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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.

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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.

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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). Monti became official historiographer of the Italian kingdom under French rule, and is also remembered as the translator of a much admired version of Homer’s Iliad (1810), whose quality seems unaffected by Monti’s acknowledged ignorance of Greek. Not in OCLC.

7 [BANDETTINI, Teresa]. LA CADUTA DE’ GIGANTI Azione Drammatica di Teresa Bandettini fra gli Arcadi Amarilli Etrusca. Modena, Presso la Societa Tipografica. 1814. £ 485 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 30, [2] blank; a clean crisp copy in recent mottled wraps. Rare first edition of the second play by the Lucca poet and Arcadian, Teresa Bandettini. She only wrote two other plays in her long career: Polidoro in 1794, and Rosamunda in Ravenna in 1827. Teresa Bandettini (1763-1837) was born in Lucca, and entered into the Arcadia under the name Amarilli Etrusca. A noted critic of the romantic movement, she was one of most important improvisatory poets of her time, greatly esteemed by the likes of Mascheroni, Bettinelli and Alfieri. OCLC records just one copy only, at the University of Toronto. 8 [BASTON, Guillaume-André-Réné]. VOLTAIRIMEROS, ou première journée de M. de V*** dans l’autre monde. Première [- seconde] partie. A Bruxelles, MDCCLXXIX [1779]. £ 450

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FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume, 12mo, pp. [vi], 214, [2] blank, [1] errata, [1] blank; 215, [1] errata; with numerous crude woodcut vignettes; some foxing and browning throughout; in contemporary sheep, rebacked.

First edition of this unusual piece of Voltaireana, by the French theologian and writer Guillaume-André-Réné Baston (1741-1825). Writing the year after Voltaire’s death, Baston imagines the philosopher’s first steps into the afterlife, and his meetings with a number of historical figures. Voltaire has conversations with Joan of Arc, Fréron, Anthony Collins, Augustin Calmet and others, on subjects ranging from philosophical intolerance (especially in his conversation with Collins) to the existence of the soul, and whether it is a question for the philosopher or for the theologian. Voltaire goes from quarter to quarter, talking with journalists, historians, poets, and others, in each case shrugging off their reproofs (which clearly seem to Baston to be entirely justified). The work ends with a “Lettre apologetique sur les entrevues de Ganganelli”, in which Baston returns to his previous work along the same lines, in which he suggested conversations that the recently deceased Pope Clement XIV might have had with the likes of Ignatius of Loyola, whose order he had suppressed. OCLC records three copies in North America, at McGill, Toronto, and Vanderbilt. 9 BAZZANI CAVAZZONI, Virginia. DIVERTIMENTI POETICI di Virginia Bazani Cavazzoni … Venezia, Presso Andrea Poletti. MDCCI [1701]. £ 785 FIRST EDITION THUS. 12mo, pp. [xx], 335, [1] blank; first work with engraved portrait of the author; some foxing and a few marks in places, light marginal worming, and doodlings in pen and pencil on endpapers; contemporary vellum, remains of morocco label, lettered in gilt, on spine; some dust-soiling and rubbing to vellum. Very rare collection of the poetry of Virginia Bazzani Cavazzoni, including the first appearances of the Divertimenti. Virginia Bazzani was entirely self-taught as a poet, and her writing is largely influenced by Petrarch and other baroque models. Despite this, however, her poetry is notable for its originality, particularly in its vivid descriptions of mood and psychological states, which gives her an important place in the history of Italian poetry in the late seventeenth century. Her first collection of poetry appeared in 1696, under the title Fantasie poetiche, and was dedicated to the Emperor Leopold I; the present edition, which appeared under the new title Divertimenti poetiche in 1701, had a new dedication, and features an additional ten pastoral dialogues and moral canzonette. Virginia Bazzani Cavazzoni was a bridesmaid of the Duchess of Mantua, and married a courtier of the Duke, to whom the present edition is dedicated. She appears to have been born in Modena, moving to Mantua at an early age. The present work includes a particularly fine engraved frontispiece portrait of her. OCLC records a copy at Chicago, as well as one copy of the first edition of 1696, at Cambridge.

‘Virtue is not rewarded’

10 [BECCARY, Madame]. MÉMOIRES DE FANNY SPINGLER, Histoire Anglois. Par Madame Beccary. Tome Premier [-Second]. A Paris, chez Knapen & Fils, Libr.-Impr. de la Cour des Aides, au bas du Pont S. Michel. 1781. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one, 12mo, pp. viii, 276, [1] errata, [1] blank; [ii], 202, [4] Approbation; [1] errata, [1] blank; titles lightly dust-soiled, and some minor marking in places, but generally

4 P ICKERING & C HATTO clean throughout; in contemporary calf backed mottled boards, spine ruled in gilt with morocco label lettered in gilt, head and tail chipped, corners rubbed and upper joint cracked (but cords holding firm); a good copy of a rare novel. Rare first edition of the last novel by the little known Madame Beccary. Born in Italy to a family of poets, she anglicized her name to Beccary and published four works presented as translations of English novels, imitating the popular novels of Madame Riccoboni and capitalizing on the Anglomania of the second half of the eighteenth century. ‘Beccary’s novels are highly moralistic tales. She exults in the sentimentality of her staunchly virtuous heroines without questioning or decrying the sexual double standards of her day as did Riccoboni. Most of Beccary’s female protagonists triumph, as in Lettres de Milady Bedfort (1769), Memoires de Lucie d’Olbery (1770), and Milord d’Ambi (1778), but in her last work, Memoires de Fanny Spingler (1781), Beccary demonstrates that not all virtue is rewarded’ (Sartori, The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature, 1999, p. 44). The present work was also issued under the title Les dangers de la calomnie, ou Mémoires de Fanny Spingler in Neuchatel in the same year. We have been unable to establish precedence, but it would seem likely the present Paris edition came first. OCLC records three copies only under this title, at Texas, Augsburg and the BNF.

Polygamy for princes

11 [BEGER, Lorenz]. ARCUARIUS, Daphnaeus [pseudonym]. KURTZE DOCH UNPARTHEYISCH-UND GEWISSENHAFFTE BETRACHTUNG Deß in dem Natur- und Göttlichen Recht gegründeten Heiligen Ehstandes, in welcher Die seither strittige Fragen von Ehbruch, der Ehscheidung, Und sonderlich Von dem vielen Weiber-nehmen, Mit allem beyderseits gegebenen Beweißthumb, Dem Christlichen Lese vorgestellet weden. [n.p.], MDCLXXIX [1679]. £ 1,850 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [xii], 249, [1] errata; title printed in red and black; some light browning in places, but generally clean throughout; in later sheep-backed pink boards; handwritten label on spine; boards sunned and vertical crack down centres of both covers.

First edition of this unusual defence of polygamy by the German legal scholar, librarian, and numismatist Lorenz Beger (1653-1705). Beger was at the time of writing employed as the librarian to the Elector of the Palatinate, Karl Ludwig. Karl Ludwig had been married to Charlotte of Hessen-Kassel since 1650, and had two children with her. However, they were tempramentally very different, and there were tensions between the couple that led Karl Ludwig to fall in love with one of Charlotte’s ladies-in-waiting, Luise von Degenfeld. In 1657 Charlotte discovered that Karl Ludwig and Luise had established a quasi-marital contract; Karl Ludwig discovered that he could not divorce her without changing the law, which he duly did, later marrying Luise. Karl Ludwig then sought to justify his earlier conduct, and was convinced that scriptural evidence could be found to justify polyamy. He charged the court librarian and antiquarian, Beger, to collate all the biblical passages which could be interpreted as a defence of the practice, and to write a book summarising and explaining these arguments; this book was then published under a pseudonym and sent to all the principal libraries in Germany, clearly as an attempt to restore Karl Ludwig’s reputation in the eyes of some of his more sceptical peers. Beger’s work goes beyond biblical argument, however; he opens with a discussion of natural law and an examination of whether marriage is essentially a holy bond or a

5 P ICKERING & C HATTO secular contract, and his work is as much a legal treatise as one of moral theology. Beger’s position, understandably, became untenable at court on Karl Ludwig’s death, when his son by his first marriage became Elector and invited Charlotte back to court. He moved to Brandenburg to occupy a similar position in 1686. OCLC records three copies outside continental Europe, at Aberdeen, Berkeley, and Cornell.

12 BEIER, Adrian. TRACTATIO JURIDICA DE JURE DORMIENTIUM, Vom Recht der Schlaffenden; in celeberr. acad. Jenensi Anno MDCLXXII habita. Halae Magedburgicae, Aere Hendeliano, 1726. £ 185 SECOND EDITION. 4to, pp. 28; clean and fresh throughout; in recent mottled wrappers. First published in 1672 at Jena, this unusual dissertation by the German jurist Adrian Beier (1634-1698) discusses the laws surrounding sleep over the course of three chapters. The first chapter, “De somno et vigilia”, examines the differences between sleeping and waking and the nature of sleep, while the second discusses the legal obligations of those who are awake to those who are asleep. In the final chapter, Beier discusses the obligations of the sleeping to the waking. Among the matters discusses are somnabulism, and the legal status of murders commited while sleeping. OCLC records three copies outside Germany, at Columbia Law, Harvard Law, and Brigham Young.

13 [BELGRADO, Jacopo]. DELLA RAPIDITA’ DELLE IDEE. Dissertazione d’un Corrispondente dell’Accademia delle Scienze di Parigi … In Modena, dalla Stamperia di Giovanni Montanari, MDCCLXX [1770]. £ 950 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 106; aside from some occasional browning, clean and fresh throughout; in contemporary carta rustica; remains of label on spine, but otherwise a good copy. First edition of this uncommon work by the Italian Jesuit Jacopo Belgrado (1704-1789), on the thinking process and the nature of ideas. Belgrado, who was professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Parma, draws heavily on Locke and Wolff in his treatment of the subject. He examines the nature of ideas, and their relationship to both the evidence of the senses, and to geometric and mathematical constructs, before turning to a discussion of the thinking process and the formation of ideas. Belgrado is, as the title suggests, especially concerned to establish ways in which we can establish, and account for, the “speed” of ideas. By this he means not only the speed with which they establish themselves in the mind, but also the ways they link to form more complex ideas; he also suggests a sort of test to measure the number of ideas that occur within a given period.

OCLC records copies at the BNF, UC Berkeley, Harvard, and Oxford.

14 BERIA, Tommaso. INSTITUZIONI PRATICHE per l’estimo de’ beni stabili e mobili ed altre riguardanti il giudizio di perizia indirizzate a’ giovani che vogliono abbracciare tal professione. Opera utile non solo alli medesimi ma ancora alli misuratori agrimensori capimastri, mastri da muro ed a qualunque persona possidente case e beni. In Torino, nella reale stamperia, MDCCXCVI [1796]. £ 650

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vi], x, [i] imprimatur, [i] blank, 296, with 6 folding leaves of plates; in contemporary catspaw sheep, spine ruled in gilt with title in blind (label missing); boards somewhat worn. First edition of this rare guide to surveying and valuation by the Turin architect Tommaso Beria. Dealing both with buildings and with land, Beria gives a comprehensive account of valuations for probate and for tax. He describes the valuation of private houses, both urban and rural, as well as estimates for construction projects, before turning to the valuation of land, taking into account the availability of utilities such as roads and water, and its use for viticulture and forestry. He goes on to consider the division of houses and the attendent problems that result from the division of legacies and inheritances, giving detailed examples, illustrated on the folding plates. The final section deals with the valuation of furniture, fixtures, and fittings in houses; these range from desks and other carved wooden items to mattresses and blankets, and Beria gives advice on the compensation to be given when furniture can not be divided equally. Although the valuations Beria suggests are based on current prices in Turin and Piedmont, he emphasises that the principles used are universally applicable. OCLC records three copies at Harvard Business School, Columbia, and the BNF.

15 [BERNARDI, L.] REGOLE GENERALI DEL GIUOCO delle Minchiate, Con diverse istruzioni brevi, o facili per pene imparare a giuocarlo, ed in fine aggiuntavi un ottava sopra la maniere di alzar le carte. In Firenze, Trovarsi venibile presso Vincenzio Landi, MDCCXC [1790]. £ 550 Small 8vo, pp. [ii], 64; some staining in places; in contemporary drab wrappers, with later paper reback. Uncommon later edition of the standard work on the medieval Italian card game minchiate, first published in 1728 and attributed by Melzi to Luigi Bernardi. Minchiate originated in Florence in the 15th century, and is closely related to the tarot games popular in late medieval and early modern Italy. Its popularity in the 18th century exceeded that of tarot, although it declined in the nineteenth century and was barely played by the 1930s. The present work, which went through several editions, all rare, describes the game’s origins, the cards used, the similarities with, and differences from tarot games, and the methods and techniques of playing.

OCLC records just one copy of this edition, at Montpellier.

16 BLANCHET, Jean. L’HOMME ÉCLAIRÉ PAR SES BESOINS. A Paris, Chez Durand le Neveu, 1764. £ 350 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], 355, [5] (Approbation, privilège, errata, table); hole in half title where ownership signature removed, and minor stain just visible at head in places (not affecting the text), otherwise a clean fresh copy throughout; in contemporary mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt, chipped at head with loss of 10mm, but still an appealing copy. First edition of this work on the needs and passions of men, and the ways in which they explain human behaviour, by the French critic, physician and sometime professor at the Jesuit college of La Flèche, Jean Blanchet (1724-1778). “It seemed to me that I had to reduce all my particular principles to one that was general and universal; I found it in our needs: I saw that human knowledge came out of this fecund source. I am proud to have grasped the mysterious thread that links certain objects to others, and I believed

7 P ICKERING & C HATTO that I could see the world revolve, as it were, before me” (p. 2). From this insight, Blanchet discusses linguistic awareness, the desire for property, luxury and excess, the excellence of agriculture, population, marriage, divorce, and celibacy. INED 532; Conlon 64:579; OCLC records just one copy in North America, at Penn State.

17 BLOCK, Georg Wilhelm. DIE FEHLER DER PHILOSOPHIE mit ihren Ursachen und Heilmitteln dargestellt. Braunschweig, Friedrich Bieweg, 1804. £ 500 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 160; some very light foxing in places but generally clean and fresh throughout; in the original blue boards, with printed paper labels on spine and upper cover; slightly worn and sunned. First edition of this rare survey of the faults to be found in modern philosophy, and some of their possible remedies, by the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Block. Adickes, the Kant bibliographer, sums up Block’s rigorous criticism as follows: ‘Kant has seen many mistakes of the earlier philosophers, but his own system is just as baseless and erroneous as those of his predecessors. It suffers, the author says, from the same sources of philosophic errors as all the others: indefiniteness of expression and of conception, extreme arbitrariness of presupposition and argument, frequent confusion of the question at issue, and incorrectness of inference’. Block’s remedies for the miserable state of philosophy involve more precise philosophical analysis, and precise definition of the terminology used. The meaning of words and the contents of concepts heve to be absolutely clear before philosophizing, because incorrect use of language is the source of all errors. Bock then recommends an epistemological approach to philosophy, based on the ‘facts of the human consciousness and the laws of the human capacity for understanding’ (p.144). He aims for philosophy to be a science, and not the pseudo-science of previous philosophers, including Kant. Sharp rationality, trained by mathematical anlysis and geometry will be the pre- requisits of any future scientific philosopher. Adickes 2686; OCLC records no copies outside continental Europe.

18 BODONI, Giambattista. VERSI E PROSE in morte di Carlotta Melania Duchi Alfieri. Parma, co’ tipi Bodoniani, 1807. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. [iv], 151, [1] blank, [3] index, [1] blank; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in the original speckled publisher’s boards, spine with printed paper label, with minor rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. A superb copy of this collection of works published to commemorate the death of Carlotta Melania Alfieri di Sostegno, also published under the title In morte di Carlotta Melania Duchi Alfieri versi e prose. Among the contributors are Enrica Diogini, Lucrezia Landi, Marietta Morosini, Clemente Bondi, Diodata Saluzzo-Roero, Clotilde Tambroni, and Luigi Lamberti, and the volumes includes sonnets, songs, Greek odes, and a Latin inscription. Brooks 1029; OCLC records just three copies of this issue, at Toronto, Kansas and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

19 BRUNEAU DE LA RABATELLIÈRE, Marquise de MERVILLE. LE SOLITAIRE DE TERRASSON, histoire interessante. Par Madame de ***.Paris, Pierre Huet and Pierre Prault, 1733. £ 385

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FIRST EDITION THUS. Small 8vo, pp. [viii, 6 of which publisher’s advertisements], 182, [approbation], woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-piece and initial at the beginning of the text; apart from occasional light browning or a few minor spots a very good copy in contemporary French speckled calf, spine with raised bands, compartments ornamented in gilt and with gilt-stamped red morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers; extremities a litle rubbed.

