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

51. JEAN, A. Arithmetique au miroir. Par
laquelle on peut (en quatre vaccations de demie
heure chacune) pratiquer les plus belles regles
d’icelle. [Paris?, n.p. 1649. $2,800
8vo, two parts in one volume, second title page
dated 1637, pp. 15, [1] with 17 engraved plates; [3]
blank, pp. 55 of engraved tables; contemporary
limp vellum.
Second enlarged edition of Alexandre Jean’s elegantly
engraved multiplication tables, first published in
1639.
See Honeyman IV 1756.
52. JULLIEN, M.-A. Biomètre, ou Mémorial
Horaire. Paris, Dupre, 1824. $1,000
8vo, pp. 99, [1] contents; contemporary red
crushed roan.
First edition of Jullien’s Biomètre calendar, published
to coincide with the third enlarged edition of his
Essai sur l’Emploi du Tems, a method of life and time
management for the nobility, based on the educational
principles of Locke and Bacon, and foreshadowing
modern business management schemes.
OCLC lists one copy at Bloomington, In.
53. JUSTI, J.H. G. v. Die Natur und das
Wesen der Staaten, als die Grundwissenschaft
der Staatskunst. Berlin, Stettin and Leipzig,
Rüdigers, 1760. $4,500
8vo, pp. xiv, 488, [32] index; contemporary full
sheep, gilt-lettered spine label.
First edition of Justi’s most explicit treatise on
political philosophy, the ethical foundation of the
modern Welfare State.
Higgs 2415; Masui p. 916; Menger, c. 51.
54. JUVENILE. Les Quatre Elémens. L’air;
L’eau; Le feu; La terre. [Paris, Maulde and
Renou], ca. 1830. $750
Four volumes, 12mo (82 x 52mm); each pp. 24
with two hand-coloured steel-engraved plates;
embossed in gold ‘cartonages de papier’ in pink,
pale blue, pale green and white; a fine set.
A charming set of children’s miniature books with
instructive text on the four elements, each with two
hand-coloured plates.
Gumuchian 4662–5.
55. LAMESLE, C. Épreuves Générales des
Caracteres. Paris, 1742. $7,000
Small 4to, ll. 81, title and 80 leaves of type
specimens; title and music specimens printed in
red and black; contemporary full panelled calf;
from the library of the well-known type historian
D.B. Updike.
First edition of Lamesle’s first type specimen, a
fine association copy of a splendid stock of types,
which is of particular interest as it represents various
periods, both dating back nearly two centuries and
contemporary.
Audin, 27; Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 417; Birrell & Garnett
35.
56. LAW – Trial. Collection of ‘mémoires’
and ‘consultations’ concerning the trial of
the guardians of Mademoiselle de Melun, the
Duc de Bethune and the ‘bourgeois’ Jean-
Etienne Dat, against the Marquis de Becelaer
concerning the inheritance and testament of
Mademoiselle de Risbourg. 1752. $4,800
Three volumes, 4to; contemporary red morocco,
gilt; in volume III the text is printed in folio and
has been folded and bound in crosswise; a fine set.
Complex and rare trial documents on questions of
changed wills and inheritance.
57. LE BLON, J.-C. L’Art d’imprimer
les Tableaux. Traité d’après les Ecrits, les
Opérations & les Instructions verbales. Paris,
Mercier, Nyon, & Lambert, 1756. $10,800
8vo, pp. xi, [1] blank; vi, [2], [xiii] – xxv, [26]–180,
with one hand-coloured sepia mezzotint and two
plates, bound without the final Privilege du Roy,
contemporary full calf, gilt.
Second edition of Le Blon’s landmark introduction
to the three colour process of printing mezzotints,
generally regarded as the foundation of modern
colour printing – and the first edition to include
practical information on the printing process.
Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 67; Franklin, p. 40; J.M. Friedman,
13.