Catalogue Number 12 - Susanne Schulz-Falster

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Catalogue Twelve

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ABC Book – Entirely Engraved
1 [ABC Book]. Neu erfundener Lust-Weg zu allerley schönen
Künsten und WissenschaVten, welcher bestehet in einer besondern
ErWndung, wie die zarte Jugend durch BeyhilVe gewisser darzu
bequemen Bildern, ganz spielend den ersten Hauptgrund des ABC
und Buchstabierens erlernen, und selbige dardurch fast ohne
Lehrmeister in gar kurtzer Zeit zum völligen Teutsch- und
Lateinischen lesen und schreiben perfectioniert werden können.
Wegen verhoVenden sonderbaren Nutzens der Jugend vorgestellet.
Nürnberg, Johann Christoph Weigel o. J. (ca. 1710). £4800
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [ii] engraved frontispiece and title,
8 (printed text), 33 unnumbered engraved plates (Neues ABC Buch);
37 numbered plates including engraved title (Deß neuen Buchstabierbuchs
erster Theil); 28 numbered engraved plates including title (Deß
neuen Buchstabierbuchs andrer Theil); all engraved plates pasted back to
back for strength; only occasionally lightly dust-soiled, in all very clean
and crisp; contemporary full mottled calf , spine in compartments with
raised bands, decorated in gilt, discreet repairs to joints, corners and
head and tail of spine; a good copy.
Second much enlarged and redesigned edition, of this entirely engraved ABC
book, designed for children aged four and over, to teach reading and writing
phonetically. In the Wrst part the alphabet is introduced, each letter illustrated
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with a suitable Wnely engraved Wgure depicting one or two children faced with
an object beginning with the correct letter, followed by un-illustrated engravings
of just the letter form. In the text didactic advice is given on how to
introduce the alphabet. The second part consists of thirty-six plates, each with
six images, showing one-syllable words with an accompanying image, and
each word both in German, Latin, and German calligraphic script; the Wnal
part contains twenty-seven engraved plates, again with six images each of two
and three syllable words. It is advised to proceed to this Wnal part only if and
when the initial two parts are fully mastered (Welcher mit den Kindern nit eher
angefangen solle werden, als biß sie den ersten Theil sechs-mahl durch gebracht, und
alle Wort in dem selben recht buchstabieren können).
The Wrst edition had been published in 1681 by Endter also in Nürnberg,
with a second edition by Weigel following in 1700. Whereas the Wrst Weigel
edition is closely based on the original, in this second Weigel edition all the
plates and engraved titles have been re-designed and re-engraved, only the
text which accompanies the plates remaining the same. This can be ascertained
when comparing the copy in the Bavarian state library (VD17
12:130575E) and the facsimile reprint of the edition of 1700 (Bibliophile
Taschenbücher, Harenberg).
See Wegehaupt III, 2580 (51 ll. with diVerent date), and Rammensee 958;
Rümann, Kinderbuch 238; Hauswedell 28, for other editions; Gumuchian 172;
Brüggemann/Brunken HBKJL 1570 bis 1750 Nr. 569 (Wrst edition von 1681).
Teistler 87.1; all editions are very rare, RLIN/OCLC locate just two copies of the
1700 edition at the University of Indiana and Linköping University.
Trades and Professions Illustrated
2 ABRAHAM A SANTA CLARA. [Megerle, Ulrich.] Etwas für
alle, Das ist eine kurtze Beschreibung allerley Stands- Ambts- und
Gewerbs-Personen, mit beygedruckter Sittlichen Lehre und
Biblischen Concepten. Durch welche der Fromme mit gebührendem
Lob hervor gestrichen, der TadelhaVte aber mit einer mässsigen
Ermahnung nicht verschonet wird; Allen und Jeden heilsam und
leitsam, auch so gar nicht ohndienlich denen Predigern verfertiget...
Verlegt und mit Kupfern vermengt durch Christoph Weigeln in
Nürnberg... Würzburg, gedruckt bey Hiob Hertzen, [volume II and
III: Martin Frantz Hertz], 1711, 1711, 1737. £6000
Three volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 532, [12]
contents, with 100 engraved plates; engraved frontispiece, pp. [xii],
793, [39] contents, with 77 numbered plates; engraved frontispiece,
pp. [xiv], 886, [ii], 887–974, [30] with 103 engraved plates; in all 280
engraved plates; all titles printed in red and black; occasional very light
browning, due to paper quality; some of the plates in weak impressions,
but predominantly Wne; contemporary full sheep, spines in
compartments, with raised bands, elaborately decorated in gilt,
matching lettering and numbering pieces; a very attractive set.
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First edition of volume II, second edition of volumes I and III, of the most
famous German book of professions, trades and artisans, with nearly three
hundred engraved plates showing diVerent professions at work, in their traditional
costume and surrounded by their tools or equipment. The plates
are by Weigel after designs by Jan and Caspar Luiken.
The volumes are a fascinating source of information both on the costumes
of representatives of diVerent trades, but also their equipment and
workshop surroundings. Many of the scenes were drawn from life by
Luiken, and thus preserve a lifelike immediacy. Professions include printer,
bookbinder, type caster, musical instrument maker, as well as carpenter,
bricklayer and builder. Professions like doctor, dentist and lawyer are also
included. The engraved plates are accompanied by extensive chapters in
prose, outlining the relationship of each craft to God and the divine world
plan. In addition to traditional professions and trades, Abraham a Santa
Clara also includes gamblers, acrobats and tobacco twisters.
Abraham a Santa Clara (1644–1709), an Augustinian friar and preacher,
was the author of numerous books of popular knowledge, presented with
wit and humour. They showed the inXuence of Sebastian Brant’s
NarrenschiV (Ship of Fools). More than a century later his fellow-Svabian
Schiller summed up his verdict in a letter to Goethe: ‘This Father Abraham
is a man of wonderful originality, whom we must respect, and it would be
an interesting, though not at all an easy task to approach or surpass him in
mad wit and cleverness’.
It is rare to Wnd all three volumes together, complete with all plates and in
a contemporary binding.
Bertsche 38a –5, 56 a–2, 57a–1; Dünnhaupt 146, 35 II.1 and 35.III.1; Faber du
Faur 1118–1120; Jantz 313, 314; RLIN/OCLC record copies at the University of
Chicago, Columbia, Berkeley (volume I only), Duke, the Library of Congress, the
University of Philadelphia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a Dutch version
was published later.

Venetian Business Legislation
3 ALBERTI, Lodovico. Quadro del Sistema di Commercio e
d’Industria vigente nelle Provincie Venete. Venezia, Francesco
Andreola, 1823. £800
Tall 8vo, pp. xxiv, 232; numerous tables in the text; faint dampstain to
gutter margin; uncut in the original printed wrappers, head of spine
strengthened.
First and only edition of this detailed overview of the organisation of
Venetian industry and commerce in the early nineteenth century after the
Napoleonic wars by the secretary of the Venetian Chamber of Commerce,
Alberti. He is clearly intent on outlining the legislation that governs trade
and commerce, both in general terms and in relation to individual rules and
regulations. His treatise is divided into four main sections: in the Wrst he
discusses the rights and obligations of those who are engaged in commerce
and manufacturing. He covers trade rules and regulations, freedom of
trade, and its exceptions. In the second part he describes the policing of the
city’s trade and manufacturing, in particular the running of the exchange
and stock market, the control of book-keeping and accounting, of mercantile
associations, maritime traYc, and taxes. The third part covers various
methods of improving Venetian business performance by industrial patents
and prizes, but also by attracting business into Venice with the help of the
free port there, and the organisation of industrial fairs and exhibitions. Indirect
methods of improving business performance include better road and
water communication.
In the Wnal part Alberti proposes and describes an intricate and exceedingly
bureaucratic system of business legislation, with detailed lists of duties
and responsibilities. Throughout he refers extensively to the legal framework,
the civil code and local regulations.
The work is of great interest as it contains detailed information on
Venetian artisans and the emerging manufacturing industry. Alberti is particularly
thorough in his depiction of traditional Venetian crafts, even giving
their terminology in Venetian dialect.
Not in Einaudi, not in Kress Italian.
Comparative Assessment of French Financial Policy
4 [ANON.] Le Publicole François, ou Memoire sur les Moyens
d’augmenter la Richesse du Prince, par l’aisance des Peuples. Paris,
Morin, 1776. £650
12mo, pp. engraved title, 272, [2]; very faint damp-staining to lower
corner of title; uncut and mostly unopened in the original buV
wrappers; very crisp and clean; a Wne copy.
First and apparently only edition of this interesting assessment of French
Wnancial policy. The anonymous author contrasts the economic ideas of
Sully, who some hundred years before the physiocrats stressed the impor-
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tance of agriculture over and above commerce, colonisation and money
markets, with those of Richelieu, who neglected commerce and trade in
favour of building up military strength, and those of Colbert, who eased
imports and increased consumption. In subsequent chapters he compares
France’s economic performance unfavourably with that of Holland and
England, before making detailed proposals for the revival of French agriculture,
industry and commerce. He identiWes numerous obstacles to an improvement
of French commerce, such as commercial insurance, restrictive
trading practices etc. His main emphasis is on the redevelopment of French
agriculture and industry, especially textile industry. He suggests a close assessment
of the relative productivity of the various branches of the textile
industry, for subsequent investment.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 11388; INED 6738.
Strategy and Tactics – a War Game
5 ARETIN, Wilhelm Freiherr von. Strategonon. Versuch die
Kriegsführung durch ein Spiel anschaulich darzustellen. Ansbach, in
Commission der Dolfußischen Buchhandlung, 1830. £1850
8vo, pp. xxxv, [i] blank, 145, [3] imprint, explanation of plates, errata,
with 4 printed tables bound in the text, and 4 large fold-out lithograph
plates bound at end, three of them hand-coloured; some light spotting;
contemporary thin buV boards, some discolouring to spine and some
staining to upper board; an attractive copy.
First edition, very rare, of a fascinating attempt at teaching military strategy
and tactics with the help of a game. The author gives a brief overview of

existing military games, and distinguishes them especially from the rules of
chess. This educational game, he maintains is particularly suitable for young
cadets, because it trains the mind, and enables young soldiers to visualise
troop movements, anticipate counter-attacks, and, moreover, keep a ‘cool
head’ in the face of adversity. Because of the intricate rules the game is also
suitable for more experienced soldiers. The game can be played on diVerent
levels, to allow for the relative experience of the players.
Detailed description of the terrain, the soldiers, troops and the equipment
follow, and instructions are given on how the playing surface should
be arranged. Most of it is illustrated on the very attractive hand-coloured
plates bound at the end. The movements of individual units are prescribed.
The rules of the game are supported by extensive quotations from military
textbooks. Allowances are made for the inXuence of the seasons, and the
variations in terrain. Special chapters deal with strategies for attacks, with
the supply of ammunition, general supplies and their transport. Casualties,
the rescue of wounded soldiers and even desertions are all included in the
game plan.
Overall a fascinating, if somewhat elaborate, game with intricate rules
giving military strategists a chance to trial run battle formations, attack scenarios,
and even orderly retreats. The coloured plates show Wgures and terrain
features to be cut out for use as markers and playing tokens. Napoleon
famously maintained that he could mathematically eliminate chance from a
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battle by carefully calculating every move and countermove beforehand; the
originator of this game clearly thought that with the help of Strategonon his
soldiers could do the same.
Very rare, just one copy listed in NUC (Cleveland Public Library), RLIN and
OCLC add two copies at the Dutch Minstery of Defense and Göttingen University
Library.
6 [AVOGADRO, Giuseppe, Conte di Casanova.] Expériences et
RéXéxions sur les Avantages que l’on peut se procurer par les
Ventilateurs Naturels. Par M. Le Chevalier de Casanova. Verceil,
Joseph Panialis, 1793. £250
Small 8vo, pp. 40; some light foxing; in contemporary marbled boards;
minor wear to head and tail of spine and extremities.
Rare Wrst French edition of this brief essay examining the use and potential
beneWts of the recently invented ‘ventilateurs naturels’, devised by Giuseppe
Avogadro, and here translated anonymously. The work Wrst appeared as
Saggio di alcuni sperimenti e di varie riXessioni sopra i vantaggi, che si possono
trarre dai naturali ventilatori, in 1791. The removal of fetid and noxious
fumes, especially located around sewers and latrines, is achieved by the introduction
of ‘un courant d’air atmosphérique qui chassât avec force l’air
fétide qui s’y trouvoit sans mouvement’ (p. 8). Experiments carried out at

‘l’Hospice de charité de Verceil, et ensuite dans l’Hôpital de la même Ville,
où l’on en éprouva les plus prompts et les plus salutaires eVets’ (p. 37).
Born in Vercelli in 1731, Avogadro went on to become Prime Minister
of the Department of Sesia, and was created a knight of the Legion
d’Onore. An agronomist, he wrote a number of works including, Avviso
sulla cultura ed irrigazione delle praterie; Metodo per coltivare il lino, secondo il
celebre Duhamel; Metodo facile e pratico per la costruzione di una volt’
(Dizionario BiograWco Universale, p. 239).
RLIN locates just one copy at the American Philosophical Society.
Bavarian Salt Mines Described
7 BARBÉ-MARBOIS, François de. Voyage d’un Français aux
Salines de Bavière et de Salzbourg en 1776. Paris, Baudouin,
Imprimeur des Sciences et Arts, An 5. [1797]. £350
8vo, pp. viii, 115; entirely uncut in the original pale blue wrappers, Wrst
and Wnal signatures printed on blue paper; a Wne copy with contemporary
ownership inscription by Edouard d’Eiguard (?) to title page.
First and only edition of this account of the Bavarian and Austrian salt
mines based on a visit and study in 1776, but not published until 1797.
Barbé-Marbois combines a description of Salzburg and Traunstein with a
brief history of the area and its population. This forms the backdrop to technical
data on salt extraction in the salt mines of Bavaria and Austria. He
makes some pertinent comments on mining procedures, comments on
working conditions, salaries and health issues in the salt mines.
The French diplomat François Barbé-Marbois (1745–1837) is perhaps
best known for negotiating the Louisiana Purchase as Minister of Finance
under Napoleon. But he began his long varied career, during which he had
shown a remarkable talent for adapting to changing political winds, as a
diplomat in Germany, where he made the original notes for the present
book. Afterward he served as a diplomat with the American colonists and
was intendant of Santo Domingo (1785–89). On his return to France, he
became a deputy in the Council of Ancients (1795–97), but was exiled
shortly afterwards as monarchist and only recalled in 1800. The publication
of this work clearly reXects his career: it was Wrst written during his time in
Germany, then published because of government interest while he was a
member of the Council of the Ancients, and, according to the prefatory
note, proofs were corrected while he was already on his way into exile in
French Guiana in 1797.
Uncommon, no copies recorded in RLIN or OCLC.
Barrême on Double-Entry Book-Keeping
8 BARRÊME, François Bertrand. Traité des Parties Doubles
ou Methode aisée pour apprendre à tenir en Parties Doubles les
Livres du Commerce & des Finances; avec un Traité de Finance...
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ce Livre peut estre utile aux Négocians, aux Banquiers, aux
Financiers, & même aux Magistrats. Paris, Jean-GeoVroy Nyon
Libraire, 1721. £1600
8vo, pp. [viii], 300, [2] approbation and privilege, woodcut vignette to
title and decorative head- and tail-pieces; paper occasionally lightly
browned; contemporary catspaw sheep, spine gilt in compartments,
gilt-lettered spine label; expert repairs to head and tail of spine; a very
good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of this very inXuential introduction to doubleentry
book-keeping, written by the important 17th century arithmetician
and director of a school of commerce in Paris, François Bertrand Barrême
(1640–1703). Barrême was so well-known for his ready-reckoners that his
name is even today immediately associated with arithmetic and accountancy.
This work was published posthumously by his son, together with
whom he ran an academy of commerce.
Barrême gives a thorough introduction to double-entry book-keeping
and introduces the memorial, journal, and grand livre. To this numerous
auxiliary books are added. Detailed examples clarify his suggestions. Numerous
features are unique to Barrême’s system, he introduces a bi-partite
division of ledger accounts into comptes generaux and comptes particuliers;
and devotes much attention to proWt and loss accounts, and the closing and
opening of accounts. Both features re-occur in later introductions to double-entry
book-keeping.

Though not as well known as his ready-reckoners, this introduction to
double-entry book-keeping proved highly inXuential, for example the two
of the Wrst three Portuguese books on book-keeping, Bonavie’s Mercador
exacto of 1758 and the anonymous Tratado (1764) borrowed heavily from
this work (see Yamey, Supplementary volume, Historical Accounting Literature
II, p. 10), as did Degrange in his La tenue des livres rendue facile, 1804.
Historical Accounting Literature, p. 158; Herwood, 592; Goldsmiths’–Kress
6054.6.
9 [BECCARIA.] HAUTEFORT, Ch. Aug. Observations sur un
Ouvrage traduit de l’Italien qui a pour titre Traité des Délits et des
Peines. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1767. £450
8vo, pp. [vi], 64; typographic title vignette; some light browning and
spotting throughout; recently bound in buV limp boards, dampstained
and a little dust-soiled.
Rare Wrst edition of an early commentary on Beccaria’s path-breaking work
on the administration of justice and legal reform Dei Delitti e delle Pene,
which had Wrst appeared anonymously in 1764, and in 1766 was translated
into French. Hautefort gives a close reading of Beccaria’s original work and
gives a running commentary to it. He takes issue with Beccaria’s premise,
but agrees with his plea for legal reform and the demand for the punishment
to Wt the crime.
Hautefort’s analysis was reprinted in de Plancy’s edition of Beccaria’s
work in 1822. This Wrst edition, however, is uncommon.
Uncommon, no copy listed in RLIN or OCLC.
10 [BECCARIA.] RINALDINI, A. v. Beccaria. Biographische
Skizze nach Cesare Cantù ‘Beccaria e il diritto penale’. Vienna,
Wilhelm Braumüller, 1865. £420
Small 8vo, pp. v, [i], 123, 1 imprint; elegantly bound in purple crushed
morocco, elaborate gilt decoration to sides, with name in gilt on upper
board, a.e.g.; a Wne copy.
First edition of a charmingly produced detailed biographical essay on
Cesare Beccaria. Although most of the factual information is apparently
taken from Cantù’s Beccaria e il diritto penale, the author, an Austrian state
oYcial, adds important bibliographical information, especially regarding
Beccaria’s inXuence of legal reform. He gives information on translations of
Dei Delitti e delle Pene into Russian and writes in detail about the discussions
on the death penalty with the Austrian administration of Austrian Lombardy.
Uncommon, RLIN/OCLC list copies at Harvard, Cambridge, Göttingen and
Waseda University only.
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11 [BELGRADO, Jacobo.] Della Proporzione tra i Talenti
dell’Uomo, e i lor Usi, Dissertazione d’un Corrispondente
dell’Accademie delle Scienze di Parigi, ... Padova, Stamperia
Gonzatti, 1773. £780
Tall 4to, pp. 118, [1]; title vignette, decorative initials and head- and
tail-pieces; entirely uncut in the original pale blue stiV wrappers,
rebacked; a Wne copy.
First edition of this dissertation on the relationship between talent or natural
aptitude and its use, both in individuals and in nations, by the scientist
Belgrado (1704–1789), who was a professor of mathematics and physics at
the university of Parma. Quoting from Locke, Rousseau, ‘sGravesande and
others, Belgrado examines the concept of ‘talents’ before concentrating on
the speed and fecundity of ideas.
Backer-Sommervogel I, c. 1147, no. 25; Melzi II, 381; DBI VII, p. 274; OCLC/
RLIN list copies at Stanford, Berkeley and Loyola University.
The Summa of Sixteenth-Century Political Philosophy
12 BODIN, Jean. De Republica Libri Sex, latine ab Autore
redditi, multo quam antea locupletiores. Cum Indice copiosissimo.
Lyon and Paris, Iacques DuPuys, 1586. £4000
Folio, pp. [viii], 779, [1] imprint, [60] index; large title device
depicting a fountain, woodcut vignette to verso of title, head- and tailpieces,
decorated initials throughout; occasional very light browning,
due to paper quality; attractively bound in the publisher’s blindstamped
vellum, with central decorative device to sides; spine lettered in
manuscript, spine chipped, ties lacking, discreet repairs to spine; a Wne
copy, with faint nineteenth century ownership inscription ‘Peragalla’ to
title; a Wne copy in its Wrst binding.
First authorised Latin edition, in the translation of Bodin himself, of the
summa of sixteenth-century political philosophy. A very attractive copy in
its original publisher’s binding of the Wrst modern attempt to create a complete
system of political science.
Bodin’s Republic is perhaps the most important work of its kind between
Aristotle and modern writers. Though his work is heavily based on Aristotle,
Bodin used the material to advantage, adding much from his own experience
and historical knowledge. Being a typical representative of his time,
he approved of absolute governments, but insisted they be controlled by
constitutional laws, in which respect he foreshadowed the development
during the seventeenth century of the idea of the ‘social contract’. Thus
Bodin was the Wrst to set out clearly the argument round which most political
discussion centred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the
theory of sovereignty. Bodin pronounced strong mercantilist views, and
approved of government interference in industrial matters, of high protective
taxes against foreign imports, and low duties on raw materials and

