Catalogue Number 7 - Susanne Schulz-Falster

Susanne Schulz-Falster
rare books
Catalogue Seven
An Indictment of the Auction System
1 [AUCTION.] Remarks upon the Auction System as practised
in New York: to which are added numerous Facts in Illustration. By
a plain practical Man. New York, 1828. £600
8vo, pp. 56; paper browned and spotted; stitched as issued, lower
corner of title page chipped.
First edition, very rare, of this indictment of the auction system as practised
in America in the early nineteenth century. The ‘plain practical man’, who
boasts many years experience as a purchaser at auctions, complains about
the marked increase in auction sales since the War of 1812. He maintains
that auctions are predominantly used to dump cheap foreign products, that
they hurt the interests of vested merchants and that they defraud the exchequer
by under-declaring the value when importing goods. He also accuses
auctioneers of using improper selling methods. He maintains that
prices achieved at auction are regularly above those reached by private
treaty. At auction the quality of the product cannot be checked properly,
and frequently the quantity of the products is misrepresented.
Not much appears to have changed in the auction business. Many of his
complaints are still raised against auction houses such as Sotheby’s and
Christies, such as collusion between seller and auctioneer. Many auctioneers
have a vested interest in goods sold at auction, rather than being a ‘neutral’
broker between two independent parties. The anonymous author also
maintains that auctioneers regularly fabricate bids, ‘take bids oV the wall’,
and thus artiWcially raise prices.
This Wrst edition is very rare; a second edition was published the following
year, Goldsmiths’–Kress 25858.22.
2 AUXIRON, Claude-Francois-Joseph d’. Principes de tout
Gouvernement, ou Examen des Causes de la splendeur ou de la
foiblesse de tout Etat considéré en lui-même, & indépendamment
des moers. Tome Premier [–Second.] A Paris. Chez J. Th. Herissant
Fils, Libraire, rue S. Jacques, . . . S. Paul & . . . S. Hilaire. 1766.
£2800
Two volumes in one, 12mo, pp. lxxx, 213, [1] blank; [iv], 314, [4]
privilege and approbation; light dampstain to the upper corner of a
couple of leaves in the preliminaries; upper edge lightly browned
throughout; a nice crisp copy in contemporary full mottled calf,
marbled endpapers, red edges, spine gilt in compartments, with an
armorial gilt stamp to the bottom compartment; gilt-lettered spine
label.
Rare Wrst edition of the central contribution to the population debate
by Auxiron (1728–1778), a major non-physiocratic economist before
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Malthus and a signiWcant early advocate of the importance of mathematical
economics. ‘Auxiron’s work is signiWcant chieXy because of his analysis of
the determinants of population capacity, and his treatment of the relation
between population growth and the interoccupational and interclass movements
and balance in society’ (Spengler, French Predecessors of Malthus, p.
296). Auxiron stressed the importance of commerce in the attainment of
maximum yield from the given land area of any country, allowing for specialisation
through trading, thereby creating a wealth-induced population
expansion which would be impossible in a closed economy. He opposed
Rousseau’s beliefs on the relationship between labour and production. ‘Si la
terre rendoit . .. proportion des travaux de ceux qui la cultivent, comme
certains Auteurs l’ont avancé ce que nous disons ici seroit entièrement faux.
Mais l’expérience de tous les lieux & de tous les siècles fait voir que la
fécondité de la terre ne dépend pas uniquement des travaux des hommes. ..
Il est étonnanté,’ he continues, ‘que de tous les auteurs, ce soit M. Rousseau
de Genêve qui ait le plus fortement soutenu la proposition que je combats,
lui avoit sous les yeux la preuve la plus convaincante du contraire’ (volume
II, p. 302–304).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10259.1; Higgs 3943; INED 145; uncommon, further copies
recorded at Berkeley, Princeton, and Syracuse university; see Perrot, Une histoire
intellectuelle d’économie politique, 1992 for a detailed discussion of Auxiron’s work.
Shoe Design of the Ancients
3 BALDUINUS, Benoit. Calceus Antiquus et Mysticus et Ju.
Nigronus De Caliga Veterum. Accesserunt ex Cl. Salmasii notis ad
librum Tertulliani de Pallio & Alb. Rubenii libris de Re Vestiaria
Excerpta ejusdem argumenti. Omnia Wgures aucta & illustra
observationibus. Joh. Frederici Nilant. Lugduni Batavorum
[Leyden], apud Theodorum Haak, 1711. £750
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. engraved title, [48], 292, 32 index,
with 29 engraved plates (11 of which folding); engraved title
(repeated), pp. 156, 12 index; both titles printed in red and black; some
light browning throughout, due to paper quality; contemporary pastepaper
covered boards; spine label lettered in ink; from the Donaueschingen
library, with shelf label to foot of spine; square piece cut out
from front free endpaper; a good copy.
Second edition of two extensively-illustrated works on the history of shoes
and footwear of classical antiquity and the middle ages, Wrst published in
1667. Balduinus’s contribution covers all forms of shoes and footwear, including
sandals, ceremonial shoes for clergy and the military, socks (both
with and without sandals), but also snowshoes and ice skates. Most are illustrated
on the Wnely engraved plates, and detailed references in classical
literature are given. Information is included on materials used, and on production
and use of the footwear. The second work by Nigroni concentrates
exclusively on footwear for the Roman army, i.e. boots and strong shoes.
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The work is interesting not just as a documentation of footwear of classical
times, but also as an expression of sumptuary laws which regulated
acceptable clothing according to rank and status. A later edition was published
in 1733.
See Colas 200 and Lipperheide 154.
Anti-Enlightenment
4 BIANCHI, Antonio. Lettera dall’Adriatico del Signor Antonio
Bianchi sopra l’Opera De Diritti dell’Uomo del Sig. Abate D. Nicola
Spedalieri. Roma, presso Giovanni Zempel, 1792. £650
8vo, pp. 163, [1] errata; minute worm trace to margin of last signature,
not touching any text; Wnely bound in contemporary full sheep, spine
elaborately decorated in gilt, with Xoral motif in compartments, lettered
in gilt; sides with patterned gilt rule and Xoral decoration to corners,
a.e.g.; book plate removed from front pastedown; a Wne copy.
First edition of Bianchi’s response to Spedalieri’s contentious I Diritti dell
Uomo, a proclamation of the natural rights of man, published the previous
year. Bianchi not only attacks in his point-by-point analysis the ideas put
forth by Spedalieri, but basically turns his back on Enlightenment ideas as
pronounced at the time, particularly by Rousseau.
Spedalieri (1740–1795) had tried to produce the Catholic answer to
Rousseau’s proclamation of the ‘Rights of Man’ as the main maxim of the
French Revolution. He supported Rousseau’s theory of the social contract
and opposition to absolutism. His publication met with great interest, and
provoked a large Xurry of supporting and opposing publications. In the
state of Savoy it was banned in 1792 and was not allowed to be sold until
the middle of the nineteenth century.
Not in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi; RLIN and NUC list copies at Stanford,
Columbia, and the Newberry library.

Early Feminism
5 BILLON, François de. Le Fort inexpugnable de l’Honneur du
Sexe Femenin, construit par Françoys de Billon Secretaire, Avec
previlege du Roy, On les vend a Paris, chez Ian d’Allyer. . . 1555.
£5500
4to, ll. [vi], 257, [4] including Wnal blank, irregular pagination; large
woodcut vignette on title, decorated initials and woodcut head- and tailpieces,
engraved portrait (repeated once) two full-page woodcuts
showing the ‘invincible fortress’ and the force of the pen (repeated four
times and twice respectively), title pages to all parts with elaborate
woodcut borders, showing military weaponry and a cannon Wred by a
woman; very clean, just the Wrst and last leaves a little browned; bound
at the turn of the century in full red crushed morocco, boards with triple
and double gilt rule, with Xoral corner decoration, spine decoratively
gilt in compartments, with lettering directly to spine in two
compartments, gilt dentelles, bound and signed by Charles Lewis; from
the library of René Choppin with his engraved book-plate on front
paste-down; a very Wne copy.
First edition of one of the most important sixteenth century treatises written
in defence of women. This cleverly-argued defence of female equality,
presented with the help of strategic and belligerent terminology, is a docu-
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ment of early feminism, and, because of Billon’s extensive learning and research,
a valuable companion to all that was written on the question in the
preceding century together with a telling representation of liberal thought
in the sixteenth century.
Billon (1522–1566) was secretary to Cardinal Jean du Bellay and accompanied
him to Rome; during that time he composed his famous treatise,
dedicated to Catherine de Medici.
Billon uses the terminology of strategy and warfare to develop his argument:
counter-arguments are attacks, blasts and counter-blasts are exchanged
(and appealing little cannons in the margins indicate new salvos).
Female Honour is a fortress, well protected by the bastions of ‘force et
magnamitié’, ‘chasteté et honneté’, ‘clemence et liberalité’ and ‘devotion et
pieté’, each of these dedicated to a grand dame of the French Court.
At the beginning Billon develops his argument for female equality in a
rather traditional fashion, listing women who are an example to their sex,
followed by men who have defended them in literature or art. Then his style
becomes more subtle: he poses the rhetorical question whether men would
like to be transformed into women, and receives a unanimous rejection,
though for a variety of reasons. When women are asked the same question,
the replies are more varied, the arguments more subtle – some say yes,
mostly to have the educational opportunities of men, others are against,
since as women they are at least free of male vices. Volumes of modern
sociological and psychological enquiries are based on this juxtaposition.
He explains the present lower social status of women in terms of their
lack of education, and argues for the removal of such barriers. As a telling
example he quotes Aristotle, who thanked God he was a man rather than a
woman, not because he thought women lower and less perfect than men,
but because he would not have had a chance to become so learned.
The work was already noted in the mid-nineteenth century by HoeVer,
who commented on its rarity.
Adams 2046; BM French p. 69; Brunet I, 945; Index Aureliensis 119.358; Rothschild
II, 1837; see M. Albistur & D. Armogathe, Histoire du Feminism Français,
1977, pp. 142–151; R. Kelso, Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance, Urbana 1956.
Statutes of the Blacksmiths
6 [BLACKSMITHS – STATUTES.] Statuti et Ordinationi
dell’Honoranda Compagnia de’ Fabbri dell’inclita Città di Bologna.
Di nuovo riformati, & conWrmati dall’Illustre Reggimento di detta
Città. In Bologna, per Giovanni Rossi, 1579. £4500
Folio, pp. [viii], 59, [3], [1] full-page woodcut, verso blank; title within
decorative arabesque border, large central woodcut of a forge with a
blacksmith at work; on verso full page woodcut of Christ carrying the
Cross above three smaller armorial woodcuts (repeated on page 48 and
at end); splendid full page woodcut of cruciWxion; decorative initials;
title with light spotting, else very clean in contemporary boards, some
wear to spine, with the sowing partly exposed, but Wrm; manuscript

lettering to upper board; a Wne, entirely unsophisticated copy, with
some contemporary underlining in ink.
First edition, very rare, of the Wrst printed statutes of the guild of blacksmiths
and metalworkers of Bologna, and in fact one of the earliest printed guild
statutes. They give a detailed picture of the organisational structure of this
guild, which played a major role in the history of the city both economically
and socially. Because of its responsibility for the production of armoury and
weaponry in addition to welding and general metalwork, it held an elevated
position in the city structure. In earlier times the guild had functioned as a
bank, where guild members could borrow money as business loans. The
corporation exerted a monopolistic inXuence over its members, and controlled
the supply of coal according to rank and position within the corporation.
The statutes give details of the hierarchy within the guild, eligibility for
membership, appointment and function of oYcials, rules of fair trading, and
details of internal jurisdiction.
Tavoni’s study gives a detailed account of the numerous manuscript statutes
which circulated from the mid-thirteenth century and which gradually
evolved into the form in which we Wnd in these Wrst printed statutes of 1579.
Manzoni II, 7; STC 116; for a detailed study see Tavoni, Maria G., Gli statuti della
società dei Fabbri dal 1252 al 1579, 1974; NUC, RLIN and OCLC record just three
copies, at the University of Pennsylvania, the National Sporting Library, and the
International Institute of Social History.
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The Most Celebrated Law Book in the English Language
7 BLACKSTONE, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of
England. . . Oxford, printed at the Clarendon Press. 1768–69.
£3500
Four volumes, 4to, pp. [iv], iv, [iv], 485; [viii], 520, xix appendix;
[viii], 455, xxvii appendix; [viii], 436, viii appendix, [39] index, with
two engraved tables (one folding) to volume 2; some light, but even
browning to paper; a Wne copy in contemporary green calf with red giltlettered
spine labels; spines faded, and hinges weakening, but all
holding Wrm.
First editions of volumes three and four, third edition of volumes one and
two. A most attractive set of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England,
the fundamental text in English law. Because the work was published
over a period of Wve years, it is mostly found in mixed sets like this one.
‘Until the Commentaries, the ordinary Englishman had viewed the law as
a vast, unintelligible and unfriendly machine; nothing but trouble, even
danger, was to be expected from contact with it. Blackstone’s great achievement
was to popularise the law and the traditions which inXuenced its formation.
. . If the English constitution survived the troubles of the next
century, it was because the law had gained a new popular respect, and this
was due in part too the enormous success of Blackstone’s work’ (PMM).
Blackstone’s book exerted tremendous inXuence on the legal profession
and on the teaching of law in England and in the United States. In trying to
cover the whole of British law and present it logically, Blackstone divided
the law into four volumes and themes. Book I covered the Rights of Persons,
a sweeping examination of British government, the clergy, the royal
family, marriage, children, corporations and the ‘absolute rights of individuals’.
Book II, on the Rights of Things, should more properly have been
called the Rights that people have in Things. It begins with the observation
that ‘There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages
the aVections of mankind, as the right of property’. In hundreds of
pages of arcane analysis he then disproves the point. Book III covers Private
Wrongs, today known as torts. Book IV covers Public Wrongs: crimes and
punishment, including oVences against God and religion.
See Printing and the Mind of Man 212.
Exploitation of Colonial Resources
8 [BOLTS, William.] Stato Civile Politico, e Commerciante del
Regno di Bengala ovvero Storia delle Conquiste e
dell’Amministrazione della Compagnia Inglese in quelle Contrade.
Opera Divisa in due Tomi. Che vengono a formare i Tomi XIX e XX
in seguito della Storia FilosoWca, e Politica dell’Abate Rainal. Tome
Primo [–Tomo Secondo], 1780. £680

Two volumes, pp. [ii], 199; [ii], 208, [1], with large folding engraved
map bound after the Wrst title; occasional light spotting and browning;
uncut in the original buV coloured limp boards; a Wne set.
Rare Wrst edition in Italian of Bolts’ Considerations on India aVairs; particularly
respecting the present state of Bengal and its dependencies (1772), his strident
attack on the East India Company’s management of Indian commerce.
Bolts exposed British exploitation of the resources of Bengal, and criticised
colonial government in general. Despite its sententiousness his work was a
valuable contemporary source on the conditions in Bengal and India, and
was presumably used by Adam Smith, who had a copy of Bolts’ Considerations
in his library, when he wrote of the miserable state of Bengal and other
English settlements as being the fault of the policies of ‘the mercantile company
which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies’ ( Book I, chapter 8).
Bolts (1740–1808), a Dutch adventurer, had entered the Bengal civil
service and made a fortune while in the employment of the East India Company.
He was reprimanded for using the authority of the company to further
his own private speculation. In 1766 he resigned from the civil service,
but still continued his quarrels with the then governor of Bengal, Mr
Verelst, who had been installed speciWcally to clamp down on private trading
and corruption. In 1768 Bolts was arrested and deported to England,
where he published his Consideration on Indian aVairs, which drew Verelst’s
response, entitled A View of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the English
Government in Bengal (1772).
Rare, not found in NUC, RLIN and OCLC, where just one copy of the second
edition of 1782 ist listed (University of Chicago); for English edition see Goldsmiths’–Kress
10874 and Higgs 5488–90.
Etching, Engraving and Print-Making
9 BOSSE, Abraham. De la Maniere de Graver a l’Eau forte et au
Burin. Et de la Gravûre en Maniere noire. Avec la façon de
construire les Presses modernes, & d’imprimer en Taille-douce.
Nouvelle Édition, revue, corrigée & augmentée du double; et
enrichie de dix-neuf Planches en Taille-douce. A Paris, Quay des
Augustins, chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1745. £1800
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xxxii, 186, [vi], with 19 engraved
throw-out plates; Wrst two signatures of part two with very faint dampstain
to lower margin; contemporary full mottled sheep, spine in
compartments, gilt-lettered spine label, head of spine chipped; a very
Wne copy printed on strong, crisp paper, with engraved book-plate to
front paste-down.
First Cochin edition (and third edition in all) of Bosse’s Traité des manières
de graver en taille douce, with extensive additions. Bosse’s treatise, the Wrst
manual of copperplate etching and engraving and the printing of intaglio
plates, was Wrst published in French in 1645. It was aimed both at the professional
engraver and at the amateur and is extensively illustrated, with de-
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tailed engravings based on Bosse’s own designs. A second edition of 1701
had contained revisions by LeClerc.
In addition to a wealth of technical information, the work includes scenes
of the engraving studio and the copperplate press, and several wonderfully
informative step-by-step scenes of printmakers at work appear as engraved
headpieces at the start of each new chapter. As adaptations were made to all
subsequent editions, the work has remained an important introduction to
print-making which is of practical use to the printmaker even today.
Cochin added several pertinent details on the construction of state-of-the
art presses, and re-engraved the corresponding plates. He also included an
extensive section on the process involved in colour printing, called by him ‘à
la manière noire’, which was based on the three colour technique developed
by Le Blon a few years earlier. As Le Blon’s work appeared in print only in
1756 this may in fact be the earliest manual on colour printing to appear in
France.
Bigmore-Wyman, I, 72; Cicognara 254; see En Français dans le Texte, 92.

