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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,
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