Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

Pensions for Civil Servants’ Widows
64 CAMERLOHER, Anton Ritter von. Ueber Versorgungsanstalten
für Staatsdiener-Witwen und Waisen... Mit fünf Tafeln.
Landshut, Joseph Thomann, 1825. £480
8vo, pp. 23, [1] blank, 5 tables on two folding sheets; contemporary
paste-paper wrappers.
First edition of this speciWc widows’ and orphans’ insurance for civil servants.
Because of their special position and function within the state, their
pension and life insurance schemes had to be adapted from the general
schemes. A further complication is caused by the strict hierarchy of civil
servants which even in death was not to be resolved. Therefore a rather
more complicated widows’ and orphans’ pension had to be developed. For
reasons of justice Camerloher also gives separate rates for those who are
married and those who are not, and those with children or childless. Extensive
calculations show the variations that ensue.
Not in Biblioteca Mansutti; KVK list just one copy at the Bavarian State Library;
not found in NUC, OCLC or RLIN.
Water Rights
65 CAPPEAU, Louis Jean Joseph Pierre. De la Compagnie des
Alpines d’Istres et Entressens, ou Recueil Raisonné des titres et
documents de cette Compagnie en particulier, et des
Concessionnaires des Eaux des Alpines en general. Aix, Tavernier,
1817. £650
Large 8vo, pp. xii, 364, [24] contents; p. 73 with paper fault to margin,
no loss; contemporary full calf, spine gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label,
chipped; sides with decorative border, and ‘Compagnie des Alpines’
stamped in gilt to sides; corners worn; but a nice copy.
First and only edition of this report on the history of the Compagnie des
Alpines d’Istres in the south of France, formed to build and subsequently
exploit the irrigation canal to make the land surrounding Istres suitable for
agriculture. The Compagnie had been formed twenty-four years earlier, and
this report is written by one of its founder members.
In the Wrst half Cappeau gives a clear outline of the history of the company,
the construction, Wnance and administration of the canals, with details
of the accounts and shareholders. Clear provisions are made for the
distribution of water amongst the diVerent shareholders, damage limitation
in case of accidents etc. In the second half Cappeau gives a detailed account
of the Wnancial situation, and usage rights – be it just for irrigation or to
power mills.
Rare, not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Harvard lists a
microWlm copy, no further copies listed in RLIN or OCLC.
Colour Printing
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten
66 [CARACCIOLI, Louis Antoine.] Le Livre à la Mode. A
Verte-Feuille, De l’Imprimerie du Printemps, au Perroquet, L’Année
Nouvelle. [Paris, Duchesne, 1759].
[bound with:] Le Livre de quatre couleurs. Ridendo, dicere verum
quid vetat? Aux Quatre-Éléments, De l’Imprimerie des Quatre-
Saisons 4444. [Paris, Duchesne, 1757]. £750
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. xx, 79, [1] blank, printed entirely
in green; pp. [iv], xxiv, 114; engraved title vignette (printed in black),
showing a cherub and female Wgure with winged mirror, title printed in
yellow, blue, brown and red; signature A–B, and I–L printed in yellow,
C–D in blue, E–F in brown; contemporary full sheep, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; an attractive copy.
A tour de force of colour printing. Caraccioli’s satire on the Wckleness of
eighteenth century fashion, printed entirely in green, followed by his colourful
satire on society and contemporary manners, printed in four colours
to indicate the variety of human nature. Appropriately the false imprints
also elaborate on the colour theme, claiming to have been printed at Verte-
Feuille in the springtime printworks, and the Four Seasons printworks respectively.
Caraccioli (1721–1803) a proliWc writer and member of the
Parisian society, managed to survive the French Revolution, despite close
ties to the aristocracy. His writings are of particular interest for the study of
eighteenth century manners and fashion.
The two works are bound together with an unfortunately incomplete
copy of the second issue of his Livre à la Mode, printed entirely in red.
I. Cioranescu 15474; II. Cioranescu 15478 (date 1760); Brunet III, 1122–23
(date 1757); Peignot 1810; Rosenwald 2501.
Rousseau Criticized
67 [CARLI, Gian Rinaldo.] L’Uomo Libero ossia Ragionamento
sulla Libertà naturale e civile dell’Uomo. Edizione Seconda Veneta,
dopo la Seconda di Milano. Riscontrata, corretta, ed accresciuta sull’
Originale dell’Autore. Venezia, Giovanni Gatti, 1783. £550
8vo, pp. 191; uncut in roan-backed marbled boards, spine decorated
and lettered in gilt.
Second enlarged edition (Venice printing) of this almost forgotten work,
which was considered of exceptional importance to the Italian Enlightenment.
Carli, one of the main Wgures of the Italian Enlightenment, was together
with Verri and Beccaria the leading intellectual of the école de Milan.
In this stringent criticism of Rousseau’s Contrat Social he formulates his picture
of an anti-egalitarian society in strict opposition to Rousseau. ‘Men are
condemned by nature to a state of permanent inequality, physical, moral
and economic. It is not an accident that society is divided into two classes,