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the subject in the periodical Il CaVè. His concept of ideas or sentiments is
clearly based on seventeenth century sensationalist philosophy.
Beccaria had originally planned to publish this work with Aubert, the
publisher of his most famous work, Dei Delitti e delle Pene (1764), but eventually
settled for the Milanese publisher Galeazzi. The work was meant to
be in two parts, but the second part was not published until 1809.
Firpo II, p. 512; L’Illuminismo Italiano alla Fondazione Feltrinelli 43.
23 [BECCARIA, Cesare.] Traité des Délits et de Peines, Traduit
de l’Italien, d’après la troisième Edition, revue, corrigée et augmentée
par l’Auteur. Avec des Additions de l’Auteur, qui n’ont pas
encore paru en Italien. Nouvelle Édition. Philadelphie, 1766. £600
8vo, pp. xl, 239; typographic vignette to title page; title a little dustsoiled,
marginal stain to G1; contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt
in compartments, gilt-lettered spine label; an attractive copy.
First French edition (?), one of seven editions published in 1766 of ‘the
most inXuential book in the whole history of criminology’ (PMM 209). It
was in this French version, translated and edited by Morellet, that the book
became well-known. ‘Beccaria maintained that the gravity of the crime
should be measured by its injury to society and that the penalties should be
related to this’ (PMM).
There are at least seven diVerent issues of the Wrst French translation, all
published in 1766. Manuppella apparently reproduces the title page of this
edition, but does not describe it bibliographically.
See Manuppella, 209, reproduction of title page facing p. 82; see Cioranescu
47363 and Higgs 3962–5 (diVerent issue).
Penal Classic in Swedish
24 BECCARIA, Cesare. Afhandling om Brott och StraV.
Öfversåttning. Stockholm, Wennberg och Nordström, 1770. £750
8vo, engraved title, with title vignette of Justice, pp. [viii], 238, [2]
contents; some light spotting and foxing, due to paper stock;
contemporary half sheep over sprinkled boards, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, chipped; a good copy with early
private ownership inscription to title.
First edition in Swedish of ‘the most inXuential book in the whole history of
criminology’ (PMM), attesting to Beccaria’s Europe-wide appeal. The
translation was prepared by Johan Henrik Hochschild.
Beccaria’s Dei Delitti e delle Pene was Wrst published in 1764 and marked
the foundation of the modern penal system. Beccaria insisted that the gravity
of the crime should be measured by its impact on society, and that the
punishment should reXect this. He rejected capital punishment and advocated
improvements of prison conditions. Within a short time the work was
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translated into all major languages and became the catalyst for penal reforms
all over Europe.
Just the Harvard copy found in NUC, RLIN, or OCLC; not listed in Giulio
Beccaria’s bibliography.
Marriage Law
25 BECK, Johann Jodocus. Tractatus de eo quod justum est circa
conjugalis debiti praestationem. Von der Leistung der ehelichen
PXicht. Worinnen in specie von der bosshaVt- und halsstarrigen
Entziehung der ehelichen PXicht, und der daraus entstehenden
Ehescheidung, und noch andern besondern Würckungen, in
Ansehung derer Heyrath- und anderer eingebrachten Güter,
Succession, ErrungenschaVt, ... ausführlich gehandelt wird.
Franckfurth und Leipzig, Johann Georg Lochner, 1756. £500
4to, engraved frontispiece, pp. [viii], [ii] blank, 264, [20] index; title
printed in red and black; contemporary boards, spine lettered in
manuscript; spine chipped, and upper board with indentation; a very
clean and crisp copy.
Second edition (Wrst 1733) of this study of marriage law and duties and
their legal implications. Beck had already discussed the topic in his doctoral
dissertation in 1706 (published in 1721). He deals with questions of marriage
law and discusses in detail medical problems, which might justify the
refusal of sexual relations, ranging from venereal diseases to impotence and
other infections. Divorce, separation, bigamy, inheritance questions are all
discussed. Beck is particularly concerned with establishing what might provide
suYcient reason for separation, annulment of marriage or divorce, but
at the same time encourages reconciliation.
The Altdorf jurist and professor of law Beck (1684–1744) published extensively,
and his writings were in great demand amongst practitioners, as
they dealt chieXy with matters of frequent controversy in courts.
RLIN records copies of this edition at Harvard and Chicago, and Library of Congress
and Berkeley of 1733 edition.
The Thinking Process
26 BELGRADO, Jacobo. Della Rapidità delle Idee, Dissertazione
d’un Corrispondente dell’Accademie delle Scienze di Parigi,
Membro dell’Istituto di Bologna, e Socio di molte altre Accademie.
Modena, Giovanni Montanari, 1770. £450
8vo, pp. [viii], 106; attractive title page vignette, showing an
astronomer with a telescope, decorative initials and head and tail-pieces;
uncut in the original buV limp boards, some light ink staining to upper
boards; spine a little worn with some early restauration; holding Wrm;
internally clean and crisp.