Catalogue Number 7 - Susanne Schulz-Falster

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