foodstuVs. Despite these restrictions, he did support freedom of trade, and
encouraged foreign trade in general. His disquisition on public revenues
entitles him to a distinguished position among the earlier economists. He is
generally credited with the discovery of the quantity theory of money, Wrst
published in his Reply to the Paradoxes of M. Malestoit and then incorporated
the Republic from this Latin edition onwards, though Schumpeter argues
that his is a correct description of the historical situation, rather than an
analytic statement of the theory (see p. 312).
The Six Books of the Republic were Wrst published in French in 1576, went
through many editions, and had an immense inXuence all over Europe.
When Bodin came to England in 1581 he found it widely read, though in a
poor Latin translation. Bodin decided to produce a translation himself, and
in doing so he altered and enlarged the text considerably. First published in
1586, this revised text was to become the standard.
Adams B2228; BM French Books, p. 72; Matsuda 327; Tchemerzine I, 713; see
PMM 94 and En Français dans le Text, 68 for Wrst French edition.
Children’s Guide to the Calendar
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13 BOECKEL, J. and A. L. BUCHON. Maître Pierre, ou le
Savant de Village. Entretiens sur le Calendrier. Paris & Strasbourg,
F. G. Levrault, 1833. £250
12mo, pp. vii, [I], 197, with six large folding plates (three of them
lithograph, three letterpress printed) with 12 Wgures; numerous tables
in the text; contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, spine
decoratively gilt, with gilt-lettering directly to spine; a good copy.
Second edition (Wrst 1832) of this introduction to the calendar, astronomy
and the solar system for children. Compiled as part of the loose series of
‘Maitre Pierre’ introductions to all Welds of knowledge. In the form of a
dialogue ‘Maître Pierre’ explores questions relating to the calendar and
time-keeping in general, with chapters on the solar system, stars, planets
and moons, the signs of the zodiac, movements of the sun and the moon,
eclipses etc. He also deals with common superstitions, weather prognosis
and the ecclesiastical calendar.
The work is illustrated with informative tables and lithographic plates.
The authors had earlier published an introduction to astronomy and were
apparently struck by the lack of basic knowledge of their readership.
14 [BOECKLER, Jo. Heinrich -SCHOETTEL, Jo. Carl. ]
De Mensura Pretii, in Inclyta Argentoratensi Academia, Praeside
Jo. Henrico Boeclero Historiarum Professore Ordinario. Iterum
publice respondebit Jo. Carolis Schoettel Argentoratensis. D. 5.
Februarii, horis locoque solitis. Argentorati, impressit Joannes
Pickel, 1662. £350
4to, pp. 16; paper lightly browned throughout; date inserted in ink on
title, manuscript number to upper corner of title; disbound.
First edition of an interesting doctoral dissertation on the mechanisms for
the determination of prices. Schoettel gives a detailed account of price observations
of the ancients, citing extensively from classical authors. He comments
on just price, proWt, exchange and money lending.
Boeckler (1611–1672), the examiner, was a well-known professor of
politics and rhetoric at the universities of Upsala and Strasburg and a
polyhistorian similar to Conring.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Humpert; no copy found in RLIN or OCLC.
15 BOTTANI, Giovanni. Descrizione storica delle Pitture del
Regio-Ducale Palazzo del Te, fuori della Porta di Mantova detta
Pusterla. Mantova, Giuseppe Braglia, 1783. £750
8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait by Bottani, pp. 62, 3 engraved plates
bound at end; title vignette; faint stain to fore-margin, title-page a little

dust-soiled; uncut in contemporary printed wrappers, with attractive
typographic pattern; a little dog-eared, else Wne.
First edition of this account of the Palazzo del Te in Mantua, constructed
for Frederick II of Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua. In addition to a brief history
of the palace and information on the works of art held there, a plan and
views of the palace buildings are also included. The work is generally recorded
under Bottani’s name, although he was in fact a painter and engraver
responsible for the restoration of the paintings in the Palazzo del Te. A note
in one of the copies held at the Mantua library reveals that he had requested
the manuscript from the librarian Leopoldo Camillo Volta (1751–1823),
and then published it anonymously with a fulsome dedication and introduction
signed by himself, which later guaranteed him the position of director
of the Mantua academy of Wne arts.
Berlin Catalogue 2729; Cicognara 4.234; Melzi I, p. 144; Schlosser, p. 552 and
571; see DBI 13, p. 406.
Biography of Johannes Becher
16 BUCHER, Urban Gottfried. Das Muster eine Nützlich-
Belehrten in der Person Herrn Doctor Johann Joachim Bechers,
Kayserl. Majestät Cammer- und Commercien-Raths nach seinen
Philologischen, Mathematischen, Physicalischen, Politischen und
Moralischen SchriVten beurtheilet und nebst seinem Lebens-
LauV vorgestellet. Nürnberg, AltdorV, Joh. Dan. Taubers Erben,
1722. £850
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xiv], 160, with 4 plates, three of which
folding, full-page woodcut; title printed in red and black, decorative
initials; some light spotting and browning due to paper stock;
contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, a little rubbed, else Wne.
First edition, uncommon, of this biography of a fascinating seventeenthcentury
maverick scientist Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682). Becher, a
physician, alchemist, scholar and adventurer was a metallurgical chemist. He
developed a form of alchemy from which the phlogiston theory evolved.
Many of his publications evolved around processes for producing and extracting
gold. But alchemy and chemistry was but part of his life. He also
developed a universal language, and was involved in a scheme for settling a
large territory between the Orinoco and the Amazon. He published in economic
matters, arguing that governments should control the Xow of goods
and money, that colonies should make up deWcits with raw materials, mainly
gold, and thus can be seen as one of the Wrst theorists of Mercantilism.
Bucher begins with a description of his eventful and varied life, which
from humble beginnings led him from a career as a teacher to professor of
medicine at the university of Mainz, councillor of commerce in Vienna,
diplomat to the Netherlands, and Wnally on diplomatic missions to England,
Scotland and Cornwall. He gives information of his countless publications,
before concentrating on his scientiWc contributions. First he presents
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his philological contributions, followed by mechanical inventions (ranging
from the use of the pendulum for the measurement of time, to a mechanical
perpetuum mobile an eventually to more profane sock-knitting machines)
to his chemical and alchemical works, his contributions in medicine, political
economy and moral philosophy. Becher was a larger than life representative
of the seventeenth century preoccupation with the natural riches of the
mineral world, which inXuence alchemy, mining and trade amongst others.
The engraved plates show a portrait of Becher, a stylised portrait of the
scientist using his gifts within the natural order, a perpetuum mobile and a
mineralogical chart of the earth within the system of the planets. The Wnal
woodcut shows the insignia of an ideal philosophical society.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 6096.1; OCLC/RLIN records just microWlm copies apart from
one copy at Cambridge; for further information on Becher see DSB.
Italy’s First Orthopaedic Clinic
17 CARBONAI, Ferdinando. Primo Istituto ortopedico in
Toscana creato e diretto dal Dottore Ferdinando Carbonai. Firenze,
Batelli e Compagni, 1840. £550
8vo, pp. 52, with one folding lithograph plate bound after p. 44; light
foxing throughout due to paper stock; uncut, in original salmon pink

printed wrappers; minor soiling to covers, extremities and corners very
slightly chipped and worn; a presentation copy from the author, to
Sign. Gabriella Tausig, signed on the verso of front cover.
Rare Wrst edition, and a presentation copy of this fascinating and attractive
account of the establishment and organisation of the Wrst orthopaedic clinic
in Italy, written by the founder and director, Ferdinando Carbonai.
With the foundation of the Wrst truly specialised orthopaedic institution
in 1780 at Orbe, Switzerland, by Jean André Venel, and the pioneering
work of Jacque Delpech in France, the beginning of the nineteenth century
saw the increased recognition of orthopaedics as a separate and vital branch
of medicine, a subject previously either ignored, or mistreated by both parents
and practitioners. The establishment of numerous such institutions
across Europe provided much needed support for the unfortunate suVerers
of degenerative diseases and deformities.
In 1840, Leopold II of Tuscany appointed Carbonai to establish a clinic
in Florence, which under his charge soon became a renowned centre for the
care and treatment provided, often through the use of apparatus designed
by Carbonai himself. As the present work highlights, he was strongly
inXuenced by the work of Delpech in France, as well as citing the work of
other contemporaries across Europe. The work includes a list of the regulations
of the Institute, together with a striking lithograph plate depicting
diVerent deformities of the neck and feet.
OCLC records just three locations at the National Library of Medicine, the College
of Physicians Philadelphia, and the American Hospital.
18 CASTELLI, Carlo. Ventilatore idraulico imaginato e descritto
dal Proposto Carlo Castelli a sua Eccellenza il Signor Don Niccoló
Pecci. Milano, S. Ambrogio, 1785. £550
8vo, pp. xxx; with one folding plate, and woodcut title vignette and
head-piece; light browning and water staining, with small worm-hole
aVecting lower gutter (not aVecting text); contemporary paste-paper
boards, neat library accession number on upper cover at tail, edges
lightly bumped.
First edition of this interesting description of a new design for a hydraulic
pump, based on the same principles as air pumps used in mine ventilation
by Carlo Castelli, a noted hydraulic engineer. He describes and illustrates
this machine of his own invention, which he believes to be both safe,
eYcient and cost eVective. The pump can be used both for drainage and for
irrigation purposes. Its advantage is its small size, which makes it useful
even in small-scale operations, and also for Wre-Wghting purposes.
In addition to his various works relating to hydraulics, and in particular
pumping engineering notably, Tromba Napoleone, o, Sia nuova macchina
idraulica destinata al vario sollevamento dell’acqua, (1808), Castelli wrote
L’arte di Wlare la seta a freddo in 1795, on the silk spinning industry.
Riccardi I, 294.7; OCLC/RLIN record copies at Yale, Delaware, Columbia, Texas
and Göttingen.
Education for the Nobility
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19 CHO[C]QUART, l’abbé and NOIRMANT. Nouvelle Société
contractée pour la Tenue de la Pension Académique établie a Paris.
Rue & Barriere Saint Dominique, pour l’Education des jeunes Gens
destines à la Milice, à la Jurisprudence, au Commerce; avec des
Instructions pour Messieurs les Eleves, les Maîtres, & les Parents.
Paris, Michel Lambert, 1768. £450
8vo, pp. 30, [2] blank, one folded printed table bound in, Wnal blank
present; later marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label.
First and only edition of this prospectus for a newly founded boarding
school for boys of the nobility who were destined for a career in the military,
the law, and business. The founders, l’abbé Chocquart and Noirmant, clearly
identiWed a business opportunity after the suppression of the Jesuit colleges
in 1767, and here give a brief outline of the organisation of this educational
institution. Unusually a number of foreign languages are taught, Latin for
all, but also German and English (especially for those destined for the navy).
For learning the German language an innovative ‘full immersion’ system has
been devised: the German teacher is present during lunch and dinner to
conduct conversation classes during mealtimes. The work is divided into
four sections, giving a general outline of the time-table, discipline structure
and daily routine devised by l’abbé Chocquart. The obligations of the teachers
are outlined, giving stringent advice on discipline, the moral and emotional
mentoring of pupils, and reporting to parents. The second chapter
addresses the students and advises them of their expected conduct, attendance
at class, behaviour towards teachers and fellow students. In the third
chapter the fees due at the military school are outlined. In addition to the
obligatory academic lessons in Latin, mathematics, geography, history, economics
and modern languages further classes at an extra charge are oVered,
such as dance, music, and fencing. The pupils range in age from Wve to sixteen
years.
Conlon 68:699; not found in OCLC or RLIN; KIVK lists just one copy at the
Bibliothèque Nationale.
Drunkenness and the Church
20 CIRILLO, Agnello. De malo ebrietatis tractatus, quo
Scripturarum, Patrum, et Sacrorum Doctorum inconcussa
Auctoritate Ebrietas pessundatur... Tomus Primus [all published.]
Naples, Typographia Jo. Francisci Paci, 1766. £600
8vo, pp. xx, 328; title vignette and decorated initials; some light
spotting and browning, due to paper stock; contemporary full vellum,
spine lettered in manuscript; vellum slightly stained, corners bumped;
else a good copy.
First edition of this extensive study of the church view of alcohol consump-

tion. Cirillo points out that the bible in numerous instances encourages people
to stay away from alcohol, although it does not necessarily forbid its
consumption. The bible condemns drunkenness and its eVects, and certainly
alcohol addiction. Cirillo points out the various undesirable eVects of drinking,
based on quotations from the bible and church authorities, ranging
from health questions to increased irritability and a neglect of work and
family. However, he also points to instances in the bible where the consumption
of wine instead of water is encouraged. Apparently a second volume was
planned, but never written. Both the contents page and the Wnal index suggest
that the volume is complete in itself. A second edition was published in
1767, still extending to just one volume.
Not much is known about Agnello Cyrillo/ Cirillo, apart from the fact
that he was priest at St. Peters, Naples.
ICCU records two copies in Italy, no further copies recorded in RLIN or OCLC;
not found in any of the culinary bibliographies consulted.
Probability Calculation
21 CONDORCET, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat marquis
de. Discours sur l’Astronomie et le Calcul des Probabilités. [verso:]
Extrait du Magasin Encyclopédique (Août 1812). Paris, J. B. Sajou,
1812. £550
8vo, pp. 29, [3] blank, disbound.
First separate publication of Condorcet’s important contribution on probability,
originally presented to the Lycée in 1787, but not published and not
included in his twenty-one volume collected works (Oeuvres de Condorcet,
1804). Condorcet outlines the importance of the theory of probability and
discusses it in relation to mathematics and philosophy and with regard to its
various applications throughout the sciences. He stresses the importance
French scientists and mathematicians had in the advance of the science. This
essay, which was written for the Magasin Encyclopédique, holds a distinguished
place in the development of the theory of probability.
Condorcet’s Wrst contribution to the theory of probability is to be found
in his Essai sur l’application de l’analyse aux probabilités des décisions prises ... la
pluralité des voix (1785), which was enlarged into a second edition with the
title Elements du calcul et son application aux jeux de hazard, ... la loterie et aux
jugements des hommes &c. (1804).
Cioranescu 20525; RLIN/OCLC list copies at Cornell, Berkeley, New York Public
Library, Brown, and the Burndy Library; see G. Granger in DSB for further information.
French Literary Copyright – From the La Rochefoucauld Library
22 [COPYRIGHT.] Commission de la Propriéte Littéraire.
Collection des Procès-Verbaux. Paris, de l’imprimerie de Pillet ainé
... 1826. £1500
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4to, pp. [iv], 342; elegantly bound in full red decorated morocco,
multiple gilt panelling, surrounding a central blinds-tamped decorative
device, with central gilt initial; gilt dentelles, a.e.g.; from the library of
La Rochefoucauld, with small circular stamp to title.
First edition, uncommon, of the proceedings of a commission formed to
study and make recommendations on copyright laws. The proposed suggestions,
most apparently adopted, resulted in France protecting copyright
in a more ample manner than most countries. The length of copyright was
established as being for the life of the author and Wfty years after his death;
pirated editions were to be conWscated, and piracy itself Wned and subject to
civil action of damages to the amount sustained. The commission also discussed
the creation of a benevolent fund for authors who had fallen on hard
times, or their widows.
The copyright commission not only dealt with literary property, but with
works of art in general. It was led by the vicomte de La Rochefoucauld,
with extensive contributions by Jules Mareschal, who later published extensively
on the copyright law.
Provenance: This copy, specially bound in red morocco, comes from the
library of the chairman of the commission the vicomte de La Rochefoucauld,
who was instrumental in getting the commission set up.
NUC/RLIN/OCLC record copies at the Library of Congress, New York Public
Library; Harvard and Berkeley Law Library.
The Royal Courts
23 CROMPTON, Richard. L’Authoritie et Iurisdiction des
Courts de la Maiestie de la Roygne: Nouelment collect & compose,
per R. Crompton del milieu Temple Esquire, Apprentice del Ley.
Si sueris Index, miti sis corde memento, Dicito, que possunt dicta
decere senem. London, in aedibus Caroli Yetsweirti Armig, 1594.
£650
4to, ll. [iv], 232, irregular pagination, but complete; typographic title
vignette and headpieces, decorative initials; paper lightly browned;
contemporary full panelled calf, rebacked and recornered; heraldic
book-plate to front paste-down.
First edition of Richard Crompton’s most important legal contribution, a
detailed account of the Royal Courts, beginning with Parliament and its

function as a court, the Star Chamber and the King’s Bench. It is essentially
a digest of cases, but includes a number of circuit reports of criminal cases
not found anywhere else. Roger North recommended it to law students,
and regarded it as one of the ‘institutionary works which must be read at
one time or another’ (North 17). It is interesting as it reXects a tendency,
later articulated by Bodin and others, to provide legal justiWcation for the
creation of a rigidly hierarchical ‘natural’ society governed by a powerful
monarch.
Richard Crompton (X. 1573–1599), a bencher of the Middle Temple
during the reign of Henry VIII, dedicates the work to John Puckering,
Lord Keeper and ‘all my companions of the Middle Temple’, and admits
that it was written ‘to demonstrate that he had not been an entirely
unproWtable member of the inn’.
It was clearly appreciated as a second edition followed in 1637.
STC (2nd) 6050; Marrin 311; Holdsworth IV, 211–212; Sweet & Maxwell 259.
Fresh Air
24 DARDANA, GioseVantonio. Memoria del Medico GioseVantonio
Dardana Intorno al Mezzi di Togliere agli Appartamenti il
Fetore Comunicato dai Luoghi Segreti; di Migliorare le Condizioni
degli Ospedali Riguardo la Salubrita’ di essi; e del Modo di Espurgar
le Cloache piu’ Comodo Meno Insalubre e men Dispendioso. Con
un’ Appendice intorno alla Conservazione del Pollame. Venezia, per
Sebastiano Valle. 1792. £380
8vo, pp. 112; title-page within decorative border, with attractive
woodcut head-and tail-pieces; uncut in contemporary paste-paper
boards, cords exposed; covers a little rubbed and dustsoiled; an
attractive, clean copy.
Second edition (Wrst Vercelli, 1790) of this scarce essay on public health
and hygiene, written by the Piedmontese physician, Giuseppe Antonio
Dardana (1743–1796), and concentrating in particular upon ventilation
and ways to remove noxious fumes from buildings and the improvement of
hospital sanitation through better architectural planning. Methods of improving
the construction and eVectiveness of sewers are also discussed.
Dardana cites numerous authorities including Scopoli, Wolf, Alberti and
John Howard.
In addition to the present work, Dardana also wrote on agricultural matters,
including his treatise on fungi, and fungi poisoning, In agaricum
campestrem veneno in patria infamem acta ad amicissimum et amantissimum
Victorium Picum in 1788. Indeed the Wnal appendix of the present work is a
short section on the preservation of the health of poultry.
Bonimo, BiograWa Medica Piedmontese, II, p. 243; OCLC cites one only of this edition
at the Wellcome, with the Wrst edition located at the National Library of Medicine,
Berkeley, Wisconsin and McGill.
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25 DE SAXY, Carlotta Ercolina, vedova Visconti. Saggio
Elementare sulla Natura, e i Doveri dell’Uomo nei suoi Rapporti
Morali e Fisici, Diviso in Quattro Parti... Milano, Andrea Mainadi,
1799. £500
8vo, pp. [iv], 108, [4]; entirely uncut in contemporary pattern-paper
wrappers, shelf number to spine; spine strengthened; a little dog-eared,
else a Wne copy with contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown
of Chevalier Etienne Mainoli (?).
First and apparently only edition of this introduction to moral philosophy
and household politics by Carlotta Ercolina de Saxy. The Wrst three parts
deal with moral, political and social philosophy respectively, outlining the
role of the citizen within society. Most of the chapters are clearly directed to
a female audience, with advice on the fair treatment of domestic servants,
responsibilities in education, treatment of traders and suppliers, responsibilities
of parents towards their children and other members of the household.
The Wnal section is more practical, and concentrates on health and
hygiene, with advice on nutrition, child care, sanitation, with warnings
against alcohol and dangerous drugs.
The author later published another work entitled Lettere di storia naturale
e psicologia (1800).
Uncommon, no copy found in RLIN or OCLC; not found in ICCU or KVK.
Account of the Armed Neutrality League against England
26 [DENMARK.] Der Sund und die Ostsee. In politischer,
militärischer und merkantilistischer Hinsicht. Ein geographischer
Versuch zur Erläuterung der Verhältnisse des Nordens und seiner
Seemächte bey dem bevorstehenden Seekriege gegen England.
Für Zeitungsleser. Mit einer Karte von dem Sunde. Berlin, n.p.,
1801. £500
8vo, folded engraved map, pp. 99, folding tables pp. 85 and 87;
original pale blue boards, a Wne copy.
First and only edition of this comprehensive account of the political, military,
and economic situation in the countries of Northern Europe, the new
Armed Neutrality League formed in 1800 against England’s overriding naval
power and its naval blockade. After a brief outline of the historical circumstances
within the Napoleonic wars, the full text of the neutrality
agreement between Prussia and Sweden is reprinted, which was particularly
aimed at preserving commercial interests of both countries. Denmark also
joined the pact. Great Britain ordered an embargo on the vessels of the
three neutral powers and commenced a full sea blockade.
This is followed by a detailed description of the area of the Sund,
Skagerrack and Cattegatt, in eVect the entrance to the Baltic with its important
trading and shipping routes. The anonymous author gives information
both on the military strength of the surrounding nations and their eco-