Spanish Economic Policy
10 [CAPMANY Y DE MONTPALAU, Antonio de.] Discurso
Economico-Politico en Defensa del Trabajo mecánico de los
menestrales, y de la inXuencia de sus gremios en las costumbres
populares, conservacion de las artes, y honor de los artesanos. Por
Don Ramon Miguel Palacio. Madrid, En la Imprenta de D. Antonio
de Sancha, 1778. £800
8vo, pp. [viii], 63; nineteenth century marbled calf-backed boards,
spine lettered in manuscript; a very crisp copy.
First edition, very uncommon, of this forceful defence of the Spanish guild
system by arguably the most important eighteenth-century Spanish economic
historian. Capmany dedicates his publication to Campomanes, and
cites extensively from Robertson’s History of America. He describes the social
and political situation of the artisan and labourer, and evokes the ‘honour’
of the labourer, which he maintains is little appreciated in Spain. He
compares the situation to China or ancient Greece, where these professions
were held in the esteem they deserve. In addition to giving some information
on trade rules and customs, he argues for the preservation of ancient
guild rules and the guild system because of the beneWt for industry and the
economy.
Antonio de Capmany y de Montpalau (1742–1813), a historian and
economist published extensively on literature and economics. His subsequent
publication, Memórias historicas sobre la marina, comercio y artes
(1779–92) is regarded as the Wrst economic history of Spain. It was praised
by McCulloch, who used the work as the basis for the section on Spain in
his Geographical Dictionary.
Colmeiro p. 65; Palau y Dulcet, 43369; OCLC locates just one copy at Duke, not
in Kress or Goldsmiths’.
First Complete Edition
11 CARLI, Giovanni Rinaldo. Le Lettere Americane, Nuova
Edizione corretta ed ampliata colla Aggiunta della Parte III. ora per
la prima volta impresa. Parte Prima [–Parte Terza]. Cremona, per
Lorenzo Manini, 1781–83. £1000
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], xxiv, 232, [6] contents [2]
blank; 269, [1] blank, [10] contents page, 1 large folding engraved
map, 213, [3] contents page; bound in contemporary full vellum, giltlettered
spine label; a very clean and crisp copy.
First complete edition of Carli’s classic study of early American history,
dedicated to Benjamin Franklin. Carli’s Lettere Americane gives a philosophical
view of the European perception of America, and transfers the
philanthropic principles of the Enlightenment to the ruins of a vanished
civilisation. Carli writes not of the revolutionary turmoil of the north of
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America, but of the world of great primitive empires, the monarchy of the
Incas, as a kind of blueprint for the government of Maria Theresa and
Joseph II. He identiWes the solution for inequality and impending class
conXict in European society in the power of a sovereign or monarch who
could guard against despotism but at the same time defend civil society
against anarchy. This historical work illustrates the same points he made in
his refutation of Rousseau’s theories in his L’Uomo Libero.
Carli’s Lettere Americane was very popular, distributed widely both in
France and in Germany, and became a classic ‘which today still permits us to
measure what is similar and what is diVerent in the French, American, and
Imperial visions of the New World in the Wrst year so of the (seventeen)
eighties’ (Venturi, I, p. 49). Utopian ideas are found in the third volume,
which completes the work and is here present for the Wrst time. Carli reviews
Plato’s Lettres sur l’Atlantide in the translation by Bailly, and expands
on the Atlantis theme by sketching the basics of a utopian society.
See Sabin 10911 for Wrst edition.
12 CASTEL de SAINT-PIERRE, Charles-Iréné abbé de. Abrégé
du Projet de Paix Perpetuelle, Inventé par le Roi Henri le Grand,
Aprouvé par la Reine Elisabeth, par le Roi Jaques son successeur, par
les Republiques & par divers autres Potentats. Aproprié à l’Etat
present des AVaires générales de l’Europe. Démontré inWniment
avantageux pour tous les Hommes nés & à naître, en general & en
particulier pour tous les Souverains, & pour les Maisons
Souveraines. A Rotterdam, chez Jean Daniel Beman, et se vend à
Paris chez Briasson, 1729. £650
8vo, pp. xiv, 227, [3]; title printed in red and black; occasional light
browning; contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, giltlettered
spine label; discreet repairs to lower joint, corners a little worn;
an attractive copy.
First edition of the abridgement of Castel de Saint-Pierre’s famous peace
proposal, Wrst circulated in manuscript and published between 1713 and
1717. In fact this is not just a condensed version of the original work, but
includes Castel de Saint-Pierre’s further considerations and his response to
contemporary criticism.
Saint-Pierre had joined Polignac, the French ambassador, as secretary in
the diYcult peace negotiations of Utrecht which concluded the great European
war of the Spanish succession, and this proposal for ‘eternal peace’
between political powers was the direct outcome of this experience, even
though he had started working on this text as early as 1708. Saint-Pierre
proposed the establishment of a ‘European parliament’, with its seat at
Utrecht, which would peacefully settle conXicts between states. It would be
a parliament composed of representatives of all European states; European
borders would be guaranteed, and any diVerences arising between states
would be solved in negotiations.

His proposal marked the beginning of the growing emphasis and reliance
on international relations and organisations in modern politics. Even
though he was mainly admired as a visionary in his time, his ideas can be
traced in the charters of the League of Nations and the United Nations. His
paciWst plan was highly inXuential amongst the intellectuals of his and later
times. ‘Rousseau published in 1761 Extrait du projet de paix perpétuelle
which assured Saint-Pierre European recognition. In addition to Rousseau,
of the truly famous French writers of the century, Montesquieu and
Voltaire also voiced opinions about the Abbé’s projects. . . Kant knew
Rousseau’s version of the Paix perpetuelle, and in his Zum ewigen Frieden
expresses similar ideas’ (M. L. Perkins, The Moral and Political Philosophy of
the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Geneva, 1959).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 6721; see En Français dans le Texte, no. 137; van den Dungen,
From Erasmus to Tolstoy, p. 67; OCLC lists Wve copies, two at Harvard, New York
Public Library, Keio University and the Warburg Institute.
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13 CHIARI, Pietro. L’Uomo d’un altro Mondo o sia Memorie
d’un Solitario senza Nome scritte da lui medesimo in due Linguaggi
Chinese, e Russiano e pubblicate nella nostra Lingua. In Venezia,
appresso Domenico Battifoco, 1768. £680
8vo, pp. 256 including engraved frontispiece; title page vignette and
engraved initials; occasional light browning and light damp-staining to
gutter margin in a couple of signatures; uncut in the original buVcoloured
boards, spine lettered in ink; contemporary ownership
inscription to title page.
First edition, very rare, of this utopian novel, written by a protagonist ‘from
another world’ and allegedly translated from the Russian and the Chinese.
Chiari’s hero Wnds himself in a variety of places, Wrst on an island, with observations
on his hosts (not dissimilar to Gulliver’s Travels), looking for a
mate, Wnding other shipwrecks, then travelling to Japan, China, Saint
Petersburg and Wnally Holland. Chiari incorporates social discussions of the
time and takes his inspiration especially from Voltaire, Montesquieu and
Swift.
The very attractive frontispiece shows the ‘man from the other world’
looking onto a large terrestrial globe with magnifying glasses, not Wnding
himself: ‘Nel gran Mondo vecchio, e nuovo, Piu che cerco, io no mi trovo’.
Gilhofer & Ranschburg Bibliotheca Utopistica – Hevesi, 1140; rare, NUC, RLIN
and OCLC just list one copy at Harvard.

14 CHIARI, Pietro. La Viniziana di Spirito, o sia le avventure
d’una Viniziana ben nata, scritte da lei medesima, e ridotte in altrettante
Massime, le più giovevoli a formare una Donna di Spirito. . .
Tomo Primo [–Tomo Secondo], Venezia, ed in Parma, 1762. £550
Two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xii], 228; [viii], 224;
woodcut vignettes, head-pieces and decorated initials; some light
browning throughout, and a couple of leaves with some staining; uncut
in the original buV limp boards, spine lettered in manuscript; discreet
paper repairs to spine of volume one; early nineteenth century
ownership inscription to front free endpaper.
First edition of Chiari’s lively novel tracing the adventures of a well-born
Venetian woman. Written in the form of a diary or epistolary novel, the
trials and tribulations of the heroine are traced until her eventual marriage.
All developments are summed up by handy maxims.
Pietro Chiari (1712–1785), inXuenced by Richardson, Fielding,
Voltaire and in particular Swift, is known for introducing the novel into
Italian literature.
Morazzoni, p. 222; OCLC and RLIN locate just one copy at the university of Minnesota.
15 [CHIARI, Pietro.] La Donna Saggia o sia Memorie ed
Avventure della Vedova Dorigini sorella della vezzosa e bella
Villiers. In Venezia, nella Stamperia Graziosi, 1779. £450
8vo, pp. [iv] frontispiece and title, 160; title page within decorative
border and hand-coloured title vignette, engraved frontispiece with
contemporary but rather crude hand-colouring; some light browning
and spotting to paper; contemporary marbled boards, spine label
lettered in ink; corners bumped, private book plate to front paste-down.
First edition, uncommon, of these racy memoirs of a well-born lady, written
like many of Chiari’s novels from a Wrst person point of view. She begins
by reXecting on women’s role in society. The engraved frontispiece reveals
the cloak and dagger adventures of the heroine.
Rare, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy at Harvard; Birmingham University
holds a copy of the second edition (1786).
Contemporary Hand-Colouring
16 CHOMEL, Noel. Dictionnaire Oeconomique contenant
divers Moiens d’augmenter son Bien, et de conserver sa Santé. Avec
plusieurs remedes assurez et eprouves. Pour un Très grand nombre
de maladies, & de beaux Secrets pour parvenir a une longue &
heureuse vieillesse. Quantité de moiens pour élever, nourrir, guérir
& faire proWter toutes sortes d’Animaux Domestiques, comme
Brebis, Moutons, Boeufs, Chevaux, Mulets, Poules, Abeilles, & Vers
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a Soie. . . Tout ce que doivent faire les Artisans, Jardiniers, Vignerons,
Marchands, Negocians, Banquiers, Commissionnaires,
Magistrats, OYciers de Justice, Gentils-Hommes, & autres d’une
qualité & d’un emploi plus relevé, pour s’enrichir, &c. Troisième
Edition, Revûe, corrigée & considerablement augmentée par J.
Marret, enrichie de Figures nouvellement dessinées & gravées par B.
Picart, Le Romain. Tome Premier [–Tome Second]. A Amsterdam,
chez Jean Cóvens & Corn. Mortier, 1732. £4000
Two volumes bound in one, Folio, engraved frontispiece dedication,
pp. [ii] title in red and black, [vi], 424; [ii] title in red and black, 400;
with 10 full page engraved plates bound in and 180 text engravings by
Picard; all illustrations in Wne contemporary hand-colouring; paper
lightly browned, marginal tear to X3; contemporary full calf, spine gilt
in compartments, and gilt-lettered spine label; a magniWcent copy.
Very uncommon hand-coloured copy of the third enlarged edition of
Chomel’s Dictionary, with the illustrations largely re-engraved by Picard.
Chomel’s dictionary of agriculture and house-keeping covered an extensive
array of subjects, including gardening, botany, gastronomy, viticulture
hunting, medicine, together with the more predictable topics of livestock
breeding, bee-keeping, farming, and farm management.
Chomel’s work was introduced by the Dutch to Japan and was translated
into Japanese: ‘the encyclopedia that proved so useful to the Japanese’
(Blussé, Bridging the Divide, 400 years the Netherlands – Japan, p. 111).
Chomel’s dictionary was Wrst published in 1709 and went through numerous
editions. It is said to be one of the sources of Diderot & d’Alembert’s
Encyclopédie, and Diderot was accused of plagiarism when some of the
information found its way unacknowledged into the Encyclopédie.
It is very unusual to Wnd this work with contemporary hand-colouring.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 6930.
The Newton–Leibniz Dispute
17 CLARKE, Samuel. A Collection of Papers which passed
between the late Learned Mr. Leibnitz, and Dr. Clarke, In the Years
1715 and 1716. Relating to the Principles of Natural Philosophy
and Religion. . . Also Remarks upon a Book, Entituled, A Philosophical
Enquiry concerning Human Liberty. London, printed for
James Knapton, 1717. £850
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xiii], [iii] advertisements and errata,
416, 46, [2] advertisements; the Wrst part in English and French on facing
pages; with attractive woodcut initials and devices; occasional light browning
to paper; contemporary full calf, sides with gilt and blind borders; spine
gilt in compartments, with gilt-lettered spine label, head and tail of spine
lightly rubbed, single worm hole to lower joint; a very good copy.

First edition of the famous correspondence between Leibniz and Clarke. It
was started by Leibniz who had written to Caroline, Princess of Wales, in
1715 maintaining that Newtonian physics was contributing to the decline
of natural religion in England. This charge was taken seriously by Newton
and his followers. Samuel Clarke (1675–1729) was chosen to respond to
Leibniz, as being the one man in England qualiWed by suYcient knowledge
of both physics and theology, although he most certainly took instructions
from Newton himself. ‘The ensuing correspondence, contain[s] Leibniz’
most penetrating criticism of Newtonian philosophy’ (DSB). The longstanding
feud between Leibniz and Newton over the priority of the invention
of calculus was fuelled by Princess Caroline eschewing her earlier tutor,
Leibniz, for Newton.
Babson 229; Wallis 62.1.
18 [COAL.] Unterricht den Gebrauch deren Stein-Kohlen betreVend.
Brünn, gedruckt mit Swobodischen Schriften, 1769. £650
8vo, pp. [32], with six folded leaves of plates, title vignette, engraved
head- and tail-piece and vignettes; very clean and crisp in contemporary
paste-paper wrappers; shelf mark in ink at head of title; a very Wne copy.
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First and only edition of a rare and well-illustrated work on the use of coal
for heating, the production of bricks, and numerous domestic applications
such as the brewing of beer, baking of bread and distilling. In fact the author
maintains that coal can be used in all instances which traditionally call
for the use of charcoal, which at the time was getting increasingly scarce and
expensive on account of deforestation.
In separate chapters the anonymous author describes the use of coal for
the production of Dutch bricks, both small scale and large scale; furthermore
he shows its use in a lime-kiln, then proceeds to its use in the production
of foodstuVs, such as beer and spirits, and for domestic heating. In each
case the plate shows a detailed view and plan of the device, and both construction
and use are described in the text.
Very rare, not found in NUC, RLIN records; just two copies at the Smithsonian
Institution and the University of Pennsylvania.
19 [ECONOMICS JOURNAL.] Versuche in politischen und
ökonomischen Ausarbeitungen, zum Nutzen und Vergnügen. Erster
Band. Erstes Stück [–Zweites Stück]. Wien, gedruckt bey Joh.
Thomas Edlen v. Trattnern. . . 1765, 1767. £600
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. 85, [3] blank; 102; both titles with
engraved vignette; paper lightly browned, title dust-soiled, occasional
faint dampstaining; original thin wooden boards, covered with pale
blued paper, shelf label to foot of spine, and shelf mark in pencil to verso
of title; some surface wear to boards, discreet repairs to foot of spine.
First edition (all published) of this short-lived economic periodical, which
contains a number of interesting contributions. In his preface the anonymous
author/editor gives a brief outline of his approach. He is particularly
concerned with the recent emphasis on industrialisation and mechanisation
and its impact on the population.
The selection of articles in the Wrst two issues reXect this concern. In the
Wrst one he discusses the inXuence of increased wine production on population
density in Lower Austria. He maintains that general agricultural production
is more beneWcial to population growth than viticulture. The
second one concentrates on the more speciWc eVects of mechanisation and
industrialisation on population Wgures, based on Montesquieu and Forbonnais
and the German author S. P. Bauer. This article elicited a sharp response
from Sonnenfels (Schreiben an den Verfasser der politischen und ökonomischen
Versuche). Further articles deal with taxation and price regulation.
The Wnal contribution is a lengthy and damning review of Sonnenfels’
Grundsätze der Polizey, Handlungs- und Finanzwissenschaft (1765–67). The
anonymous author, clearly still oVended by Sonnefels’ negative review,
goes through carefully through Sonnenfels’ textbook and criticises its
wordiness and logical redundancies.
KVK locates just two copies at the Bavarian State Library and Göttingen University
Library; not found in NUC, OCLC or RLIN.

Physiocracy in Italy
20 [ECONOMICS]. Opuscoli interessanti l’Umanità e il
Pubblico, e Privato bene delle Popolazioni, e Provincie Agrarie,
n.p., n.d. [1773]. £480
8vo, pp. ccclxvii [367], [1] errata; printed on strong paper;
contemporary full vellum, with contemporary manuscript list of
contents on front free endpaper; a Wne copy.
First edition of this Sammelband, a representative collection of essays on
contemporary issues of physiocratic debate in Italy. One extensive article
concerns the ‘total and universal’ freedom of trade. The anonymous author
begins with a discussion of what constitutes national wealth, and then outlines
reasons for and against free trade. He clearly represents physiocratic
ideas in his belief that only agriculture can provide a state with growth.
Another contribution in letter form concerns social and political reform.
The writer outlines the dismal condition of the workers in agriculture, and
the restrictions through excessive taxation and feudal property rights; he
advocates general reforms in line with the Enlightenment reform projects of
Leopold II. A couple of brief essays are translated from the French and English
respectively, one of them containing a discussion of the diverging business
problems of a sole trader as opposed to a larger concern. In the Wnal
chapter the principles of political economy are explained in the form of a
dialogue.
Uncommon; Goldsmiths’–Kress 10957.8-1.
Feudal Law
21 [ERTEL, Anton Wilhelm.] Neu-eröVnete Schau-Bühne von
dem Fürsten-Recht, Auf welcher durch hundert auserlesene
Politische und Juridische Quaestiones, die vortreZichste Materien,
von dem Gewalt, Authorität und Praerogativen derer Fürsten
untersucht, mit wahrhaVten Historischen Anmerckungen bestärcket
und nach der unpartheyischen Richtschnur der Gott-liebenden
Wahrheit und aequität resolviret werden. Welches curiose Werck
nicht nur allen regierenden Fürsten und Potentaten, sondern auch
allen Staats-Ministern, Hof-Leuten, Fürstlichen Räthen, Rittern,
Adelichen Landsassen, Obrigkeiten, PXegern, Vögten, Beamten,
Rechts-Gelehren . .. verfertiget worden, auch mit hierzu dienlichem
Register versehen. .. Nürnberg, in Verlegung Peter Paul Bleuls,
Buch- und Kunsthändlers, 1702.
[Bound with:] Des heiligen Römischen Reichs ohnmittelbahrer
Freyer Ritterschaft der Sechs Ort in Francken, erneuerte, vermehrte
und conWrmierte Ordnungen, samt deroselben von denen
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Römischen Kaysern und Königen allerhöchst-löblichster Gedächtnis
erlangten, renovirten und ConWrmirten Privilegien und
Befreyeungs-BrieVen auch Kayserlichen Rescription, 1696. £650
Two works in one volume, 4to, pp. [viii] including engraved
frontispiece & title in red and black, [xvi], 394; [iv] including engraved
frontispiece, 169, [4], 22 [Anhang]; second work with some spotting
and browning, else very clean and crisp; contemporary full vellum.
An interesting volume combining a theoretical treatise on feudal law with
its practical application in the law as applied to the Ritterschaft of
Franconia.
I. First edition, uncommon, of this compendium of the law as applied to
kings and rulers, by Anton Wilhelm Ertel, a proliWc writer on matters of
taxation and the law. This work appears to be some form of companion

