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ECONOMICS Green Vellum Publishing Pirated Editions [AMSTERDAM.] D'Erve der Wed. C. Stichters Almanach, voor 't jaar 1792. BAUDRY. Libraire pour les Langues with: 1)Naamwyzer waar in vertoond Etrangeres. Receipt & Catalogue. Paris, worden de namen woonplaatsen van Baudry, 1829. £400 [...] regeerders der stad Amstelredam, 2)Het edel mogende collegie ter Handbill (260 x 205mm), printed on in two columns, to the left ‘extrait des catalogues’, admiraliteit, 3)Hollands en Utrechts with manuscript invoice on recto a detailing 16 titles hoogheemraadschap van den Zeeburg en supplied. Diemerdyk, 4)Naamen en woonplaatsen van de heeren professoren, 5)Naam- An interesting and informative receipt for register van al de predikanten, 6)Lyste van books supplied by the publisher/bookseller de capiteinen, luitenants en officieren, Baudry to fellow bookseller Pichon & Didier. 7)Naamregister van alle de kooplieden, Louis-Claude Baudry (1793-1853) opened his 8)Naamen en woonplaatsen van de heeren first bookshop in Paris in 1815. He specialised assuradeurs, 9)Lyste der naamen en in foreign language books under the name woonplaatsen van de makelaars, ‘Librairie pour les Langues Etrangères’, which 10)Naamen en woonplaatsen van de later, probably by 1831, turned into the solliciteurs, 11)Verbetert specie-boek. Librairie Européenne, also known as Baudry’s Amsterdam, Josiah Schouten, 1792. European Library. Baudry took advantage of £500 the fact there there was no international copyright agreement and published pirated Eleven parts in one volume, almanac bound last, tall editions of many English, Scottish and 12mo, pp. 64, [4]; 28; 12; 14; 32; [48]; 128; 12; 48; 60; American authors. [12]; [28]; almanac printed in red and black; The catalogue printed in the left hand contemporary full green vellum, wrap-around wallet lists first books in English, including works by binding, elaborately gilt, gilt arms of Amsterdam to Scott, Goldsmiths, Byron, Cooper, and upper and lower board. Washington Irving, as well as a Stranger’s Guide to Paris. This is followed by a section of books A fine example of an Amsterdam almanac, in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German, combined with specialised business and attesting to the international approach. The professional directories, giving commercial and invoice is clearly for trade, supplying books, exchange rate information, bound in its some in multiple copies, at a discount. characteristic Dutch green vellum wallet binding. Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

Mathematical Economics taxes and international trade, and includes a AUSPITZ, Rudolf and LIEBEN, Richard. brilliant discussion of optimal tariffs’ (New Untersuchungen über die Theorie des Palgrave, p. 145). Preises. Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, Batson, p. 40; Menger, col. 71; Theocharis pp. 151 and 218n; Einaudi 214; Mattioli 151 (first French 1889. £3500 translation, 1902, not this first edition).

Large 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1]; 555, [1]; with diagrams in the text printed in red and black; uncut in original Trade History publisher’s full cloth, spine and sides ruled and lettered in black; corners very slightly bumped, and BATTAGLINI, Angelo. Dissertazione faint damp stain to fore edge of lower board; two accademica sul commercio degli antichi e small private Japanese library stamps: on title moderni libraj recitata nella generale (Ex library from Nakamura), on final blank adunanza tenuta nella Sala del Serbatojo (personal name, Yu); a very good copy in the d' Arcadia il di 7. settembre 1786. Rome, original binding. Gio. Zempel, 1787. £1250

Very rare first edition of the important work by 8vo, pp. 61, [1] errata, [1] imprint, [1] blank; title Auspitz and Lieben, 'the book that assured its printed in red and black, with fine engraved title authors of a place among the eminent vignette by Giordano; printed on heavy paper; a mathematical economists. It is essentially an little spotted; early nineteenth century exhaustive partial-equilibrium analysis of price wrappers, spine lettered in ink. in terms of an ingenious geometrical apparatus... Auspitz and Lieben, though highly First edition of this early history of regarded by men like Edgeworth, Pareto and the trade in books, both in classical Fisher, never received the credit they deserved. and modern times. Battaglini In their local environment, in view of the (1759-1842), cleric, writer and editor, Austrian School's intolerance for mathematics, was drawing on his library research they were academic outcasts' (New Palgrave, I, and especially his study of codices p. 144 f). Schumpeter called the work 'one of when compiling this study. He later the outstanding theoretical performances of the became second custodian of the age' (Schumpeter p. 849). Vatican library, under Marini, and The fundamental first chapter, ‘pre-printed in was closely involved in the question 1887 to fix priorities relative to Böhm-Bawerk, of restitution of confiscated medieval provides the basic tools... In subsequent manuscripts. chapters this apparatus is applied to a wide Battaglini comments on the earliest range of microeconomic problems and cases... book dealers, who were in fact An important final chapter extends the analysis copyists or employed to supply the to monopoly, monopolistic competition, excise Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

