New York 2012 Susanne Schulz-Falster - Schulz-Falster Rare Books

folding printed table after M2; 287, [1] cockerel
woodcut; some light dampstaining; nineteenth
century calf-backed marbled boards, rebacked.
First complete edition of this introduction to all
aspects of the alphabet, literal, mystical, musical,
historical and alchemical.
Graesse I, p. 3; Rosenthal, Bibliotheca paedagogica, 3l.
77. ROUGET DE LISLE, A.
Chromagraphie, ou l’Art de composer
un dessin à l’aide de lignes et de figures
géométriques. Et de l’imiter avec des matières
colorées. Paris, the author, 1839. $7,600
Four parts in one volume, 4to, pp. 7, [1] blank;
7, [1]; 16; 12, with three fold-out engraved
plates; 8, [8] part IV bound in twice, with three
engraved plates and nine folding colour-printed
(or stencilled) plates, and one large folding
lithograph plate; [24], with two folding plates;
original cloth-backed litho-printed illustrated
boards.
First edition of this rare work describing the first
industrial application of Chevreul’s colour theory, to
tapestry weaving, extensively illustrated.
Ingerand, Bibliographie de la Couleur, 84.
78. ROUSSEAU, J.-J. Du Contract Social;
[half-title] Principes du Droit Politique. Marc
Michel Rey, 1762. [together with:] Émile, ou de
l’Éducation. The Hague, Jean Néaulme
[i.e. Paris, Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne],
1762. $28,000
Seventeen volumes, uniformly bound in contemporary
marbled calf, spines gilt, some surface
abrasions, and short worm traces to joints; an
attractive set.
First edition of two of Rousseau’s most important
works, the Contract Social (2 nd issue) and Émile,
uniformly bound in a set together with some of his
other works, clearly put together by an early reader.
Whereas Émile is arguably Rousseau’s best-known
work, the Contract Social is his most important
political work, and influenced both the American and
the French Revolution.
I. Dufour 133; PMM 207; Sénelier,554; Tchemerzine V 543; II.
Dufour 1925; McEachern 1 A; Tchemerzine V, 545.
79. ROUSSEAU, Josué. Ensayo da arte
grammatical portugueza e Franceza, Lisbon,
Galram, 1705. $1,250
Small 4to, pp. [viii], 176; fifteen woodcut
illustrations; contemporary vellum over boards.
First edition of this bi-lingual manual of Portuguese
language and grammar, presented in the form of
parallel Portuguese and French text with wonderfully
incongruous chapbook illustrations.
OCLC: Bibliothèque Nationale, BL, Hamburg, Portuguese
National Library; see Rolf Nagel, Aufsätze zur portugiesischen
Kulturgeschichte. MLN, Vol. 87, No. 2, Hispanic Issue (Mar.,
1972).
80. SANTORELLI, A. Il Protomedico
Napolitano o vero dell’ Autorita di esso.
Naples, Mollo, 1652. $2,250
Small 4to, pp. [xii], 136; eighteenth century
vellum-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in
ink; a good copy.
First edition of this interesting dialogue on the
organisation of medical services in 17th century
Naples, and in particular on the role of the
‘protomedico’.
Not in Wellcome, Krivatsy, Waller or Osler; Hirsch V, 177;
DBI IV, p. 1092; OCLC: BL and Wolfenbüttel only; see
David Gentilcore, Healers and healing in early modern Italy,
1998.
81. SCHIER, X. Memoria Academiae
Istropolitanae seu Posoniensis. Vienna,
Kurzböck, 1774. $1,050
4to, pp. 47, [1] blank, with one folding engraved
plate with star constellation; contemporary
pastepaper boards, rubbed.
First edition of this history of the Academia
Istropolitana, with a detailed bibliography of the
works both printed and in manuscript of its most
famous scientist Regiomontanus. A curious feature
of the book is the engraved plate showing the star
constellations at the time of the foundation of the
university.
Uncommon, OCLC records no copies in the US.