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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; American Conduct Manual printed on different colour paper stock. 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. New York, Leavitt & the beginning is a complete catalogue of book Allen, 1853 $650 holders and bookcases, including a Lambie 12mo (112 x 81 mm), pp. 64; original gilt-stamped Dictionary holder, all available in different rubbed cloth, with vignette of two gentlemen materials and finishes; advertising flyers for the shaking hands on upper cover, a.e.g., a fine and crisp G D Barnard & Co. Automatic Bank Punch, and copy. for the Madden Adding Machine. Further A charming mid-nineteenth century American leaflets advertise the Black Autocopyist, guide to etiquette and modern manners - how bookcases (John Danner company), Besley to become the perfect American gentleman. In Cabinet Letter files, Stationery, Office furniture 202 individual precepts under the headings and Supplies by G.D. Barnard, and a partial list dress and fashion, introductions, conversation, of banker's supplies by G.D. 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. 72, printed in double- Republican ideals. As a result of the present columns within ruled border; contemporary sheep, publication became an unofficial roving elaborately gilt to sides (quite faded), spine in ambassador for American ideals. compartments; extremities a little rubbed, faint He has been credited with coining the phrase staining to upper board; with contemporary ‘all men are created equal’ which was ownership inscription to front free endpaper: Pierre incorporated in the American Declaration of Roth, Genève 2me Juillet 1765 ‘L’home propose, Independence in by Thomas Jefferson. In his Dieu dispose’. book A Nation of Immigrants, John F. A delightful Kennedy acknowledged this: ‘The great portable atlas, doctrine ‘All men are created equal’ a highlight of incorporated into the Declaration of A u g s b u r g Independence by Thomas Jefferson, was b o o k paraphrased from the writing of Philip Mazzei, production. an Italian-born patriot and pamphleteer, who Thirty-seven was a close friend of Jefferson...’ (p. 15). engraved and hand coloured This is the uncommon first issue, without m a p s o f the 16 pages of prelims. Europe, Asia, Sabin 47206; Leclerc 957; Howes M.456; Africa, North Monaghan 1052; Muller 1612; Fay 24; Echeverria & a n d S o u t h Wilkie 788/65; Echeverria, p. 124; Einaudi 3807; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in JFBL. America, with Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS a strong emphasis on Europe. The work begins Colour Printed Handkerchief with the finely engraved allegorical title and BERLIN. Alt Berlin - Neu Berlin. frontispiece, both by Tobias Lobeck after Handkerchief, printed in colour Gottfried Eichler. This is followed by striking lithography on cotton. [Neuruppin, ca. double-page hemisphere and planisphere map of the heavens designed by Lobeck and 1895.] $500 engraved by Tobias Lotter. Printed cotton handkerchief (370 x 370mm), printed in blue, green, red and black; old folds, a The first issue of the Atlas Geographicus, little dusty in places. published in 1747, contained 29 maps, as indicated on the title, the number of maps A very rare survival, a souvenir handkerchief increased in later issues. The title (and the celebrating the 'new' Berlin symbolised by the contents page), however, never changed. Reichstag, which had been opened in 1894 and commemorating old buildings of the German This is bound together, as originally issued, capital, which were soon replaced during the Lobeck’s Kurzgefasste Geographie, providing building boom of the last years of the century. compact information on all the countries The printing might have been done in covered. Clearly meant to be issued with the Neuruppin, a garrison town not far from Berlin Atlas Geographicus, but frequently lacking. which was well known for its printers of ‘Tobias Conrad Lotter was a cartographer and popular imagery, mainly carried out by the engraver based in Augsburg. In the mid 18th companies Gustav Kühn and Oehmigke & century Lotter engraved maps for atlases for the Riemschneider. Seutter cartography firm which was founded in 1707 by his father-in-law, Georg Matthias Seutter (1678-1757), Venetian Coats of Arms Geographer to the Imperial Court. The CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria. Blasone Seutter family of cartographers were, Veneto o gentilizie insegne delle Famiglie together with the Homann family, the patrizie. Oggi esistenti in Venezia, most renowned and prolific map delineato già dal P. Generale Coronelli, e makers of 18th century Germany, the leading center of atlas production at ristampato con nuove aggiunte. Dedicato that time. Lotter took over the business All'Illustriss., & Eccellentis.Sig. Francesco and continued to issue updated versions Rota, Nobile veneto. [Venice,] Gio. Batista of the maps over the next two decades Tramontin, 1706. $2500 under his own name.‘ (Ritter, Michael. 12mo (136 x 103 mm), engraved title page, pp. [xvi], “Re: Tobias Lotter questions.” 2 ll. 114 engravings of coats of arms (9 per page); February 2005. MapHist discussion contemporary ownership inscription and stamp of group. http://www.maphist.info. (2 A. Marcello Cavalli to margin of title page and last February 2005). leaf; original buff wrappers; a very wide-margined copy. Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
S e c o n d e d i t i o n ( f i r s t characters of everyday life, published in 1693) of this peasants, poets, doctors or guide to the coats of arms of musicians. the Vene t ian families. The costumed Venetians are Coronelli provides a brief presented in theatrical poses, introduction to the different many with musical instruments, elements of coats of arms, such as lute, flute, violin or guitars; illustrated on the first two some engage in acrobatics or engraved plates. He gives the dance. Included are stock figures crowns and crests of the lay such as the Zanni with his dignitaries, followed by the ‘innamorata’, or Magnifico with insignia of the ecclesiastical the courtesan, peasant masks offices. Seventy-eight crests ( Viloti), the Mattacino of of the cities of the Veneto Mattassin, a fun-loving wild region are depicted, all impersonation of carnival, some drawn by the cosmographer ‘national’ costumes, such as the P. Coronelli. The main Tedesco are included and also one section presents 930 coats of plate illustrating stereotypical arms of the patrician families Jewish masks. A couple of curious of the Veneto, many with carnival customs are depicted, multiple variants attributed such as the throwing of scented to the numerous branches of eggs as a way of courting. ‘Mascare these families (the Contarini count more than margins; elegantly bound in later full green crushed morocco, spine in compartments, usate in Ventia che tirano ovi odoriferi. 