Catalogue Number 12 - Susanne Schulz-Falster

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.
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue twelve
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-