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colouring.The one-hundred and four full page illustrations show different professions at
work, in their traditional outfits and in their workplace surroundings. Löhr covers a vast
range of professions, beginning with the familiar such as baker, pharmacist, butcher etc,
to carpenter, builder, wood-turner, to very specific glazer, tanner, cartwright, vintner,
printer, type-caster and paper-maker, enameller, tobacco manufacturer to mention but a
few. In each case the illustration accompanies a brief description of the profession,
outlining their specialities, training and products.
Löhr (1764-1823) was the author of popular children's books, and has been praised for
the factual and unsentimental presentation of his material.
Heinsius, VI, 516; Lexikon der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur II, 391; not in Wegehaupt, Rümann or
Düsterdieck; not in Kress or Goldsmiths'; very rare, not found in RLIN or OCLC.
Italian Card Game
52.
MANTOANO, Domenico. Il Tresette in Disciplina o siano alcune regole da osservarsi
nel nobilissimo gioco di Tre-sette. Estes. Venezia ca. 1710. $1100
12mo, pp. 24; later paper boards.
Early edition of these comprehensive rules for the popular Italian card game tresette. The
game, similar to poker is played by four players, with a deck of forty cards.
All individual descriptions of the game are apparently rare, a later edition was published
in 1715, (Weimar only).
See Lensi 95 for another undated edition.
The Foundation of Communist Russia
53.
MARX, Karl. [Kapital, Kritika Poleticeskoj Ekonomii]. [Translated by Lopatine and
Danielson]. Volume one, St. Petersburg, Poliakof, 1872. $15000
Tall 8vo, pp. xiii, [ii], 678; bound without the half title, faint circular ink stains to title, with showthrough
to dedication and first signature; title page a little creased and reinforced in gutter; loss of a
few letters to verso of last leaf, presumably caused by careless removal of original wrappers;
nineteenth century green cloth, recased, extremities a little rubbed; a good copy.
First edition in Russian of Marx's Kapital, in fact the first translation to be published at
all. Its publication led Marx to remark: 'our success is still greater in Russia, where Kapital
is read and appreciated more than anywhere else' (PMM 359).
The publication of the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital was the result of a quarter
of a century of economic studies, mostly carried out in the Reading Room of the British
Museum. His biting critique of the capitalist system had developed from his previous
publication Zur Kritik der politischen Okonomie, 1859. Das Kapital contained it all,
from the theories of value and surplus value, through the dictatorship of the proletariat
to the neo-Hegelian dialectic of materialism, the major Marxist contribution to the