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1784218959Dublin: E. Lynch 1784. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Sold as a 7 volume set. No pencil or ink markings in text of the 7 volumes. All volumes full brown leather bindings with red and black spine labels present. NOT Ex-Library. Very Good binding. E. Lynch unknown
178469504Edinburgh 1784. LAW. Edinburgh: 1784.<br> <br> Disbound pamphlet recounting the events leading up to the insurance fraud court case of two Scottish ship owners John McIver and Archibald McCallum. Also included are lists of witnesses. Quarto 9 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 232 x 190 mm. 10 pp. Disbound stabholes present. Some creasing to leaves. Overall very good. We could find no other copies on Rare Book Hub or World Cat.<br> <br> McIver and McCallum were co-owners of a shipping vessel the Endeavour and McCallum was also the owner of a shipping vessel the New York. Both of these vessels were insured for the the contents that they contained and both ships were intentionally damaged so that the insurance could be collected. The Endeavour was taken by American privateers who discovered holes drilled in the bottom of the ship.<br> <br> "The Greenock insurance scandal of 1784 rocked the commercial world of the Clyde that was already suffering badly from the disintegration of its great tobacco trade. At any other time the frauds might have gone undetected but both local and London underwriters hard-hit by the large number of Scottish ships lost during the American Revolutionary War initiated enquiries into the nature of those losses. In the first of two separate but related cases it was alleged that John Mclver and Archibald McCullum merchants in Greenock had conspired to cast away the Endeavour on a voyage to Halifax Nova Scotia in 1781 although before she could be sunk she was captured by American privateers who were understandably annoyed to find only a fraction of her manifested cargo covering the temporary bungs which her master had not yet drawn.' In the second case it was alleged that McCullum had conspired with James Herdman of Greenock and with William Foley the master to sink the New York which had sailed for New York and Philadelphia in 1783 with a cargo of tea wine and other goods part of which had been unloaded at Fairlie before the vessel left the Clyde to founder off the American coast. The cases in 1784 were the first to be tried in Edinburgh since 1751. In 1784 however the immensely long arguments of defence did not convince the Judge who delivered his "solemn judgment" that the statutes did indeed apply to Scotland. It is therefore surprising that the Solicitor General having won his point with several hours of detailed argument should in both the 1784 cases declare that he did not wish the death penalty to be imposed. Since the Endeavour had foundered after her crew had been removed by the American privateer the judge held that Mclver and McCullum could only be charged with the common law offense of stealing the cargo and not with the capital offense of sinking the ship to disguise that theft" Marine Insurance Frauds in Scotland1751-1821. Cases of Deliberate Shipwreck Tried in the Scottish Court of Admiralty. Gordon Jackson<br> <br> HBS 69504.<br> <br> $1250. Edinburgh unknown
17732045<p>8vo containing 52 theses of between 8 and 15 pages each divided into three sections; each thesis with an elaborate engraved headpiece and either a tailpiece or a full-page engraving many signed 'Constantinus' see below; manuscript list of contents at end; some foxing and browning in places; ownership signature of Constantin on first page and on front free endpaper; a few contemporary annotations to one thesis; in contemporary sheep spine gilt in compartments raised bands skiver lettering-pieces one with 'Tom I'; boards and extremities somewhat worn. An interesting collection of dissertations on civil law presented by students at the law faculty of the University of Turin. The volume contains three dissertationes each of which is divided up into theses all of which are separately paginated and which discuss the nature and division of law the role of statue the ways of interpreting laws and the responsibilities and position of the judiciary. A full listing of the theses all of which are either very rare or unrecorded is available on request. What makes the present volume especially interesting is its condition: the title-pages of each of the theses has been removed so each begins with the text under an engraved headpiece signed 'Constantinus' sometimes with scul added sometimes fec and sometimes the date 1771. The ownership signature of Constantin on the front free endpaper and the first page of the volume suggest that this copy was bound specially for the engraver who appears also to have been a bookseller and print dealer and who also is credited with the engravings in Alberti di Villanova's Nouveau dictionnaire françois-italien of 1788; it might seem that the title-pages of the individual theses were considered superfluous if what Constantin needed was a collection of his own work. Although a lettering-piece on the spine states that this is volume one it is unknown if any further such volumes were made. No contents seemingly recorded by OCLC.</p> Ignazio Soffietti
