Catalogue Number 7 - Susanne Schulz-Falster

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
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue seven
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.