Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Fifteen

To accommodate the increasing part played by science, technology, and
organization in warfare, the training course started to include scientific,
technical, and general subjects, and can thus be seen as precursor to the later
Ecole Polytechnique.
OCLC records two copies of the book edition (not in parts) at the Society of the
Cincinnati and the University of Chicago.
History of Italian Trade Fairs
62 MONTI, Gioacchino. Notizie storiche sull’Origine delle Fieri
dello Stato Ecclesiastico. Dell’utilità delle medesime, dei privilegi ad
esse accordati dai Sommi Pontefici, del giorno e durata della loro
celebrazione, a cui vanno unite tutte le nozioni generali di quelle
che sono stabilite in Italia, ed in Europa. Rome, Giuseppe Salviucci,
1828. £400
8vo, steel engraved portrait frontispiece portrait by Tosetti, pp. [iv],
91, [1] imprint, [4] blank; occasional light spotting; contemporary
calf-backed marbled boards, flat spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label;
from the library of Sacchetti, with bookplate to front pastedown; an attractive
copy.
First edition of this interesting study of the emergence of trade fairs in the
Papal States and other countries. Of particular interest is the comparative
analysis of the effect these trade fairs had on economic and technological
development. After a brief historical section, describing the fairs of Frankfurt
and other European countries, Monti deals in more detail with the
fairs held in Ascoli, Cesena, Faenza, Fermo, Lugo, Ravenna, Senigallia, and
Viterbo. In each case the date of the first fair is given, together with some
historical information on the town, followed by details of length and frequency
and special emphasis of the fair. Some of the earlier fairs described
deal with agricultural products etc. rather than industrial exhibits.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 25739A.4; Einaudi, 4002; not in Mattioli.
The Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française
63 MORELLET, André. Observations sur un ouvrage anonyme,
intitulé: Remarques morales, philosophiques et grammaticales sur le
Dictionnaire de l’Academie Française. Paris, l’Institution des Sourds-
Muets, 1807. £200
8vo, pp. [iv], 79; recent buff wrappers.
First and only edition of Morellet’s spirited and detailed response to Feydel’s
criticism of the new edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française.
The fifth edition had been practically ready for the press when the Revolution
broke out and the Académie was suppressed. The manuscripts were
preserved, thanks largely to Morellet and publication was eventually un-
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