texts requested. Not much appears to have Under the guise changed - Battaglini cites unhappy authors in of a jest about Roman t imes, w ho complain ab out money getting incompetent scribes and unrealistic prices, a n d m o n e y similar to later complaints about badly-printed l e n d i n g f o r books or shoddy editing. He comments on c h i l d re n , t h e book trade history, early writers on the book rebus contains trade, and gives detailed bibliographical Franklin’s lightly references. His study is of particular interest as mocking advice, it does not concentrate on institutional history, r e g a r d i n g but individual bookseller data instead. working hard St Bride catalogue 3571; Munsell, Catalogue of and saving one’s books on printing and the kindred arts, 11; earnings rather Cicognara 1577. than spending t h e m o n superfluities. The Rebus f i r s t r e b u s FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Art of e d i t i o n w a s Making Money Plenty in Every Man’s a p p a r e n t l y a Pocket. Edinburgh, Edward Mitchell, n.d., s i n g l e s h e e t ca 1820. £2200 e n g r a v e d b r o a d s i d e e n g r a v e d b y 8vo, engraved throughout with title vignette (title N e a l e a n d within decorative border) and rebus on 8 leaves, printed on rectos only; original stiff printed published by John Wallis (No. 16 Ludgate wrappers, upper and lower board with title and title Street) in 1791, followed by a slightly different vignette; frayed at edges, corners a little chipped; one published ca 1811 by the New York Quaker ownership inscription of F Scott Hayward 1826 to firm of Samuel Wood, and a Darton edition of , see below. 1817 (The Dartons: an annotated check-list G365), closely copying the Wood illustrations. Mitchell’s engravings in turn are clearly based Rare rebus book edition of Benjamin Franklin’s on the Darton version, but clearly different, timeless advice on finance, money and much finer and more expressive. happiness, condensed and illustrated out of Franklin’s original Poor Richard’s Almanac The rebus illustrates the following text: (1758). A rebus is a graphic puzzle of words or ‘At this time when the general complaint is that syllables represented with pictures, this was a money is so scarce it must be an act of kindness popular form of entertainment during the 19th to inform the moneyless how they can reinforce century. their pockets. I will acquaint all with the true Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS secret of money catching, the certain way to fill How to get Rich empty purses and how to keep them always full. REDE, Leman Thomas. The Art of Money Two simple rules well observed will do the Getting; showing the means by which an business. 1st Let honesty and industry be thy individual may obtain and retain health, constant companions: 2d Spend one shilling every day less than thy clear gains. Then shall wealth and happiness. London, Joseph thy pockets soon begin to thrive, thy creditors Smith, 1828. £800 will never insult thee nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee. The 12mo, pp. xvi, 128, with hand-coloured aquatint whole hemisphere will shine brighter, and frontispiece with scenes of man’s life by Joseph Lisle; pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. contemporary full cloth; binding a little worn with an old water stain to lower board; contemporary Now thereby embrace these rules and be ownership inscription of one Knight to front free happy.’ endpaper. Edward Mitchell (1773 - 1846) was an engraver and copperplate printer in Edinburgh. After working as a book illustrator and footman to First edition of this semi-autobiographical the Dalrymple family he became a mapmaker treatise on the vagaries of fortune by Leman at the Admiralty with Alexander Dalrymple. Thomas Tertius Rede (1799-1832). After Dalrymple’s death in 1808 Mitchell The Art of Money Getting returned to Edinburgh and is mostly known for resounds with self-castigation, but book illustrations, especially medical (with nonetheless attempts to advise the thanks to Simon Gilkes). would-be solvent gentleman. Advice ranges from eschewing ‘the Provenance: ownership inscription by J Scott fatal consequences of luxury’, card- Hayward, i.e. Jacob Scott Hayward. Born playing, bad company, and December 1818 (baptised, aged 10 weeks, intoxication, to exhortations to rise March 1819) n Warington, Somerset. His father, early, be inventive, and follow a Joachim Cooper Hayward was a surgeon. J healthy diet. Scott would have been 8 years old when he received the book. J Scott Hayward later The hand-coloured engraved became a land agent & farmer, employing 11 frontispiece features a Boethian men plus 6 boys (1861 Census). He died in series of vignettes which depict the August 1868 in Sussex, aged 49 years, having various stages of a man’s fortunes, never married. including his rise to merchant prowess, despair at the gambling Very rare, no copy recorded in OCLC, Copac lists table, shivering in the cold, and a just the BL copy; for Mitchell see British Map Engravers pp. 451 ff. Dick Whittington-style journey to London. A note to the frontispiece explains, ‘we find him passing the Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS remainder of his ill-spent life in a penitentiary’. Bound in Red Velvet - Extra Illustrated The frontispiece is by Joseph Lisle, a satirical WAHN, Hermann. Hamburgisch- printmaker who flourished in the late 1820s. verbesserter Schreib-Calender aufs 1747. The frontispiece has the printed signature Joe Jahr: darin hiesige Gerichts-Tage, Lisle fecit. Verlassungen, Predigten, Music und Rede clearly drew on his own experience, he Passion in allen 5 Haupt- und Neben- was the son of an improvident father who lost Kirchen, wie auch Zucht- und Spinn- everything–including the family home of Roos Hall in Suffolk–before fleeing from England to Hause, St. Georg, und St. Pauli aufn Hamburg to escape his debtors. This dramatic Hamb. Berg; nebst Bericht der Fluth und reversal of fortunes, and his father’s subsequent Ebbe des Elbestrohms, der Jahr-Märckte, death in exile in 1810, evidently had a profound und des Post-Wesens. Hamburg, Conrad effect on young Leman, whose Art of Money König, 1746. £1500 Getting details the travails of pecuniary life. In the absence of their father, Rede and his 32mo, (80 x 50mm), interleaved copy, pp. [64], younger brother William (1802-1847) ‘were printed in red and black, with one additional k n o w n i n L o n d o n l i f e a s “ t h e double-page and six single-page hand-coloured inseparables”’ (ODNB). They both pursued engravings by Joh. Georg Schmidt, Braunschweig careers in the theatre, but although William auf der Höhe, 1747, heightened with egg white; fine would become a prolific playwright and Leman red velvet binding, with elaborate silver thread stitching, crowned AE C H to upper board, a writer and character actor, they seem to have lower board with crowned 1747 in silver stitching; a been always short of money. very fine example of a ‘presentation binding’. The Art of Money Getting is the most autobiographical of Rede’s handful of published works, which were mainly didactic A finely-bound miniature Hamburg Calendar volumes on elocution and stagecraft. In for 1747, extra-illustrated with one double-page conjunction with his brother he edited and six single-page hand-coloured engravings ‘Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography’, about the by Joh. Georg Schmidt from Braunschweig. The comedian William Oxberry, which sold well charming and very detailed engravings show and ran to five volumes. In fact, Rede had moralistic scenes with a four-line motto below. married Oxberry’s widow but it is perhaps Particularly charming is the elaborate telling that it was his brother, not his wife, with presentation binding in red velvet with the whom he would finally be buried. crowned initials of the recipient AE C H stitched onto the upper board within a This first edition is scarce, OCLC: BL, Bodley, LSE decorative silver stitched frame. and UCL; the work was reprinted in the US in 1832. The Hamburgisch-verbesserter Schreib- Calender was published from the late 17th century. It contains the usual information on Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

