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PICKERING & CHATTO LIST 225 EUROPEAN BOOKS Pickering & Chatto (Antiquarian Booksellers since 1820) 144-146 New Bond St London W1S 2TR England Tel. +44 (0)20 7491 2656 Fax. +44 (0)20 7499 2479 email. [email protected] web. www.pickering-chatto.com Please contact Edmund Brumfitt or Ed Smith with any enquiries. Front cover illustration from item 45 [Hamburg]. Rear cover illustration from item 66 Mansion. All prices are in Pounds Sterling; we accept Mastercard, Visa, and American Express. Terms: 30 Days Bankers: Butterfield Bank [UK] Ltd, 99 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7NG Account No. 32425131 Sort Code. 40-52-26 William Pickering Ltd VAT No. GB 896 1174 90 P ICKERING & C HATTO 1 ALLETZ, Julien. DICTIONNAIRE DE POLICE MODERNE pour toute la France. Contenant, par order alphabétique des matières et dans la forme réglementaire, l’analyse et le rapprochement des dispositions, tant anciennes non abrogées que modernes, des lois, ordonnances, réglemens, arretés et décisions, concernant la Police administrative, judiciaire, militaire et maritime; les règles et les principes consacrés par un usage constant ayant force de loi; les dispositions de droit civil relatives aux intérets ordinaires et journaliers des citoyens; etc. Suivi de modèles d’actes en matières de Police. Ouvrage utile à tous les Français, et à l’usage des fonctionnaires chargés, dans toute la royaume; de l’exercise de la Police. Deuxième édition. Tome I [-III]. Paris, A la Librairie de Jurisprudence et d’Administration, 1823. £ 1,150 SECOND EDITION. Three volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], iv, [iv], viii, 589, [1] blank; [iv], 743, [1] blank; some foxing throughout, with old library stamps in places; in contemporary sheep, spine tooled in gilt with morocco labels lettered in gilt; some rubbing but still a good copy. Rare second edition of this comprehensive dictionary of modern policing in France, compiled by the sometime commissaire de police and typographer Julien Alletz. “There was [says the publisher in his Avis] a lack of a reglementary work on the subject of the police, which offered, summarily and in alphabetical order, the connections in each subject between arrangements both unrepealed and ancient and modern, of laws, rules, royal ordinances, police ordinances, orders and decisions, concerning administrative police, which prevents offences and crimes; judicial police, which prosecutes and punishes them; military and maritime police, which oversees security and the defence of the State; the principles of civil policing and civil law, which regulate, maintaine, and preserve the private interests of all citizens…” The present work is an attempt to fill that lack; in addition to articles on all aspects of policing, Alletz also gives information about the various competences of officials, the laws regarding army recruitment, and other matters. The present edition also incorporates the new police laws of July 1820, which had failed to make it into the first edition. OCLC records two copies in North America, at Columbia and Brigham Young, with one of the first (1820) at Toronto. 2 [ANON]. L’UOMO fa egli bene a riflettere? E la Societa quale utile ricava dalle sue riflessioni? Londra, c.1790. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. [xi], [i] blank, 150; [i], [i] blank, 116; bottom of each title page with a strip of paper attached (by the publisher?), some browning and foxing in places, and a few contemporary marginalia; in contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, with skiver label lettered in gilt; some rubbing. First and only edition of this anonymously published essay on the benefits of philosophical reflection. Examining the question of whether reflection and introspection were good, both for the individual and for society, the author discusses the idealisation of the “natural man” as found in the works of Rousseau and others, and argues that the ideal should rather be the educated and the intellectual, and not the emotional and the instinctive. The work investigates the reasons for suspecting that the unreflective life might be a happier one, discusses sense, memory, and judgement, and argues that people have a natural inclination towards the arts and the sciences. The note in the Gazzetta universale says that he author is believed to be German, while noting the stile elegantissimo. Despite the “Londra” imprint, it is almost certainly printed in Italy; it is unclear why, or at what stage, the foot of each title-page was replaced with a paper strip. Not recorded by OCLC, ESTC, or ICCU. 1 P ICKERING & C HATTO 3 [ANON]. DIE SICH SELBST VERDEFENDIRENDE DIENST- MAGD, Das ist: Ein Gespräch Zwischen einer Diensmagd und einer Trödel-Frauen, über das vor weniger Zeit herausgegebene Leben und Wandel derer Dienst-Mägde grosser Städte Des Marforii. [No place or printer [i. e. Leipzig], 1719. £850 FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. 