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First and only edition of this interesting legal treatise on leasehold questions
in agriculture, in particular on tenancy at will agreements, which were part
of the manorial system of estate farming. ‘Tenancy at will’ signified the
use of land not as a hereditary right, but leasehold for life, which could
be terminated at any time. With the death of the leaseholder, the land
automatically reverted to the landlord. This led to a particular dependency
of the farmers.
Fugger studies the question from the position of the farmer, the
landowner, and the state and deplores the effect this form of landownership
and use has on all of them. He makes a number of proposals to remedy the
situation.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’, not in Humpert; OCLC: Augsburg, Tübingen,
Stuttgart.
Sicilian Tuna Fisheries
46. GAETANI, Cesare, conte della Torre. Pescagioni del
conte della Torre Cesare Gaetani de’marchesi di Sortin, Diputato
ai Regi Studi, Custode del Fonte d’Aretusa, e suoi Agricoltori,
Pastori, e Pescatori Aretusini. Syracuse, Francesco Maria Pulejo,
1797. £2,250
4to, pp. xvi, folding engraved plate (plate mark 232 x 296 mm),
336; G1, H4, O2–4 and P1 and 2 are cancels; some light and even
browning; contemporary pattern paper limp boards; corners a little
rounded; presented by the author to Sebastiano Li Greci in 1813, with
note to front pastedown and verso of front free endpaper, and nine line
mss annotation by Sebastiano Li Greci on p. 115.
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First edition, rare of a most detailed report on the Sicilian tuna fisheries.
Gaetani, proprietor of the tuna fisheries of Fontane Bianche, describes
the fisheries in Arcadian verse, but in the detailed notes at the end of each
‘idyll’, he gives extensive information on all aspects of tuna fisheries, which
amounts to the most detailed picture of the Sicilian tuna fisheries, their
course, abundance, and economics. Gaetani supports his comments with
detailed references to the relevant literature, both historical, biological and
economical.
He includes information on the provenance of the tuna, its journey,
on the way of placing the nets on the return, its catch, on owners of the
fisheries, crew and dealers, and on ways of salting the tuna.
At the end of the 18th century numerous attempts had been made to
bring some order to the various concessions, appropriations, duties, and
taxable incomes derived from the fisheries. They were trying to regulate
the distances between individual fisheries and find ways of enforcing
boundaries.
Mira, Bibliografia Siciliana, I p. 377; Ceresoli, Bibliografia delle opere italiane, latine e
greche su la caccia, 260. Biblioteca Siciliana, 892; OCLC: Harvard only; for further
information see Vincenzo Consolo, Reading and Writing the Mediterranean, 2006,
pp. 167 et al.
First Library Catalogue
47. [GAISBERGER, Joseph.] Verzeichniss der im Museum
Franzisko-Carolinum vorhandenen Druckschriften. Heraus -
gegeben von dem Verwaltungs-Ausschusse. Linz, Joseph Wimmer,
1845. £400
8vo, pp. vi, [ii], 158, [2] blank; with circular armorial woodcut of
Museum Franzisco-Carolinum to title page; original printed wrappers,
a little spotted, else fine.
First edition of the first catalogue of the library of the Museum Francisco-
Carolinum in Linz, which had been founded in 1833 as the ‘Verein des
vaterländischen Museums für Österreich ob der Enns’. Just over ten years
later the catalogue, meant for the use of members only, lists over 2500
titles. It was prepared by Gaisberger, (see ÖBL XII, p. 392), a local cleric
and founder member, who includes a brief history of the institution. It
is arranged as a subject catalogue covering history and auxiliary sciences
(by far the largest section), philology, law, theology, philosophy, the arts,
mathematics, natural history, medicine, economics and technology, literary
history, and bibliography.
OCLC: Augsburg.