais.
The method included the use of both covered and open vats and is illustrated on the
woodcut illustration which shows the wine barrel with its covering lid and valve in
place. The final paragraph sums up that this device would guarantee wine of more,
body, strength, colour and fragrancy, would increase yields because less would
evaporate etc.
The Academia degli Ardenti of Viterbo, one of the earliest Italian academies of
science and literature, was founded in 1480 and counted amongst its members
Ariosto, Tasso, Michelangelo, Muratori and Leopardi, to mention but a few.
Not in Oberlé, not in Cagle; Very rare, not found in Check Simon, Vinaria, Bitting, =
Westbury; no copy found in ICCU or OCLC.
Locks and Locksmiths
85.
ZIPPER, Jakob. Anweisung zu Schlosserarbeiten mit Zeichnungen.
Erster Theil mit 12 Kupfern. [Zweyter Theil mit 12 Kupfern, Dritter
Theil mit 12 Kupfern.]. Leipzig, Stage, n.d. [1803]. £ 2200
4to, [viii], 56, with 12 engraved plates; xii, 60, with 12 plates (misbound);
xii, 52, with 12 engraved plates, woodcut and fleuron decorations in the
text; brown stain to upper margin of last four text pages and first plates
of final section, occasionally a little dust-soiled, but overall clean; bound
without the front endpaper; contemporary half roan over sprinkled
boards, gilt-lettered spine label, spine quite rubbed, head and tail of
spine chipped, paper on sides scratched, and slightly cockled on upper
board.
Later issue of first and only edition of this comprehensive technical and practical
manual for locksmiths, for gates, door, chest and cupboard locks. The author
deplores the lack of practical manuals, and maintains that apprentices just learn a
few techniques from their master, without thorough knowledge of all the different
kinds of locks available. In three parts, Zipper introduces increasingly sophisticated
locks and keys, and describes their mechanisms, which are then illustrated on the
very detailed plates. Master craftsmen used increasingly ornamented locks and keys,
which are also illustrated; technical advances are outlined, such as the lever locks
and spring latch locks, sophisticated padlocks, and finally in a complicated
combination lock. All locks are illustrated on the engraved plates, with extensive
explanation in the text.
The work gives a clear indication both of the technical advances in locksmithing, but
also of the workmanship of the artisan necessary to produce the highly decorated
locks and keys.

The first part of this work was first published in 1801 by the author himself, but from
part II Zipper used the services of a professional publisher, and parts two and three
were issued with Stage imprints. The present issue is un-dated.
In 1801 Zipper also published Theoretisch-praktische Anweisung zu
Schlosserarbeiten nebst den dazu-gehörigen Zeichnungen und Rissen, which is a
different work, and deals with architectural metal work, railings, etc.
Berlin 1317; Thieme-Becker 36, 528; uncommon, OCLC list just one copy at the
Chicago Center for Research Librarires.