1724188955London: Printed for Will. and John Innys 1724. First edition of this spirited riposte to Mandevillian self-interest judged by one specialist "the ablest of all the replies to Mandeville" Kaye quoted in Nieli pp. 596-7 William Law 1686-1761 a prominent Jacobite Churchman and Christian ethicist was ideally placed to tackle Mandeville's challenge to traditional religious morality. In particular he disputes the philosopher's contention that humans are almost completely subject to their animal passions reiterating the reassuring Christian faith in rational morality. Octavo 184 x 110 mm pp. iv 106 2. Woodcut head- and tailpiece and initial. Contemporary sheep spine ruled and decorated in gilt and with black calf label. Bookseller's ticket of Greene & Co. Dublin. Light wear slight loss to head of spine front joint splitting but holding firm boards bowing minor foxing and finger soiling to outer leaves: a very good copy. ESTC T78340. Russell Nieli "Commercial Society and Christian Virtue; The Mandeville-Law Dispute" The Review of Politics Vol. 51 No. 4 1989. hardcover
172442443Paris Caude Jombert 1724. 4to. Nice recent marbled boards in old style with titlelabel on frontcover. 24 pp. and one folded engraved plate. A few weak brownspots to margins. Otherwise fine and clean. <br/><br/><em>First edition of this extremely scarce work by the famous mathematician solving an important problem in dynamics and extending Newton's work."Despite the invention by Leibniz and Newton of the Calculus the problem of mechanics of impact or percussion remained of centarl interest. The Royal Academy of Sciencesin Paris biannually qwarded a prize for the most outstanding paper; in 1724 and 1726 the prizes were for papers on percussion. Colin Maclaurin professor of mathematics at the University of Aberdeen was awarded the prize in 1724 forthe paper offered over John Bernoulli.He expressed thet the interaction of forces on ciolliding bodies are equal in magnitude but opposed in direction newton's third law and used the physical construct of an elastic spring between the contact points in order to obtain changes in velocity during compression and restitution phases of collisions."W.J. Stronge in "Impact Mechanics".The Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin 1698-1746 is best known for developing and extending Newton's work in calculus geometry and gravitation; his 2-volume work "Treatise of Fluxions" 1742 was the first systematic exposition of Newton's methods. It is well known that MacLaurin was awarded prizes by the Royal Academy of Sciences Paris for his earlier work on the collision of bodies the work offered here and the tides 1740. </em> hardcover
1729140575Amsterdam: Zacharie Chatelain 1729. First edition of a history of the regency in France during the minority of Louis XV charting all the political and financial upheavals of the duc d'Orléans regency with much information on John Law and his system between 1715 and 1723. It was published simultaneously at The Hague. 3 vols duodecimo 164 x 95 mm. 17 engraved plates including frontispiece of which 4 folding title pages printed in red and black and with engraved vignette decorative woodcut head-pieces and culs-de-lampe. Contemporary speckled calf titles in gilt to light brown calf spine labels compartments richly gilt marbled pastedowns red speckled edges. Early ink and pencil shelf marks blue shelf-mark labels to foot of spines. Rubbed occasional minute reinforcement the bindings otherwise remarkably firm and unfaded traces of removed covers to pastedowns a few short tears to folding plates repaired else internally fresh and unmarked. A very good set indeed. Stourm "Bibliographie historique des finances de la France au XVIIIe siècle" p. 67. unknown
174247Dijon France: Arnauld Jean-Baptiste Auge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1742. Full-Leather. Rubbing to corners & spine ends. Second volume is dated 1746. Interiors are fine to very fine with almost no foxing but the usual library stamps.; Ex-Library; 10 1/2x15 1/2 . Arnauld Jean-Baptiste Auge hardcover
1760794121760. FRANKLIN IMPRINT. LAW William. An Extract from a Treatise by William Law M.A. Called the Spirit of Prayer; or the Soul Rising out of the Vanity of Time inti the Riches of Eternity. Phila.: B. Franklin and D. Hall 1760. 47pp. Disbound. Light foxing and toning contemporary ownership signature on title page else a very good copy. Evans 8633. Miller 731. Campbell 648. A Quaker religious pamphlet. unknown
17692732Nancy: J. B. Hiacinthe Leclerc 1769. 12mo 147 x 90 mm. 212 3 pp. Woodcut thistle ornament on title woodcut tailpieces. Half-title tearing slightly along gutter old paper reinforcements to gutters of A8v and B1r 2 or 3 short marginal tears occasional light foxing. Contemporary red morocco double gilt fillet border to sides smooth spine gold-tooled with green morocco gilt lettering-piece gilt edges marbled endpapers extremities rubbed. Provenance: Stanislas de Guaita 1861-1897 poet and expert on the occult bookplate; by succession to de Guaita’s brother-in-law Pierre de Lallemand de Mont with his bookplate; Philippe Zoumeroff sale Paris 16 May 2014 lot 27.