nomic inXuence. In a postscript the events of 1801 are recounted, when
Great Britain sent a considerable Xeet to the Baltic under the command of
Parker and Nelson, which defeated the Danes and destroyed the Danish
Xeet.
A detailed map is included.
Not found in RLIN or OCLC.
German Economics Catalogue
27 [ECONOMICS LIBRARY.] Oekonomische Bibliothek oder
Verzeichnis derer neuesten und besten deutschen Bücher und
Schriften welche in die Oekonomische, Politische und Cameral-
Wissenschaften einschlagen, 1767. £2250
8vo, pp. [ii], 78; engraved title vignette, and head- and tail-piece;
interleaved copy; faint damp-staining to upper outer corner of Wrst and
last few signatures; contemporary dark grey paste-paper boards.
First edition, very rare, of this fascinating catalogue of German publications
regarding economics, political economy, and agriculture, with special emphasis
on eighteenth-century publications. In his brief preface the anonymous
author acknowledges that foreign contributions are only included
when a German translation is available. In addition to basic bibliographical
data, i.e. author, title, format, and year of publication, prices are also given.
The work is divided into a number of general categories, beginning with a
listing of bibliographies of economics, including Rohr’s Haushaltungsbibliothek,
Bergius’ Cameralisten-Bibliothek, and Wöllner’s Unterricht zu
einer kleinen aber auserlesenen Oeconomischen Bibliothek. This is followed by
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general introductions to economics, then treatises in the German
Cameralist tradition, and practical works on household management, ranging
from Hausväter-Literatur to cookery books and energy saving ovens. A
large section is devoted to agriculture and horticulture, with special sections
on silk production, livestock farming, and mining.
Detailed chapters deal with coinage and money, and commerce and business.
This section, in fact, includes the most international selection,
amongst others Melon, Montesquieu and John Law (Gedanken von
Waaren- und Geld-Handel; nebst einem Project von Finanzen, 1720), together
with extensive German authorities, such as Marperger, Justi, Bohn,
Nelkenbrecher, and Graumann.
In all close to Wve hundred titles are listed. They give an invaluable insight
into the state of economic science in Germany at the time. Even though this
copy is interleaved no further entries have been added in manuscript.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths; not in Humpert; NUC, OCLC/RLIN list just the
University of Chicago and Columbia.
Vicenza Incunables
28 FACCIOLI, Giovanni Tommaso. Catalogo Ragionato de’
Libri stampati in Vicenza, e suo Territorio nel Secolo XV. Con un’
appendice de’ libri de’ Vicentini, o spettanti a Vicenza, che in quell
secolo si stamparono altrove. Vicenza, 1796. £850
8vo, [ii], x, 246, bound with both the Wrst and Wnal blank; original thin
buV boards; spine lettered in manuscript; a good copy.
First and apparently only edition of this detailed annotated bibliography of
incunables printed in Vicenza, followed by a listing of books relating to, or
written, by those coming from Vicenza, but published elsewhere, again
covering the period up to 1500.
The Wrst section gives a brief history of printing in general, before concentrating
on early printing, beginning with 1474. Interestingly Faccioli
not only gives details of authors and subject matter, but also printing type,
and decoration. He also comments on relative rarity.
Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 209; not in Petzholdt; for a detailed discussion see
Fernando Bandini, 1474 Le Origine delle Stampa a Vicenza, 1975.
Emphyteusis, Mortmain and Long-Time Lease Contracts
29 FIERLI, Gregorio. Dei Livelli di Mano Morta... Firenze,
Bonducciana, 1797. £600
Tall 8vo, pp. iv, 162; uncut in the original buV limp boards, printed
spine label; extremities a little rubbed, but overall a Wne copy; early
ownership inscription to title by Paolo RaVaelli and by Giull. GraW to
front free endpaper.
First edition of an important contribution on the legal framework of the
land reform proposed in Tuscany under Leopold II. Fierli gives a detailed

introduction into the principles of emphyteusis, a long-term rental contract
of land, which allowed the peasant the use of land for many years or even in
perpetuity, on the condition that he maintained and improved the land and
paid annually a low rent in money or kind. He shows the commercial
beneWts of the land reform of 1769, based on the law on mortmain, passed
in that year, which decreed that the State would control the transfer of
property to the Church by private individuals. The idea was to guarantee
the widespread number of small and medium peasant properties a greater
productive stability, and at the same time enable long term emphyteutical
tenants to acquire possession of the land.
Fierli accompanies his observations with detailed reference to the relevant
legal literature. His treatise was well received, reprinted the following
year and again in 1805.
Fierli (1744–1807) a practising lawyer and administrator, published extensively
on legal matters, and compiled comprehensive works on juridical
decisions.
DBI 47, p. 423; OCLC/RLIN list just two copies of the original, at the University
of Louisiana and Kansas, and two copies of the reprint of 1805 at Harvard and the
Library of Congress.
Extravagant Expenses
30 [FRANCE.] Maison du Roi, ce qu’elle étoit, ce qu’elle est, ce
qu’elle devroit être. Examen soumis au Roi, et à l’Assemblée
Nationale. Paris, 1789. £1550
4to, pp. viii, 166, 1, with 8 large folding, printed tables; heraldic title
vignette, and decorative headpiece; contemporary full sheep, with
central arms of the Bute family to both side, sides with decorative gilt
scroll, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; some surface scratches
to upper board; a Wne copy.
First and apparently only edition of this detailed investigation into the
Wnances of the French royal household, the Maison du Roi, on the eve of the
French Revolution. The anonymous author identiWes immense luxury, extravagant
expenses, and the large danger of venality in the traditional organisation
of the Royal Household. He gives a brief account of earlier
attempts at reforming the ever-increasing expenditure of the Royal Household,
most notably under Colbert, followed by those of 1780, 1787 and
1788. In individual chapters all manner of oYces within the Maison du Roi
are described, with fascinating detail of opulence and expenditure. These
range from oYces de la bouche or royal kitchens, with detailed accounts of
foodstuVs, meat, wine, purchased, to salaries for kitchen and serving staV,
all in extreme detail, to the oYce de la chambre, the bedchamber and wardrobe.
The large printed tables are a veritable mine of information for data
on food fashions and prices, and at the same time of social etiquette. The
comparative tables and the accompanying text indicate that major attempts
at economies and cost-cutting had already been made, but further Wnancial
restrictions were deemed necessary, and the anonymous author suggest the
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institution of an independent accounts department to limit Royal expenditure
both in Versailles and in Paris. In a Wnal note he seems to accept a
certain degree of opulence, as beWts the major Royal court in Europe.
According to a note at the end, a second independent publication on the
military part of the Maison du Roi, the Maison Militaire du Roi, was to follow,
which was published in 1790.
Monglond I, 179; Martin & Walter (Anonymes) 9319; Tourneux III, 12451; not
in Kress or Goldsmiths’, OCLC lists just one copy at Florida State University.
31 [FRANCE – LISTE DES EMIGRÉS.] Bulletin des Demandes
en Radiation de la Liste des Emigrés [No. 1 – No. 13]. [colophon:]
Paris, de l’Imprimerie de la République, Brumaire an VI ... Prairal
an VII [October/November 1797 – May/June 1799]. £1500
Thirteen issues bound in one volume, 8vo, pp. 17, [3] blank; 35, [1]
blank; 33, [3] blank; 29, [3] blank; 31, [1] blank (tear); 25, [3] blank;
23, [1] blank; 35, [1] blank; 27, [1] blank; 29, [3] blank; 15, [1] blank;
15, [1] blank; 21, [3] blank; 23, [1] blank; uncut and partly unopened,
bound in contemporary brown-stained half cloth, over tan paste-paper
boards, printed orange spine label, with numbering amended from I–XI
to 13; traces of lateral folding to some issues, some title pages a little
dust-soiled, paper fault to A14 of issue 5, no loss; a Wne set.

First and only edition, very rare, of the complete run of the oYcial Bulletin
des Demandes en Radiation de la Liste des Emigrés. The Wrst publication begins
with the decree of 26 Fructidor, an V, prescribing the scope and function
of the publication, that is restricting the power to add or remove names
from the list of emigrants to the Comité de Législation only. Within the individual
issues, émigrés are listed arranged by local authority, giving their
name and profession, address, the date when they were Wrst put on the list
of emigrés, and a Wnal column of commentary, where in some cases reasons
for the removal from the list was noted.
During the French Revolution many royalists had Xed the country and
some formed resistance armies. In 1792, the Convention, a Revolutionary
national assembly decreed the conWscation of their property and their perpetual
banishment. By the end of the Terror some 150 000 had been placed
on the oYcial list of émigrés, although many of them were just fugitives of
destruction or had never left France, but were placed on the list, so that they
would incur the penalties of emigration, i.e. conWscation and sale of their
property, banishment in perpetuity, and the death penalty should they fall
into the hands of the republic.
Brunet V 50; Monglond IV, 1197; Tourneux III, 12927; not in Martin & Walter;
very rare, OCLC/RLIN record just two incomplete sets (12 bulletins at Tallahassee
and 7 at New York Public Library); KVK adds the British Library and Göttingen,
as the only sets outside of France.
32 GAGGEL, Philipp. Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica De Animi
Deliquio... [Vienna], Kirchberger, 1769. £200
8vo, pp. 30; woodcut head-piece; some light browning and foxing; in
modern marbled boards, paper label on spine.
Scarce doctoral dissertation on the various causes of fainting and loss of
consciousness, by Philipp Gaggel. Gaggel cites the works of numerous authors,
both ancient and modern, including Hippocrates, Tissot, Boerhaave
and Sydenham.
One copy located at the National Library of Medicine; not in Wellcome.
33 GAMBARANA, Francesco. Del Corpo Solare Dissertazione.
Milan, Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1775. £500
8vo, pp. viii, 70; with engraved title-vignette, and six attractive
engraved head- and tail-pieces; occasional light foxing and browning;
contemporary paste-boards, spine lettered in manuscript at head, covers
a little dust-soiled, cords slightly loose.
Scarce Wrst edition of this most attractively produced dissertation on solar
mechanics, by Francesco Gambarana, Professor of Physics at Brera. Divided
into two sections, Gambarana addresses two principal questions,
whether the sun has a solid center or whether its surface resembles that of
the Earth, and secondly whether the sun has an atmosphere, or whether it is
surrounded by Xuid matter.
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The work is dedicated to Count Carlo Firmian (1716–1782), a leading
diplomat in the service of the Hapsburgs. He was noted for his Wne library,
amassing over 40,000 volumes across all disciplines.
Riccardi I, 573; OCLC/RLIN cite only three copies at Linda Hall, Cornell and
Cambridge.
34 [GAMES – TAROT.] Codice del Tarocco addattato ad ogni
Tavoliere si pubblico, che privato. Milano, n.d. [1793/4]. £250
Small 8vo, pp. 78, engraved title, some light spotting and foxing, title
bound in slightly skewed; contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards,
joints cracked and head and tail of spine chipped, later spine label
lettered in manuscript.
First edition, uncommon of this introduction to the game of Tarot. The
anonymous explains the basic rules, how to declare, how to score points,
and which laws of probability to observe. He warns, however, that this is
just a basic guide, and that practice and a lucky hand are needed to perfect
the game. In his introduction he refers to contemporary discussions about
the desirability of gambling games, and the move to outlaw them. In addition
to speciWc rules he also explains ‘gambling etiquette’, points out numerous
possible contraventions to the rules and their respective
punishments, and Wnally explains the terminology speciWc to the game. In
the last chapters he includes Tarot games played with six and three participants
respectively.
Although the Tarot cards were originally used for fortune telling, they
also found extensive use for gambling. Many Tarot cards bear representations
of symbolic and mythological character.
Lensi 33; RLIN and OCLC record just one copy at Yale.

Contracts in Commercial Law
35 GHIO, Giuseppe. Della Clausula all’Ordine o sia all’Ordine
S.P. Adoprata nelle Cambiali e del suo vero SigniWcato. Pisa,
Carotti, 1772. £480
4to, pp. 75; title vignette, elaborate illustrated initials; uncut in the original
buV stiV wrappers; wrapper with some dust-soiling, else a Wne copy,
with ownership inscription of Tommaso del Santo to inside front
wrapper.
First edition of an interesting treatise on commercial law. Ghio, a lawyer by
profession, discusses diVerent types of contract in bills of exchange and
letters of credit. He discusses the minutiae of Wnancial transactions and
banking procedure, and especially concentrates on the diVerence between
money transfers being agreed under speciWc terms, either payment
‘all’ordine’ or payment ‘all’ordine S.P ’ (senza procura). He apparently also
treats triangular contracts where the debtor does not pay the lender directly,
but clears his debts by transferring the debt. He also discusses guaranteed
loans, and their legal provisions.
A second edition was published in 1787.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10921.4.
Enlightenment Reforms in Tuscany
36 GIANNI, Francesco Maria. Governo della Toscana sotto il
Regno di sua Maestà il Re Leopoldo II. Firenze, Gaetano Cambiagi
Stampatore Reale, 1790. £1500
Tall 4to, pp. [iv] including Wrst blank, 76, 60 unnumbered leaves and 4
folding sheets, tables A–DD, dimostrazione I–V; bound in contemporary
vellum-backed pattern paper boards; a very crisp Wne copy,
printed on strong paper.
First edition of Gianni’s account of the economic reforms carried out during
Leopold II’s rule as grand duke of Tuscany, before he became emperor
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1790. Leopold II was one of the most
capable and remarkable of the reforming princes of the eighteenth century.
Advised by the liberal economist Bandini, he introduced a system of free
trade in grain and foodstuVs, promoted agriculture, and reclaimed
marshlands for intensive cultivation. Taxation was reformed on the basis of
equality for all citizens, which abolished the privileges of the nobility. Local
government and the administration of justice were also revised, and torture
and capital punishment abolished.
Written by the economist and administrator Gianni (1728–1821) in
close collaboration with Leopold II, this account was clearly modelled on
Necker’s famous Compte Rendu. Gianni gives a detailed, and Wrst-hand report
of these economic reforms, which in the Wrst part are described in great
detail, with clear reference to the legislation passed and new rules introduced.
In the second section the achievements are presented in detailed ac-
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count form, presenting the ‘end-of-year’ accounts of Leopold’s last year in
oYce in Tuscany, compared to 1765, the beginning of his reign. In a clear
cost versus result analysis, all aspects of public Wnance are covered, ranging
from the Tuscan tax income, public accounts and the national debt, to local
accounts of cities such as Siena, and state expenditure on speciWc areas, such
as prisons, Wne arts, and public administration. Even the accounts of the
grand duke himself are laid open.
A fascinating document of enlightened administration, which shows an
astonishing degree of openness and accountability of an absolute ruler. The
work was widely distributed through two reprints in 1791 and even translated
into German in 1795.
Cossa 143, 87; Einaudi 2668; Kress Italian 595.
37 GLOBIG, Hans Ernst von & Johann Georg HUSTER.
Abhandlung von der Criminalgesetzgebung. Eine von der
ökonomischen Gesellschaft in Bern gekrönte Preisschrift. Zürich, J.
C. Fuessly, 1783. £650
8vo, pp. [viii], 440, 1 errata; some light browning and spotting, due to
paper quality; contemporary buV boards, gilt-lettered spine label, shelf
label to spine, head and tail of spine a little bumped, else a Wne copy,
with manuscript note to front free endpaper giving purchase
information of 1786, price and binding cost.
First edition of Globig and Huster’s prize winning work on the criminal
justice system, submitted in response to a prize question of the economic
society in Berne, posed in the wake of Beccaria’s De delitti e delle Pene,
Montesquieu, and other expressions of enlightenment reform spirit. The
substantial work is clearly organised. After a brief introduction into criminal
law in general, Globig discusses crime and its appropriate punishment.
Here he gives extensive examples, and maintains that Beccaria ignored the
individuality of crime and its exponents. He discusses individually all manner
of oVences ranging from regicide to insulting oYcials, from Wrst degree
murder to manslaughter, from oVences against property to oVences against
people. Amongst these he individually treats both suicide and abortion.
The second section deals with criminal investigation, evidence, and conclusive
proof. Here Globig deals with witnesses, incriminating evidence, ‘corpus
delicti’. In part three he analyses how criminal procedure should
combine quick but decisive investigation, torture-free interrogation, and a
well organised trial, to result in an exemplary punishment, which guarantees
the safety and security of the public. He describes criminal procedure in
great detail, and in particular insists on both verdicts and punishments being
made and carried out in public, for optimum deterrent eVect.
Globig’s detailed observations, which he had prepared together with his
colleague J. G. Huster, are particularly pertinent, as he was later asked by
Frederic the Great to be involved in the reform of the Prussian penal code.
After a number of political positions the lawyer Globig (1755–1826) be-

came a member of the commission for legal reform in Saxony.
Because of the interest and importance of his work, a reprint was published
in 1969.
Uncommon, RLIN/OCLC list copies at Harvard Law School, and the Copenhagen
Royal Library only.
38 [GLORIOUS REVOLUTION.] Lettre en forme
d’Exhortation ou Discours addressé à tous les Fideles de la Religion
Reformée, pour les porter à demander à Dieu son assistance
favourable dans la conjoncture des aVaires presentes. [Netherlands],
‘Imprimé en l’an 1688’. £850
Small 12mo, pp. 20; top edge trimmed, else entirely uncut; sown as
issued; very light dust-soiling, but generally very fresh with very wide
margins.
First edition of this extremely rare survival, in its original state, of this exhortation
of French Huguenots to recognise the divine plan of William of
Orange’s departure for England, and to pray for its success. The unidentiWed
writer’s vision of divine justice, secured through William of Orange
after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, echoes the pastoral letters
from Holland of the refugee minister Jurieu and preWgures his famous
Soupirs de la France Esclavé (1689–90).
After a brief address to the reader the anonymous writer presents an almost
apocalyptic vision of William’s expedition, not yet known to have arrived
in England, but still at sea, and addresses the oppressed faithful
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throughout the world. Through internal evidence the pamphlet can be
dated to the Wrst week of November 1688. The pamphlet concludes with a
‘Prière des Refugiez, pour demander à Dieu sa Benediction en faveur de
l’entreprise presente’.
The extreme rarity of the present tract might be explained by the fact that
it was addressed primarily to the oppressed Huguenots of France and the
wider diaspora beyond Holland, and was perhaps intended for clandestine
distribution in France.
Conlon 3713 (Meulman copy); Van der Wulp, Meulman Library 6402; no other
copy found in RLIN, OCLC, NUC, KVK, the French or Dutch union catalogues.
39 GRADMANN, Johann Jacob. Das gelehrte Schwaben: oder
Lexicon der jetzt lebenden schwäbischen Schriftsteller: voraus ein
Geburtstags-Almanach und Hintennach ein Ortsverzeichniss.
[Ravensburg] Bey’m Verfasser, 1802. £550
8vo, pp. [xvi], xxiv, 872, 30; contemporary half vellum over paste-paper
boards, spine lettered in manuscript; a very good copy.
First and only edition of this bio-bibliographical dictionary of noteworthy
Swabian authors of the late eighteenth century. More than one thousand
authors are included. DiVerent from Hamberger and Hörner, Gradmann
combines biographical information with a detailed and annotated listing of
publications.
As Petzholdt notes the comprehensiveness of the list of publications varies,
but the work still provides an unparalleled wealth of information, especially
on minor authors and compilers, who are not covered elsewhere.
Petzholdt 318.
Loss- and Insurance Adjustor’s Manual
40 GRAND-THORANE, M. Observations sur les Rapports
d’Experts, Où l’on rechercher & propose des moyens pour les rendre
moins arbitraire, plus corrects, & en prévenier la multiplicité; Avec
des Projets ou Essais des principales Procédures de ce genre,
entr’autres, pour l’Estimation des Successions, ou Compositions des
Masses; Suivis des Evaluations des Rentes & Pensions viageres &
des Usufruits, selon leurs diVérents Taux & l’âge des Rentiers,
Pensionnaires or Usufrutiers, par des tables de Calculs our Comptes
faits: Terminées par des Observations concernant l’Edit des
Hypotheques, de 1771; & des Etats du prix des Grains & du Vin,
depuis d’anciennes époques. Grenoble, J. L. A. Giroud, 1785. £550
Small 8vo, pp. [iv], iv, 176, lower corner torn from H9, just touching
text; very lightly browned in places, but overall clean; uncut in
contemporary sheep-backed pale blue boards, slightly sprung, spine a
little rubbed.

