Recently acquired rare and antiquarian materials, February

Enlightenment materials, as well as a manuscript about life on the farm in the late 17th century...

Chaudon, Louis Mayeul (1737-1817). L’homme du monde éclairé, Entretiens. A Paris, chez Moutard, Libraire de Madame la Dauphine, quai des Augustins, près du pont S. Michel, à S. Ambroise. 1774.

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xii, 303, [6], in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges, with the later heraldic presentation bookplate of Christoper MacCartan, dated April 1851.

A work by a Benedictine monk, critic of Voltaire and author of a Dictionnaire antiphilosophique, to which Voltaire replied in later editions of his Dictionnaire philosophique. This work consists of 18 dialogues.

Vitalis, Antoine. Fables d’Antoine Vitallis.... A Paris, de l’Imprimerie de Du Pont. L’An III [1795].

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], 235, in contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt with lozenge tooling in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, some wear along the front joint, plain endpapers, marbled edges.

Works of an 18th century fabulist, inspired by La Fontaine,. Published during the French Revolution, his works show an engagement with contemporary issues, too. “ His ‘La République du Tigre’ (pp. 158-159) with its phrase ‘l’image du cahos’, can be seen as a commentary on the terror, whilst ‘Le Café’ (pp. 101) is a satire on the coffee- houses.Printed by Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours, the economist, in the same year as his arrest. He had purchased a printing house in 1791 in order to ensure the safe printing and distribution of his journals.” (Amanda Hall, TEFFONT XXVII).

See: RUNTE, ROSEANN, “The Paradox of the Fable in Eighteenth-Century France,” Neophilologus, 61:4 (1977:Oct.) p.510.

Reale Accademia delle Scienze (Naples, Italy), and Michele Sarcone. Statuti della Real Accademia delle Scienze e delle Belle Lettere, eretta in Napoli dalla sovrana munificenza. [Naples]: Nella Stamperia Reale, 1780.

“First edition of the rules and regulations of the Naples Academy of Science and Literature...  founded under the patronage of Ferdinand IV. The Academy covers mathematics, medicine, chemistry, botany, volcanology, mineralogy, and mechanics, and on the literature side, ancient history and antiquities. … A full list of local and foregin members is given, including many foreign scientists, such as Banks, Lagrange, d’Alembert, Bonnet, Spallanzani... The second half contains a thoughtful analysis of the legal organisation, with a suitable separation of the fianncial, academic, and political leadership, and with separate financial management.
Naples had actually been the home of the Accademia Secretorum Naturae, of Accademia di Segreti, founded by DellaPorta around 1560 and generally regarded as the earliest scientific society. However, when Della Porta waspersecuted for practicing the black arts, his academy was disbanded, although he was later acquitted.”  (Susanne Schulz-Falster, proof, catalogue 17)

“Livres de notice, des gages des domestique(s) et ouvrie(rs) de la bas cour, “1691. Manuscript in ink. France, np, ca. 1691-1704.
Narrow 4to; pp. [64], with a few blank leaves; bound in an earlier vellum liturgical manuscript leaf; fine manuscript in ink, written in a legible hand.
A manuscript documenting salaries paid for servants and other workers on an unidentified French estate at the end of the 17th century. The piece records information about 24 servants and their responsibilities.

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian, December and January 2012

Dupont, Paul-François. Essais pratiques d'imprimerie, précédés d'une notice historique. Typographie-lithographie. Paris: Impr. P. Dupont, 1849.
A printer’s specimen produced for the Paris Industrial Exposition of 1848, with examples of printers’ types, lithography, color printing, including 20 colored prints.

Les Femmes. Paris: Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le facisme, 1937. A French magazine covering the cultural, social, and political interests of women in the 1930s. Wonderful illustrations! 

Perrault, Charles. Les hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siecle: avec leurs portraits au naturel. Paris: Antoine Dezallier, 1696-1700.
from vendor’s description: “FIRST EDITION, first issue, of this impressive French portrait gallery, representing the greatest Frenchmen in the arts and sciences of the "Grand Siècle." These 103 portraits are accompanied by brief biographical texts. The portraits are the work of some of the best artists of the time...”

