[PHOONSEN, Johannes (1631-1702)] Berichten en vertoogen, raackende het bestier van den omslagh van de wissel-banck tot Amsterdam. Ingestelt door J.Ph. Amsterdam, Jan Bouman 1677. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo. [XVI],[2],62,87,[3],86p. Contemp. vellum, a bit dust-soiled. Bound with another work by the author. (#29710) € 2250

POSTEL, Guillaume (1510-1581) De orbis terrae concordia libri quatuor, multiiuga eruditione ac pietate referti, quibus nihil hoc tam perturbato rerum statu uel utilius, uel accommodatius potuisse in publicum edi, quiuis aequus lector iudicabit ... Adiectae sunt quoq[ue] annotationes in margine à pio atque erudito quodam viro ... [Basel, Johann Oporinus 1544.] Folio. [VIII],427 [i.e. 447, p.447 misnumbered 427], [29]p. Old manuscript vellum over boards, partly blackened and with some imperfections, upper joint cracked but holding. First blank detached, 8 mms of inner margin of title affected by old tape 'repair', a few stains but generally bright and clean. Early ownership inscription of a monastery library on title. Bound with another (incomplete) work. (#38970) € 3000

REBMANN, Johann Christian (1734-1810) Von dem gerichtlichen und aussergerichtlichen Verfahren in Rechnungs-Angelegenheiten. Erlangen, Johann Jacob Palm 1789. 4to. [VIII],XII,283p. Nineteenth-century half cloth, gilt back. (#30860) € 350

First (only) edition. An ethnographical description of the Central and South Moluccas, based upon personal observations of the author, a former resident of Ambon. Geographically arranged: the island Buru, Ambon and the Uliase, the island Serang or Nusaina, the Seranglao- and Gorong archipelago, the Watubela islands, the Keei or Ewaabu islands, the Aaru archipelago, the Tanembar- and Timorlao islands, the Luang-Sermata group, the Babar archipelago, the islands Leti, Moa and Lakor, the island Keisar or Makisar, the island Eetar or Wetar, and the islands Romang, Dama, Teun, Nila or Lina and Serua.

[VIII],218p. Recently cloth-backed boards, orig. printed upper wrapper laid down. Some light soiling and foxing. (#20254)
€ 900

First separate edition, previously published in the author's own journal Der Jude. In his Critical examination of the ongoing negotiations in the years 1831 and 1832 in Germany on the emancipation of the Jews Riesser focuses on the debate on the civil status of the Jews in four German states: Baden, Bavaria, Hanover and Kurhessen. Riesser was a pioneer of Jewish emancipation in Germany. He studied law in Heidelberg, but was refused to practice as a lawyer because of his religion. In reaction he published his famous pamphlet Ueber die Stellung der Bekenner des Mosaischen Glaubens in Deutschland, which marked a turning point in the struggle for emancipation. ‘Riesser demanded emancipation for the Jews in the name of honor and justice. In his view the claim that the Jews must convert in order to obtain full civil rights was evidence of contempt for religion. The Jews themselves must fight for their own rights, and for that purpose they must organize themselves in special associations, since only by a common effort and not as individuals do they have a chance of success' (Encyclopaedia Judaica).

4tp. 56,[4]p., numbered [1]-48,41-48,[1-4]. Contemp. carta rustica, slightly stained and damaged at back with an old repair. (#37859)
€ 2000

First edition. This Discourse on famine and hunger was written shortly after a disastrous famine had struck Italy and parts of Southern Europe in the winter of 1590/91. It paints a startling picture of the miserable diet of the poor. Segni, a canon at Bologna, attacked the manner in which the corn trade was conducted. He advocates severe restrictions on the corn trade, if not a total ban on the trade in the means of subsistence. He pleads for firm intervention by the government for the benefit of the poorer classes, in times of famine the rich should share their abundance with the poor. Very rare. *Mattioli 3326. Nor this nor the second edition of 1602 in Kress, Kress, Italian, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi.

First edition. Inscribed by the author: ‘J'en fis 100 0000000 années sur l'action ecrit achevée a Paris. Pacques annee 1888' (?).
‘The idea of a nation is not what it thinks of itself in time, but instead what God thinks of it in eternity' (p.6). Solovyov was one of the greatest religious and political thinkers of nineteenth-century Russia, a poet and mystic. In the 1880's he worked to revive the mystical-gnostic elements in the Russian Church and searched for the spiritual nature of the world and universal religion. Solovyov never broke up with Orthodoxy but he promoted the reunification of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches.
Though an intimate friend of Fyodor Dostoevsky Solovyov was highly critical towards the latter's nationalism, ominously writing that ‘national self-consciousness is a great thing, but when self-consciousness turns into complacency, and complacency into self-admiration, it can only end in national self-destruction‘.
He was little successful in Russia where he had to struggle against the Tsarist censorship and when visiting Paris in 1888 his ideas neither found much appreciation. Solovyov's ideas were of great importance for the Russian spiritual renaissance at the beginning of the twentieth century, but during the Soviet regime his works were forbidden.