20) - in all 1008 coats of arms are given. lettered in gilt, gilt doublures; a fine copy. Francesco Bertelli was a writer, editor and Cicogna 2222. typographer in Padua in the first half of the First edition, very rare, of this stunning seventeenth century. Some of the plates were series of engravings devoted exclusively to copied from his his father Pietro’s Pietro's Venetian Carnival the costumes and masquerades of the Diversarum nationum habitus (1589). BERTELLI, Francesco. Il carnevale italiano Venetian carnevale. Two medieval mascherato, que si veggono in figura vari traditions combined, the religious festival Colas 317 (24 plates); Lipperheide 3168; BMC XVI, inuentione de capritii Fra[nces]co of Carnevale, the period of indulgence c 301; OCLC: Bibliothêque Nationale, Getty, before Lent and the Commedia dell’Arte Berkeley; Yale (different issue); Getty Colas and Bert[ell]i for. [Venice], [n.p.] 1642. Lipperheide all list 24 plates, as does this. $20000 theatre. Masks were meant to break down the barriers between the classes, and Apparently there is a copy at the Correr museum in 8vo, (144x96mm), ll. 24 engraved plates (platemark allowed satire and criticism. The disguises Venice, which has 28 plates; see article by Lina Padoan Urban, Il Carnavale Veniziano, nelle ca. 112x84mm), including title-page; one plate with were both stereotypes such as the ‘wild trimmed plate mark, occasionally a little dust-soiled Maschere incise da Francesco Bertelli, Milan, 1986. lower outer margins, else clean and with good man’ or the demon, or caricatures of Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
Arms & Amour posture, with lance or rapier at the ready, others seem more relaxed, as if meeting for a chat. Augsburg Arms & Armour Most face forward or sideways, others are [MAIR, Paul Hector.] Geschlechter-Buch viewed from behind, giving a particularly good … Sampt eines jeden Geschlechts Wapen view of the intricate armoured back plates, leg Zeichn Schilt und Helm auch Ankunfft protectors and helmets. Nearly all wear sallets und Herkommen alles mit kunstlichen with visors, some with long tails and nearly all Figuren angezeigt und alles with decorative plumes on top. In each case the Kunstliebhabern jetzt von neuem wieder escutcheon, the shield on which the coat of umb an Tag gegeben. Frankfurt, Johann arms is is displayed, has a prominent position and is itself decorated with plumes, figures or Wilhelm Ammon and Wilhelm Serlin, further, or further elements from the coat of [Nikolaus Kuchenbecker], 1661. arms. $5800 The city of Augsburg, one of Germany’s Folio (305x190mm), pp. [ii], 162, [1] imprint, [1] oldest cities, was a prosperous manufacturing blank, with large title woodcut, woodcut border after centre and home to the great banking houses of Jost Amman to part two and 156 full page woodcuts mostly by Jost Amman, final nearly full page Fugger and Welser. This resulted in a vibrant, woodcut printer’s mark; very clean and crisp, diverse and important artistic community, with insignificant paper fault to lower margin of C4, L2 an established tradition in the printing and and O1 and very occasional light spotting; woodcut metalworking industries. border to part II with small fault; bound in VD17 39:129077D; Bartsch IX, 191, 11; Becker 104, contemporary purple velvet, spine a little sunned, 29; Lipperheide Rc 6; Nagler, Monogrammisten II, but a very nice copy indeed, printed on thick paper 818; see VD16 M 364ff; Van Berchem 325. and with strong impressions; front pastedown with inscription J.V.C.I. - B.H.Z.S. 1663 in ink. French Aristocratic Monograms A stunning series of woodcuts of Augsburg’s ALBUM. ‘Collection de Monogrammes patricians dressed in armour by Jost Amman. commencé le 15 Juillet 1867’. n.p. after The work was first published in 1538. This 1867. $480 Geschlechterbuch, a genealogical book includes Oblong album, ff. [1], 30; each recto with eight lifelike ful l-length por t r aits of the hand-drawn squares, into which are pasted various representatives of the noble families of printed and embossed monograms, as well as Augsburg in armour, with their escutcheons occasional illustrations and vignettes (205 images in and coats of arms. The family name is listed total), facing verso pages with handwritten key to above. The work is in three parts, covering the the monograms; brown cloth-backed boards, Patrician families by seniority, resulting in a marbled endpapers. number of woodcuts being repeated. A nineteenth-century handmade album of The figures in full armour have strikingly French aristocratic monograms. expressive faces, some strike a combative Begun in 1867, this fascinating album Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS includes embossed monograms belonging to Children’s Books members of the French aristocracy. Apparently excised from calling cards and invitations, these World Atlas for Children intricate monograms are accompanied with DELAMARCHE, Charles Francois. facing keys to their owners. Although most are Novissimo Atlante geografico in tavole 22. French, there are a number of Russian per la studiosa gioventù di C.F. monograms, suggesting that the album was Delamarche successore di Robert de compiled by someone moving in Franco- Vaugondy. Milan, Pietro & Giuseppe Russian circles, such as those found in Paris Vallardi, 1819, 1820. $350 and the French Riviera. Most of the album pages are dedicated to monograms, with exceptions at pages 3, 5, 14, Small 4to, [2], with 24 engraved plates of maps, (22 and 24, which include calligraphic days of the of which double page), with outline colouring; one map with old clean tear, repaired; title page a little week, and various hand drawn coloured foxed, but contents clean and crisp; contemporary vignettes of Alpine flowers, studies of birds and marbled boards, surface wear of head and tail of insects, and human figures. Particularly spine; corners bumped. charming are the couple of whimsical drawings An attractive world atlas for the young. The of rabbits in late nineteenth-century dress: one first plate shows an armillary sphere, followed eating a giant carrot, another fishing in a frock by maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and coat. South America, followed by individual country The album was clearly compiled over time, maps, such as Germany, Italy, France, the but the overall organization is uniform, with Austrian Empire, Turkey and Persia, each monogram hand-numbered, even Scandinavia, Western Russia, Siberia, together where a name is missing. Just under a with China and Japan, Switzerland, Poland, quarter of the images are unidentified, and Indonesia, The Netherlands, Spain & Portugal, these are usually heraldic, rather than the Hungary and European Turkey, Great Britain, more traditional overlapping initials. The Egypt, and Northern Africa. album fits within the broader vogue for The maps are arranged in what seems to be a philatelic and numismatic collecting and random order and there is no map of Australia. antiquarianism which swept Europe in the They are based on the work of father and son second half of the nineteenth century, and Gilles Robert and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, which inspired the printed monogram the leading French cartographers in the 18th collections which proliferated from the century. They were descended from the Nicolas 1890s. It is both a charming example of its Sanson family, and inherited much of their form, and a fascinating record of ciphers cartographic material. belonging to the French gentry. OCLC: Birmingham, AL only. Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