First edition under this title of this uncommon novel, first published in 1677 under the title Le solitaire, nouvelle…, and the work of Mme de Merville, who went on to become the Marquise de Bruneau de la Rabatellière. The novel is in many ways a philosophical musing, based on the life of a famous hermit who lived in a grotto near the village of Terrasson in the Dordogne. It went through several editions under both its titles. See Barbier, IV, col. 518 for the 1677 and 1680 edition; OCLC locates the present edition at McMaster University, Princeton, the Bibliothèque Nationale and in Weimar; the first edition is located in Tübingen, Stuttgart, University of Illinois and Harvard; no copy of the 1680 edition ion OCLC.

20 [BRUYS, Francois]. L’ART DE CONNOITRE LES FEMMES, avec une dissertation sur l’adultere. Par le Chevalier Plante-Amour. A La Haye, Chez Jaques vanden Kieboom, MDCCXXX [1730]. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [xxxii], 349, [1]; some browning throughout; in contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments with remains of lettering-piece on spine; spine worn. First edition of this introduction to the understanding of women by the French writer François Bruys (1708-1738). Quickly translated into English and Dutch, the work aims to form “une juste idée des femmes”; Bruys discusses the education of girls, the religion and devotion of women, the effects on them of love, continence and chastity, marriage, spirit, beauty and fashion, lying and flattery, friendship, avarice, pride, and anger. One might conclude from the focus on female vices that Bruys’ view of women is not wholly favourable. The volume concludes with a dissertation on adultery, said in the avertissement to be translated from an anonymous English essay. In addition to the present work, Bruys also published a successful history of the Popes. OCLC records North American copies at Berkeley, UCLA, Kansas, and Princeton.

21 [CAMPASTRI, Tommaso]. LA FELICITA DEL MATRIMONIO Opera Morale, piacevole, e politica dell’ Abate N.N. In Milano, Nella Stamperia di Antonio Agnelli, MDCCLX [1760]. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xiv], 122; with engraved frontispiece portrait; aside from some light foxing in places, clean and fresh throughout; in contemporary drab stiff wrappers, later paper spine with handwritten paper label; ink marks on upper cover, but a good copy. First edition of this appealingly printed treatise on marriage by the Italian priest Tommaso Campastri (died 1778), published eleven years before his more famous La Donna qual si Vorrebbe. Like his later work, the Felicita del Matrimonio is divided into seventeen chapters. Campastri discusses the perils of choosing a wife purely on looks, describes the true spirit of Woman and the mistakes often made in its identification, and analyses the inequalities inherent in marriage, especially between spouses of differing ages and education. Campastri also gives advice on travel and holidays, how to deal with admirers of one’s wife, and the reading of romances and novels.

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Among the authors on whom Campastri draws are Addison, Fontenelle, and Ben Johnson. Melzi, I, p. 401; OCLC records just one copy, at Goettingen.

22 CHIMINELLO, Vincenzo. RIFLESSIONI SU LA VERITÀ di alcuni Paradossi analitici. … In Venezia, Nella Stamperia Grazioni a S. Apollinare. MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. £ 285 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 72; light dampstain throughout first half of book, and occasional marginal corrections in contemporary hand, but otherwise clean and fresh; in contemporary wrappers; dampstain to upper cover, which also features later library label. First edition of this study of mathematical paradoxes by the Paduan mathematician and astronomer Vincenzo Chiminello (1741-1815). The work is divided into five articles, which deal with questions relating to equations, division and multiplication by imaginary quantities, and the common origin of real and imaginary roots. Chiminello was Toaldo’s assistant at the Paduo observatory, succeeding him as director and professor of astronomy in 1797. Not recorded by OCLC.

Geometry in legal disputes

23 CHIUSOLE, Antonio. LA GEOMETRIA COMUNE, LEGALE, ED ARITMETICA, Esposta in pratica colle sue dimostrazioni, e divisa in tre parti, I. La prima delle quali contiene la Planimetria, cioè le nuove Regole per misurare qualunque Piano giusta tutte le Misure dell’ Universo, e per mostrare tanto bene la Quadratura del Cerchio, quanto bene si piò mostrare qualunque operazione della Pratica Geometria. II. La contiene la Geodesia, cioè il modo di dividere i Piani, e le Dottrine facili per misurare, e partire le Alluvioni, le Isole, e i Letti de’ Fiumi dietro l’Instituta de Rer. Divis., e de’ ff. de Acq. Rer. Dom. III. La terza contiene la Longimetria, Stereometria, Icnografia, ed Aritmentica senze Aritmetica, cioè il modo di fare qualunque conto, proposto non solo nelle operazioni Geometriche, ma in qualsivoglia materia, senza le solite Regole dell’ Aritmetica, senza saper l’Abbaco, e senza saper Figure di Numeri. Opera Novissima, e facile tanto a’ Letterati, quanto agl’ Illetterati. In Venezia, Presso Gio. Battista Recurti, MDCCXL [1740]. £ 950 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [xvi], xxviii, 816, [1], [1] blank; with 44 folding leaves of plates, and numerous small illustrations in the text; a few repairs to folds of plates, and title-page lightly soiled, but otherwise very clean and fresh throughout; uncut and partially unopened in contemporary pastepaper boards, with new endpapers; title in ink on spine; some wear and soiling to binding, but still a very good copy. First edition of this compendious guide to geometry “as much for the literate as for the illiterate”, by the Venetian geographer, traveller, historian, and teacher of mathematics Antonio Chiusole (1679-1755). Divided into three books, the work takes the form of a dialogue between the teacher and the reader, and is concerned principally with the practical aspects of geometry, for tradesmen, builders, architects, and surveyors, and in particular with the uses of geometry in settling legal disputes concerning the measurements of riverbeds, floodplains, and islands Chiusole discusses the nature of geometry, and the various divisions of the subject, different geometrical and surveying instruments and tools, measurement, and arithmetical geometry; he presents his work as a series of probleme, in which the a specific question or problem is solved,

10 P ICKERING & C HATTO the reason for the solution shown, and in some cases, the “errori del Volgo” discussed. The work is augmented with 44 folding plates, here bound at the end of the volume. Chiusole was a native of Rovereto, but was noted as a traveller. In addition to his geometrical work, Chiusole published a number of books on several subjects; he is best known for his La genealogia delle case più illustri di tutto il mondo (1747). Riccardi, 352; OCLC: 23623565 records three copies, at Michigan, Columbia, and Oklahoma.

24 [CHORIER, Nicolas]. LE MEURSIUS FRANÇOIS ou entretiens galans d’Aloysia. Orné de figures. A Cythere [i. e. Paris, Cazin], 1782. £ 1,250 Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [iv], 277, [2, blank]; [iv], 210, [4, blank], with frontispiece and 12 plates by Elluin after Borel; one leaf with marginal paperflaw, occasionally a litle spotted; contemporary marbled calf, covers with gilt triple fillets, inner dentelles gilt, spines ornamented in gilt and with gilt-stamped red morocco lettering-pieces, marbled endpapers; extremities a little worn.

One of three French editions - and according to Lemonnyer a correct one - published in the same year of this early classic of erotic literature, ‘unadulterated smut’ (Félibien de Ségonzac). The School of Women, as it is known in English, first appeared as a work in Latin entitled Aloisiae Sigaeae, Toletanae, Satyra sotadica de arcanis Amoris et Veneris, circulating through the libertine community. It was translated a couple of times into French and even into English. It takes the form of a dialogue between two women, the older of whom has the task of initiating the younger one into refined sexual pleasures and practices; they end up in bed together. Nicolas Chorier (1612-1692) was a French lawyer, writer, and historian, specialising in works on the Dauphiné. This seems to be his only erotic work. Cohen col. 240; Lemonnyer III, cols. 218-9; OCLC locates four copies, in the British Library, the French National Library, at Cornell and an incomplete one in the Library of Congress.

25 COMAZZI, Giovanni Battista. LA MORALE DEI PRINCIPI osservata nell’istoria di tutti gl’Imeradori, che regnarono in Roma. Vienna, Matthias Sischowitz, 1689. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [x], 484, [2], woodcut tailpieces in the text; some spotting throughout, half-title with old repair to outer margin; however, crisp in Italian half vellum over mottled boards of the beginning of the 19th century, spine highly ornamented in gilt, two contrasting morocco lettering-pieces on spine; a little spotted and rubbed; from the collections of Carlo Piazza and Bruno Brunello, with their stamps on half- title and title. First edition of this uncommon and cynical political work, printed in Austria. Put on the Index in 1716, alongside other titles by Giovanni Comazzi, this moral history of Roman Emperors gives examples of moral and immoral actions of the Principe which are sharply analyzed and interpreted from an enlightenment point of view, which certainly discomforted the authorities. For example, Comazzi’s reflections on signing a death warrant: ‘To sign a death warrant is an act of justice; signing it malevolently is a human act. These two qualities are the essential constituents of the Prince, in such a way, that if justice is lacking he is a woman, and if he lacking humanity, he is a beast. In either case the Prince is a monster, and not a Prince’ (translated from p. 88). Another acerbic morale - very Machiavellian in tone - is in the chapter on Emperor Commodus: ‘The Prince, who wants to be a devil needs saintly ministers, because they do not serve him with love, but with

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fidelity’ (p. 258). An even more scandalous ‘moral’ comments the young Emperor’s indulgence with 13 girls and 13 boys he held in his palace, with the laconic remark, that ‘he sinned to be Prince, in the belief he shared with the common people, that the good fortune of the Prince consists in committing sins with impunity’ (p. 256). Despite - or because of - the book’s place on the Index, it enjoyed popularity and was in demand; there were many editions in the original Italian up to 1810, and translations into German, English and French in the 18th century. The English translation, dedicated to the Duke of Bedford in 1729, makes the political stance clear by adding a motto to the title-page: Regis ad exemplum. OCLC locates only one copy, in the Bavarian State Library in Munich.

26 COMTE, Auguste. CALENDRIER POSITIVISTE, ou Système général de commémoration publique, destiné surtout a la transition finale de la grande république occidentale composée des cinq populations avancées, française, italienne, germanique, britannique, et espagnole, toujours solidaires depuis Charlemagne. … Publié au nom de la Société Positiviste. Paris, A la librairie scientifique-industrielle de L. Mathias, Avril 1850. £ 385 SECOND EDITION. 8vo, pp. 35, [1] blank; some light spotting in places; original printed wrappers. Second edition, the year after the first, of this much reprinted and updated calendar by the positivist philosopher Auguste Comte, in which he proposes a systematisation, as a contemporary observer puts it, of the “worship by humanity of itself, as represented in its greatest men of all ages”. Comte divides the year into thirteen months, applicable to any year. The months are each dedicated to an historical figure who epitomises a period, philosophy, or movement, including Moses (initial theocracy), Aristotle (ancient philosophy), Saint Paul (Catholicism), Gutenberg (modern industry), Shakespeare (modern drama, and Bichat (modern science). OCLC records two copies outside France, at Columbia and Texas, with copies of the first edition also at Calgary, Columbia, Windsor, Indiana, and Harvard.

27 CORACHÁN, Juan Bautista. ARITHMETICA DEMONSTRADA THEORICO-PRACTICA PARA LO MATHEMATICO Y MERCANTIL. Explicanse las monedas, pesos, y medidas de los Hebreos, Griegos y Romanos;y de estos Reynos de España, conferidas entre sí … Barcelona, Juan Pifferer, 1719. £850

SECOND EDITION. 4to, pp. [iv], 494, [14]; occasional light browning or foxing, one gathering browned throughout; contemporary Spanish vellum, spine lettered in ink; rear hinge broken, rear cover with vellum missing along lower margin; Spanish owneship inscription by Manuel Huarte, dated 1882, on front fly-leaf.

Second edition of this rare Spanish handbook of arithmetic, first published in 1699. The appendix, beginning with page 470, contains chapters on guessing numbers someone else has imagined, numerological entertainments inspired by Kabbalah, geometric calculations, musical intervals, and music theory. Juan Bautista Juan Bautista Corachan (1661-1741) of Valencia was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of his hometown in 1696, and participated in the scientific salons of the city at the turn of the 17th and 18th century. He is the author of a number of books aiming at popularizing the sciences.

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See Palau IV, p. 95 for the first and the 1735 edition only; OCLC locates three copies of the first edition in the US, at Berkeley, Michigan and Columbia; the present edition is located at Yale, Michigan and in New York Public Library.

English temperance for Belgians

28 [CRUIKSHANK]. BOUQUIE-LEFEBVRE, M. DANGERS DE L’IVROGNERIE vin et fin de l’ivrogne, d’apres C. Cruikshank. Edition publiée en faveur des enfants pauvres et offerte gratuitement à toutes les écoles primaires [Brussels, s.n., c. 1857]. £ 1,500 FIRST EDITION THUS. Oblong 8vo, pp. [iii], [i] blank, 8 lithograph plates, [iii], [i] blank, 8 plates; plates captioned in French and Flemish; some foxing in places; in contemporary red cloth boards, with title in gilt on upper cover. A very unusual piece of Cruikshankiana, this bilingual Belgian translation of The Bottle and its sequel The Drunkard’s Children was edited by Pi Bouquié-Lefebvre, a Brussels campaigner for temperance and philanthropist. As with the English original, the plates follow the descent of a family into chaos, illness, and suicide as a result of the alcholism of the father; the plates themselves follow very closely Cruikshank’s originals, even to the extent of preserving some of the English signage in the background. As stated on the title-page, the work was designed to be distributed gratis to all primary schools (in Brussels?). Whether this was ever achieved remains unclear. Not in OCLC.

29 [D’ESTE, Isabella]. LE QUERELE DEL PANAR o nelle nozze delli serenissimi prencipi Isabella d’Este e Ranutio Farnese duca di Parma. In Modona [i.e. Modena?], per Bartolomeo Soliani, [1664]. £ 600 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [12]; with small tear to outer margin throughout; in recent mottled boards.

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Only edition of this collection of poems written to mark the wedding of Isabella d’Este to her uncle Ranuccio Farnese, Duke of Parma. Although officially married in 1663, the couple only met for the first time in Feburary 1664, whereupon there was an elaborate celebration in Parma. The marriage was, however, short-lived: Isabella died shortly after the birth of her third child, in 1666. We have been unable to identify the author(s?) of these poems, or to find any further reference to the work. Not recorded by OCLC or ICCU.

Dead? Are you sure?

30 [DEATH]. ANWEISUNG ZUR ZWECKMÄßIGEN BEHANDLUNG UND RETTUNG DER SCHEINTODTEN oder durch plötzliche Zufälle verunglückter Personen, auf Veranlassung des Königlichen Ministerii der geistlichen, Unterrrichts- und Medizinal-Angelegenheiten. Berlin, G. Reimer, 1820. £ 225 Small 8vo, pp. iv, [5]-32; a little foxed at the beginning and end; entirely uncut in the original blue interim wrappers. First edition of this official handbook, issued by the Prussian government, detailing the risks of being buried alive (seemingly a popular concern in early nineteenth century), and the resuscitation of those who merely seem to be dead. The work deals with seemingly dead people, and opens with the statement that the only reliable indicator for death is the green colour of the decomposing belly. Every ‘corpse’ without this clear sign of death has to be considered merely as seemingly dead. The main part of the book is on resuscitation and first aid, including cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, rescue breaths, injections with wine or spirits into the stomach, electricity, rubbing and warming the body; the work concludes with a discussion of resuscitation of victims of particular accidents, such as hypothermia, drowning, strangulation, suffocation, lightning and poisoning. Not in Holzmann-Bohatta; OCLC locates copies in the Wellcome and at Amsterdam University only.

31 DEVEREUX. M. DICTIONNAIRE FRANÇAIS-ANGLAIS DES IDIOTISMES les plus usités, contenant les principales difficultés et règles de syntaxe de la langue anglaise, suivi de thèmes destinés à en rendre l’application familière Paris, Baudry, [1834]. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. Oblong 8vo, pp. [iv], 331, [1] blank; some spotting in places; in the original printed wrappers; corners chipped, but still a good copy.

Only edition of this rare French-English dictionary of idioms, an attractive pocket reference for the Frenchman who may need to express to an Englishman that it was impossible to think of him without shuddering. We have been unable to find any information about the compiler of this dictionary, the second part of which consists of an explanation of English grammatical and syntactical rules, followed by a lengthy prose affording opportunities for practising English idiom. OCLC records just two copies, at the BNF and at Princeton.

