Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Eighteen - International League ...

First edition to include the Doctrine of Chances of Hoyle’s standard Englishlanguage
collection on the rules and strategies of popular card games, in
particular gambling games. Edmond Hoyle (1679–1769) wrote about
whist, backgammon, piquet, chess, quadrille, and brag, as well as a book
about probability. Hoyle began publishing his treatise on the game of whist
in the 1740s, followed by other titles and numerous re-issues. The first
Dublin imprint (where, different from pirated editions in England, Hoyle
could be reprinted legally, as the copyright law did not apply to Ireland)
was published in 1743. This was followed by numerous further editions
both of the treatise on whist, and of his other titles.
This collection consists of six parts with separate title pages (except for
piquet).
ESTC t128493, Levy PG.4; for detailed information on Hoyle and his publications,
see David Levy, Edmond Hoyle, gent. Bibliographical musings about the Writing of
Edmond Hoyle. (1679–1769).
Banned Books
56. [INDEX.] Index Librorum prohibitorum Cvm Regvlis
Confectis Per Patres à Tridentina Synodo delecto Avctoritate PII
IIII. Primvm Editvs. Postea vero à Syxti V. auctus, Et Nvnc demum
S.D.N. Clementis Papae VIII. iussu recognitus, & publicatus.
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue eighteen
Instrvctione Adiecta De exequenda prohibitionis, deq, fincère
emedandi & imprimendi libros, ratione. Venice, Nicolaus Morettus,
1596. £1,200
12mo, pp. 140, [4] blank; papal arms to title; some dampstaining to
gutter margin of first few leaves; contemporary carta rustica, illegible
lettering to spine, spine worn and discretely reinforced, corners a little
bumped.
An interesting pocket edition of the Clementine Index, which marked the
turning point in the relations between the papacy and the Italian states. The
earlier Tridentine index, issued in 1564, though the basis of all subsequent
editions of the index, and the first to regulate the reading, selling and prepublication
censorship of books, had been under review. The Clementine
Index, first issued in 1596, attempted to decentralize censorship and pass
on the responsibility for it and for expurgation to local bishops. These
were meant to preside over local committees to supervise censorship and
expurgate according to the rules. However, decentralization did not work
and in 1602 the Congregation in Rome took over and issued a single Index
expurgatorius in 1602 for about fifty authors, the only expurgation index
produced in Italy.
In this Clementine Index, the ban extends to some authors with all their
writings; then there are lists of prohibited books, whose authors are known,
and pernicious books by anonymous authors. Some individual books are
listed and are banned, unless either corrected or expurgated.
Reusch, Index der verbotenen Bücher I, pp. 38 ff; Petzholdt p. 149 (without the
later issued appendix); Index de Rome 1590, 1593, 1596.
57. [INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION – TURIN.] Giudicio della
Regia camera d’agricoltura e di commercio di Torino, sui prodotti
dell’industria de’ Regi Stati nell Anno 1832. Turin, Chirio and
Mina, 1832. £350
8vo, pp. 111, one signature misbound; original printed wrappers; spine
a little sunned and dog-eared, else fine.
A fine copy of this industrial exhibition catalogue, which clearly shows
the beginning of industrialisation of the Piedmont. Divided into different
categories the prize-winning entries are given, with textiles strongly
represented, but also a water-powered chocolate-factory, construction and
agricultural machinery, metal and ironworks, musical instruments, chemical
products, food stuffs, paper, etc. The catalogue concludes with a statistical
account of the number of medals won, and names and addresses of all the
prize winners.
Carpenter p. 483; Goldsmiths’-Kress 27311.41.