volume to his earlier publication Praxis Aurea de Jurisdictione Inferiore, Civili
& Bassa vulgo, and a work on local taxation.
Ertel discusses all aspects of good practice as relating to king and ruler
under the ‘contract’ provided by the feudal system. In one hundred chapters
or ‘exercises’, individual questions are discussed and resolved citing all relevant
legislation. Questions include procedural problems, international
law, Wnancial questions, and civil law. Unfair promotions and dismissal, the
question of whether a ruler can withdraw favours promised by his predecessors,
and questions of inheritance are discussed. A number of sections deal
with Wnancial problems, such as taxation and the ban on monopolies.
Pertinent chapters deal with the question whether the ruler is well advised
to select his ‘servants’ according to ability or nobility.
II. Second edition, Wrst published in 1694 of the privileges of the
Franconian knighthood. The statutes begin with the basic rules of conduct,
including some interesting information on the relationship between knight
and his servants. A number of special privileges granted within the seventeenth
century are reprinted, including a number regulating Wefdoms and
land. A special privilege regulates the life and business of the local Jewish
population. Interest and usury are banned within the realm of Franconia.
Humpert 7436; Jöcher II, 390; uncommon, I. NUC and RLIN list Harvard Law;
II. Harvard Law Library lists later edition of 1870 only.
European Balance of Powers
22 [EUROPE.] Die Wohlfarth von Europa in einem
bedenklichen Zustand betrachtet; nebst einer Ermahnung an die
wider Frankreich verbundenen über die Friedensbedingungen,
welches es zu der Zeit vorzuschlagen pXegt, wenn es den Krieg nicht
weiter fortzusetzen vermag. Erstlich in Französischer Sprache
herausgegeben, nunmehro aber in Teutsche übersetzt, und mit einer
Abhandlung von den Französischen und Oesterreichischen
Absichten bey gegenwertigem Kriege vermehret, und mit einigen
Anmerkungen begleitet. Cöln, 1758.
[Bound with:] [ANON.] Europäischer Staats-Wahrsager, oder
wundersame Propheceyungen von dem jetzigen Zustand der
moisten und vornehmsten Europäischen Staaten, in sich haltend des
Irländischen Ertz-BischoVs Malachia, des Französischen Astrologi
Nostradami, Bruder Herman von Lehnin, des Mönchs Sebalds und
vieler anderer rare und sonderbare Weissagungen. .. FünVte, mit
vielen Zusätzen und Anmerkungen versehene AuXage. Bremen, in
der Saurmannischen Buchhandlung, 1758. £480
Two works in one volume, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xiv, 288;
[viii], 402, [4]; engraved head- and tail-pieces; paper occasionally
lightly browned, but in all clean; contemporary paste-paper covered
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boards, spine label lettered in manuscript, extremities chipped and
corners a little worn; a sound copy from the Seckendorf library with
armorial book plate to front paste-down.
I. First edition, very rare, of this political polemic against the union of
France and Austria in the Seven Years’ War, with a clear warning of the
dangers of upsetting the equilibrium of forces within Europe. The Seven
Years’ War (1756–1763) had started because of the coalition between Austria,
France, Russia, Sweden and Saxony against Prussia, in an attempt to
curtail the power of Frederick the Great. Prussia was joined by England and
a colonial and maritime war broke out between France and England, which
indirectly led to the formation of the British Empire. This polemical article
is written from the Prussian viewpoint, and warns against France and Austria
joining forces. An interesting supplement traces the history of Franco-
Austrian alliances.
II. Later edition of a fascinating compilation of predictions and prophecies
regarding European politics and the fate of individual states. The prognostications
by Nostradamus, Lichtenberger, Paracelsus etc. are arranged
by country, and deal in turn with the papal states, the Austrian Empire,
England, and France; they are followed by individual prophecies by
Lichtenberger, Carione, Aegidius, and Suschken.
I. Weller I, 93; not found in NUC and RLIN, KVK lists just one copy at the Bavarian
State Library.

Early Industrial Exhibition
23 [EXHIBITION – MILAN 1805.] Indice delle Produzioni
delle Arti del Paese esposte nel Palazzo di Brera in occasione dell’
Incoronazione di Napoleone I. Imperatore de Francesi in Re
d’Italia. Impresso d’orgine dell’Amministrazione Municipale di
Milano. Milano, dai Torchi di Giacomo Pirola al R. Teatro ala Scala.
[1805]. £750
8vo, pp. [vi], 22, [4] blank; stitched as issued, title a little spotted.
First edition of the catalogue of an exhibition of arts and sciences mounted
on the occasion of Napoleon’s accession as ruler of Italy in 1805. The exhibition
took place at the Palazzo di Brera in Milan, which houses both the
ancient Milan observatory and the Bibliotheca Braidense. The concise catalogue
is divided into two sections: Wrst, products and inventions of the mechanical
industry; secondly, works of art. In the Wrst section, various types of
fabric are exhibited, including lace and tull, items of clothing, surgical instruments,
musical instruments, a special lock, various types of wire, Wre-Wghting
equipment to mention but a few. In each case the name of the producer and
a brief description is given. The second half contains a listing of works of art
exhibited at the fair, including prints, drawings, painting and sculpture.
Not in Carpenter; very rare, NUC, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy at the National
Art Library, giving the wrong collation.
The First Swedish Printing Manual
24 [FAHLGREN, Carl I.] Handbok i Boktryckerikonsten för
Unga Sättare. Stockholm, tryckt uti Joh Beckmans OYcin, 1853.
£420
8vo, pp. [viii], 144; steel-engraved vignette to title, numerous
illustrations of typecases & imposition schemes; contemporary blindstamped
cloth, original wrappers bound in, gift inscription in ink to
head of half title, faint private ownership stamp to half title and title.
First edition of the Wrst original Swedish typesetting and printing manual.
Earlier printing manuals available in Swedish had been translations from
the German, such as the translation of Täubel’s Handbuch der Buchdruckerkunst.
The printing manual is addressed to young typesetters and gives a brief
introduction to the history of printing and the development of letterforms,
with a special section on the Rune alphabet, which is illustrated. Typecases
for Antiqua, Black letter, Greek, and Hebrew letters are shown. Further
sections deal with imposition schemes, cost and paper calculations, correction
marks and accounting for printing oYces. A four-language dictionary
of printing terms, covering Swedish, German, French and English, is followed
by brief information on printing presses in use. The work concludes
with the statutes of the Swedish printer’s society or guild.
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The attractive title page steel engraving shows printers and a typesetter at
work.
Bigmore & Wyman, p. 209; Almquist 4966; rare, NUC, RLIN and OCLC locate
just three copies, at Harvard, the Newberry Library and New York Public Library.
25 [FEMINISM.] Politica per le Dame. Seconda Edizione. In
Venezia, appresso Paolo Colombani, 1767. £600
8vo, pp. 128, including initial blank, very attractive title vignette
showing the lady of the house surrounded by children and between the
representatives of emotion and beauty; uncut in the original stiV buV
wrappers, endpapers spotted; a Wne copy.
Second edition, very rare, of this courtesy book for women – in particular,
of course, women of noble birth. The anonymous author discusses ladylike
conduct in diVerent social and moral situations, and gives basic moral and
philosophical principles for everyday-behaviour. In his introduction he deplores
the lack of legal rights of women. He begins quite predictably with
women’s role in respect of God and religion, but then proceeds to discuss
women and money, recommending an even balance between economy and
generosity. Further chapters deal with the choice of friends, women and
conversation (no shrieks), women and their husbands (constant attention
and devotion is required, once she has agreed to get married, but careful
choice of partner is advised) and women and their children. The last chapters
deal with women’s conduct in society, their behaviour towards their
servants, their social inferiors, towards other ladies and gentlemen.
Not in Melzi, just one copy found in NUC and RLIN (Chicago); the Wrst edition
had been published in 1764 (Stanford only).

The Closed Commercial State
26 FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb. Der geschloßne Handelsstaat.
Ein philosophischer Entwurf als Anhang zur Rechtslehre, und
Probe einer künftig zu liefernden Politik. . . Tübingen, in der
J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1800. £2000
8vo, pp. [xxii], 290; title lightly browned and occasional spotting
throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine ruled and
decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine label; boards with decorative gilt
panelling; extremities a little rubbed; an attractive copy with manuscript
notes to endpapers, and ownership cipher to title page.
The philosopher Fichte, though not an economist in the strict sense, has
indirectly exercised great inXuence on economists. In Der geschlossne
Handelsstaat, he presents the Wrst modern socialist concept of the state. His
‘closed commercial state’ is a corporate one, with a controlled economy and
autarchy. To ensure the eYcacy of domestic controls and maintain the value
of money, the state must also regulate international economic relations.
Once the state is ‘isolated’, production and trading, prices and wages can be
fully regulated. The state guarantees the existence of the individual and his
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right to work, but there is no free choice of occupation. Fichte is a socialist,
but not a communist – private property, family life, and even the accumulation
of riches are an accepted part of his concept.
Fichte (1762–1814) was a main representative of idealist philosophy in
Germany and was clearly inXuenced by Kant. In 1794 he became professor
at Jena, but was dismissed in 1799 on a charge of teaching atheism. In 1810
he became professor at the new university of Berlin.
Fichte’s ideas can be traced in Proudhon and in syndicalist and socialist
doctrine. State socialism in Germany, not only of Lassalle but also of Rodbertus,
has also claimed the authority of Fichte (Gurvitch in ESS).
Baumgartner & Jacob, J. G. Fichte – Bibliographie, A1 50x.; Goldsmiths’–Kress
17957; Humpert 7668; Menger c. 163; Ziegenfuss I, 342.
Franklin’s Way to Wealth in Italy
27 FRANKLIN, Benjamin. La Scuola della Economia e della
Morale ossia Avvertimenti a tutti quelli che desiderano essere ricchi,
sani e virtuosi. Opuscoli di Beniamino Franklin. Prima edizione
Italiana. Pavia, nella Stamperia di V. Fusi e Comp. 1825. £550
8vo, frontispiece portrait after Borde, pp. xii, 83, [1], title vignette;
some light foxing, contemporary half sheep over marbled boards, giltlettering
directly to spine, barely legible; spine rubbed, but sound,
manuscript note to last leaf.
First edition in Italian of Benjamin Franklin’s economic and social works,
including his Way to Wealth or Poor Richard Improved; Advice to a young
Tradesman; Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich; The Way to make
Money plenty in every man’s Pocket, An economical Project; but also The Art of
procuring pleasant Dreams, On the Art of Swimming, Morals of Chess, and on
Early Marriage.
This Wrst Italian edition is rare, RLIN and OCLC list copies at Yale and Princeton
only.
An Ode to the Sausage
28 [FRIZZI ANTONIO]. La Salameide, poemetto giocoso con
le note. Venezia, appresso Guglielmo Zerletti, 1772. £1000
8vo, pp. [iv] engraved frontispiece and title page, pp. [viii], 135, [1]
blank; Wnely engraved vignette to title page and at head of the main
text; small tear to blank margin of frontispiece, with small stain in the
image; uncut in the original buV boards; a Wne copy.
First edition of a charming work, a light-hearted eighteenth-century heroic
poem dedicated to the ‘salamina’, the little sausage, by the Ferrara historian
Antonio Frizzi. The publisher, Zerletti, writes in his preface that while occupied
with printing a ponderous theological work he has decided to
present his customers with a not-so-serious oVering. In his poem Frizzi utilises
the traditions of the epic poem, but sings the praises not of chivalry and

love, but of the pork sausage. In a little aside he even maintains that the
‘salame’ might have been invented by John Locke ‘chi ne può dubitar, che
un tal prodotto non sia da Londra, donde a noi son tratte tante moderne
cose manufatte?’ (canto quarto, xii). He discusses various types of sausages,
with quite detailed information on their production. In extensive footnotes
reference is made to the Vocabolario della Crusca, other authors, and the history
of sausage production.
The engraved frontispiece is particularly appealing, showing a ‘salumeria’
with numerous sausages and hams suspended from the ceiling, and a boar
being slaughtered in the background. An elegant customer converses with
the shop-keeper and takes an appreciative whiV at a salami, while his dog is
about to steal a sausage from the table.
Bing 852; Lapirella 170; Simon 1342; Westbury p. 197.
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29 [GESUALDO, Filippo.] PlutosoWa . . . nella quale si spiega
l’Arte della Memoria, con alter cose notabili, pertinenti tanto alla
Memoria naturale, quanto all’artiWciale. . . In Vicenza, per gli Heredi
di Perin Libraro, 1600. £2500
Small 4to, ll. [iv], 64; with full-page engraving in the text; woodcut title
vignette, head and tail pieces; some browning and light foxing,
especially on the prelims; contemporary full limp vellum, spine lettered
in ink; lacking front free endpaper; early ownership inscription to title;
in all a little rubbed, but a good copy.
Second edition of this important treatise on the art of memory by the
Franciscan Gesualdo, Wrst published in Padua in 1592. Particularly striking
is the full page illustration of the human body with an indication of the

various memory points. A further illustration shows the memory palace of
the older memory tradition.
In his PlutosoWa, i.e. ‘memory’ as the wealth and treasure house of all
knowledge, Gesualdo deals with the concepts of natural and artiWcial memory.
He clearly represents the state of mnemonics at the end of the sixteenth
century, and reiterates the classic principles of mnemonics, with numerous
techniques for increasing memorative powers. His work documents one of
the earliest attempts at fusing the ideas of old-style memory with a new-style
oratory of renaissance occult philosophy. Yates writes of the importance of
the ‘inWltration of Neoplatonism into the older memory tradition’ which is
also present in the PlutosoWa. Gesualdo opens his chapter on the art of
memory with quotations from Ficino’s Libri de vita, and can thus be seen as
an important source for the understanding of Ficino’s ideas on memory.
Young, p. 128; Yates p. 167–168; uncommon; NUC and RLIN record copies at
Yale, the Newberry Library and the University of Chicago.
30 GRÅBERG DE HEMSÖ, Jacob. Théorie de la Statistique.
Gênes, Typographie Ponthenier, 1824. £500
8vo, pp. [viii], 79, [1] blank, [2] errata; uncut in the original pale blue
wrappers, small tear at head of upper wrapper, else Wne.
First edition, uncommon, of this introduction to statistics. The Swedish
writer and geographer Gråberg de Hemsö (1776–1847) was one of the
main proponents of statistics as a tool of political and economic decision
making, and here develops a detailed theory of statistics, in an attempt to
identify it as a separate science and distinguish it from political economy
and demography. He begins with a brief reference to his predecessors, such
as Chaptal and Peuchet, before outlining a blueprint for a detailed investigation
and statistical description of a state. In three divisions (chorographie,
ethnographie, and nomographie) twelve classes are subsumed, covering the
geographic situation, climate, natural production and living conditions,
followed by population Wgures, agricultural and industrial production, and
civilization, and Wnally legislation, administration, political economy and
diplomacy. The Wgures collected in these classes are then displayed on numerous
separate tables, together giving an overview of the physical, moral
and political state of a nation.
The author maintains that this detailed assessment might be a particularly
eVective tool for both the traveller and the businessman.
RLIN and OCLC record just one copy at New York Public Library.
Far-reaching Analysis of the Silk Industry in Northern Italy
31 GREGIS, Gianantonio. Su lo Spaccio delle Sete Veronesi. ..
Coronata il dì 30 Dicembre 1782 dall’Accademia d’Agricoltura
Commercio ed Arti. In Verona, si vende dal cittadino Ramanzini,
1797. £650
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8vo, pp. 52, 2 large folding printed tables bound at the end; some
occasional light spotting; contemporary stiV wrappers; a Wne copy.
First and only edition of this interesting study of the Veronese silk industry
by the Italian physiocrat Gianantonio Gregis, with particular emphasis on
increasing both the production and consumption of silk in the area.
Gregis begins by analysing the production Wgures compiled over the
course of the previous Wfteen years, which are given on the Wrst of the two
tables. Annual production Wgures for raw silk (both by the producers and
by the merchants) are given, followed by Wgures for spun/treated silk, silk
for export and waste within the production process. He establishes that a
large proportion of the silk production does not appear to be registered (or
taxed), but leaves the country as contraband. Gregis suggests a sliding tax
scale for raw silk and coloured silk or silk products, to increase reWned silk
industry in the country, as this would beneWt local employment. Despite
this tax regulation, Gregis remains Wrmly in favour of free trade in silk.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 18259.
Black Literature
32 GREGOIRE, Henri. De la littérature des Nègres, ou
Recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et
leur littérature; suivies de Notices sur la vie et les ouvrages des
Nègres qui se sont distingués dans les Sciences, les Lettres et les
Arts. . . A Paris, chez Maradan, Libraire, 1808. £2800
8vo, pp. xvi, 287, [1] errata; some light spotting; uncut in
contemporary paste-paper wrappers, printed spine label; spine
somewhat worn, short tear to foot of upper wrapper; a good copy.