32 DIAZ DE LUCO, Juan Bernal. PRACTICA CRIMINALIS CANONICA, in qua omnia fere flagitta, quae a clericis committi possunt, com eorum poenis describuntur. Quae his notis ( ) plurima interclusimus, huic quartae & postremae editioni ab Autore adiecta sunt. Venetiis, Ex Officina Francisci Laurentini, de Turino, MDLXV [1565]. £ 2,000

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12mo, pp. 261, [5] index; some spotting in places, and occasional contemporary underlining and marginal notes, but generally clean; in later vellum, with morocco label, lettered in gilt, on spine; some dustsoiling in places, but otherwise a good copy. A later edition of this important treatise on criminal canon law, by the Spanish canon lawyer and humanist Juan Bernal Diaz de Lugo (or Luco, 1495-1556). First published in 1543, the Practica Criminalis Canonica swiftly became the standard work on the subject, going through more than 25 editions in the following hundred years. The work is essentially a handbook listing and describing the criminal offences to which the clergy are liable. These range from the abuse of sacraments, including rebaptism and enabling bigamy, to apostasy, perjury, lèse-majesté, and even torture. Diaz de Lugo was born in Seville, and became Bishop of Calahorra and professor of classics at Salamanca. Best known for his De regulis juris, he played a prominent role at the Council of Trent. OCLC records North American copies of this edition at Berkeley and the Library of Congress.

33 DRIOU, Alfred. LES GLANEURS DE L’ÉCOLE BUISSONNIÈRE. Curieuses histoires de jeunes Robinsons modèles… Paris, Fonteney et Peltier, 1856. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, [9] - 220; with chromolithograph frontispiece and seven chromolithograph plates; some spotting in places, but generally clean and fresh throughout; in the original coloured illustrated and printed boards; some light soiling, but still a very good copy. First edition, rare, of this collection of six children’s tales, attractively illustrated with coloured lithographs, by the prolific French writer Alfred Driou (born 1810). Set variously between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries, in countries including Italy, England, and the United States, each tale follows some truanting and exploring “jeunes Robinsons”, and their adventures in lute shops, deserts, and Cambridge pubs. Alfred Driou is now best known for his Les grandes femmes de France. Histoire de leur vie et de leur temps, but was also the author of numerous works for children, including an Histoire des naufrages, as well as travel works on the Alps and the sources of the Nile, and an 1875 study of the Paris Commune. OCLC: 247503251 records just one copy, at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

34 DUPONT DE L’ETANG, Pierre, comte. ODE SUR LA MARCHE DES TROUPES RÉPUBLICAINES CONTRE ROME. Paris, Imprimérie des Sciences et Arts, Pluvoise, an VI, [1798]. £ 200 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], 5, [1, blank]; waterstain to upper outer corners; otherwise clean and uncut; unbound as issued. Written by the general Pierre Dupont de l’Etang (1765-1840) who excelled during the revolutionary wars in Italy, before he became an important military leader of the Peninsular War (where he failed and fell from grace), this poem celebrates the quick advancement of the French troups in Italy. On page 3 the general mentions Napoleon as a name ‘fatal to kings’, anticipates a republican Rome, and the end of the reign of Popes and Emperors - precisely what Napoleon re-established in the early years of the nineteenth century. OCLC locates one copy only, in the Bibliothèque Nationale.

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35 [ENGEL, Michael]. UEBER DIE GRUNDSAETZE DER FREIHEIT UND GLEICHHEIT. Zwei Abhandlungen nebst einem Anhange ueber den Einfluss der Ideale auf das menschliche Leben. Frankfurt am Main, in der Andreaeischen Buchhandlung, 1794. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 208; clean and fresh throughout, with contemporary ownership signature on title page; contemporary half vellum over blue marbled boards; rebacked with black morocco label lettered in gilt; small portion fron front fly-leaf cut away; a good copy. First edition of this uncommon treatise on the basis of liberty and equality, by the philosopher and civil servant Johann Michael Engel (1755-1813). Having observed how the hopes of the people instigated by the early phases of the French Revolution had turned into streams of blood and the dictatorship of the Jacobin Club, Engel examines what conditions lasting freedom and equality really require, asking whether it was the principles of the French Revolution that led to the present situation, or whether lack of reason and presence of passions distort these principles. Engel then discusses what is freedom and whether it can only exist under a constitution guaranteeing direct democracy. Frequently refering to Rousseau’s Contrat social, he concludes that ‘the democratic constitution is suitable for small peoples who live on agriculture and war, with a simply structured state and where virtue determines the customs’ (p. 42). Representative democracy, which mediates elements of aristocracy and direct democracy, seems to be suitable for larger nations, guaranteeing that the wisest and best are put in charge, and that the representatives are ‘sent back into private life after a short period’ (p. 45). Engel is generally sceptical about all attempts to engineer happiness and tends towards a concept of enlightenend absolutism, despite all its flaws. OCLC locates only three copies, in Jena, Göttingen and in the Bibliothèque Nationale.

36 EWALD, Johann Ludwig. DIE KUNST EIN GUTES MÄDCHEN, ein gute Gattin, Mutter und Hausfrau zu werden. Ein Handbuch für erwachsene Töchter, Gattinen und Mütter. Erstes [-Zweites] Bändchen. Dritte vermehrte und verbessete Auflage mit neuen Kupfern von Ramberg und Ridelz und neuer Musik von Fränzl. Frankfurt am Mayn, bei Friedrich Wilmans, 1804. £ 450 THIRD EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 336, with engraved frontispiece, two engraved plates, and two folding leaves of music; [ii], viii, 263, [1] blank, with engraved frontispiece, two engraved plates, and four folding leaves of music; in contemporary paper covered boards, simulating calf over marbled boards; spines gilt, with labels lettered in gilt (one in facsimile); a very good copy. Third edition, expanded with new plates and additional music, of this moralistic work for women by the German philosopher, churchman, and pedagogue Johann Ludwig Ewald (1747-1822). The work consists of a series of essays, dialogues, poems, letters, and meditations, on subjects including the importance of female roles, the differences between the sexes, the nature of girls, the religiosity of women, contacts with men, the wisdom of brides and the role of wives; at the end of each volume can also be found the music for some songs suitable for mothers to teach their children. Ewald was a follower, in pedagogical terms, of Pestalozzi, and in theological terms, of the pietists. He wrote, in addition to the present work, books on the limits of the Volksaufklärung, Kantian philosophy (in 1790), and contemporary mysticism. This is the earliest edition of which a copy is located by OCLC in North America: one copy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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37 [FEMALE EDUCATION]. LETTERA SULL’EDUCAZIONE DELLE FANCIULLE in alcuni villaggi della Svizzera. [n.p. but Bergamo?, c. 1830]. £ 785 FIRST EDITION. Two parts in one volume, 24mo, pp. 32; 24; clean and fresh throughout, with label removed from rear endpaper; edges gilt; in comntemporary red roan, boards and spine gilt; a very attractive copy. As far as we are aware unrecorded, this attractively bound publication has the aim of raising funds for the introduction into Swiss villages of girls’ schools run by the ‘Pia opera di Santa Dorotea’, a movement founded in Venice in 1815 by the Bergamo priest Luca Passi, and intended to provide care and education for female orphans. The book is divided into two parts: the first describes the work of establishing the schools, while the second is a fundraising dialogue, which takes the form of a discussion betwen the author and two potential donors, Signora Caterina and Don Filippo. The author argues that any gift made by these two would be effectively spent, and that the resulting schools would be beneficial, and the dialogue ends with Caterina and Filippo agreeing to make a donation. Between the two parts, there is an advertisement for the book Pia opera di Santa Dorotea, presenting the entire title page of the latest edition, complete with price. Not in OCLC or ICCU.

38 [FLITTNER, Christian Gottfried]. UEBER STAATS- UND PRIVATBORDELLE, Kuppelei und Konkubinat nebst einem Anhang über die Organisirung der Bordelle in alten und neuen Zeiten von Julius Augustus Freudenberg. [Berlin], Auf Kosten des Verfassers, 1796. £ 650 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 174; some foxing as usual due to paper quality; corner of title-page removed (with ownership signature?) not affecting text; in contemporary mottled boards, with skiver label on spine, lettered in gilt; extremities and boards worn. First edition of this study of prostitution, brothels, and soliciting by the popular writer and physician Christian Gottfried Flittner (1770-1828). The first part of the work discusses the admissability of state brothels, and the tensions between moral considerations and political ones; Flittner suggests that most a priori arguments came down against their establishment, whereas most a posteriori arguments were in favour. He goes on to examine some of the dangers inherent in brothels, and the physical, moral, and political consequences that might result from their presence. The second part (an Anhang, but one that occupies half the volume) contains a history of brothels in ancient and modern times, describing their arrangement in Avignon and Venice, and the police regulations governing them in Flittner’s home city of Berlin. Flittner was the author of a number of works on women’s health, covering cosmetics, virginity, and the art of living to an old age, among other subjects. Among his many works were the invaluable Die Kunst, mit Weibern glücklich zu seyn, and its companion volume on living with men (both 1800). Hayn/Gotendorf II, 433; OCLC records four copies in North America, at Connecticut, Cornell, University of Washington, and Wisconsin (Madison).

39 FRANCK, Johann Melchior. DE SAEVITIA Praeside Petro Müllero … in auditorio ictorum ad d. Maii, MDCXII disputabit. Jenae, Stanno Nisiano, [1692]. £ 500

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DISSERTATION. 4to, pp. 88; some browning in places due to paper stock, but generally clean throughout; in recent blue and white patterned boards, with black morocco label on spine, lettered in gilt. First edition (a second appeared in 1716) of this uncommon Jena dissertation on the laws surrounding cruelty, principally domestic violence. Franck examines what is meant by the term saevitia, and discusses the use of anger as a defence for violence, before dealing in detail with the laws surrounding various cases of cruelty: husband against wife, father against child, householder against servant, and finally, away from the domestic setting, violence of conquerers against the conquered. The common thread, of course, is that of the perpetrators’ being in a position of power over the victims. Franck examines the state of German law on these questions, and proposes some amendments. OCLC records just one copy in North America, at Columbia Law Library.

40 [FREDERICK II, King of Prussia - CONSTANT DE REBEQUÉ, Samuel]. DERNIÈRES PENSÉES DU ROI DE P***, Écrites de sa main. Berlin, [no printer or publisher, i.e. Lausanne, ean-Pierre Heubach], 1787. £ 300 FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. 41, [5, blank], small woodcut vignette on title; half-title and final blank a little dusted, minimal browning in places; otherwise well-preserved and uncut, stitched as issued. Samuel Constant de Rebequé (1729-1800), the father of the economist Benjamin Constant, was according to Quérard a Geneva littérateur, who wrote a Jewish history, dramas, translated a work by Godwin, and published his works mostly with fictitious imprints. As a friend of Voltaire, married to ‘Lolotte’ who frequently figured in Voltaire’s correspondence and acted in theatre productions at Ferney, he was perfectly suited to publish and/or write Frederic the Great’s last thoughts. Constant de Rebequé claims that the manuscript was sold by a soldier at Potsdam to a foreigner when the King of Prussia lay on his deathbed. The foreigner read it to his friends and made a copy of it. The text opens with the king stating that his health is fading and that he is about to expire. He then assesses his legacy, claiming that he left his subjects better off than they were when he acceeded the throne in 1740, gives a short assessment of his character and his abilities, and depicts himself as hard- working and dedicated to the project of enlightened despotism. In lengthy passages he describes his relationship and discussions with Voltaire about the Anti Machiavel, and French poetry before analyzing foreign policies and the wars during his long reign. When the pamphlet appeared the authenticity was already discussed and later historical research seems to have avoided this text, which is written in the dry style of Frederick the Great. Henning & Henning, Bibliographie Friedrich der Grosse, p. 36; Quérard, La France littéraire II. p. 273 (giving Geneva as place of printing); OCLC does not locate a single copy in America.

41 [FRENCH REVOLUTION]. BOUND VOLUME OF 14 PAMPHLETS Paris, 1790s. £ 650 FIRST EDITIONS. 14 pamphlets, 12mo and 8vo; some light soiling and foxing in places, but generally clean throughout; in contemporary blue- grey boards, title in ink on spine, with old paper label and ties; some light wear, but still a good copy.

An attractive Sammelband containing fourteen pamphlets concerning political and ecclesiastical matters in 1790s France, and in particular the status and role of nonjuring priests in the years after the Revolution. The subjects include: the penal laws regarding nonjuring priests; the revocation of the decree by which Catholic priests were deported;

18 P ICKERING & C HATTO instructions for Catholic submission to the laws of the Republic in 1791; a guide to conduct in troubled political times; the papal response to the execution of Louis XVI and other papal messages; and an examination of the motivation behind the flight of many clergy from post-Revolutionary persecution in France. The contents are as follows: 1. DUBRUEL, Pierre-Jean-Joseph. Rapport fait par P.J.J. Dubruel, député de l’Aveyron, au nom d’une commission spéciale, sur les lois pénales rendues contre les prêtres insermentés. Séance du 8 Messidor, an V [1797]. pp. 27. 2. [ANON]. Projet d’une instruction sur l’exercice du Saint Ministère en France, lorsque le décret de déportation contre les Ministres catholiques sera révoqué, ainsi qu’on l’annonce. [c.1795]. pp. 40. 3. [ANON]. Réponse des armées catholiques et royales de la Vendée au décret de la soit disante convention, datée du 12 frimaire de son calendrier. [1796], pp. 36. 4. [ANON]. Discours d’un prêtre catholique du mont Jura: à ses compatriotes qui, surpris de se voir traités de schismatiques, le priaient de les instruire des erreurs qu’on reproche à l’Assemblée Nationale en matière de religion …[1791], pp. 51, [1] blank. 5. [ANON]. Instruction sur les sermens décrétés aux mois de novembre 1790 et 1791 ; sur le serment de Liberté et d’Egalité, et les actes de soumission aux loix de la République. [1795?], pp. 38. 6. [ANON]. Adresse des prêtres non-assermentés de la ville de Paris au roi. [1791]. pp. 8. 7. [ANON]. Observations et principes de conduite pour les temps de troubles politiques. [1791?]. pp. [ii], 30. 8. [PIUS VI]. Discours du pape au sujet de la mort de Louis XVI, roi de France. Rome, de l’imprimerie de la Chambre apostolique, 1793. pp 39, [1] blank. 9. [PIUS VI]. Bref du pape aux cardinaux, archevéques, évêques, au clergé et au peuple de France. A Rome, 1792. pp. 62. 10. [PIUS VI]. Bref du pape aux cardinaux, archevéques, évêques, au clergé et au peuple de France. A Rome, 1791, pp. 75, [1] blank. 11. [PIUS VI]. Bref de Notre Tres-Saint Pere le pape, Pie VI, portant d’itératives monitions, particulièrement aux évêques consécrateurs ou assistans; aux faux évêques consacrés et intrus, et à leurs vicaires, aux évêques qui ont prêté le Serment civique; aux curés intrus; aux vicaires et à tous les autres prêtres délégués par les prêtres intrus dans le royaume de France… A Paris, de l’imprimerie de Crapart, 1792. pp. 32. 12. [PIUS VI]. Dilectis filiis nostris S.R.E. cardinalibus, et venerabilibus fratribus archiepiscopis et episcopis, ac dilectis filiis capitulis, clero et populo regni Galliarum Pius PP. VI. dilecti filii nostri, venerabiles fratres, ac dilecti filii, salutem, et apostolicam benedictionem. Lutetiae, typis J.B.N. Crapart, 1792. pp. 15, [1] advertisements. 13. [LA HOGUE, Louis Gilles de]. Exposé des motifs qui ont determiné le clergé de France à fuir la persecution, et à se retirer en pays étrangers. [London?], 1795. pp. 87. 14. [ANON]. Décret de l’Assemblée Nationale, sur la déportation des prêtres insermentés, rendu le Dimache 26 Aout 1792. pp. 5.

42 FUCHS, Ferenc Xavér. ARS LONGAEVAE VITAE per medican corporis, et animae curam, quam quisque sibi debet ex lege rationis practicae, praecipiente animae, et corporis culturam ita: ut naturae physicae instinctus, ac stimulus iucunditatis, voluptatis, ac sensualis cuiusque utilitatis, semper naturae moralis instinctui, et stimulo honestatis subiici debeat vi eiusdem legis moralis; ne character dignitatis hominis laedatur, velut entis rationalis. … Posinii [i.e. Bratislava], Typis Georgii Aloysii Belnay, 1804. £ 550

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FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 623, [1] blank, XII index, [1] errata, [1] blank; some foxing in places, but generally clean; largely unopened in contemporary grey-blue wrappers, paper library label, and title in ink on spine; some fraying to extremities.