sun and moon phases, church events, court of grammar. The following lessons, under session dates, post and market dates, but also, headings such as ‘the library’, ‘the idle boy’, ‘the rather appropriately for Hamburg, tide tables. gentleman’, ‘the gardener’, or ‘the journal’ and Music clearly played an important role in ‘Christmas Dinner or the family’ are used to Hamburg life with church concerts listed. This introduce a glossary of relevant phrases, was the final year under the editorship of introduce different tenses and other Hermann Wahn (1678-1747), a theologian, grammatical features, and overall present a mathematician and astronomer. varied and entertaining guide to speaking OCLC: Copenhagen and Hamburg, no copy in the French. Clearly popular, it was reprinted a US; not in Köhring, for the engraver: Allgemeines number of times. Künstlerlexicon, p. 1516. The anonymous work is generally attributed to George Marin de La Voye. Born in France, George Marin de la Voye (1796 - 1877) taught French language and literature at the East India Military College, Addiscombe military academy JUVENILE (1825–45), and the University of Paris. He produced numerous works on French language [ANON.] attrib. Marin J. GEORGE DE LA and literature as well as one novel, Eugénie, the VOYE. Le Babillard. An amusing Young Laundress of the Bastille (1851). Introduction to the French Language. By a An advertisement for Harris's Cabinet of French Lady. J’instruis et j’amuse. London, amusement and instruction is bound at J. Harris and son, 1823. the end. £550 The work was clearly popular, a second edition was published the same year and 12mo, pp. [ii] title, 48, [2] publisher’s advertisement, later editions followed until the 1870s. with 24 half page woodcuts on ll. 12, one bound as a See Opie G31 for fourth edition.OCLC: BL, frontispiece; original publisher’s pale green cloth, Nottingham, University of Washington, with printed label to upper board; head and tail of State Library of Victoria; For further spine chipped; a few pages with neat notes in black information on the author, see Victorian ink; early ownership inscription of Eliza Eleanor Research (victorianresearch.org). Walton to front free endpaper; a charming copy.

A very good copy of a charming bi-lingual introduction to the French Language, illustrated with 24 half page woodcuts. The language course is arranged in a number of lessons. The first deals with general principles of French pronunciation, the next with basics Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

[ETIQUETTE.] True politeness. A hand- the Rev. Dr. John Trusler, author of the book of etiquette for gentlemen by an Principles of Politeness; Honours of the American Gentleman. New York, Leavitt & Table, &c. &c. Bath, for the author, W. Allen, 1853. £450 Meyler, 1804. £750

12mo (112 x 81 mm), pp. 64; original gilt-stamped 12mo, pp. iv, 92, 89-92; small woodcut vignette to rubbed cloth, with vignette of two gentlemen title; without the advertisements bound in some shaking hands on upper cover, a.e.g., a fine and crisp copies; contemporary blind-stamped sheep, joints copy. and extremities a little rubbed, but still a good copy; clean and crisp. A charming mid-nineteenth century American First edition of a charming little introduction to guide to etiquette and modern manners - how etiquette by the prolific Dr Trusler, composed to become the perfect American gentleman. In on the request of a letter-writer to ‘guide the 202 individual precepts under the headings novice thro’ the intricacies of polite life, to dress and fashion, introductions, conversation, direct him wherein he is to give and take place; how he is to regulate his visits, calls and notes visits and receiving visitors, conduct at the dinner table, smoking and its etiquette, of enquiries; how he is to conduct his marriage, servants, notes and letters, funerals correspondence, and how to... do etc. proper conduct in all situations is much in preventing quarrels, and in explained. Particularly interesting is the advice regulating, and combating the given on social conversation, fashionable dress, horrid practice of duelling’ (p. iv). and dinner settings. Trusler’s little manual can be seen ‘Gentility is neither in birth, manner, nor partly as a kind of practical Debrett’s fashion, but in the mind. A high sense of honor accompanied by much down-to- - a determination never to take a mean earth advice, on how to be a well- advantage of another - and adherence to truth, rounded, considerate human being. delicacy, and politeness towards those with T h e Re v. D r. J o h n Tr u s l e r whom you may have dealings - are the essential (1735-1820) ‘published a prodigious and distinguishing characteristics of a range of works on topics as diverse gentleman’. as medicine, farming, history, Apparently first published in 1847 and politeness, law, theology, travel, and frequently reprinted. A companion volume gardening’. This little courtesy book ‘Etiquette for Ladies’ was also published. is surprisingly uncommon, it was reprinted in 1805 and 1828. NSTC I T1757; COPAC: BL, Cambridge, Common Courtesy National Trust, UCL. TRUSLER, John. A System of Etiquette, by Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

ABC Book - Entirely Engraved (mit Genehmhaltung der k.k. Censur / No 111). [ABC.] HOFFMANN, Wenzl. Neues ABC The artist and engraver Wenz Hoffmann Buch in Bruchstücken für die Jugend (1788-1850) issued at least two other primers, herausgegeben. Prague, Wenzl Hoffmann, the Neues A-B-C-Büchel from ca. 1820, with [ca. 1820]. £4200 captions in German, Latin, French, Italian, Hebrew and Czech and the Neues deutsches

4to, (195 x160mm), engraved title and 22 ABC Buch from 1827, with captions in German unnumbered engraved plates, with in total 64 hand- and Hebrew, each accompanied with two lines coloured engravings, partly heightened with of German verse, see RDK VIII, 665-719 albumen, captions in German, French, Latin, Italian (online platform for art history research). and Czech; contemporary marbled wrappers; some Not found in OCLC or KVK; this work not in the browning and slight discolouration, due to paper usual bibliographies, see Teistler 737 (ca 1810) und stock, repaired tear to plate 10; with vivid and fresh 1076 (1827), for Hoffmann’s other primers. colouring; a very attractive primer.

