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BERNARD QUARITCH LTD NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR MARCH 9-12 2017 PARK AVE ARMORY BOOTH B4 BERNARD QUARITCH LTD 40 SOUTH AUDLEY ST, LONDON W1K 2PR Tel: +44 (0)20-7297 4888 Fax: +44 (0)20-7297 4866 e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] www.quaritch.com Bankers: Barclays Bank plc, Level 27, 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP Sort code: 20-65-82 Swift code: BARCGB22 Sterling account: IBAN: GB98 BARC 206582 10511722 Euro account: IBAN: GB30 BARC 206582 45447011 U.S. Dollar account: IBAN: GB46 BARC 206582 63992444 VAT number: GB 840 1358 54 Mastercard, Visa, and American Express accepted Postage and insurance will be charged at cost, if required. If you would like to subscribe to our monthly electronic list of new acquisitions please send an email to [email protected] Cover image: item 81 Illustration right: item 68 (Moucheron) © Bernard Quaritch 2017 T H E FIRST FRENCH UTOPIA FOUR OTHER COPIES KN OWN 1 [ANEAU, Barthélemy]. Alector, histoire fabuleuse. Lyon, Pierre Fradin, 1560. Small 8vo, pp. [xxviii], ff. 152; minute pinhole to the last quire, but a fine, crisp copy, extremely well-preserved, in contemporary vellum, remains of ties, red edges, ink titling on spine; old small shelfmark label on the front free endpaper, early ownership inscription on the title. $32,000 Extremely rare first edition of the first French Utopian novel, the only novel by the humanist, poet and professor of rhetoric Barth Aneau, a member of the humanist circle of Lyon which included Marot, Dolet and Rabelais. Although More’s Utopia appears to have been an influence, this work is wholly original, built on the thread of the protagonist’s travels on the back of a flying hippo, mixing genres such as classical myths, fable, historical novel, fable, philosophical tale, utopia proper. The work has been described as a ‘fabulous story centred around a pacifying hero, … a reservoir and manual for interpreting Renaissance imagery, a dictionary of emblems, and an architectural utopia of a circular city’ (D. Bjai). Indeed, as it has been recently pointed out (J. Meyer, 2015) this fictional narrative displays an idealized version of the French monarch’s global role. A utopia/speculum principis, the book emphasizes the new relevance of world geography to the king’s mastery of governance, as well as the superior destiny of the French monarch. The book was printed the year before Aneau’s assassination, which was perpetrated by a mob, suspicious of his protestant leanings, while he was lecturing at the Collège de la Trinité in Lyons. Brunet lists it under Alector, rather than Aneau, and only as an ‘attributed’ work. Brunet 156. No copies outside Europe; 2 in French libraries (BNF, Lyon), 1 in the UK (BL), 1 in Denmark (Kongelige Bibliotek). No copies in auction records in the last 40 years. 2 ANQUETIL-DUPERRON, Abraham Hyacinthe. Législation FREE THOUGH T , F R E E T R A D E , N O G H E T T O S orientale, ouvrage dans lequel, en montrant quels sont en Turquie, en Perse et dans l’Indoustan, les principes fondamentaux du gouvernement ... 3 ARCO, Giovanni Battista Gherardo d’. Della influenza del ghetto Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1778. nello stato. Venice, Gaspare Storti, 1782. 4to., pp. [16], vi, 312, [38, ‘Table des matieres’], [2, blank]; wood-engraved 8vo, pp. 144, [6]; woodcut printer’s device to the title, woodcut initials and publisher’s device on title, type-ornament head- and tailpieces; very head-piece; a few marginal spots to the title-page, else a clean, bright, crisp occasional light spotting or marking, blank l. 2R4 excised; 20th-century copy in contemporary half vellum, flat spine with a gilt morocco lettering- roan-backed boards; a fresh, uncut copy, retaining the half-title and final piece, boards covered in plain paper, all edges sprinkled red; small scuff on blank; provenance: Law Library of Los Angeles, California (bookplate on upper the spine and chip to the lettering-piece; ownership inscription to the front pastedown). $1920 free end-paper: Alfonso Magnanino (probably the urban architect), 7 February 1809, Ferrara. $4225 First edition of ‘an important work on Muslim law, politics and government in Turkey, Persia and India, in which Anquetil Duperron endeavoured to prove that First edition of an extremely rare economic text of the Enlightenment. The the nature of oriental despotism had been misrepresented. This work also contains Conte d’Arco (1739–1791) studied at Mantua and Parma, where he met Condillac Dow’s “Dissertation concerning the origin and nature of Despotism in Hindostan” (they became great personal friends), but seems to have had little other contact with … Although he had intended for the priesthood, Anquetil developed an interest in major Enlightenment figures as weak health kept him in Mantua most of his life. Eastern languages and studied Hebrew, Arabic and