<br/> <br/> First Edition of the first ordinances of Lorraine as part of France. Although the Duchies of Lorraine and Bar had been ceded to France by the Treaty of Vienna in 1738 for political reasons Louis XV postponed annexation and named his father-in-law Stanislas Leszczy ski deposed King of Poland as the last titular sovereign Duke of Lorraine and Bar. The two duchies were not officially annexed to France until the latter’s death in 1766. This comprehensive set of revised laws governing the newly French capital city of the province of Lorraine was promulgated three years later on 4 January 1769. <br/> <br/> The highly detailed regulations cover matters of municipal safety and hygiene commerce and trade and interpersonal relations providing a vivid and sometimes surprising view of daily life. The 18 chapters are devoted to: protection of Sundays and holidays on which only fruit and vegetable sellers are allowed to work before 9 am; regulation of foreigners and their conditions of residence and admission to the status of bourgeois; relations between servants and their masters; regulation of the grain market delivery of grains etc.; rules for bakers butchers sausage-makers fishmongers open-air-markets taverners restaurateurs and billiard-hall owners; general commerce delivery of wood drivers and delivery-boys private porters of chairs public carriages street hygiene and safety fires and échenillage the obligatory extermination of caterpillars and other arboreal pests. <br/> <br/> OCLC lists 4 copies Harvard Business & Law Libraries Yale Law Library and Bibliothèque Ste.-Geneviève. J. B. Hiacinthe Leclerc unknown
1796025170London: G.G. And J. Robinson 1793 1796. Second Edition . Quarter Calf. Near Fine. Octavo. Second Corrected Edition Stated First Printing With 1796 Dates On Title Pages. Two Volumes. Contemporary Marbled Boards Skillfully And Beautifully Re-Backed To Style In Bright Quarter Leather Compartments On Spines With Red Morocco Labels Gilt Decoration And Gilt Rules Leather Tips. Half-Titles Blank Free Endpapers And Errata Present In Both Volumes; . Printing And Mind Of Man Title For First Edition. In Revising The 1793 First Edition Of Political Justice 1793 In 1796 Godwin Remarked That He Had Not Yielded "A Proper Attention To The Empire Of Feeling." He Further Thought That "Not Only The Passions Of Men But Their Judgments Are To A Great Degree The Creatures Of Their Sympathy." These Judgments Contradict His Earlier Opinions In The First Edition That Reason Alone Can Determine Human Action. Thus The Second Edition Not The First Represents In This And Other Ways Godwin's Evolved Thoughts. Engraved Nineteenth Century Bookplates Of C. B. Farwell 1823-1903 U. S. Congressman And Senator From Illinois Founder Of Lake Forest University And Brother Of Prominent 19Th Century Businessman J. V. Farwell Chicago's Leading Wholesale Merchant Prior To The Rise Of Marshall Field. An Attractive Well Preserved Solid And Readable Set With Some Loss Of Original Paper On Edges Of Boards No Damage To Front And Back Of Boards. Bookseller's Ticket Of C. Ambery Of Manchester On Top Of Front Board Of Vol 1. <br/> <br/> London: G.G. And J. Robinson (1793) unknown
180088063London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies 1800. Stated Thirteenth Edition. 4 Volumes. Octavo. 22cm. Contemporary polished calf boards with foliate gilt borders with 20th century rebacked spines ruled in gilt blind tooling and handsome red and green leather title labels. xiv; 485pp.; vii; 519pp.; xix appendix; vii; 455pp.; xxxiv appendix; vii; 443pp.; vii appendix; 68 Index; 1 Directions to Binder. All volumes bumped to corners with some light rubbing of extremities some cosmetic scuffing and skinning of the calf boards in places some more recent scratching to the front board of vol. II handsome solid and tight; internally clean with minimal spotting where there is any it is mostly confined to the prelims some offsetting to the text in places annotated throughout in ink and pencil by a single neat 19th century hand clearly informed upon legal matters with some corrections to various statutes etc. also present are three laid in sheets of manuscript notes in the same hand discussing niceties of the text small closed tear to p.179 vol III not interfering with text p.369 vol III with partially clipped margin just shaving the edge of the text closed tear to p261 vol IV not interfering with the text and a corner missing to a leaf of the "Index to The Author's Notes" at the rear of vol IV; all plates and charts present as called for although the engraving of William Earl of Mansfield has been furnished with a somewhat comical moustache and goatee in a moment of tedium. A very good strong handsome set of the preferred edition of Blackstone the last edition to contain his authorial corrections and additions; with a little cosmetic wear and considerable character.<br /> <br /> Blackstone's Commentaries first published in 1765 ranks indisputably as one of the key legal texts of the 18th century in Great Britain separating as it does Crown Law into four distinct sections with clarifications; Rights of Persons Rights of Things Private Wrongs and Public Wrongs. It is also a work of considerable import to the American legal system having a strong influence on the formation of the US Constitution and The Bill of Rights. A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies unknown
1798025167London: G.G. And J. Robinson 1798. Third Edition Corrected . Quarter Morocco. Fine. 8 5/8" Tall. Third Corrected Edition. Two Volumes. Marbled Boards Skillfully And Beautifully Bound In Modern Quarter Morocco With Morocco Tips Red Morocco Labels Compartments On Spine With Gilt Decorations And Rules. Half-Title To Volume I Is Present. Printing And Mind Of Man Title For First Edition. In Revising The First Edition Of Political Justice 1793 In 1796 Godwin Remarked That He Had Not Yielded "A Proper Attention To The Empire Of Feeling." He Further Thought That "Not Only The Passions Of Men But Their Judgments Are To A Great Degree The Creatures Of Their Sympathy." These Judgments Contradict His Earlier Opinions In The First Edition That Reason Alone Can Determine Human Action. Godwin Regarded This Third Corrected Edition 1798 As His Final Thoughts. <br/> <br/> London: G.G. And J. Robinson unknown