First and apparently only edition of a rare work on adjuster’s reports; according
to the author, a Grenoble lawyer, the Wrst work on the subject. In
individual chapters Grand-Thorane explains the elements of arbitration,
how adjuster’s reports are drawn up, inheritance appraisals (estimation d’une
succession / compostion de masse en argent) for land, vines, meadows and grassland,
chopped wood, trees for timer, debts, land annuities (rentes foncières)
etc, but also on the assessment of life annuities and usufructs. For this
Grand-Thorane includes extensive life expectancy tables, and some thirty
pages of annuity calculations. The Wnal chapter explains the provisions of
the 1771 edict on mortgages and includes tables showing regional wheat
prices since 1714 and wine prices since 1730.
Very rare, not in Institute of Actuaries, Mansutti or ‘Utrecht’; NUC/RLIN and
OCLC list just one copy at the Library of Congress.
Arts and Technology Illustrated
41 [GUELARD, Jean Baptiste Antoine.] Description Abregée des
Principaux Arts et Métiers et des Instrumens qui leurs sont propres
etc, le tous détaillée par Wgures. Paris, chez Guelard ... et chez la
Veuve de P. Fessard, n.d., [1743]. £1800
Small 4to, ll. 118, (including four of manuscript notes), with 84
engraved plates; engraved throughout, some leaves printed on both
sides, many folded, numbering of text and plates irregular; title-page
vignette, head-piece and some illustrations signed by Guélard, some of
the illustrations after Laury; head-piece on ll. 8 by Le Clerc; title page a
little dust-soiled, else clean and crisp throughout; contemporary full
mottled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments; upper joint
beginning to split, but holding Wrm, extremities rubbed and corners
bumped, still an attractive copy.
First edition of this fascinating picture encyclopaedia of the industrial arts
and technology, and in particular of the tools used in the individual trades.
After an initial section covering architecture and design, highlighting in
particular the building trade and its tools and equipment, (most of which is
based on Félibien’s De l’Architecture, de la Sculpture, de la Peinture of 1676),
Guelard concentrates on joinery and wood-work, metal-work,
locksmithing, working with lead and minting, printing, engraving, and
book-binding. In most cases he illustrates the tools and machinery, such as
furnaces, watermills, etc, but also printing and engraving presses, and gives
some instructions in the engraved and manuscript text. The work is a very
good source for technical tools used at the time, but at the same time it is
specially designed for the general public, with the purpose of explaining
craft ‘secrets’ and making the artistic crafts intelligible to the layman.
Copies of this book apparently vary in composition, partly indicated in
the erratic pagination; the Getty copy has an additional engraved frontispiece
by Guelard, though this is not present in either of the two British
Library copies. In this copy, two text leaves, which are some times engraved
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either on separate leaves or on the verso of the plate, are present in a contemporary
manuscript only. The two additional manuscript leaves of this
copy are of the explanatory notes added to the second edition of 1750.
Barbier I 889; RLIN/OCLC list copies at the Winterthur, Getty, Newberry Library,
Library of Congress and California State Library.
Corsican Independence
42 GUELFUCCI, BonWglio. Memoria Apologetica sull’Ultima
Rivoluzione dell’Isola di Corsica. [n.p., n.p.] L’Anno 1760. £900
Small 4to, pp. 60; contemporary buV wrappers, slightly loose.
First edition in Italian, very rare, of Guelfucci’s account of the failed political
experiment of democratic rule on the island of Corsica. Corsica had been
under Genoa’s inXuence from the Wfteenth century. In 1729 the Corsicans
rebelled against Genovese rule, partly because of an excessive tax regime.
The Corsican revolution could be seen as an anti-colonial rebellion, a struggle
of an oppressed nation against those who governed it from afar, and

attracted the attention of writers and philosophers all over Europe, including
most prominently Rousseau and, of course, Boswell.
Guelfucci outlines the long struggle for independence up to 1751, i.e.
the period directly before Paoli’s involvement. Under the leadership of
Pasquale Paoli they established their own government in 1755. Guelfucci’s
account is of particular importance as he gives detailed information on the
period preceding the revolution. Guelfucci later became Paoli’s secretary,
and professor at the university of Corsica.
Guelfucci’s account was Wrst published in French under the title Memoire
apologétique du sujet de la dernière revolution de l’isle de Corse, published the
same year, and reprinted in 1882.
Rare, RLIN and OCLC list copies of the French edition at Yale only and no copy of
the Italian translation. The British Library has copies of both Italian and French
editions.
On Love and Sexuality
43 HAEDUS, Petrus. Anterotica, sive de Amoris Generibus.
[colophon:] Accuratissime impressum Tarvisii per Gerardum de
Flandria. Anno saluts M.CCCC.XCII, die XIII Octobris sub
magniWco Praetore Augustino Foscarini. [Treviso, Gerardus de Lisa
de Flandria, 13 October 1492. £8500
Small 4to, [197 x 146mm] ll. [vi], 97, including Wnal blank; printed in a
distinctive Roman font, initial spaces with guide letters; very small
single wormhole to blank margin of Wrst few leaves; very light spotting
to title, else clean and crisp; eighteenth century vellum boards, giltlettered
spine label, spine discoloured; eighteenth century manuscript
note to front free endpaper.
First and only incunable edition of this early courtesy book composed for
the beneWt of the author’s nephew, a student a Padua university. Written in
the form of a dialogue between Haedus, the poet Aemilianus Cimbriacus,
who takes the position in praise of love, and the priest Antonino Filermo,
who exposes all the evils and problems caused by love and passion. Haedeus
sides with Filermo, and gives advice on love and sexuality. He covers passion,
sexual attraction, marital relations, conduct and behaviour. Interestingly
he also discusses of more practical concerns such as jewellery and
hairstyles. The work is preWxed by an introductory poem by Aemilianus
Cimbriacus.
Haedus’s early work Amores, written under the inXuence of being rejected
by his beloved, can be seen as an earlier treatment of the same subject. It was
clearly popular, with later editions following in 1503 and 1607
Not much is known about Haedus (1427–1504), also known as Pietro
Cavretto. He was a priest from the Pordenone in Friuli, and part of the circle
around Gerardo di Lisa, Cimbriacus, and Iacopo Gordino. Brunet (III 10)
praised the elegant small Roman type face and described the book as rare.
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Bodleian Library XVth Century Books, H-001; BMC VI 885; Gesamtkatalog der
Wiegendrucke 12109; GoV H2; Hain Copinger 8343; Polain (B) 1843; Wellcome,
3040; not in Gay; DBI 19, pp. 186–189; Brunet III 10 ‘Lédition est Impr. En
petits caract. Forts nets. Et les exemplaires en sont rares.’

Theory of Complex Equations
44 HÖCHHEIMER, Elias Hajum. Versuch einer Vergleichung
der höheren Gleichungen mit den arithmetischen Reihen. Auf
Kosten des Verfassers. Amsterdam, gedruckt mit Röderschen
Schriften, 1791. £550
8vo, pp. xiv, 40; title vignette and engraved head- and tail-pieces;
contemporary tan half calf over sprinkled boards, spine in
compartments, ruled in gilt; extremities a little rubbed; from the
Koninklyk Instituut van Ingenieurs, with stamp to title page and shelfmark
label, covering two letters of the title; a good copy.
First and only edition of a rare contribution on Thomas Hariot’s (ca 1560–
1621) theory of complex equations. Höchheimer compares complex equations
with arithmetic series, and applies them to powers of binomial roots
and complex equations.
Höchheimer, originally from Hochheim in Franconia, worked as an astronomer,
and later settled in Amsterdam.
Not found in OCLC/RLIN or KVK; not in Fürst, where some of his other works
are listed; on Höchheimer see Wininger, Große jüdische National Biographie III, p.
140.
Popular Journal for the Encouragement of Industry
45 [ITALIAN JOURNAL.] L’Ape delle Cognizioni utili ossia
Scelta delle migliori Notizie, Invenzioni, Cognizioni e Scoperte
relative al commercio, alle arti, all’agricoltura, economia rurale e
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domestica, coltivazione degli orti e giardini, igiene pratica,
stabilimenti utili e Wlantropici, legislazione economica, ec. Le quali
per l’uso pratico possono più specialmente interessare il pubblico. Se
ne pubblica un fascicolo al mese di 32 pagine in 8vo. Capolago,
1833–1835. £1400
Three volumes, 8vo, pp. 192; 192, 20 (appendix), 5 folding printed
tables on four sheets, [193]–263, one folding printed table, [264]–358,
(121–126, 289–294, 332–358 fold-out pages); (folding printed table
after p. 32, lithograph map of Liverpool railway after p. 63, lithograph
plate after p. 220; 380; a number of folding printed tables within the
pagination; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in
compartments, with two gilt-lettered spine labels; a Wne set.
First edition of this popular ‘mass-market’ journal designed to popularise
inventions and innovations in the Welds of trade and commerce, rural and
domestic economy, chemistry and physics, public health and public institutions,
such as lending banks, insurance and philanthropic institutions, and
changes in legislation. The journal was founded by Giuseppe De Welz
(1785–1839), a banker and economist from Como, who saw the importance
of technical and industrial advance for the economic situation in Italy.
The present three volumes cover the Wrst three years when it was published
under De Welz’s direct inXuence in Capolago by the TipograWa Elvetica.
Publication was later transferred to Milan where it continued even after De
Welz’ death, but without the same ‘industrialist’ spirit.
The articles, many of them written by De Welz and fellow industrialists
from Piedmont and Lombardy, cover a wide range of subjects. Of particular
interest are the articles on the silk industry, manufacturing in general,

ut most importantly the emerging railways, with articles on the Liverpool
and Manchester line (illustrated with large fold-out plates), the Braithwater
and Erickson steam engine at Liverpool, depictions of train carriages, and
considerations on the economic viability of railway lines.
Even though the journal was originally published in 6000 copies, as the
publisher proudly announces on the title page, few issues have survived.
For a detailed analysis of De Welz’s contribution see GreenWeld, Economia e
liberalismo nel Risorgimento, p. 258, and Macchioro, Aurelio, Studi di storia
del pensiero economico, 1970, pp. 265 V.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 3432; Moioli I, p. 49; uncommon, RLIN/OCLC list copies at
the Library of Congress and the University of Hong Kong only; for the railway
contributions see BibliograWa Ferroviaria Italiana 183517–183521.
Theatre in Italy
46 [ITALIAN THEATRE.] Costituzioni dell’Accademia dei
Rinnovati eretta nel Teatro Grande della Città di Siena l’anno
MDCCCII. Sotto la Protezione della Real Maestà di Lodovico
Primo, Infante di Spagna, Rè dell’Etruria, Principe ereditario di
Parma, Piacenza, e Guastalla. Siena, Stamperia Rossi, 1802.
[together with:] Riforme e Aggiunte alle Costituzioni dell’Accademia
dei Rinnovati, 1818.
[together with:] Riforme e Aggiunte alle Costituzioni dell’Accademia
dei Rinnovati, [1835]. £650
4to, pp. viii, 46, [2] blank; 8; 4, the two ‘riforme’ loosely inserted; large
engraved title vignette; contemporary pattern-paper limp boards;
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extremities a little rubbed; some mss annotations throughout; printed
on blue paper, ownership inscription by Bargagli to title.
First edition of the rules and regulations of the Accademia dei Rinnovati of
Siena. The Teatro Grande of Siena, which was run by the Accademia dei
Intronati, had suVered severe structural damage in the earthquake of 1798.
To facilitate the rebuilding of the theatre, the Accademia dei Rinnovati
(academy of renewal or revival) was created out of the early ‘accademia’,
and composed entirely of regular theatre supporters, who owned ‘palchi’
(private boxes). These statutes describe in detail the internal organisation of
the society, with diVerent functionaries and their obligations. The
Accademia clearly had immense inXuence not only on ticket sales etc, but
also on the artistic decisions of the theatre company. The two revisions of
the rules deal with the sale or inheritance of subscriptions and private boxes.
Uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy at Brown; Maylander, Storia delle
Accademie d’Italia, Bologna 1926–33. IV, p. 469.
Restrictive Legislation on Jewish Settlements
47 [JUDAICA.] Sentimento intorno al Proclama, o sia Bando, col
quale s’introducono gl’Ebrei ne’ Regni delle due Sicilie, e loro
dipendenze, pubblicato in Napoli li 3. Febbraio in quest’anno 1740.
[n.p., n.p.]. [Naples, 1740]. £800
Folio, pp. [24]; printed in two columns throughout; some brownstaining
to foot of title and Wrst few leaves; contemporary wrappers.
First and only edition of this detailed critique of the edict of Charles III of
the same year, which was designed to encourage the settlement of Jews in
Naples and the Kingdom of the two Sicilies. The reason for this edict had

een the revitalisation of the economy and the improvement of trade and
commerce.
The anonymous author of this publication expresses his opposition to
the re- introduction of Jews (they had been expelled in 1515), and lists numerous
reasons, why they are to be considered a danger to Christian society.
Throughout he refers extensively to contemporary theological treatises
and papal encyclicals.
He maintains that the Jews would have unfair economic advantages over
the local population. They would not have to serve in the army or militia,
and they were allowed to be involved in Wnancial transactions such as
money-lending with interest, which would lead to extortion and usury.
Despite its rather one-sided approach, the work is of particular interest,
as the author gives very detailed bibliographical details of edicts and laws,
and gives a thorough legal perspective on the settlement of Jews in Italy. He
details speciWc provisions made in individual cities, such as segregation and
ghetto-isation, as well as the limitation of access of the Jews to various professions,
etc.
Very rare, no copy found in RLIN, OCLC, KVK or ICCU.
Man a Machine?
48 [LA METTRIE, Julien OVray de.] L’Homme Machine.
Leyden, Elie Luzac, 1748.
[bound after:] [LA METTRIE, Julien OVray de.] L’Homme Plante.
Potsdam, Voss, [1748].
[bound with:] LUZAC, Elie. L’Homme Plus que Machine. Londres,
[Netherlands, Elie Luzac Wls], 1748.
[bound with:] BEVERLAND, Adriaan (translator). L’Etat de
l’Homme dans le Peché original. Où l’on fait voir quelle est la source
& quelles sont les causes & les suites de ce peché dans le Monde.
Cinquième Edition. Imprimé dans le Monde en 1740. £2400
Four works bound in one volume, 12mo, pp. [xx], 109; [v], 6–58;
[viii], 140; 296, x; occasionally light foxing, but in all very clean and
crisp; contemporary half vellum over paste-paper boards, gilt-lettering
directly to spine; book-plate removed from front paste-down,
manuscript note listing all four titles on front free endpaper, nineteenth
century ownership inscription by the Joseph Mazzini Wheeler to head
of Wrst title.
Very rare second edition of La Mettrie’s L’Homme Machine. The Wrst edition,
(numbering 108 pages) is virtually unWndable, since most copies had
been destroyed on orders of the Consistoire of Leyden in December 1747.
Attractively this starting point of modern materialism is here found bound
together with the Wrst edition of a contemporary refutation of La Mettrie’s
materialist theories by Luzac, L’Homme Plus que Machine and another work
by La Mettrie L’Homme Plante (Wrst edition, Wrst issue). Also included in
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this Sammelband is a later edition of the French translation of Fontenai’s
Peccatum originale, on original sin.
La Mettrie’s L’Homme Machine was the most forceful expression of the
anti-religious sentiment of the Enlightenment. In his ‘human machine’
there was no essential diVerence between conscious and unconscious behaviour,
no freedom of will, no rational soul, and no moral good beyond
the perfectibility of the mechanism. In its Wnal consequence, this doctrine of
physiological determinism leaves no freedom to the individual, all human
actions are intrinsically amoral. With his discoveries he expanded the scope
of medicine, a theme which can be found in most of his works. He expected
that medical science (today called psychiatry) would some day be able, by
modifying the state of the organism, to eVect ethical improvements on his
subjects and thus contribute to the well-being of society. The publication of
L’Homme machine caused a scandal even in normally tolerant Holland, and
La Mettrie had to leave the country for fear of being arrested. In this he was
helped by his publisher Elie Luzac.
L’Homme Plante was La Mettrie’s Wrst publication after Wnding refuge at
Frederick the Great’s court in Potsdam. Here he dealt with the question of
generation. He placed man within the scale of beings, and thus suggested
evolution and the interrelation of beings.
L’Homme plus que Machine was the immediate refutation of materialism
by La Mettrie’s publisher Elie Luzac, who himself was also a journalist and
philosophical writer. He rejects the possibility of matter being endowed
with the faculty of thought, and tries to disprove the conclusions of
L’Homme Machine. Judging by Luzac’s other liberal and less restrictive writing,
and the fact that he published an Essai sur la Liberté de Produire ses

