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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. susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue seven 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 susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue seven 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.
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