Catalogue Number 12 - Susanne Schulz-Falster

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‘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... susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue twelve 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], <strong>12</strong>3, 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. susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue twelve 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 <strong>12</strong> 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
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