A charming and exceptionally rare multi- [JUVENILE - ANON.] Curieuse Bilder- lingual primer with gorgeous hand-coloured Bibel oder die vornehmsten Sprüche and partly albumen heightened engravings, heiliger Schrifft in Figuren vorgestellt depicting mostly animals, flowers, fruits and wodurch der zarten Jugend dieselben plants. ‘A’ for Affe (chimp), ‘H’ for Hund spielend in das Gedächtniß gebracht und (dog), ‘P’ for parrot, or ‘T’ for turkey, to ‘K’ for zugleich die vonrnehmsten Dinge in der Kurbis (pumpkin) or ‘Q’ for quince. The Welt nach ihrer Gestalt und Ansehen auf captions are in German, French, Latin, Italian eine angenehme und ergotzende Art and Czech. bekannt gemacht werden. Nuremberg, A full page is devoted to each letter of the Raspe, 1756. £1800 alphabet (with the exception of I/J, V/W, X/Z), and the letter is printed at the top of the page in and Latin typography and a number of 8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. 32 ( jumps different forms. In each case the German term from 14 to 17, as always), 128, illustrated with over is used as the basis, with the terms in other 500 woodcut rebus throughout; front free endpaper languages distinguished by means of and engraved title with minute worm trace; small typography. Three images are used to illustrate tear at head of p. 1; Dutch gilt paper with floral each letter, many depicting animals, natural design; bottom section of spine lacks paper covering, p h e n o m e n a o r p e o p l e w i t h i n t h e i r cords visible; with charming calligraphic inscription surroundings with suggestive colouring. by Sabina Elisabetha Truthlin, 1758 to front The printing permission of the Metternich pastedown. censors is incorporated in the title engraving Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

Rare early edition of this charming picture Entirely Engraved bible (first 1749) for children. Hundreds of DELLA BELLA, Stefano Diverse Figure woodcut rebus illustrations replace part of the de Stef. della Bella, gravées A. Paris. Paris, text, with the key provided in the text section at [n.p., n.d.] ca 1650. the beginning. Each page is devoted to one or two complementary bible passages, with key £1600 words replaced with images. The idea was to visualise the spiritual message, and thus make it Small 4to, ll. xii, engraved title and ll. 11, each more appealing or understandable to the young with 2 engravings, most with '24' etched into reader. It was not meant as a riddle, just the lower right hand corner of the plate, in all possibly as a test whether the bible story or 22 etchings; contemporary buff wrappers, with religious concepts had been properly under- a similar engraving showing two figures pasted stood. At the same time, the illustrations clearly onto inside front wrapper; manuscript had a didactic purpose, they were meant to both entertain, enhance the message and ease ownership inscription ‘Giuliano Motta?’ and a memorisation. little ink sketch. The first German picture or hieroglyphic bible was inspired by Mattsberger’s Geistliche A charming collection of engravings by the H e r z e n s - E i n b i l d u n g i n celebrated Florentine printmaker Stefano Della zweihundert und funffzig Bella (1610-1664), biblischen Figur-Spruchen, produced during 1684, which combined brief his tenure in Paris biblical passages in text and under the Medici. image. D e l l a B e l l a ’ s In the form of the Curieuse e t c h i n g s a r e Bilder-Bibel (1749) it became especially admired highly popular, was reprinted a f o r t h e i r r i c h number of times, and was t e x t u r e s a n d published in English under the atmospheric effects, title Curious Hieroglyphick and for the wide Bible in 1783. range of subject Primarily intended for young m a t t e r , a s readers, this format provided encapsulated here. an engaging introduction to Duelling soldiers, the Bible and became a beggars, farmers, popular publishing genre well animals, gardens, into the nineteenth century. ruins, characters f i t t e d f o r t h e Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS masquerade, and scenes of everyday life are LONDON among the subjects he explores here. Some of the images are basic line illustrations – though [LONDON.] A Compleat guide no less evocative for that – while the landscape to all persons who have any scenes deploy chiaroscuro to spectacular effect. trade or concern with the City Stefano della Bella was one of the most talented of London, and parts adjacent; and prolific printmakers of the seventeenth Containing I. The Names of All century, known for the dynamism and fluidity the Streets, Squares, Lanes, &c. of his designs. Unlike most etchers of his time, in the said City. II. The Names who had careers as painters, Della Bella devoted and Situation of the Churches, himself almost exclusively to printmaking. He Chapels, Meeting-Houses, was supported by the Medici for many years, Companies Halls. III. An primarily in Florence, but also in Rome, where Account of All the Stage- his patron Lorenzo sponsored a period of study Coaches, Carriers, &c. where in the mid-1630s. In 1639, Della Bella travelled they Inn, and when they Go out. to France with the ambassador of the grand IV. The Rates of Watermen, duke of Tuscany and remained there for over a decade, before travelling to the Orient in the Hackney Coachmen, Chairmen, late 1740s and returning to Italy. This Parisian Carmen, and Porters; of the production doubtless dates to his stay in the General Post, and Penny-Post city, and demonstrates his continued interest in Offices. V. The Names and Italian scenes and the way in which Florentine Places of Abode of the most culture and custom were transplanted by the Eminent Merchants and Traders Medici from Florence to Paris. in and about London. VI. Useful The collection appears in neither the Massar Tables. Vii. Tables of Interest; and catalogue of 1971, nor Talbierska’s more recent Designed for the Use of Persons of All monograph (2001), although the similarity of Degrees, as well Natives as Foreigners. the designs to other collections demonstrate his London, J. Osborn, 1740. preoccupation with ever yday life in £1600 seventeenth-century Italy, played out against its dramatic scenery and classical ruins. 12mo, pp. [iv], 84, 97-151, [1], [24] tables; irregular Cicognara V M 60 (1); OCLC Heidelberg. pagination, but complete; contemporary full sheep, rebacked and gilt-lettered spine label; old stain to endpapers, jottings, scribbles and calculations on final endpaper; with early ownership inscription by ‘John Struddle his book 1780’ to front free endpaper.

