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lack and one white to create finite continuous designs. The game, sixteen
two-colour pieces housed in a small flat mahogany box, is accompanied by
a brief rule-book with engraved plates of sample tile patterns, and engraved
grids to record further patterns.
The text is reprinted from the 1803 edition of Ozanam’s ‘Recreations in
mathematics and natural philosophy’, enlarged by Montucla and translated
and further enlarged by Charles Hutton, pp. 100–102 with some small
variations in the text.
Imprint from undated colophon, date from imprint, E. Hodson was active between
1815–1819; Brown, Philip A. H., London publishers and printers c.1800–1870
(1982); p. 91; OCLC: BL, Leeds (both text only), Melbourne (board game
only).
Modern Dance Notation
33. DUFORT, Giovanni Battista. Trattato del Ballo Nobile Indirizzato
all’eccellenza delle Signore Dame, e de’ Signori Cavalieri
Napoletani. Naples, Felice Mosca, 1728. £3,400
Sm. 8vo, pp. [xxiv], 160, with 25 etched vignettes with dance notation;
some dust-soiling to lower corner of title, and a few signatures lightly
browned, due to paper stock; contemporary vellum, spine lettered in
ink.
First edition of one of the first dance books in Italian to employ the steno
choreographic dance notation of Beauchamp and Feuillet.
Part one of this text consists of thirty-four chapters devoted to instructions
for steps required in Italian Baroque dance including pirola (pirouette), sfuggito
(echappé), passo unite (assemblé), and cadente (tombé). Each step is fully
described and notated in Feuillet notation, the dance notation system first
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published by French choreographer Raoul-Auger Feuillet in 1700. The
second part of the manual contains detailed instructions for contredans,
galliards, sarabands, rigodouns, etc., and a separate chapter on the minuet.
Also included is a brief history of dancing at the French court, and a
discussion of theatrical dances of the time.
Cole Collection 167; Derra de Moroda 833: ‘An important book on the dance
of the time, giving the names of the steps in French and Italian, and very good
descriptions’; Fletcher, Rare Dance Books, 29; Magriel, p. 97; Sowell 49.
The Physiocrats’ Manifesto
34. [DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel.] De l’Origine et
des Progrès d’une Science nouvelle. London, Paris, Desaint, 1768.
[bound after:] [PECHMEJA, Jean de.] Eloge de Jean-Baptiste
Colbert. Discours, Paris, J.B. Brunet, 1773. £5,500
8vo, pp. [iv], 84, title vignette and head-piece, with B1 uncancelled and
no errata; some light browning due to paper quality; 52; contemporary
green vellum, sides with triple gilt rule and arms to upper and lower
board, spine decoratively gilt, gilt -lettered spine label, paper shelf mark
to head of spine; short split to foot of upper joint; with somewhat later
bookplate of Jean Wallon to front paste-down.
First edition, very rare first issue of the book edition of Dupont de Nemours’
famous analysis and epitome of the Physiocratic doctrine. De l’Origine had
a two-fold purpose: to describe the origin of physiocratic doctrine and to
restate in popular language the theoretical synthesis of Quesnay’s ideas
constructed by Mercier. In this eighty-four-page work Dupont de Nemours
presented the clearest explanation of the origins, philosophy, economics, and
politics of the physiocratic doctrine and the nature of society envisioned by
the physiocrats, in terms that were easy to understand. Quesnay may have
invented physiocracy, and Mercier may have systematized it; but Dupont
de Nemours clarified its theory and interpreted it in a manner capable of
being understood by the general literate public (see James. J. McLain, The
Economic Writings of Du Pont de Nemours, pp. 86–89). Dupont’s account
can be seen in many ways as the apogee of the Physiocratic movement,
with this small book as the pinnacle of their achievement, it was published
simultaneously in volume III of the Physiocratie.
This is the very rare first issue with B1 uncancelled, different from most
copies extant (including the Kress copy) which have it cancelled. In his
uncancelled B1 Dupont de Nemours comments with a somewhat ironical
tone on the Journal d’Agriculture, du Commerce et des Finance, after he had
been ousted as editor: ‘On prétend qu’il dure encore’ – assuming that it
still exists – as if it was likely to have folded under the new editor. This was
apparently too much for the censors, who forced Dupont de Nemours to
cancel leaf B1 and tone down his comment on the replacement leaf.
Dupont de Nemours had been director of the Journal d’Agriculture, du
Commerce et des Finance and had used it for pro-physiocratic propaganda