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30 [BERINGTON, Simon.] Memoires de Gaudence de Luques,<br />

Prisonnier de l’Inquisition: Augmentés de plusieurs Cahiers qui<br />

avoient été perdus à la Douane de Marseille: Enrichis des savantes<br />

Remarques de Mr. Rhedi. Premiere Partie [–Quatrieme Partie].<br />

Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkst & Merkus, 1754. £500<br />

Four parts in two volumes; 12mo, engraved frontispiece to all four<br />

volumes, pp. [iv], lxiv, 98; [iv], 154; [iv], 148; [iv], 166, [1] errata;<br />

titles printed in red an black, with title vignettes and typographic head<br />

and tail-pieces; paper occasionally lightly browned; contemporary full<br />

mottled calf, boards with triple gilt Wllet, Xat spines decorated in gilt,<br />

with matching gilt-lettered label and lettering piece; an attractive set.<br />

Second French translation of Berington’s utopia, the Memoires of Sigr.<br />

Gaudentio di Lucca, Wrst published in 1737. With this translation by Dupuy<br />

Demportes, which was Wrst published the previous year, Berington’s adventure-utopia<br />

became a Europe-wide bestseller, and in addition to numerous<br />

further French editions, two separate German translations appeared.<br />

The utopia is based on the confessions of the main protagonist Gaudence<br />

before the Inquisition, where he tells of his adventures and travels in the<br />

land of the Mezzoranies. The inhabitants of this utopian land, connected<br />

with just one road to the outside world, lived happily, in equality, without<br />

restricting laws, and well-provided for with store-houses and abundant supplies.<br />

Gove, p. 297; Hartig 40; Negley 93; see Lee M Ellison, Gaudentio di Lucca, a forgotten<br />

utopia, 1935.<br />

31 BETTINELLI, Saverio. Dell Entusiasmo delle Belle Arti.<br />

Milano, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1769. £650<br />

8vo, pp. xvi, 416; woodcut vignette to title; uncut in the original limp<br />

boards; spine lettered in manuscript; some show-through to endpapers;<br />

a Wne copy.<br />

susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten<br />

First edition of Bettinelli’s inXuential treatise on aesthetics and cultural politics.<br />

Saverio Bettinelli (1718–1808), a Mantuan Jesuit, stresses the power<br />

of ‘nature’ and ‘feeling’ in literature, and calls for a reform of the Italian<br />

poetic tradition. With this work he appeared to be at the forefront of enlightenment<br />

thinking, although his later works proposed closer allegiance<br />

to modern classicism in the Jesuit tradition.<br />

Melzi I, 357; uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy at Columbia University.<br />

Poem in Praise of Tuscan Economic Reforms<br />

32 BETTINELLI, Saverio. Sciolti sopra il libro intitolato<br />

Governo della Toscana sotto il Regno di sua Maestà il Re Leopoldo<br />

Secondo. Firenze, Gaet. Cambiagi, 1791. £450<br />

4to, pp. xvi; contemporary limp boards, with faint presentation<br />

inscription in ink by the author to foot of title page.<br />

First and only edition, very rare, of Bettinelli’s blank verse appraisal of<br />

Leopold II, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and of Gianni’s Wnancial account<br />

of the economic reforms carried out under his reign, before he became<br />

Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1790. Leopold II was one of<br />

the most capable and remarkable of the reforming princes of the eighteenth<br />

century, and Bettinelli charts the diVerent areas of his reform, be they administration,<br />

the legal system, or public accounting.<br />

DBI IX, 738–744; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, no copy found in RLIN or OCLC.<br />

Farming for Ladies<br />

33 BEYER, Moritz. Landwirthschaft für Frauen. Der<br />

GeXügelhof, die Schweizerei, das Milchwesen und die Zucht und<br />

Benutzung der Schweine. Nach dem Englischen für Deutschland<br />

bearbeitet von Moritz Beyer. Leipzig und Pesth, Verlags-Magazin,<br />

1845. £150<br />

8vo, pp. xviii, 374, numerous wood engravings in the text, some light<br />

spotting and foxing; mid-nineteenth century boards, original pictorial<br />

printed upper wrapper bound in; a good copy with unsigned<br />

calligraphic presentation inscription on front free endpaper.<br />

First edition in German of this introduction to agriculture for women.<br />

Based on John French Burke’s Farming for Ladies: a guide to the poultry<br />

yard, the dairy and piggery by the author of British Husbandry, this treatise<br />

is translated and adapted to the German situation by Moritz Beyer, who is<br />

best known for his guidebooks for emigrants to America.<br />

Not in NUC or RLIN, no copy in Kress or Goldsmiths’; for Burke’s British Husbandry,<br />

see Goldsmiths’–Kress 28471.

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