First edition, uncommon, of this unusual work of social and literary history
4to, pp. [xxxiv], 103 (tables), [1], one folding woodcut bound in,
by the cleric and social reformer Henri Gregoire, arguably the Wrst compre-
twenty-Wve woodcuts in the text; some light browning, small hole due
hensive account of black literature. Gregoire (1750–1831) consistentl to ink erosion on one leaf of text; contemporary buV boards, some light
y championed equality and liberty.
dust-soiling; a Wne copy.
After publishing a stirring pamphlet on the emancipation of the Jews in
First edition, rare, of this interesting work on the mathematical calcula-
1787, he turned his attention to agitation against the slave trade and slavery
tion of liquid measures. Guerrino gives a brief introduction on how to es-
and denounced the prejudices of white people against the coloured races. In
tablish mathematically the contents of various casks, barrels, and tubs. In
this spirit the present work was written. It goes well beyond a literary his-
twenty-one examples he discusses how to take the appropriate measuretory
of black writers, giving instead an account of black culture. His real
ments of diVerently-shaped containers, and then explains in detail the math-
purpose was to demonstrate the industriousness, courage and family strucematical
solution of these geometrical questions. The rather attractive text
ture of the black population, as well as their artistic and professional skills.
woodcuts show examples of these containers. The second half is taken up
He included an interesting chapter on black musical culture, describing
with tabular calculations.
what was later to be called the ‘blues’, ‘musique des coeurs aZigés’.
Rather appealingly most of his sample calculations are made on food-
His work met with strong opposition from both French Haitian plantastuVs,
such as wine and oil, with appropriate illustrations of wine barrels
tion owners and slavery advocates in the United States. In anticipation of
and vintners Wlling vats. Guerrino (1733–1778), a Milanese mathemati-
this Gregoire had already arranged for translations into German and Engcian,
also published a number of treatises on geometry and surveying.
lish, which were published in 1809 and 1810 respectively. He even had a
Riccardi I, c. 650; B.IN.G. I, 999; NUC, RLIN and OCLC list just two copies at
copy sent to JeVerson, even though he severely criticised him in the book
for postulating moral and social inferiority of the black population.
Sabin 28727; Monglond VII, 987; for detailed analysis see R. F. Necheles, The
Abbé Grégoire 1787–1831. The Odyssey of an Egalitarian, 1971.
Yale and Harvard.
33 GUERRINO, Tomaso. Tavole della Tenuta di qualunque
Vassello, Bonza, Tinamastello, Secchione, ed altre simili Figure ec.
A misura del Brazzo di Legname, ed a Brente Milanese. Esattamente
calcolate. . . In Milano, nella Stamperia di Pietro Agnelli, 1767.
£750
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34 [GUETLE, Antonie.] Cytherens Kunstkabinett, oder Toiletten-
Hand- und Kunstbuch, aus eigenen Erfahrungen für ihre Freundinnen
bearbeitet. Nürnberg, A. G. Schneider & Weigel, 1804. £750
8vo, pp. xiv, [ii], 223, [2] advertisement (folding); title page vignette;
lackng front free endpaper; some spotting and foxing throughout,
stronger at beginning and end; contemporary marbled boards, spine
ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered label; extremities a little rubbed and
chipped.
First and only edition of this guide to perfume and cosmetics manufacturing,
purportedly written by a woman. The anonymous author, apparently
the owner of a perfumery and drugstore, who also runs a mail-order business,
writes in her introduction of her education at court and her connec-

tions among the nobility. In individual chapters literally hundreds of recipes
for all types of make-up, perfumed cleansing waters, skin lotions, both
moisturizing and healing, face-masks, and hand and body creams are given.
Special sections deal with washing, dyeing and stain removal for all manner
of fabrics. In many instances prices for individual potions or ingredients are
given, with the note that they are obtainable from the author.
No further information is available on the author, some Wfteen years later
a similar work, entitled Die elegante Chemie oder Anweisung zur Bereitung
derer zur Toilette gehörigen Parfüms, was published by Johann Conrad Guetle.
Very rare, just the British Library copy listed, not found in NUC, OCLC, RLIN,
nor KVK.
35 HAYLEY, William. Essai satirique et amusant sur les Vieilles
Filles. Traduit de l’Anglois par M. Sibille. Premiere Partie [–Seconde
Partie]. A Paris, chez le Tellier, Libraire, 1788. £380
Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 172; [iv], 224, 4; uncut in the original
Buntpapier wrappers; a little dog-eared, but Wne.
First edition in French of Hayley’s A Philosophical Historical and Moral Essay
on old Maids, Wrst published in 1785. Hayley’s study of the character, position
and history of older single women – including examples of literary old
maids in English literature – was reviled by contemporary women writers
and Anna Seward said that the book ‘so wantonly betrayed the cause it
aVected to defend that she could wish it had never passed the press’. The
original had been presented as serious scholarship by ‘a friend of the sisterhood’,
but in this French translation more attention was drawn to the satirical
and amusing character of the work. William Hayley (1745–1820) was a
biographer, poet, patron of the arts and friend of William Blake.
The translator states in his preface that he has restricted his translation to
the Wrst volume only, as the following volumes contained mostly church
opinion, of no interest to French readers. In eVect the translation covers
Volume I and part 1 of Volume II of the work, which was originally published
in three volumes.
Gay II, 65; NCBEL II, 658; RLIN and OCLC list four copies (Harvard, South
Carolina, Library of Congress and Southern Regional Library Fund).
36 [HERTEL, Johann Friedrich] ALBANUS di SPINETTO
[pseud]. Politische Schnupf-Tobacs-Dose vor die wächserne Nase der
Justiz in sich fassend Juristische Streit-Fragen in Handel und Wandel
von denen Kauf- und Mieth- oder Pacht auch andern Contracten, mit
satyrischer Feder entworfen, und aus dem Italiänischen ins Teutsche
übersetzt. Franckfurth und Leipzig, 1739. £1200
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [xxviii], 439; separate title-page for
second section; title-page a little dust-soiled, else clean throughout;
contemporary half vellum over sprinkled boards; an attractive copy.
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First edition of this satirical criticism of the intricacies of legal argument and
the legal profession. Purportedly a translation from the Italian, but in fact
written by Hertel (1667–1743), a German jurist and professor of law, the
work satirises how under the present legal system cases can be won on
‘points’ rather than justice being done. Legal questions are presented in the
guise of snuV, and each nostril expels a solution to the problem. Both solutions
follow an intrinsic logic and are backed up by extensive legal references
to standard authorities. Hertel gives over two hundred individual
cases, and presents argument and counter-argument for each of them. A
large number of his cases cover commercial transactions, especially sales,
bad debts, money-lending, interest charges, usury, etc, but also including
inheritance cases, mortgage transactions and pawnshop arrangements.
The well-written and amusing treatise clearly pinpoints the intricacies of
legal argument. The attractive engraved frontispiece shows the Wgure of justice
attended by a fool and a merchant who oVers a pinch of snuV.
Jantz 1338; RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Princeton, New York Public Library
and Duke University only.

Humboldt’s First Contribution to Linguistics
37 HUMBOLDT, Wilhelm von. Prüfung der Untersuchungen
über die Urbewohner Hispaniens vermittelst der Vaskischen
Sprache. Berlin, bei Ferdinand Dümmler, 1821. £1200
4to, pp. viii, 192 including index; occasional light spotting and foxing,
and paper creased; contemporary marbled boards, spine label lettered in
manuscript; extremities chipped; ownership inscription in ink to title
page; a good copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Humboldt’s earliest contributions to philology
and linguistics, which culminated in his philosophy of speech Über die
Verschiedenheit des Menschlichen Sprachbaues (Berlin, 1836).
The present work contains his study of the Basque language. Humboldt
had made extensive visits to the French and Spanish Basque districts, studying
the language in remote villages and with local philologians, and had
consulted rare Basque manuscripts in the Spanish Royal Library. He had
planned to produce a Basque–Spanish dictionary, based on these studies, but
instead eventually published the present work, Researches into the Early Inhabitants
of Spain by the help of the Basque language. Here he already attempted to
trace a connection between the character and evolution of the Basque peoples
and the style and content of their language. Based on the study of place names
he established that the Basques are the descendants of a people who were
much more widespread at an earlier period, extending through the whole of
Spain, the southern coast of France and the Balearic Islands.
He maintained that the development of individual languages is aVected
by physiological, ethnological, historical, geographical and political circumstances
and that stages in the cultural development of peoples leave
strongly marked traces in their languages. His famous work on the heterogeneity
of language, published as an introduction to his study of the ancient
Kawi language of Java in 1836 is the clear continuation and culmination of
this work.
Goedecke XIV 560, 708; Vater p. 43; see Printing and the Mind of Man 301; not in
Borst.
Free Trade in a Free Europe
38 JUSTI, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von. Die Chimäre des
Gleichgewichts der Handlung und SchiVahrt, oder: Ungrund und
Nichtigkeit einiger neuerlich geäußerten Meynungen von denen
Maaßregeln der freyen Mächte gegen die zu befürchtende
Herrschaft und Obermacht zur See, wobey zugleich Neue und
wichtige Betrachtungen über die Handlung und SchiVahrt der
Völker, und über den höchsten Punkt der daraus entstehenden
Macht und Glückseligkeit beygebracht werden. .. Altona, verlegts
David Iversen, 1759. £1000
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4to, pp. 86; decorative initials, engraved head- and tail-pieces; title a
little dust-soiled and stained; uncut in recent calf-backed boards; a good
copy.
First edition of Justi’s eloquent defence of the free trade doctrine as espoused
by England and Prussia, and in eVect a further clariWcation of his
earlier publication on the balance of power in Europe. His publication was
sparked oV by French propaganda against England, articulated in particular
by Maubert. Justi maintains that the idea of free of trade is incompatible
with the concept of balanced trade and naval commerce, as the interests of
diVerent nations will always be mutually exclusive. In extremis the
diVerences will lead to war, which by deWnition damages the trade balance
of all combatants. Justi gives a detailed introduction to the principles that
characterise international trade, i.e. the proper balance between free enterprise
and state intervention. He concludes with an interesting chapter on
the trade of neutral powers in time of war, one of the basic principles of
international law.
Humpert 10090; OCLC records copies at Harvard, the University of Wisconsin
and Keio University.

European Balance of Power
39 JUSTI, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von. Die Chimäre des
Gleichgewichts von Europa, eine Abhandlung worinnen die Nichtigkeit
und Ungerechtigkeit dieses zeitherigen Lehrgebäudes der
Staatskunst deutlich vor Augen geleget, und dabey allenthalben neue
und rührende Betrachtungen über die Ursachen der Kriege und dem
wesentlichen Grunde, worauf die Macht eines Staats ankommt,
beygebracht werden. .. Altona, bey David Iversen, 1758. £1000
4to, pp. [viii], 119; paper lightly browned throughout; recent calfbacked
boards, spine lettered in gilt; early library stamp to title page; a
nice clean copy.
Rare Wrst edition of Justi’s forceful and well-written argument against the
concept of the balance of power in Europe. This appears to be sparked oV
by a publication by Kahle, De trutina Europae (1744), translated by Formey
in the same year as La Ba lance de l’Europe. Justi maintains that an artiWciallymaintained
balance of power is neither possible nor legal, and politically
impracticable to maintain. He also opposes the notion that an economic
equilibrium or balance of trade could in any way be connected with a political
equilibrium or a balance of power. The power of each individual state
depends mainly on the strength of its government – neighbouring powers
will not be in a position to hinder or inXuence internal growth in the name
of a balance of power. He argues that too many disputes are started in the
name of the balance of power, resulting in enormous suVering for the peoples
involved, and recommends instead defensive alliances and strong governments
of the individual states. Of particular interest is his assessment of
what makes a state powerful – not the land it possesses but population,
natural position, trade and commerce, internal organisation, and foremost,
a strong government.
The economist Justi (1720–1771) can be regarded as the Wrst systematic
German writer on political economy, but in addition to publications on
that subject he also published a number of general political treatises, of
which this treatise on foreign policy is arguably the most important. In his
political views he is a Wrm supporter of Montesquieu.
Menger c. 50; see Roscher p. 450; uncommon: NUC records just four copies, at
the University of Chicago, New York Public Library, Yale and the Baker Library.
40 JUSTI, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von. Élémens généraux de
Police, Démontrés par des raisonnemens fondés sur l’objet & la Wn
qu’elle se propose. .. Traduits de l’Allemand par M. E*** [Eidous].
A Paris, chez Rozet, 1769. £600
12mo, pp. [iv], 254, [2]; very faint dampstain to upper corner of last few
leaves; contemporary full mottled sheep, spine gilt in compartments, giltlettered
spine label; repairs to both boards; a clean and crisp copy.
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First edition in French of Justi’s Grundsätze der Polizeywissenschaft, Wrst published
in 1756, and basically the embodiment of cameralistic theory. Justi
outlines the principles of the welfare state which accepts responsibility for
the moral and economic conditions of life. In his preface he distinguishes
his understanding of Polizeiwissenschaft from that of contemporary authors,
and stresses that he is concerned with ‘the preservation and increase of the
total means, or wealth of the state through good internal institutions
[Verfassungen] und with creating internal power and strength for the republic.
This is achieved through the cultivation of the land, improvement of the
lot of the labouring classes, and good discipline and order in the community.
In individual sections he deals with the increase of agricultural production,
the development of cities, advancement of manufacturing industry, to
questions of banking, circulation of money and credit control. He also discusses
population development, and emphasises the importance of stimulating
population growth. This work contains his famous dictum that a
state can never have too many inhabitants.
Justi is regarded as the Wrst systematic German writer on the science of
economics, and this work was used extensively as a textbook of the science.
It is one of the few German economics texts to have been translated, and a
further translation into Spanish followed in 1791. Carpenter has argued
that this translation, which was prepared by Marc Antoine Eidous, was not
necessarily exclusively meant for the French market, but possibly also for
the French readers in Germany.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10516.6; Higgs 4567; see Humpert 8494; see A. Small, The
Cameralists, 1909 pp. 436–458 for a detailed analysis; NUC and RLIN list three
copies (MH-BA, NNC, NcD).
Are Small Universities Economically Viable?
41 KÖNIG, Johann Christoph. Gespräche über Universitäten
überhaupt und über die Frage: Ist jede mittelmäßige Universität
kameralistisch unnüz? besonders. . . Nürnberg und Altdorf, bei J. C.
Monath und J. F Kußler, 1790. £300
8vo, pp. [xvi], 68; faint dampstain to foremargin of last signatures;
uncut in the original pale blue boards, spine expertly repaired, corners a
little frayed; private ownership stamp to front pastedown and early
ownership inscription in ink.

First edition (later reprinted in Scheler’s Annalen der Teutschen Akademien
(1790–91) of an interesting article on the Wnancial and cultural viability of
small universities. König, professor of metaphysics at Altdorf, presents various
proposals for university reform which were being discussed at the time.
One idea was to follow the English example and copy the collegiate system,
another to concentrate on large seats of learning only, and close small universities
or even all universities not located in a major city. König shows in
his Wctitious dialogue between Logistes and Demopheles the cultural and
economical beneWts of medium-sized universities, all based on facts gathered
at Altdorf University. He calculates the money spent in the city by
students and teaching staV, scholarships and donations concentrated on the
city, and other forms of ‘outside investment’ in an otherwise unremarkable
town. A large proportion of the working population of a university town is
directly or indirectly employed by the university, even the taxable income of
the state increases with the higher respect that is aVorded to it. He shows
how in addition to intangible beneWts like higher prestige, direct Wnancial
beneWts can be attributed to the universities. He also makes some interesting
comments on the organisation and Wnancing of scholarships and donations,
referring extensively to Siebenkees’ publication on the subject.
In the end it appears conWrmed that universities are of Wnancial beneWt to
the state, however, the question of whether universities in small towns are
intellectually viable remains to be resolved.
OCLC and RLIN list only one copy, at Göttingen University.
Early Lithography
42 [KONING, Jacobus.] Algemeene Ophelderende Verklaring
van het Oud Letterschrift in Steenplaatdruk. Uitgegeven door de
Maatschappij: Tot nut van ‘t Algemeen. Leyden, Deventer, en
Groningne, bij D. du Mortier en Zoon, J. H. de Lange, en J.
Oomkens, 1818. £780
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Two volumes, text volume: 8vo, pp. [iv], 66; plate volume: 4to. ll. 17
(measuring 290 x 235 mm) folded once, mounted on guards;
contemporary wrappers, a little dog-eared and extremities rubbed, but
in all very nice and clean copies.
First edition, uncommon of this very early example of the use of lithography
in printing, foreshadowing one of the main uses of this new printing
technique. The inventor of lithography, Senefelder, had been aware of the
possibilities of his printing technique for the reproduction of old documents
and for facsimiles. This is put into practice in Koning’s work on
Dutch medieval handwriting and palaeography drawn from his own collection.
Forty-eight lithographic facsimiles of handwriting from medieval
times to the seventeenth century are lithographically printed on seventeen
plates. They are transcribed and presented with a commentary in the accompanying
letterpress booklet. The reproductions are faithful facsimiles,
produced by means of translucent transfer paper. They prove the suitability
of lithography for making facsimiles of documents, demonstrate the capabilities
of this new printing process, and established a pattern for palaeographical
books later in the century. This is in fact the Wrst work ever to be
printed on Dutch palaeography.
Twyman, Early Lithographed books, p. 211, RLIN records copies a the Getty Library,
the University of Southern California, Harvard, Columbia University and
the Grolier Club.
Tuna Fishing Rights oV Sicily
43 [LAW.] Contratti di Compra, Transazione fatta in Spagna con
sua Cattolica Maestà, Determinazioni, ed Ordini del Tribunale del
Real Patrimonio, per l’acquisto, e franchezze dell’Isole, e Tonnare di
Favignana, Formiche, Levanzo, Maretino, San Vittore, Mare delli
Porci, Raisgerbi ed altri, possessi dali Signori Conte Gio. Luca,
Marches Paolo Girolamo quondam Giuseppe, e Marches Paolo
Girolamo, e Monsignor Lazaro quondam Giol. Francesco della
Nobilissima Famiglia Pallavincino della Città di Genova. Seconda
Impressione dedicata alla Grandezza del Signor Conte Marches Gio.
Luca Pallavicino. . . In Palermo, nella Stamperia di Angelo Felicella,
1731. £1800
Folio, pp. [ii], 147; large engraved heraldic vignette to title page,
decorated initials; very clean and crisp in contemporary full sheep,
boards with central gilt decoration, gilt panelling and corner pieces;
spine ruled in gilt, a.e.g.; spine crudely repaired at head, head and foot
of spine chipped, some surface worming to lower board; binding
sprung; internally very clean and crisp.
Second edition, presumably the Wrst public edition, clearly bound for presentation
purposes, of a very rare economic and legal document certifying
the transfer of the title and Wshing rights to the Egadi Islands from the

