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THE EARLIEST DICTIONARY DEVOTED TO BUSINESS ONLY120. WAGNER, Martin. Idea mercaturae. Darinnen was von der Kauff-LeuteCommercien, Credit und Glauben, Fallimenten oder Banckrotten, Wexeln unddessen Rechte, Protesten, Parêre, Rescontreën Kaufmans Messen,assecurationē, Buchhalten und bilanciren anzumercken und zubehalten, kürtziedoch eigentlich beschrieben wird. Bremen, Erhardt Berger, 1661].8vo, pp. 93, [1, blank]; small paper flaw to the foremarginof one leaf, leaf edges a little toned, but a crisp,clean copy in contemporary vellum-backed marbledpaper boards, ink title to the spine; a small, circularlabel with shelfmark to the upper board, with the label ofthe Fuerstlich Auerspergsche Fideicommisbibliothek zuLaybach to the front pastedown and the ownershipinscription of Wolfgang Engelbert von Auersberg, dated1663, to the title-page. £6250First edition, very rare, of the first dictionary solelyrelated to business.The dictionary was conceived as a guide for youngmerchants. Recognising the want of a practical guide,the author offers, in question-and-answer format,explanations of and advice about trade, commercial law,the goods market, the stock market, insurance, andbookkeeping.121. [WATTS, John]. The Musical Miscellany; being a Collection of choice Songs[and lyrick Poems], set to the Violin and Flute [or With the Basses to each Tune,and transpos’d for the Flute], by the most eminent Masters. London, Printed byand for John Watts, 1729 [–1731].Six vols, 8vo, each with an engraved frontispiece (two designs, repeated alternately),and woodcut head- and tailpieces; titlepages printed in red and black; wood-cutmusic throughout; a superb, fresh and large copy in pale calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf,top edge gilt, lower edge untrimmed. £3850First edition of an influentialcollection of over 450 songs andballads, published in the years ofthe brief flowering of English balladopera subsequent to The Beggar’sOpera (1728). For each song,Watts prints the melody (and fromvolume III on a bass continuo), thelyrics, and a flute or violin setting.The Musical Miscellany includes thefirst printing of two songsattributed to Handel: ‘DullBus’ness hence’ and ‘As on aSunshine Summer’s Day’, and, in