Sentimens (1749) only shortly afterwards, his strident condemnation of
materialism was possibly more for political reasons than out of real conviction.
Provenance: From the library of the English atheist and freethinker
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler (1850–1898), who best known as the author of
the monumental Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers (1889).
I. Stoddard 31; see Garrison-Morton 586, Heirs of Hippocrates 896, Norman
1270; Tchemerzine VI 465, and En Français dans le texte 151; II. Stoddard 34
(issue A); III. not in Cioranescu; IV. Barbier II, 290–1.
The Ancestor of the Game of Golf
49 [LAUTHIER, Joseph.] Nouvelles Regles pour le Jeu de Mail.
Tant sur la Maniere d’y bien joüer, que pour decider les divers
évenemens qui peuvent arriver à ce Jeu. Paris, Charles Huguier, et
André Cailleau. 1717. £4800
8vo in 8s and 4s, pp. [ii], 59, [5], with 4 engraved plates; contemporary
full mottled calf, spine with raised bands, decoratively gilt in
compartments, gilt lettering directly to spine; from the Earls of
MacclesWeld, with South Library book-plate, embossed stamp to title,
and shelf mark in ink to front free endpaper; a Wne copy.
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First edition, very rare, of the earliest printed rules of the game of ‘Mail’ or
‘Mall’ (short for mallet, the hammer-headed club), an ancestor of both croquet
and golf. The game described shows many similarities to the game of
golf, especially regarding rules and attitudes. Lauthier begins by praising its
general beneWts, which sound remarkably similar to the attributes of golf:
‘undoubtedly the game of Mail is the most pleasant, the least tiring, and the
best for health, it is not violent, one may play, converse, and take a walk in
good company – all at the same time’. The ‘jeu de mail’ was played in
diVerent versions, and the one called ‘mail à la chicane’ most closely resembles
modern golf.
Lauthier discusses the rules of the game, the position and stance of the
player, illustrated on the Wnely engraved plates, as well as the diVerent styles
of clubs, scoring etc.
In 1910 a translation was prepared by A. Lang and printed in St Andrews
for presentation to a fellow golf historian. In the rather touching preface the
author describes his problems in tracking down a copy of this notorious
rarity. Once it came up at auction, but against the might of Quaritch he had
no chance of acquiring it. However, he adds wistfully, a couple of years
later, Quaritch having obviously tired of the book, sold it for well below the
original auction price.
Very rare, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy at Notre Dame; only the 1910 reprint
is more widely available.
Street Lights
50 MARPERGER, Paul Jacob. Abermahliger Versuch zur
Abhandlung einer nützlichen Policey-Materia, nehmlich von denen
Gassen Laternen, Strand- und Wacht-Feuern, und andern
nächtlichen Illuminationibus oder Erleuchtung der Gassen und
Strassen, wie mancherley solche Illuminationes seyn, was vor
Nutzen selbige in einem Land oder Stadt, auch bey Rivier- und
Seefahrten, im Krieg und anderen Gelegenheiten haben, ingleichen
von den Modo, den Ort und der Zeit, wie, wo und wann solche
Illuminationes am füglichsten anzustellen, was die darzu erforderte
Materialia, Personen und Requisita seyn, auch was von eine
Ordnung, die so genannte Leuchten- und Laternen-Versorgers
dabey zu beobachten haben... Dresden und Leipzig, in Verlegung
des Authoris, 1722. £850
4to, pp. 40; table in the text; some light browning due to paper quality;
marbled paper spine; a little dog-eared, else Wne.
Second revised edition of Marperger’s comprehensive account of practical
and legal issues relating to street illuminations, both in the form of general
streetlighting and relating to Wreworks and celebratory street illuminations.
He begins with a detailed discussion of the practicalities: the location of
streetlights, (suspended between houses or on posts), their shape and con-

struction (triangular, oval etc.), their reach and strength, how to reduce
smoke and soot, lighting-up times depending on the time of year and
phases of the moon. In a detailed table ‘lighting up’ times are outlined,
which allow for a calculation of the number of hours streetlights would
have to be used per year. He gives extensive comparative examples of the
use, shape and form of streetlights in diVerent European cities, and even
mentions streetlighting in China.
In the second chapter Marperger outlines how street lighting needs to be
administered, the manpower needed, and the hierarchy amongst oYcials,
and their control. The third chapter deals with the question of Wnancing,
either as part of the city responsibilities and payable out of local taxes, or
individual streetlights supported by local benefactors, or, ingeniously as a
business proposal Wnanced by an entrepreneur, who then leases them back
to the city for a fee or rent, which is payable out of taxes. Other suggestions
include a local lottery, funding through the harvest of common lands, a
special tax of Jews active in the city, etc.
A Wnal chapter deals with the illumination of ships and lighthouses, with
detailed reference to naval legislation and custom. He concludes with a few
anecdotes of famous lighthouses.
Paul Jacob Marperger (1656–1730) is generally regarded as the founder
of German business literature. After a career as a merchant during which he
travelled all over Europe he became privy councillor at the Saxon court, and
wrote dozens of technical studies and handbooks of diVerent branches of
industry (Kress Library report of 1984–86).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 6117.1.
The Foundation of Communist Russia
51 MARX, Karl. ��������, ������� ������������ ��������
[Kapital, Kritika Poleticeskoj Ekonomii]. [Translated by Lopatine
and Danielson]. Volume one, St. Petersburg, Poliakof, 1872. £8000
Tall 8vo, pp. xiii, [ii], 678; bound without the half title, faint circular
ink stains to title, with show-through to dedication and Wrst signature;
title page a little creased and reinforced in gutter; loss of a few letters to
verso of last leaf, presumably caused by careless removal of original
wrappers; nineteenth century green cloth, recased, extremities a little
rubbed; a good copy.
First edition in Russian of Marx’s Kapital, in fact the Wrst translation to be
published at all. Its publication led Marx to remark: ‘our success is still
greater in Russia, where Kapital is read and appreciated more than anywhere
else’ (PMM 359).
The publication of the Wrst volume of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital was the
result of a quarter of a century of economic studies, mostly carried out in
the Reading Room of the British Museum. His biting critique of the capitalist
system had developed from his previous publication Zur Kritik der
politischen Ökonomie, 1859. Das Kapital contained it all, from the theories of
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value and surplus value, through the dictatorship of the proletariat to the
neo-Hegelian dialectic of materialism, the major Marxist contribution to
the interpretation of history and political economy. The Wrst volume was
the only one to be completed and to be published within Marx’s lifetime.
‘The great scientiWc achievement of Marx lies ... in the details and yet more
in the method and principles of his investigations in his philosophy of history.
Here he has, as is now generally admitted, broken new ground and
opened new ways and outlooks. Nobody before him had so clearly shown
the role of the productive agencies in historical evolution; nobody so masterfully
exhibited their great determining inXuence on the form and ideologies
of social organisms. The passages and chapters dealing with this subject
form ... the crowning parts of his work. If he has been justly compared with
Darwin, it is in these respects that he ranks with the great genius’ (Encyclopaedia
Britannica.)
‘By an odd quirk of history the Wrst foreign translation of Das Kapital to
appear was the Russian, which Petersburgers found in their bookshops
early in April 1872. Giving his imprimatur, the censor, one Skuratov, had
written ‘few people in Russia will read it, and still fewer will understand it.’
He was wrong: the edition of three thousand sold out quickly; and in 1880
Marx was writing to his friend F. A. Sorge that “our success is still greater in
Russia, where Kapital is read and appreciated more than anywhere
else”’(PMM 359).
The printing of another edition in Russia was forbidden and so in 1890 a
second Russian edition was printed in New York. This second edition was
identical to the Wrst but for two small typographical variations: the misplaced
comma opposite p. 73 in the table of contents is replaced by a full
stop; and the e at the end of l. 40 of p. 65 is replaced by c. The present copy
is clearly the Wrst edition.
Printing and the Mind of Man 359; Rubel 33; Mehring, Marx 391; Die Erstdrucke
der Werke v. Marx u. Engels, 1955, S. 33.

52 MENGER, Carl. Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre...
Erster, allgemeiner Theil. [all published]. Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller,
1871.
[bound with:] MENGER, Carl. Untersuchungen über die Methode
der Socialwissenschaften, und der Politischen Oekonomie
insbesondere. Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1883. £4500
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. xii, 285, [1] errata, [2] blank; xxxii,
291, [1] errata; some light browning to errata of II, else very clean;
bound in contemporary cloth-backed boards, spine ruled and decorated
in gilt, gilt-lettering directly to spine; a Wne copy.
Rare Wrst editions of Menger’s two main works, his masterpiece the
Grundsätze, a work which ‘sets forth the views of one of the pioneers of the
use of psychological concepts to explain the nature and determination of
value’ (Batson), and his later methodological treatise, the Untersuchungen.
‘Carl Menger, economic theorist and founder of the Austrian school of
marginal analysis, was both the most inXuential and the least read of the
major Wgures who gave economic theory the shape it preserved from about
1885 to 1935... Menger studied law at the universities of Vienna and
Prague, following which he entered the press section of the prime minister’s
oYce in Vienna. In that position, apparently as a result of having to write
market reports, Menger developed an interest in price theory. In his extensive
reading, he found material in the early nineteenth century German and
French economic literature on which to build fully developed utility analysis...
The results of Menger’s studies appeared in his Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre,
the work on which his fame mainly rests... In somewhat
copious but always clear language, it provided a more thorough account of
the relations between utility, value, and price than is found in any of the
works by Jevons and Walras, who at about the same time laid the foundation
of the ‘marginal revolution’ in economics’ (Friedrich von Hayek in IESS).
The second work, his Untersuchungen über die Methode der Socialwissenschaften
(Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences), contains
his defence of economic theory and an account of its relationship to historical
methods. Menger ‘undertook to vindicate the importance of theory in
the social sciences. This was an eVort that seemed necessary to him in view
of the complete indiVerence or even hostility which most of his German
colleagues, inXuenced by the antitheoretical attitude of the ‘younger historical
school’ in economics, had shown toward his attempt to reconstruct
economic theory’ (Hayek, in IESS).
I. Einaudi 3831; Menger, col. 86; Batson p. 52 (second edition) IESS, vol 10, p.
124–126; Menger c. 86; II. Batson p. 11, Einaudi 3834; Menger c. 258.
French Population Growth rather than Decline
53 MESSANCE, Louis de. Recherches sur la Population des
Généralités d’Auvergne, de Lyon, de Rouen, et de quelques
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Provinces et Villes du Royaume, avec des RéXexions sur la Valeur du
Bled tant en France qu’en Angleterre, depuis 1674 jusqu’en 1764.
Paris, Durand, 1766. £1500
4to, pp. [viii], 330, [3], [1] errata, [2] advertisement, extensive tables
and Wgures in the text; decorative head- and tail-pieces throughout;
contemporary full mottled calf, spine decoratively gilt with Xoral
ornaments, gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed, and short
split to upper joint; still a nice copy.
First edition of Messance’s detailed statistical study of the French population,
which he published to oppose the general eighteenth century lament
of the decline in population Wgures, a view most famously expressed in
Mirabeau’s L’Ami des hommes, ou Traité de la Population.
Messance (1733–1799), an eminent statistician, presents his investigations,
which he carried out while he was secretary to La Michodière,
intendant of Auvergne. He gives detailed population Wgures for various
parts of the country, with extracts from parish registers etc for periods of 10
to upwards of forty years prior to 1760. These returns show very clearly
that instead of decreasing the population had increased considerably during
this period. They also supplied valuable data concerning the state of the
population, such as its distribution, average birth rates, life expectancy,
male/female ratio, number of servants, professions, number of clergy. In an
interesting Wnal section he compares sickness and death rates of four-year
periods with the average price of grain at the time, and concludes that increased
grain prices have a detrimental eVect on population Wgures.
Adam Smith, who had a copy of the book in his library, praised
Messance’s investigations in the Wealth of Nations, calling him ‘a French
author of great knowledge and ingenuity’.
Einaudi 3852; Goldsmiths’–Kress 10185; Higgs 3885; Institute of Actuaries, p.
112; McCulloch p. 264; Bonar, Catalogue of the Library of Adam Smith, 114.
The Nature of Love
54 MIANI, Marco. Dell’Amore Dialogo. Venezia, Domenico
Lovisa, 1718. £550
12mo, pp. [xii], 126, [2] advertisement; very clean and crisp; original
buV boards, spine lettered in manuscript; shelf mark label to foot of
spine; a Wne copy, with manuscript note to front free endpaper.
First and apparently only edition of this dialogue on love, between Delio
and Filarte. They discuss the eVects of love, how to resist it, the beauty of
the beloved etc. In the chapter on beauty they argue whether beauty is in
the eye of the beholder, i.e. caused or inXuenced by love, or whether objective
beauty creates love. In the contentious Wfth chapter, which according to
the manuscript note led to the suppression of the book, they discuss
whether true love can survive its physical consummation. Filarte maintains
that the consummation of love will by deWnition destroy it. Only its anticipation
leads to the witty exchanges of mutual appreciation.

Miani also wrote opera libretti, amongst them La fama dell’onore della
Virtù, 1739 and Arlequin Battochio, of the same year.
Not in Cicogna or Soranzo; not found in RLIN or OCLC.
The Money Devil
55 [MONEY.] Le Diable d’Argent. Par M. D. L. [colophon:] Paris,
Claude Cellier, 1707. £190
Small 12mo, pp. 12; old, but somewhat later marbled boards,
extremities rubbed, but still a good copy.
One of several issues published the same year describing the potentially evil
inXuence of money. The anonymous author gives a witty, albeit reactionary,
history of money and its eVect, which he describes as mostly negative.
Where there is money, there is power, vice, corruption and misfortune.
Amongst its ‘evil’ attributes or consequences he lists the loss of friendship
and good collegial relations, the excessive inXuence of lawyers, and the promotion
of vanities and luxuries.
According to the Bibliothèque Nationale catalogue there were a number
of other issues, all published the same year, two of them also with a Cellier
imprint, but without the author initials or just initials M.L., and a further
edition published by Sétier and Velleyre.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, no copy in RLIN, not found in the British Library
catalogue.
56 MONTESQUIEU, Charles-Louis de Secondat. ReXections on
the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Romans. By the
author of the Persian Letters. Translated from the French. London,
W. Innys and R. Manby, 1734. £320
12mo, pp. iv, 265, [1] errata, [18] index; contemporary panelled calf,
spine with raised bands, gilt-lettered spine label; joints weakening, with
short splits at head and tail; author’s name added to title page in ink.
First edition in English of Montesquieu’s philosophical history of the Romans.
Like many of his contemporaries Montesquieu was fascinated by the
politics of ancient Rome, but he did not see imperial Rome as a glorious
precursor and model for contemporary monarchy. Instead he expressed a
nostalgic admiration for the Roman republic, with the imperial designs of
successive emperors ultimately leading to the destruction of the regime itself.
The lessons of Roman history can be traced throughout his subsequent
works. The work was highly popular and went through many editions; it
later inspired Edward Gibbon to write his Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire (published in 1748).
Another edition with a Dublin imprint was published the same year, and
the work was reprinted in 1752 and 1755.
ESTC t139718.
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57 MÜLLER, Friedrich Christoph. Beschreibung einer neuen
und vollkommenen Art, Plans aufzunehmen, und zu verzeichnen.
Mit zwölf Kupfern. Frankfurt und Leipzig, Philipp Heinrich
Perrenon, 1775. £480
8vo, pp. [iv], 116, [8] advertisements, 12 engraved plates, Wnal
advertisement misbound; title vignette; some light foxing, else clean;
contemporary buV boards, remains of paper spine label; shelf mark in
ink to front free endpaper, and manuscript note of price.
First edition of this uncommon work on the art of drawing maps by
Friedrich Christoph Müller (1751–1808). After some introductory comments
on diVerent methods of surveying and drawing maps, Müller explains
the method of triangulation for more reliable results. His practical
contribution is of particular interest, as he explains the problems ‘in the
Weld’, together with suggestions on how to overcome the problems of
diYcult terrain. He concludes with advice on how to record the Wndings,
pleading for uniWed symbols, shading etc, to indicate variations in the terrain.
Müller also gives information on the colouring of the map and which
colour pigments to use.
Included are tables of relative distances between baseline points and faroV
points, for use in geometrical calculations. The twelve plates, engraved
by himself, show scientiWc instruments, outline of surveying positions, and
illustrations used in mapmaking.
Müller (1751–1808), a theologian by profession, conducted numerous
scientiWc experiments and studied mathematics and astronomy.
Uncommon, OCLC/RLIN record just one copy at Oklahoma; see M. Spata, Das
Wirken von Pastor F. C. Müller vor der systematischen Landestriangulation.

On Laughter
58 NICOLAI, Ernst Anton. Abhandlung von dem Lachen in
einem Glückwünschungsschreiben an Herren Christian Gottl.
Koetschken, als derselbe die Doktorwürde in der Arzneygelahrheit
auf der Universitaet zu Halle erhielt. Halle, Lüderwaldische
Handlung, 1746. £450
8vo, pp. 62, [2] advertisement; large engraved title vignette; some light
spotting, title-page dust-soiled, and small abrasion in upper margin,
where a shelf mark label has been carelessly removed; uncut and mostly
unopened in late nineteenth century brown wrappers.
First edition of this physiological and psychological essay on laughter by the
medical doctor Nicolai, on the occasion of a fellow medical student being
awarded his doctorate. Nicolai stresses the importance of a joint study of
the manifestation of laughter on mind and body, referring to medical authorities
such as Boerhaave and Haller. He describes in detail the physiology
of laughter, its eVect on respiration, pulse, various muscle groups etc.
But he is also aware of the heightened emotional state of a laughing person,
resulting in the general observation of the closeness of laughter and tears.
In his Wnal note he comments on Koetschken’s adherence to materialist
ideas and advises him to treat his patients’ soul as well as their bodies.
Nicolai (1722–1802) was an innovative doctor and paediatrician, and
later became Dean of the Jena Medical School.
Laehr, Literatur der Psychiatrie II. 371; Hirsch IV 359; not in Blake or Wellcome;
RLIN lists copies at Harvard and Duke.
Linen and Hemp Manufacture in Ireland
59 [PATENTS.] Copies of several ExempliWcations of Patents,
passed in Great-Britain, relative to the Machinery for Spinning Flax.
Published by the order of the Right Hon. and Hon. The Trustees of
the Linen Manufacture. Dublin, [n.p.], 1796. £3200
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4to, pp. 37, with nine engraved plates (seven of which folding), one
each for inventions 1–5 and 7, and 3 plates for invention 6; some of the
plates have short clean tears at the folds; a little browned; original light
blue paper boards, spine with old paper reinforcement; a good copy.
First and only edition of this rare collection of seven British patents for linen
manufacture, explained and illustrated, with the purpose of encouraging

Irish linen manufacture. The patents show machinery developed for the
spinning of yarn and subsequently the manufacture of linen, and are here
published by the Irish Linen Board. The inventors of the seven patents
described were John Royds of Rochdale in Lancaster, John Kendrew and
Thomas Porthouse of Darlington in Durham, Matthew Murray of Leeds
(credited with the invention of two separate machines), Jean Arnoux of
Westminster, Paul Tate of Manchester, and William Sellars and Peter
Standage of Salop.
In each case detailed information is given on the newly patented machinery,
with exact technical information, advice on its application and use, and
illustrated on the engraved plates. The Irish Linen Board had been established
in 1710 as a well-Wnanced body to encourage the manufacture of
linen. Despite its eVorts, it was disbanded in 1830, because of the general
depression of the Irish linen industry, which could not compete with Scottish
machine-produced yarns. From the early 1830s, however, machinery
was Wnally introduced on a large scale and guaranteed the Irish linen
industry the inXuence it had from the mid- nineteenth century. The present
publication was clearly too early for the real upturn in Irish linen manufacturing.
Uncommon, ESTC t118449, (British Library; Queen’s University, Belfast; National
Library of Ireland); OCLC adds a copy at Yale; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’.
The Economics of ScientiWc and Literary Production
60 PECCHIO, Giuseppe. Sino a qual Punto le Produzioni
ScientiWche e Letterarie seguano le Leggi Economiche della
Produzione in generale... Lugano, Ruggia, 1832. £300
Tall 12mo, pp. xv, [1]; 199, fold-out table inserted at p. 66; some light
spotting and browning; uncut in the original printed wrappers, some
wear to spine, and fraying to extremities, but holding Wrm.
First edition of an interesting study of the economics of scientiWc and literary
production. Pecchio investigates whether the basic laws of economics,
i.e. the rule of supply and demand, also govern scientiWc and literary production.
He includes a quantitative analysis of literary works produced in
England and France and gives their correlation to political events. Overall
he maintains that literary works produced in situations of adversity tend to
be more long-lasting. Overall, however, literary and scientiWc production
seems to thrive in booming economies.
Pecchio (1785–1835), writer and economist, is best known for his history
of Italian economists. For many years he lived in England, where the
present work was written.
Einaudi 4337; Goldsmiths’–Kress 27290; OCLC lists copies at the University of
Kansas and Cambridge only.
Opening Night at La Fenice in 1792
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61 PEPOLI, Alessandro. I Giuochi d’Agrigento. Dramma
per Musica del Conte Alesandro Pepoli da rappresentarsi
nell’apertura del nuovo Teatro detto La Fenice. Venezia,
Stamperia Curti, 1792. £2500
8vo, frontispiece view of the theatre, [ii], 86, and four engraved
portraits; engraved title vignette; some light foxing, else clean;
contemporary marbled stiV wrappers, some wear to spine, with loss to
paper covering at foot of spine; a Wne copy.
First edition, uncommon, of the opera that opened the famous Venetian
opera house ‘La Fenice’, one the most important Italian opera houses, particularly
famous for the countless premieres of Italian musical theatre and
melodrama. The opera was composed by Giovanni Paisiello with dance
scenes by Viganò.
Presumably in honour of the special occasion, the libretto includes a view
of the newly built theatre and Wne portraits of the composer and the three
main stars, the famous soprano Brigida Banti (she was a favourite with London
audiences at the end of the eighteenth century), the baritone Giacomo
David, and Gasparo Pacchiarotti, one of the last great castratos.
The theatre’s name La Fenice, ‘the phoenix’, proved prophetic judging by
the numerous Wres that ravaged the opera building, the most recent one in
1996.
A second edition was published in 1794.
Lapiccirella 203; Morazzoni p. 248; rare, RLIN and OCLC list copies at Yale and
the Getty only.