First edition of this comprehensive guide to a long and healthy life, by the philosopher and Archbishop of Eger, Ferenc Fuchs (1744-1807). Drawing on medicine, philosophy, natural history, and religious teachings, Fuchs examines longevity in other organisms (including plants) and general life expectancy. He notes the influence of factors in childhood on health in old age, advises on diet, exercise, the appropriate amount of sleep, the role of masturbation, the avoidance of illness, the dangers of anger, the moderation of the passions, depression, and the managing of hope; a further section describes remedies for various ailments, before an examination of many of the vices which might lead to an unhealthy old age (pride, hypocrisy, ambition), and the dangers of luxury and avarice. The gist is that with careful attention to spiritual well- being as well as corporeal, a happy and prolonged old age can be reached. OCLC records just one copy, in Frankfurt.

43 GABBA, Carlo Francesco. DELLA CONDIZIONE GIURIDICA DELLE DONNE studi e confronti. Seconda Edizione. Torino, Unione Tipografico-Editrice, 1880. £ 450 SECOND EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], 716, [1] index, [1] blank; some browning in places; in the original printed wrappers; some soiling, and chipping to extremities. Second edition, after the first of 1861, of this historical survey of the legal status of women by the Pisan law professor Carlo Francesco Gabba (1838-1920). After a survey of the current laws concerning women, and a statement of the importance of a proper understanding of their peculiar legal standing, Gabba describes the history of women’s rights, drawing heavily on the work of John Stuart Mill and others. He then discusses the laws relating to women among eastern civilisations, in ancient Greece and Rome, in medieval Christendom, and in modern Italy. Two appendices include a very useful bibliography. Gabba published several works on related subjects, including a study of Italian divorce law and Le donne non avvocate (1884). He is however best known for his principle of “acquired right”, from his most famous book Teoria della retroattività delle leggi (Turin, 1891). OCLC records no copies of either this edition nor the first of 1861 in North America.

44 GOLDHAGEN, Hermann. NÖTHIGER UNTERRICHT IN DER RELIGIONSGRÜNDEN gegen die Gefahren der heutigen Freydenkerey, mit gnädigster Genehmhaltung einer hohen geistlichen und weltlichen Obrigkeit, nach einer leicht faßlichen Art eingerichtet. Mannheim, gedruckt in der Akademischen Buchdruckerei, 1769. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xxii], 374; some spotting and foxing throughout, and marginal worming, not affecting text except in a few instances and then with no loss of sense; in contemporary sheep, spine gilt in compartments with morocco label lettered in gilt; slight rubbing to covers, but still a good copy. First edition of this uncommon anti-Englightenment work by the Mainz Jesuit Hermann Goldhagen (1718-1794), in which he attempts to describe and elucidate the foundations of religion in a warning against the dangers of contemporary freethinking.

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Goldhagen’s work is divided into five sections. In the first, he examines what he terms the fundamental truths of religion (that the world must have a creator, the necessity of a future life), before moving to discuss, in the second and third, divine Revelation in the Old and New Testaments respectively. In the fourth section, Goldhagen turns to an examination of the Christian religion, its practice, its excellence, and the vast (“himmelweiten”) difference between Christianity and Islam. In the final section he concentrates on the advantages of the Catholic faith, and the obvious falsity of other sects. Throughout the work, Goldhagen is keen to attack the errors of enlightenment philosophy, and the last chapter deals exclusively with “dangerous books”, giving advice on their avoidance.

Sommervogel III, 1542, 22; OCLC records no copies outside continental Europe.

45 [HAMBURG]. DER STADT HAMBURGK GERICHTSORDNUNG UND STATUTA. Gedruckt zu Hamburg, mit eines erbarn Raths daselbst befreyhung, in verlegung M. Frobenii, 1605. £ 850 SECOND EDITION. 4to, pp. [vi], 412, [x] index and errata, [1] colophon, [1] blank; with engraved title-page, and woodcut vignette on colophon; lightly browned throughout; in later marbled boards, remains of paper labels on spine and upper cover; some rubbing and bumping, and wear to spine. Second, revised edition of this collection of the laws and statutes of the city state of Hamburg, which first appeared in 1603. Featuring a splendid baroque title-page, the volume is divided into four sections. The first section details the civic structures and the roles of citizens and city functionaries, civic holidays and festivals, and court proceedings; the second sets out the laws relating to contracts; the third deals with wills and legacies; while the fourth section is concerned with criminal proceedings and punishments, dealing with miscreants including magicians and witches, church robbers, pirates, and murderers. The legal reforms that led to these statutes, along with similar reforms in other Hanseatic cities such as Lübeck, were part of a movement to bring old German law into line with Roman law while adapting both to the changed circumstances of early modern cities. The laws outlined here did in large part remain in force until the nineteenth century, and were much reprinted. OCLC records two copies in North America, at Berkeley and the Library of Congress. See illutration on front cover.

46 HEBENSTREIT, Johann Ernst. ANTHROPOLOGIA FORENSIS sistens medici circa rempublicam causasque dicendas Officium cum Rerum Anatomicarum ac Physicarum quae illud attinent expositionibus. Editio altera c. fig. aeneis. Lipsiae, Sumtibus Haeredum Lankisianorum, MDCCLIII [1753]. £ 785 SECOND EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xxvi], 632, [28] index; with four folding leaves of plates; browned throughout, and some staining in places; in contemporary sheep; spine in compartments, tooled in gilt with morocco label; remains of paper library label; boards and spine very worn. Second edition, after the first of 1751, of one of the most influential texts on forensic medicine of the eighteenth century, by the Leipzig physician Johann Ernst Hebenstreit (1703-1757). Divided into two sections, the work first examines the role of doctors in ensuring public safety, from the care of newborns to the care of the dead, before examining specifically legal questions. Hebenstreit separates these into three parts, the civil, the criminal, and the ecclesiastical, discussing questions of legitimacy and parentage, injuries and causes of death, and

21 P ICKERING & C HATTO medical impediments to marriage, as well as questions about gender status. Hebenstreit studied at Leipzig, where he became professor of medicine and anatomy in 1733, after a period in Africa collecting specimens and animals for the menagerie of the Elector Augustus II. The present work is his best known, and was translated into Swedish in 1783. OCLC records North American copies at McGill, Harvard (Law and Medical), the National Library of Medicine, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Yale, Northwestern, and Chicago.

47 HILTEBRANDT, Johann Ludwig. IRRLÄNDISCHE PREIß- SCHRIFFT, Auf welche Weise alle Armen, Witwen und Waysen in jedem Land verforget, dem Umlauf der Bettlern gesteuret, und das Land von allem liederlichen Gesindel gereiniget werde. 1765 vermehrt und verbessert, Nebst einier herrschafftlichen Oeconomie-Beschreibung: wie ein herr seine Staaten in den besten Flor, die Unterthanen in guten Stand und die Revenüen in Verbessergund bringen könne. Franckfurt und Leipzig, 1766. £450 SECOND EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xvi], 128; some prelims misbound, but all present; clean and crisp throughout, with the book-label of the last Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, G.C. von Fechenbach (1749–1808), on the verso of the title-page; in contemporary drab boards, handwritten paper label on spine; a good copy. Second edition, expanded from the first of the previous year, of this somewhat moralistic economic study of poverty in Ireland, by the German economist Johann Ludwig Hiltebrandt. After musing on the moral imperative to treat one’s neighbour as oneself, Hiltebrandt discusses manufacturing in Ireland, the role of the poor in factory work (men, women, and children), and the accommodation of widows. He goes on to discuss lotteries, the regulation of coffee houses, drinking houses, and billiards and card venues, and, in more detail, the work of orphanages and the provision of doctors, surgeons, and midwives. Hiltebrandt is concerned to minimize the impact of the poor o the country, and to maximize the amount of tax revenue. Hiltebrandt was the author of several works on economics, including Neue Beiträge zur Verbesserung der Staats- und Landes-Oeconomie (1771). OCLC records two copies in North America of this edition, at Alberta and Harvard, with a copy of the first edition at the Newberry Library.

48 HOCHSTETTER, Andreas Adam. ORATIO DE UTILITATE Peregrinationis Anglicanae. Ad D. XI. Sextil MDCXCVII recitata Tubingae, quum Eloquentiae & Poeseos Professionem Inclyta in Eberhardinam auspicaretur. [Tübingen], Apud Jo. Georgium Cottam, [1697]. £ 250 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [iv], 44; some foxing in places; as issued, with later paper backstrip; somewhat creased. First edition of this rare treatise on the value of travelling around England, by the German protestant theologian Andreas Adam Hochstetter (1668-1717). After travelling around the German universities at the state’s expense, Hochstetter then travelled to the Netherlands and to England. There, he visits Oxford, seeing the Bodleian library and the Ashmolean, London, and Cambridge, paying particular attention to the philosophical and religious heritage of England. Hochstetter was typical of his time in seeing in England an emblem of true religion, a stronghold of protestantism, to be contrasted with both continental Europe in general, and Germany in particular, which was divided along confessional lines.

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Many of the early accounts of England to appear in Germany were the work of protestant churchmen, who were often keen to display their knowledge of the country and its people. See M. Mauer, “Germany’s image of eighteenth-century England” in Canning & Vellenreuther (eds), Britain and Germany Compared, Wallstein, 2001, pp 18ff; OCLC does not record any copies outside Continental Europe; one copy at the British Library.

49 HUME, David. SMARRE AFHANDLINGAR I ALLMANNA HUSHALLNINGEN, af David Hume, Esquire. Ofversattning ifran sista Engelska Uplagan af Ar 1772. I. Samlingen [all published]. Stockholm, Tryckt hos Johan A. Carlbohm, 1791. £ 1,850 FIRST EDITION IN SWEDISH. 8vo, pp. [iv], 187, [1]; some marking and light foxing in places, but generally clean throughout; with neat contemporary ownership signature on title; uncut in modern half cloth over mottled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Very rare first Swedish translation of Hume’s Political Discourses containing nine of the original twelve discourses. Hume’s fundamental contribution to the history of political economy is contained in the nine essays collected in his Political Discourses. They had such influence generally, and in particular on Adam Smith, that they are indispensable for an understanding of the development of economic theory in the eighteenth century. Hume was convinced that political freedom was an outcome of economic freedom - a contribution that was cited on numerous occasions by Adam Smith. OCLC records four copies, at McGill, Harvard, National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Sweden; not recorded in Jessop or Chuo.

Seen through the Press by David Hume

50 [HUME, David]. MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de. DE L’ESPRIT DES LOIX. Tome Premier [-Second] … Nouvelle Edition, Avec les dernieres Corrections & Illustrations de l’Auteur. A Edinbourg, chez G. Hamilton & J. Balfour. MDCCL [1750]. £ 1,500 FIRST EDINBURGH EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 458, [1] errata, [1] blank; xvii, [I], errata, 487, [1] blank; apart from some minor marking in places, a clean crisp copy throughout; bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, expertly rebacked, spines ruled in gilt with red morocco labels lettered in gilt, light surface wear, still a desirable copy.

Scarce first Edinburgh printing of ‘one of the most remarkable works of the eighteenth century’ (PMM) - Montesquieu’s classification of political structures and his comparative and historical political sociology. This edition is particularly appealing as David Hume was closely involved with seeing it through the press. ‘Later in 1749 Hume helped to put through the press at Edinburgh a translation of some sections of the Esprit des Loix, for which Montesquieu had supplied his final corrections’ (Mossner, p. 229). These final corrections are found in the present work as errata leaves at the end of each volume, as well as an ‘Avis au Lecteur’, where the editor describes the work as “un ouvrage aussi original, où le génie de l’Auteir répond si parfaitement à la grandeur du sujet… En un mot, par des réflexions également nouvelles et profondes sur le coeur et l’esprit humain, et sur un nombre infini de causes don’t l’influence nous étoit imperceptibile, il a sçu rénverser les erreurs les plus spécieuses, et répandre une lumiere sur les vérités les plus importantes”. He explains the that the corrections were printed as errata leaves rather than added to the text due to the impatience of the public, which led to much of the work being printed

23 P ICKERING & C HATTO before Montesquieu’s corrections had arrived (“malgré que nous les ayons attendues autant qu’il etoit possible”). De l’Esprit des Loix is ostensibly a treatise on law, but it spills over into a consideration of every domain affecting human behaviour and into questions of philosophical judgement about the merit of various kinds of legislation. It is divided into six sections, dealing in turn with law in general and different forms of government, with the means of government, with national character and the effect on it of climate, with economic matters and religion, and - in the last chapter - with law, Roman, feudal and modern French. ‘The most distinctive aspect of this immense syllabus is its moderation: a quality not designed to achieve official approval in 1748. It is an always original survey which is neither doctrinaire, visionary, eccentric, nor over-systematic … But the scheme that emerges of a liberal benevolent monarchy limited by safeguards on individual liberty was to prove immensely influential. … Curiously enough the philosophes, whose views were much in sympathy with his, did not speak much of him. This was partly due to the antagonism of Voltaire, and partly to a feeling that on this subject there was nothing much to be added. Yet his theories underlay the thinking which led up to the American and French revolutions, and the United States Constitution in particular is lasting tribute to the principles he advocated’. Jessop, p. 38; Brunet III, 1860; see Printing & the Mind of Man 197; not in Tchemerzine; OCLC: 13605656.

51 HUSSON, Madame. [LE MARCHAND, Françoise]. BOCA, ou la vertu récompensée. Conte nouveau. Par Madame Husson. A Londres; et se trouvent a Paris, chez Duchesne, rue S. Jacques … 1756. £ 550 FIRST EDITION THUS 12mo, pp. 288; title lightly dust-soiled, otherwise a clean copy throughout; in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt with morocco label lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed, but not detracting from this being a handsome and appealing copy, with a contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown.

This novel, which appears here under the name of Madame Husson, was first printed anonymously by Françoise Le Marchand as part of a volume of Nouveaux contes de fées allégoriques of 1735. Husson’s plagiarism, once discovered, was confirmed by her in a letter of apology, and Boca was reprinted subsequently in later editions of the Contes de fées under the name of Le Marchand, who had died around 1754. OCLC records one copy only, at the BNF.

52 [ITALIAN REPUBLIC]. BOLLETTINO DELLE LEGGI DELLA REPUBBLICA ITALIANA dalla costituzione proclamata nei comizj in Lione al 31 dicembre 1802. Anno I. [-III]. [Milano] Presso Luigi Veladini Stampatore Nazionale in Contrada s. Radegonda. [1802-1804]. £ 950 FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 527, [1] blank; xv, [i] blank, 440; viii, 567, [1]; lightly foxed in places, but generally clean and fresh throughout; bound in contemporary vellum backed sprinkled boards, paste paper labels lettered in gilt, some rubbing to corners and boards, but not detracting from this being a handsome copy.

A very good copy of the first three years of this collection of the laws of the new Italian Republic, established by the constitution agreed at Lyon in 1802. The first volume contains the constitution and all the subsequent laws and decrees issues in 1802; these largely elaborate on the constitution and on administrative matters (the establishment of criminal courts, the elections of appeal judges, the national guard). The second volume, covering 1803, includes the nomination of Vaccari as Secretary of State,

24 P ICKERING & C HATTO regulations on maritime safety, and the conscription of soldiers, while the third, covering 1804, includes laws governing the sale of salt and tobacco, laws on hunting, regulations on public debt and taxation, and laws on workhouses. A valuable document of the foundation of a new state. OCLC records copies at Yale, Illinois, NYPL, Pennsylvania, Brigham Young and Wisconsin, Madison.

53 [KANT]. HORVATH, Keresztély János. DECLARATIO INFIRMITATIS FUNDAMENTORUM OPERIS KANTIANI Critik der reinen Vernunft. Budae, typis regiae Universitatis Pestiensis. 1797. £ 425 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 188; with Hungarian library stamp and markings on title, and some sporadic foxing and spotting, but generally clean; in contemporary grey-blue boards; some paper loss to spine, and boards worn. First edition of this attack on Kant’s first Critique, and in particular on its treatment of questions relating to the nature of God, by the Hungarian Jesuit Janos Horvath (1732-1799). Horvath’s work is divided into six chapters, which deal largely with the opening parts of the Critique of Pure Reason. He examines in detail the first section of the Critique, and the new philosophical language that Kant attempts to establish in his claims for the centrality of the distinctions between a priori and a posteriori and between analytic and synthetic judgments. He then discusses Kant’s treatment of causality, and the ways in which it diverges from that of Hume, before examining Kant’s articulation of the general problem of pure reason, and then the difficulties inherent in his treatment of space and time. The final two chapters present a critique of Kant’s categories and his version of the ontological argument. Horvath, who was for many years professor of physics and philosophy at Trnava, is now best known for his Physica generalis (1770) and Physica particularis (1767), in which he attempted to promote the Newtonian mechanics against the more popular Cartesian system. OCLC records copies at British Columbia, Indiana, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Berlin.