175650678London N. Gibson 1756. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Blindtooling to covers. A neath repair at upper compartment. Spine slightly rubbed. VIII4764 pp. A very faint dampstain to lower right corners. A few scattered brownspots. Printed on good paper. <br/><br/><em>Very scarce first edition in English a translation of the relevant part of Chr. V's Danske Lov 1683 relating to the Danish West Indies. All laws and regulations on St. Thomas St. Croix and St. John were based on this lawcomplex in the period of the Danish possession of these islands.Sabin No 18501. </em> hardcover
179688185Philadelphia: Richard Folwell 1796-97. First Edition. Three volumes. Octavo in fours 21cm; contemporary full sheep blind-tooled at board edges; red gilt morocco spine labels stamped volume numbers to spines; 494576477 Index 131pp. First volume with old stains to board edges and a shallow loss to leather at crown; else light external rubbing and wear with a few strips of flaying to leather; internally quite fresh with just scattered foxing to a few gatherings in v.I. Early ownership signature "T" or "S Belton" to endpapers. Overall a tight fresh Very Good set in an early likely original American binding we note that the bindings on practically every set documented in commerce over the past two decades have been uniform to this one. The third volume though dated 1796 was printed no earlier than 1797 per Evans.<br /> <br /> First edition of the first collected edition of the laws of the United States containing the entirety of the acts enacted by the first four Congresses as well as the texts of the Declaration of Independence the United States Constitution the Bill of Rights etc. As noted by William Reese the ".set is also important as a collection of early American treaties.including the treaties of the United States with foreign powers and Indian tribes.the official printings of these treaties are rare in the extreme.and in most cases.this set represents a very early sometimes just the second American printing." Printed by Richard Folwell with his colophon advertisement to each volume. Zephaniah Swift's substantial 131-pp Index serves as a complete abstract of the work and includes within its text a separate section titled: "Detail of Specific Articles of Import on which Duties are Payable by Law with the Specific Rates of Duty." EVANS 32973; REESE FEDERAL HUNDRED 63. Richard Folwell unknown
1719034607UK: Savoy 1719. By Henry Care and now continued with large editions by W N. of the Middle-Temple Esq. Printed by Savoy by Eliz Nutt and R. Colling for Arthur Bettesboosth and John Booke in 1719 356 pages. "Containing Magna Charta Charta deForesta The Statute De Tallagio non concedendo The Habeas Corpus Act and several other Statutes; with comments on each of them. Likewise The Proceedings in Appeals of Murder: Of Ship-Money; Of Tonnage and Poundage. etc. Lastly Of Justices of the Peace Coroners Constables. Etc. GOOD LEATHER HARDCOVER front cover present but detached from book. Internally a nice clean tight copy with exception of detached cover and front blank endpaper. Scarce. . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Savoy hardcover
17801278931780. ADULTERY. Collection of Adultery Trials. London: various circa 1780-1808. Octavo contemporary full tan calf gilt raised bands marbled endpaper and edges. $3500.A collection of reports of 11 adultery trials from the late 18th and early 19th centuries combined with 30 engravings of scandalous encounters.Published accounts of adultery trials were very popular in late-18th/early 19th-century England a way to indulge a taste for the erotic and the scandalous under the thin veil of condemnation. Included here are the trials of Robert Gordon for adultery with the wife of Joseph Seymour Biscoe Rev. Mr. Cooper with the wife of Lord Cadogan Sir John Bennett Piers with the wife of Lord Cloncurry ""Thomas Theaker Coachman for Adultery with Mrs. Gregson"" Thomas Sheridan with the wife of Peter Cambell Captain Elwin with the wife of Sir George Brograve J. Hacket with Mrs. Mansergh R. J. Fergusson with the Countess of Elgin Lord Borringdon and Sir A. Paget ""for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife"" Colonel T.R. Powlett and Lord Sackville with another plaintiff's wife and Ralph Benson with the wife of Thomas Parr The collection of 30 engravings bound at the back of this book are taken from Trials for Adultery: or a History of Divorces a multivolume work published beginning in 1779. First two trials without title pages; ink marks to a few early pages; expert repair to contemporary binding. hardcover
1743ABC_46524The Netherlands 1743. Folio ca. 32 x 21.5 cm. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum sewn on 6 vellum supports laced through the joints with the manuscript title on the spine red sprinkled edges. With some woodcut decorated initials. 24 parts in 1 volume. 