Civic Poor Relief
62 [POOR RELIEF.] Statuti della Congregazione di S. Gio.
Batista della Città di Firenze sopra il soccorso de’ Poveri, e loro
Lavoro. Firenze, Stamperia di S.A.R. per i Tartini, e Franchi,
1732. £850
Tall 4to, pp. 62, large title vignette, decorated initials; uncut in
contemporary full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; a Wne copy.
Second revised edition of the statutes of an innovative charitable organisation
founded by the Grand Duke Cosimo III in 1700 with the intention of
relieving the city of Florence of unwanted foreign beggars, organising poor
relief and work for local deserving poor, and supporting invalids and those
unable to provide for themselves. DiVerent from most other organisations
for poor relief, the Congregazione di S. Gio. Batista is in fact a lay organisation,
not organised by the church. It is governed by a civic council, composed
of seventy-two members, drawn from the diVerent districts of
Florence, including representatives of clergy, nobility and citizens, who in
turn select twelve representatives for regular meetings. The statutes regulate
the internal organisation of the charity, and its Wnancial control. Special
provisions are made for the acceptance of donations and legacies, to support
the charity Wnancially.
At the end three earlier decrees are reprinted, restricting the rights of foreign
beggars. In particular they are not to take advantage of the ecclesiastical
law of asylum, which in the past had led to conXict between church and civil
authorities.
Rare, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Exploitation of the Brazilian Colony
63 [PORTUGAL – BRAZIL.] Profecia Politica, VeriWcada en lo
que està sucediendo à los Portugueses por su ciega aWcion à los
Ingleses: Hecha luego despues del Terremoto del ano de mil
setecientos cinquenta y cinco, Augurium ratio est & conjectura
futuri. Madrid, Imprenta de la Gaceta, 1762. £2600
Small 4to, pp. [ii], CXXVI; title vignette; some occasional spotting and
light foxing, else clean; contemporary full red morocco, lavish gilt
decoration to both sides, spine with diagonal gilt roll, some individual
worm holes to spine, joints and head of spine chipped, still a very
attractive copy in its original binding.
First edition, very uncommon, of this little-known treatise on Portuguese
economy and, most importantly, on the exploitation of the Brazilian gold
mines which Wnanced the lavish expenditure of the Portuguese crown. The
anonymous author studies in detail the Portuguese economic system, its
industry, trade, government, and army. He analyses the detrimental eVect
of the excessive gold imports on the Portuguese economy, as they stiXed
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internal industrial development. Indirectly the gold imports were also to
blame for the stranglehold that England had on Portugal. The goods that
England supplied ‘on credit’, were paid for with Brazilian gold. In turn
England developed the Portuguese wine industry, and created fortunes in
port wine, controlled grain and codWsh supplies, and thus by controlling
Wrst-hand markets at the point of production, acted like a commercial colonial
power over Portugal.
The work concludes with a report on the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, a
cataclysmic event, which also had immense political repercussions.
A second edition followed in 1808, together with a Portuguese translation.
Palau 238351; not in Borba de Morae, not in Sabin, Kress or Goldsmiths’; uncommon
RLIN/OCLC list copies at John Carter Brown, Newberry, Duke and North
Carolina.
Italian Enlightenment Reform –
together with Swift’s Modest Proposal in French
64 RADICATI, Alberto, comte de Passeran. Recueil de Pieces
curieuses sur les Matières les plus intéressantes. Londres, John
Brindley, 1749. £1200
8vo, pp. x, 14, [ii], 384, prelims misbound; title page vignette and
typographic head- and tail-pieces; some light foxing and browning;
contemporary full polished calf, with triple gilt rule to sides, spine
decoratively gilt, gilt-lettered spine label, corners a little rubbed and
single short worm trace to upper board; an attractive copy with bookplate
removed from front paste-down.
Second edition, in fact a re-issue of the very rare Wrst edition of 1736 with a
cancel title page, of a central text of the European Enlightenment. Radicati
de Passerano, a Piedmontese nobleman, had been exiled from Italy for his
attempt to carry to its logical conclusion the conXict between state and
church. He wanted to establish more Wrmly the control of political over ecclesiastical
power, and expressed this demand in his Discours moraux,
historiques et politiques. But his proposals proved too radical for Victor
Amadeus II, and Radicati was forced into exile. He moved to England, and
absorbed the more polemical elements from English deism. ‘He dreamed of
a world without property or authority, and, at the same time, showed enthusiasm
for the mixed government of the British Isles, which he experienced
during his diYcult and troubled exile. He combined the most diverse
elements from the commonwealth men in a curious and original way...
Every aspect of this example, both the ideological and the political, reveals
particularly well the penetration on the continent of the ideas formed in
England at the turn of the century’ (Venturi, Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment,
p. 67).
Even in England his radical publications met with opposition and the
threat of legal proceedings, so it was eventually in the Netherlands, that a

collected edition was published, the present Recueil de Pieces curieuses. It contained
the Discours which he had originally written for Victor Amadeus II.
Now it was dedicated to Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, in the hope
that he would reign over the whole of Italy and free it from papal oppression.
Incidentally this is also the Wrst clear statement of the idea of Italian
unity in the eighteenth century.
The volume also contains his Histoire abrégée de la profession sacerdotale ancienne,
summing up the discussions of the role of the priests of the past century.
This was followed by Nazarénus et Lycurgus mis en parallèle, which made even
more explicit the ideas contained in the Discours. The Wnal section is of particular
importance as it contains the Wrst translation of Swift’s Modest Proposal
for Preventing the Children of poor People in Ireland, from being a Burden to their
Parents or Country, one of his most savage and powerful tracts.
Conlon 36:632; Brunet IV, 1086; ESTC t95245 (British Library, National Library
of Ireland and Bibliotheque Mazarin only), L’Illuminismo Italiano alla
Fondazione Feltrinelli, 436; Teerink 680.
The Diseases of the Ruling Classes
65 RAMAZZINI, Bernardo. De Principum Valetudine Tuenda.
Commentatio Bernardini Ramazzini. Patavvii, Typgraphia Jo:
Baptistae Conzatti, 1710. £4000
4to, pp. [xvi], 160; title vignette and decorated initials; occasional light
browning, and light dampstain to gutter margin at head, unobtrusive
and never getting anywhere near the text; uncut in the original buV
limp boards, eighteenth century spine covering with paste-paper;
corners bumped; sowing strengthened; a very good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Ramazzini’s study of occupational diseases, in
fact a companion volume to his earlier and better known De Morbis
ArtiWcum (1700), where he concentrated on the diseases of manual workers.
In this work he concentrates on the occupational diseases incurred by
those who work with their brains rather than their hands, the diseases of
princes, government oYcials, and their advisors. He treats all physical aspects
that inXuence the life and health of princes, such as air, food, drink,
sleep, digestion etc, before concentrating on the psychological aspects, such
as the pressure of government, the responsibility, and life at court. Interestingly
he argues that a combination of these factors are likely to produce
psychosomatic symptoms. Ramazzini warns against the interference from
medical practitioners, who are most unlikely to properly diagnose the complaints.
Rather Wttingly for today’s society he concludes with the motto that
advice on the well-being of princes is not only useful for them, but also for
their subjects.
Throughout Ramazzini backs up his Wndings with reference to medical
authorites, and refers in particular to the earlier studies by Marsilio Ficino,
De studiorum sanitate, 1489 and V. Fortunato Plembio, De Togatorum
valetudine tuendo, 1670.
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His work was published to Europe-wide acclaim, and an edition printed
in Leipzig followed in 1711, and another one in Uppsala in 1712, with
Italian editions in 1713 and 1717, and an anonymous French translation in
1724.
Di Pietro 65; Blake, p. 370; Wellcome IV, p. 468; see Francesco Carnevale, La
Salute dei Principi ovvero come difendersi dalle malattie e dai medici, Florence, 1992, p.
202 for bibliography, a study of the text and its gestation; RLIN and OCLC also
record copies at the University of Chicago, Oklahoma, and the New York Academy
of Medicine.
Economics, Public Administration, and the Law
66 RATHLEF, Ernst Lorenz Michael. Auserlesene
Abhandlungen über Gegenstände der Policey, der Finanzen und
der Oekonomie gezogen aus den Jahrgängen des Hannoverischen
Magazins. Erster Band [-Dritter Band]. Hannover, Helwing,
1786–1788. £1800
Three volumes, 8vo, pp. 528; 532 (vere 530) with 2 printed folding
tables; 368, last 4 leaves folding; woodcut head- and tail-pieces and
initials; very lightly and evenly browned; contemporary half calf over

sprinkled boards, volume I recased and rebacked with original spine laid
down, spine in compartments, ruled in gilt and with gilt lettered spine
labels; a Wne set.
First edition of this collection of inXuential contributions to the Hanoverian
Magazine (Hannoverisches Magazin), one of the best-known German
popular scientiWc journals (Intelligenzblätter), on the subject of economics,
economic policy, public administration, agriculture and the police. The
work was compiled and edited by Rathlef (1742–1791), and contains contributions
from 1755 to 1786. These are wide-ranging and interesting, and
also include translations from other European countries, such as Eric
Salander’s On the introduction and improvement of manufacturing industry,
and its beneWts for the economy, read at the Swedish Royal Academy in 1754.
Other noteworthy contributions are Schneller’s article on the economic
improvement of cities, Heise on the manufacturing industry, ‘J.C.’ on artisans;
and an anonymous article on the importance of business associations
for major trade improvements, using Wre insurance and brewing associations
as examples. There is a further response to the famous prize question
regarding the revival of the property market, which was won by the German
physiocrat Schlettwein, this response is signed S.C. Most interesting is
a stinging attack on physiocratic tax proposals as outlined by Mauvillon,
‘Etwas über das Steuerwesen und die physiocratischen Grundsätze, die Einrichtung
desselben betreVend’. The anonymous author sides with Dohm and criticises
the tax on land proposed by the physiocrats, and by extension
Schlettwein. Also included is a still pertinent discussion of the correlation
between tax rate and tax fraud (J.C.).
Predictably a large number of articles cover agriculture and land management,
including Guden’s articles on the economic beneWt and moral danger
of the distilling industry, Westfeld’s contribution on the abolition of serfdom
in agricultural estates, essays on tobacco manufacture, the administration
of the poor, and general farming questions.
Humpert 994; Jöcher VI, 1394–5; Meusel XI, p. 54; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’;
because of the importance of the collection, a reprint was produced in 1999.
67 RAUTENSTRAUCH, Johann. Die Frauenzimmer im
neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Ein Traumgesicht. Wien, Paris, und
London, [vere Linz, Akadem. Buchhandlung], 1781. £550
8vo, pp. engraved title, [xvi], 205; two engraved vignettes in the text;
paper lightly browned and foxed; contemporary full sheep, spine gilt in
compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, head and tail of spine chipped,
gilt rubbed; striking paste-paper endpapers; a good copy.
First edition of this social utopia by Rautenstrauch, covering his critique of
the women of the eighteenth century in a futuristic vision of greater intellectual
equality. The author criticises the reliance of eighteenth women on
fashion, idle talk, luxury and Wscal frivolity. They entrance their suitors and
enslave them, until the men of the early nineteenth century resolve to ab-
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stain to bring them to their senses. Following this, marital relations are
based on more understanding, enlightened education and independence. A
special chapter is devoted to mothers-in-law, warning them of extensive interference.
Rautenstrauch (1746–1801) was a fervent supporter of the reform politics
of Joseph II. He wrote a number of semi utopian novels. Die Frauenzimmer
im neunzehnten Jahrhundert was popular and a second edition
followed within three months of the original publication, a further edition
was published in 1782.
Hayn/Gotendorf II, p. 421; Goedeke IV, 199, 22 lists a Wrst edition for 1780,
which does not seem to be conWrmed by any other source; RLIN/OCLC record
copies at Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern and the university of Pennsylvania.
68 [REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR.] Nouveau calendrier à
l’usage d’une République établie depuis peu dans un pays qu’on
appelle France, d’après les tables jacobino-républico-astronomiques
du Sr. Fabre d’Eglantine, Astronome-Pensionnaire de la
Republique, pour l’An II de la République des Sans Culottes. A
Jacobinopolis, aux dépens de la Société. [1793–94].
[Bound with:] Le revers de la medaille, ou Almanach royal pour
l’an de grace 1794, dédié aux Souverains & aux peuples. Mons,
1794. £320
Two parts in one volume, 16mo, pp. 33; 28; later marbled boards.
Only edition of a rare Revolutionary calendar. In a vaguely satirical mode
the anonymous author explains the intricacies of the new calender, which
had been developed to separate the republicans from the superstitions embodied
in the Gregorian calendar. In keeping with the cult of nature, the
names of the twelve months were chosen to evoke the agricultural year.

After twelve months at thirty days each, there would be Wve remaining festival
days in the year, for talent (genie), industry, heroic deeds, and ideas
(opinions) respectively. After a brief introduction to the calendar, details
for reluctant ‘republicans’, i.e. some satirical facts of the new regime are
given. Its institutions, government, and foreign relations are criticized,
with the brief observation, that all population increase will be kept in check
by the guillotine.
The revolutionary calendar is followed by a Christian calendar for the
year 1794, together with a declaration of allegiance to the monarchy.
OCLC lists one copy at the university of Chicago (under Fabre d’Eglantine), not
found in Grand-Carteret, Welschinger, Les Almanachs de la Révolution,
Monglond, or Tourneux.
In Praise of the French Language
69 RIVAROL, Antoine de. Dissertations sur l’Universalité de la
Langue Françoise, qui ont partagé le Prix adjugé par l’Académie
Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres le 3 Juin, MDCCLXXXIV.
Berlin, George Jacques Decker, Imprimeur du Roi, 1784.
[Bound with:] SCHWAB, Jean Christophe. Dissertation sur
l’Universalité de la Langue Françoise. Beantwortung der von
der Könglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin furs Jahr
1784 aufgegebenen Preisfrage: Was ist es, das die Französische
Sprache zu einer Universalsprache in Europa gemacht hat.
Wodurch verdient sie diesen Vorzug? Ist zu vermuthen, daß
sie ihn behalten werde? £2800
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. [ii], 52; 87; uncut, title page dustsoiled
with some staining, two tears to lower margin strengthened from
verso, signatures B and C of the second work with some marginal
damp-staining; recent marbled boards, with printed label to spine and
upper boards; small unidentiWed heraldic stamp to verso of title.
First edition, very rare, of Rivarol’s prize-winning essay on the universality
of the French language, published by the Berlin Academy of Sciences, together
with Schwab’s essay on the same question. Brief, brilliant, and aphoristic,
this celebration of the glory of the French language is included in
even the briefest history of the French language and has served as an indicator
for the pride the French take in their language and culture. Rivarol
maintained that there was no need to look further for a universal language,
as French already possessed all the necessary characteristics. In a sweeping
overview he condenses centuries of French linguistic history and celebrates
French culture.
Umberto Eco sums up his main points: ‘Apart from its intrinsic perfection,
French was already an international language; it was the language
most diVused in the world, so much that is was possible to speak of the
‘French world’ just as, in antiquity, one could speak of the ‘Roman world’.
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According to Rivarol, French possessed a phonetic system that guaranteed
sweetness and harmony, as well as a literature incomparable in its richness
and grandeur; ... In comparison with French all other languages paled: German
was too guttural, Italian too soft, Spanish to redundant, English too
obscure. Rivarol attributed the superiority of French to its word order: Wrst
subject, then verb, and last object. This word order mirrored a natural logic
which was in accordance with the requirements of common sense’. Rivarol
condenses his arguments in great aphoristic style: ‘Ce qui n’est pas clair,
n’est pas français’.
Rivarol (1754–1801), a man of letters, journalist and pamphleteer, was
celebrated in Paris for his learning, wit, and brilliant conversation. He left
France during the French revolution, stayed brieXy in England, where he
was respectfully received by Pitt and Burke, in spite of his dismissive remarks
on English language and literature. He later moved to Hamburg,
where he composed his ‘Discours préliminaire du nouveau dictionnaire de la
langue française’ in 1797, an attempt to present the human mind through
the evolution of language, particularly the French language.
The Wrst edition of this work is very rare, it was reprinted the same year
with a ‘Berlin and Paris imprint (à Berlin, et se trouve à paris, chez Baily et
Dessenne) , with a further edition following in 1797.
En Français dans le Texte 177; Cioranescu 53293; Tchemerzine IX, p. 103 (mistakenly
listing the second issue as the original); OCLC lists just one copy at the Boston
Athenaeum, RLIN adds just microWlms; see Umberto Eco, The search for the perfect
language, 1995.
70 RIZZETTI, Luigi. Riforma de’ Carri di Quattro Ruote.
Trevigi, A Spese dell’Autore, 1785. £2200
Tall 8vo, pp. [ii], [viii], cxii, large engraved title vignette showing a
carriage, nine folding engraved plates bound at the end; uncut in the
original buV stiV wrappers, spine lettered in manuscript; covers a little
dust-soiled, but in all a very Wne copy.