54 [KENNEDY, Grace]. ANNA ROSS. … Malta 1829. £ 500 FIRST TURKISH TRANSLATION. 12mo in 6s, pp. 168; with numerous illustrations in the text; some spotting and soiling in places, but generally clean; in contemporary pink cloth-backed drab boards, paper label on spine lettered in ink; spine and boards rubbed and worn.

A very unusual work: a Turkish translation, in Armenian script, printed in Malta, of this edifying novel for children by the Scottish writer Grace Kennedy (1782-1825). Kennedy was best known for her anti-Catholic novel Father Clement, which first appeared in 1823 and was widely translated; indeed two German editions of her collected works appeared, in 1838 and 1842.. Anna Ross, the Orphan of Waterloo also first appeared in 1823, and likewise saw many editions; the fourth had appeared by time the present translation appeared in 1829. As far as we are aware, however, this is the only work of hers to be translated into Turkish. Not in OCLC.

55 KOPPENSTÄTTER, Joseph. KURZE ANLEITUNG ZU RETTUNGSVERSUCHEN der im Wasser und sonst Verunglückten für Jedermann, insbesondere aber für Schwimmlehrer und Schwimmschüler in königl. bayer. Militär-Schwimmanstalten. Nebst einem Anhange einer kurzen Berschreibung eines

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Ruhebettes und eines tragbaren, ökonomischen, diätetisch- chirurgischen Bade-Apparates. Mit einer lythographirten Tafel., im Verlage des Verfassers, 1830. £ 600 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], iv, 88, with folding lithographic plate; slight dampstain in lower corner, not affecting text, and some occasional spotting, but otherwise a clean crisp copy in contemporary green boards, gilt-stamped border on covers, all edges gilt; typewritten library label on upper cover, lower board somewhat faded. Privately published by a Bavarian military doctor, this work deals with saving the lives of drowning people and caring for those suffering from hypothermia, swallowing too much water and other complications. Koppenstätter published several works on ‘life-saving machines,’ other medical equipment and moveable first aid stations for the field. This book was apparently necessary in land-locked Bavaria, after the military began to introduce compulsory swimming lessons for the recruits, which led to many accidents. Other topics dealt with are suffocation, resuscitation, transport of the injured, hot steam baths, the treatment of people injured by collapsed buildings, and autopsy of those who could not be saved. Not in Hirsch and Hübotter, who list other works by the author; OCLC records merely one copy, at the National Library of Medicine.

56 KREBS, Heinrich Johannes. ANFANGSGRÜNDE DER MECHANICK. Erster Theil [all published], die Mechanick im allerengsten Verstande, oder eigenlich die Statick. Zum Gebrauche bey seinen Vorlesungen abgefaßt … Mit 12 Kupfertafeln. Copenhagen und Leipzig, Bey Johann Heinrich Schubothe, 1802. £ 650 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xii], 183, [1] errata; with twelve folding leaves of plates; aside from some occasional spotting, clean and fresh throughout; in contemporary sheep-backed boards; spine tooled in gilt with label lettered in gilt; extremities bumped, but still a good copy. First edition of the first part, all that appeared, of this attractively illustrated introduction to mechanics by the Danish mathematician Heinrich Johannes Krebs (1742-1804), particularly concerned with the science of statics, published to accompany the lectures Krebs gave at the Military Academy at Copenhagen, where he was professor of mathematics and military sciences. After a brief introduction to the subject, Krebs describes simple machines and the principles behind them, before going on to examine the mechanics of wind and water mills and steam engines, clocks, rotisseries, and other applications. The work is illustrated with twelve folding plates depicting all manner of cogs, pulleys, and machines. OCLC: 14993896 records just one copy, at the Smithsonian.

57 LA GUESNERIE, Charlotte-Marie-Anne Charbonnier de. IPHIS ET AGLAÉ, PAR M. ***. Premiere Partie [-Seconde]. A Londres, et se trouve a Paris, chez Merlin, 1768. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 12mo, pp. [ii], 312; [ii], 444; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, with morocco labels lettered in gilt, head and tails chipped, and some minor surface rubbing still an appealing copy.

Rare first edition of this novel by the little known author Charlotte-Marie- Anne Charbonnier de la Guesnerie (1710?-1785). In a letter to the man who acted as her intermediary with publishers, La Guesnerie expressed her fear of notoriety attached to the title of a woman author, but at the same time discounted criticism of her work,

26 P ICKERING & C HATTO standing firmly behind her aesthetic vision. This double discourse is characteristic of her work, in which she criticises societies unjust treatment of women but stops short of condemning the institutions themselves. A stronger criticism is revealed, however, through her plots, which depict a harsh world where the wrong choice of a marriage partner is critical in a legal system biased against women. ‘Commentary on wider issues is embedded in the stories and serves as a counterpoint. The theme of women’s friendship as a compensatory and dependable alternative to male betrayal is common to all her work. La Guesnerie explores the condition of women in a hostile society, ranging from an examination of education suitable to sustain a woman once her youth has gone, to what love means to the mature woman’ (Sartori, The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature, p.372). OCLC records six copies, none of which is outside continental Europe.

58 [LA METTRIE, Julien Offray de]. L’ECOLE DE LA VOLUPTÉ. Dans l’isle de Calypso, Aux depens des Nymphes. 1747. £ 950 SECOND EDITION? 12mo, pp. 75, [1] blank; ownership signatures on half title, otherwise, apart from some minor marks in places, a clean copy throughout; in recent marbled boards. Second edition, the same year as the first, of this important and much reissued study of sexual and sensual pleasure (the untranslatable volupté) by the great materialist philosopher and physician Julien Offray de la Mettrie (1709-1751). La Mettrie aims in his work to place volupté as a “higher” pleasure, one requiring reflection and responsibility, as distinct from mere debauchery or pleasure which has, for him, no intellectual content. He follows Diderot in noting that pleasure has its origins in the senses, and is therefore limited by them; what sets volupté apart from mere pleasure is its roots in imagination, anticipation, and memory. L’Ecole de la Volupté went through several editions, including two in 1747, and was reworked and retitled as L’art de jouir in 1751. Stoddard 23; OCLC records two copies outside Europe, at Yale & the University of Southern California.

59 LAMARCHE, Jean-Baptiste. ESSAI SUR LA MUSIQUE, considérée dans ses rapports avec la médecine; Tel qu’il a été présenté et soutenu à la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, le 2 mai 1815, pour obtenir le grade de Docteur en médecine … A Paris, de L’Imprimerie de Didot Jeune … 1815. £ 250 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 51; [1] blank; some foxing, and dampstaining to margins and gutters, not affecting text; in recent facsimile wrappers.

An uncommon dissertation on the relationship between music and medicine, presented to the Paris medical faculty. Starting with some observations on the influence of music on the passions (whether private or, in the case of “God Save the King”, public) Lamarche then examines some of the ways in which music can be used as therapy. He cites the example of the great castrato Farinelli’s being called to aid the recovery of Philip V of Spain, while drawing on the work of Dodard and Désessarts; in addition to mental illness, music can also be used in the treatment of gout, haemorrhage, epilepsy, rabies, and even snake bites. OCLC records four copies in North America, at Minnesota, New England Conservatory of Music, the Newberry Library and McGill.

60 [LAPI, Giovanni Girolamo]. RAGIONAMENTO CONTRA LA VOLGARE OPINIONE di non potere venire a Roma nella estate …

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In Roma, nella Stamperia di Antonio de’ Rossi, MDCCXLIX [1749]. £ 500 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 95, [1] blank; some light foxing, light dampstaining and worming to upper margin of some gatherings, not affecting text, but otherwise clean and crisp; in contemporary vellum; boards and spine soiled. Rare first edition of this essay on the air of Rome and its environs, by the Roman doctor and author Giovanni Girolamo Lapi. It was common practice among those who could afford it to leave Rome during the summer, and the popular view, as Lapi notes, is that “nobody should come to Rome during the summer, if he does not wish to be at risk of becoming dangerously ill”. Lapi examines the climate, the city’s topography, the use of technologies such as aquaducts, and his observations on disease, while drawing on historical evidence from writers dating from Cicero’s time onwards, to show that Rome is perfectly healthy during summer; or at least not sufficiently hazardous to merit leaving (he does describe some of the illnesses that are common in the city, and means of treating them). Lapi also published works on the treatment of smallpox and on Roman flint. OCLC records four copies outside Continental Europe, three in London (BL, London Library, and the Wellcome) and one at the National Library of Medicine.

61 [LAW]. CODE DE PROCÉDURE CIVILE, conforme à l’édition originale de l’Imprimerie impériale; avec une table raisonnée des matières. A Toulouse, chez J.n- M.eu Douladoure, imprimeur- libraire, rue St.-Rome. 1809. £ 450 SECOND EDITION. 12mo, pp. [ii], 340; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; in contemporary sprinkled sheep, spine tooled in gilt with remains of gilt lettering, corners and extremities rubbed, but still an appealing copy. An uncommon Toulouse printing of the first Napoleonic civil code, which was first enacted by a law of April 14, 1806, and took effect the following year. The code was largely based on the 1667 Code Louis, and was chiefly the work of Eustache-Nicolas Pigeau (1750-1818). It describes the role of the justice de paix, judgements and inquests, tribunals and appeal courts, the enforcement of judgements, and various types of civil procedures, in particular those concerning succession. Not in OCLC; an edition, presumably the first, appeared in 1806 (with identical collation); of this, OCLC records two copies, at the BNF and Virginia Museum Library.

62 [LE BRET, Alexis Jean]. LA NOUVELLE LUNE, ou histoire de Poequilon. Par M. Le B.***. A Amsterdam, et se trouve à Lille, chez J. B. Henry, 1770. £ 1,250 FIRST EDITION. Two volumes in one, small 8vo, pp. [4], vii, 191; [iv], 165; minor stain to fore edge in places throughout, some minor marking to title, and lightly foxed in places throughout; in contemporary sheep, spine gilt with remains of morocco label lettered in gilt, head and tail chipped, corners rubbed.

Scarce first edition of La Nouvelle Lune, a ‘voyage extraordinaire’, written by a ‘disciple’ of Voltaire and dedicated follower of Rousseau. Le Bret’s philosophical novel and main work is set on the moon, with Sélénos as ruler of the state of Verticéphalie. Sélenos had granted young Poequilon all his wishes. He first demands and gets a mountain of gold, which he fritters away quickly, obtains the philosopher’s stone - and

28 P ICKERING & C HATTO opulence regained - he fills a harem with young ladies and gets his third wish granted, the fountain of eternal youth. The orientalism in this novel then comprises sex change, the gift of invisibility, adultery, and more libertinage, until Sélénos punishes the hero by abducting his wife and children to the island of Eutoquie, allowing him to search the entire surface of the moon. The second part of the novel begins with a description of the moon, visits to different populations residing there, such as the Stivaliens, who live in Stivalo. This lunar exploration is a tour-de-force through possible and impossible models of societies and belief system. The happy ending reunites the hero with his family, the couple become King and Queen of Eutoquie and they rule wisely, ‘with pure and innocent authority’ and a religious system free of contradictions. The lunar novel is of course beyond the exoticism and adventures a discussion of the political and philosophical questions of the time, such as religion, slavery and colonialism, tolerance of different belief systems, female sexuality and gender roles. Born in Dijon in 1693, Le Bret became an advocat and civil servant, before being appointed royal censor and moving to Paris, where he died in 1779. He had been in contact with Voltaire to whom he dedicated a manuscript digest of Bayle and was part of a circle of artists and intellectuals from Burgundy, which comprised people as diverse as Buffon, Nerciat and Jean-Philippe Rameau. - See Georges May, “Un voyage peu connu de 1770: La nouvelle lune, ou histoire de Poequilon d’Alexis-Jean Le Bret”, in: Essays on the Age of Enlightenment in Honor of Ira O. Wade, 1977, pp. 205-232. OCLC locates three copies in America, at Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania, and at Vanderbilt University.

63 [LEOPOLD II, Emperor and Grand Duke]. BONDI, Clemente. ORAZIONE FUNEBRE IN LODE DELL’AUGUSTISSIMO IMPERATORE E RE LEOPOLDO SECONDO Recitata dal Signor Abbate Clemente Bondi in Occasione delle solenne ecequie celebrate nella Regio-Ducale Basilica di S. Barbara in Mantova il giorno XII. Maggio MDCCXCII. Milano, Nell’Imperial Monistero di S. Ambrogio Maggiore, [1792]. £ 325 FIRST EDITION. Small folio, pp. [2], xxii, floral woodcut vignette on title, woodcut tailpiece at the end; clean and crisp in the orginal sprinkled wrappers; spine a little worn A good copy of the funerary oration given in Mantua celebrating the achievements of Leopold II, from 1790 to 1792 Holy German Emperor, King of Hungary, archduke of Austria, and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was a moderate proponent of enlightened absolutism, introducing many radical reforms in the Medicean state, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, including the abolition of capital punishment and the elaboration of a modern constitution, which he could not introduce, because of his succession to the Imperial throne in Vienna, after the death of his brother Joseph II. Clemente Bondi (1742-1821) was a Jesuit writer and translator, who after having satirized Pope Clement XIV in 1773 had to go into exile in Tyrol. Before he settled in Brno (Czech Republic) under the patronage of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, he served the Manardi family of Mantua as librarian and stood in contact with Bodoni in Parma. He was certainly the mind independent and critical enough to give the speech celebrating the life and achievements of Leopold II in the main church of Mantua. He praises Leopold’s judicial reforms, administrative reforms driving back corruption and abuse of power, reminds the audience of visitations of hopitals and asylums by the Grand Duke, which led to progressive reforms of these intitutions, and points out the many improvements of the infrastructure (roads, canals, bridges etc) carried out during the reign of Leopold.

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Not in OCLC (although there is a copy at Yale); ICCU lists the title without giving any locations.

64 [LISBON EARTHQUAKE]. CARTA EM QUE SE MOSTRA A FALSA A PROFECIA Do Terremoto do primeiro de Novembro de 1755. Lisboa, Na Offic. Patriarcal e Francisco Luiz Ameno. 1756. £ 500 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 16; bound in recent marbled boards. First edition of this unusual pamphlet, published the year after the great Lisbon earthquake, by the Portuguese historian and writer Pedro Norberto de Aucourt e Padilha (1704-1759). Padilha, writing under the pseudonum of ‘Epicureo Alexandrino’, argues in his pamphlet that it is a nonsense to assume that the Lisbon earthquake in any way fulfilled some of the prophecies which had, in its aftermath, been cited as evidence of divine punishment (often by the English who noted that the English merchant quarter, populated largely by Protestants, was much less badly affected). Padilha was the author of a number of books on various subjects, including Memorias Historicas Geograficas E Politicas Observadas De Pariz a Lisboas (1746) and Raridades da natureza, e da arte, divididas pelos quatro elementos. OCLC records three copies in North America, at Toronto, Harvard and the Newberry Library.

65 [LIVORNO]. CAPITOLI PER L’ACCADEMIA DEGLI AVVALORATI eretta nel teatro detto dagli Armeni della citta’ di Livorno l’anno 1790. Sotto la protezione della sacra maesta’ apostolica di Leopoldo II … [Livorno] nella Stamperia di Tommaso Masi e Comp, [1790]. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 52; with engraved title vignette; aside from some occasional light spotting, clean and crisp; with contemporary exlibris blindstamp on title in contemporary tan boards, with orange paper label on spine, lettered in ink. First edition of this set of rules for the Accademia Degli Avvalorati in Livorno. The Accademia was established in 1699 by a group of prominent Livorno citizens in order to provide a platform for the promotion of the arts, and the financing, staging, and organising of theatrical events. The rules are divided into fourteen chapters, describing the authority under which the Accademia was established and runs, the arms, the number and duties of the academicians, the election of the Supreme Representative, and the operation of the “Armenian theatre”, built in 1782, which was taken over by the Accademia in 1790; this continued in operation until 1867. Not recorded by OCLC; ICCU records six copies in Livorno.