29, with engraved frontispiece; a little browned or spotted; early twentieth century wrappers with black backstrip. Extremely rare dialogue between Regine, a maid and Mother Liese, an old woman, who is ill and bed ridden, examining and criticising a recently (1717) published satirical work lampooning the immoral conduct of domestic staff in the big cities, Kurtze Beschreibung Des zum theil liederlichen Lebens und Wandels Derer anjetzo in grossen Städten sich befindenden Dienst-Mägde, which had been published under the pseudonym Marforius. In a theatrical and poignant manner the two women argue against Marforius’ accusations that female servants are vain, leading frivolous lifestyles, being selfish and lazy. ‘After both had expressed the wish to get to know this “Marforius” in person in order to make him pay dearly for his slander they refute step-by-step the author’s accusations and comment on them with remarkable self-confidence’ (translated from Renate Dürr, Mägde in der Stadt, p. 101). VD18 10981446 (based on the copy in Göttingen); Hayn-Gotendorf IV, 350; OCLC locates two copies only, in Göttingen and Berlin. 4 BADINI, Charles-Francois. EXPOSÉ DES LOTERIES D’ANGLETERRE ET DE FRANCE, avec le plan d’une nouvelle loterie, calculée tout différemment de celles qui ont paru jusqu’ici, et supérieurement avantageuse à l’État et au public, par Charles- François Badini. Paris, au Grand Buffon, A.G. Debray, 1807. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], 24; apart from some minor marking, a clean copy throughout; in later musical wrappers. First edition of this critique of French and British lotteries by the Turin writer and lawyer Carlo Francesco Badini (c.1715-1810), proposing a new type of lottery working on different principles, which would, it is argued, be more advantageous for both the state and the public. In the Avis, Badini notes that “One might observe that there are too many losing tickets; it seems to me that we must remember that the aim of a lottery is to enable the many to contribute to the success of an individual.” He proposes a lottery in which there are one hundred winning tickets, and argues that the current arrangements for French lotteries put France at a competitive disadvantage: “the English lottery is a sort of tax on France, for the simple reason that its plan is more plausible than ours. Do we have to grant this advantage to the enemy? One of the effects that my proposed lottery would produce is to topple the English political system: rather than foreigners, as now, buying tickets in England, we would see the other side of the coin; foreigners would come in search of French tickets, and the English themselves would contribute to the success of our lottery”. Badini (depending on whom one believes, a lawyer or a defrocked Jesuit) made his reputation as a translator of Pascal and as a librettist in London, writing for Haydn among others. His last two works turned to economic matters; in addition to the present Exposé des loteries, he also published in the same year a work on false banknotes. OCLC records the BNF copy only. 2 P ICKERING & C HATTO 5 [BALDINOTTI, Cesare]. DE RECTA HUMANAE MENTIS INSTITUTIONE libri IV. Ticini, apud Petrum Galeatium … 1787. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], CXXXVI, 266, [2] index, [1] errata, [1] blank; ownership signature on title (crossed through), apart from some minor dust-soiling in places, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary sheep, spine ruled and tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed, but still a very appealing copy. First edition of this important introduction to, and history of, philosophy by the Italian Benedictine Cesare Baldinotti (1747-1821), with particular attention paid to philosophy of mind and epistemology. After a lengthy introduction, the work is divided into four books, each dealing with one aspect of human cognition. The first is concerned with the nature of ideas, and the relationship of ideas and language, while the second discusses the extent of human knowledge and the impediments to it. The third part is concerned with logic and reason, while the final part discusses conscience, cognitive error, and the ways in which we interpret the data gleaned from the senses. Throughout, Baldinotti draws heavily on modern philosophers, both rationalist and (more often) empiricist: while Hume and Leibniz are frequently cited, as well as a number of French philosophers, Locke provides a thread running throughout the work. OCLC records six copies, only one of which is in North America, at the National Library of Medicine. 6 [BANDETTINI, Teresa]. IN MORTE DEL CAVALIERE VINCENZO MONTI. Visione di Amarilli Etrusca. Lucca, dalla Tipografia di Giusti, MDCCCXXX [1830]. £ 185 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 10, [2]; uncut and stitched as issued in the original printed wraps, some discolouration to extremities, but still a very good copy. First edition of this poem on the death of the Italian poet and dramatist Vincenzo Monti (1754-1828), by the Lucca poet Teresa Bandettini (1763-1837).