4 15 1 31 1 30 2 7 1 9 2 blank 1 4 10 2 2 2 21-27 3 1 6 20 67 1 9 2 blank 1 48 8 1 2 blank 1 8 4 10 1 1 2 2 pp. Rare collection of missives ordinances petitions and extracts from resolutions concerning the conflicts surrounding and law proceedings concerning Jacob Coren van der Mieden 1698-1751. He fled his hometown of Alkmaar in fear he would be captured by the Court of Holland. Initially the Van der Mieden family was a wealthy noble family with a good reputation. Jacob's father Aris was mayor of the city of Alkmaar Jacob was appointed bailiff of Nieuwburgen in 1731. Here one of his judicial officers ran a reign of terror. The people felt that bailiff Jacob was protecting his officer which made him very unpopular. Jacob was also lord of Callantsoog where he imprisoned the former bailiff Jan Harge in 1740 after Harge was being accused of abuse of office. The problem was that he did so under such bad conditions that the wife of Harge complained to the Court of Holland after which Harge was exonorated and the Court of Holland turned to Van der Mierde. Out of fear of being put behind bars he fled to Lent near Nijmegen. His wife Susanna Doubleth appealed the court and advocated that her husband would be tried by the local court in Alkmaar instead of the Court of Holland. These request are added in this collection. The last ordinance in the collection is the conviction of his younger brother Adriaan counselor of the Court of Holland who was accused of co-writing the requests with Susanna which were quite libel and defamatory undermining the Court of Holland as the highest judiciary institution of Holland. Adriaan was suspended from the court in 1747. The fate of Jacob van der Mieden remains unclear.With a manuscript annotation on the title page signed by G.J. van Persijn 1791. Govert Jan van Persijn was a lawyer advocaat at the Court of Holland Antonius Quirinus van Persijn was his son. Govert Jan van Persijn also added letters to the index and occassionaly made some marginal annotations and corrections in the text. The binding is slightly dust soiled otherwise in very good condition.l J.G. Gijsberti Hodenpijl van Hodenpijl Extracten uit de crimineele ordonnantien van Holland gives the pamphlets individually; STCN 240322061 3 copies; WorldCat 1144496082 1258013052 3 copies also in STCN; not in De Buck; Knuttel; Tiele. hardcover
1762408263New York: James Parker I; William Weyman II 1762. Joints cracked but holding cloth tape reinforcements on inner hinges some light browning and occasional spotting dampstaining in volume 2. Together two volumes folio. Vol. 1: Title 3-page list of subscribers Preface i-iii 1-488 Errata leaf. Vol. 2: 1 1 3 268 pages. Contemporary calf leather spine labels on volume 1 one a modern replacement. Provenance: Swann Galleries 21 October 2004 lot 323 $2530. FIRST EDITIONS. Volume one is signed on the title by Petrus Stuyvesant 1727-1805 the great-grandson of the British Colonial Governor by the same name. Volume two is signed on the front free endpaper and title by colonial statesman and Revolutionary patriot Robert Yates. Evans 6897 and 9213; Tower 624 and 625. James Parker [I]; William Weyman [II] unknown
1758016251Philadelphia: William Bradford 1758. First Edition. Hardcover. Title page with a few repaired tears hinged with following Preface page; two adjoining leaves pages 441-444 of text lacking and supplied with facsimiles. Contents Very Good binding about Fine. Folio 7-1/4" x 11-1/2" bound in contemporary calf leather with a decorative blindstamped border recently rebacked with a new gilt-lettered and decorated spine preserving original paste-downs and free endpapers; 4 763 pages. Title within rule border decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. An important compilation of the fundamental New Jersey charters and session laws of the proprietary period 1664 to 1702 up to Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions as Royal Governor when New Jersey became a crown colony under Queen Anne. Publication was ordered by the New Jersey Assembly in 1752 but two years were required to collect the documents to be included while the typesetting and printing took Bradford an additional three. By the date of publication some 170 copies had been subscribed. This title was the largest volume issued from Bradford's press and one of the largest from any eighteenth-century American press. Evans 8205; Sabin 39527. Early owner name on the title page and early twentieth century names on the front pastedown. <br/><br/> W[illiam] Bradford hardcover
1723135461Paris: Ches Louis-Denis Delatour & Pierre Simon 1723. John Law accused of illegally building on claimant's land First edition setting out the claim of Jean Pasquier in the legal action brought against the financier John Law and others concerning a building in Chaillot in Paris. The claimant disputes Law's title to the land and calls for the building's demolition and the claimant's renumeration. The land in question is across the river from where the Eiffel Tower now stands. Pasquier claims he inherited the land through his wife but that his neighbour Jean Des Vaux acquired it on false legal pretexts. Des Vaux partnered with John Law who built an iron foundry there in 1719 using English workmen. Pasquier repeatedly appealed to the Paris parlement for his right seeking the return of the land to him and demolition of the foundry as well as damages. This publication presents his claims making extensive observations on private rights and public welfare and the nature of property law in France and its relation to civil society. The Mémoire implies that Law was arguing that as the enterprise was of national importance and built on good faith with Des Vaux it should not be demolished. Law moved his then-skyrocketing wealth into various enterprises and had already invested in a factory in Harfleur in 1718 similarly bringing over English workmen including the engineer Richard Jones. The British parliament was concerned by these enterprises due to the mercantilist perception that France's gain would be England's loss - they drafted a law forbidding any British manufacturer to develop enterprises abroad Buchan p. 187. The Mémoire is dated 5 July 1723. Pasquier had printed another claim the previous year with the same publishers and under the same title which is dated 5 September 1722; the same ground is covered but the text is different and this further elucidates and updates the case into 1723. We could trace only one other copy that in the Bibliothèque nationale de France who also have the only traced copy of the 1722 publication. Folio 394 x 239 mm 14 pp. Recent blue boards red label. Neat early annotation and notation to first page. Slightly spotted faint staining at head of inner margin. A very good copy. James Buchan John Law 2018. hardcover