Spanish Crown, under the rule of Philip III, to the Pallavicino family of
Genova. In the early seventeenth century Sicily was under Spanish rule.
During the Thirty Years’ War Spain sustained great costs and Sicily was
forced to contribute with huge subsidies. This presumably prompted the
decision to sell the group of islands oV the west coast of Sicily, despite the
consequent loss of Wshing revenue and tax income. The contract was Wrst
agreed in 1637, but clearly had been negotiated since 1634 and continued
to be renegotiated until 1660. The islands were Wrst sold to Camillo
Pallavicino for 500 thousand scudi, but later further demands were made.
For reasons of military defence, further conditions were included in later
contracts, all faithfully reprinted here.
The work contains a number of documents, written in Latin, Spanish and
Italian, and gives details of the duties payable, money paid for the islands,
and especially the Wshing rights. The correspondence between the parties is
also included and sheds light on the extensive negotiations. In addition to
questions of Wshing rights, all manner of rules and regulations apply to the
governing of the islands.
The rule of the Pallavicino family proved beneWcial for the islands: they
introduced agriculture and forestry and developed the Wshing industry,
which could eventually claim to be the largest tuna Wshery of Sicily.
This document was presumably prepared for one of the participants of
the transaction, which would account for the sumptuous production, the
attractive presentation binding, and the rarity of the work. There does not
appear to be a published ‘Wrst edition’.
Not in Kress, Goldsmiths or Einaudi, not found in NUC, RLIN or OCLC.
First Hollis Edition – in a Fine Binding
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44 LOCKE, John. Two Treatises of Government. . . Reprinted
the sixth time, by A. Millar, et alia, [London], 1769. £650
8vo, pp. [xii], 416, portrait frontispiece engraved by Giovanni Battista
Cipriani after Kneller; Wnely bound in contemporary calf, spine gilt in
compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered spine label, edge of the
boards decorated with an ornamental gilt roll, marbled endpapers; head
of spine a little worn, else a Wne copy in an attractive non-symbolic
Hollis binding.
An attractive copy of the Wrst Hollis edition of Locke’s Two Treatises.
Locke’s treatises on government can be considered the foundation of liberal
political thought in Britain. He was Wrst and foremost a defender of individual
liberty against pope or king, and it was his inXuential theories of
liberalism that lay behind those of the American revolutionaries. ‘His Treatise
of Civil Government was a philosophical defence of the principles of the
revolution of 1688, and its contents came to be accepted as the true exposition
of the Whig creed. Its leading ideas, that civil society is based upon a
compact for the defence of the rights of liberty and property, and that a
people may rebel against rulers who are no longer true to the trust reposed
in them, and may change the form of their government – are the same as
those formulated by Rousseau in his Contrat Social, though Rousseau’s
logic is more relentless and his language less cautious. The very phrases of
Locke’s Treatise, as well as its ideas, are echoed in the American Declaration
of Independence’ (Palgrave).
The binding of this copy appears to be a non-symbolic Hollis binding,
with nearly all the characteristics identiWed by Bond (W. H. Bond, Thomas
Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn: a Whig and his books, 1990, p. 36–39).
Yolton 35; Attig 105; Higgs 3327; this copy is complete even though the prelims
are bound in a diVerent, but rather more logical order than indicated in Yolton.
Private Wealth
45 [MAGNANIMA, Luca.] Delle Ricchezze dell’Acquisto &
conservazione di esse. . . Livorno, presso Carlo Giorgi, 1775. £650
8vo, pp. 144; some light spotting, else clean and crisp; contemporary
full vellum over boards, spine with two gilt lettering pieces; a very good
copy, with contemporary manuscript notes in ink to one page.
First and only edition. Magnanima (1737–1785) dedicates his work to
d’Alembert, and his contribution to knowledge. He maintains that all philosophers
write on the beneWts and wealth of the state, but nobody studies
the question of wealth and the acquisition of riches in relation to the individual.
In this philosophical assessment of riches, he studies private ambition
and private good sense, which lead to both philosophical and material
riches.
Magnanima includes an interesting chapter on money, its function of ex-

change value, its importance for commerce and trade, and the inXuence of
scarcity and supply and demand in the establishment of a price. However,
he warns that monetary value and monetary riches are not the only aim in
life. In individual chapters he discusses the inXuence of talent, courage,
knowledge, and also government and climate on the active pursuit of riches.
A further chapter deals with indirect measures such as frugality, and individual
virtues such as honesty, constancy, and perseverance. He concludes
that the pursuit of riches activates mostly positive ambition in individuals.
However, the use and defence of riches brings less attractive features to the
fore, such as luxury, avarice and ostentation.
Magnanima’s work is bound with a collection of essays by Carmeli.
(Dissertazioni. Padova, Stamperia del Seminario, 1756. pp. [viii], 56).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 11232.9; not in Einaudi; NUC, RLIN and OCLC list just the
Harvard copy.
In Defence of Brothels
46 [MANDEVILLE, Bernard.] Venus La populaire ou Apologie
des Maison de Joye. .. Traduite de l’Anglois. A Londres [?The
Netherlands.], chez A Moore, 1727. £ 750
8vo, pp. xii, 130; uncut in the original marbled boards, spine lettered in
manuscript, spine a little chipped and some wear to head and tail; title
lightly browned, else very clean and crisp.
Rare Wrst edition in French of Mandeville’s ironic defence of brothels, in the
manner of his earlier Fable of the Bees and anticipating Swift’s Modest Proposal.
The original was published in 1724 under the title A Modest Defence of
Publick Stews: or, an Essay upon Whoring, with the preface signed ‘Phil-
Pornix’. This work is a further expression of his pragmatic approach to morality,
Wrst displayed in the Fable of the Bees, and here applied to prostitution.
Again he uses paradox and wilful exaggeration to make his point, and eventually
recommends governmental regulation of brothels and prostitution.
In this work Mandeville states his utilitarianism most succinctly and
shows himself a clear fore-runner of the nineteenth century utilitarian
movement: ‘it is the grossest absurdity, and a perfect contradiction in terms,
to assert, that a government may not commit Evil that good may come of it;
for, if a publick Act, taking in all its Consequences, really produces a greater
quantity of good, it must, and ought to be term’d a good act’ (Kaye, p. lx).
ESTC t115816; Kaye I xxxi.
47 [MARCELLO, Benedetto.] Il Teatro alla Moda, o sia Metodo
sicuro, e facile per ben comporre, & esequire l’Opere Italiane in
Musica all’uso moderno, nel quale si danno Avvertimenti utili, e
necessarij a Poeti, Compositori di Musica, Musici dell’uno, e
dell’altro sesso, Impresari, Suonatori, Ingegneri, e Pittori di Scene,
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Parti buVe, Sarti, Paggi, Comparse, Suggeritori, Copisti, Protettori,
e Madri di Virtuose, & altre Persone appartenenti al Teatro. . .
Stampato ne Borghi di Belisania per Aldiviva Ligante. . . [1720].
£1200
8vo, pp. 64; Wnely engraved emblematic title page vignette, decorated
initials; title a little dust-soiled; contemporary full vellum, re-cased with
new endpapers provided; a Wne copy.
First edition, very rare, of this witty commentary on the Italian opera scene
during the late Baroque period. To draw attention to declining standards
in opera production, especially in the opera buVa, Marcello gives a satirical
account of the various professions involved in the production of an opera
and maintains that in fact none of them need to be trained professionals at
all. One by one he assesses composers, librettists, singers and soloists,
musicians, stage designers, dress-makers, and Wnally the all-important
Wgure of the young diva’s mother. No need for the composer to know the
classic principles of musical composition, so long as he produces catchy
tunes. In the same vein, all other professionals are described as cutting corners
and producing what is no longer a work of art, but instead merely a
popular show. Marcello attacks stupidity and laziness in opera, and maintains
that the audience treat it as a social occasion to be seen at, without
having any real interest in music. Marcello (1686–1739), a Venetian aristocrat,
fuses his satire with elements of true parody and caricature. His
acute observations and timeless criticism of popular opera tradition ring
true still today.
In an ironic twist Marcello’s satire in itself became part of the musical
tradition. Both Metastasio’s Didone abbandonata and Goldoni’s La Cantatrice
take their main character from Marcello’s description of the constantly
interfering diva’s mother.
The false imprint is in fact composed of the names of famous singers of
the time. The satire was very popular, and was reprinted not quite every
year, as indicated on the title page, but in 1733 and 1735.
Uncommon, NUC, RLIN and OCLC locate copies at Yale, Harvard, the University
of Chicago and the Getty Library.

48 MARX, Karl. ��������, ������� ������������ ��������
[Kapital, Kritika Poleticeskoj Ekonomii]. [Translated by Lopatine
and Danielson]. Volume one [all published], St. Petersburg,
Poliakof, 1872. £9000
Tall 8vo, pp. [ii], xiii, [ii], 678; occasional light marginal spotting to
paper, some very faint staining, half-title with old repair to corner; halftitle,
title, and last leaf slightly dust-soiled; else clean and fresh;
contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine with gilt double rules
and gilt-lettering directly to spine; tail of spine and corners rubbed,
upper joint skillfully repaired; a very good copy.
First edition in Russian of Marx’s Kapital, in fact the Wrst translation to be
published in any language. 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
value and surplus value, through the dictatorship of the proletariat to neo-
Hegelian dialectical materialism, the major Marxist contribution to the interpretation
of history and political economy. The Wrst volume was the only
one to be completed and 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
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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 Ersttdrucke
der Werke v. Marx u. Engels, 1955, S. 33.
49 MEUSEL, Johann Georg. Historische Untersuchungen.
Gesammlet und herausgegebenvon Johann Georg Meusel. Ersten
Bandes erstes Stück [–Ersten Bandes drittes und desselben letztes
Stück] [all published.] Nürnberg, im Verlag der Johann Georg
Lochnerischen Buchhandlung, 1779–80. £420
Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xvi], 182, one folding plate; [iv],
180; [iv], 240, [4]; title vignettes and head- and tail-pieces;
contemporary half sheep, spine decorated in gilt, gilt-lettered spine
label, head of spine chipped, extremities a little rubbed.
First and only edition of a short-lived historical journal, edited and partly
written by the historian and statistician Meusel. His introduction is of particular
interest, as he gives an extensive overview of current journals and
periodicals. He points out the importance of this form of publication for
the spread of scientiWc, technical, and historical ideas. Despite the large
number of similar publications he points out a lack of a truly historical journal,
which he attempts to provide. The emphasis appears to be early modern
history, with contributions by contemporary historians Spitteler, Fäsi,
Stieber, Longolius, and Albinus. Of particular interest is Spitteler’s demographic
article on the population of Wurttemberg before the Thirty Year
War. The last issue contains articles by Meusel himself, an interesting study
on the history of language, and an extensive translation of a review on
Dalin’s Swedish history.
Kirchner 1102; very uncommon, RLIN and OCLC list only microWlm copies.

Morellet’s Prospoectus – Ex Dono Autoris
50 MORELLET, André Abbé de. Prospectus d’un Nouveau
Dictionnaire de Commerce En cinq volumes in-folio proposés par
Souscription. . . A Paris, chez les Freres Estienne, Libraires, rue S.
Jacques, à la Vertu. 1769. £7500
8vo, pp. viii, 381, [1] approbation, [ii], 34 ‘Catalogue d’une
Bibliothéque d’Économie Politique, formé pour le Travail du nouveau
Dictionnaire de Commerce’; typographic head- and tail-pieces;
occasional light spotting and foxing, faint dampstain to gutter margin in
signature a, and barely noticeable traces of dampstaining at the head;
contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments, head of spine and
upper joint expertly repaired; from the library of the St. Bernard
monastery in Paris, with manuscript inscription to title, with the note
‘Ex Dono Autoris’.
First and only edition, very rare, of Morellet’s projected plan for a new commercial
dictionary, designed to supersede Savary’s Dictionnaire de Commerce.
McCulloch writes, ‘This prospectus, which is undoubtedly one of the
very best specimens of that class of works, was intended to exhibit the prin-
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ciples and plan of a Commercial Dictionary, in the compilation of which
Morellet was then actively engaged, which was to extend to Wve, or perhaps
six, volumes folio. And from his acknowledged learning and talent, the liberality
of his views, and his capacity for laborious exertion, there can be no
doubt, had the projected dictionary made its appearance, that it would have
been inWnitely superior to that of Savary or any other that had then been
published. Morellet continued to occupy himself with this gigantic enterprise
down to the Revolution, when he was compelled Wnally to abandon
it.’ (McCulloch, p. 62). Morellet gives a very detailed outline of the projected
work – discusses previous attempts at commercial dictionaries and
then sets out the diVerent areas covered by his dictionary. But despite the
large library he accumulated for the purpose (a catalogue of the most important
works is included in this volume) and the enormous amount of
work he put into its preparation it was never published. Exactly thirty years
later, in 1799, Peuchet published his commercial dictionary which was
based on the material collected by Morellet. Of particular interest is the
above-mentioned thirty-six page Catalogue d’une bibliothèque d’économie
politique, formé pour le travail du nouveau Dictionnaire du commerce, which
nearly two centuries later formed the basis of the Einaudi collection.
Goldsmiths’–Kress 10507; Higgs 4565; Einaudi 4024; McCulloch p. 62; in addition
to the Kress copy NUC lists copies at the Library of Congress, Yale, Library
Company of Philadelphia, and Indiana University only.
Double-Entry Book-Keeping
51 MOSCHETTI, Giovanni Antonio. Dell’ Universal Trattato di
Libri Doppii. . . Libri tre. Ne’ quali con regole universali & essempi
particolari ampiamente s’insegna il modo di girar in Scrittura
Doppia qual si voglia negotio mercantile. Veggonsi distesi con
bellissimo, et semplicissimo ordine varj modi di comprare, vendere,
& barattare, di viaggi fatti in persona & racommandati, di fattorie, di
fallimenti, d’alterationi di prezzo, & lazi nelle monete. . . In Venetia,
appresso Luca Valentini, 1610. £4000
4to, pp. 7, [i] blank, 249 [vere 254]; paper lightly, but evenly browned;
printer’s mark to title page, engraved head- and tail-pieces and
illustrated initials; contemporary full vellum, spine lettered in
manuscript; small library stamp removed from title, manuscript title
inscription; a very good and crisp copy.
First edition, rare, of this important Venetian treatise on double-entry
book-keeping. Although Moschetti, a Venetian businessman, about whom
little is known, stands Wrmly in the tradition of Pacioli, he introduced a
number of innovations into his system of double-entry book-keeping. He
suggests, for example, diVerent procedures for the ‘end of year’ accounts,
and for the transfer of account.
In the Wrst part he gives a concise introduction to the principles of double-entry
book-keeping and the books and ledgers to be used. The main

part is taken up by two long illustrative examples, introducing all manner of
diVerent business transactions of increasing complexity. The examples
range from simple buying and selling operations, to accounting for investments
and business expenditure, such as the building of a ship which is operated
for a period and then sold, or the equipping and operation of a sugar
reWnery which is sold be fore the ledger is sold.
Moschetti also includes a set of account books for insurance cost (‘tocchi
di sicurtà’), kept by the merchant to record expenses and claims paid when
he acted as insurer and to enter the premiums received. This is apparently
the Wrst time that such a transaction has been discussed in accounting literature
(see Melis in Bywater & Yamey, p. 95)
This introduction to double-entry book-keeping is written in an allegorical
style unusual in books on this subject matter: Moschetti likens the system
of double-entry book-keeping to music. Just as in music the various
voices and their harmonies are regulated by clef (key) and time (beat), so in
double-entry book-keeping all the transactions are regulated by the two accounts,
the capital account and the proWt and loss account (ICA p. 93).
Cerboni, p. 48; Historical Accounting Literature, p. 3; Herwood 44; see Bywater &
Yamey, Historic Accounting Literature: a companion guide, pp. 93–95 for a detailed
analysis; rare, not in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi; NUC records just the Columbia
University copy; OCLC and RLIN add no further copies.
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52 [MOSER, Friedrich Karl von.] Von dem deutschen National
Geist. [Frankfurt, Franz Varrentrapp], 1765. £550
8vo, pp. 108; some light browning and spotting to paper; contemporary
sheep, spine in compartments, some surface wear to leather; contemporary
note revealing the author to title page; from the library of
Franz Philipp Gugger, canonicus in Solothurn, with engraved book
plate to front pastedown; later typographic book plate to front free
endpaper.
First edition, rare, of Moser’s work on the lack of national spirit and patriotism
in Germany – a complaint which is still being raised today. He maintains
that there is a general lack of understanding of the constitution, and of
the responsibility of the individual towards the state. This is caused by the
division of the land into small dukedoms, kingdoms etc, which focus feelings
of loyalty solely onto the local level. He furthermore states that the
heritage of the Thirty Years’ War has reduced patriotism based on a shared
religion. At the same time he criticises the ruling classes for not setting a
good example. He accuses them of excessive spending, exploitation of their
citizens and corruption. He appeals to the universities to instil a feeling of
responsibility and patriotism in their students, who will in turn form the
political elite.
Borst 152; Goedeke V 237, 11; Humpert 7506; RLIN lists just one copy at
Stanford.
With an extensive Bibliography
53 MOSER, Johann Jacob. Lebensgeschichte Johann Jacob
Mosers, von ihm selbst beschrieben. [n.p.], [OVenbach], 1768.
£550
8vo, pp. [viii], [9]–216; typographic vignette to title, head- and tailpieces;
paper a little browned, title page loosened; contemporary buV
boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; extremities a little rubbed.
First edition of the autobiography of the ‘father of German law’, the proliWc
Johann Jacob Moser (1701–1785). Moser was in succession a lawyer, a
university professor at Tübingen and Frankfurt, a member of the government
of Wurtemberg and a founder of an academy for political science in
Hanau. He was imprisoned for his unwavering support of the estates-constitution
of the duchy of Wurtemberg. Moser published extensively on legal,
political and economic questions, and is regarded as the founder of
German public law. In the history of international law he is one of the great
positivists. With immense diligence he documented the elements composing
the law of the old empire, which served as a basis for Pütter’s system.
His work and life was dominated by a very clear sense of truth, a position
that was not shaken by his unjust conviction. This assured belief is particularly
noticeable in this masterly autobiography. Moser concludes with a
bibliography of his publications, listing more than 220 individual works,
not counting newspaper and journal articles: ‘ich habe so vil geschriben, als

wenige andere Rechts-Gelehrte vor mir gethan und nach mir thun
werden. . .’ (preface).
Moser’s autobiography appeared also with a Frankfurt and Leipzig imprint,
a third enlarged edition was published in 1777–1783.
Goedeke IV, 1, 233; RLIN lists Berkeley, Harvard and the university of Rochester;
see G. Kleinheyer & J. Schröder, Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, 1983, pp.
194–198.
Science for Children
54 [NEWTON.] The Newtonian System of Philosophy;
explained by familiar Objects, in an entertaining manner, for the
use of young Ladies and Gentlemen, By Tom Telescope, A.M.
Illustrated with Copperplates and Cuts. A new improved edition,
with many Alterations and Additions, to explain the late new
Philosophical Discoveries, &c, &c. By William Magnet. London,
Printed for Ogilvy and Son. . . 1798. £250
12mo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], 137, [1] directions to the binder,
[1] list of optical instruments mentioned in this book, with four
engraved plates bound in and numerous woodcuts in the text;
contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, extremities rubbed and
spine worn.
Later edition of this popular children’s book, the Wrst to attempt to teach
Newtonian science to children. Authorship has most often been ascribed to
John Newbery, the printer of the Wrst edition of 1761, with Oliver Goldsmith
as a more glamorous alternative (Welsh 314 and the Yale Goldsmith
exhibition in 1928).
The appeal of the book lies in its child-centred approach, the instructor
Tom Telescope is a little boy, and scientiWc principles are explained using
objects and situations familiar to children. The work is well-illustrated with
a number of simple woodcuts of the solar system, diVerent kinds of telescopes,
air pumps and water guns; the plates show a domestic science
lessen, an observatory, Mount Vesuvius and a schematic view of the solar
system.
Osborne, p. 831; Gumuchian, 5564.
55 OCKLEY, Simon. Relation des Etats de Fez et de Maroc,
ecrite par un Anglois qui y a été long-temps Esclave. Et traduite de
l’Anglois, publié par M. Simon Ockley, Professeur en Langue Arabe
dans l’Université de Cambridge. A Paris, chez Pissot Libraire. . .
1726. £650
12mo, pp. xxxi, [5], 216; title vignette and engraved head- and tailpieces;
short inoVensive worm trace ending in three individual worm
holes, in upper gutter margin, nowhere near the text; contemporary
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mottled calf, spine decoratively gilt in compartments, with gilt-lettered
spine label; small chip to lower joint; a Wne copy.
First edition in French, rare, of An Account of South-West Barbary, Wrst
published in 1713, and in eVect one of the earliest Wrst-hand accounts of
life in an Islamic country. Simon Ockley, who had come across the manuscript
of this Wrst-hand account, edited the narrative of captivity by an unknown
Christian slave who escaped in 1698. At the end are appended two
letters from the Emperor of Morocco, Muley Ismail, one to Captain Kirk
of Tangier, the other to Sir Cloudesley Shovel, ‘on Board the Charles galley’.
Simon Ockley (1678–1720), a brilliant linguist, lectured in Hebrew at
the University of Cambridge when only seventeen, and in 1711 he was appointed
to the Chair in Arabic there. His fame rests on his history of the
Saracens, which, although now long superseded as a historical commentary,
was very inXuential in its day (Edward Gibbon admits to having been
powerfully aVected by it), and was based on Arab historians’ own accounts
of their history. He also worked as a translator for the government in its
relations with the Kingdom of Morocco, which had become an important
trading partner for Britain ever since Catherine of Braganza had brought
Charles II the city of Tangier as part of her dowry in 1661.
RLIN and OCL list copies at Princeton, New York University, San Diego State
and the Library of Congress only.
The First European Book Trade Directory
56 [PERRIN, Antoine.] Almanach de la Librairie, contenant 1.
Les noms des Ministres & Magistrats qui sont à la tête de la
Librairie, ceux des Censeurs & des Inspecteurs. . . 3. Un Tableau de
tous les Libraires & Imprimeurs de Paris & du Royaume. 4. Un
Tableau des Libraires des principales villes de l’Europe. 5. Un
Tableau de Graveurs d’histoire, de paysages, de portraits, établis à
Paris, suivi de celui des Marchands d’estampes & de dessins. 6. Les
noms & les addresses des Graveurs en letters & en musique, & ceux
des Marchands de musique de Paris & des principales villes du
Royaume. 7. Les Foires de Librairie. 8. Le depart des Messageries,
des Coches d’eau & des Rouliers, & enWn les nouveaux Réglements.
A Paris, chez Moutard, Imprimeur-Libraire de la Reine, 1781.
£1250
12mo, pp. 189, [2] table des matières, [3] privilege; paper lightly
browned throughout, very faint dampstain to outer corner of E6-12;
contemporary mottled calf, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, hinges and
corners repaired; round ownership seal with initials M.N. pasted onto
title page, obscuring part of the imprint date; private rubber stamp of
Du Montier to verso of title; a good copy.