66 MANSION, Léon Larue. LETTRES SUR LA MINIATURE … A Paris, chez Louis Janet, Libraire, et chez l’Auteur … Londres, R. Ackermann … M. Mayaud … 1823. £ 285 SECOND EDITION. 12mo, pp. [ii], 244; with folding handcoloured frontispiece; lightly foxed throughout, due to paper stock; contemporary morocco backed mottled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Second edition, the year after the first, of this uncommon but influential work by the French miniaturist André Léon Larue (1785-1870), in which he describes in a series of letters the principles of miniature painting. Translated also into English and German, the work consists of 23 letters, which, in an almost novelistic style, explain the difficulties inherent in miniature painting, the techniques required, the dangers of wedding

30 P ICKERING & C HATTO oneself to the style of a particular painter, the uses of materials such as gum arabic, the risks of polishing one’s work too soon, and a history of the principal French miniaturists and their work. Larue (often known as Mansion) was a pupil of Isabey and native of Nancy. OCLC records four copies in North America, at Yale, Northern Illinois, the Getty and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

67 [MARZAGLIA, Gaetano]. FASCETTO DI PRATICHE MATEMATICHE spiegate alle persone popolari per uso del comercio umano, e civile, In questa seconda edizione corretto ed accresciuto di altre molte importanti notizie … Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, MDCCLXXX [1780]. £ 1,350 SECOND EDITION. 8vo, pp. xvi, 380, with four folding leaves of plates; some light foxing in places, and slight loss to margins of a few leaves, not affecting text, but otherwise a clean, fresh copy, with later stamp on title; in early nineteenth century sheep-backed green boards, spine ruled in gilt with skiver label lettered in gilt Second edition, considerably augmented from the first of 1754, of this book of applied mathematical problems by the Veronese mathematician Gaetano Marzaglia (1716-1787), heavily influenced by the work of Wolff, who provides the motto to the book, and whose works he edited and expanded. The work contains arithmetical and geometrical problems applied to mercantile, architectural, and industrial settings, dealing with the nature of money, and of weights and measures, the construction of sundials, and the division of royalties within trading companies, among many other questions. Marzaglia was professor of mathematics at the Military College in Verona, and a correspondant of many of the leading scientists and mathematicians in Europe, in particular with Scipione Maffei. OCLC records copies at Stanford, Cambridge, and Oxford, with no physical copies of the first edition recorded.

68 MASCHERPA, Giuseppe. SULLA VACCINAZIONE Opuscolo medico-politico. Pavia, Stamperia Bizzoni, 1834. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. 187, [1] blank; dampstain to first half of work, but otherwise clean and fresh; in the original printed pink wrappers; some wear to spine. First edition of this unusual essay on vaccination, which deals in four parts with both the medical aspects and the social and political importance of the practice. In the first part, Mascherpa examines the development of vaccines in countries from England and Italy to the United States, and explains the reasons for the varying levels of success of different vaccines and programmes, describing in detail the workings of vaccines. He then goes on, in the second part, to discuss the popular influence of vaccination, and the ways in which it affected the prevalence of epidemics (drawing on, among others, Malthus in his analysis), before, in the third part, dealing with the suggestion that the practice of vaccination has introduced new illnesses. The final section draws conclusions about the societal and medical value of vaccination. OCLC records North American copies at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and the National Library of Medicine.

‘Proof that the Moon is composed of Iodine’

69 MISES, Dr. [pseudonym for FECHNER, Theodor Gustav]. BEWEIS, DASS DER MOND AUS JODINE BESTEHE. Germanien [i. e., Penig, Dietze], 5821 [i. e. 1821]. £ 450

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FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 47; title with restoration along inner margin, pp. 15/16 with expertly restored tear; clean and fresh in the original dark brown printed wrappers.

Rare first edition of this scientific-philosophical satire, Proof that the Moon is composed of Iodine, the first work by the student of medicine at Leipzig University, Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887). ‘Dr Mises’ lampoons the materialist and mechanistic teachings in medicine and pharmacology exemplified by the recently popularized medicine iodine (the element having been discovered by Bernard Courtois in 1811; both Humphry Davy and Gay-Lussac had researched and published its properties), which will sooner or later be used as panacea against a whole range of different diseases. Fechner then with syllogisms and logic tricks manages to ‘prove’ that the moon must consist of iodine, which guarantees an almost unlimited supply of the new miracle medicine. Fechner was later to become one of the exponents of Naturphilosopie and professor of physics. Philosophically he was influenced by the early ‘romantic’ Hegel, Schelling, Lorenz Oken and Steffens and criticized materialism in the sciences and sought to infuse psychology and spirituality into natural history, biology and physics. OCLC locates two copies in America, at Yale and in Wisconsin.

70 MUZZARELLI, Alfonso. DELLA VANITÀ E DEL LUSSO DEL VESTIRE MODERNO. Lettera al Signor N. N. Foligno, Giovanni Tomassini, 1794. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 155; occasionally very light spotting; clean and fresh in contemporary Italian patterned boards with brick-red spine and corners, spine lettered in gilt; extremities a little worn; contemporary ownership inscription of Giovanni Banchieri, member of a Lucca landowning family, in ink inside front cover. First edition of this rare work by the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Muzzarelli (1749-1813). Muzzarelli’s aim, as can be gleaned from the title, is to warn of the moral (and practical) dangers to be found in treating clothing as adornment, rather than simply as covering. Decorative modern fashions lead almost inevitably to fornication (plus ca change?), but that is not their only danger: vanity can lead to thoughtlessness, as young people forget their duties to study, women their duties to their families, and everyone from their duties to God and to their own souls. Muzzarelli (1749-1813) was a Jesuit teacher at various ecclesiastical schools and published a few edificatory works, the present book and as well two books (in six volumes) against Rousseau. He worked for Pope Pius VII when he was obducted to France and followed him into exile in 1809. One year later appeared his collected works in Rome in ten volumes. Sommervogel V, col. 1499, 19; OCLC records two copies outside Continental Europe, at the British Library and the V&A.

Lucca poet to Lucca writer

71 PALADINI, Luisa Amalia. A LUIGI FORNACIARI Versi di Luisa Amalia Paladini. Lucca, dalla Tipografia Rocchi, 1843. £ 185 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 10, [1] Note, [1] blank; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; stitched as issued in the original green printed publisher’s wraps, lightly rubbed to extremities, but still a very good copy.

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Rare first edition of this poem on the Lucca writer Luigi Fornaciari (1798-1858) by the Lucca poet Luisa Amalia Paladini (1810-1872). Paladini moved to Lucca from Milan at the age of five, and is best known for patriotic works including Alla banidera italiana, as well as educational works. However, her early work is much more influenced by the likes of Teresa Bandettini, on whom she wrote a number of poems, as did the subject of the present work, Luigi Fornaciari: Elogio di Teresa Bandettini appearing on her death in 1837. Not in OCLC.

72 PALEY, William. TABLEAU DES PREUVES ÉVIDENTS DU CHRISTIANISME … Traduit de l’Anglais par DD Levade. Lausanne, André Fischer and Luc Vincent, 1806. £ 385 FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION. Two vols, 8vo, pp. viii, 391; iv, 417; pp. 87/8 in volume II with paperflaw resulting in the loss of a few letters, overall only occasioanlly very lightly brown-spotted; contemporary grey marbled boards with gilt-stamped orange lettering-pieces on spine; a little rubbed, small later ownership inscription to titles, volume I with presentation inscription by the translator David Levade to one Paul van Muyden, dated 1833. First edition in French of the main work (A view of the evidences of Christianity, 1794) by one of the most progressive and influential English theologians of the last third of the 18th century, William Paley (1743-1805). This work was ‘generally praised as a masterpiece of Christian apologetics, and … [it] confirmed his reputation as one of England’s most respected theologians … A contemporary commented that the Principles “presents a subject which has always been considered as harsh and difficult, in the most agreeable and intelligible form … we sit down to be informed of our duty, and are surprised to meet with amusement” (Public Characters, 118). This edition, translated by Dr. David Levade, a Swiss protestant pastor, who earlier had published the firt edition of William Beckford’s Vathek, was produced for the protestants in France, who managed later in the same year to have it published in Paris itself. Levade’s ‘house was a center of learning whre at different times the historian Edward Gibbon and the French writer Madame de Staël had been guests’ (Latham, Search for a new Eden, James Pierrepont Greaves, p. 39). OCLC does not locate a single copy in America.

73 PARA DU PHANJAS, François. THÉORIE DES ÊTRES INSENSIBLES, ou, Cours complet de métaphysique, sacrée et profane, mise a la portée de tout le monde. Avec une table alphabétique des matieres, qui fait de tout cet ouvrage, un vrai dictionnaire de métaphysique ou de philosophie … Tome Premier [-Troisieme]. A Paris, chez L. Cellot & A. Jombert, Fils Jeune … 1779. £ 450 FIRST EDITION THUS. Three volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], lix, [v], 672; [iv], 656, [1] errata, [1] blank; [iv], 658; with one folding engraved plate in vol. II; a clean fresh copy throughout; in contemporary mottled calf, spines tooled in gilt with red morocco labels lettered in gilt, minor unobtrusive worming to spines, head of vol. I with minor chipping, corners lightly rubbed, nevertheless, a handsome and appealing copy.

First edition under this title of this rare and comprehensive guide to metaphysics by the French Jesuit François Para du Phanjas (1724-1797), a development of his Eléments de métaphysique sacrée et profane which first appeared in 1767. In his preface, the author states that “Il est certain que la Philosophie, telle qu’on l’enseigne ou qu’on doit l’enseigner aujourd’hui, a besoin d’un Cours simple et lumineux de Métaphysique; et qu’un tel Cours … manque encore à la Philosophie”. To that end, he presents an exhaustive

33 P ICKERING & C HATTO survey of the basic questions of philosophy and metaphyics, discussing epistemology, the categories, the nature of substance, relations, time and space, the nature of ideas, the soul, human freedom, morality, matter, logic and dialectic, and God; throughout he cites authorities including Locke, Spinoza, and Malebranche. OCLC records three copies in North America, at Michigan, Columbia and the New York Public Library.

74 PESTALOZZI, Jerome-Jean. AVIS DE PRECAUTION CONTRE LA MALADIE CONTAGIEUSE DE MARSEILLE, Qui contient une idée complette de la Peste, & de ses accidens. Avec des moyens préservatifs & curatifs; de Formules choisies, & un Catalogue général de Remedes, tant simples, que composez. Ouvrage necessaire à tous jeunes Medecins & Chirurgiens destinez au secours des Pestiferez; Et à tous ceux qui restirez dans les Campagnes seroirent privez de conseil & d’assistance. Presenté a son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le duc de Lorraine… A Lyon, Chez les Freres Bruyset. MDCCXXI [1721]. £ 550

FIRST EDITION 12mo, pp. [xxiv], 203 (i. e. 211), (192, then 185 - 203), [7] errata and catalogue; in eighteenth century calf, ruled in gilt with Latin cross decoration on boards and spine, and morocco label, lettered in gilt, on spine; boards, corners and joints worn, with repair to head and foot of spine; still a good copy. First edition of this rare work on the outbreak of plague that affected Marseilles in 1721, the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe, by Jerome-Jean Pestalozzi (1674-1742), who was at the time physician at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon. Pestalozzi divides his work into two parts. The first is essentially an account of the transmission and development of the outbreak as it hit Marseilles, discussing its communication through the air, by means of animals, and on goods that were being traded, and describing the varieties of plague, its diagnosis and prognosis, and the possibility of there being effective remedies. The second part is concerned more with practical measures to be taken against the plague, and examines general practices and external and internal treatments, before presenting a collection of forty preventative remedies which can be used in different situations against the plague, including various parfums for the house, torches to fragrance the air outside, purgative pills, liniments, sudorific remedies, and tranquillising potions. This is followed by a complete listing of simple and composite remedies, divided into categories (balms, minerals, distilled waters, prepared wines, syrups, powders, opiates, pills, tinctures, and so forth). Pestalozzi (or Pestalossi) was born the son of a doctor in Venice in 1674, and studied in Valencia before moving to take up his position in Lyon in 1696, which he occupied for 23 years. As well as the present work, he wrote several small works on the plague, as well as a longer Traité de l’eau de mille-fleurs (1706). The present work is dedicated to Leopold I, duc de Lorraine, and seems from the inscriptions on the front free endpaper and the title page to have been presented by the Duke to a Mr Grandjean. Blake p. 345; Wellcome IV, p. 341; OCLC: 14329855 records copies at McGill, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in the US, and the University of Lyon in the EU; an edition was also published in the same year in Turin.

75 [PLAGUE]. RELATIONI DI VARIE PESTI in Italia sin’ all’ anno corrente 1630. Con tutti li segni di quelle, e rimedii esperimentati nella vera cura, e preserva. Con il modo di purgar le robbe, e case infette, mandate da varii Medici assisteni in detta cura. Stampate per ordine del Magistrato della Sanita in Venetia, e ristampate in

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Napoli, ad instanza d’Andrea Paladino. In Napoli, Appresso Ottavio Beltrano, MDCXXXI [1631]. £ 850 FIRST NAPLES EDITION. Small 4to, pp. [viii], 63, [1] colophon; foxed and browned throughout, with some marginal worming, not affecting text; in later vellum; warped and lightly soiled. First Naples edition, very rare, of this treatise on the plague and its remedies, published at the height of the great Northern Italian epidemic of 1629-1631, which claimed the lives of some 280,000 people, chiefly in Lombardy and the Veneto. The work describes the spread and symptoms of the bubonic plague, its diagnosis, and its prognosis, before proposing a series tof remedies. These range from the essentially pharmaceutical to those verging on witchcraft, and include both preventative measures and treatments for those already ill. The sources of the remedies are also given; ones used in the Constantinople outbreak of 1576, as well as suggestions by a number of named physicians, including Giulio Tresso, Prospero Danza, and the Venetian Nicolo Colocchi. The work also includes instructions on ridding affected houses and buildings of infection. We have been unable to locate any copies of the Venetian printing cited on the title. Krivatsky 9541; further copies recorded at the BL, Wellcome, Aberdeen, BNF and Bibliotheque Sainte Genevieve.

76 ROBERTI, Giambattista. DELLE LODI DELLA B. BEATRICE SECONDA D’ESTE orazione di Giambatista Roberti della Compagnia di Gesù : detta in Ferrara nella Chiesa dell’ Insigne Monastero di S. Antonia il di 18. gennaio 1759. In Ferrara, presso Giuseppe Barbieri. 1759. £ 250 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], XXXV, [1] blank; a clean, crisp copy in recent mottled boards. First edition of this rare eulogy for Beatrice Seconda d’Este (1230-1262), by the Jesuit writer and philosopher Giambattista Roberti (1719-1786), given in the monastery of San Antonio at Ferrara, which she founded. Dedicated to the noted writer and scholar Giovannandrea Barotti, the work describes Beatrice’s importance, her life, and her character. The author wrote a number of philosophical treatises, but was better known known for speeches, fables, and poetry, notably in praise of strawberries (Le fragole poemetto, 1752). OCLC: 30967990 records just one copy, at Columbia.

Preserving Venice with laws

77 ROMPIASIO, Giulio. METODO IN PRATICA DI SOMMARIO, o sia compilazione delle leggi, terminazioni, ed ordini appartenenti agl’ illustrissimi ed eccellentissimi Collegio, e Magistrato alle Acque nei proprj finali Oggetti di Preservazione, e di Esazione; con le Istruzioni preliminari, e Notizie principali toccanti li medesimi … In Venezia, dalla Stamperia ducale. 1771. £ 2,000 SECOND EDITION. 4to, pp. xxiv, 597, [5]; with one large folding engraved map; light waterstain just visible to final gathering and map, otherwise a clean copy throughout; uncut and entirely unopened in contemporary publisher’s marbled wraps, with significant loss to marbled paper of upper wrapper and spine. Second edition (first 1733) of this uncommon work on the laws relating to Venetian watercourses.

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Rompiasio (1656-1737), whose best known work this is, divides his book into three parts. The first deals with the Collegio and Magistrato alle Acque, the body responsible for the governance of the waters around the Venice lagoon, which had been founded in 1505, describing the various officers, their responsibilities, and their salaries. The second part discusses the preservation of the lagoon and the canals of Venice, the various gates, fishing rights, and regulations for building on the shores, before moving to inland rivers, describing the laws surrounding bridges and fords, and the tariffs imposed on river traffic. In the final part, Rompiasio describes the collection of tolls in more detail. Rompiasio’s work was for many years the standard work on the laws governing the Venice lagoon, and influenced many later treatments, including that of Tentori (Della legislazione veneziana sulla preservazione della laguna, Venice 1792). The work serves as a reminder that the maintenance and preservation of Venice and its waterways was as much a consideration for the Venetians of the mid 18th century as for those of today. OCLC records two copies in North America, at Iowa and the Library of Congress, with one of the 1733 edition, at Illinois.