First edition, rare, of this innovative work on the construction of carriages
and carts by Luigi Rizzetti, who proposed important improvements in mechanical
engineering. In this treatise he combines mathematical rigour with
a keen sense for practicalities, proving mathematically that the force necessary
for a wheel to overcome an obstacle is inversely proportional to its
circumference. Therefore he recommends the use of large wheels even at the
front, diVerent from the fashion of the day, where front wheels were usually
smaller than back wheels. At the same time he resolved the subsequent
steering problem by introducing a number of ‘rinvii incrociati’ to make
steering easier. He makes separate recommendations for driving carriages,
and those designed for transport of merchandise. He stresses the economic
advantages of carriages, maintains that his discoveries as regards the optimal
size of wheels can be used in every country, and is adaptable to all kinds
of roads. He also discusses breaks, springs and other carriage improvements,
and calculates the resistance posed by muddy roads. In each case he
gives mathematical calculations, and illustrates the devices on detailed
measured drawings.
Rizzetti, a member of the Scuola Riccatiana di Castelfranco Veneto predominantly
worked in the areas of architecture – he developed a theatre
design (ellisse conica) to optimise both visual and audio quality for the spectators.
OCLC/RLIN record copies at Harvard, Michigan, Getty, and Göttingen.
On Fashion
71 ROBERTI, Giovanni Battista. La Moda, Poemetto nell’
occasione delle lietissime Nozze di sue Eccellenze il Nobil uomo
Gio. Antonio Ruzini, e la nobil Donna Arpalice Manini. Edizione
Seconda Ripulita e accresciuta. Venezia, Modesto Fenzo,
1746. £750
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4to, pp. [xii], 47, title printed in red and black, large engraved title
vignette of the respective family shields, and three large engravings in
the text, and decorative initials; uncut in pattern paper covered boards.
First edition thus, of this very attractive production on the occasion of the
wedding of Giovanni Antonio Ruzini and Arpalice Manini, unusually with
a portrait vignette of the couple, which is presumably taken from life.
Roberti’s poem is here printed for the second time, though revised and
adapted to the occasion, as is explained in the detailed preface. Roberti’s
poem was popular and was reprinted a number of times, in 1754 and 1766.
Morazzoni 1943; Petoello 24; Pinto, Nuptialia 953; rare, OCLC/RLIN list copies
at Yale, Duke, Harvard, and the New York Public Library.
Return to Palestine?
72 [RONDET, Laurent Etienne.] Isaïe Vengé, double sens des
Stes Écritures établi et justiWé, rappel futur des Juifs réduit a ses
justes Idées, ou lettre dans laquelle, en réfutant les faux principes
avancés dans l’ouvrage intituled Traduction nouvelle d’Isaïe, avec
des dissertations & des remarques, par seu M. Deschamps, cure [de]
Dangu, & imprimé à Paris en 1760, chez Debure l’ainé, in–12
d’environ 620 pag., on établit, d’après l’Ecriture & les SS. Pères
Prophéties, & sur le grand d’événement du rappel futur des Juifs.
n.p. 1761. £500
12mo in 8s and 4s, pp. 86; bound in unlettered nineteenth-century
marbled boards, stab-holes through gutter; a fresh copy.
First and only edition of a discussion of the return of the Jewish diaspora to
Palestine. Rondet discusses the relation between literal and Wgurative dimensions
of a text, before rejecting in the second part Deschamps’ view that
the promise of the ‘return’ of the Jews to Palestine in scripture is primarily
literal. After an extended analysis of the practicalities of a literal return to
Palestine, such as the economy of Palestine, with some prescient detail on
agricultural development and views of the current inhabitants, Rondet concludes
that the primary sense of the promise is Wgurative: if the Jews ‘return’
to true religion (Christianity), they will Wnd the promised land of divine
providence pledged to all believers. ‘La conversion d’un people depuis si
longtemps incrédule, & si opiniâtre dans son incrédulité, sera un miracle
mille fois plus étoinnant & plus digne d’admiration, que ne pourroit l’être le
retour de ce people dans la Judée, & rétablissment de la ville de Jérusalem’
(p. 80).
Questions explored by Rondet would only begin to inform a wider debate
with the rise of Zionism a century later, and literalistic ‘Christian Zionism’
did not emerge until the middle of the twentieth century as a major
cultural force.
Conlon 61:1008; not in Fürst; not found in OCLC or RLIN.

First Amsterdam Edition
73 ROUSSEAU, J. J. Emile, ou de l’éducation. Selon la copie
de Paris. No place (i.e. Amsterdam, J. Néaulme), 1762. £950
Four parts bound in two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], viii, 224; [iv], 192;
[iv], 168; [iv], 243; with an engraved frontispiece and Wve engraved
plates by J. v. Schley and S. Fokke after C. Eisen; volume I with a small
dampstain in the upper blank margin; occasional dust-soiling;
contemporary polished calf, gilt ornamental border on sides, gilt back
with raised bands and gilt lettering; expert repairs to head and foot of
spines; a good copy with some pencil annotations in the blank margins.
First Amsterdam edition, of Rousseau’s Émile, one of the most inXuential
texts in the history of Western education. The Amsterdam printing is especially
rare, since it was banned before publication.
Émile represents to a large extent a synthesis and continuation of
Montaigne and Locke. The attack launched upon it by church and state – it
was banned by the archbishop of Paris, by the Sorbonne and by the civil
government – centred, however not on Rousseau’s pedagogical theory, but
on his statement on natural religion, which he proposed to substitute for
the dogma of revealed religion. Few books have had greater immediate
eVect on educational thought than Rousseau’s Emile. Its ideas fused with
those of radical and scientiWc thinkers to create new insights into children,
into methods of teaching and into the scope of the educational process, and
these gave new directions to educational thought.
Though the printing history of this book is extremely complicated, the
most recent research by McEachern indicates that the Wrst edition was published
the same year in Paris by Duchesne, though with the imprint ‘Amsterdam,
J. Néaulme’. That edition was banned almost immediately, on
June 9th, 1762 and soon afterwards Rousseau was forced into exile. The
present edition was indeed printed by Néaulme, with the approval of both
Rousseau and Duchesne. It was copied from the sheets of Duchesne’s
12mo edition, and intended for distribution outside France, in particular in
the Netherlands and Great Britain. The correspondence between Néaulme
and Rousseau shows that the latter revised and corrected at least part of the
sheets. Because Duchesne had published his edition some months earlier
with the false imprint ‘A Amsterdam, chez J. Néaulme’, Néaulme was called
before the Dutch magistrates, where he had to explain that he had not
printed that edition but that he had printed the work now and had obtained
a privilège for it. He was then immediately prohibited from delivering a
single copy and was requested to submit two copies to the authorities for
examination. Shortly afterwards, Néaulme’s privilège was withdrawn and
all sales of Émile were forbidden. Thus Émile was banned in Holland before
Néaulme had sold a single copy of his edition there.
McEachern, nr. 2; Dufour 195; Le Petit, p. 563–4; Peignot, ii, p. 94.
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74 [ROUSSEAU.] CLAPAREDE, David. Considerations sur les
Miracles de l’Evangile, pour servir de Response aux DiYcultés de
Mr. J. J. Rousseau dans sa 3.e Lettre Ecrite de la Montagne. Geneve,
Claude Philibert, 1765. £280
8vo, pp. xi, [I], 251; uncut in the original marbled wrappers, rebacked
and somewhat dog-eared; with book-plate of H. Tronchin on front
paste-down.
First and only edition of Claparede’s well-reasoned critique of Rousseau’s
theories on miracles. Claparede (1727–1801), Genevan professor of theology,
maintains ‘Rousseau n’admet ni ne rejette les miracles; il nie que notre
Seigneur les ait employés comme une preuve de sa mission; il entasse des
diYcultés contre ce genre de preuve; quelquefois même il employe la
raillerie, cette arme favorite des Incrédules’ p. v-vi).
Cioranescu 19716.
Critique of Rousseau’s Emile
75 [ROUSSEAU. GERDIL, Hyacinthe-Sigismond.] ReXexions
Sur la Théorie, & la Pratique de l’Education contre les principes de
Mr. Rousseau par le P.G.B. Turin, Chez les Frères Reycends, &
Guibert, 1763. £800
8vo, pp. 192, contemporary vellum covering marbled boards; corners
a little bumped, else Wne; shelf mark in ink to front paste-down,
eighteenth century ownership inscription by marquis Mayan?; a good
copy.
Rare Wrst edition and one of the author’s most important books, a critical
and detailed exposition of Rousseau’s educational principles as expounded
in his Émile. The work is an attempt to expose the fallacies and contradictions
in Rousseau’s work and argues in favour of an education based on ‘des
principes plus conformes à l’esprit du genre humain et à la paix des familles’.
Amongst the numerous publications criticial of his ideas, Rousseau deemed
this the only one worth reading and studying: ‘Voila l’unique écrit publié
contre moi que j’ai trouvé digne d’être lu en entier.’
The cardinal Hyacinthe-Sigismond Gerdil (1718–1802) was a member
of many scientiWc and literary institutions throughout Europe, such as Bologna,
Turin, London, etc. and a tireless opponent of the Enlightenment
and its intellectual origins. His learning was immense and he wrote on a
wide range of subjects, in general defending the rights of the church and the
Christian truth. He was one of the most strident defenders of catholic philosophy
during the enlightenment.
Conlon, Ouvrages Français relatifs à Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1751–1799. Bibliographie
Chronologique, 242; Conlon 63:868; Melzi, ii, p. 416; Barbier, iv, 156.

Death Row
76 SABBATINI, Giuliano de’ Conti. Memorie del Pio Istituto
della Conforteria assunto già dai primi Fondatori della Venerabile
Confraternita di S. Giovanni Battista di Modena detta l’Ospitale
della Morte Wno dall’Anno 1372. e ristaurato nel corrente Anno
1755... Modena, Eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani, [1755]. £650
8vo, pp. 221, [1] errata, with one full-page woodcut bound after p.
106, and woodcut arms of the society to p. 221; occasional light
spotting; contemporary pale blue boards, spine with surface abrasions,
but Wrm.
First and apparently only edition of this history of a charitable religious
society devoted to the comforting of convicted criminals, especially those
condemned to death. Originally founded in Modena in 1372, the society
experienced a long history, and repeatedly renewed statutes and outlines of
its purpose. All the legal documents relevant to the organisation are reprinted
in the Wnal chapter.
The account is divided into four parts, in the Wrst the founding principles
are declared, the second concentrates on the actual activities of the organisation,
such as taking confessions and providing religious support. In the
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third and fourth part the names of the oYcials and society members are
given. The society was of particular importance for those who were condemned
to death, as it not only provided opportunity for confession, but
also accompanied those on ‘death row’ to the gallows, and organised the
burial. The full-page woodcut illustrates the gown-like garment worn by
the members of the association, pulled together with a string-belt, adorned
with a skull. Sabbatini (1684–1757) was bishop of Modena and a member
of the society.
Similar lay religious organisations were active in a number of Italian city
states.
Not found in OCLC or RLIN, one copy found on ICCU.
A Guide to Cosmetics
77 SCHREGER, Christian Heinrich Theodor. [Die weibliche
SchönheitspXege für jegliches Alter und Lebensverhältniss.]
Kosmetisches Taschenbuch für Damen, zur gesundheitsgemässen
SchönheitspXege ihres Körpers durchs ganze Leben, und in
allen Lebensverhältnissen. Nürnberg, Johann Leonhard Schrag,
1812. £480
8vo, pp. [iv] frontispiece and title, xii, 272, [4] errata & advert, 20
advertisements; occasionally lightly foxed, stronger in the last signature;
original pale green wrappers with pink spine; a little dog-eared, else
Wne, old private armorial library stamp (illegible) to title, shelf mark in
ink at head of title, with note Fechenbach.
Third printing of this charming guide to cosmetics, beautiWcation and female
health, Wrst published in 1810. Schreger begins with a general introduction
to female health, advice on healthy eating and living, suYcient
physical exercise, before concentrating on the beauty regime. He gives advice
on treatments for the whole body, beginning with skin, teeth, eyes,
neck and also covering arms, hands and feet. The second half, however,
concentrates entirely on ‘artiWcial’ beauty aids, soaps, lotions, and perfumes,
and gives numerous recipes for diVerent potions, both for medicinal use
and for regular application. Amongst the potions described are skin and
teeth whitener, medication against moles, sun- and liver-spots. Schreger
concludes with a long chapter on make-up, beginning with a historical
overview of make-up in diVerent ages and diVerent cultures, and including
advice on theatrical make-up. Again, numerous recipes are given, and accompanied
by warnings against those containing mercury and other dangerous
chemicals. In a Wnal addition, he also deals with air puriWcation and
air fresheners.
Schreger (1768–1833) published widely on chemistry, dyeing, medicine,
and balneology. His advice on cosmetics and female health was apparently
popular, after its Wrst publication in 1810, it was reprinted in 1811,
1812 and 1814, and in 1813 also translated into Danish.
RLIN/OCLC list just the Wellcome Library copy.

78 [SERFDOM.] Verkauf- und Kauf-Contract des Gesindes.
n.p., n.d. [Mitau, after 1863]. £150
8vo, pp. 23, 17 blank; contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards.
A blank contract form for the sale of farm serfs as part of the sale of agricultural
estates in the Baltic state Kurland, at the time under German rule. The
form is bilingual in German and Latvian. Reference is being made to legal
reforms of 1863, which generally allowed the local population the purchase
of land. Special banks were formed to help Wnance the transactions.
The Nationalisation of Land
79 [SICILY.] Memoria relativa allo Scioglimento della
Promiscuità delle Proprietà nella Regia Sila del Direttor Generale de
Ponti e Strade, delle Acque e Foreste, e della Caccia. Napoli,
Stamperia Reale, 1828. £650
Large 4to, pp. 68; contemporary grey wrappers.
First and only edition of this interesting document outlining the reorganisation
of the mixed ownership of land in the region of Sila in Calabria, Italy.
The Sila, a heavily wooded, mountainous area had always been state property,
and after the land reforms of the enlightenment even this last vestige of
the old feudal order was to be abolished. A land reform and transfer of the
land of the Sila into private hands had been decreed in 1816. This report
details both the history of its state ownership, allowing for some civic use,
and the developments as more and more of the land was part privatised.
Interestingly the author makes some comment on the importance of the
preservation of the woodland, and voices environmental concerns.
Rare, not found in RLIN or OCLC.
First Continental Edition
80 SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations. Vol. I. [–Vol. IV.]. Basil, J. J. Tourneisen and J.
L. Legrand. 1791. £1950
Four volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 406; vi, 344, [1] advertisement; [iv], 358,
[5] appendix; vi, 374, [74] index; contemporary buV boards, spines
ruled in gilt, contrasting gilt-lettered label and numbering piece, spines
a little chipped, shelf labels removed from head of spine; contemporary
ownership inscription of Georg von Schele, Hannover, 1794 to front
free endpapers, light stain from removed book-plates to front pastedown;
a very clean and crisp set.
First continental edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, ‘the Wrst and
greatest classic of modern economic thought (PMM). The Wealth of Nations
did more than any other book on economics in the West to create the
subject of political economy and to develop it into an autonomous disci-
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pline. It was the ‘Wrst major expression of the freedom of the individual’. It
developed the theory of laissez-faire and the right of individuals and states
to carry on their economic activity unimpeded. Smith ends with a history of
economic development, and virtually demolishes the basis of the mercantile
system. There are some prophetic comments on the limits of economic control.
Despite the fact that a number of translations had already been published,
this Basle edition contributed enormously to the spread of Adam Smith’s
ideas on the Continent. The provenance of this particular copy conWrms
this, as it comes from the library of the Hanoverian jurist and conservative
politician Georg von Schele (1771–1844), who served as a member of parliament
in Hanover’s upper chamber.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 14613; Vanderblue p. 20.
The First Good German Translation of Adam Smith
81 SMITH, Adam. Untersuchung über die Natur und die
Ursachen des Nationalreichthums... Aus dem Englischen der vierten
Ausgabe neu übersetzt. Erster Band [-Vierter Band]. Breslau, bey
Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn. 1794–96. £2500

Four volumes, 8vo, pp. xx, 476, [4] errata; iv, 274, [1] errata; [iv],
451; [iv], 484; contemporary pale brown sprinkled boards; gilt-lettered
spine lables; some discolouring to spines; small portion of front free
endpaper cut out, presumably to remove ownership inscription, bookplate
removed from front paste-down; internally very clean and crisp, a
Wne set.
First edition of Garve’s translation of the Wealth of Nations, regarded as the
Wrst good German edition of Smith’s great classic of political economy,
which proved highly inXuential on the Continent. Christian Garve (1742–
1798) was professor of philosophy in Leipzig and a great admirer of Scottish
philosophy and philosophers. He provided the German public with
Wrst-class translations of a number of works, ‘added lengthy notes and comments
to his translations, popularised the Scots’ ideas in his own writings
and, in general, did more than anyone else to spread the fame of the Scottish
Enlightenment’ (Waszek, p. 283).
The Wrst German translation (by J. F. Schiller and Chr. A. Wichmann)
had appeared as early as 1776, but was ‘so bad that it was sometimes held
responsible for the slow introduction of Smith’s economics into Germany’
(Waszek, p. 283).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 15939.13; Vanderblue, p. 26; see Norbert Waszek, ‘Bibliography
of the Scottish Enlightenment in Germany’, in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century 230, p. 301.
Population and Mortality
82 SÜSSMILCH, Johann Peter. Gedancken von den
epidemischen Kranckheiten und dem grösseren Sterben des 1757ten
Jahres, in einem Sendschreiben an die Herren Verfasser der
Göttingischen Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen. Berlin, Haude &
Spener, 1758. £650
4to, pp. 80; head-piece and initials; numerous tables in the text; some
spotting and browning, stronger to title; recently bound in modern
boards.
First edition, rare, of Süssmilch’s investigation of the abnormally high mortality
rates of the year 1757. In numerous tables he gives mortality Wgures
for diVerent areas and diVerent population groups, partly based on his own
data, partly based on Wgures collected by other statisticians, such as Witt,
Corbyn Morris etc and analyses the data. He discusses various possible reasons
for increased mortality rates, and identiWes a number of contributing
factors, such as ‘epidemics’, including measles, dysentery and fevers, severe
weather conditions, and the eVect of war. In each case he assesses the validity
of his theory by comparing the relevant data, and concludes that none of
these factors can have been exclusively to blame. Eventually he identiWes the
rising prices of bread as the main reason for the disastrous eVect these illnesses
had on the population at large. Price increases on foodstuVs lead to
an immediate reduction of the standard of living in the poorer classes of
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society, resulting in malnourishment of children and adults alike, who were
then more susceptible to illnesses. Süssemilch takes this analysis as an opportunity
to remind the government of its responsibility towards the
poorer members of society. In particular he berates those who beneWt from
general price rises, such as proWteering merchants, and condemns them as
‘little tyrants’ who subjugate the local population.
Rare, not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; Pearson, p. 308 (viii); OCLC/RLIN list copies
at the University of Chicago and the National Library of Medicine.
83 SWIETEN, Gerard. Oratio de Morte Dubia Habita VI April
Anno MDCCLXVII. Vienna, Trattnern, 1778. £350
8vo, pp. [iii]- 35, [I] blank; with woodcut title-page vignette, and head
and tail-pieces; a little foxed and browned; in modern marbled boards,
paper label on spine.
Scarce lecture on unnatural death, by Gerard van Swieten, published posthumously.
Swieten was one of Boerhaave’s favourite and most famous pupils
having been his assistant in both the laboratory and the examining
room. He became physician to Empress Maria Theresa in 1745 and was
charged with the task of reorganising medical instruciton in the Vienna
school of medicine, and of placing he public health service on a new and
improved basis.
Blake p. 442; not in Wellcome.

Type Specimen
84 [TRATTNER, Johann Thomas Edler von.] Specimen
Characterum Latinorum exitsentium in Caesarea ac Regio-Aulica
Typorum Fusura apud Joan. Thom. Nob. de Trattnern... Vienna,
1787.
[bound with:] Abdruck derjenigen Deutschen Schriften, welche in
der kaiserl. Königl. Hofschriftgießerey by Johann Thomas Edlen
von Trattnern, gegenwärtig beWndlich sind. Wien, 1787.
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[bound with:] Specimen Characterum Russicorum, Turcicorum,
Graecorum et Hebraicorum existentium in Caesarea ac Regio-Aulica
Typorum Fusura apud Joan. Thom. Nob. de Trattnern... Vienna,
1787.
[bound with:] Abdruck derjenigen Röslein und Zierrathen welche
sich in der k.k. Hofschriftgiesserey bey Johann Thomas Edlen von
Trattnern, dermalen beWnden. Nebst einer Probe, wie solche sowohl
zu Leisten, Anfangsbuchstaben, und Finalien zusammen gesetzt
werden können. 1787. £7500
Four parts in one volume, 4to, ll. 26; 30; 20; 24; in all ll. 100 printed on
recto only, all four title pages with engraved printer’s mark, all leaves
printed within elaborate typographic border; very clean and crisp; a widemargined
copy in the original sprinkled boards; corners a little bumped,
and extremities a little rubbed; manuscript label to spine; a Wne copy,
with later manuscript ownership inscription of Gottlieb Erhardt to front
paste-down.
Second revised and enlarged edition of Trattner’s type specimen. Published
seventeen years after his Wrst type specimen, this is altered and extended by
14 leaves, and is the most complete record of the type used by Trattner in
the eighteenth century. In four separate sections roman letterforms, German
and exotic types and ornaments are displayed. While Updike is scathing
in his critique of Trattner’s roman types, he is more complimentary on
the ‘very good schwabacher fonts’, and praises the ornaments, derived from
French work of the period, and displayed with much ingenuity.
The printer, publisher and bookseller Johann Thomas von Trattner
(1717–1798), was the dominant Wgure of the eighteenth century Austrian
book trade. All of Trattner’s type specimen are rare, but this most comprehensive
one is apparently the rarest of them all.
Berlin Ornamentstichkatalog 5345 (just 87 leaves); for Wrst edition of 1760 see
Bigmore & Wyman III, 21; Mayer, Buchdrucker-Geschichte II, 33; Jolles, Deutsche
Schriftgiesserei, p. 253 V; not in Jackson Burke, not in Birrell & Garnett, not in St.
Bride catalogue; copies of the Wrst type specimen are recorded at Harvard and the
Newberry Library; no copies of this second enlarged edition listed in RLIN or
OCLC.
Animal Psychology
85 TRIMOLT, Johann Gottlieb. Merkwürdige Beispiele zur
Kenntniss der Seelenkräfte der Thiere für die erwachsene Jugend
und wißbegierige Liebhaber der Thiere. Mit einem Titelkupfer.
Frankfurt am Main, Behrenssche Buchhandlung, 1799. £380
12mo, engraved frontispiece by Neubauer, pp. [x], 206, [3]
advertisements; manuscript note in pencil giving dates of the dedicatees
de Neufville; contemporary half sheep over marbled boards; Xat spine
with gilt-lettered spine label; lower section of spine rebacked.