Persian. He travelled to India with the financial support of Louis XVI and the sponsorship of Malesherbes and D’Arco was a passionate admirer of Montesquieu and believed fervently in the Barthelemy. He returned to France in 1762 in possession of many oriental possibility of a better society and a new order which would sweep away the manuscripts, having discovered a part of the books of Zoroaster’ (Atabey). Atabey injustice and poverty of the past. In Della influenza del ghetto nello stato, his best known 24; Quérard I, p. 67. book, d’Arco argues for the disestablishment of Jewish ghettos, indeed religious enclaves of all kinds. He does not much like religion (the Enlightenment did not), believes in freedom of commerce and does not like Jews being barred from certain occupations; he believes in the free exchange of opinion and does not like the enforcement of faith and custom and behaviour the ghetto represents. Arco is certainly not immune to then widely-shared stereotypes, which he thinks the ghetto generates and perpetuates; moreover, he is in favour of a gradual rather than immediate integration of the Jewish community into mainstream life and culture. Not in Einaudi, Goldsmiths’ or Kress; OCLC locates 1 copy in the UK (Cambridge), 5 in the US (Harvard, Pennsylvania, New York Public, Chicago and Klau Library HUC). THE PORT ROYAL LOGIC UNCUT , PRESENTED TO ANTOINE ARNAULD 4 [ARNAULD, Antoine, and Pierre NICOLE]. La logique ou l’art de 5 [ARNAULD.] BOYLE, Robert. Experiments and Considerations penser, contenant, outre les regles communes, plusieurs observations about the Porosity of Bodies, in two Essays ... London, Printed for Sam. Smith … nouvelles propres à former le iugement. Paris, Jean Guignart, Charles Savreaux, 1684. Jean de Launay, 1662. 8vo., pp. [4], 145, [3, blank]; slightly toned, dampstain to title-page, and a few 12mo, pp. 473, [7, table of contents, errata, privilege]; light toning, light damp other small stains, withal very good copy, uncut, in modern calf; presentation staining to upper outer corners at beginning, small burn hole to pp. 429-434 inscription, not authorial, in French and German, on the title-page. $6080 repaired and lost words supplied in manuscript; otherwise a very good copy in contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, sprinkled edges; joints and First edition, inscribed on the title-page ‘Pour Monsieur A Arnold’, i.e. the extremities a little worn; inscription ‘Emile Calais 1852’ to rear philosopher and mathematician Antoine Arnauld (1612-94). Below, and possibly in endpaper. $3840 another hand, follows the note ‘(Von T H für Willkommens Heymkünfte[?] [i.e. as a welcome home present])’. Scarce first edition of the work known as the Port Royal Logic. The authors were leaders of the Port Royal movement, and the book displays the distinctive tone of Boyle’s Experiments and Considerations about the Porosity of Bodies ‘marks the beginning earnest piety for which the movement became famous. La Logique was the most of the study of osmotic pressure and of the exchange of substances through living famous logic text of the seventeenth century and set the form of manuals of logic membranes, which is at the basis of the regulation of all bodily processes … There for the next two hundred years. In particular, its division of the subject into the are interesting observations on the absorption of medicines through the skin and theory of conception, of judgment, of reasoning and of method established a through wounds. The second part of the essay deals with the porosity of solid psychologistic approach which dominated the field until the time of Frege. A bodies, and once more we find Boyle speaking in terms of atomic structure and arrangement.’ At the end, Boyle deals with glass, and various methods of painting handbook on method rather than a study of formal logic in the strict sense, La or staining it. Logique was strongly and consciously Cartesian: a development from Descartes’ Regulae rather than Aristotle’s Prior Analytics. It nevertheless made important Arnauld (1612-1694), now best known for L’art de penser (see item 4), written with technical advances, most notably its distinction between the comprehension and Pierre Nicole, had a powerful international reputation, was a friend of Pascal and extension of a term (a development of the medieval distinction between significatio Boileau, and a correspondent of Leibniz. From 1679 until his death he lived in self- and suppositio and a forerunner of Hamilton’s distinction between intension and imposed exile in the Netherlands, but these years were among his ‘most fruitful … extension); its quasi-mathematical treatment of the rules of distribution, During this period, he carried on his debates with Malebranche and Leibniz, and conversion and syllogism; and its formulation of the deduction theorem. also reexamined his position on human free will’ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).