1790143822Paris: Buisson 1790. Uncut in original wrappers First collected edition of the works of the French finance minister John Law whose financial schemes led to the Mississippi Bubble and economic collapse during regency France. Apart from Money and Trade Considered all the works in the collection including two Mémoires sur les Banques and a number of letters were previously unpublished. The publication of the collection during the French Revolution reflected a revived interest in solutions to deficit financing and a re-appraisal of the previously discredited Law and his grand schemes of long-term government finance. The editor Gabriel-Étienne de Sénovert "made a point of highlighting its current relevance. 'Credit' he wrote at the beginning of his introduction to the edition citing Sir James Steuart for corroboration 'plays so considerable a role in the political economy of modern nations and is connected so intimately to their prosperity and even to their existence that it could be said that the science of government is nothing but the science of credit itself'. Sénovert's assessment of Law was however judiciously neutral. As he went on to emphasise both in the rest of his introduction and in the notes that he added to Law's own works it was difficult to decide whether Law's system was a real example or a dreadful warning" Sonenscher pp. 314-15. The revolutionary government's solution to the economic situation issuing the assignats backed by land and confiscated property was not dissimilar to Law's solution of notes tied to French land in North America; both rapidly lost value and further destabilized France's economy. Octavo. Uncut in contemporary marbled paper wrappers paper spine label lettered in manuscript printer's waste pastedowns. Occasional light spotting. A remarkably well preserved copy. Goldsmiths' 14361; Kress B.1919. Michael Sonenscher Sans-Culottes: An eighteenth-century emblem in the French Revolution 2008. unknown
1720ABC_49340Amsterdam 1720. Folio. Contemporary gold-tooled half blueish green roan with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine blue paste paper sides. With the title page printed in red and black 78 mostly double-page or folding engraved plates with caricatures on the 1720 Bubble and a double-page hand-coloured plate of the foundations of a house near Leiden loosely inserted in the back. 1 1 blank 25 1 52 "31" = 29 1 blank 8 9 1 blank pp. and engraved ll. A famous collection of texts and plates satirising the Englishman John Law his Mississippi Company and the international land and trading speculation in worthless shares of the South Sea Bubble of 1719-1720 which resulted in an international scandal. The speculation began in Paris London and Hamburg spreading to the Netherlands in the summer of 1720. While plays satirizing the speculation already opened in September 1720 the bubble really burst in October. Pieter Langendijk and Gysbert Tysens have been identified as authors of some of the plays. The book also provides the texts of official documents relating to the Dutch trading companies involved.In The great mirror of Folly Cole presents lists of plates which can be found in various copies the total of which however is never found in a single copy. The present copy contains no. 22 with a German title and no. 65 the famous playing cards in the later "Pasquin" version. Rare prints that are seldom present are no. 73 the magic cards and supplement nos. 2 3 4 and 6. The interest and importance of the collection is hardly to be exaggerated. It presents a unique source on one of the most interesting periods in economic history commenting on the feverish activity of speculation accompanying the introduction of the stock market not only in the Netherlands itself but also in France and England including the activities of John Law the Mississippi Bubble in France and the South Sea Bubble in England. The prints also include a map of the American State of Louisiana near the Mississippi River.With the bookplate of B. Eveleigh Winthrop mounted on the front pastedown. The binding is worn. The text is partly browned the plate with the playing cards has a large horizontal tear and the upper left corner has been torn off but is still present. Otherwise a good copy.l Cole The great mirror of folly nrs. 1-4 6-8 10-71 73; Muller Historieplaten 3535 ff.; Van Rijn Atlas van Stolk 3452 ff.; STCN 254984576; cf. slightly differing collation or fingerprint STCN 254984185 293084076 228136539. unknown
