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Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS A AUTUMN A A 2020 A A A A A A A A A A A A A A 4 Harrison’s Lane Woodstock OX20 1SS A A www.schulz-falster.com A +44 (0)1993811100 A [email protected] A Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS 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 en woonplaatsen van Baudry, 1829. £400 [...] regeerders der stad Amstelredam, 2)Het edel mogende collegie ter Handbill (260 x 205mm), printed on recto and verso 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 column 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 Book 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 page 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 title page, 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).