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