Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten

Oblong 4to, pp. [58] including engraved frontispiece and title page
printed in red and black, 140, 24; all text printed within a black border,
partly printed in red and black, numerous tables and Wgures and thirteen
engraved printers’ portraits in the text; G4 music type face engraved;
bound without the unsigned leaf of correction marks sometimes inserted
between signature F and G; very clean; bound in contemporary full
vellum; spine lettered in manuscript; vellum a little creased; but in all a
very attractive copy, with early ownership inscription to front paste-down.
First edition, rare, of this classic German printers’ manual. The charming
engraved frontispiece shows the interior of the print shop, with two presses
and nine people actively involved in type-setting, inking, proof-reading,
and printing. The main text contains a complete practical treatise of the art
of printing, many diVerent specimens of type are introduced (including
forty-seven black letter types, twenty-one Roman, fourteen Italic forms) in
addition to many Slavic, Greek and Hebrew founts, music founts, and special
symbols for astrological and calendar signs. A variety of diVerent type
case arrangements are shown.
Boghardt, Typographische Lehrbücher, 14; Bigmore & Wyman, I, 205 (second edition
of 1733); Ornamentstich Katalog Berlin, 5340; Gaskell, P. et al, G6.
Of Laws and Lords
110 [ERTEL, Anton Wilhelm.] Neu-eröVnete Schau-Bühne von
dem Fürsten-Recht. Nürnberg, Peter Paul Bleuls, 1702.
[bound with:] Des heiligen Römischen Reichs ohnmittelbahrer
Freyer Ritterschaft der Sechs Ort in Francken, erneuerte, vermehrte
und conWrmierte Ordnungen, samt deroselben von denen
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten
Römischen Kaysern und Königen allerhöchst-löblichster Gedächtniis
erlangten, renovirten und ConWrmirten Privilegien und
Befreyeungs-BrieVen auch Kayserlichen Rescription. 1696. £650
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. [viii] including engraved
frontispiece & title in red and black, [xvi], 394; [iv] including engraved
frontispiece, 169, [4], 22 [Anhang]; second work with some spotting
and browning, else very clean and crisp; contemporary full vellum.
An interesting volume combining a theoretical treatise on feudal law with
its practical application in the law as applied to the Ritterschaft of Franconia.
I. First edition, uncommon, of this compendium of the law as applied to
kings and rulers, by Anton Wilhelm Ertel, a proliWc writer on matters of
taxation and the law. Ertel discusses all aspects of good practice as relating
to king and ruler under the ‘contract’ provided by the feudal system. In one
hundred chapters or ‘exercises’, individual questions are discussed and resolved
citing all relevant legislation. Questions include procedural problems,
international law, Wnancial questions, and civil law.
II. Second edition, Wrst published in 1694 of the privileges of the Franconian
knighthood. The statutes begin with the basic rules of conduct, including
some interesting information on the relationship between the knight and
his servants. A number of special privileges granted within the seventeenth
century are reprinted, including a number regulating Wefdoms and land. A
special privilege regulates the life and business of the local Jewish population.
Humpert 7436; Jöcher II, 390; uncommon, I. NUC and RLIN list Harvard Law;
II. Harvard Law Library lists later edition of 1870 only.
The Future of Europe – as Predicted by Nostrodamus et al
111 [EUROPE.] Die Wohlfarth von Europa in einem
bedenklichen Zustand betrachtet. Cöln, 1758.
[bound with:] Europäischer Staats-Wahrsager, oder wundersame
Propheceyungen von dem jetzigen Zustand der moisten und
vornehmsten Europäischen Staaten, in sich haltend des Irländischen
Ertz-BischoVs Malachia, des Französischen Astrologi Nostradami,
Bruder Herman von Lehnin, des Mönchs Sebalds und vieler anderer
rare und sonderbare Weissagungen ... FünVte, mit vielen Zusätzen
und Anmerkungen versehene AuXage. Bremen, in der
Saurmannischen Buchhandlung, 1758. £480
Two works in one volume, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xiv, 288;
[viii], 402, [4]; engraved head and tail-pieces; paper occasionally lightly
browned, but in all clean; contemporary paste-paper covered boards,
spine label lettered in manuscript, extremities chipped and corners a
little worn; a sound copy from the Seckendorf library with armorial
book plate to front paste-down.
I. First edition, very rare, of this political polemic against the union of