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First edition, uncommon, of a useful directory 64mo, Miniature almanac (55 x 35 mm), ll. 26, and street guide to London, a handy pocket engraved throughout, printed on one side only and book for businessmen. The first section is taken pasted back-to-back, with double-page illustration up with a list of all the streets of London, with of the Apothecaries’ Hall at Black Friars Lane; information on their location, then follows a publisher’s red morocco, decoratively gilt, a.e.g., list of all the churches, chapels and religious preserved in the original red morocco slip case with design repeated; some light thumb marks at head of meeting houses, including synagogues, again binding; a charming survival, with tax stamp to title. with address information. All the companies, especially livery companies and their halls are enumerated. An extensive section is taken up Miniature almanac for the year of 1787, with information on transport, both of published by the Stationer’s Company with a passengers and of goods, throughout London charming double-page illustration of the and all over the country, including regular Apothecaries' Hall at Black Friars Lane, coaches, names of porters etc. All merchants London, and information on the kings and active and residing in London are listed, in queens of England, the lord mayors and sheriffs alphabetical order with information on their from 1766 to 1787, holidays, coins, and an speciality; this includes are large number of illustrated "Common Notes" page listing dates wine merchants. The final section contains a of movable feasts, etc. number of useful tables for business. The title is enclosed in a circle surrounding the Overall a most substantial London directory, arms of the City of London. aimed both a local business and foreign traders. ESTC t127696 (Folger, St. Louis, UVA); Welsh, It was clearly popular and reprinted in revised Bibliography of Miniature Books, 4578; Spielmann editions until the 1780s. 314; OCLC adds McGill. ESTC t31005 (BL, Guildhall, Harvard, Huntington, Colorado); Hanson 5388; Kress S3598. Life in London - a Guide TRUSLER, John. The London Adviser and Miniature Almanac Guide: containing every instruction and [ALMANAC.] London Almanack for the information useful and necessary to Year of Christ, 1787. The almanack persons living in London, and coming to explained. Note that under the title of reside there; in order to enable them to every month is the change of the moon & enjoy security and tranquillity, and every month contains three columns. 1. conduct their domestic affairs with Days of the month. 2. Saints days &c. 3. prudence and economy. Together with an Time of high water at London Bridge. abstract of all those laws which regard London, Stationer’s Company, [1786]. their protection against the frauds, £850 impositions, insults and accidents to Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS which they are there liable.... Useful also to very practical advice to newcomers. He warns foreigners. Note. This work treats fully of against the dangers of pickpockets, every thing on the above subjects that can pawnbrokers, strangers in general and be thought of. London, printed for the recommends caution when living the big city. author, 1786. Among the useful information he includes lists £1800 of lawyers, courts, newspapers published in London (daily, morning, evening and weekly) but also carriages and their rates, postal 12mo, pp. xx, 191, [1]; with a map of the Royal services, and services such as surgeons & Exchange and numerous tables in the text, contemporary full calf, rebacked with gilt-lettered physicians (including men-midwives). An spine label. extensive section is devoted to walking through London, with warnings against walking under ladders, or tripping on loose paving stones. First edition of this charming guide to life in A veritable treasure-trove of information on London for newcomers, foreigners and locals eighteenth-century life in London. alike. Trusler covers all aspects of London life, with extensive information on the housing ESTC t93466; Goldsmiths’-Kress 13149. market, commerce, trading - including a schematic map of the lay-out of the Royal Getting out of London Exchange, so that newcomers may know where ARMSTRONG, Mostyn John. An actual to find relevant traders - as well as hotels and survey of the great post-roads between restaurants, diversions and services. London and Edinburgh, with the country He explains in great detail how to rent or buy three miles, on each side, drawn on a scale accommodation, the merits of fire insurance, the levels of house tax and the means to secure of half an inch to a mile. London, for the water supplies. A long chapter is devoted to the author and the booksellers, 1776. question of domestic servants, how and where £1400 to hire them, with a warning against untrustworthy agencies (register-offices or 8vo, engraved title with oval vignette of a coach and employment exchanges). Detailed tables horses (by William Harrison), pp. [viii], including illustrate how a gentleman could estimate the index, [1] engraved general map, and 44 engraved cost of provisions, the holdings of his wine road maps, within decorative borders, some of the maps with outline colouring; contemporary half cellar, or estimates of housekeeping depending sheep over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, on weekly budgets of families of differing corner somewhat worn, and foot of upper hinge incomes. starting; still a good copy; some off-setting from The detailed 20 page index indicates the range binding to corners of the title page; with early of information included. Trusler combines a ownership note of W. Danby to front pastedown, wealth of social and political information with and a number of manuscript annotations, see below. Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

First edition of a charming book of road POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY maps from London to Edinburgh, detailing the post-roads between with two cities both via PICIARELLI, Camillo. Epistola di Camillo Coventry, Litchfield and Carisle, and via York, Piciarelli, Professore di Belle Lettere, sul Durham, Newcastle and Berwick, with Antico Naso di Fozio, pubblicato per connections in between. The attractive almanacco dell’anno 1820. Milan, Manini engraved maps by Procker give details of towns and rivolta, 1820. £500 and villages, natural features and terrain. Opposite each map are listed main roads and main crossroads, together with details of lords 8vo, aquatint allegorical frontispiece, pp. [xii], of the manor and coaching inns. 39, [1]; contemporary pattern paper wrappers. In his preface the author deplores the fact that neither subscriptions nor time allowed him to A very good copy of this treatise in verse on the include more information on history, human mind and its failings, with an antiquities, produce and commerce. Mostyn extraordinarily imaginative frontispiece image John Armstrong (fl. 1769-1791), surveyor, of the brain by French artist Sergent Marceau. mapmaker and publisher first worked in This arcane and fascinating poem-cum-treatise partnership with his father Andrew Armstrong considers the beauty and strangeness of the (1712-1784). From 1779 he was employed as human mind in seventy-five stanzas. The county surveyor for Norfolk (see Worms, p. 24). premise surrounds Photius, ‘one of the most There are a number of early ink annotations in beautiful minds of the ninth century, who the of plate 18 (’for the continuation of abused the talents he had received from nature, the road from North Allerton to Darlington see with an inordinate ambition’. What follows is a plate 23d’), and a note regarding change of history and also an attempt to understand ownership at Grange Hall on the North vainglory, ambition and falls from grace. Allerton to Wetherby road. One of the highlights of this work is the ESTC n16384; Fordham, Road-Books, p. 31; Shirley, extraordinary frontispiece, signed by Sergent British Library T.ARM-1a; Worms, British map Marceau and D. K. Bonatti, which depicts a engravers, 2011, p. 24. close image of the upper part of a head, with the front of the skull removed. Inside are miniature figures of fantastical variety and Boschian strangeness. The work opens with an explanatory note about this illustration. It explains that each of the tiny figures within the skull represents a human trait. Thus, the central figure with feathers in his diadem represents stubbornness, genius has wings, and the ghost Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

