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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.