1720B7274Nakomelingen c.1720. Edition: First Edition. Binding: No binding. Notes: Text in Dutch.Folio. Approx. 410 x 260 mm. <br>A very good example of this “extraordinary visual record of the first banking crash showing the shocking effects of the South Sea Bubble in France England and Holland and placing John Law 1671-1729 with his Mississippi company scheme squarely at the centre of the disastrous chain of events. ‘A unique historical document … of real significance’†Cole p.1; “the engravings which illustrate the rise and fall of the great speculation are full of humor; many of them are exceedingly ludicrous and some very obscene†Sabin. “Published in Amsterdam the giant tome includes pamphlets legal documents economic analyses maps satirical plays poems playing cards and more than seventy prints. The volume attracted wide audiences feeling the sting of the financial crises taking place in England France and the Dutch Republic that together resulted in the first international stock market crash.â€<br>“Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid references Tulipmania in the Dutch Republic where the prices of tulip bulbs spiked and abruptly plummeted in 1637; the South Sea Bubble in England and Mississippi Bubble in France that burst in 1720; and other British French and Dutch enterprises that failed in 1720. Investing frenzy is characterized as a form of contagion moving from one country to the next: a consequence of the craze for international emulation as was evident in the English for example adopting the measures of John Law’s Mississippi Company that ultimately resulted in the South Sea Bubble. Prints in the volume commonly depict the dreams disordered states of mind and moral failures of investors caught up in the speculative zeal—alluding to herd behavior gambling corruption insanity immorality and demonic possession.â€<br>The text first appeared in 1720/21 and continued to be reprinted throughout the 18th century. Very few copies of this book survive as most were broken apart so that engravings could be sold individually. Professor Arthur Cole writes: “Rarely does a single volume combine in itself so much economic interest and so many bibliographical puzzles as Het Groote Tafereel Der Dwaasheid. There is scarcely another item just like it. Not merely are the identity of the compiler and the place of publication unknown and not merely is the date of original issuance uncertain but the volume went through an evolutionary process over time quite unnoticeable by ordinary superficial inspection. Moreover so strange was the mode of issuance that no two specimens even of approximately the same actual issue date are exactly the same. Neither the textual material nor the engraved prints are always identical nor do they appear in the same sequence within the volume.â€<br><br>This copy with 68 plates many folding out and/or double-page. Includes frontispiece original engraving of John Law and a deck of “bubble cards.†Title in red and black. Papegaay of Actie-Kaart-Klap… pages unnumbered but all text present. Pg. 29 mislabeled as 92. Page numbers jump from 26 to 29 where noted in pagination above but text continuous. Unbound all leaves loose.<br><br><br>TEXT<br>-Pg. 29 mislabeled as 92 signature H<br>-Goes from pg. 26 – 29 but matches complete bound book same online<br>-Last text pgs. 1-8 are unnumbered but all present<br>-Online copy has Copye Van Een Brief as very last text before plates so did that<br><br>PLATES<br>Missing<br>-Y Pg. 139 on Gale resource/163 on NYPL: “De Kermis-Kraam Van De Actie-Knaapenâ€<br>-Pg. 281 on NYPL/185 Gale: man’s portrait ‘QUINQU/ENPOIX’<br>-Pg. 299 on NYPL: Louisiana <br>-Pg. 327 on NYPL: woman’s portrait<br>-Pg. 329 on NYPL: man’s portrait #2 profile<br><br>-Not seeing plate #29 Tonneel<br>-#65 Kaart-spel van Momus<br>-#68 B have card decks in place<br>-#70 Ronde Godt Have Biespieling… in place<br>-#73 Tooverkaart magic card; have De Wintgot there instead<br>-#74 Tooverkaart twede Stuk magic cad; have other cards there<br><br>Y = confirmed missing plate with contents plate<br><br> Size: Folio Provenance: Ex-Library Chicago Historical Society; embossed and perforated stamps on title elsewhere. References: Cole Great Mirror of Folly 1949; Goldsmiths' 5879; Kress 3217; Sabin 28932. Pages: P Frontispiece. Blank. Title. Blank. Pp. 1 – 25. Aanwyzinge Der Projecten. Pp. 1 – 52. Versameling van Gedigten… 1 – 26 pagination jumps 29 – 31. Blank. Papegaay of Actie-Kaart-Klap… 8. Copye Van Een Brief… 1 – 10. 67 plates. Category: Book Caricatures; Book Europe Benelux; Book Plate Books General; Nakomelingen, unknown
170954195København 1709. Folio. In contemporary full calf Cambridge-style mirror binding with blindstamped borders. Light wear to extremities. Seven leaves with minor repairs to margins one leaf with a 15 cm long closed tear and one leaf with an 30 cm long closed tear all professionally executed and with no loss of imprint. Margins slightly soiled. 19 leaves -text and frames engraved. The broad frames that all differ from each other ornamentally depict animals and plants as well as the different trades of the country. A nice copy printed on thick heavy paper. Housed in a cardboard box.Provenance: From the collection of Danish book collector Viggo Lohse. The present copy was exhibited at 'Dansk Bibliofil-Klubs 50 års Jubilæumsudstilling' in 1992 The 50 year anniversary exhibition for the Danish Society of Bibliophiles no. 94. <br/><br/><em>First edition of this landmark work of Danish book production and the constitution of the Danish absolute monarchy. The Royal Law established the absolute right of the Monarch to rule and it defined the line of royal succession. It was more rigorous than the other monarchal laws of Europe at the time.The text which is written by Peder Griffenfeld is engraved in copper throughout in order to prevent the possibility of re-printing pirated editions and text-counterfeiting. Frederik Rostgaard the King's state archivist who was famous for his excellent taste in books was in charge of the editing and issuing of the work. In front of the actual law text a leaf is inserted with the portrait of King Frederik III on his horse and everything except for the head of the king which was engraved after his death-mask is executed in the beloved flourishing- or scroll- manner of the time. The titles and the text are engraved throughout by Michael Røg. </em> unknown