Third and most complete edition of the Wrst European book trade directory.
It was Wrst published in 1777 by Duchesne, with a second edition
issued the following year.
This fascinating address book of everyone related to the world of printing
and books clearly has an emphasis on the Paris book trade in particular and
the French book trade in general, but covers also German, Italian, British
and Scandinavian printers and publishers. The Wrst sections cover the ‘legal’
side of the book trade: names of censors and inspectors are given, with their
respective specialisations, followed by details regarding book imports and
distribution. The second part gives details of printers and booksellers,
names and addresses of engravers, followed by those of music printers.
Even though the directory is by no means comprehensive as regards names
of printers and publishers outside of France, it gives an invaluable indication
to the principal names in the trade in Europe.
The Wnal sections deal with recent modiWcations of the general laws governing
publishing and printing, especially those concerning workers’ regulations
and guild rules.
Rare, copies recorded at the British Library, St. Bride Printing Library and the
Bodleian Library; RLIN lists a copy at Columbia University; see G. Barber,
Pendred Abroad, in Studies in the Book Trade, in Honour of Graham Pollard, 1975.
German Addiction to Drink
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57 [PETERSEN, Johann Wilhelm.] Geschichte der deutschen
National-Neigung zum Trunke. Leipzig, bey Johann Philipp Haug,
1782. £750
8vo, pp. [viii], 160; pp. 16 of nineteenth century manuscript notes with
additions to the bibliography bound at the end; erased stamp to title,
and faint stamp to verso of title; newspaper cutting pasted to Wnal pastedown;
modern marbled boards.
First edition, uncommon, of this study of the German predilection for alcohol.
Petersen approaches his subject scientiWcally and begins with a history
of drink in Germany, Wrst just beer and mead but soon also wine. He cites
from numerous historical works, and maintains that one reason for excessive
drinking has been the habit of ‘toasting’. High alcohol beers were developed,
some of which survive even today, such as Einbecker, Zerbster etc,
and wine was adulterated and fortiWed as well.
In the second section Petersen traces the inXuence of alcohol consumption
on German history, politics and language. A telling sign, he maintains,
is that gratuities for service are called ‘Trinkgeld’ in German, i.e. drinking
money. In the court hierarchy the Mundschenk – sommelier – has a particularly
elevated position. However, excessive alcohol consumption also has
negative eVects on society. Brawls and Wghts are prevalent, promises are not
kept, and the moral tone is lowered by excessive cursing. However,
Petersen acknowledges that alcohol has its positive sides too, people are
more amiable, generous and communicative.
Petersen maintains that alcohol consumption was at its highest during
the late middle ages up to the sixteenth century. After that a general tendency
to moderation could be discerned. ‘Toasting’ was made illegal – it
now only survives in student fraternities. A number of temperance societies
were founded, e.g. the Hessischer Orden für Mäßigung in 1600 – even
though their rules do not appear to have been particularly strict: refraining
from total drunkenness for two years, drinking only wine and beer but no
spirits, and limiting alcohol intake to 14 units a day (no records remain of
the size of the ‘units’). From the late seventeenth century tea and coVee
consumption gradually increased and replaced beer and wine in the nation’s
favour.
Interestingly he supports his observations with detailed references,
which are listed at the end. A nineteenth century reader has added further
citations in a neat hand on Wnal leaves.
Petersen’s study was popular and was reprinted in 1784 and again in
1856.
Schoene 12754; rare, not found in RLIN or OCLC.

58 PIETROBONI, Ignazio. La Stampa. Poemetto in ottava rima
diviso in tre canti all’eminentiss. E reverdiss. Principe il Sig.
Cardinale Luigi Valenti Gonzaga, patricio Mantovano dedicato
dall’abate Ignazio Pietroboni. Casalmaggiore, per Giuseppe Braglia
Stamp. Della Città all’Insegn. Di Virgilio, 1777. £350
8vo, pp. 93; typographic vignettes on title page and in the text; modern
marbled boards; elegantly printed on Wrm paper; very clean and crisp
with private ownership stamp to lower margin of title page.
First edition and only edition, rare, of this poem in praise of printing by the
Jesuit author Pietroboni. In his rambling poem Pietroboni mentions the
origins of printing, talks of Gutenberg and Coester and also of SchoeVer,
and reserves his particular praise for Bodoni. He particularly mentions the
importance of printing technology to the spread of Christianity.
Rare, NUC, RLIN and OCLC record just one copy at Columbia University;
in the British Library; not in Bigmore & Wyman.
A European Economic Model
59 [PINTO, Isaac de.] Traité de la Circulation et du Crédit.
Contenant une Analyse raisonnée des Fonds d’Angleterre, & de ce
qu’on appelle Commerce ou Jeu d’Actions; un Examen critique de
plusieurs Traités sur les Impôts, les Finances, l’Agriculture, la
Population, le Commerce &c. précédé de l’Extrait, d’un Ouvrage
intitulé Bilan général & raisonné de l’Angleterre depuis 1600
jusqu’en 1761; & Suivi d’une Lettre sur la Jalousie du Commerce,
où l’on prouve que l’intérêt des Puissances commerçantes ne se
croise point, &c. avec un Tableau de ce qu’on appelle Commerce, ou
plutôt Jeu d’Actions, en Hollande. Par l’auteur de l’Essai sur le Luxe,
& de la Lettre sur le Jeu des Cartes, qu’on a ajoutés à la Wn. A
Amsterdam, Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1771. £3500
8vo, pp. xvi, 368, with additional [8] pages on the state of English
Wnance in 1770 (interim half-sheet H* inserted between signatures Y
and Z); title page a little dust-soiled, some dampstaining to gutter
margin, stronger in places; uncut in the original pale blue wrappers,
spine worn and slightly dog-eared; an entirely unpressed copy.
First edition, rare, of Pinto’s ingenious defence of the public debt. Pinto
(1715–1787), an economist and advisor to the Stathouder William IV,
maintained that the public debt supported ‘circulation’ and that England’s
economic advance had been promoted by her public debt and public credit.
He takes Hume to task on this matter, and comments on a number of other
contemporary authors, such as Berkeley, Boisguilbert, BuVon, Colbert,
Diderot, Mirabeau, Petty, Rousseau and Voltaire. He is also well known
for his criticism of the agricultural enthusiasm of Boisguilbert, as expressed
in his Le Detail de la France and the physiocrats.
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Some attention is given to the question of population growth. Pinto
points out the importance of a balanced increase of population in the cities
and the countryside, in order to avoid social and economic disequilibrium.
‘Pinto’s Traité is written from a national as well as an international perspective.
His experience as a merchant and Wnancier in the Republic, along
with his knowledge of French and English economic thought, laid the
foundations for his European economic model. Pinto wanted above all to
convince his readers of the soundness of the British system of public debt.
With the adoption of improvements in the redemption policy proposed in
his book, the system would achieve a high degree of perfection. In France
the physiocratic opinions of the elder Mirabeau in particular required Pinto
to respond, and in England the otherwise admiring Hume was in disagreement.
By means of a critical discussion of the work of these and other authors,
Pinto propagated a Wnancial policy that he thought would beneWt
both the State and the individual’ (Nijenhuis).
This copy contains the sheet H*, entitled L’Etat des Finances en Angleterre
à la Wn de la session du Parlement en 1770, which is not always present and
not mentioned by Einaudi. It does not contain the Addition au Traité (pp.
369–384) and the errata leaf, which were later inserted in some copies.
Einaudi 4447; Goldsmiths’–Kress 10791; Higgs 5282; INED 3603; Stourm, p.
42; Szajkowski, Franco-Judaica, 868; for an elaborate analysis of Pinto’s work see
I. J. A. Nijenhuis, Een Joodse Philosophe. Isaac de Pinto (1717–1787), Amsterdam,
NEHA, 1992.

Funeral Orations for Pets
60 PITTONI, Giambattista. Il Moretto del Pittoni. Narrazione
encomiastica serio-faceta delle dignissime prerogative che in lui si
attrovavano. In Venezia, presso Leonardo Pittoni, 1713.
[Bound after:] [LANDO, Ortensio.] Dilettevoli Orationi nella
Morte di diversi Animali nelle quali con vaga, & curiosa Lettura
s’ammira l’Acutezza dell’ Ingegno di molti rari Autori. In Venetia,
presso Leonardo Pittoni, 1712. £1500
Two works bound in one volume, 8vo, pp. 72, including frontispiece
and thirteen text woodcuts; pp. 40, with woodcut frontispiece included
in the pagination; occasional light spotting; contemporary full vellum,
spine lettered by hand; extremities a little worn, but in all a very good
copy.
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First edition of the Wrst work, later edition of the second work, both of
them elaborate spoof funeral orations for household animals. In his tribute
to the dog Moretto, Pittoni attributes human and heroic elements to its life
and pursuits, and extensively illustrates it with attractive woodcuts. The
naive illustrations show the dog in various encounters that are described in
the text.
Because of the similar subject matter, the well-known Sermoni Funebri
(Wrst published in 1548) by Ortensio Lando (c. 1508–1553) are here reprinted.
Lando’s funeral orations for pets and other animals are part of his
series of paradoxes with which he included an element of surprise in his
writings and made his readers reXect on their world. Included are eloquent
eulogies to a donkey, a horse, a common louse, a dog, an owl, a cat, a cricket
and indeed a chimpanzee – supposedly quite a common pet at the time.
Rare, NUC, RLIN and OCLC list only one copy of the Pittoni, at the College of
William and Mary.
The First Published Census of Population
61 [POPULATION CENSUS.] Censo Español executado de
Órden del Rey comunicado por el excelent’simo Señor Conde de
Floridablanca, primer Secretario de Estado y del Despacho en el Año
de 1787. En la Imprenta Real [1787]. £1500
Tall quarto, pp. [viii], 47 tables, mostly on double sheets; title within
ruled border and with woodcut arms; contemporary sheep-backed
marbled boards, spine with raised bands, decorated in gilt, with giltlettering
directly to spine; discreet repairs to head of spine, corners a
little worn; engraved armorial bookplate; a very clean and crisp copy.
First published Spanish Census and the Wrst published census of a nation
state. Although Sweden’s Wrst census was in 1749 and the results were published
by Wargentin, it appears that Spain has some claims to priority

through the printing of the Censo Espanol of 1787, as being the Wrst one
published. The Censo Espanol was a general census, covering the whole nation;
it was repeated in 1797. A complete census of the dominions of Castile
had been taken as early as 1594, but the present one is the Wrst general
population census to be published. The Wrst American census was held in
1790, the Wrst British and French followed in 1801.
The forty-three tables give a summary of the results of the census, divided
by kingdom, province and island from Andalucia to Valladolid, including
the Canary Islands. The population Wgures are given by sex, unmarried,
married, widow and widower, by religion, profession (i.e. class distinction),
including the clergy, hidalgos, labradores, jornalores, artesanos,
criados, military etc, and by age. The Wrst four tables compare the 1787 data
with an earlier census taken by the church in 1768/69. The Wgures were
compiled under the direction of Floridablanca (1728–1808).
Goldsmiths’–Kress 13352; see Palgrave I, p. 242; RLIN lists copies at Berkeley and
the University of Michigan only.
Feminist Classic
62 [POULAIN DE LA BARRE, François.] De l’Égalité des deux
Sexes, Discours physique et moral, où l’on voit l’importance de se
défaire des Préjugéz. A Paris, chez Jean du Puis, 1673. £1000
Small 12mo, pp. [xvi], 243, [5] advertisement and privilege; with
printer’s engraved monogram on the title-page, typographic head- and
tail-pieces; text in two parts, with consecutive pagination; some light
dust-soiling to title page, else just lightly browned; contemporary
mottled calf, spine in compartments, gilt; discreet repairs to joints and
lower corner; leather dulled due to acid erosion; a good copy.
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First edition of Poulain de la Barre’s important work on feminism. Applying
Cartesian reasoning to the status of women in society, Poulain de la
Barre argued that only custom and prejudice, not nature, excluded women
from the professions and from public life.
This is one of the most important feminist texts prior to the eighteenth
century and the only one to be translated into English, under the title The
Woman as Good as the Man (1677). Poulain de la Barre (1647–1723), a
cleric and Docteur de Sorbonne, was an outspoken and sophisticated radical
on feminist issues and decried the moderate and ephemeral feminism of
the seventeenth century. ‘De l’égalité des deux sexes intentionally eschewed
the convenient handbook catalogue of woman’s virtues, habits, and learning
and centred on the more diYcult and ingrained problems of intellectual,
social, and sex prejudice’ [Seidel].
Together with two separate but related works, De l’excellence des hommes
contre l’égalité des deux sexes (1675) and Dissertation ou discours pour servir de
troisème partie au livre de l’égalité des deux sexes (1690), this work documents
Poulain de la Barre’s extraordinary and innovative thinking as regards women’s
position in society. His work was almost entirely overlooked until the
beginning of the twentieth century, when it entered the canon of early feminist
texts.
Cioranescu XVI 55462; Gay II, c72; see Michael A. Seidel, Poulain de la Barre’s
‘The Woman as Good as the Man’. Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. XXXV, 1974,
p. 499.
Christopher Columbus
63 ROBERTSON, William. Vita di Cristofano Colombo primo
Discopritore di America. In Venezia, appresso Giovani Gatti, 1778.
£450
8vo, pp. 142 including engraved frontispiece portrait by Gatti after
Ricci; occasional light spotting; uncut in nineteenth-century decorative
wrappers; a good copy.
First edition of this original excerpt from Robertson’s History of America,
published in English and in the Italian translation the previous year. This
biographical sketch of Christopher Columbus is in fact book II of the work,
in the translation of Antonio Pillori.
Robertson’s History was highly inXuential at the time and was instantly
translated into German, Italian and French. ‘Its vivid descriptions and
philosophical disquisitions on aboriginal society captivated the literary
world, while the outbreak of the war lent the book pertinent public interest
and rendered it more popular than either of its predecessors’ (DNB).
NUC, RLIN and OCLC record just one copy at the Library of Congress, together
with one copy of the second edition (1794) at Brown University; not in Sabin.

Satire on the Legal Profession
64 ROTTMANN, Friedrich Julius. Der lustige Jurist, welcher im
ersten Theil nicht allein mancherley ergötzende, jedoch nützliche
Rechts-Fragen erörtert, verschiedene seltsahme Gerichts-Händel
darstellet, viele kurtzweilige Discurse führet und an einigen angenehmen
Disputationen Anlaß giebt: Sondern auch im andern Theil
eine kurtze Anweisung, wie allerhand Suppliquen, Instrumenta und
andere Rechts-Briefe . .. abzufassen, unter Darstellung vieler
lustigen Exempel und kurtzweiligen Historien mittheilet. .. Dritte
AuXage, Bremen, bey Philipp Gottfried Saurmann, 1725. £1200
8vo, pp. [xx], 1108, [22] index; title printed in red and black; paper
lightly but evenly browned throughout; contemporary full vellum,
spine letter in Gilt, with manuscript date at foot of spine; a good copy.
Third enlarged and revised edition, Wrst published in 1716, of this satirical
view of the legal profession. Rottmann maintains that academic legal studies
do not suYciently prepare the student for the wide-ranging problems he
will face in legal practice. To remedy this, he addresses a large number of
curious and far-fetched legal questions, in the form of bawdy bar conversations
between students and the public. The legal disputations, which follow
on from his earlier Der lustige Philosophus (1715), are written in a very readable
and amusing style. They concern questions of courtship and marriage,
crimes of passion, social customs, as well as theft, handling of stolen goods,
and Wnally judicial procedure. Legal tricks and advocate’s logic are discussed,
as is the problem of bribery within the judiciary. A number of discussions
centre on the question of tobacco and smoking, and include a
poem on the beneWts and pleasures of tobacco.
Rottmann concludes with an extensive section on legal correspondence,
pillorying excessively convoluted legal style.
In all a fascinating social picture of early eighteenth century society. The
work clearly met with approval and was reprinted in 1720, 1725, 1730, and
1738.
Hayn/Gotendorf, VI, 558; all early editions appear to be uncommon; NUC and
RLIN record just the Library of Congress copy for this edition, and Cornell University
(Wrst edition) and University of Pennsylvania (second edition).
Feminist Utopia
65 [RUSTAING de SAINT-JORY, Louis.] Les Femmes
Militaires; Relation Historique d’une Isle nouvellement découverte,
enrichie de Figures, dédiée à Monseigneur le Chevalier d’Orleans.
Paris, chez Didot, 1750. £450
12mo in 8s and 4s, pp. [viii], 312, with six engraved plates;
contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with gilt-lettered
spine label; light surface wear to lower board; a Wne copy.
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First Didot edition (Wrst published in 1735) of this utopian novel with a
clearly feminist point of view. The utopian travellers Wnd themselves on an
island where equality is complete, not only in the sense of economic and
social equality, but also between the sexes. The young are educated according
to these principles through public education, land and wealth are fairly
distributed, and in this ideal society there is no need for a penal code and
criminal courts.
The work was popular and went through a number of editions in 1735,
1736 and 1739.
Gay II, c. 295; Hartig 47; see Negley 990 and Lewis, p. 169.
Presentation Inscription
66 [SCARPELLINI, Feliciano.] Prospetto delle Operazioni fatte
in Roma per lo Stabilimento del nuovo Sistema Metrico negli stati
Romani. Dalla Commissione de’ Pesi, e Misure. Edizione unica
uYciale. Roma, presso Mariano de Romanis e Figli, 1811. £650