The Alphabet Illustrated Unrecorded ABC Book - Entirely Engraved [ABC. - CASTOR, J.J.] Alphabet des [ABC.] HOFFMANN, Wenzl. Neues ABC alphabets, 600 sujets variés. Paris, M. Buch in Bruchstücken für die Jugend Martinet, (imp. Godard), [ca. 1855]. herausgegeben. Prague, Wenzl Hoffmann, $4800 [ca. 1820]. $5000 Folio (338 x 255mm), ll. [21], colour lithography, 4to, (195 x160mm), engraved title and 22 title page and 20 chromo lithography leaves, each unnumbered engraved plates, with in total 64 hand- devoted to illustrating one letter of the alphabet, coloured engravings, partly heightened with with 26 images per page; with ‘Maison Martinet’ albumen, captions in German, French, Latin, Italian printed label to verso of front free endpaper; and Czech; contemporary marbled wrappers; some original cloth-backed red blind-pressed paper browning and slight discolouration, due to paper boards, gilt lettering to upper board; extremities a stock, repaired tear to plate 10; with vivid and fresh little chipped but a very good copy. colouring; a very attractive primer. A charming ABC book, illustrating all the A charming and exceptionally rare multi- letters of the alphabet with ‘telling’ words. Each lingual primer with gorgeous hand-coloured leaf has the letter to be illustrated in the centre and partly albumen heightened engravings, of the top row, sometimes in the form of a depicting mostly animals, flowers, fruits and decorated transition type face, followed by plants. ‘A’ for Affe (chimp), ‘H’ for Hund (dog), twenty-five smaller illustrations in five rows, ‘P’ for parrot, or ‘T’ for turkey, to ‘K’ for Kurbis with the illustrated terms printed below. The (pumpkin) or ‘Q’ for quince. The captions are illustrations used are of both simple items and in German, French, Latin, Italian and Czech. more complicated concepts, which suggests the A full page is devoted to each letter of the book was not meant exclusively for small alphabet (with the exception of I/J, V/W, X/Z), children. and the letter is printed at the top of the page in As an example, the letter ‘D’ is illustrated Fraktur and Latin typography and a number of with dragon, dancer, diadem, dervish, different forms. In each case the German term dromedary, devil, or a domestique, but also is used as the basis, with the terms in other more advanced items such as a Dame-Jeanne languages distinguished by means of bottle. Other letters show different types of typography. Three images are used to illustrate animals, household items, but also ‘v’ for each letter, many depicting animals, natural veteran or old age (vieillesse), or professions 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 s u c h a s ‘ v i t r i e r ’ ( g l a z i e r ) o r surroundings with suggestive colouring. ‘imprimeur’ (printer), different nationalities The artist and engraver Wenzl Hoffmann such a ‘Taitien’ or ‘New Zealander’. (1788-1850) issued at least two other primers, Gumuchian 29; OCLC: Princeton; Minnesota; the Neues A-B-C-Büchel from ca. 1820, with Bibliothèque Nationale; Lyon (1864?); see M. captions in German, Latin, French, Italian, Twyman, A history of chromolithography; not in Hebrew and Czech and the Neues deutsches Children’s World of Learning. ABC Buch from 1827, with captions in German Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
and Hebrew, each accompanied with two lines children. A wealth of of German verse, see RDK VIII, 665-719 material is presented in (online platform for art history research). charming detail, and aims Not found in OCLC or KVK; this work not in the to teach children basic usual bibliographies, see Teistler 737 (ca 1810) und concepts of form, number 1076 (1827), for Hoffmann’s other primers. and comparison. The Basel pedagogue Nicolas Bohny (1815 - Mathematics for Children - Elementary Set 1856) who saw himself in Theory the tradition of Pestalozzi BOHNY, Nicolas. Neues Bilderbuch. is justly famous for this Anleitung zum Anschauen, Denken, work with its pictorial Rechnen und Sprechen für Kinder von 2 l e s s o n s o n f o r m , 1/2 bis 7 Jahren, zum Gebrauche in comparison, and number, Familien, Kleinkinderschulen, for children under seven years of age. It is regarded Taubstummen-Anstalten und auf der a s o n e o f t h e f i r s t ersten Stufe des Elementarunterrichts. examples of teaching Stuttgart & Esslingen, Schreiber & Schill, Mengenlehre or set theory [1847]. to children. The work was $4500 frequently reprinted and Oblong folio (280 x 345mm), pp. 8, with 37 translated into English. lithographic plates (36 hand-coloured), publisher’s Mark Twain actually stencil colouring to plates; publisher’s cloth-backed refers to the book in his buff boards, with large chromolithographic pictorial notebook during 1878/79, title illustration; text quite foxed, due to paper stock; when he spent most of his time in Germany plates very fresh and colourful; occasionally some and wrote ‘The Awful German Language’. One light marginal foxing; cloth-spine a little frayed. of his examples of the illogical gender First edition, very rare, of this classic illustrated assignments of German nouns comes from children’s primer, anticipating the work of Bohny’s primer. Fröbel with innovative instruction under the Rümann, Kinderbücher 53; Stuck Villa II, 15; guise of entertainment. The hand-coloured Pressler, image 42; Wegehaupt III, 381; Annotierte plates are prefaced by an introduction on how Bibligraphie der Schweizer Kinder- und to use the book. To help with numeracy Bohny Jugendliterature 342 (p. 70); HKJL 1800 1850, Nr. decided to arrange his illustrations not in the 99. Brüggemann II, 83; for English version see more common form of scenes, but by depicting Osborne 691; Gumuchian 780; OCLC: apparently individual items, people, plants, animals or no copy of the first edition outside of Germany. household goods, designed to appeal to small Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
Charming Aquatint Plates Sixpenny Coloured Nursery & [BOOK OF TRADES - ANON.] Gallerie Toy Books der vorzüglichsten Künste und JUVENILE - ANON. The Stages Handwerke. Ein lehrreiches und of Human Life. Price Sixpence. unterhaltendes Bilderbuch für die Jugend. [n.p., possibly London], [Dean Neue verbesserte Auflage, mit 40 & Son] ca 1822-1832. schwarzen Kupfern. Zürich, Trachsler, $450 1827. $2000 8vo, ll. [8], printed on rectos only; each Oblong 8vo (110 x 157mm), pp. 186, [2], [3] page with a half page hand-coloured advertisements, with 40 aquatint plates (probably illustration, followed by 8 lines of verse; after Johannes Senn); contemporary marbled original publisher’s printed boards with boards, spine with gilt-lettered label; extremities title and uncoloured illustration to upper rubbed, head and tail of spine chipped; a very clean board, and publisher’s advertisement to and crisp copy. lower board ‘Juvenile books, at sixpence Revised edition (first 1804/5) of this each, coloured’. uncommon Swiss guide to trades and A very rare little chapbook showing professions with charming and unusual the stages