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Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS A Christmas 2020 A A 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 America & the World 8vo, pp. [iv], 425, [3], with one large folding printed table; title vignette; entirely uncut in the original Map of Washington DC pink wrappers, upper portion of spine covering [ALMANAC.] Almanac de Gotha pour lacking, but stitching holding firm; faint traces of l’année 1795. Gotha, C.W. Ettinger, 1794. damp-staining to title page; occasionally some light dust-soiling; a good, entirely unsophisticated copy. $900 First edition, very rare, of Fourier's 32mo (113 x 61mm), frontispiece, engraved title, fundamental contribution to Utopian folding map of Washington (160 x 175mm), 3 Socialism. Fourier (1772-1837), from one of engraved portraits, pp. [58] with 12 engraved plates Besançon’s oldest merchant families, was by Chodowiecki, folding table, pp. 130, [4] table of appalled by the inequality he saw around him, contents, [24] gambling gains & losses; glazed marbled paper, central urn vignette. and identified merchants' profits as the chief causes of working-class poverty. He wanted to A charming copy of the 1795 Almanac de set up a harmonious society where men Gotha with a detailed plan of Washington followed their passions, achieving perfect together with further information on the city. happiness by virtue of a law he considered the In addition to information on the European counterpart of one that Newton had nobility, there are numerous articles on animal discovered: universal passionate attraction. magnetism, glass painting, intra-European trade, Maldives nuts, and population statistics Instead of preaching morals and poverty, of 186 cities. Fourier defends opulence, luxury, gluttony and sensuality for all. He imagined a social structure The Almanach de Gotha (Gothaischer where the inhabitants would live in beautiful Hofkalender) is a directory of Europe's royalty rural settings away from urban misery, and higher nobility, together with the more organised into 'series passionelles' composed of u s u a l a l m a n a c f a re , s u ch a s m a j o r like-minded members. Tasks would be divided governmental, military and diplomatic corps, according to these temperaments, but personal and statistical data for each country.. property and distinctions based on talent or wealth could continue to exist. Fourierism, which reconciled reason and passion, won a widespread following despite the failed phalanstère experiment. This following Utopian Socialism Popular in America was particularly strong in the United States, where Fourierism had been introduced by [FOURIER, Charles.] Théorie des quatre Brisbane in the 1840s. A number of mouvemens et des destinées générales. experiments of community living were Prospectus et annonce de la découverte. introduced, with the most famous being the Leipzig [Lyon, n.p.], 1808. North American phalanx of New Jersey, the $3000 Wisconsin Phalanx, and Brook Farm in the Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A century American Office Supplies later Fourier’s epicurean, poetic socialism was [TRADE CATALOGUE.] Office popular with the Surrealists: André Breton sang Equipment Salesman's sample catalogue the praises of the 'great visionary who believed for business machines. St Louis, Chicago he had defeated routine and unhappiness'. et al, ca 1890. $650 En Français dans le texte, 218; Arthur Bestor, Backwoods Utopias, p. 13; Barbier IV, 704; Del Bo, Fourier, p. 5; Gimon 82. 8vo, pp. [20] with original wrapper; ll. 7 (folding, bound in landscape), pp. [4], [16], [16], pp. 73-120; contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, round corners, spine worn and upper joint splitting; printed on different colour paper stock. American Conduct Manual A fascinating salesman's book of brochures, [ETIQUETTE.] True politeness. A hand- flyers etc. of office equipment produced by a book of etiquette for gentlemen by an number of American manufacturers. Bound at American Gentleman. 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Barnard, which visits and receiving visitors, conduct at the include everything a bank might need, from dinner table, smoking and its etiquette, furniture to ink stands, coin trays to letter filing marriage, servants, notes and letters, funerals cabinets. Curiously also included are hand- etc. proper conduct in all situations is cuffs, police truncheons, weapons, locks, and explained. Particularly interesting is the advice even toilet roll holders. given on social conversation, fashionable dress, G.D. Barnard was a St. Louis based office and dinner settings. wholesale company. Apparently first published in 1847 and This trade catalogue was clearly put together frequently reprinted. A companion volume specifically by a salesman, who obviously ‘Etiquette for Ladies’ was also published. represented not just G.D. Barnard & Co, but also a number of other suppliers of office furniture and stationery. Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS New Start in Washington - diplomatic service of Gómez Suárez de the Perfect Ambassador Figueroa y Córdoba, III. Duke of Feria (extraordinary Ambassador in Paris). After this, VERA Y FIGUEROA, Juan Antonio. El he was on a mission for his own embassies to Embaxador. Seville, Francisco de Lyra, Savoy and Venice, ending in 1642. 1620. $4500 There are two editions of El Embaxador, both 4to, ll. [3], 151; 131, 20; some light foxing to published in 1620. The first one includes an foremargins, else very clean and crisp; contemporary engraved frontispiece, whereas this one has a full flexible vellum, ties; spine lettered in ink, with reset title page. Both are rare, but the present some dilettante decoration; a very good copy. one is apparently the rarer of the two. Second edition (same year as the first edition) Palau 358982; OCLC: Seville, National Library of very rare, of this remarkable study of Chile, National Library of Mexico, see: Peter N. diplomacy, a Vade mecum for diplomats. El Miller, Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion Embaxador, Antonio de Vera, first Count of La and Philosophy in Eighteenth Century, 2004, pp. 48ff; Roca’s blueprint of the perfect ambassador, was see: Tracey A. Sowerby and Joanna Craigwood, widely known and used in Europe until at least Cultures of Diplomacy and Literary Writing in the the beginning of the eighteenth century, and Early Modern World, 2019. preceded writers such as Wicquefort. De Vera gives general precepts of the profession, but also outlines the ultimate conflict between the honour of the ambassador and the good of the state, or between the welfare of the state and the ‘All Men are Created Equal’ higher purpose of the welfare of Christendom. MAZZEI, F. Recherches historiques et In catchy asides he describes the role of the politiques sur les États-Unis de ambassador as ‘to hear much, see much, l'Amérique Septentrionale, où l'on consider everything and believe nothing’. The traite des établissements des treize ideal archetype of the ‘perfect ambassador’ was colonies, de leurs rapports et de leurs expected to have some legal expertise, but his role and personality could not be reduced to dissentions avec la Grande-Bretagne, that of a jurist. The diplomat transcended the de leurs gouvernemens avant et après restrictions of a legal education. The perfect la révolution, etc. Par un Citoyen de ambassador was to bridge the ideal of an Virginie. Paris, Froullé, 1788. international community ruled by international $1200 laws and the ‘Realpolitik’ of international Four volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], 383, [1] errata; [iv], relations. 259; [iv], 292; [iv], 366; entirely uncut and De Vera was a diplomat himself, his unopened in the original blue green wrappers, diplomatic experience spanning the period spine labels lettered in ink; a fine unsophisticated from 1610 to 1642. In 1610 he was part of the copy. Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS First edition, first issue of Mazzei’s whole- Hand Coloured Miniature hearted support of American independence Pocket Atlas with Guide and of the American cause. Mazzei outlines the history of the American colonies, the causes of LOBECK, T. C. & T. LOTTER. Atlas the revolution, and the economy and Geographicus portatilis, XXIX mappis government of the United States. Also discussed orbis habitabilis regna exhibens. are Indians, slavery, emigration, and the Society [together with:] LOBECK, T. Kurzgefasste of the Cincinnati. Dumas Malone characterized Geographie in sich haltend einen the work as ‘probably the most reliable of all aneinander hängenden Entwurf aller the works of the period on the United Theile des bewohnten Erdbodens: nebst States’ (Thomas Jefferson 2:109-110). compendieusen Land-Charten, welche Filippo Mazzei (1730-1816) was an Italian einen kleinen Sack-Atlas ausmachen. emigré, surgeon, businessman, friend and Augsburg, ca 1750. $2200 neighbour of Thomas Jefferson. During the Oblong 12mo (110 x 142mm), engraved allegorical American Revolutionary War he acted as an frontispiece within cartouche and engraved agent to purchase arms for Virginia and architectural title, ll. [37] of maps, hand coloured, travelled widely in Europe to promote [1] list of 29 maps; pp.