Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

to a publication of state budgets and accounts, a reform of the tax system,
and the encouragement of trade and industry.
Salsotto, Opere di Carlo Botta, n. 6; DBI XIII, p. 365.
Can Animals Speak?
51 BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe de. Amusement
Philosophique sur le Langage des Bestes... Paris, Gissey, Bordelet,
Ganeau, 1739.
[bound after:] [MACY, L’abbe.] Traite de l’Ame des Betes Avec des
RéXexions physiques et morales. Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1737.
[bound with:] Lettre de Boujeant ... a Monsieur l’Abbe Savalette,
[colophon], Paris, Merigot, 1739.
[bound with:] [AUBERT de la Chesnaye des Bois.] Lettre a Madame
La Comtesse D*** pour servir de Supplément à l’amusement
philosophqiues... n.p., 1739.
[bound with:] [BOUGEANT, Guillaume-Hyacinthe de.] ReXexions
sur l’Ame des Bestes, en forme d’Amusemens Philosophiques, n.p.,
1740. £350
Five works bound in one volume; 12mo, pp. [iv], 157, [5]; [iv], 257,
11; 4; 46; [xii], 108; contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine gilt in
compartments, with gilt-lettered spine label, corners and head of spine a
little worn, else a very good copy.
First edition. A very interesting Sammelband centred around Bougeant’s
provocative philosophical conceit written in response to Cartesian doctrine
of the ‘animal-machine’, his satirical study of the language of animals.
Bougeant proposed a parallel between animal sensibility and human folly.
He concluded that the only solution, which would not threaten religion,
was to grant souls to animals, but to consider these souls of demons or
fallen angels inhabiting animal bodies as a punishment. This position
allowed him to concede reason and true language to beasts. This publication
caused widespread discussion, was translated into English and German,
and brought him stern disciplinary measures from the church
authorities.
I. Barbier I, 156; Cioranescu 13210, Sommervogel I, 1879; II. Barbier IV, 745;
III. Cioranescu 13211; IV. Cioranescu 13231.
Warning Against Anglomania
52 [BOURDON, Louis Gabriel.] Le Patriote, ou Préservatif
contre l’Anglomanie. Dialogue en Vers, suivi de quelques Notes, sur
les Brochures qui ont été publiées au sujet des États-Généraux.
Londres, Paris, Froullé, 1789. £280
8vo, pp. [iii]–xii, [13]–55, [1]; bound without the half title; uncut,
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stitched as issued in glazed paper wrappers, with later hand-lettered title
label.
First edition of Bourdon’s outspoken criticism of French Anglomania, and
especially the tendency to slavish imitation of the English legislative system
in contemporary political debate. In his verse dialogue with Lady Truebriton,
and especially the following notes the author expresses more whole-hearted
support for the American constitution, and maintains that this is an example
worth following, rather than the outdated English system. An important part
of the pamphlet is reserved for a strident criticism of English foreign policy,
with the intention of defending the young American republic.
Cioranescu 13526; ESTC t98809.
A Bibliophile Collection
53 [BOZE, Claude Gros de.] Catalogue des Livres du Cabinet de
M. De Boze. Paris, G. Martin, 1753. £350
8vo, pp. [ii], x, 552, with pp. 2 in manuscript bound after the titles;
prelims misbound; contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt lettered spine label; some discreet restorations to
foot of spine; manuscript annotations and estimates in the margins.
The auction catalogue of the famous library formed by the renowned academician
and historian Claude Gros de Boze (1680–1753). The Boze collection
was particularly important as it marked the turning point from the old
specialised scientiWc library to a modern bibliophile collection. This transition
is also noticeable in the annotations to some of the rarer titles. The
collection was particularly strong in block books and incunabula.
The auction never took place. After publication of the catalogue (2773
lots), two collectors – Boutin and Cotte – purchased the whole library for
the sum of 83,000. They retained some of the books for their own collections
and sold a number of precious incunables to Gaignat. The remainder
was handed to Gabriel Martin to sell by auction the following year. The
catalogue, which Archer Taylor considered to be one of Gabriel Martin’s
best productions, gives an interesting insight into eighteenth-century bookcollecting.
Blogie I 6; Brunet I, 1642; Guigard II, pp. 88–90; Krieg, Bibliotheca Bibliographica
263; Peignot, p. 83; Taylor, Book Catalogues, p. 233.