of human life arranged in illustrations. The fine aquatints, similar to eight steps (each representing a decade) from Geissler's, depict workshop scenes in infancy, through school, apprenticeship, alphabetical order. They are designed to marriage, public recognition, to retirement and introduce the young readers to different trades old age. The steps are illustrated on charming and professions. Included are an apothecary's hand-coloured woodcuts within a frame. shop, with a crocodile suspended above the It is rather unusual in being printed on good counter, a bakery, a sculptor surrounded by paper. There is no imprint, but the printed large statues, a bookbinder and printer, but also advertisements on the lower board suggest that a blacksmith, a painter, and a bricklayer, etc. All it is part of the Dean & Son’s series of sixpenny the illustrations include a number of artisans or coloured nursery and toy books series. professionals engaging in their work, within OCLC: University of Florida only; this copy at the their workshop and surrounded by tools, Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, equipment or customers. George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, The unsigned plates are attributed to the has an ownership inscription of 1825. Swiss artist and illustrator Johannes Senn (1780 - 1861). Wegehaupt I, 703; Seebass I 697; Kraut, Die Jugendbücher in der der deutschen Schweiz bis 1850, 1945, 68. Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
Food & Drink with coffee and ice cream. The following months are treated in a similar manner, A Year in Food stressing food in season, such as various kinds [ALMANAC.] Almanacco per i Golosi of fish in March, asparagus and prosciutto in ossia Calendario Nutritivo che serve di Ap r i l , a r t i c h o ke s i n S e p t e m b e r, o r guida per fare degli eccellenti pranzi. pomegranates in December. The author clearly Dedicato al Bel Sesso. Anno Primo. Venice, runs out of representative foodstuffs for the Stamperia Graziosi a S. Apollinare, 1809. later months of the year, having discussed most $1850 staples and varieties earlier on, and the chapters get shorter. But all the information on different 8vo (136 x 105mm), engraved frontispiece showing kinds of meat, fish, poultry, and to a lesser the Biblioteca di un Goloso, pp. 220; entirely uncut in contemporary blue wrappers; occasionally light extent vegetables is available in the index at the foxing, due to paper stock; some wear to foot of end. spine; a very good copy. A separate chapter deals with occupational First and only edition of this Italian take on health hazards of the cook. Proximity to open Grimod de la Reynière’s Almanach du flames, carbon emissions, these are problems Gourmand, the first restaurant and food guide, discussed, but the most important is clearly published from 1803 to 1812. The anonymous overindulgence. Constant tasting and having to author, who evokes the inspiration of a try too much bad cooking wine dulls the senses gourmand of epic proportions, who sadly of the cook, and necessitates a purge, the passed through overindulgence resulting in a ‘Calabrian cure’, consisting of a laxative made fatty liver, warns in the preface, that he won’t be of seeds, cinnamon bark and Zedlitz salt. providing the names and addresses of Venice’s gourmands, but instead gives a a run-down of Westbury, 9. Paleari Henssler, 22; OCLC: NY foodstuffs in season and appropriate for the Academy of Medicine only. different times of year, arranged by month. The second part of the almanacco is taken up by the virtues of veal, which can be prepared in any which way, and all parts of the extensive chapters on the role of the host at Patisserie meals, diversions at the table, the health of animal can be used, such as Piedmontese cook, food fads or fashions. At the end calves head, calves brain (deep fried), [PIDERMAN.] Catalogo degli Articoli di Ludovico Pasto’s Venetian dialect poem in liver, and even tongue. Confetteria e Pasticceria che si fabbricano praise of Zabaione is printed In February the influence and potential nel Negozio di G. Piderman e C.a, in January, for example, is dominated by various overindulgence of the carnival season is Torino. Turin, Chirio and Abina, n.d., ca kinds of meat, from beef to veal, pork, mutton, discussed, this is borne out in his 1830. $750 to venison, hare, pheasant and partridge. description of a potential luxury breakfast 8vo, pp. 20; original printed brown wrappers, title Winter vegetables include varieties of cabbage (not for the ladies), starting with oysters, within typographic border. and root vegetables, either in butter, or fried pyramids of little sausages, poultry in A fine catalogue of the full range of and with a sprinkling of parmesan. He extolls gelantine or agro-dolce, and concluding confectionary and patisserie available from the Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS shop of G. Piderman in Turin. Piderman had in terms of an ingenious geometrical taken over the patisserie Palioppi e Comp., of apparatus... Auspitz and Lieben, though highly originally Swiss origin and with this publication regarded by men like Edgeworth, Pareto and aims to assure his customers that he will Fisher, never received the credit they deserved. continue to produce the full range of patisserie, In their local environment, in view of the delivered on time, and with the expected Austrian School's intolerance for mathematics, quality. they were academic outcasts' (New Palgrave, I, The range of his offerings includes a variety p. 144 f). Schumpeter called the work 'one of of dragee candy in various flavours, the outstanding theoretical performances of the confectionary, jams, quince cheese, marrons age' (Schumpeter p. 849). glacées, marzipan, candied fruit; as well as The fundamental first chapter, ‘pre-printed in syrups and liqueurs. A special section is devoted 1887 to fix priorities relative to Böhm-Bawerk, to chocolate, caramel and various types of provides the basic tools... In subsequent sugar. Foreign imports include Mostarda di chapters this apparatus is applied to a wide Cremona, Maille mustard, and various range of microeconomic problems and cases... flavoured wafers. An important final chapter extends the analysis to monopoly, monopolistic competition, excise taxes and international trade, and includes a brilliant discussion of optimal tariffs’ (New Economics, Business & Trade Palgrave, p. 145). Batson, p. 40; Menger, col. 71; Theocharis pp. 151 Mathematical Economics and 218n; Einaudi 214; Mattioli 151 (first French AUSPITZ, Rudolf and LIEBEN, Richard. translation, 1902, not this first edition). Untersuchungen über die Theorie des Preises. Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, Large Map cum Business Directory 1889. $4800 J. PIGGOTT SMITH. Map of Large 8vo, pp. xxxi, [1]; 555, [1]; with diagrams in Birmingham, with engraved title and the text printed in red and black; uncut in original dedication. This Map of Birmingham, publisher’s full cloth, spine and sides ruled and engraved from a minute trigonometrical lettered in black; corners very slightly bumped, and survey made in the years 1824 & 1825. faint damp stain to fore edge of lower board; two Inset: Plan of the town of Birmingham small private Japanese library stamps; a very good copy in the original binding. taken in the year 1731. Birmingham, Very rare first edition of the important work by engraved by W.R. Gardner (London), Auspitz and Lieben, 'the book that assured its Beilby, Knott & Beilby, 1828. $3300 authors of a place among the eminent mathematical economists. It is essentially an Single sheet, 1267 x 1362 mm, engraved map within exhaustive partial-equilibrium analysis of price decorative border; steel-engraved, uncoloured, Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