Large 4to (29 x 21 cm). [XII],160p. With coat of arms of the Medici and woodcut of the Assumption of the Virgin with the city of Siena on title. Contemp. vellum. First and last leaves and some margins stained, tear in p.155/156, p.157-160 with several repairs. (#39508)
€ 2000

Second edition of the statutes of the organization of trade in the City of Siena. First published in 1572 they appear here revised by order of Cosimo II de Medici, grand duke of Tuscany. It is divided into four parts. The first part deals with the election of officials and their duties, the second part the way of resolving conflicts, the third the relations between the trades, and the fourth details on regulations for the various guilds of Siena, like pharmacists, goldsmiths, booksellers and silk sellers. It includes numerous details of interest for the legal, financial, economic and social history of a seventeenth century Italian city. *Kress, S.477. Kress, Italian 127. Not in Goldsmith's, Einaudi or Mattioli.

Large 12mo (16,7 x 10,2 cm). 8,CLVIII,[2],217,[7]p. Contemp. calf, back with red label, extremities little worn, upper joint weak. (#32926)
€ 900

First edition thus. An ardent plea for tolerance in matters of religion, by a Mennonite preacher from Friesland, repeatedly accused of Socinianism. This English edition was done after the French translation published in Leiden in 1752 with the title Lettre pastorale contre le fanatisme adresseé aux mennonites de Frise. It has a long preface, taking about half of the volume, and notes by the translator, a ‘De Boissy'. The original Dutch edition was published in Harlingen in 1750 with the title Waarschuwinge tegen de geestdrijverij, vervat in een brief aan de Doopsgezinden in Friesland. An earlier English edition appeared in London in 1753, translated by Henry Rimius and without the present long preface. *Knijff & Visser, Bibliographia sociniana 4337 (Dutch edition) and 4338 (French edition).

A vast program of reforms

[THOME, Louis Marie René, marquis de] De l'ensemble, ou essai sur les grands principes de l'administration. A Paris, chez Gattey 1788. 2 volumes. [IV],456; [IV],348p. Contemp. calf, gilt backs, sides with gilt double-line borders and small central coat of arms, marbled endpapers. (#31243) € 1250

First (only) edition. A very rare work on public administration which contains a vast program of reforms. It deals with all aspects of governmental science and public welfare. The author treats public morality and moral education, with particular attention for the education of women, and improvements to introduce in the legislation and the administration of justice. An important part of the work is dedicated to urgently needed reforms to be made in public finance. He discusses the injustice and detrimental effects of so many of the existing taxes and proposes the introduction of a single tax.
The second volume treats the 'physical' part of public administration, the promotion of commerce and trade, with chapters on improvements to be made in the army, statute labour, the road-system and river works, the police, the facilities for travellers, postal services, etc. The author also gives suggestions for the local administration on subjects like public health, clean water, loan-offices, fire-service, hospitals, town planning, cemeteries, etc. He ends his work with a discussion of the monarchy with a proposal for the installation of a supreme council.
We were unable to find any information about the author, other than that he has been suggested (together with G.J.B.Target and P.A.Torné) as the author of a somewhat similar work (L'Esprit des Cahiers, see INED 4277 for a long notice), published in 1789 and presented to the States General.
*INED 4317. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi.

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THORBECKE, Johan Rudolph (1798-1872)
Ueber das Wesen und den organischen Charakter der Geschichte. Ein Schreiben an Herrn Hofrath K.F.Eichhorn in Göttingen.
Göttingen, Vandenhöck und Ruprecht 1824.
[II],49p. Contemp. green wrappers. (#20633)
€ 125

First (only) edition. One of the earliest publications of the author in which he developed his ideas on the organic character of history. ‘Thorbecke sees the course of history as an organic process of development. The revolutionary ideal of total change seemed to him not only undesirable but indeed impossible. Every historical period has its own character, but remains determined also by the past.' (J.C.Boogman in Acta historiae Neerlandicae) Thorbecke was a liberal politician and founder of the parliamentary system in the Netherlands, and three times its prime minister from until his death in 1872. At the time of publication of this Thorbecke studied and teached in Giessen and Göttingen. In 1825 he was appointed professor in Gent and after the Belgian revolution of 1830 became professor of modern history in Leiden.