DU ROURE, Jacques. LA PHILOSOPHIE DIVISEE EN TOVTES SES PARTIES, établie sur des principes évidents & expliquée en tables et par discovrs, ou particuliers ou tirez des anciens, & des nouveaux auteurs & principalement des Peripateticiens et de Descartes [- Tome II.]. Paris, François Clouzier, 1654.
By an early follower of Descartes, this is the first work to apply Cartesian ideas rigorously to a complete philosophical system.

[DIÈRES]. LA PHILOSOPHOMANIE, Poëme, ou la Maladie des Têtes à Systèmes, Ainsi que celles des Professeurs de doctrines étranges et bizarres; Ouvrage métaphysique et moral sur l’état naturel du Genre-Humain, voué par lui-même à la Folie et à la Charlatanerie. A la suite sont une Lettre sur la conduite politique de la faction des Jacobins en France, et une Satyre attribuée au même Auteur. Le tout publié par un de ses amis. Rouen, [no printer, publisher or date, 1794].
From the vendor’s description: “First edition of this bitter satire, lampooning the philosophical deliberations which led to the Terreur, partly written as a dialogue between two inmates of the lunatic asylum of Charenton. Both end tragically, one poisoned, the other committing suicide.”

Recently Acquired Rare and Antiquarian Books- November 2011

We recently acquired a selection of works on French Morocco :

• Morocco. A la découverte du Maroc. [Petit guide d'étude du milieu pour les moniteurs de colonies de vacances. Rabat: Direction de l'instruction publique, 1953.
• André, Marie Therèse. Un ami des scouts: Lyautey. Paris: Alsatia, 1940.
• Barety, Léon. La France au Maroc. Paris: F. Carbonnel, 1932.
• Bonjean, François. Au Maroc en roulotte. Paris: Hachette, 1930.
• Borely, Jules. Ahmed et Zohra. Rabat: F. Moncho, 1935. 
• Dresch, Jean. Documents sur les genres de vie de montagne dans le massif central du Grand Atlas. Tours: Arrault, 1941.
• Girard, Josette. Le statut et les fonctions du français en situation plurilingue. Lille: [s.n.], 2001.
• Malka, Élie. Essai d'ethnographie traditionnelle des mellahs ou croyances, rites de passage et vieilles pratiques des Israélites marocains. Rabat: [s.n.], 1948. 
• Mlahi, Amar. La socialité dans les cafés de Fès au Maroc et ceux de la Goutte d'Or à Paris. Lille:[s.n.], 1997.

As well as expanding our holdings of early works on women and the body (with more to come next month!)

• Maria, Jean. Dissertation sur les vapeurs, pertes de sang, pertes blanches, grossesses et couches, depost de lait, et autres maladies particulieres due sexe. 1759.
• Marinello, Giovanni. Le medicine partenenti all'infermità delle donne ... Divise in tre libri ... Venetia: Gio. Bonadio, 1563.
• Ployant, Teresa. Breve compendio dell' arte ostetricia. Fermo: dai Torchi di Pallade, 1790.
• Préfecture de Vaucluse. [Broadside Public Decree] Avis. Cours Public et Gratuit d’Accouchement. Avignon: Bonnet Fils, Imprimeur de la Préfecture, 1833.
• Verdier, Jean. La Jurisprudence particulière de la chirurgie en France, ou Traité historique et juridique des établissemens, règlemens, police, devoirs, fonctions, honneurs, droits et privilèges, des sociétés de chirurgie et de leurs supôts, avec les devoirs, fonctions et autorité des juges à leur égard. Paris: d'Houry, 1764.

Recently Acquired Rare and Antiquarian Books - October 2011

AUGIER DU FOT (M.). Catéchisme sur l’art des accouchements pour les sages-femmes de la campagne, Fait par l’ordre du Gouvernement... et imprimé aux dépens du diocèse.  Montpellier, Jean Mariel aîné, 1776. in 12 (9,9 x 16 cm. xxiv-90 pp.-(2)ff. 

BURNEY (Miss). Évelina, ou L’Entrée d’une jeune personne dans le monde. Traduit de l’anglais. Paris, Imbert, Avril 1798. 2 volumes in 12 (71 x 130 mm).