Don’t swear - you’ll be eaten by snakes

78 ROSIGNOLI, Carlo Gregorio. LA LINGUA PURGATA ovvero discorsi in emenda del parlare osceno. In Bologna, Nella Stamperia del Longhi, MDCXCIV [1694]. £ 950 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [x], 228; occasional spotting in places, and worming to margin of signature G with occasional loss to catchword, but otherwise clean throughout; in later yellow boards; title in ink on spine; loss to paper at head of spine, and some wear First edition of this rare treatise on swearing and obscenity, by the Jesuit writer and theologian Carlo Gregorio Rosignoli (1631-1707). Rosignoli divides his work into seventeen chapters, each of which offers one argument against the use of profane language, oaths, and obscenities. These range from the legalistic (obscenity is prohibited by both divine and human law), to the social (obscenity causes scandal). If that were not enough, he also argues that profanity is the preserve of the uneducated, and explains the obligation we all share to correct the bad language of others. Each chapter is followed by an example of the consequences of swearing and obscenity. These range from a hunter who, due to his overuse of bad language, was devoured by snakes, to a singer condemned to eternal damnation as a result of singing smutty songs; an unpleasant death seems to be the general theme. Throughout, the Church Fathers are cited approvingly, and footnoted. OCLC records just one copy in North America, at Pennsylvania.

79 [ROUSSEAU]. HAEFFELIN, Kasimir Johann Baptist Freiherr von. WORIN BESTEHT DIE WAHRE VOLKSAUFKLÄRUNG? Eine akademische Rede, in welcher das ächte Verhältnis der Wissenschaften gegen die Staatsverwaltung, und jenes der Staatsverwaltung gegen die Wissenschaften aus historische Gründen dargethan wird. An Sr. Churfürstlichen Durchlaucht &c. &c. Namensfest Abgelesen in einer öffentlichen Versammlung der churbairischen Akademie … München, Joseph Lindauer, 1799. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 28; clean and fresh in contemporary full goat or sheep, covers with gilt-stamped ornamental border, large Bavarian coat-of-arms on front cover; traces of worming.

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Only edition of this rare public lecture on the relationship between state administration and the sciences, with the title What is the true Enlightenment for the People?. Haeffelin (1737-1827) was an influential Bavarian church politician, diplomat, advocate of the enlightenment and supporter of febronian reforms. He opens with an attack on Rousseau’s view that sciences and arts could have a detrimental effect on society and the the state. ‘This deep-thinking eccentric … has created such an erroneous concept of the sciences and arts that he regards them to be the prime source of all evil with regards to enlightenment and erudition’ (translated from p. 3). The work goes on to denounce what the author calls ‘superficial enlightenment’ as libertinage and disrespect for the laws of nature and moral laws, furthered by Rousseauean ideas of the noble savage. Enlightened legislation, he argues, needs the sciences, the only means of bringing light into the world. OCLC locates only two copies, in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek and one in Munich.

Fixing Spain

80 SALAZAR, Pedro Franco. RESTAURACION POLITICA, economica y militar de España. Madrid, en la imprenta de Sancha, 1812. £ 1,250 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [vii], [i] blank, viii, 336; aside from some very occasional light spotting, and a shelfmark in ink on the title, clean and crisp throughout; partly unopened in contemporary Spanish sheep, with skiver label on spine lettered in gilt; a very good copy. First edition of this comprehensive plan for the rebuilding of the Spanish state after the Peninsular War of 1808-1814. Over the course of two books, Salazar explains the reasons for Spain’s decline as an economic power, and describes how the country could be if it were well governed. The remedies lie not only in governance but also in legal reform, education, and tax reform; Salazar details the ways in which the people, the church, and the nobility should all be taxed, and emphasises the importance of a full registry of land and property. He then goes on to discuss the productive aspects of the Spanish economy, including mining and agriculture. In the second book, Salazar discusses the various manufacturing industries of Spain, before examining the centrality of design. This leads on to an account of the Real Academia de S. Fernando, its plan of study, the buildings, the library and archive, and the collections of pictures and other artworks, and then, by contrast, a plan to rid Spain entirely of beggars through the establishment of almshouses and public institutions. OCLC records North American copies at Berkeley, Yale, Chicago, Duke, Princeton, and Ohio State.

81 [SALUZZO, Diodata et al]. ANTOLOGIA FEMMINILE. Torino, Tipografia Canfari 1840. £ 650 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [ii], 271, [1] errata, with lithographed titlepage and four lithographed portrait plates; some light spotting and foxing in places, and crossed-out later exlibris on front free endpaper; in contemporary ivory silk covered boards, title in gilt on spine; covers somewhat dustsoiled. Only issue of what was clearly intended as a yearly anthology of women’s writing, attractively printed in Turin. The anthology is divided into three parts. The first, which occupies the bulk of the book, contains prose and poetry by Italian writers, including essays on women’s contributions to the arts and sciences by Anna Pepoli, biographical sketches of Byron and Alfieri by Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi,

37 P ICKERING & C HATTO and poems and songs by Teresa Bandettini, Diodata Saluzzo, Isabella Rossi, and others. The second part contains three essays by French writers (Madame de Stael and Agathe-Sophie Sasserno), while the final section consists of biographical essays including one on famous sixteenth century women, and essays on Queen Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great. OCLC records just one copy, at Chicago.

Signed by Sartre and de Beauvoir

82 [SARTRE, Jean Paul]. TIL VIETNAM. [København, trykt i Leif Thomsens Bogtrykkeri, 1967. £ 1,850 FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 27 OF 100 NUMBERED COPIES. 4vo, pp. 36, [3], [1] blank; with 16 poems on 16 leaves, and 16 full-page illustrations; signed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir on front free endpaper, and by Bent Ivre above his poem on page 10; in the original illustrated wrappers; some marking, but a very fresh copy. Number 27 of 100 numbered copies of this collection of poems and illustrations published in connection with the second International Tribunal on War Crimes, which took place in Roskilde in 1967. The International Tribunal on War Crimes was established the previous year by Bertrand Russell, with the aim of investigating the methods used by American forces in Vietnam. Consisting of 25 notable scientists, politicians, lawyers, and civil rights activists, including Sartre (who chaired the second session commemorated here), Simone de Beauvoir, Lazaro Cardenas, and Stokely Carmichael, the Tribunal had two sessions, the first in Stockholm, chaired by Russell, and the second in Roskilde, where it was hoped that, being in non-neutral Denmark, press coverage would be more effective. This led to the establishment of the Dansk Bertrand Russell Råd, a group which included many of the most prominent Danish intellectuals of the late 1960s. The present collection of poems and illustrations, edited by Ebbe Reich and Vang Søndergaard, was issued by the Tribunal’s Copenhagen office, and features the work of many of the best known Danish poets and artists of the period. 1500 copies in all were printed, of which the first 100 were numbered. The present copy is signed by Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. OCLC records North American copies at Berkeley, Illinois, Cornell, Wisconsin (Madison and Milwaukee) and the Library of Congress.

83 SHAKESPEARE, William. SONETY … I–CXXXIV i CXXXVI–CLIV t?omaczy? Mus. Kraków G. Gebethner i Spó?ka 1913. £ 385 FIRST POLISH TRANSLATION. Small square 8vo (154 × 118 mm), pp. 168, [1]; uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers, marked and a little rubbed, some tears to spine, but sound.

The first translation of all Shakespeare’s sonnets into Polish, bar two (134 and 135 omitted as being untranslatable puns). The translator is Maria Sukowska, who even provides a preface in sonnet form in which she outlines her view of Shakespeare’s sonnets and translating them. OCLC locates copies at Harvard, Folger, and the British Library.

84 SONNENFELS, Joseph von. SU L’ABOLIZIONE DELLA TORTURA … Tradotto del Tedesco. Con alcune Osservazioni sul medesimo argomento.. Milano, Appresso Giuseppe Galeazzi, MDCCLXXVI [1776]. £ 1,000 FIRST ITALIAN EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 128; with engraved vignette on title; worming to gutter of first few leaves, but otherwise clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary yellow marbled boards, with large paper

38 P ICKERING & C HATTO label on spine, covering some of boards, lettered H E in black; a good copy. Uncommon first Italian translation of this important contribution to the reform of criminal law in Austria. Sonnenfels (1733-1817) a professor of police and cameralist science at Vienna University and one of the most important Cameralists of the eighteenth century, campaigned tirelessly for the improvement of the penal system and the abolition of torture. Despite the general spirit of reform in the reign of Maria Theresia, the Austrian legal code of 1768, the so-called Theresiana, had explicitly sanctioned both torture and the death penalty. Sonnenfels’ repeated attempts at changing this situation, finally (in 1772) led to a decree of Maria Theresia against his even mentioning the question in future. For that reason this work was published abroad, allegedly without Sonnenfels’ knowledge. His enlightened standpoint finally won the day, even though the death penalty was not abolished until the reign of Joseph II. The present translation includes some additions by the translator applying Sonnenfels’ arguments to the workings of Italian courts. OCLC records North American copies at the Newberry Library and the University of Chicago.

85 SPERANZA, Carlo. SULLA DIGNITÀ DELLA MEDICINA LEGALE Discorso del Cav. Carlo Speranza … Parma, presso Giacomo Donati, 1833. £ 250 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. vi, 50; a clean fresh copy, in recent boards. First edition of this rare essay on legal and forensic medicine, by the Parma professor Carlo Speranza (1778-1867). Speranza in effect gives a survey of the subject, its history, and the principal writers and works, in attempting to provide an overview of the scope, prerogatives, and functions of the discipline. OCLC records two copies, at the Wellcome and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

Shakespeare is great, with or without texts

86 SZERDAHELY, Georgius Aloysius. POESIS DRAMATICA ad aestheticam seu doctrinam boni gustus conformata … Budae, typis Regiae Universitatis, anno MDCCLXXXIV [ 1784]. £ 450 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 208; some foxing in places, but generally clean; unopened in contemporary grey wrappers, with paper label, numbered in ink, on spine; some fraying and spine chipped at head.

First edition of this unusual critical work on the aesthetics of dramatic poetry, by the Hungarian Jesuit Györgz Alajos Szsedahely (1740-1808), who taught aesthetics at the University of Nagyszombat from 1774, shortly before its move to Buda. The book is divided into four parts. The first discusses the nature of drama, the requirement for it to be true to life, the unities, the arrangement of theatrres and spaces, and dramatic form. The second examines tragedy, from the Greeks and Romans through to modern writers in Italy, Spain, England, France, and Germany; the third part treats comedy in the same way. The final part discusses the flaws of musical theatre, and proposes some ways of improving the genre. Szerdahely was an enthusiastic populariser of Shakespeare, and aimed in both his lectures and his printed works (including the present one) to emphasise the greatness of the English dramatist. “The name of Shakespeare is famous among all people, even those who know nothing of the theatre: he is the Idol of Tragedy”. (p.128) It does seem, however, that despite his enthusiasm for the Bard, Szerdahely may not have read a

39 P ICKERING & C HATTO a single word of his works; the cult of Shakespeare was far more advanced in Hungary, thanks to the work of critics such as Sulzer and Schmid, than the almost total lack of translations would seem to justify (see Davidhazi). P. Davidhazi, “Early Translations in Hungary” in Delabastita and D’hulst, European Shakespeares: translating Shakespeare in the Romantic Age, Amsterdam, 1993, pp. 157-8; Sommervogel VII, 1781; OCLC records copies at Augsburg, Goettingen, Berlin, and Madrid.

87 TADDEI, Rosa. NUOVI ESTEMPORANEI DI ROSA TADDEI tra le pastorelle d’arcadia Licori Partenopea … Spoleto, dalla tipografia Bassoni. 1826. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 120; some light foxing and spotting in places, but generally clean throughout; in contemporary morocco backed mottled boards, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, lightly rubbed, but still a very good copy. Rare early collection of poems by the actress and improvisatrice Rosa Taddei (1799-1869). Taddei had written a similar collection of giocose verses for the carnival of 1830, as well as a few dramatic works and other poems for social occasions. She was part of a circle of Northern Italian litterati, which included the sculptors Canova and Bertel Torvaldsen, who made a portrait bust of her. Rosa Taddei, under the name Licori Partenopea, was a celebrated member of the Roman Accademia dell’Arcadia, which had been founded by Chrisitina of Sweden in the 17th century. Not in OCLC.

88 [TURRI, Domenico, editor]. SICUREZZA, E RICCHEZZA DELL’ITALIA nella guerra presente. Lettere Politiche Militari Storiche Geografiche. Napoli, [Domenico Turri], 1795. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [iv], 128; apart from some light browning in places, clean and crisp throughout; in contemporary brown mottled boards, label on spine lettered in gilt; boards and spine rubbed, joints worn; with the bookplate of Giannalisa Feltrinelli and early 20th-century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down. First edition of this extended essay dealing with all aspects of the security and economy of Italy during the wars of 1795. Written in the form of four letters, the work discusses the economic situation of the Italian states in the light of the advancement of the Napoleonic troops and the possibilities of fundamental changes of the fabric of society. After assessing the military situation in Europe and the cost of war the work gives an in-depth analysis of the economic prowess of different European states, referring a couple of times to ‘il Signor Smith profondo Economo Scrittore’, the increasing importance of the American trade, income from the colonies, and the role of the British Empire and English banks in balancing the European economy. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations had been translated into Italian and published in Naples as well, only five years before the present work. The anonymous author of these letters on political economy was clearly influenced by Adam Smith and Antonio Genovesi, who had coined the term economia civile in the 1760s. OCLC records only one copy, at the John Carter Brown Library.

89 VALDECIO, Diunilgo. LE DONNE ILLUSTRI che nel mondo fiorirono non pure in santita’ di vita, ma ben anche in valore, in dottrina, in saviezza, e prudenzia nel governo degli stati, e delle famiglie. Con l’aggiunta di altre valorose donne viventi nel nostro secolo … In Torino, Presso Francesco Prato Librajo … 1786. £ 450

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FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 203, [1] index; with engraved frontispiece; stain to title, and the upper half of gathering D, otherwise apart from some occasional marks a clean copy throughout; in contemporary wraps, lightly dust-soiled and marked, some surface wear and chipping to head and tail of spine, but still a very good copy.

First edition of this poem on illustrious women, written by the Arcadian poet Diunilgo Valdecio partly as an antidote to his Lo Scoglio dell’ Umanita of 1776. The previous work had functioned as a warning to young men about the dangers of bad women, listing with obvious relish the various vices of the female sex, and concluding with an “alfabetto della donna viziosa”. The present work offers the other side of the story: singing the praises of women noted for their sanctity, their valour, and their learning. He pays particular tribute to French literary women, the Arcadian poets, and women in government. Less of a eulogy than a litany, the work concludes with a section on illustrious women who are still living. OCLC records two copies in North America, at Harvard and UC Berkeley.

90 [VALPERGA, Giovanni Alessandro de Conti di, Marchese d’Albarey]. PROSE, E POESIE dedicate alla maesta di Vittorio Amedeo III. … dalla Colonia arcadica fossanese nella solenne prima adunanza. Torino: Ignazio Soffietti, 1780. £ 550 FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. [iv], [I]-CCIV; engraved head- and tailpiece to introduction and 13 woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout text; contemporary mottled sheep, spine in six compartments one with tan label lettered in gilt; some light rubbing to spine and upper cover somewhat scuffed. A good copy of this rare collection of writings in verse and prose by members of the Colonia Arcadica, edited by the nobleman Giovanni di Conti. Among the contents: an essay on the causes of the origins, progress, and decadence of the sciences and arts, by Vincenzo Marenco; an essay on the influence of poetry on customs, by Ottaviano Pasquini; and sonnets, translations of Cicero and Horace, and poems by various members of the Fossano Arcadi. The work is adorned with a number of attractive head- and tailpieces, all inspired by the Arcadian emblem. Not in OCLC.

91 VALSECCHI, Antonino. DEI FONDAMENTI DELLA RELIGIONE e dei fonti dell’ empieta libri tre. Volume I [-III]. In Padova, Nella Stamperia del Seminario, Appresso Giovanni Manfre, MDCCLXV [1765]. £ 850 FIRST EDITION. Three volumes, 4to, pp. xxiv, 258; xx [first leaf blank], 327, [1] blank; xxiv, 386; with woodcut vignettes and initials; some occasional spotting, but generally very clean and fresh throughout; in contemporary vellum, lettering-pieces lettered in gilt on spine; some light soiling but still a delightful copy, with the stamps and book-labels of the Biblioteca Missioni Africane in Verona. Uncommon first edition of this much reprinted work on the basic tenets of religion and the dangers of philosophical scepticism and deism, by the Verona philosopher and theologian Antonino Valsecchi (1708-1791). Over the course of three volumes, Valsecchi sketches the essential tenets of the Catholic faith, discussing proofs of the existence of God, and attacking the arguments against them of modern writers such as Maupertuis and Rousseau. He examines and attacks the idea of the soul proposed by Locke and propagated by Voltaire, and defends the doctrine of the immateriality of the soul. A chapter on human freedom leads into a discussion of natural law, in which he defends Thomist ideas against

41 P ICKERING & C HATTO the views of Hobbes and Spinoza. Much of his work, however, is expressly directed against the scepticism of Bayle, of whom Valsecchi also published a biographical sketch, published after his death. The themes of the unity and infallibility of the Church, the dangers of schisms, and the risk of atheism all run through the book. OCLC records just one copy, at the University of Newcastle (NSW).