is uncertainty. The design and note are both the Augustin Mie, to be released in 1000 copies. work of the French artist and printmaker, Mie was not a specialist in 'canards', but the Antoine Louis François Sergent-Marceau printer of The Tribune, a Republican (1751-1847). His illustration brings an newspaper which covered the situation at the otherworldly quality to this curious work. prison. He kept up correspondence with OCLC: Columbia, UCLA, Chicago prisoners and sent them supplies.

Dutch Utopian Satirical Periodical [WIBMER, Jean Baptiste Didier]. Prison Protest Utopiaansche Courant. No 1- 12 [all [BROADSIDE - ANON.] Départ d’un published]. Amsterdam, H. Moolenijzer, républicain pour la prison du Mont-Saint- Dageraad, den 44 Stoeborn A[nn]o. 5569, Michel. Paris, Auguste Mie, [1833]. 1819. £650 [together with:] Pleitrede van den schrijver der Utopiaansche Courant. Broadside (478 x 310 mm), five line printed Amsterdam, A. Vink, 1819. headline, large woodcut (181 x 273mm), followed by printed text in three columns; a little frayed, fold- [together with:] Utopiaansche Weekblad. marks, and small hole in one fold; still an attractive No 1-14 [all published]. Amsterdam, A. copy. Vink, 1820-1821. Amsterdam, H. Moolenijzer, 1819-21. A fine propaganda 'canard' produced by £1500 republican sympathisers in protest against the harsh treatment of political prisoners in the notorious Breton prison of Mont Saint-Michel, Complete run of Wibmer’s two satirical as decreed by Adolphe Thiers. The large political journals, 1. 12 broadsheets, woodcut shows a member of the 1832 revolt (440 x 265mm), printed in 3 columns against Louis-Philippe bidding farewell to his (one sideways), woodcut illustration at family while two mounted soldiers in bearskin head; folded and unbound; 2. 8vo ((230 x hats await. The text includes a long letter 140mm), pp. 67, [3] blank, with engraved purportedly signed, among others, by Charles title; 3. 14 issues, 8vo (226 x 135 mm), Jeanne, a member of the revolt and an continuous numbering, pp. 112, woodcut inspiration to Victor Hugo, who placed the headpiece. 1832 insurrection at the heart of Les Misérables. First edition of the complete run of two very Anonymous and undated, this broadside has rare Dutch satirical political periodicals. The been legally registered by the printer Louis- Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

Utopiaanische Courant, an outspoken, but published an account of his second cleverly disguised satire of the reign of William arrest, trial and imprisonment, and I of the Netherlands, who had returned from cont inued w ith his sat ir ical exile after the defeat of Napoleon, was publications. Wibmer’s first foray into utopian satire. After it His clever self defence combines great was banned, he continued with the s e l f - a s s u r a n ce , s t re s s i n g h i s Utopiaanische Weekblad (the Utopian Weekly), dependence on publisher and printer, again published anonymously. This consists of with his role as an independent who dialogues between the author and his Utopia represents important social liberties. born servant Hans, who fills him in on the For Wibmer see Laurens Ham, Door latest gossip. Prometheus geboeid (2015), pp. 47-83. Wibmer cleverly disguises his sharply satirical opinions of the protestant church, the Dutch monarchy of William I., and Dutch politics and Jiddish Glossary society. He hides behind ‘fictional’ author STERN, I.F. (i.e. Johann Friedrich figures, and cleverly demonstrates the Sigmund von Holzschuher.] Die possibilities of political criticism even in the linke Massematten der houchlöbliche harsh publishing climate of the 1820s. Jüdenschaft... Die Spitzbubereyen und Wibmer (1792 – 1836), originally trained as a Gaunerstreiche der Juden und ihre minister of the Walloon Church, and was active as a hack writer, publishing a number of verderblichen Umtriebe unter den satirical periodicals and pamphlets. When the Christan. ein unentbehrliches Noth- und Utopiaanische Courant was banned, Wibmer Huelfsbuechlein für Jedermann. Zur owned up to his publication, with the result of Belehrung und Warnung. Meissen, F.W being relieved of his church position. He was Goedsche, [1833]. arrested together with the publisher and the £800 printer Molenijzer and Brouwer) and charged 8vo, pp. [iv] lithograph frontispiece and title, viii, with sedition. He successfully argued that his 126, [2]; occasionally browned and a spotted due to publication was absurd and had no clear paper stock; contemporary half roan over marbled meaning. He was acquitted, but then published boards, leather quite chipped, head and tail of spine his witty defence as Pleitrede (1819), as well as chipped, corners rounded. further issues of the Courant and the Weekblad. On 6 April 1820, soon after publication of First edition, uncommon, of this anti-semitic Weekblad 12 he was arrested again, retried and diatribe against alleged Jewish tricks, duplicity convicted on a number of counts and sentenced and deception in business and public life, giving to six years imprisonment. The final two issues brief biographies of known Jewish characters. (13 and 14) were published after his arrest. The most interesting section of the books is its He was released early, in 1825 and then Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS brief, but fascinating glossary of Jewish/Jiddish TRADE CATALOGUES thieving terminology. Itzig Feitel Stern was a pseudonym for Friedrich [PELIKAN.] WAGNER, Gunther. Freiherr von Holzschuher. Holzschuher, a non- Preis- Liste no. 19 A. Gunther Jewish judge, wrote parables, stories, farcical Wagner Fabriken in Hannover und poems and anecdotes to present a distorted Wien. Deutsche Ausgabe fur picture of the Jews. By means of Jewish wit, Wiederverkauf. Durch diese Liste which he imitated, he attacked the Jews, sind alle vorhergehenden ridiculed them and tried to deprive them of aufgehoben. Hanover, 1901. £550 their livelihood by ‘uncovering their trickery‘ (Universal Jewish Encyclopaedia). It is 8vo, pp. viii, 216, with 3 unnumbered leaves unclear how many of the publications under of colour plates, two in chromolithograph the pseudonym Itzig Feitel Stern are actually and one with chart of mounted colour attributable to him. samples, chromolithograph plates heightened Eichstädt 2828; Goedeke XV, 1130, 12; uncommon, with gold and/or silver; extensively illustrated OCLC Harvard, Idaho State. throughout; original decorative cloth on a the former plant manager Guenther Wagner in blue base with the original form of the pelican 1863. Wagner designed the logo, taking the trade mark; a little rubbed and dust-soiled, a figure of the pelican from his own family coast few small ink spots to upper cover, slight of arms in 1878. The logo was one of the first cockling to lower board. German trademarks. The firm still exists and at least in Germany is synonymous with art A fine and extensively illustrated trade supplies both for school, office and the art catalogue of the German manufacturing market. company Pelikan, specialising in writing OCLC: Metropolitan Museum of Art. instrument and arts equipment. The catalogue is arranged in five sections, covering watercolour sets for artists, technicians and children; India ink in various hues; oil paints, varnishes and enamel paint; artists’ materials such as brushes etc., and finally inks, stamp inks, glues etc. All products are illustrated and a detailed colour chart with mounted colour samples is included. Retail prices and applicable trade prices are included. Founded in 1838 by the chemist Carl Honemann as an ink and colour factory in Hanover, the firm was taken over by Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