CHORIER (Nicolas). Les Dialogues de Luisa Sigea sur les arcanes de l'Amour et de Vénus ou Satire Sotadique… Prétendue écrite en espagnol par Luisa Sigea et traduite en latin par Jean Meursius. Texte latin revu sur les premières éditions et traduction littérale, la seule complète, par le Traducteur des Dialogues de Pietro Aretino. Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1882. 4 vol.

Les véritables principes de la langue françoise: pour la sçavoir écrire et parler en peu de temps… Seconde edition. Reveuë, corrigée & augmentée de Remarques sur la Grammaire Françoise du P. Chifflet. En faveurs des Etrangers. A Paris: chez Florentin et Pierre de Laulne, devant la Sorbonne, 1690.

A guide to the “principles” of French aimed at foreigners. This handbook (12mo) was first published in 1684, with another second edition in 1685.

SAINTE-MARTHE (M. Claude de). Traités de piété, ou Discours sur les devoirs des prêtres. S.l., 1770. In 12
Bound with:
HAMON (M.). Suite des Opuscules et Lettres de… Qui n'ont point encore paru. S.l., 1770. 129 pp.-(1)f. EDITION ORIGINALE. Contient notamment une Lettre aux religieuses de Port-Royal sur la persécution.

ROLAND DE LA PLATIERE, Jean-Marie. De l'influence des lettres dans les provinces, comparée à leur influence dans les capitales ; discours lu à la séance publique de l'Académie de Lyon, le 6 décembre 1785. S.l: s.n, (Lyon, 1785)
A short text by the future revolutionary Roland (Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734-1793)), in which he demonstrates that literary culture favors capital cities and argues why the provinces would benefit from greater access to cultural and other resources.


SPERONI DEGLI ALVAROTI (S). Dialogi di M. Speron Speroni. Nuovamente ristampati et con molta diligenza riveduti et corretti.  Venise, Domenico Giglio, 1558. in-8. 154ff.   Cartonnage moderne.  (ref.67242)

The Italian humanist and scholar Sperone Speroni degli Alvarotti (1500-1588) was a member of Padua’s Accademia degli Infammiati. He was known for his works on literature and drama. The work recently acquired by Stanford, the Dialogi, was his first publication, and was first published by the Aldine Press in Venice in 1542. Here we have a later Venetian edition, testifying to the popularity of his thoughts on subjects such as love and jealousy, the dignity of women, languages and rhetoric. This work fits in with the research of French professor Cecile Alduy, since Speroni’s dialogues were an important influence to French Renaissance poets such as Du Bellay, Ronsard, and Scève.

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian materials – Roman de la Rose, early French atlas, anarchist journal

Some items of interest that are arriving soon in Special Collections.

LORRIS, Guillaume de, MEUNG, Jean de. Le Rommant de la Rose nouvellement revues et corrigé selon les precedentes impressions. [à la fin] ... et imprimé nouvellement à Paris l'an Mille cinq cent xxx viii. On les vends à Paris, Arnould et Charles les Angeliers freres ...

The first published volume of the Roman de la Rose appeared in Paris in 1481, and there were 21 editions between then and 1538. Of these, ten were published in 1537 and 1538, among them the edition offered here. After 1538 there was a break in the publication history until the eighteenth century (1735). Previously, SULAIR’s earliest copy was from 1799; the acquisition of this 1538 copy allows faculty and students to see how the work appeared to Renaissance readers. There are 49 woodcuts in this edition, and one can see some marks in the text made by a previous owner.

TASSIN, Christophe. Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considérables de France Ensemble les Cartes de chacune Province & les particulières de chaque Gouvernement d’icelles. Paris, Melchior Tavernier & N. Bercy (tome II), 1638-1644.

17 parties en 2 volumes in-4 oblong relié plein vélin souple de l’époque, titre manuscrit au dos. Edition originale du tome I et nouvelle édition du tome II.