dissected, linen-backed, folding, with marbled paper 8vo, pp. xvi, 158; some marginal damp-staining to backed end-panels; scale [3 and 3/4'' to 4 furlongs]; first and last signatures; occasional light browning; contained within the original calf slipcase, 190 x 250 contemporary half sheep over marbled boards; spine mm), resembling a book, spine with double gilt rule, with double gilt rules, gilt-lettered spine label; a few gilt-lettered spine label; extremities a little rubbed, individual wormholes to spine, foot of spine worn. but a very good copy. First edition, uncommon, of this innovative study of monetary history by Luigi Diodati, A fine plan of Birmingham, the earliest who is also known for the biography of his published plan on such a scale of England's fellow Neapolitan economist Galiani. Diodati's second city, and based on the surveys of J. contributions to the history of coins and money Pigott Smith. It is not just a map, but a business were recognised by the government and he was directory of Birmingham businesses and their made the director of the Neapolitan mint. location, just before the railway age. Numerous Diodati attempts to resolve the question of canals, their offices and wharves feature why gold had disappeared in 1587 from the prominently in the plan, in addition to kingdom of Naples, which was not sufficiently breweries, hotels, named manufactories of explained by all earlier monetary writers, such various kinds, the New Steam Mill Co., Union as De Sanctis, Serra, Locke, Melon, Galiani or Rolling Mills and, of course Boulton's Soho Beccaria. The usual explanation of this fact was Ironworks, churches, the synagogue, the an excess of imports over exports. Diodati, workhouse and the hospital. Landowners and however, maintains that the lack of gold was owners of individual premises are named - caused by the monetary reform undertaken by and if they refused to be listed and surveyed - the other states of Italy, each of which had shamed with the note 'refused access'. Most raised the nominal value of their coins. This prominent was Matthew Boulton's Soho had been a reaction to the rise of prices and the House, its park and Mint and Manufactory, fall in the value of money consequent to the where the Lunar Society had first met and discoveries of silver in America, and the where Boulton had received many visitors impulse these supplies of metal gave to including Catherine the Great. enterprise and business, whilst reducing all The map covers the area of Birmingham and fixed incomes. Edgbaston including Lichfield Turnpike Road, the In the concluding chapter Diodati develops a Fazeley Canal, and Bordesley. theory of ideal money, 'moneta immaginaria' which is not subject to re- and de-valuations, but sustains its value. It appears to be a form of Monetary History exchange-rate mechanism, with fixed exchange DIODATI, Luigi. Dello Stato presente rates. della Moneta nel Regno di Napoli e della Cossa 47 (170); Einaudi 1571; Goldsmiths'-Kress Necessità di un Alzamento. Naples, 14462.33; OCLC lists copies at the Chicago, Berlin Michele Migliaccio, 1790. $1500 and Paris. Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
Charity Fair - all Women Vendors Single Tax Advocated HELBIG, Jules and Auguste LEPAS. LAPORTE, Jean. Organisation et Souvenir de la Fancy-Fair. Hôtel administration des finances pour un Whettnall. Brussels, J. Petyt, 1875. $1500 peuple libre. Paris, Gastelier, 1790. $800 Folio (400 x 310mm), 7 chromolithographed plates; original ribbed maroon cloth, gilt border 8vo, pp. [iv], v-xxviii, 176; uncut in the original pale and central foliate title-lozenge, stamp at front blue wrappers; a little dog-eared and a few slight turn-in: ‘Tiré a 155 exemplaires’; spine sunned, tears, due to careless opening. corners a little scuffed. First edition, uncommon, of this draft code of One of a limited edition of 155 copies, this is a finance inspired by physiocratic principles and sumptuous commemorative souvenir of a advocating a single direct tax on products of charity fair held in the Belgium city of Liège. A the soil. remarkable production for a fancy-fair, the work features sonnets in praise of charity by La Porte, a stock broker from Bordeaux, Auguste Lepas, presented in a highly maintains that this single tax will lead to public decorative illuminated style. prosperity and proposes a clear plan of how to put this into practice. He deals in turn with the The final plate, ‘Magasins’, features a list of administration of finances both on the national the 78 participating vendors, arranged and the district level, the Banque Nationale, and according to the types of articles they offered French trade and commerce, and arranges his at the fancy-fair: ‘vetements de pauvres’, arguments in the form of bullet points. ‘fleurs’, ‘objets d'art’, ‘fantaisies’, ‘objets de Chine et du Japon’, ‘ouvrages et cigares’, and He concludes with chapters on the ‘confiserie’. It is fascinating to see a staggering regeneration of agriculture, reform of the tax 12 vendors of chinoiserie here (which speaks to system and financial institutions, improvement the continental vogue for oriental artefacts), of commerce, and internal government. In his alongside a collection for clothing for the poor. chapter on the colonies, he clearly proposes the Perhaps most interestingly of all however, each abolition of slavery, branding it unjust, of the vendors is female. This demonstrates not inhuman and uneconomical. only the considerable agency of women in the Goldsmiths'-Kress 14356; INED 2620. charitable sector, but also the kinds of products women were involved with in nineteenth- century Belgium. A very attractive item, this work’s limited run Colour for Sale doubtless contributes to its scarcity: we have [TRADE CATALOGUE - PELIKAN.] found one institutional copy only, at WAGNER, Günther. Preis- Liste no. 19 A. Cambridge. Günther Wagner Fabriken in Hannover OCLC: Cambridge University. und Wien. Deutsche Ausgabe für Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