Second edition of this study of animal psychology and behaviour for children.
Trimolt maintains that animals, both domesticated and wild, show
signs of intelligence. He gives a number of anecdotal examples of their ingenious
behaviour, such as cats opening door etc. In individual chapters he
analyses animal perception, their expectations, and their observations. He
gives numerous examples of animal intelligence, and explains the motivation
for speciWc actions for his young audience, without resorting to
anthromorphism.
In his Wnal chapters he comments on the language of animals, the
trainability of animals and their intelligence. He particularly singles out
dogs, elephants, monkeys, some birds, and donkeys.
The work was Wrst published the year before.
Laehr, Literatur der Psychiatrie II. 1129; RLIN/OCLC list just one copy at
Brigham Young.
‘The Earliest Writer on Dynamic Process Analysis’
86 VASCO, Giambatista. Della Moneta. Saggio Politico. Milano,
Giuseppe Galeazzi, 1772. £3500
8vo, pp. 155, [1], [2] contents; printed on strong paper; contemporary
half vellum over marbled boards, spine lettered in manuscript; early
book label of Mauro Bertetti on front free endpaper; a Wne copy.
First edition, rare, of one of the most important Italian contributions to
monetary theory in the eighteenth century. Published originally to secure
for the author the chair in economics that had been created for Beccaria, the
work examines the monetary debates of the 1750s but also the later ideas of
Gianrinaldo Carli, Pompeo Neri and other European contemporaries who
considered France’s dramatic Wnancial problems. Vasco clearly supports
free trade, and envisages a new type of monetary system, which would abolish
all types of restriction and accentuate the view of money as a commodity.
He opposes government attempts to regulate the value of money, and
outlines the evils resulting from the debasement of coinage, notably from
the point of view of wage earners.
In his discussion of the rate of exchange Vasco includes mathematical arguments,
which led Theocharis to describe him as ‘the earliest writer on
dynamic process analysis’. He then proceeded to translate his arguments into
diVerence equations, and used them to derive equilibrium values and to
demonstrate the convergence of the series which Vasco had only asserted.
Vasco (1733–1796), was a major Wgure of the Italian Enlightenment and
one of the foremost economists: ‘è il maggior economista piemontese del
‘700 e quegli che meglio rappresenta ... quell’appassionata e solida visione
dei problemi sociali che si venne allora creando nella mente di alcuni subalpini
a contatto con la cultura europea e italiana...’ (Venturi, III, p. 757).
Einaudi 5830; Goldsmiths’–Kress 10921; Higgs 5547; see W. J. Baumol and S.
M. Goldfeld, Precursors in Mathematical Economics: an anthology, p. 249–257;
RLIN/OCLC list just two copies at the university of Kansas and New York Public
Library.
Verri’s Main Economic Work
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87 [VERRI, Pietro, conte.] Meditazioni sulla Economia Politica.
Livorno, nella Stamperia dell’Enciclopedia, 1771. £3800
8vo, pp. [1], 240; titile within typographic border, very clean and crisp;
contemporary half sprinkled sheep over sprinkled boards, Xat spine with
double gilt rules, gilt-lettering directly to spine; joints cracking, but
holding Wrm, spine a little Xakey; in all a very good copy, with author’s
name added in manuscript to half title and contemporary ownership
inscription to verso of front free endpaper.
First edition, very rare, of Verri’s main economic work. ‘Count Pietro Verri
(1728–97) ... would have to be included in any list of the greatest economists’
(Schumpeter, p. 178).
The Meditazioni is his principal work, a complete treatise on political
economy. He approached his subject from the side of human needs and
wants, as Carl Menger and Marshall were to do in the following century. He
pointed to the importance of a development of the means of communication
for economic development. The more that transport is facilitated, the
more the means of communication are extended and ideas multiplied, the
more needs increase, the more commerce increases. Here Verri already out-

lined what was to be Smith’s concept of the extent of the market as a major
factor in economic growth. Adam Smith was aware of his writings, and his
Meditazioni were to be found in Adam Smith’s library (Bonar, p. 117).
Verri rejected the physiocratic doctrine of the ‘sterility’ of manufactures.
He emphasised supply and demand and combined it with references to utility
in the context of value and has therefore been called a forerunner of marginal
economics. Among other subjects treated he devoted much attention
to taxation, anticipating the importance which Italian economists were in
the following century to attach to the subject.
Verri’s Meditazioni were very highly regarded when they were Wrst published,
six Italian editions came out within the Wrst two years of publication,
and it was immediately translated. There were four French editions, two in
German, at least one, perhaps two in Dutch, and a partial Russian edition
(Carpenter, XXV).
Apparently Verri’s Meditazioni was Wrst issued without a printed title,
just with a half title. Here the printed title is inserted between half-title and
contents leaf, but clearly of the Wrst printing. Verri himself notes that the
title and the contents page were printed by Coltellini in January 1771, but
the rest of the book was not complete until two months later. This explains
why the contents page does not give the page numbers of the individual
chapters. Furthermore, in his article on the fortunes of the Meditazioni (‘Le
Meditazioni sulla economia politica di Pietro Verri, Edizioni, echi e
discussioni’, in Rivista storica italiana, vol XCI, 3, (1978), pp. 530–94)
Venturi mentiones that the Wrst French review of the work describes it as
without author or imprint.
Carpenter XXV/1; Einaudi 5878; Higgs 5166; Kress 6827 and Goldsmiths’
10722; McCulloch, p. 26–27; for a full discussion of Verri’s work see New
Palgrave, Schumpeter, p. 178; and Hutchison, p. 302–306.
Accounting for Prisons
88 [VILAIN XIIII, Jean-Jacques-Philippe, vicomte.] Mémoire sur
les Moyens de Corriger le Malfaiteurs et Fainéans a leur propre
Avantage et de les Rendre utiles à l’État, propose à l’Assemblée des
Députés par le Vicomte Vilain XIIII & présenté aux Corps &
Administrations des Etats de Flandres au mois de Janvier 1775.
Ghent, Pierre de Goesin, [1775]. £2800
Large 4to, pp. [viii] including initial blank, 268, with four double-page
engraved plates mounted on guards and bound after the prelims; text
printed throughout within decorative baroque border; numerous tables
in the text; early nineteenth-century half sheep over marbled boards,
spine ruled in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; upper joint strengthened,
head and tail of spine chipped; printed on thick paper; a Wne, widemargined
copy.
First edition, very uncommon, of Viscount Vilain XIIII’s detailed proposals
for a reform of the prison system, combined with improvements in their
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Wnancial administration and accounting systems. Vilain (1712–1777), had
made initial suggestions in 1771, as a result of which the citadel of the Belgian
city of Ghent was transformed into an enlightened detention centre,
combining prison, work-house, and house of correction. His system combined
isolation by night with communal work during the day. The inmates
were divided up according to the type and severity of their crimes. He also
made some innovative proposals on the commutation of sentences. He favoured
the exercise of the pardoning power with regulation by law of the
conditions under which the prison administrators were to recommend the
pardon. This plan later found application in the United States in Tennessee
Act of 1836.
The work, however, is not just important in the Weld of prison reform,
but even more so in its innovative Wnancial organisation. Vilain gives a precise
introduction to double-entry book-keeping for use in public accounts,
with the speciWc provision that the prison governor could at all times easily
assess the proWtability of the institution. Accounting practices are applied to
all aspects of the institution, not just the Wnancial ones. He gives detailed
examples of day-book, journal, and end of year accounts.
In the second half the textile workshops run by the prison are described,
again with clear regulations as to their organisation and accounting. Stringent
cost beneWt calculations are applied, before they can be introduced. A

number of diVerent types of workshops are introduced and their
proWtability tested.
In his conclusion Vilain proposes the introduction of these workshops to
guarantee Wnancial independence of the institution, and maintains that not
only will criminals be gainfully employed, but the problem of mendacity
will also be reduced in the long term.
The Wnely engraved plates show plans of the prison, together with views
and elevations.
A second edition was published in 1841.
Higgs 6469; not in Kress or Goldsmiths’; not in Historical Accounting Literature,
not in Herwood, or Stevelinck; see M. Foucault, Surveiller et punir, p. 124;
OCLC/RLIN list copies at Berkeley, Chicago, Yale, Cornell, Duke, Tulane and the
University of Wisconsin, in addition to European locations.
89 VILLERMÉ, Louis René. Considérations sur les Tables de
Mortalité a l’occasion d’un Travail de M. Quetelet sur le même
Sujet. Lues à l’Académie des sciences morales et politiques. Paris, J.-
B. Baillière, 1854. £200
8vo, pp. 29, [3] blank; numerous tables in the text, some light foxing,
original pale blue wrappers.
First separate edition of Villermé’s response to Quetelet’s publication on
mortality tables, originally published in the Annales d’Hygiène publique et de
Médecine Legale, which had been founded by Villermé in 1829. Villermé
argues that the mortality tables can also be interpreted as life expectancy
tables, and thus utilised for insurance calculations and for the assessment of
average life expectancy at any one time.
He gives a close analysis of Quetelet’s Wndings, supported by numerous
tables and citations from other statisticians. Eventually he criticises
Quetelet for broad-brush statements rather than careful preparation of the
necessary Wgures and maintains that more precise Wgures need to be assembled,
before relevant conclusions can be reached.
Apparently the paper was also contributed to the Journal des Economistes,
1853, and an oVprint published in 1853.
RLIN/OCLC list just the Yale copy.
Printing Manual
90 VINÇARD, B. L’Art du Typographe. Ouvrage utile à MM. les
Hommes de Lettres, Bibliographes, et Typographes; Contenant par
chapitres et sommaires les détails de chacune des deux parties de cet
Art, la designation et les models des caractères des langues mortes et
des langues vivantes, les proportions et l’alignement des vers, un
vocabulaire typographique, une table des homonyms, une méthode
simplifíee pour la correction des épreuves; un traité sur les objets
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dont on tire une substance propre à faire le papiers, les échantillons;
des avantages du mécanisme de la press; les lois et décrets relatifs à la
propriété et à l’impression des ouvrages, etc., etc. Paris, Vinçard,
1806. £1750
8vo in 8s and 4s, pp. [xii] including engraved frontispiece, 218, [ll. 4]
Wve ll. printed in colour, 219–246, with 17 engraved plates bound in,
and 2 extra printed leaves, one of them folding; ll. 8 (forming part of
the collation) are printed on coloured stock; illustrated throughout;
some scribbling in ink to title page, else very clean and crisp;
contemporary sheep-backed paste-paper boards, spine gilt, extremities a
little rubbed, joints starting, but holding Wrm; a good copy.

First edition of this attractive and well-illustrated comprehensive printing
manual. Vinçard, describing himself as a ‘typographiste’, describes in detail
the whole process of printing, beginning with type-founding, the design,
production and use of type, diVerent type faces and their uses, accentuation
in French and other languages, before proceeding to composition and
presswork. Interestingly he proposes the use of ligatures for pronouns. He
includes a printing vocabulary, and numerous type specimen.
The second half of the books deals with the practical printing process,
and also includes information on the selection of papers and ink. Rather
attractively he includes eight full-page examples of printing on coloured
stock, and also Wve examples of printing with coloured inks. Vinçard concludes
with a chapter on printing and the law, giving details of licensing
agreements and copyright provisions etc.
Overall a detailed and very attractively produced printing manual. The
engraved frontispiece shows a wooden printings press and a view of a typesetters
oYce.
Bigmore & Wyman praise the manual as well written and of interest for
being one of the few old manuals to deal with paper. A second edition,
which includes far fewer specimen pages than the Wrst edition, was published
in 1823.
G. Barber, p. 16; Bigmore & Wyman III 51; Gaskell, Barber & Warrilow F8;
JPHS, F8; Jackson Burke 990.
Humanist Reform of Poor Relief
91 VIVES, Juan Luis. Tratado del Socorro de los Pobres
compuesto in Latin ... traducido en Castellano por el Dr. Juan de
Gonzalo. Valencia, Imprenta de Benito Monfort, 1781. £800
8vo, pp. [iv], xxxiv, vi, 250; portrait title vignette; very clean and crisp;
contemporary full marbled sheep, spine decoratively gilt, with giltlettered
spine label; single worm hole to lower joint, some light
scuYng; a Wne copy.
A Wne copy of the Wrst Spanish translation of Vives’ humanist tract on the
reform of poor relief. De subventione pauperum, written in 1524 and Wrst
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published in 1526. Vives is an important exponent of revised thinking on
poor relief in Western Europe. He describes the evils which poverty engenders
and outlines norms of politico-social action to alleviate its symptoms.
‘In this tractate, addressed to the magistrates of Bruges, who had consulted
him on the subject, he proposed a complete reform of the existing
methods of poor relief. The destitute should be properly registered and
classiWed; those unable to work should be provided for in well-administered
hospitals and almshouses; those able to work should be found employment;
and mendicancy should be prohibited.’ (Palgrave III, p. 631). Vives stressed
the importance of teaching all a trade, and the need to supply them with
work led him to propose the foundation of municipal workshops. He also
insisted that artisans should admit into their workshops certain workers
designated by the public authorities, thus undermining guild independence.
His treatise can be seen as the Wrst practical proposal for municipal welfare,
insisting that the concept of health care for all its people was the principal
function of the state.
The Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives (1492–1540), was professor at
the universities of Louvain and Oxford. Considerably younger than Erasmus
he nevertheless was closely associated with him, and connected and
holds an important position among the humanists. He is considered the
predecessor of Bacon in that that he based his thought in experience, used
the methods of the natural sciences and upheld the method of induction.
Palay y Dulcet 371641; see Garnier 46 for Latin edition (1532).
92 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. Della Pace Perpetua,
Operetta di Voltaire con Annotazioni. Milano, RaVaele Netti, Anno
VI Rep. [1797/1798]. £480
8vo, pp. viii, 91; some light spotting; slightly later blue paste-paper
boards.
First edition in Italian of Voltaire’s De la Paix Perpétuelle, par le Docteur
Goodheart, originally published in 1769 in Geneva, but immediately put on
the index. In his outspoken critique of the universal peace project of the
Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Voltaire maintains that fanaticism and especially religious
intolerance are the cause and foundation of all wars. He is sceptical
about its eVectiveness, and appeals for tolerance to repair the damage of
‘intolérance chrétien’.
His anti-clerical stance was apparently welcomed by the lawmakers of the
Xedgling Italian republic, which accounts for the translation of the work in
the late 1790s. Extensive annotations by the translator emphasise this point.
There was another Italian edition the following year.
In this copy Voltaire’s work is bound together with a 1773 edition of
Voltaire’s Zaire.
Uncommon, not found in OCLC or RLIN; for French edition see Bengesco 1784,
van den Dungen p. 71; see H. Meyer, Voltaire on war and peace, Voltaire Foundation,
1976.

93 WENZEL, Gottfried Immanuel. Biographische Skizzen der
neuesten Abentheurer, Sonderlinge und von dem gewöhnlichen
abweichender Menschen, mit gleichzeitigem Hinblick auf die
Ursachen, welche diese Seelenzustände bewirken. Wien, 1800. £550
8vo, pp. 132; large title engraving of a Wgure surrounded by cats; E2
and 3 bound in slightly lopsided, resulting in signatures being cropped;
contemporary paste-paper boards, extremities rubbed.
First edition, uncommon, of this interesting study of unusual and eccentric
characters, based on historical Wgures, Wenzel presents a gallery of phobias
and neuroses. In twenty brief essays he describes unusual individuals, such
as the man who for years refused to speak and only communicated with the
help of notes; another one who insisted on seeing his wife but once a year,
to preserve love and aVection; a hermit, who lived in constant fear of attack
from unknown forces; a loner who refused to wash, followed by a compulsively
clean one; a young widower, who had a wooden sculpture of his wife
made and lived with her in married bliss; a cat fanatic; and the number
genius Buxton, who could perform amazing feats of mathematical calculation
and memory. Most of the characters Wenzel describes are the embodiment
of neuroses.
Wenzel (1754–1809), professor of philosophy at Linz, was the author of
a number of distinguished works in logic, biology, philosophy and ethics.
He was a major Wgure in the Austrian Enlightenment. As an opponent to
Kant, his interesting observations on nature focus much more on the empirical
understanding of reality than on metaphysics.
Rare, KVK records just one copy at the Austrian National Library; not found in
OCLC or RLIN.
Anti-Enlightenment
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94 [WÖCKL, Leopold Andreas.] Was sollen jetzt alle Stände
thun? Allen Ständen ehrfurthsvoll und brüderlich gewidmet. n.p.
[Augsburg, Rieger], 1796. £550
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], 120; [viii], 109, [1] blank;
title vignette, some light foxing and browning; inner hinges with some
surface worming, not weakening the joints; contemporary paste-paper
pattern boards; a good copy.
First edition of this remarkably uncompromising rejection of the ‘Enlightenment’,
a systematic dismantling and discrediting of all the key principles
of the ‘Aufklärung’. Wöckl dismisses human Reason, benign nature, happiness,
unlimited ‘liberty’, corrupting literature, freedom of the press, democracy
(or any other kind of popular control of formal authority), toleration
and reform. He points to France, condemns ‘neufränkische’ philosophers
for planting the seeds of general unrest and dissatisfaction. In a reactionary
attempt to reverse the disorder of the closing century, he addresses himself
to those in ‘all the diVerent stations’ of life, who must be brought to ‘know
their place’ in the divinely ordained scheme of things. He recommends that
those without an appropriate place, especially the idle poor, foreigners, and
those cynical usurpers, the so-called philosophers be dealt with rigorously
by the princes, to whom the Wrst part is mainly directed.
The second part is addressed to the nobility, the clergy, the intellectual
elite, the bourgeoisie and farmers respectively.
After the death of the liberal reformer Maximilian Joseph in 1777, Bavaria
had passed to the Elector Palatine, favouring a reactionary alliance led
by the Catholic Church. ‘The government was inspired by the narrowest
clericalism... On the eve of the Revolution the intellectual and social condition
of Bavaria remained that of the middle ages’ (Britannica). It is curious
to see that Wöckl and the printer Rieger still found it necessary to publish
anonymously, just like the proponents of progressive material under the old
regime.
Holzmann-Bohatta IV. 11813; uncommon, not found in OCLC/RLIN, but KVK
records copies in Göttingen and Austria.

95 [WOMEN – CHARITY.] SpeciWcazione delle Dodici Povere
graziosissimamente ammesse da sua Altezza Imperiale e Realer la
Serenissima Arciduchessa Elisabetta... all Lavanda de’ Piedi, il
Giovedi Santo 16 Aprile 1840. £180
Folio sheet, pp. [4], printed on one side only, and folded twice to form
8vo booklet with printed title page.
A curious publication listing the names and ages of twelve Milanese women
admitted to the traditional foot-washing on Maundy Thursday as part of
the ceremonial of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. The publication
proudly records that the combined ages of the twelve charity recipients add
up to 1072.
Not found in RLIN or OCLC, the Bibliothèque Nationale records similar publications
for a few years between 1827 and 1846, but not this one.
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