This is one of the earliest French atlases, and bears the name of Christophe Tassin (sometimes mistakenly called Nicolas Tassin), who was a royal engineer, geographer, and print seller. This example is a mixed set, with the first volume from the first edition, and the second from a later edition. Tassin initally held the privilege on his work, rather than the publisher as was common, but he soon delegated it to certain booksellers and so the work appeared under several publishers, including Berey (this copy). This atlas contains topographic maps either made on site, composed from firsthand sketches by military engineers, or sometimes taken directly from other mapmakers, such as Chastillon. This work contains over 400 engravings of views, city plans, chateaux and monuments.

Sottovia, Ettore, ed. Il Conferenziere Libertario: Rivista Mensile. Roma: 1922-1925, bound in two parts, as follows: Nos. 1-24 (January 1922-December 1923) and Nos. 25-42, 45, 47-48 (January 1924-December, 1925); quarto, illustrated.
Very rare anti-fascist/anarchist periodical – we may be the only US library with a collection. Issues #43, 44, 46 may have been suppressed according to an internal note. This periodical complements other holdings of early European anti-fascist and anarchist materials, including Quaderni di "Giustizia e Libertà (1932), printed in Paris and hidden under a paper cover marking it as La filosofia di Giambattista Vico, Seconda edizione!

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian books - Summer 2011

These past few weeks, we have made several interesting acquisitions - all of these works will be housed in Special Collections.

Libro de Nobeli Veneti che vanno in Gran Conseglio con l'origine, et arme delle loro famiglie: Aggiustato fino li 4 Agosto 1631 per Andrea Beni. (Venice, dalla Preggion Giustiniana, 9 September 1631).

The Gran Conseglio or Maggior Consiglio of Venice was the main political institution of the Venetian Republic from the 12^th century until it declared the Republic’s end in 1797. Participation was a hereditary right, restricted to members of the old Venetian families inscribed in the Libro d’oro. The first official Libro d’oro was created in 1506. It recorded the genealogy of the families as a way of identifying imposters claiming membership in the Gran Conseglio. Never published, manuscript copies of the Libro d’oro were made for private use, mainly in formats smaller than the quarto proposed here. The copyist, Andrea Beni, composed this Libro d’oro from the Giustiniana, the ducal prison in Venice, possibly to repay the debts that landed him there.

Saluzzo-Roero, Diodata. Versi di Diodata Saluzzo, fra gli Arcadi, Glaucilla Eurotea. Torino: stamp. d'I. Soffietti, 1796.

Térence. L'Andria [-l'Eunuco, l'Affannatore, i Due fratelli, il Formione, la Ecira], commedia di Terenzio, tradotta in verso sciolto [col testo a fronte] da Luisa Bergalli. 1727.

Translation of Terence’s first play by Venetian female playright, Luisa Bergalli, director of the S. Angelo theater in Venice.

Bastille – Collection of 14 pieces concerning the Bastille, published between 1790-1793. On topics such as surveillance, funding for arms, clothing, etc., for those who participated in the storming of the Bastille (“les vainqueurs”), and the establishment of a monument to be erected on the site of the demolished prison.

Choppinus, Renatus. Hieromachia s. bellum sacrum gallicum. 1562.

First edition of this work by the lawyer Rene Choppin, a political-religious poem exalting the war against the heretics (Protestants) and showing Choppin’s loyalty to the Catholic cause.

Dunkirk – Manuscript signed on behalf of the “Bailly Bourgmestre et Eschvins de la ville et territoire de Dunkerque,” dated October 5, 1733. 8 pages.

A document proposing the establishment of a consul, and consular law, in this port town.

Mahalin, Paul. Les cocottes!!!!! Paris: Chez tous les libraires, 1864.

Contemporary observations about prostitutes in Paris – where they ate, drank, and slept in a nice little book covered in red silk.

Legende de Domp Claude de Guyse, abbé de Cluny: contenant ses faits et gestes depuis sa nativité jusques à la mort du cardinal de Lorraine : et des moyens tenus pour faire mourir le roy Charles IX emsemble plusieurs princes, grands Seigneurs et autres, durant le dit temps. 1581.

An early edition of this Protestant work, in which the author pretends to defend the Catholic Guise family as a way of enumerating their prosecutions of Protestants, with a special attention to actions in the Macon region. This copy was owned by Colbert, as a note “Bibliotheca Colbertina” on the title page attests.