8vo, pp. viii, 303, with one folding engraved table and 8 large folding
printed tables, prelims and signature g misbound; some light spotting
and foxing throughout, due to paper quality; contemporary marbled
sheep, spine decoratively gilt, with gilt-lettered spine label; discreet
repairs to head and tail of spine; a good copy with a presentation
inscription by l’Ingenere Folchi, a member of the Commission, to his
fellow member and well-known scientist Giovanni Fabbroni, on verso
of title page.
First and only oYcial edition of the document introducing metrication in
the Roman States. Metric weights and measures were one of the permanent
outcomes of the French Revolution, and in the early nineteenth century
they were introduced in Italy. Scarpellini, the head of the Commission of
Weights and Measures, begins with a brief theoretical essay on the principles
and advantages of the new system of metric weights and measures and
on decimal calculation in general. He gives a brief history of its introduction
in Italy.
In individual chapters measures of length, surface area, capacity, and
weight are covered, each followed by extensive conversion tables, including
detailed notes and examples. Coins are also covered. The far-reaching eVect
of the reforms become obvious when one sees the large number of individual
non-metric measures that were in use, especially in areas like winemaking,
where bottles, casks, barrels were all used and speciWc conversion
tables had to be prepared.
It is rather appealing to Wnd an oYcial publication such as this with a
presentation inscription by one of the collaborators to another.
Uncommon, RLIN and OCLC record copies at the University of Michigan, Oklahoma
and, aptly, the American Academy in Rome.
67 SCHLOSSER, Johann Georg. Briefe über die Gesetzgebung
überhaupt, und den Entwurf des preussischen Gesezbuchs
insbesondere. Frankfurt, im Verlag bei Johann Georg Fleischer,
1789. £450
8vo, pp. [ii], 345, [2] errata; occasional light foxing; contemporary buV
boards, spine with gilt-lettered spine label, chipped; spine sunned and
extremities rubbed, sign of earlier spine label; shelf mark to front free
endpaper.
First edition, uncommon, of this interesting collection of essays on the
codiWcation of the law, on civil and criminal law, and especially on the Prussian
legal code. In four ‘letters’ Schlosser (1739–1799), Goethe’s brotherin-law
and founder of the historical school of law (Historische Rechtsschule),
concentrates on separate legal questions. In the Wrst, addressed to the Italian
legal reformer Filangieri, he questions the beneWt of a general reform of the
legal code at the present time. In the second section he discusses the origins
of laws, especially of civil laws. The remaining two concern the proposed
reform of the Prussian legal code together with speciWc comparisons be-
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tween Schlosser’s own suggestions and the reformed code. In his discussion
of the Prussian legal code, which was to embody the great ideals of the law
of nature and the Enlightenment, such as freedom of religion and conscience,
the separation of powers and the indipendence of the judiciary, he
quotes repeatedly from Beccaria. Overall he questions the eVectiveness of
the enlightened principles, when put into action by the normal civil servants.
NUC records two copies (DLC, MH), RLIN adds the University of Chicago.
Anatomy of Virgins
68 SINCERUS, Amandus. Neu entdeckte und kurtze doch
gruendlich gefasste Jungfern Anatomie, darinnen nach den
allerneuesten Experimenten das Frauenzimmer sambt allen ihren
Eigenschaften vorgestellet, allen Candidaten des Ehestandes zu

nothigem Unterricht aus Liebe zur Wahrheit auVgesetzet. Im Jahr
das es Jungfern schneyete und doch gar rar waren, 1715. £1200
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 46; lightly browned, due to paper stock;
contemporary marbled boards, spine chipped and corners bumped;
spine label lettered in manuscript; a very good copy.
First edition, very rare, of this popular ‘anatomy of virgins’, i.e. instructions
on how to identify chaste and untouched maidens for the purpose of marriage.
In the form of sixteen questions and answers various aspects of chastity
and suitability for marriage are discussed. Pertinent questions include
whether touching the breasts of a girl violates her chastity, whether a girl
who agrees to be kissed can still be called a virgin, and whether there is
unquestionable proof of chastity. Popular attitudes are described and criticized.
The author lists a number of female ploys for attracting attention,
such as excessive jewellery, low cut dresses, and gilt decorations, all skirting
the line of common decency.
The engraved frontispiece shows in seven individual sketches the sliding
scale from the perfectly chaste to the whore via the half-virgin and the
quarter-virgin.
The work clearly proved popular: another edition, extended to 32 pages,
was published in Leipzig the same year; further editions followed in 1716,
1728, 1733 and 1735.
Hayn/Gotendorf VII, 315–6; RLIN lists copies of the 1716 edition only
(Princeton, New York University at Albany).
69 STEINBECK, Christoph Gottlieb. Feuersnoth- und
Hülfsbuch fürs teutsche Volk und seine Freunde. Nach dem
Krÿgelsteinischen System bearbeitet. .. Leipzig, bey Voß und
Comp. 1802. £650
8vo, pp. xx, 300; woodcut to title page; contemporary half vellum over
paste-paper covered boards, spine label lettered in manuscript; spine
rubbed; a Wne copy from the Fugger family library in Augsburg.
First edition, Leipzig issue (there is also a Munich issue) of this popular
manual on Wre prevention, based on Krügelstein’s three-volume work
Vollständiges System der Feuer-Polizeiwissenschaft (1798–1800). Steinbeck
(1766–1826) gives a very practical introduction to Wre-prevention. After a
brief discussion of sources of Wre, Xammable materials, and the practical
organisation of Wre-Wghting, he concentrates on preventive measures: How
to Wre-proof building materials for use in construction, the use of lightning
rods, the need for implementing rules for Wre prevention in towns and cities.
To make the work more accessible for the general population it is composed
in the style of an almanach. After the introductory remarks, individual
problems are presented in dialogue form.
Not found in NUC, RLIN locates one copy at Harvard; two copies in German
libraries, at the Bavarian State Library and Göttingen University Library.
The Might of the Individual
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70 STIRNER, Max [pseud. Johann Kaspar SCHMIDT.] Der
Einzige und sein Eigenthum. . . Leipzig, Verlag von Otto Wiegand.
1845. £1600
8vo, pp. [ii], 491, [1] imprint; occasional light browning, due to paper
quality; contemporary moiré cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt;
a Wne copy, with small private library stamp to verso of title.
First edition of Stirner’s inXuential and highly original main work, his proclamation
of individualistic anarchy which placed him in the tradition of
Godwin, and exerted considerable inXuence over the modern school of anarchists
in Germany and Russia. Stirner rejected all political, moral and traditional
ties of the individual and attacked all general concepts – such as
right, virtue, duty etc – as erroneous appearances and, ‘There is only one
single reality and that is the independent individual who is aware of this fact
and who has made it his principle of thought and action. In this way the
individual becomes a ‘unique’ or ‘single one’ (Einziger) for whom his own
egoism is all determinant and who looks down on all concepts of religion,
moral, political, cultural or any other kind of duty as a sort of belief in
ghosts. The single individual sets his own tasks and thereby becomes his
own master. He is no longer the property of some strange “higher” entity
but belongs to himself.’ (Max Adler in ESS). Stirner’s conception of the
‘individual’ and ‘egoist’ are easily misinterpreted, and he was misunderstood
by contemporaries and critics alike. His idea of egoism is in no way to
be conceived as a mere self-seeking narrow-minded selWshness. Instead
Stirner advocates full self-awareness and education in pursuit of self-determination
in man’s thinking and acting. The revolutionary impact of his
work, which was mainly written for the proletariat, lay in this insistence on
peoples’ individuality and their right to self-determination, a bold anticipation
of the psychological basis of Marx’s class struggle. Max Stirner (1806–
1856) is also known for his translations of Adam Smith and other
economists.
Stammhammer I, 241; Borst 2187; Menger c. 368.

The Beginning of Population Statistics
71 SÜSSMILCH, Johann Peter. Die göttliche Ordnung in den
Veränderungen des menschlichen Geschlechts aus der Geburt, dem
Tode und der FortpXanzung desselben erwiesen. . . Erster Theil
worin die Regeln der Ordnung bewiesen werden. . . [–Zweyter
Theil, worin die Beförderung- und Hinderungsmittel der Bevölkerung
betrachtet. ..] Zwote und ganz umgearbeitete Ausgabe.
Berlin, Im Verlag des Buchladens der Realschule, 1761 [1762].
£2200
8vo, pp. [viii], xvi, 576, 114 of tables (with some irregularities in
pagination), but complete; [ii], 625, [1] errata, 78, of tables, last table
(xxxix) folding; numerous tables and calculations in the text; paper
lightly browned but overall very clean; contemporary half vellum over
marbled boards, spine lettered in ink, some surface wear to covering
paper; extensive contemporary manuscript notes to front free
endpapers, occasional underlining and marking in the text; an attractive
copy.
Second, substantially enlarged, edition of Süssmilch’s classic contribution
to the study of population Wgures and demography – the earliest work which
can be described as ‘statistical’ in the modern sense. Süssmilch was the Wrst
systematic student of ‘political arithmetic’, a term coined by Sir William
Petty for investigations into vital statistics, which did not stop at collecting
facts but deduced general laws from them. He was also the Wrst to point out
the law of large numbers, the basis of all scientiWc statistical inquiry.
Süssmilch’s study is full of interesting and original demographic investigations,
placing particular emphasis on frequency rates of births, marriages
and deaths. Süssmilch ascertained the variations in mortality rates with
respect to sex, age, place of residence (urban or rural) and season and constructed
mortality tables which, despite their methodological shortcomings,
were used by German insurance companies until the middle of the nineteenth
century. Both volumes have numerous population tables both within
the text and bound as an appendix. Süssmilch also studied population increase
and attempted to compute world population Wgures, giving Wgures
for individual cities, such as London or Paris, based on the relevant authorities.
‘It is his conception of the ‘divine order’, evidenced by the regularity and
order underlying all demographic phenomena, which makes his work especially
noteworthy’ (ESS). In the second volume he makes some initial contribution
to the use of the data collected for life insurance calculations, and
gives detailed tables. This question was dealt with in even more detail in the
posthumous edition of 1776, edited by Bauman. In the last section
Süssmilch also comments on problems of current political economic policy.
He welcomed the development of new industries and manufactures as a
contributing factor to population growth, which in true mercantilist fashion
he sees as a highly desirable feature.
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The Wrst edition, comprising just 350 pages was published in 1741, this
second edition had been enlarged to three times the extent of the original.
Some years after Süssmilch’s death in 1767 a further substantially enlarged
edition was published by his son-in-law Baumann, which brought the
number of volumes to four.
Higgs 2572; Kress 5987; Menger I, c 66; all early editions are uncommon, of this
one NUC records just three copies in addition to the Kress copy (InU, NNC, PU).
A – Z of Printing and Type-Setting
72 TÄUBEL, Christian Gottlob. Allgmeines theoretischpractisches
Wörterbuch der Buchdruckkunst und Schriftgießerey, in
welchem alle bey der Ausübung derselben vorkommende und in die
damit verwandten Künste, Wissenschaften und Gewerbe einschlagenden
Kunstwörter nach alphabetischer Ordnung deutlich
und ausführlich erkläret werden. Zwey Bände. Mit erläuternden
Kupfern, Figures und Tabellen. Erster Band. [–Zweiter Band].
Wien, Gedruckt in Christian Gottlob Täubels kaiserl. königl.
privileg. OYcin auf Kosten einiger Kunstfreunde. 1805. £2000

Two volumes, 4to, engraved frontispiece, pp. [ii] title, vi, 152 with one
engraved plate in the text and 14 folding printed tables bound at the
end; engraved frontispiece, [ii], vi, 88, 40, [136], 15, [1] blank, with 8
engraved plates of a press, typecases etc, 12 folding tables, 3 printers
advice; entirely uncut in recent marbled boards, with morocco corners
and head and tail of spine, gilt-lettered spine label; a very clean and crisp
copy.
First edition, uncommon, of Täubel’s printer’s manual arranged in alphabetical
order as a dictionary of printing terms. Täubel deWnes printing terms
and covers a wide range of practical matters. He covers the whole range of
practical printing, deals with imposition schemes, corrections, preparation
of the press, inking etc. He also includes a brief history of printing. The
extensive engraved plates show a view of a type foundry and a printer’s
oYce, together with more detailed technical views of a press and its components,
numerous type specimens and case lays, and the equipment used for
type casting.
In his appendix Täubel includes lists of homonyms, obsolete words, and
of abbreviations. Of interest from a perspective of printing history and folklore
is his inclusion of a poem in honour of the art of printing and of
speeches to be given when a new member is received into the guild of printers.
‘This ceremomy, based loosely on the Depositio, is perhaps the latest
appearance of such a ceremony in a manual’ (Gaskell p. 29).
Täubel, a printer himself, had earlier published a printing manual for beginners
in 1791 (Praktisches Handbuch der Buchdruckerkunst für Anfänger).
In 1809 he added a supplement to this Dictionary of Printing, which is not
present here. It was clearly an afterthought, as the title page only indicates
two volumes. Most sets are without the third volumes, as is for example the
copy described by Bigmore & Wyman.
There are two variants recorded by Boghardt, some copies have instructions
to the binder for each volume individually (including a plate ‘further
tools of the type caster’), whereas the majority of copies have a combined
instructions to the bookbinder, covering volumes one and two, and have no
additional plate (this copy). Boghardt concludes that the individual binder’s
instruction to Volume II is a later supplement.
Bigmore and Wyman III, p. 2 (these two volumes only); Boghardt 21 (all three
volumes); Gaskell, Barber & Warrilow, An annotated List of Printers’ Manuals to
1850, G13.
Thieves and Swindlers – their History and Language
73 [TORRI, Alessandro.] Trattato dei Bianti, over Pitocchi e
Vagabondi, col modo d’imparar la lingua furbesca. Italia, co’
caratteri di F. Didot, [Pisa, Capurro], 1828. £400
16mo, pp. 7, [1]; 120, [1]; uncut and partly unopened in nineteenth
century half crushed morocco over marbled boards, spine in
compartments, ruled and decorated in gilt, with gilt-lettering;
extremities a little rubbed, but a good copy.
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First and only edition, Wnely printed and limited to two-hundred and Wfty
copies only, of this treatise on beggars, rogues, scoundrels, small-time
crooks, vagabonds and swindlers. Torri gives a typology of all the diVerent
low-life types through history, explains their origins, both real and in folk
mythology, and explains their various ways of making ends meet.
At the end is reprinted the glossary of thieves’ language, the Nuovo modo
da intendere la Lingua Zenga, cioè parlar furbesco, which was Wrst published
in 1619.
Brunet V, 929; not found in NUC; RLIN lists copies at Harvard, University of
Michigan, Princeton, and New York Public Library; not in Zaunmüller.
Venice Enslaved?
74 [VENICE.] Squitinio della Liberta Veneta. Nel quale si
adducono anche le raggioni dell’Impero Romano sopra la Città &
Signoria di Venetia. Stampato in Mirandola, appresso Giovanni
Benincasa, 1612. £900
4to, pp. [ii], 77 [vere 75], [1] imprint, including Wnal blank; title within
double border; typographic title vignette, head- and tail-pieces and
decorated initials; paper lightly browned; contemporary full limp
vellum, spine and upper cover lettered in ink; bookplate removed from
inside front cover; a Wne copy.

First edition, rare, of this famous satirical study of Venetian history and its
political system, which appears to have been attributed to a wide number of
historians and political authors, the most likely appear to be the Augsburg
scholar Marcus Welser (1558–1614) and Alfonso de la Cueva Bednar
(1572–1655).
In this well-argued treatise the myth of Venetian liberty and independence
is debunked. Instead it is argued that ‘La Serenissima’ was in fact always
a dominion of the Empire and that therefore the emperor always
retained his ancient rights. It also argued that Venice is all but free, the government
is composed of the nobles only, with scant reference to the rest of
the population. This critical publication was immediately banned by order
of the Venetian senate, put on the index, and all copies in circulation were
burnt (Libreria Vinciana 1013). Interestingly the author also appears to
have predicted the decline of Venice.
Sarpi, with his opposition to Rome and the papacy took the opposing
view in his Concilio di Trento.
The work was reprinted in 1677 in a French translation and with a commentary
by Amelot de la Houssaie, and again in 1687.
Cicogna 894; Lozzi 6133; Libreria Vinciana 1013; see Peignot, Dictionnaire des
ouvrages condamnés au feu, II, pp. 144–45.
Who’s Who of the Venetian Nobility
75 [VENICE.] Dizionario storico-portatile di tutte le Venete
Patrizie Famiglie; così di quelle, che rimaser’ al serrar del Maggior
Consiglio, come di tutte le alter, che a questo furono aggregate. In cui
si vede la loro origine, lo stato presente delle eistenti, e il tempo in cui
mancarano le estinte. Raccolto il tutto con la possible diligenza da’ più
accreditati Documenti. In Venezia, Gisueppe Bettinelli, 1780. £550
Square 8vo, pp. 168; woodcut title vignette; contemporary full mottled
sheep; spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettered spine label; head and tail
of spine chipped; with name ‘Bortolo Penolazzi’ in gilt letters on upper
board.
First edition, rare, of this handy guide to the Venetian nobility. All families
that because of their rank are eligible for the ‘Maggior Consiglio’ (the Highest
Council) are listed, with brief details of their history.
The richest families, or those with an illustrious ancestry, traditionally
had the right to be part of the ‘Maggior Consiglio’, forming a kind of hereditary
nobility. In 1297 the Serrata (closure) limited the right of access to
the Council to existing members and their descendants. This, in eVect created
an aristocratic republic, with a ruling class that was imbued with a
strong sense of duty.
Conveniently an initial index lists all the families included, with an additional
mark for those residing in Venice. Presumably this must have been a
most useful pocket guide to the important families of Venice.
Rare, RLIN and OCLC list just one copy, at Yale.
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76 [VERRI.] CUSTODI, Pietro. Notizie sulla Vita del Conte
Pietro Verri. . . Milano, dalla Società de’ Classici Italiani, 1843.£280
8vo, frontispiece portrait, pp. 64; some foxing, especially at beginning
and end; attractively bound in green crushed morocco, spine decorated
and lettered in gilt; sides with decorative gilt role; an attractive copy.
First separate edition of Custodi’s biography of the economist and enlightenment
philosopher Pietro Verri, also published as part of the Wfty volume
collection of principal Italian economists, edited by Custodi. Of particular
interest is the information on Verri’s publications, and on his collaboration
with Beccaria and other Wgures of the Milan enlightenment.
Custodi (1771–1842) not only published the comprehensive collection
of Italian economists Scrittori classici italiani di economia politica, but also
completed Verri’s unWnished Storia di Milano.
Einaudi 5884 (for collected edition).
The Founder of the History of Ideas
77 VICO, Giambattista. Cinque Libri di Giambattista Vico De’
Principj d’una Scienza d’intorno alla commune natura delle Nazioni.
In questa seconda impressione con più propria maniera condotti e di
molto accresciuti. Alla Santità di Clemente XII dedicati. In Napoli, a
spese di Felice Mosca, 1730. £8500
12mo, engraved frontispiece, pp. xii, 480, folding printed table bound
in; paper slightly browned and spotted, due to paper quality;
contemporary full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript; a good copy.
Second edition, very rare and mostly original, of Vico’s Scienza Nuova. Vico
was dissatisWed with the original version of the Scienza Nuova (1725), and
entirely rewrote it for this second edition, which is in eVect an entirely new

