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le Commerce & la Navigation de la Ville Libre & Impériale<br />
de Hambourg. Regulation concerning the Hambro Trade and<br />
Navigation, during the War. Published by Order of the Honourable<br />
Senate of the free Imperial City of Hamburgh the 18th September<br />
1778. Hamburg, J.C. Piscator, 1778. £420<br />
4to, pp. 18, [2] blank; uncut folded sheet; fine and wide-margined.<br />
First tri-lingual (German, French, and English), edition of the rules &<br />
regulations securing the freedom of neutral navigation for the free city of<br />
Hamburg and the right to transport all kinds of goods, war contraband<br />
excepted, at the time of the American War of Independence. This regulation<br />
proclaimed freedom of navigation and the right to trade based on the<br />
principle ‘free ships, free goods’.<br />
This was an outcome of the Franco-American treaty of friendship and<br />
trade signed on 2 February 1778. ‘It provided for a total freedom of<br />
navigation between all places, whoever their sovereign. Yet, most important,<br />
the treaty widened the rights of neutrals to a level unknown hitherto in<br />
French legislation: ‘It is hereby stipulated that free Ships shall also give<br />
a freedom to goods, and that everything shall be deemed to be free and<br />
exempt, which shall be found on board the ships belonging to the subjects<br />
of either of the Confederates, although the whole lading or any part thereof<br />
should appertain to the Enemies of either, contreband goods being always<br />
excepted’. (Schnakenburg, p. 106).<br />
Conditions and procedure for neutral shipping in time of war are given<br />
in three parts, covering first owners and masters of ships, then owners<br />
and shippers and finally ship’s brokers. This includes details of necessary<br />
shipping documents, bill of loading and muster rolls, as well as restrictions<br />
as regards contreband.<br />
OCLC lists just the Berlin copy; for further information see E. Schnakenbourg,<br />
From ‘hostile infection’ to ‘free ship, free goods’: Changes in French neutral trade<br />
legislation, (1689–1778), 2011.<br />
Art Education – The Expression of Emotions<br />
68. LE BRUN, Charles & Bernard PICARD. Conferenza del<br />
signor Le Brun sopra l’espressione generale e particolare delle<br />
passioni = Conférence de monsieur Le Brun ... sur l’expression<br />
générale et particulière des passions. Verona, Agostin Carattoni,<br />
1751. £1,500<br />
8vo, etched title, pp. xxiii, [1] blank, 111, [1] blank, with 52 ll. of<br />
plates; occasionally a little dust-soiled in margins; contemporary calfbacked<br />
buff boards, spine with paper covering, and paper label lettered<br />
in manuscript; extremities a little rubbed.<br />
French-Italian parallel edition of Le Brun’s theory of the expression of<br />
emotions, based on Descartes and illustrated on fifty-two plates. Le Brun’s<br />
work is of great interest in art education and art history.<br />
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue eighteen<br />
Le Brun (1619–1690), founder and president of the Académie Royale de<br />
Peinture et de Sculpture – the powerful Parisian institution which, under the<br />
aegis of Colbert, controlled the world of art – set out to explain for the artist<br />
how the ‘passions’ of the soul manifested themselves in the face. Whereas<br />
Descartes described the internal movements of each passion or emotion,<br />
Le Brun showed how they appeared on the face, and in particular how they<br />
were indicated by the eyebrows and adequate facial expressions. His lecture<br />
was first published after his death in 1698.<br />
See Line Cottegnies, ‘Codifying the Passions in the Classical Age: a few reflections<br />
on Charles Le Brun’s scheme and its influence in France and in England’, Etudes<br />
Epistémè, n° 1 (2002).<br />
69. LE CLERC, Sebastien. Practical Geometry: Or, A new<br />
and easy method of treating that art. Whereby the practice of it<br />
is rendered plain and familiar, and the student is directed in the<br />
most easy manner through the several parts and progressions of<br />
it. Translated from the French of Monsieur S. Le Clerc. The fifth<br />
edition. Illustrated with eighty copper-plates. Wherein, besides<br />
the several geometrical figures, are contained many examples of<br />
landscapes, pieces of architecture, perspective, draughts of figures,<br />
ruins, &c. London, John & Carington Bowles, 1768. £750