Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Fifteen

spine; early illegible ownership inscription to front free endpaper and
title page.
Second edition (?) of Santucci’s riddling sonnets, which first appeared in
1689 and were reprinted numerous times until the middle of the eighteenth
century. Caton l’Uticense Luchese is the pseudonym of Leone Santucci
(1636–1724), a priest from Lucca keen to preserve his anonymity. In this
second or third edition the solutions to the riddles are also given in an additional
final section with a separate title page. Different from some of his
contemporaries Santucci’s riddles concentrated on literary allusion rather
than double entendre. They were mostly meant as literary exercises rather
than for public consumption, and in subject matter cover the both the
learned and the popular, ranging from ‘books’ to ‘fungus’.
This is apparently the second edition. The first was published with a date
in 1689, the third and fourth editions are apparently thus identified on the
title, but also published without a date.
Melzi I, 188; see Giuseppe Aldo Rossi, Enigmistica, il Gioco agli Enigmi del albero
ai giorni nostri; 2001, pp. 113 ff. and Mark Bryant, Dictionary of Riddles, 1988, p.
50.
Comprehensive Introduction to Papermaking
77 SEEBASS, Christian Ludwig. Die Papiermacher- Kunst in
ihrem ganzen Umfang; aus dem französischen Original des Herrn
Desmarest, Oberaufseher über die Manufakturen; bearbeitet und
mit einigen Zusätzen, und einem Anhang über die neuesten dahin
gehörigen Erfindungen und Verbesserungen versehen. Mit 16
Kupfern. Leipzig, Baumgärtner, [1803.] £2,500
4to, pp. iv, 191 [1] blank, with 16 engraved throw-out plates on 15
sheets (two of the plates folding); slight foxing to title, else clean and
just very lightly browned, due to paper stock; tear to gutter margin
of B1; contemporary half sheep over dark marbled boards, flat spine
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; short split to lower joint, but
strong; extremities a little rubbed and endpapers browned; a good copy.
First edition of this German translation of the classic work on papermaking
by Desmarest, published in 1788 in the Encyclopédie méthodique (volume V,
463–592). Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815) was a member of the Academy
of Sciences and inspector general of manufactures in France. In the
1760s he had been sent to Holland to investigate methods of papermaking
employed there to improve the French paper industry. His first report was
published in 1774, to be revised and expanded in the 1788 edition.
Seebass gives a comprehensive account of all aspects of papermaking,
beginning with a brief history of papermaking, including Chinese and Japanese
developments. He then describes the process of papermaking from the
collection and sorting of rags to beating and the preparation of pulp, the
work of the vatman, to drying and pressing of the paper. Various further
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