Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Eighteen - International League ...
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Mesmerism Defended<br />
93. [SERVAN, Joseph Michel Antoine.] Doutes d’un Provincial,<br />
proposés a MM. les Médecins-Commissaires, chargés par le Roi, de<br />
l’examen du Magnétisme animal. Lyon, Paris, Prault, 1784. £350<br />
8vo, [ii], pp. 126; uncut in contemporary block-printed wrappers,<br />
overprinting waste from a religious publication, printed in red and<br />
black.<br />
First edition, one of two issues, of Servan’s vigorous defence of Mesmerism,<br />
following the negative reports published by the Société Royale de Médecine.<br />
‘The best of the many attacks published by the pro-Mesmerists against<br />
the report of the first Royal Commission’ (Norman M142). Servan<br />
(1737–1807) a distinguished French lawyer, and associate of Voltaire and<br />
d’Alembert, defends Mesmer by pointing out the subjectivity of the report of<br />
the royal commission, making it ‘one of the most thoughtful contemporary<br />
criticisms of the findings of the commission’ (Crabtree 111). He supports<br />
his stance by personal experience, and reports that he had been cured by a<br />
Mesmerist when traditional medicine had failed to help him.<br />
Mesmer’s theory of a universal magnetic fluid influencing tides and<br />
men alike, led to a large scale investigation of psychological phenomena,<br />
resulting ultimately in modern psychopathology and psychotherapy. By<br />
concentrating on the ‘rapport’ of patient and doctor, Mesmer seems to<br />
have dealt effectively with nervous disorders. A highly effective publicist,<br />
Mesmer generated enormous interest in his teachings all over Europe.<br />
See Caillet 10163 and Cioranescu 60157 for other issue with imprint; Norman<br />
catalogue M 142; Crabtree 111.<br />
With Close to 6000 Woodcut Pictograms<br />
94. [SEYBOLD, Johann Heinrich.] Teutsch-Lateinisches Wörter-<br />
Büchlein zum Nutz und Ergötzung der Schul-Jugend zusammen<br />
getragen, und mit 6000 darzu dienlichen Bildern gezieret. Deme<br />
noch über das eine Kurtz-gefasste Lateinische Sprach-Übung und<br />
ziemliche Anzahl auserlesener Sprüche beygefüget… Dictionariolum<br />
Germanico-Latinum in Usum & delectationem Scholasticae<br />
Juventutis. Nuremberg, Johann Zieger, 1703. £2,400<br />
8vo, pp. [ii], 256, 44, 48 index; with nearly 6000 pictograms in the<br />
dictionary part of the text; some light browning and dust-soiling, title<br />
page a little creased, and clean tear to one leaf; but in all a clean copy in<br />
contemporary full vellum.<br />
Third edition of this very attractive Latin-German school book (first<br />
published in 1683 or 1685), extensively illustrated with pictograms<br />
arranged in three vertical columns per page, to illustrate the meaning of Latin<br />
words. Despite their small size the illustrations are immensely informative.<br />
The dictionary part is followed by an introduction to Latin Grammar<br />
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue eighteen<br />
(Rudimenta grammaticae) and some proverbs (Farrago Sententiarum).<br />
The subject arrangement is similar to Comenius’ Orbis Pictus, but much<br />
enlarged. The illustrations are clearly meant to assist the memorisation of<br />
the vocabulary.<br />
Seybold (ca. 1620–90?), a school teacher and educator from Schwäbisch<br />
Hall, was widely known as a ‘superior mind’ and a progressive educator. He<br />
is important as the author of a collection of proverbs which appeared first at<br />
Ulm in 1654 under the title of Fasciculus Adagiorum Latino-Germanicorum.<br />
His translation of the Latin proverbs is worded not in bookish German but<br />
in the colloquial, with free use of popular sayings and turns of speech (Faber