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian books

Here are some books that we have added to Special Collections over the past few months:

CAHIER de Chansons appartenant au Soldat Louis Ginet. 18ème Colonial. Souvenir du Tonkin. Poste de Dang Trieu.  Tonkin, 1902.
MANUSCRIT in-4. 175ff. non chiffrés.  A beautifully hand-illustrated songbook compiled by a French soldier in Tonkin in the early 20th century.

Dinouart, Joseph-Antoine-Toussaint. Le triomphe du sexe. Ouvrage dans lequel on démontre que les femmes sont en tout égales aux hommes. On y examine les avantages de leur commerce, & quel doit étre l'amour réciproque des deux sexes. Amsterdam: I. Racon, 1749. Dedicated to Emilie du Châtelet, a mid-18^th feminist discourse arguing that social, cultural, and legal structures have determined women’s inferior status, and citing as examples notable women in the arts and sciences.

Estienne, Robert . Concordantiae Bibliorum utriusque Testamenti, Veteris & Novi, novae & integrae . [Geneva]: Robert Estienne, 26 January 1555 .

Folio (leaf size: 355 x 235 mm), 548 leaves; Estienne's printer's device on title; text printed in four columns in tiny roman type.

"First edition of Robert Estienne's concordance to the Vulgate, both a scholarly and typographical tour de force, and his last original work; the text is printed in minute roman type, 102 - 104 lines to the page divided into four columns across, totaling approximately 450,000 entries." (from dealer's description).

Marat, Jean Paul. Journal de la République Française. (39 issues) (Paris), de l'Imprimerie de Marat, (1793).   This is the continuation of Marat's journal L'Ami du peuple, which was renamed following the declaration of the French Republic in September 1792. Bound with 14 French Revolution pamphlets on Louis XVI.  

 Le Tableau des piperies des femmes mondaines. Cologne: Marteau, 1685. Third edition. A misogynist work originally published in 1633 which proposes that women’s focus on their beauty are at the origin for their ruin. Moreover, men are also brought to downfall by such women who focus on beauty rather than virtue. 

[Colonna, Vittoria]. Per La Inaugurazione Del Busto Di Vittoria Colonna : Solenne Adunanza Tenuta Dagli Arcadi Nella Protomoteca Capitolina Il Di 12 Maggio 1845. Roma: Tip. Salviucci, 1845. First edition.   4to, pp. 112. Odes to Vittoria Colonna recited on the occasion of the unveiling of a bust of this 16th century poet at the Protomoteca Capitolina in Rome during the 19th century. 

Fantocci, Ippolito Delfico [FANTOTIUS, Hippolytus Delphicus] . Hippolyti Fantotii Delphici Perusini, De liberalium artium laudibus Oratio, initio studii Patavii habita XIIII. Cal. Novembris, MDLIII . Padua: Giacomo Fabriano, 1553 .   8 vo, [ 40 ] pages; italic type. Extremely rare sole edition of an academic inaugural address in praise of the Arts and Sciences, delivered at the University of Padua on 19 October 1553 by the Franciscan poet and orator Ippolito Fantocci (Hippolytus Fantotius, fl. 1540 -1560 ), a native of Perugia.

 

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian books - October 2010

Arriving soon in Special Collections...

Nomesseius, Nicolaus, Guglielmo Facciotti, and Pietro Antonio Lanza. Parnassus poeticus Nicolao Nomeseio Charmensi Lotharingio auctore: In quo phrases omnes poeticae, ex illustribus poetis collectae, & in certa capita distributae, ita leguntur, vt nihil a poeticae studiosis illustrius desiderari possit. Milan: P. Pontii & J.B. Picalaum, 1601.

Very early edition of this dictionary-like manual for poets, where one choses a term (love, water, etc.), under which are many citations from classical sources. It is in a nice vellum binding with ties, and in very good condition. This edition is not listed in OCLC; the only earlier edition is Rome, 1595-96, although it was reprinted several times during the 17th century. 

L'Alouëte, Francois de. Des affaires d'estat: des finances, du prince et de sa noblesse. A Mets: Par Iean d'Arras, 1597.