work. This copy does contain a number of autograph corrections in Vico’s
hand, (pp. 127, 132 and 168), see Croce (BibliograWa vichiana, I, pp. 45 V.)
on the protracted printing and correcting of this edition. The present copy
is the Wrst issue, without the author’s letter to Francesco Spinelli, correcting
a number of mistakes.
The Principi di una Scienza Nuova has been justly called ‘the vehicle by
which the concept of historical development at last entered the thought of
western Europe’ (PMM 184). It remains one of the most inXuential treatises
in the history of ideas. The concept of a history of human ideas, the
principles of a universal history and its philosophical criticism, and a recognition
of the importance of social classes, all begin with Vico. Vico was the
Wrst to formulate a systematic method for historical research. He revived the
Greek conception that the course of history was subject to cyclical phases
(corsi e ricorsi). This however did not indicate an upward or forward move
towards perfection: according to Vico there exists in history a pattern which
repeats itself in each civilisation, a storia ideale eterna. Just as the individual
man passes through successive states, so does the history of civilisation.
Vico recognised the importance of myth, tradition, and language for our
understanding of primitive people. His was the Wrst comprehensive study
of human society before Comte, and he presented the Wrst detailed analysis
of the class struggle prior to Marx. Vico’s concept of recurring patterns or
cycles in history greatly inXuenced Joyce, whose cyclical novel Finnegans
Wake presents an elaborate history of mankind. In an obvious acknowledgement,
Joyce even named the stage manager of his panorama John
Baptister Vickar, and Samuel Beckett’s seminal essay on Joyce, published in
1929, was entitled ‘Dante . .. Bruno . Vico .. Joyce’.
Vico founded no school and though his book was well-known in Italy
during his lifetime, his achievement met with little success and understanding
until the nineteenth century, when the German Romantics turned to his
ideas. Herder, Goethe, Hegel and later Spengler took up his contributions
to historical philosophy and method, and through them he greatly inXuenced
modern historical and sociological research, though often unacknowledged.
Sir Herbert Read sums this up in his statement that ‘Vico is probably the most
unacknowledged source of ideas in the history of philosophy’.
Croce, BibliograWa vichiana, I, pp. 48 V; see Printing and the Mind of Man 184 for
Wrst edition.
DeWnitive Edition
78 VICO, Giambattista. Principj di Scienza Nuova . .. d’Intorno
alla Comune natura delle Nazioni in questa terza impressione dal
medesimo Autore in un gran numero di luoghi Corretta, Schiarita, e
notabilment Accresciuta. Tomo I [–Tomo II]. In Napoli, nella
Stamperia Muziana, 1744. £3500
Two volumes bound in one, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, allegoric
engraved frontispiece, pp. [xvi], 376, one folding printed table; [377]–
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526 [vere 516], [4] index; vignette to title; a few signatures lightly
browned, due to paper stock; contemporary full vellum, spine with giltlettered
label and numbering piece; one corner bumped; early
manuscript inscription to front free endpaper; a good copy.
Third and deWnitive edition of Vico’s masterpiece, which had originally
been published in 1725, rewritten for the second edition (1730), and further
extensively revised for this one. Ahead of his time, Vico was neglected
during his life and forgotten for years after his death, but his Scienza Nuova
laid the foundations for many of the most important intellectual developments
of the following two centuries. It was in this deWnitive edition, published
in the year of Vico’s death, that his ideas became known.
Croce I, p. 53, Gamba 2493; see Printing and the Mind of Man 184 for Wrst edition.
79 VICO, Giambattista. Principi di Scienza Nuova . . . d’Intorno
alle commune Natura delle Nazioni. Colla vita dell’Autore scritta da
lui medesimo. Volume I [–Volume III]. Milano, dalla TipograWa de’
Classici Italiani, 1801. £800
Three volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait, pp. lxxiv, engraved
frontispiece, 151, [1] errata, with one printed folding table; [ii], 293, 3;
165, [3] index; quite pronounced browning and foxing; uncut in
contemporary roan-backed marbled boards; spine ruled and decorated
in gilt, contrasting gilt-lettered label and numbering pieces; extremities
a little rubbed, two headbands loose and labels chipped; still a good set.

First reprint of the deWnitive third edition of Vico’s Scienza Nuova, published
1744 – a clear indication of the revival of interest in Vico in the nineteenth
century, after he had been all but forgotten after his death. Croce
maintains that this edition has actually become rarer than the one of 1744
(Croce p. 53). It is also the Wrst edition to include Vico’s autobiography.
‘Early in the nineteenth century the discovery of Vico aroused the astonishment
and the admiration of Italian philosophers, politicians, historians
and jurists, who had noted the philosophic, political and historical weakness
of the Enlightenment and Jacobinism. From Italy his thought spread
to France, where it became known principally through Jules Michelet.’
(Croce in ESS, VI, p. 250).
Croce I, p. 53.
First Critical Edition
80 VICO, Giambattista. Principj di una Scienza Nuvoa di Gio.
Battista Vico. Prima Edizione pubblicata dall’ Autore il 1725, ed ora
riprodotta ed annotata da Salvatore Gallotti . . . seguita da un
Sommario della terza grande Edizione dell’ Autore medesimo,
compilato dal Cav. Giuseppe de Cesare . . . e da una Lettera inedita
del Vico al P. Vitri su l’andamento che le Scienze avevan preso ne’
principj del Secolo XVIII. Napoli, dalla TipograWa Masi, 1817.£800
8vo, pp. [viii], including engraved frontispiece portrait, xii, 51, [1]
blank, 492; some oVsetting from portrait to title page; contemporary
half tan sheep over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered
spine label and gilt initials at foot of spine; a few insigniWcant worm
holes to spine, extending to worm traces on inside back boards and
endpaper, just touching the last two leaves, aVecting two letters only;
minute individual worm hole in upper margin of Wrst signatures; early
private library stamp and ownership inscription in ink at head of title;
still a good copy.
First reprint of the text of the Wrst edition, with notes and amendments
from the third – in eVect, the Wrst critical edition of Vico’s Scienza Nuova.
The editor of the work is Salvatore Gallotti, the excerpts from the third
edition were prepared by Giuseppe de Cesare. In addition, a letter by Vico
to P. Vitri on the advancement of science is reprinted at the end.
Croce I, p. 40.
Contemporary Critique of Vico
81 [VICO.] ROMANO, Damiano. Apologia sopra il terzo
Principio della Scienza Nuova del signor D. Gio. Battista Vico, in
cui egli tratta dell’origine di ogni lingua articolata, e della mutola
signiWcativa. Divisa in quattordici lettere, nelle quali si fà vedere, che,
quanto contiene il sudetto Principio, tutto sia, così per FilosoWa,
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comer per Istoria sacra, e profana, erroneo, e falso. . . Napoli, per
SeraWno Porsile Regio Stampatore, 1749.
[Bound with:] ROMANO, Damiano. Lettere Apologetiche, nelle
quali si risolvono vari Dubbi FilosoWci, Filologici, e Legali. . .
Napoli, per SeraWno Porsile Regio Stampatore, 1748. £1200
Two works bound in one volume, 4tp, pp. [x], 180; [viii], 140; both
works with some spotting and browning; title of the second work with
small paper fault to title page, touching one letter; contemporary full
vellum, gilt-lettered spine label; some wear to head of spine; remains of
library shelf label to foot of spine; extensive contemporary underlining
and marginal annotations throughout.
First edition of two rare critical works by the Neapolitan jurist Damiano
Romano (1708–1776), one a detailed critique of Giambattista Vico’s
Scienza Nuova.
The Wrst work is a detailed criticism of Vico’s treatment of language and
linguistics. The study of language formed a major part of Vico’s Scienza
Nuova. He maintained that the forms of language and representation are
indications of mental processes and outlooks, and have diVered widely over
the course of time. Literary forms such as fables, pictorial images and analogies
were indications of the way people ‘made sense’ of their experiences.
These forms were the very currency of thought in what he called the ‘poetical
periods’ of human history. In his extensive critique Romano, however,
accuses Vico of plagiarism, quoting earlier authors such as Ovid, Cicero,
Lucretius and Plato as proof. He compares Vico’s writings with those of
Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf to demonstrate the unoriginality of his
thought.
The second work contains ten essays on juridical and linguistic questions,
going over some of the ground covered in the Wrst work, but without mentioning
Vico speciWcally.
Croce, I, pp. 233–235; both works are rare, with copies recorded at Berkeley,
Emory University and Harvard (I) and just Berkeley (II).
82 [VIVORIO, Agostino.] Sopra i Corpi delle Arti, Risposta ad
un Qesito Accademico. Verona, 1792. £580
8vo, pp. 85, [i] contents; wide-margined copy in contemporary pale
blue stiV wrappers; a Wne copy.
First and only edition of Vivorio’s prize essay on the question of the advantages
and disadvantages of the guild system. Vivorio, (1743–1822), who
dedicates his contribution to the economist Iselin, is clearly aware of the
contemporary European debate on the matter, and cites from Adam Smith,
Condillac, Montesquieu, Iselin, Verri, Rousseau and Forbonnais. In his
well-argued discourse, he Wrst lists some possible advantages of the guild
system, such as hierarchical structure, discipline, and training. However, he
also identiWes some disadvantages inherent in the system, such as the lim-

ited variety of products and increased proWt margins. In the more substantial
second part he voices clear opposition to the guild system and advocates
its wholesale reform. He maintains that restrictive access to professions is
detrimental both to individual tradesmen, and to the economy in general,
because it hinders the successful development of a manufacturing system
and does not oVer suYcient employment.
He argues that guilds should be abolished and their jurisdiction be replaced
by government legislation.
See Cossa p. 221; not in Kress, Goldsmiths’ or Einaudi.
Voltaire on the English
83 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. Letters concerning
the English Nation. London, Printed [by William Bowyer] for C.
Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. £950
8vo, pp. [xiv], [ii] advertisements, 253, [1] blank, [18] index;
contemporary full panelled calf, spine in compartments with double gilt
rules, rebacked; a clean and crisp copy.
First edition of this fascinating volume of great philosophical and scientiWc
interest, and in fact, mostly not a translation but written by Voltaire in Eng-
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lish and for an English market, as a kind of testimony of his love of ‘things
English’. Buruma observes that he invented a new genre: instead of writing
an ordinary travel book, he approached his subject as an intellectual traveller
and wrote a journey of ideas. He made no eVort to describe what England
looked like, but wanted to show what Englishmen thought. Much of what
he admired about England and the English was, of course, taken as criticism
of his own country, and some attempts were made to suppress the French
version, which followed shortly.
This edition, often described as ‘unauthorised’, precedes the Wrst edition
in French, which was also printed by Bowyer but with a Wctitious Basle
imprint. Harcourt Brown has argued that more than half of the book was in
fact written by Voltaire in English and rewritten by him in French for the
French editions. He therefore concludes that ‘the English text has more actuality
than the author’s French revision of it; the reader is closer to the
impressions and events that inspired Voltaire.’ The letters that Brown suggests
were written in English [numbers 1–8, 10, 12, 18, 19, 21 and 22] deal
predominantly with Voltaire’s personal experiences and observations in
England, with literature – Bacon, Swift, Butler, Pope, Waller, Rochester,
and the dramatists – and with aspects of public life of his day. The letters
composed in French [9, 11, 13–17, 20] were probably written later, after
his return to France, deal with philosophy and science, including the important
letters on Newton and Descartes, and contain the famous anecdote of
Newton and the falling apple [p. 127].
Babson 242; Bengesco 1558; Evans 346; see Harcourt Brown, ‘The composition
of the Letters concerning the English Nation ‘, in The Age of the Enlightenment,
Studies presented to Theodore Besterman, ed. Barber and others (1967), pp. 15–34
and Buruma, Voltaire’s Coconuts or Anglomania in Europe, 1999.
84 [VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.] Lettres Ecrites de
Londres sur le Anglois et autres Sujets. Par M. D. V.***. A Basle,
[i.e. London, Bowyer.], 1734.
[Bound with:] Lettre sur les Panegiriques. Par Irenée Aléthès,
Professeur en Droit dans le Canton Suisse d’Uri. A la Haye, chez
Frederic Staatman, 1767. £850
Two works in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], 228, 19; 15; late eighteenthcentury
red boards, spine lettered in manuscript; head and tail of spine
chipped and corners lightly bumped, spine and sides a little faded; a
good copy.
I. First edition in French of this fascinating volume of great philosophical
and scientiWc interest, which was, in fact partly written in English and Wrst
published in English the previous year. See above.
Bound with it is the third issue of Voltaire’s Lettre sur les Panegiriques,
Wrst printed the same year.
I. Bengesco 1558, Vol II, p. 14–15; ESTC t138264; II. Bengesco 1740, 3.

85 VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de. Micromégas de Mr.
de Voltaire. Avec une Histoire des Croisades & un Nouveau Plan de
l’Histoire de l’Esprit Humain. . . A Berlin, [i.e. Leyden, Luzac],
1753. £850
8vo, pp. [ii], 254; uncut in later marbled wrappers; title page a little
spotted, dust-soiled and creased.
First Dutch edition of Voltaire’s philosophical and utopian tale Micromegas,
Wrst published in 1752 as part of a collected edition, and reprinted a number
of times in 1752.
In the style of Gulliver’s Travels, Voltaire’s tale exposes human pretentions
by looking at them from the outside. The title character is a giant from
the planet Sirius who, accompanied by a slightly smaller but still enormous
companion from Saturn, visits Earth to investigate it and its inhabitants.
When they Wrst arrive, the Earth appears void of any inhabitants; only the
use of a magnifying diamond allows them to see some humans, who appear
microscopic. Micromegas is shocked and surprised by the folly and cruelty
of humanity, but impressed by their scientiWc advances.
The two other works, the essay on the crusades and the ‘new plan’, had
both Wrst appeared in periodicals, and were to be incorporated in Voltaire’s
major historical work Essai sur les Moeurs.
Bengesco I 1429 note, 1162 note; see D. W. Smith, The publication of Micromégas,
in Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 219, 1983, pp 63–87.
Voltaire’s Autobiography
86 [VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de]. Commentaire
Historique sur les Oeuvres de l’Auteur de la Henriade, &c. Avec les
Pièces originales & les preuves. Basle [Geneva], Paul Duker, 1776.
£500
8vo, pp. iv, 282, title vignette and numerous little vignettes in the text;
attractively bound in full mottled calf, spine decoratively gilt, giltlettered
spine label, joints expertly repaired.
First edition of this disguised autobiography of Voltaire, followed by a selection
of his letters. Voltaire wrote about himself in the third person and
had the work published anonymously; nevertheless the book gives a detailed
and lively account of the main periods of his literary career, full of
telling observations and anecdotes. Voltaire’s letters to a variety of correspondents
cover scientiWc, political and philosophical subjects.
This work has often been attributed to Voltaire’s secretary Jean Louis
Wagnière, but Besterman has argued that Voltaire wrote it himself: ‘It was
almost certainly written by his own hand 1776 or 1775/6, or at least dictated
by him: his style is unmistakable’.
Bengesco 1862; Cioranescu 64527.
The Wine-Makers’ Guide
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87 [WINE.] Vollkommener Unterricht vor Kellermeister, wie
nicht alleine mit dem Weine vom Anfange der Weinlese umzugehen,
sondern auch die älteren wohl zu erhalten, denen hinfälligen zu
helVen, auch allerhand anzustellen sind. Desgleichen auch wie der
Meth gesotten, allerhand angenehme Brandtweine anzusetzen, und
wie auf vielerley Arten der Essig zu machen sey. Absonderlich ist
beygefügt eine accurate Keller-Ordnung, wie solche an vielen Fürstl.
Höfen in steter Observanz ist, mit vielen Kunststücken und
WissenschaVten, verschiedene Gesundheitsweine anzustellen,
versehen. Wie auch vom Bier, und was dabey zu thun, wie solches
von der Säure und andern Anstössen auf unterschiedliche Art
erhalten werden kann. Delitzsch und Leipzig, bey Johann Heinrich
Schmidt, 1779. £1750
8vo, pp. frontispiece, 205; spotting and browning throughout, due to
paper quality; engraved head- and tail-pieces; contemporary thin
wooden boards, covered with pale blue paper, extremities a little
rubbed, discreet repair to foot of spine; a good copy.

Rare Wrst edition of a comprehensive guide to wine production, covering all
processes from the gathering of grapes to pressing, fermentation and storage.
In individual chapters advice is given on how to ascertain the right
moment for the gathering of grapes, how to prepare and clean the casks and
vats, and how to supervise fermentation. Numerous hints are given on how
to inXuence and correct the fermentation process. There then follows further
advice on how to strengthen the colour of wine, how to identify wine
that has been watered down or otherwise adulterated. These recipes are part
of a general section on buying and selling wine. A special section contains
the cellar rules of an Austrian duke, with further useful advice.
One chapter is taken up with recipes for fruit wines, fortiWed wines and
mulled wine. This is followed by hints on the preparation of vinegars, and
Wnally beer.
The very attractive frontispiece shows a cellar master adding a preparation
to the cask; also shown are further casks and some tools.
Schoene 12050; Rare, RLIN and OCLC list just two copies at the University of
California at Davis, and Göttingen University Library; second edition (1789) at
Arizona and Iowa.
88 [WOMEN.] Hippolytus Redivivus id est remedium
contemnendi sexum muliebrem. Autore S.I.E.D.V.M.W.A.S.
[Netherlands], Anno 1644. £750
12mo, pp. 96, title page vignette; partly unopened in nineteenth
century polished tan calf, triple gilt rule to sides, spine decorated and
lettered in gilt, a.e.g.
First edition (second issue) of this outspoken anti-female satire and collection
of proverbs, maxims and quotations about the female sex. Under
diVerent headings female weaknesses are exposed. The author, who has remained
anonymous, begins by confessing that although he abhors women
in theory, he adores them in practice. After outlining the temptations
women provide, he comes up with the unusual suggestion that masturbation
might be the only option for resisting their dangerous allure.
Another edition was published the same year.
Brunet III, 178; Gay II 482.
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