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egarding book imports and distribution. The second part gives details of printers and
booksellers, names and addresses of engravers, followed by those of music printers.
Even though the directory is by no means comprehensive as regards names of printers
and publishers outside of France, it gives an invaluable indication to the principal names
in the trade in Europe.
The final sections deal with recent modifications of the general laws governing
publishing and printing, especially those concerning workers' regulations and guild rules.
The Almanach was first published in 1777, and later editions followed in 1781 and 1784,
when new regulations made another edition necessary.
Grand-Carteret 586; see G. Barber, Pendred Abroad, in Studies in the Book Trade, in Honour of Graham
Pollard, 1975.
59.
PETTY, William. Several Essays in Political Arithmetick … Fourth Edition, Corrected.
To which are prefix'd, Memoirs of the Author's Life. London, D. Browne, et al, 1755.
$1100
8vo, pp. [iv], vi, 184; with the final advertisement leaf removed; numerous tables in the text;
nineteenth century portrait inserted after prelims, contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards,
extremities quite rubbed, joints worn, but cords holding; with the armorial book plate of the
Forbes-Leith family of Whitehaugh to front free endpaper.
Collected edition of Petty's statistical publications, here issued for the first time together
with the biographical essay. First published in 1699 the collection contains his famous
Political Arithmetick, together with essays on the population of London, Dublin, Paris
and Rome, with observations on social conditions and population development. 'Instead
of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have
taken the course... to express my self in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use
only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations
in Nature'. Petty's main achievement was the application of the new quantitative method
to political science. This involves a systematic search for the main characteristics of
human society - a fact well expressed by Petty's favourite term for the object of his
enquiries: 'political anatomy'.
Goldsmiths'-Kress 8998; Roll, A History of Economic Thought, pp. 100-1; see Keynes 48.
Scuffles on the Ponte di Mezzo in Pisa
60.
[PISA.] Prospetto della Festa del gioco del Ponte che si eseguisce in Pisa II di XII di
maggio del Corrente Anno 1785. Con veduta in Rame iniata del medesimo, ed
accresciuta di diverse circostanze formenti il complosso della suddetta Festa. Per comodo
ed intelligenza de' Signori Forestieri. Florence, Giuseppe Tosani, 1785.
$900
4to, folding engraved plate, pp. 12; loosely preserved in marbled wrappers.