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Catalogue Number 7 - Susanne Schulz-Falster

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Spanish Economic Policy<br />

10 [CAPMANY Y DE MONTPALAU, Antonio de.] Discurso<br />

Economico-Politico en Defensa del Trabajo mecánico de los<br />

menestrales, y de la inXuencia de sus gremios en las costumbres<br />

populares, conservacion de las artes, y honor de los artesanos. Por<br />

Don Ramon Miguel Palacio. Madrid, En la Imprenta de D. Antonio<br />

de Sancha, 1778. £800<br />

8vo, pp. [viii], 63; nineteenth century marbled calf-backed boards,<br />

spine lettered in manuscript; a very crisp copy.<br />

First edition, very uncommon, of this forceful defence of the Spanish guild<br />

system by arguably the most important eighteenth-century Spanish economic<br />

historian. Capmany dedicates his publication to Campomanes, and<br />

cites extensively from Robertson’s History of America. He describes the social<br />

and political situation of the artisan and labourer, and evokes the ‘honour’<br />

of the labourer, which he maintains is little appreciated in Spain. He<br />

compares the situation to China or ancient Greece, where these professions<br />

were held in the esteem they deserve. In addition to giving some information<br />

on trade rules and customs, he argues for the preservation of ancient<br />

guild rules and the guild system because of the beneWt for industry and the<br />

economy.<br />

Antonio de Capmany y de Montpalau (1742–1813), a historian and<br />

economist published extensively on literature and economics. His subsequent<br />

publication, Memórias historicas sobre la marina, comercio y artes<br />

(1779–92) is regarded as the Wrst economic history of Spain. It was praised<br />

by McCulloch, who used the work as the basis for the section on Spain in<br />

his Geographical Dictionary.<br />

Colmeiro p. 65; Palau y Dulcet, 43369; OCLC locates just one copy at Duke, not<br />

in Kress or Goldsmiths’.<br />

First Complete Edition<br />

11 CARLI, Giovanni Rinaldo. Le Lettere Americane, Nuova<br />

Edizione corretta ed ampliata colla Aggiunta della Parte III. ora per<br />

la prima volta impresa. Parte Prima [–Parte Terza]. Cremona, per<br />

Lorenzo Manini, 1781–83. £1000<br />

Three parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], xxiv, 232, [6] contents [2]<br />

blank; 269, [1] blank, [10] contents page, 1 large folding engraved<br />

map, 213, [3] contents page; bound in contemporary full vellum, giltlettered<br />

spine label; a very clean and crisp copy.<br />

First complete edition of Carli’s classic study of early American history,<br />

dedicated to Benjamin Franklin. Carli’s Lettere Americane gives a philosophical<br />

view of the European perception of America, and transfers the<br />

philanthropic principles of the Enlightenment to the ruins of a vanished<br />

civilisation. Carli writes not of the revolutionary turmoil of the north of<br />

susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue seven<br />

America, but of the world of great primitive empires, the monarchy of the<br />

Incas, as a kind of blueprint for the government of Maria Theresa and<br />

Joseph II. He identiWes the solution for inequality and impending class<br />

conXict in European society in the power of a sovereign or monarch who<br />

could guard against despotism but at the same time defend civil society<br />

against anarchy. This historical work illustrates the same points he made in<br />

his refutation of Rousseau’s theories in his L’Uomo Libero.<br />

Carli’s Lettere Americane was very popular, distributed widely both in<br />

France and in Germany, and became a classic ‘which today still permits us to<br />

measure what is similar and what is diVerent in the French, American, and<br />

Imperial visions of the New World in the Wrst year so of the (seventeen)<br />

eighties’ (Venturi, I, p. 49). Utopian ideas are found in the third volume,<br />

which completes the work and is here present for the Wrst time. Carli reviews<br />

Plato’s Lettres sur l’Atlantide in the translation by Bailly, and expands<br />

on the Atlantis theme by sketching the basics of a utopian society.<br />

See Sabin 10911 for Wrst edition.<br />

12 CASTEL de SAINT-PIERRE, Charles-Iréné abbé de. Abrégé<br />

du Projet de Paix Perpetuelle, Inventé par le Roi Henri le Grand,<br />

Aprouvé par la Reine Elisabeth, par le Roi Jaques son successeur, par<br />

les Republiques & par divers autres Potentats. Aproprié à l’Etat<br />

present des AVaires générales de l’Europe. Démontré inWniment<br />

avantageux pour tous les Hommes nés & à naître, en general & en<br />

particulier pour tous les Souverains, & pour les Maisons<br />

Souveraines. A Rotterdam, chez Jean Daniel Beman, et se vend à<br />

Paris chez Briasson, 1729. £650<br />

8vo, pp. xiv, 227, [3]; title printed in red and black; occasional light<br />

browning; contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, giltlettered<br />

spine label; discreet repairs to lower joint, corners a little worn;<br />

an attractive copy.<br />

First edition of the abridgement of Castel de Saint-Pierre’s famous peace<br />

proposal, Wrst circulated in manuscript and published between 1713 and<br />

1717. In fact this is not just a condensed version of the original work, but<br />

includes Castel de Saint-Pierre’s further considerations and his response to<br />

contemporary criticism.<br />

Saint-Pierre had joined Polignac, the French ambassador, as secretary in<br />

the diYcult peace negotiations of Utrecht which concluded the great European<br />

war of the Spanish succession, and this proposal for ‘eternal peace’<br />

between political powers was the direct outcome of this experience, even<br />

though he had started working on this text as early as 1708. Saint-Pierre<br />

proposed the establishment of a ‘European parliament’, with its seat at<br />

Utrecht, which would peacefully settle conXicts between states. It would be<br />

a parliament composed of representatives of all European states; European<br />

borders would be guaranteed, and any diVerences arising between states<br />

would be solved in negotiations.

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