92 VENTANI, Giuseppe. LA SICUREZZA CHE PARLA DELLE SUE VICENDE Ode umiliata alle ll. aa. Reali il Ferdinando III, Arciduca d’Austria, Principe Reale di Ungheria, e di Boemia, Granduca di Toscana ec. ec. ec. e la Serenissima Maria Luisa … In Firenze, 1791. £ 200 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 11, [1] blank; a clean crisp copy; in recent wraps. A good copy of this uncommon poem, dedicated to Ferdinand III and his wife Maria Luisa, by the Arcadian poet Giuseppe Ventani (who also published under the Arcadian name of Argildo Coribasio. Musing on the theme of “The confidence that speaks of experience”, Ventani alludes to the riots that took place in Prato over the Jansenist liturgical changes, shortly after Ferdinand had become Archduke of Tuscany, and the ways in which “the sight of a simple red cockard” did much to sooth the trouble. Not in OCLC.

93 VENTURA, Gioacchino. ELOGIO FUNEBRE DI NICCOLA FERGOLA Publico Professore di Matematica Sublime nella R. Universita di Napoli … Modena, per gli Eredi Soliani tip. Reali, 1825. £ 225 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 69, [1] blank; apart from some light staining just visible in places, a clean copy throughout; stitched as issued in contemporary blue wraps, lightly dust-soiled and chipped to extremities, with contemporary ownership signature on upper wrapper ‘Al Dottor Labus’ and his library stamp (also on title); a very good copy. A good copy of the eulogy given at the funeral of the noted Italian mathematician Niccola Fergola. Fergola (1753-1824) was professor of mathematics at Naples, where he established a lively school of synthetic mathematics. He had studied law and mathematics at Naples, succeeding Marzucco Joseph to the chair of mathematics in 1800. His “synthetic mathematics” was based principally on Greek geometry, and influenced the likes of Carlo Forti and, especially, Annibale Giordano, both of whom studied under him. He is also noted for his influential work on Newtonian mathematics, Prelezioni sopra i principi matematici della filosofia naturale del Newton, which was translated into French and Spanish. This eulogy was given by the Theatine philosopher and writer Gioacchino Ventura (1792-1861) OCLC records three copies, at the BL, BNF and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

94 [VICENZA]. STATUTO DELLA SOCIETÀ DEL CASINO in Vicenza. 6 Settembre 1867. Vicenza, Tipografia di Girolamo Burato. 1867. £ 185 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 20; apart from a few minor marks, a clean copy throughout; stitched as issued in the original blue printed publisher’s wrappers, lightly foxed and with minor surface rubbing, number written in ink at head of upper wrapper; a very good copy. Uncommon set of statutes for the newly established Società del Casino, a club established for ‘conversation, reading, games, dance etc’. The

42 P ICKERING & C HATTO statues describe the purpose of the club, its foundation and officers, the roles of the president and secretary. The Società del Casino was run like an English gentlemen’s club, with one important difference: it admitted women. Not in OCLC.

95 VOCH, Lukas. ALLGEMEINES BAULEXICON, oder Erklärung der deutschen und französischen Kunstwörter, in der bürgerlichen, Kriegs- und Schiffbaukunst, wie auch Hydrotechnik und Hydraulik. Augsburg und Leipzig, bey Matthäus Riegers, 1781. £ 950 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 359, [1] advertisements; in contemporary half sheep, spine ruled in gilt with brown labels lettered in gilt. First edition of this uncommon architectural and technical dictionary by the noted Bavarian architect and engineer Lukas Voch (1728–1783). Voch was based in Augsburg, and was the author of numerous works on civic architecture, hydraulics, building regulations, sundials, and applied geometry. The present work offers a comprehensive lexicon of German and French terms relating to architecture, shipbuilding, military engineering, hydrotechnics, and hydraulics. In his preface, he claims to be the first to put together such a dictionary which is of use not just for domestic architects but also for civil engineers and other practitioners; the work is also aimed at administrators, jurists, and civil servants who need to understand building terminology, as well as for those commissioning buildings, in order to avoid being deceived by builders. In these respects Voch’s work differs from earlier lexica by Penther and Sturm, both of which dealt exclusively with domestic architecture; the present book also is distinctive for its small format, enabling it to be used much more easily as a reference for practitioners in the field. OCLC records four copies in North America, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Oklahama, Texas, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

96 [VOISENON, Claude Henri de Fusée de]. TANT-MIEUX POUR ELLE; conte plaisant. Il y a commencement à tout. [No place, printer or publisher, c. 1760]. £ 385 FIRST EDITION? 12mo, pp. [ii, engraved title], 137, [3]; occasional light spotting; contemporary marbled calf, spine ornamented and lettered in gilt; head of spine worn, lightly rubbed.

A lifelong friend of Voltaire, and acquainted with Madame de Pompadour, the Abbé de Voisenon had, according to Lemonnyer, written this ‘debauche d’esprit’ in his youth and the manuscript was in the possession of Favart, and an anonymous publisher stole it for publication. Voisenon tried to suppress the first - this? - edition, which is extremely rare. There are a number of undated printings, one with the imprint A Ville-Neuve, De l’imprimerie de l’Hymen. In the preface is stated that a first edition circulated in the provinces and that the French capital shoud no longer be deprived of this little work. Horace Walpole, in a letter of 1760 clearly enjoyed the book: ‘There is a delightful little French book come out, called “Tant mieux pour elle”. It is called Crébillon’s, and I should think was so. I only borowed it and cannot get one; tant pis pour vous’ (letter to H. C Conway, June 21, 1760; pulished in The Letters of Horace Walpole vol. IV, p. 67). The story evolves around three characters, prince Potiron (pumpkin), whose ‘limbs where as short as his thoughts,’ prince Discret, who was charming and princess Tricolore, ‘more radiant than a beautiful day in spring’. Barbier IV, col. 667 (this edition); Lemonnyer III, cols. 1177-8 (Villeneuve and other editions).

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97 VOLTAIRE. MICROMEGA, Zadig, e diversi aneddoti di M. de Voltaire. Tradotti dal Francese. Napoli, Preso G.P. Merande e Comp. 1785. £ 950 FIRST ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF MICROMÉGAS. 8vo, pp. [viii], 259, [1] blank, [4] imprimaturs; some foxing and dampstaining throughout; in later vellum, spine ruled in gilt with gilt-lettered red and black morocco labels; some light soiling. Very rare Italian translations of two of the most desirable of early Voltaire items, including the first appearance in Italian of Micromégas. Micromégas revolves around the eponymous hero’s encounter with the inhabitants of Saturn and Jupiter. Essentially a fictional attack on the idea that man is the centre and high-point of the cosmos, Micromégas tells of a giant from Sirius who, with a friend from Saturn, visits Earth. Wade has demonstrated that the text was written in 1739, some ten years before the date long assigned to it, at a time when Voltaire was struggling to acquire a liberal way of thought by extending his studies into the sciences. ‘Not only is it the first work of a newly-created genre [imaginary voyages], it is also the first which incorporates in an artistic way all the threads of Voltaire’s humanistic development’ (Wade). First published in French in 1747 under the title of Memnon, Zadig was one of Voltaire’s earliest successes in fiction. In it he used for the first time the conte philosophique that was to be so popular throughout the second half of the century. The tale follows the eponymous hero through a series of misfortunes, such as strangulation and enslavement, in the course of his quest for love and enlightenment. In the peculiar penultimate chapter entitled L’Hermite, fate, in the shape of the angel Jesrad, befriends him and he gains the crown and the queen whom he loves. Additionally, Zadig is often referred to as the first modern detective story. The third chapter, ‘The Dog and the Horse’, is cited in particular as a precursor to the Sherlock Holmes stories. The present volume also includes several extracts from Voltaire’s Dictionnaire philosophique, on Cromwell, the Koran, and suicide, as well as three of the four letters on the Quakers from his Lettres philosophiques. A second Italian translation of the first two works appeared the following year, in Venice. Not in Bengesco; OCLC records just one copy, at Berkeley.

98 [VOLTAIRE, François Arouet de]. DE LA MORT DE LOUIS XV, et de la Fatalité. [Geneva?, 1774?]. £ 750 FIRST EDITION? 8vo, pp. 14, [2] blank; in recent green mottled boards, brown morocco label, lettered in gilt, on spine; a good copy.

First edition of this defence by Voltaire of the practice of inoculation, which also appeared as an appendix to his Eloge de Louis XV, after the king’s death in May 1774. Voltaire often expressed his advocacy of inoculation, often in the face of great scepticism among the French; the most substantial statement of his views can be found in his Lettres philosophiques. The present polemic is occasioned by Louis XV’s death from smallpox; Voltaire describes the development of inoculation in countries such as England and Russia, and cites the numerous examples of monarchs who had been inoculated (as was Louis XVI after the death of his father). He predicts that “the time will come when inoculation will be a part of the raising of childern, and that we shall give them smallpox, as we remove their teeth in order to give the other ones freedom to grow better”.

99 WILDE, Oscar. DE PROFUNDIS. Epistola: in carcere et vinculis. [In Cyrillic:] Avtorizovannyi dopolnennyi perevod s angliiskago M. Likiardopulo. S predisloviem Robeta Rossa [Authorised

44 P ICKERING & C HATTO supplemented translation from the English by Mikhail Likiardopulo. With a foreword by Robert Ross]. Moskva. Knigoizdatelstvo Polza V. Antik i Ko. [1908]. £ 1,500 FIRST EDITION THUS. 16mo (140 × 94 mm) in half-sheets, pp. 74; leaves toned due to paper stock, stab-holes in the gutter from original sewing; old half cloth, marbled paper sides, stain to front cover. Mikhail Likiardopulo (1883–1925) was secretary of the Russian Symbolist journal Vesy (The Scales), which published a number of reviews and articles on Wilde from 1904 onwards. His contact with some of Wilde’s closest friends in England allowed him access to material denied to other Russian translators. In 1907, Likiardopulo published a translation of Wilde’s unfinished play, A Florentine Tragedy— its first appearance in any language. Robert Ross, Wilde’s literary executor, was keen to publish Wilde’s work in Russia, in order to avoid infringing copyright laws. ‘A further advantage to Ross in promoting Wilde’s Russian reputation in this way was that in Russia, he was out of reach of the litigious Alfred Douglas. When in 1905 Ross had published an abridged edition of De Profundis, the fact that Douglas was the addressee of this cry from the depths was not public knowledge. In March 1905, The Scales published a Russian translation of the same version, complete with a translation of Ross’s introduction to the English edition, and a bitter account of the background to the work: Wilde’s trial and imprisonment. Exactly three years later, The Scales published more, hitherto unpublished, material from De Profundis, translated by Likiardopulo, and with an introduction by Ross naming Douglas as the addressee’ (Rachel Polansky, English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance, Cambridge UP, 1998, pp. 163–4). It is this version which appears here. OCLC locates three copies: Clark Library, Bern, and Maribor (Slovenia).

100 [WOLFF]. S. JOACHIM, Franciscus Maria a. MECHANICAM, ATQUE PHILOSOPHIAM Emmentissimo, & Reverendissimo Domino Prospero Columnae de Sciarra … nuncupat Franciscus Maria a S. Joachim … Quodlibet ex capite Mechanicae Theorema, atque Problema pro audientium libito evoluturus, demonstraturus, resoluturus, vel constructurus. Et quodlibet post tertium ex Philosophia Theorema propugnaturus. Romae, Typis Joannis Zempel, MDCCXLVIII [ 1748]. £ 185 DISSERTATION. 8vo, pp. [ii], xx, [ii] blank; very clean and fresh throughout; in recent wrappers. A very fresh copy of this quodlibet dissertation on Wolffian mechanics and natural philosophy, presented to Cardinal Prospero Colonna di Sciarra (1707-1765). The author simply presents a series of propositions to describe Wolff’s mechanics, noting the similarities (and differences) with Newton’s theories where appopriate. In particular, he discusses uniform acceleration, the centre of gravity, inertia and the action of gravity, the ascent and descent of bodies in curved lines, the motion of pendula, the motion of projectiles and of struck bodies, and centrifugal force. Not recorded by OCLC or KVK.

101 XIMENES, Leonardo. I SEI PRIMI ELEMENTI DELLA GEOMETRIA PIANA A cui si aggiugne alcun saggio de’ molti usi, che le proposizioni elementari fomministrano alla fisica, alla meccanica, all’astronomia, e ad altre parti della matematica … In Venezia, Presso Giambatista Albrizzi, MDCCLII [1752]. £ 750 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 354, with ten leaves of folding plates and several tables and illustrations in the text; some dampstaining in places, largely but not exclusively marginal; in contemporary patterned paste-

45 P ICKERING & C HATTO paper boards, handlettered library label on spine; some wear to joints, but still a good copy. First edition of this popular introduction to geometry by the Jesuit physicist and astronomer Leonardo Ximenes. Reprinted several times over the next seventy years, this was Ximenes’ most popular work, and was designed principally as a guide to the practical applications of geometry. After two lezione introducing the basic concepts, and a series of definitions and axioms, the work is divided into six elementi, each of which describes a series of geometrical propositions, largely taken from Euclid, with demonstrations and corollaries. In most cases, these propositions are then augmented with practical examples of the ways in which the principles can be observed in the natural world, and in machines; for instance, the theory of the circle is illustrated by Ximenes with four sections on surveying, the ebb and flow of the tides, Kepler’s laws, and the transport of water; he also uses both architectural and optical examples to illustrate the Euclidian theories. Leonardo Ximenes (1716-1786) taught rhetoric and philosophy at Siena and Florence, where he became, in 1761, professor of geography. One of his principal interests was hydraulics; he did much work on flood control on the Po and Reno rivers, and the present work is an early indication of his interest in the subject. It was reprinted as late as 1819. The present copy, in common with most in library holdings, does not have the dedication, approbation, and errata called for by Riccardi (II, 633), and has only 32 pages of prelims; however, the copy does appear to be complete, and may well be a later issue; the prelims of the second edition follow our copy. Sommervogel viii, p. 1342; OCLC records North American copies at the Burndy, California Tech, Berkeley, Cornell, Oklahoma, Baylor, and Brigham Young.

102 ZANTONELLI, Giuseppe. ELEMENTI DI ASTRONOMIA redati ad uso delle scuole ed acconci a tutti coloro che ignorano le maravigliose opere del creato con dizionario dei termini tecnici … Napoli, Comm. G. de Angelis e Figlio Tipografi di sua maesta … 1880. £ 285 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. vii, [i] blank, 199, [1] blank; lightly and evenly browned throughout, due to paper stock; signed by the author on the final leaf to prevent counterfeiting; uncut in the original printed pictorial wraps, rebacked, lightly dust-soiled, but still an appealing copy. First edition of this rare general introduction to the study of astronomy, by the Naples professor Giuseppe Zantonelli. Zantonelli describes the solar system, various astronomical instruments, mathematical definitions, features of the cosmos including pole stars, constellations, nebulas, and the reasons for the seeming motionlessness of the stars, the sun, and the orbits of the planets, before giving more detailed accounts of each of the planets and their moons; a final section deals with the tides. The last quarter of the volume contains a useful and comprehensive dictionary of technical terms. Not in OCLC.

103 ZYBINN, Wladimir de. AKROCHKA Moeurs Russes et Variétés. Nice, imprimerie V.-Eugène Gauthier, 1878-1879. £ 385 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 240, [1] errata, [1] blank; clean and fresh throughout, except for sporadic annotations in blue ink; in the original printed wrappers.

First editon of this collection of observations, anecdotes, and nostalgic snippets on Russian themes, by the expatriate Russian author Vladimir Zybinn.

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Zybinn was the author of several works, ranging from plays to a book on the mysteries of Nice. Here, he offers a series of vignettes on subjects including the main gates of the Kremlin, Tsar Alexander I, the way expat Russians in Nice celebrate Easter, cossacks, and the great bell in the Kremlin. A substantial part of the work consists of the diary of a young female Russian doctor in Italy. The present copy benefits (?) from some rather sceptical corrections in a later hand (for instance, where the author claims that “Le chef supreme de l’Eglise russe est Jésus-Christ”, the name is forcibly crossed out and substituted with “Le Tsar”. OCLC records two copies only, at Basel and the BNF.

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