Wiederverkauf. Durch diese Liste sind alle Printing & Typography vorhergehenden aufgehoben. Hanover, 1901. $800 Printing Competition [DISPLAY PRINTING.] Specimens of 8vo, pp. viii, 216, with 3 unnumbered leaves of High Art Display Printing, submitted in colour plates, two in chromolithograph and one Competition at the Printing Trades with chart of mounted colour samples, Exhibition, held in the Agricultural Hall, chromolithograph plates heightened with gold and/ London, London, Agricultural Hall, or silver; extensively illustrated throughout; original August 1883. $1600 decorative cloth on a blue base with the original 4to (335 x 270mm), ll. 18 of entries of ornate display form of the pelican trade mark; a little rubbed and printing, in gold, silver, copper bronze, colours or dust-soiled, a few small ink spots to upper cover, tints, all printed on one side only, loosely inserted a slight cockling to lower board. design for a title page; contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, binding rubbed and surface A fine and extensively illustrated trade wear to spine; contents very clean and bright. catalogue of the German manufacturing A series of finely printed competition entries company Pelikan, specialising in writing produced on the occasion of the 1883 Printing instrument and arts equipment. The catalogue Trades Exhibition held in the Agricultural Hall is arranged in five sections, covering in London. The competition asked for entries watercolour sets for artists, technicians and of display printing, all using the wording which children; India ink in various hues; oil paints, appeared on the memorial tablet to William varnishes and enamel paint; artists’ materials Caxton funded by the Roxburghe Club in 1820. such as brushes etc., and finally inks, stamp The specifications were for ‘specimens of high- inks, glues etc. All products are illustrated and a art display printing, old or new style, in gold, detailed colour chart with mounted colour silver, copper, bronze, colours, or tints. Size of samples is included. Retail prices and applicable specimen to be demy 4to. The same copy trade prices are included. (which will be supplied) to be used by each Founded in 1838 by the chemist Carl competitor. The jurors were Messrs J. Honemann as an ink and colour factory in Collingridge (City Press), C. Hayman (Hayman Hanover, the firm was taken over by the former Brothers & Lilly) and J. Southward. plant manager Guenther Wagner in 1863. Designer/printer and the printing firm’s Wagner designed the logo, taking the figure of name are given for each of the eighteen entries. the pelican from his own family coast of arms They came from all over the country. in 1878. The logo was one of the first German The Printing Trades Exhibition was apparently trademarks. The firm still exists and at least in held just three times, 1880, 1881 and 1883. Germany is synonymous with art supplies both See Bigmore & Wyman III, pp. 93-94, and an entry for school, office and the art market. in the Printing Times and Lithographer of 1883; OCLC: Metropolitan Museum of Art. apparently never published. Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
Etching, Engraving & Printing Manual different Paris imprints. The present one, with BOSSE, Abraham. Traité des Manières à the Aubouin imprint and another one with an graver en taille douce sur l'Airain, par le Emery imprint. Here the imprint has been Moyen des Eaux Fortes & des Vernis durs pasted over with a new Jombert imprint, which is rather fitting, as Jombert was to publish the & mols. D'Imprimer les Planches, & de next, substantially enlarged, edition. construire la Presse… Revu & augmenté. See Bigmore-Wyman, I, 72; Cicognara 254; En Paris, [Aubouin & Clousier] paste-over Français dans le Texte, 92 ; for LeClerc see Thieme/ label: Paris, Claude Jombert, 1701. Becker XXII, p. 523. $3000 8vo, engraved title, engraved frontispiece, pp. [viii], 70, [2] with 16 numbered engraved plates, and two Enschede Type Specimen in Red Morocco unnumbered plates, i.e. engraved dedication and unnumbered plate signed by Ertinger; ENSCHEDE, Johannes. Proef van Letteren contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments, welke gegooten worden in de nieuwe extremities a little rubbed, discreet repair to lower Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. corner. Enschedé. [Haarlem, J. Enschedé], 1768. First LeClerc edition of Bosse's manual of $9500 etching, engraving and printing. Bosse's treatise 8vo, ll. 4 (engraved allegorical frontispiece,& was aimed both at the professional engraver portraits), [ii] printed title, pp. [xxxii], engraved and at the amateur and is extensively portrait of Fleischman ll. [80] leaves of type illustrated, with detailed engravings based on specimens (including the section title ‘Oude Bosse's own designs. Subsequent editions (the Hollande letteren’), all within typographic border, present one by LeClerc and a further one edited including the very rare Canon Hebreeuwsch, which by Cochin) are all valuable in their own right as is often missing, with two plates, one folding (view they reflect changes in printing and engraving of Enschedé’s type foundry), pp. 8 list of prices; very technique. clean and crisp; original publisher’s full red morocco, spine gilt in compartments with flower The LeClerc edition, though substantially the tool, sides with elaborate gilt tooling, central same text and plates as the first edition of 1645, vignette; a.e.g., extremities a little rubbed and joints is different in one important aspect. LeClerc chipped; with engraved armorial book plate of suggested the use of a shallow etching bath, as Robert W. Wegg. illustrated on plate 8. A new chapter in the text A very attractive copy of Enschede’s type explains the procedure, which is illustrated by specimen, generally regarded as the most an engraving signed Ertinger showing an artist important eighteenth-century type specimen in his studio, surrounded by books, engraved printed in the Netherlands. The long preface plates, sculptures and prints, using the etching gives details of the history and origin of the bath. type foundry. The type specimen was clearly This edition was jointly published with two produced to attract foreign orders too, with the Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS names of the fonts given in Dutch, German, marbled endpapers and edges; corners and spine French and English. scuffed, a little uniform browning due to paper Specimens for all manner of book type are stock. included, also display faces, exotic fonts, A handsomely-produced manuscript catalogue typographical ornaments and splendid black- of the books at Hornby Castle in Yorkshire. letter type of the fifteenth and sixteenth This catalogue, produced in a neat cursive centuries. The 148 ornaments are by J.F. Rosart hand, was evidently the official record of the (1714-1777), Enschede had purchased the books at Hornby castle, as they existed in the matrices from him. There are also specimens of mid nineteenth-century, and offers a snapshot mathematical and calendar symbols. This copy of a lost country house library. Alphabetically does include the very rare specimen Canon arranged, against shelfmarks, each page has Hebreeuwsch, which seems to be present in just columns which helpfully note the number of a few copies, and the fine engraved portrait of volumes, the format of each book, and the place Fleischmann. and year of publication. The earliest book in the Particularly appealing is the famous folding collection is a 1607 volume about the wars of plate of the Enschedé foundry at work by Henri II, which accompanies a handful of other Cornelis van Noorde, which gives a fascinating seventeenth-century productions, but the insight into the working arrangements, the majority of the books date to the eighteenth punchcutters positioned by the window for the century, suggesting that the library was amassed best light, others - apparently always in groups in this period. The catalogue lists first the books of three assembling fonts, some with order in the library followed by the books in the books in hand, and an elegant couple surveying study, and includes the typical mixture of the situation. bibles, classics, topographical and antiquarian Bigmore & Wyman, p. 202, Ekama 556; Updike pp. works, travel narratives, literature, and history. 