Georgian Household Goods and Personal A remarkable trade catalogue of steel Effects goods for the household, ladies and STEEL GOODS. Book of Steel Toys. gentlemen’s personal effects, gardening Birmingham, [n.p.] c.1812. £12000 tools, and instruments for trades and professions. This is a treasure trove of visual information about a vast range of Oblong folio (235 x 375mm); letterpress ‘Index to book of steel toys’, folding now obsolete tools and the objects letterpress and engraved leaf ‘Gentlemen’s required for daily life in the age of Jane Tool Chests’, and 46 leaves of plates, many Austen: spinet tuning keys, muffin printed recto and verso from 80 engraved toasters, cheese tasters, sugar hatchets, plates. After the first 2 leaves, the engravings teeth cleaning sets, netting vices, boot are numbered in MS 1–14, 14A, 14B, 15–34, hooks and so on. Particularly fascinating 41–48, 51–63, [5], 66–67, [1], 68–81, [1]. is the distinction between tradesmen’s The letterpress index is a half sheet of laid tools and those specifically marketed for paper, the rest of the leaves are wove paper, most amateurs. These are described in the watermarked ‘J.W.& B.B. 1812’, the second leaf individual engravings as well as in the (‘Gentlemen’s tool chests’) and 3 other folding engraved and letterpress leaf after the leaves are by the same maker and dated 1809; 2 index leaf where the contents of 9 oak folding leaves are watermarked ‘RVB 1811’. chests of tools for gentlemen are There is a gap in the pagination and stubs between itemised, as well as chests of garden 34 and 41 and these leaves have presumably been tools, turners tools, and mahogany removed; pls 49 and 50 are also missing but there are chests of tools for cleaning gentlemen’s no stubs so may never have been present. guns. Among the articles listed in the Manuscript additions. The index leaf is annotated index are ‘Lady’s hammers’ and ‘Lady’s ‘Livre 64456 W&L’ (this has been varnished over); every item is neatly priced and in some cases sets of garden tools’ but these do not additional products are described, for example the seem to be the articles engraved on the ice skates, 48 shillings plain or 60 shillings hollow corresponding plates. ground, could be had with leather straps and Engraved trade catalogues of this sort buckles for another 18 shillings per dozen (pl. 70); were used by salesmen to solicit orders small marginal tears in first two and last leaf from retailers. The prices entered in strengthened with tissue on verso; recent half manuscript are selling prices, on which the morocco and marbled boards; from the retailer received a discount, probably 25% (see Forschungsinstitut für Geschichte der below). Zahnheilkunde with stamp on index leaf and several plates. There is a similar volume in the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, also with a printed index, and 51 leaves of plates. There is a printer’s imprint, W. Tolley and Son, on the first plate. This may be the William Tolley, Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS engraver and copperplate printer active in Birmingham, from before 1790 to 1830. The TYPOGRAPHY name of the agent is on a label on the upper cover: ‘Muntz & Purden, Book no. 29, discount The Most Important Type Specimen Printed 25%’, indicating that the MS prices are retail in the Netherlands prices. ENSCHEDE, Johannes. Proef van Letteren The word ‘toys’ for small steel articles seems to welke gegooten worden in de nieuwe be a usage specific to Birming ham Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. manufacturers, and as pointed out in the Enschedé. [Haarlem, J. Enschedé], 1768. quotation in the OED, not very appropriate: 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 319 £7500 Heavy Steel Toys. By this not very appropriate description the Birmingham manufacturers 8vo, ll. 4 (engraved allegorical frontispiece, refer to a class of articles... To enumerate all the frontispiece portrait of Enschede and two engravings of the statue of Costerand Hadrianus ‘toys’ of this class would be to transcribe a large Junius), [ii] printed title with large engraved list of miscellaneous cheap and useful wares, allegorical vignette, pp. [xxxii], engraved portrait of from a joiner's hammer to a shoemaker's tack. Fleischman ll. [80] leaves of type specimens The pincers of the last-named workman, and (including the section title ‘Oude Hollande the edged nippers in use for breaking up loaf- letteren’), all within typographic border, including sugar, are both of them well-known specimens. the very rare Canon Hebreeuwsch, which is often missing, with two plates, one folding (view of Enschedé’s ), pp. 8 list of prices; very clean and crisp; original publisher’s full red morocco, spine gilt in compartments with flower tool, sides with elaborate gilt tooling, central vignette; a.e.g., extremities a little rubbed and joints chipped; with engraved armorial book plate of Robert W. Wegg.