A rare treatise on government  by the Protestant jurist Francois de L'Alouette (1530-1606),  published for the first time in 1595. L’Alouette offers a model for monarchy, for the education of kings and princes. Divided into three books, the first 2 books  concern the French monarchy, while the third focuses on the nobility.

Le Clerc, Sébastien. Divers costumes français du règne de Louis XIV - Les figures à la mode dédiées à M. le Duc de Bourgogne. Paris, Audran, (1685-1698 ). Plates 12 x 8 cm. tipped in and bound in blue full leather with gold, in slip case.

 A full collection of 20 engravings, almost all from the first state plus  later states and three undescribed and unique engravings, according to a manuscript note. Sébastien Le Clerc, (Metz, 1637- Paris, 1740) was a professor of perspective at the Académie Royale de peinture, and the most representative engraver during the reign of Louis XIV. This will be shelved in the Art Library.

Zabarella, Jacopo, conte, Il giovane. fl. 1620-1669. Il Corelio. Padua, P. Frambotto 1664. 4to. [viii], 80p. 38 facsimile stone inscriptions, eleven woodcuts of coins, engraved title cartouche with war weeds & the Este arms.

 The sole edition of this illustrated account of the Este and of the Venetian Correr families, this work documents their history from Roman times. Monumental and numismatic

evidence, etymologies, archaeology and archives are all described, while the narrative

lists the family’s accomplishments at arms, in the Church and in the arts.

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian books - August/September 2010

Here are some items that we recently added to Stanford's collection, all Italian this time:

Roberti, Giovanni Battista. Lettera Sul Prendere, Come Dicono, L'aria Et Il Sole. S.l, 1775.
Just in time for our Indian summer, an 18^th century treatise on the benefits of sunbathing…

CAVALCANTI, Andrea. Esequie del serenissimo principe Francesco, celebrate in Fiorenza dal serenissimo Ferdinando II, granduca di Toscana, svo fratello, nell'insigne collegiata di S. Lorenzo il dì 30 d'agosto 1634. Florence: Per Gio: Batista Landini, 1634. 4to, 52 pp. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, engraved folding plate, full page portrait and 8 text engravings by Stefano della Bella.

Francesco II de’ Medici, one of the eight children of Cosimo II, died of the plague in 1634, after a very short military career. Not much is known of his life. This work is more interesting for the account that it offers of the staging and symbolism of seventeenth-century funeral celebrations, with images of the catafalque, emblems, and a portrait of the dead. Andrea Cavalcanti was a member of an important Florentine family allied with the Medici’s. A member of the Accademia della Crusca, bibliophile and author, he wrote several other accounts of obsequies, on the funerals of King Louis XIII of France, and Ferdinando II, as well as works of biography, and was a member of the Florentine intellectual circles of the era.

Montesquieu in italiano

MONTESQUIEU, C.-L. Spirito delle leggi del signore di Montesquieu con le note dell'Abate Antonio Genovesi. Tomo Primo [-Tomo Quarto]. Napoli, Domenico Terres, (1777). With portraits of Montesquieu and Genovesi. Four volumes bound in two. 

An earlier edition of Montesquieu's masterpiece had been published in 1750 but that publication suffered severely from censorship. The publisher Domenico Terres, who had Genovesi's manuscript with his comments, obtained permission to publish the book with the comments. Added to the book were also d'Alembert's Elogio del Sig. Presidente di Montesquieu and his Analisi dello Spirito del Leggi Per servire di continuazione all'Elogio, Montesquieu's Discorso ..... nell'essere amesso all'Academia Francese, the Difensa dello spirito delle leggi, and Voltaire's Ringraziamento sincero ad un uomo caritatevole. The 4th volume contains a very extensive index (pp. 149-366). Antonio Genovesi (1713-1769) was an Italian philosopher and economist. He was much interested in theology and in philosophy, his interest in economics came later and together these formed the intellectual triangle within which all his studies were carried out. This diversity allowed him to grasp the import of the new culture of the Enlightenment and to denounce the cultural and social backwardness of the Kingdom of Naples (that is to say, of southern Italy), with unsurpassed orginality. He read and studied Vico, Cartesianism and was drawn to John Locke and the freethinkers. (adapted from vendor’s notes (A. Gerits) )