38 ff, Lane/Lommen 10; Birrell & Garnett 71; Lane Looking through the listing it is possible to see & Lommen 10; St. Bride’s 20248; see also the 1993 the ‘useful books’ which, as Mark Purcell has facsimile with introduction and notes. noted, characterised eighteenth century libraries. Atmospherically immortalised in an early A Lost Country House Library painting by Turner, Hornby Castle was a late medieval fortified great house, which in the [LIBRARY CATALOGUE.] Catalogue of eighteenth century became the main residence the Books at Hornby Castle. Manuscript of Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, and library catalogue in ink. 1859. $3400 was rebuilt by him to designs by James 4to., pp. [220], plus prelims and terminal blanks; ‘Athenian’ Stuart and John Carr of York. Darcy text in manuscript on rectos only; contemporary was a statesman and ambassador, and his half black morocco over textured cloth, spine and interests loom large in his library, which leather edges ruled guilt, morocco-gilt label, features books on international topics and Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
treatises, as well as various military and naval imitated in a late eighteenth century version. accounts. The first twenty-five plates are prefaced by As with many country houses, Hornby explanatory text in French and Dutch, the experienced a change in fortunes in the second twenty-five just by French verse. twentieth century. Much of the house – The second series is even more vicious than including the library – was demolished in 1930, the first, depicting clerics with fox-like cunning, and the library contents were sold by Sotheby’s. ready to cut a purse and appropriate money etc. Comparison between the Sotheby catalogue They are listed under headings such as the and the present work would be a profitable Insatiable, the Cunning, the Seditious, the exercise through which a library historian Idolator, the Superstitious, etc. might better understand the acquisition and The plates clearly correspond thematically to dispersal of books in the intervening seventy the originals, but there is no attempt to copy years. This is a fascinating piece of them; whereas the earlier plates were circular, bibliographical history from a lost country with head and shoulder portraits of the clergy, house. these are full-length cartoon-like caricatures. Brunet IV, 52 (suggests Swiss printing); OCLC records copies at Columbia, BL, Lille, Nuremberg and Munich only. Satire What the Clergy get up to Mishaps in Regency England [ANON.] Renversement de la Morale ATKINSON, John Augustus. Sixteen chretienne par les desordres du Scenes taken from The Miseries of human Monachisme. Enrichi de Figures. Premiere Life. By one of the wretched. [Sixteen Partie. [all published.] On les vend en plates, drawn and etched by John Hollande, chez le Marchands Libraires & Augustus Atkinson, with quotations from Imagers. Avec Privilege d'Innocent XI. Rare Swiss retake of a vicious satire on the "The Miseries of Human Life"]. London, Omstootinge der christelyke Zeden. Door excesses of the clergy, based on a late seventeenth century publication of the W. Miller, 1807. $1800 de wan-schik ongeregeltheden der same title, attributed to Cornelis Dusart - Oblong 4to (180 x 220mm), title, hand coloured Moniken. Holland [Switzerland, n.p.], ca. a series of twenty-five striking mezzotints, aquatint, ll. 16 of colour plates (one of which 1780. $1800 showing priests and monks engaging in folding); descriptive letter press text facing each plate; entirely uncut in the original pale blue boards, 4to, folding engraved frontispiece after de Hooghe, unsuitable behaviour, from gambling, to pp. [iv], 20, 111, [1] blank, 50 full-page engraved printed label to upper board, upper joint drinking to excess, gluttony and engaging strengthened; preserved in a blue cloth drop-back plates, all within double border; title page a little in flirtation. foxed, else clean and crisp; nineteenth-century box, red morocco label. marbled boards by Bradel, spine label. These satirical prints were popular and First edition of a fine series of satirical frequently reprinted, and are here aquatints depicting humorous ‘miseries of Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
human life’ encountered in all manner of dessiné par lui’; later s i t u a t i o n s . U r b a n i r r i t a t i o n s a n d half red crushed inconveniences are depicted and give a morocco over red cloth, wonderful glimpse of life in Regency England. spine in compartments, gilt lettering directly to Atkinson’s volume of plates is also a key spine ‘Amphigouri’; publication showing innovative ways of with two book plates to marketing traditional caricature through front pastedown: M Ch. association with a printed text. The commercial Duplomb, and the potential of caricature aimed at relatively exlibris of Lucienne wealthy collectors and connoisseurs was Corneux Filloux, exploited by the publisher William Miller (see bookplate engraved by A. Kremers and E. Reich, Loyal Subversion? Decaris. Caricatures from the Personal Union between Six fine original pencil drawings depicting an England and Hanover, p. 165). array of comical devilish figures involved in Atkinson (1775- after 1831) was an English burlesque acts to illustrate Béranger’s erotic painter, draughtsman and engraver. He spent poem Amphigouri. some time in St. Petersburg, where he studied Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780 - 1857) was a in the royal galleries and gained the patronage prolific French poet and chansonnier, who of the Empress Catherine and her successor the enjoyed great popularity and influence in Emperor Paul I, before returning to England. France during the period of the Restoration. He Abbey rightly draws attention to the fact that found fame with his first published collection the 'etchings, delicately heightened by water- of songs and poems in 1815 (Chansons morales colour, [are of] unusually distinguished et autre). His material was greatly in demand in draughtsmanship for this type of publication.' in the singing societies or ‘goguettes’ which Abbey, Life 259; Prideaux; Tooley 89. sprang up during the Restoration and the July Monarchy as a means of circumventing censorship laws and the ban on political parties. Beranger’s Erotic Poem Illustrated He was a highly successful performer of his own songs, and thus an ancestor of post war DUBOULAY, A. Amphigouri diabolique. French chansonniers. These six pencil drawings Satirical pencil drawings based on text by were produced in his lifetime, and dedicated to Pierre-Jean de Beranger. [Paris,] ca 1850. him by the artist A. Dubulay. $4500 Duboulay has deliberately given Berenger’s Oblong 4to, ll. 6 (225 x 300mm) of pencil drawings, Amphigouri a ‘diabolical’ twist and depicts his undated ca 1825/1830; title with old repair to figures within the gaping mouth of the Devil. marginal tear, not touching the illustration, some The illustrations were apparently never light foxing and a little dust-soiled; inscription in published. ink on front free endpaper ‘vente a Duboulay Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS
