Catalogue Number 12 - Susanne Schulz-Falster

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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 susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue twelve 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 susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue twelve 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], <strong>12</strong>0; [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.
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