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TRISTAN, Flora (1803-1844) L'Emancipation de la femme ou le testament de la paria. Ouvrage posthume de Mme Flora Tristan complété d'après ses notes et publié par A.Constant. Deuxième édition. Paris, au bureau de la direction de La Vérité, Guarin 1846. 16mo. 128p. Uncut in late nineteenth-century half cloth with marbled boards and endpapers. Very mild foxing. (#27453) € 950

Second edition, from the same year as the first edition. Flora Tristan's notes on female emancipation, posthumously edited by Alphonse Constant. It represents the ideas of Flora Tristan, but in a form which is not hers.
*Not in Kress, Goldsmith', Einaudi or Mattioli. We could locate only a single copy of the first edition (BnF) and only a few copies of this second edition worldwide.

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The best contemporary source for the tulip speculation

Tulipomania.
De drie t'zamenspraeken tusschen Waermondt en Gaergoedt, over de op- en ondergang van Flora; als mede Floraes zotte-bollen, troostbrief, en een register der tegenwoordige meest geächte hyacinten, met der zelver prysen. Deze tweden druck vermeerdert en van veele fauten gezuyvert. [Bound with:] Clare ontdeckingh der dwaes heydt, der ghener die haer tegenwoordigh laten noemen floristen ... Gedruckt na de oprechte copye 1636.
Haerlem, gedruckt by Johannes Marshoorn 1734.
2 volumes in 1. Small 8vo. [IV],219,[1]p. & 4 pages numbered *104 between p.104 and 105, 24p. With folding engraving. Nineteenth-century half calf, gilt back with red label. Some light spotting and staining. (#40568)
€ 2500

         

An eighteenth-century reissue of six pamphlets originally published in 1637 (and again in 1643) after the collapse of the speculative tulip bubble in the Netherlands. They were written with the object to warn against future speculation. They are 'the best contemporary source for the tulip speculation ... They do not only give the methods of how the business was done, but they also contain numerous details about the trade and the prices' (Krelage).
The first three pamphlets are written in the form of dialogues ('zamenspraeken') between Waermondt ('Truemouth') and Gaergoedt ('Amasswealth'). Gaergoedt is a weaver who has abandoned his business to become a speculator. He tells Waermondt that he can easily win a few thousand guilders a day by his trading. But Waermondt warns that he will finally loose everything and that it would have been better to remain a weaver.
The main work is continuously paginated but all pamphlets have also own title leaves, each with a woodcut showing the tulip 'Hertoch Eerich': (1) Eerste t'samen-spraeck, tusschen Waermondt ende Gaergoedt, nopende de opkomst ende ondergang van Flora, (2) Tweede t'samen-spraeck ... zijnde het vervolgh ... (3) Register van de prijsen der bloemen, zijnde de derde t'samen-spraeck ... (4) Floraes sotte-bollen: afgemaelt in dichten en sangen door verscheyde autheuren, (5) Troost-brief, aen alle bedroefde bloemmisten, die treuren over 't sterven of 't overlijden van Flora, goddinne der Floristen. The four additional pages contain an explanation of the engraving depicting 'Floraes gecks-kap'. This engraving is different from the (non folding) engraving found in other copies of this.

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[VIVANT DE MEZAQUES]
Bilan général et raisonné de l'Angleterre; depuis 1600 jusqu'à la fin de 1761; ou lettre à M.L.C.D. sur le produit des terres et du commerce de l'Angleterre. Par M.V.D.M.
[No place, no publisher] 1762.
[IV],260p. Modern marbled boards, back with gilt-lettered morocco label. (#30841)
€ 750

First (only) edition. 'The object of [this book] is to show that the wealth and trade of England were not greater than those of France. With this view the author examines into the balance of trade between England and other countries (including Ireland), the national income and debt, exchanges, imports and exports of bullion, war expenditure, etc. He concludes that England, after having been a gainer by her trade during the 17th century, was in 1761 a loser from a monetary point of view. He supports his argument by statistics from official and the best private estimates, and carefully considers objections' (Palgrave). An English translation (A general view of England; respecting its policy, trade, commerce, taxes, debts, produce of lands, colonies, manners, &c. &c.) appeared 1766. *Goldsmiths'-Kress 09743. INED 4468bis. Palgrave II,p.753.