1720ABC_50108Amsterdam 1720. Near- Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf with the title and year lettered in gold on the spine sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine. Bound by the Bird's Head Bindery in Amsterdam ca. 1728-1765 see Storm van Leeuwen. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black and 79 engraved plates including 1 repeat of plate 54 3589 Muller most double-page and several larger folding sheets including several maps and the plate with the complete set of 52 playing cards Pasquin variant. The copy contains the register listing 74 items and 4 plates not in Mullers principal list Muller 3611-3613 and 3615 but unfortunately lacks plate 18 3553 Muller. Third edition of one of the most remarkable works in the history of finance. Few books equal the visual power satirical brilliance or bibliographical complexity of Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid. First published in Amsterdam in 1720 in the very year of the financial collapses it depicts this extraordinary work stands as the most ambitious and visually arresting contemporary response to the speculative mania that engulfed France England and the Dutch Republic.The work chronicles the rise frenzy and catastrophic collapse of the Mississippi Scheme in France under John Law 1671-1729 and the South Sea Bubble in England speculative ventures designed in part to consolidate and manage national debt in Englands case tied to the funding of the navy but which spiralled into one of the first great international stock market crashes. Laws Compagnie dOccident with its monopoly over Louisiana and trade along the Mississippi ignited feverish dealing in Paris Rue Quincampoix London answered with its own speculative excesses and the contagion swiftly spread to Amsterdam.The Dutch seasoned participants in organised finance responded not merely with alarm but with satire of unparalleled inventiveness. The Tafereel der dwaasheid gathers together emblematic engravings caricatures poems plays pamphlets and moralising texts all exposing the greed credulity and collective madness of the wind trade transactions in nothing more substantial than air.The engravings are by turns humorous grotesque theatrical and occasionally deliberately obscene. They chart the entire arc of speculation: the seduction of investors the carnival atmosphere of trading houses and coffee rooms the frenzied crowds and finally ruin and flight. Law himself appears in portrait placed squarely at the centre of events.The publication history of the Tafereel der dwaasheid is famously intricate. Four editions of the letterpress are known the present work corresponds to the third edition as classified by Muller. Within each edition the number and arrangement of plates varies considerably from copy to copy. Muller recorded 74 plates in the most extensive contemporary published list yet barely any copy of any edition contains them all some serving as alternatives and several plates frequently encountered are absent from that list. The present work includes 73 plates from Muller's list of 74 omitting no. 18 contains a duplicate of no. 54 and includes the engraved register listing 74 items together with 4 plates not in Mullers principal list Muller 3611-3613 and 3615 including different portraits and the map of Louisiana on the Mississippi. Together they form one of the most striking and bizarre monuments in all economic literature a merciless visual anatomy of financial hysteria.The present work appears here in a striking contemporary gold-tooled binding. This binding is the work of the so-called Bird's Head Bindery active ca. 1728-1765 according to Jan Storm van Leeuwen. The decorations are made up from several impressions of 5 different stamps and 5 different rolls. Two stamps on the present binding seem to be unrecorded by Storm van Leeuwen for this bindery namely the lozenge-shaped stamp on the spine and the small cornerpieces on the spine surrounding the lozenge-shaped stamp. These seem to be variants of the bindery's recorded stamps but several stamps also do bear similarities to other major Amsterdam binderies of the early 18th century like the so-called "Double Drawer Handle Bindery".With plate "Lauw-maands herdenking . Nieuwjaarsgeschenk" no. 54 - 3589 Muller included twice as plates 54-55 and lacking plate "Monument consacré - Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse." no. 18 - 3553 Muller. The hinges are weakened the head of the spine is slightly damaged the corners and edges of the boards show slight signs of wear with a 3.5 x 1 cm repair to the leather on the back board not affecting the gold-tooling. The first flyleaf is partially loose a large tear in plates 7 and 12 resp. nos. 6 and 11 Muller repaired on the verso some plates with small tears along the folding lines slightly affecting the illustration of plate 51 same no. Muller and the map of Enkhuisen is torn along the paper stub it is mounted on not affecting the plate. Some occasional browning foxing and staining. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cole The Great Mirror of Folly nrs. 1-4 6-8 10-71 73; De Bruyn Het Groote Tafereel in: Eighteenth-Century Life XXIV 2000 pp. 62-87; Goetzmann The Great Mirror of Folly 2013 esp. pp. 35-51 bibliogr. analysis by K. Forrer; Kress 3217; Landwehr 230; Lipperheide Xf 5; Muller Historieplaten esp. nos. 3536-3609; pp. 103-131; Sabin 28932; STCN various issues and made-up copies: the present work resembles 228136539; Van Leeuwen Dutch Decorated Bookbinding I 2006 pp. 228-284. hardcover