Fashion Satire Dutch Utopian Periodical in Parts [HOOP PETTICOATS. The Review. [WIBMER, Jean Baptiste Didier]. London, Carrington Bowles, n.d., ca. Utopiaansche Courant. No 1- 12 [all 1780. $700 published]. Amsterdam, H. Moolenijzer, Engraved print, 237 x 310 mm (plate mark), sheet Dageraad, den 44 Stoeborn A[nn]o. 5569, size 313 x 380 mm; uncut, with generous margins; 1819. a very good copy. [together with:] Pleitrede van den A striking satire on the fashions of the 1730's schrijver der Utopiaansche Courant. aimed at upper-class women and their formal Amsterdam, A. Vink, 1819. dress. Drawn by John June, it was first published in The Review ca. 1750, and is here [together with:] Utopiaansche Weekblad. a later re-issue. It depicts a scene set outside No 1-14 [all published]. Amsterdam, A. Long's Warehouse in Covent Garden. 'On the Vink, 1820-1821. left a woman emerges holding up her $2000 petticoat. She reveals her undershift and Complete run of Wibmer’s two satirical arouses the interest of several other political journals, 1. 12 Folio broadsheets, (440 fashionably-dressed women in the street. One x 265mm), printed in 3 columns (one of them with her back to the viewer shows the sideways), woodcut illustration at head; folded width of her petticoat while two shoeblacks and unbound; 2. 8vo ((230 x 140mm), pp. 67, sitting next to her, laugh at the petticoat. [3] blank, with engraved title; 3. 14 issues, 8vo Many caricaturists picked up the social (226 x 135 mm), continuous numbering, pp. commentary on the absurdity of the fashion of 112, woodcut headpiece. the hoop-petticoat and therefore poked fun at First edition of the complete run of two the fashion item itself, but mainly at the very rare Dutch satirical political women who wore it. periodicals. The Utopiaanische Courant, an outspoken, but cleverly disguised At the bottom is engraved a 15-line poem satire of the reign of William I of the ("The Round Hoops Condemned."). The BM Netherlands, who had returned from Catalogue has dated this print ca. 1733, and the exile after the defeat of Napoleon, was image no doubt has its origins in that period. Wibmer’s first foray into utopian satire. The print itself is of course later, as Carrington After it was banned, he continued with Bowles took over his father's print business in the Utopiaanische Weekblad (the December, 1762; no earlier example, however, Utopian Weekly), again published has been located (the example in the Lewis anonymously. This consists of dialogues Walpole Library is the same). between the author and his Utopia born BM 1991 (the same printing, with "76" at the lower servant Hans, who fills him in on the right). latest gossip. Wibmer cleverly disguises his sharply Susanne Schulz-Falster RARE BOOKS satirical opinions of the protestant church, the Toys Dutch monarchy of William I., and Dutch politics and society. He hides behind ‘fictional’ Do you hear me? author figures, and cleverly demonstrates the [MOVABLE CARD] L’Ouie. [France], ca possibilities of political criticism even in the 1850. $450 harsh publishing climate of the 1820s. Card (120 x 150 mm), hand-coloured engraving, Wibmer (1792 – 1836), originally trained as a with mechanical paper mechanism of pull -the- tap minister of the Walloon Church, and was active action; repaired marginal tear; mechanism recently as a hack writer, publishing a number of repaired. satirical periodicals and pamphlets. When the A French movable card, rather unkindly Utopiaanische Courant was banned, Wibmer satirising the difficulties of someone hard of owned up to his publication, with the result of hearing. The elderly gentleman in a dapper being relieved of his church position. He was yellow coat has to employ his hearing trumpet arrested together with the publisher and the to understand the irate salesman, who reads out printer Molenijzer and Brouwer) and charged a ‘Mémoire’ to him, detailing debts. with sedition. He successfully argued that his publication was absurd and had no clear meaning. He was acquitted, but then published Japanese Literary Card Game his witty defence as Pleitrede (1819), as well as PLAYING CARDS - JAPANESE. Hyakunin further issues of the Courant and the Weekblad. Isshu Karuta. n.p. n.p. ca 1840. On 6 April 1820, soon after publication of $2800 Weekblad 12 he was arrested again, retried and convicted on a number of counts and Two sets of 100 partly sentenced to six years imprisonment. The final printed, partly manuscript cards (78 x 54 two issues (13 and 14) were published after his mm); Yomifuda ("reading arrest. His clever self defence combines great cards") illustrated with a self-assurance, stressing his dependence on charming sketch of the publisher and printer, with his role as an poet and the complete independent who represents important social poem, and the liberties. corresponding set of For Wibmer see Laurens Ham, Door Prometheus Torifuda ("grabbing geboeid (2015), pp. 47-83; Saakes 7 (1819) p. 56, p. cards") with just the end 94; Saakes 7 (1819) p. 91 en (1820), p. 98; Knuttel of the poem; contained no. 24841; OCLC: no copies outside of the within purple and gilt Netherlands. cloth wrappers and housed in a two part wooden box.
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A well-preserved deck of Japanese literary playing cards, consisting of two sets of one hundred cards each. Hyakunin Isshu (literally "one hundred poets, one poem each"), also referred to as Hundred Poets, is a traditional anthology style compilation of Japanese waka poetry. It was compiled by the aristocratic oet Fujiwara no Teika at the end of the Heian period (794-1185), Japan's Golden Age. The first, Yomifuda ("reading cards") contains reading cards with a figure of a person, his or her name and a complete poem by him or her on each one, the other Torifuda ("grabbing cards"), each corresponding to a yomifuda but with only the ending lines of their corresponding poem. Players draw cards and have to match the lines of poetry with the full poem and portrait of the author. Through this game, the poems were made accessible to women, children, and members of the lower classes of society. About a fifth of the poets included were women, and the poems served an important educational resource for Japanese women in the late Edo period (1700s-1867). They explain the skills Japanese women were expected to acquire. The game is traditionally played on New Year’s Day. Participants are tested on their knowledge and memory of the ancient poems. Each player has to draw a card from the pictorial yomifuda pack and find its fitting literary complement in the calligraphic torifuda pack as fast as possible. See Kaplan 347.