A very attractive copy of Enschede’s type specimen, generally regarded as the most important eighteenth-century type specimen printed in the Netherlands. It is illustrated with a number of portraits, including Coster, the alleged inventor of printing, Junius, the historian, Enschedé, and Fleischmann, the celebrated punch cutter. The long preface gives details of the history and origin of the type Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS

foundry. The type specimen was clearly Perfectly Proportioned Letters and produced to attract foreign orders too, with the Anamorphosis names of the given in Dutch, German, BRUNN, Lucas. Praxis Perspectivae. Das French and English. ist: Von Verzeichnungen ein ausfuhrlicher Specimens for all manner of book type are Bericht, darinnen dasjeniger was die included, also display faces, exotic fonts, Scenographi erfordert begrieffen und in typographical ornaments and splendid black- welchen allerley dinge off allerley Stande letter type of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The 148 ornaments are by J.F. Rosart in ein Perpectivischen Ausszug zu bringen (1714-1777), Enschede had purchased the gelehret, auch das was wundersam hierbey matrices from him. There are also specimens of sich begeben kann, erklaret wird. Leipzig, mathematical and calendar symbols. This copy Lorentz Kober, zu finden Nuremberg, does include the very rare specimen Canon Simon Halbmeyer, Buchhandler, 1615. Hebreeuwsch, which seems to be present in just a few copies, and the fine engraved portrait of £5500 Fleischmann. The Enschedé type foundry was founded by Folio (310 x 200mm), pp. [xii], 60, with 26 folding Isaac Enschedé (1681-1761) in Haarlem in engraved plates; the two text engravings are not 1703. His son Joannes Enschedé joined him in present, possibly indicating an early issue; plates 1703. In 1743 they bought the Wetsein foundry occasionally cut close at edges; a very good copy and from then on accumulated a most bound with the German translation of Marolois’ impressive collection of types. They employed Opera Mathematica, see below, a few pages with faint marginal the famous punchcutter Fleischmann and the dampstaining; contemporary full Enschedé type foundry flourished throughout vellum over boards,manuscript lettering the eighteenth and nineteenth century, and in ink directly to spine, lacking ties, continues to this day. According to Birrell & green edges; with modern bookplate Garnett identifies copies bound in red ‘De artificiali Pspectiva’ to front morocco and elaborately tooled as special pastedown and early small oval presentation copies. crowned stamp S. v. P.; a fine crisp copy. Bigmore & Wyman, p. 202, Ekama 556; Updike pp. 38 ff, Lane/Lommen 10; Birrell & Garnett 71; Lane First edition, uncommon, of this & Lommen 10; St. Bride’s 20248; see also the 1993 fascinating study of perspective, facsimile with introduction and notes. especially as it relates to letter design and the formation of an alphabet of perfect proportions. The work contains various plates depicting Roman block capital Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS letters in perspective, mostly propped up on compass and a straightedge. Johann Lencker blocks and viewed from different angles. In this (1523-1585) demonstrated how Durer or Brunn was possibly influenced by Hans Hauer. Pacioli’s perfectly balanced letters could be He also illustrates his own instrument for rendered in perspective, but without giving perspective drawing, which allowed one to further details. It was left to Brunn to explain it. draw scenographic (or perspectival) and Brunn’s important work is bound together with anamorphic images (see G. Strano et al, Samuel Marolois’ Complete Works on European Collections of Scientific Instruments, perspective and mathematics in German, 1550 - 1750, p. 82). The anamorphosis of a bound without the plates, which are the same skull, a distorted projection which appears in all languages. normal when viewed from a particular or Samuel Maroloys. Dess weitberumbten und with a suitable mirror or lens, is illustrated on hocherfahrnen Ingenieurs und Bawmeisters zu one plate, as is his instrument. unsern Zeiten, Mathematische Wercke, alle Lucas Brunn (Annaberg, ca 1572-1628) studied zusammen verfasset, Vermehret, gebessert und with Adam Riese. From 1598 to 1601 he was at erklaret durch Albert Gerhardt... Amsterdam, the University of Frankfurt, then at Altdorf Jan Janssen, 1628 - 1629. under the mathematician Johann Praetorius. In Samuel Marolois (c. 1572 - 1627) was one of 1612 he studied perspective and surveying with the most-read Dutch perspectivists. His treatise, Johann Faulhaber in Ulm, before he entered the ‘La perspective contenant la theorie et la workshop of the artist Hans Hauer practique d’icelle’ was first published in 1614 in (1586-1660), working with optical lenses and French as well as in Latin as part of his ‘Opera the camera obscura. In 1619 Brunn was mathematica’. It was frequently reissued, appointed inspector of the Dresden ‘appearing in separate French, Latin, Dutch, Kunstkammer by Johann Georg von Sachsen. and German versions in a rather chaotic During that period he also invented a fashion. In fact, it is not unusual to meet copies micrometer. in which the language of the main text is not Dürer published the first manual of letter the same as that occurring on the title page or design in Germany, based on aesthetics and the in the figures’ (K. Anderson, The Geometry of mathematics of composition. He set down Art, The History of the Mathematical Theory of general precepts for forming letters, followed by Perspective from Alberti to Monge, 2007, p. specific instructions for each letter. Each is to 297). The present copy has the German title occupy a square. Line widths vary from one pasted into the engraved French title page and thirtieth to one tenth of the side of the square. was issued without the plates. Decorative serifs on the letters are formed Oechslin/Buchi/Pozsgai 334; Berlin catalogue 4708; about arcs. And the arc diameters are also Vagnette EIIb 37; not in Fowler. specified as fractions of the square. Each letter involves geometrical exercises done with a