Catalogue Number 12 - Susanne Schulz-Falster

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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 <strong>12</strong>mo, 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 susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue twelve 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 susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue twelve 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. £<strong>12</strong>00 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
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