Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

Buonarroti’s account of the principal concepts of the conspiracy of equals
was immediately translated into English and other European languages,
and became a handbook for nineteenth century socialist and communist
revolutionaries. The publication of these extracts even after Buonarroti’s
death attests to his continuing inXuence.
Very rare, KVK lists just the copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale; no copy in RLIN
or OCLC.
Buquoy’s Economic System
58 BUQUOY, Georg v. Auswahl des leichter Aufzufassenden
aus meinen philosophisch-wissenschaftlichen Schriften und kontemplativen
Dichtungen, für gebildete Leser und Leserinnen. Erstes
Bändchen, [–Drittes Bändchen] Prag, Enders, 1825–1827. £950
Three volumes, 8vo, pp. [vi], 177; [vi], 208; 259, [1] blank, [2]
contents; entirely uncut and mostly unopened in the original printed
buV wrappers, foremargin of title of volume I dust-soiled, else in very
Wne condition.
First and only edition of this collection of Buquoy’s shorter economical,
philosophical and literary works. He begins with an interesting autobiographical
sketch, outlining his scientiWc and ‘business’ career, which emphasises
his interest in the application of mathematics to all observations. Of
particular importance is the third volume, which includes his Staatswirthschaftliche
Betrachtungen, an extensive (pp. 200) essay on political economy,
discussing money and value, national consumption, prices, circulation of
money, the manufacturing industry and trade unions. He concludes with
an extensive discussion of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. The Wrst and
second volumes contain mostly his prose poems and literary eVorts.
The Austrian economist Buquoy (1781–1851) was a follower of Adam
Smith, and predecessor to Thünen and others in his use of calculus to establish
economic laws. He was also one of the Wrst German-speaking economists
to include a mathematical approach to economics.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Humpert; RLIN and OCLC list just one copy
at Syracuse University.
Burke on Aesthetics
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten
59 [BURKE, Edmund.] A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin
of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. With an introductory
Discourse concerning Taste, and several other Additions. Basil, J. J.
Tourneisen, 1792. £400
8vo, x, [vi], pp. 291; a few signature lightly browned and spotted;
contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine with double gilt rule,
gilt-lettered spine label; old repairs to upper joint; a good copy.
First Continental edition of Burke’s important contribution to aesthetics,
Wrst published in 1757. It was with this work, originally written when he
was only nineteen, but Wrst published some nine years later, that Burke
made his name. He attacked the rationalist notion that clarity is an essential
quality of great art. He maintained that, on the contrary, the imagination is
most aVected by what is only hinted at or suggested, and that obscurity, not
clarity, is the attribute of the most powerfully moving art.
ESTC t42265; Todd 5s; see Barber, J. J. Tourneisen of Basle, p. 199.
60 BUSBY, Thomas. Costume of the Lower Orders of the
Metropolis, [n.p., n.d.], ca 1820. £750
8vo, (134x83mm) ll. 24, with twenty-four colour engravings including
title; cut rather close, just touching two of the images; recent full red
morocco by Bayntun (Riviere), panelled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt; an
attractive copy.