- Occas. (sl.) foxed.

= Famous but very rare work documenting the "terreur rouge" during the years 1793-1794, and listing the names of those guillotined, their age, profession and the crime of which they were accused. The two extra plates are also very interesting and rare: the first engraving has an autograph annotation in pen and ink below the image by JEAN-LOUIS GIRAUD SOULAVIE (8 July 1752 - 11 March 1813), French author, geologist and supporter of the Jacobins, reading: "Girondins, cordeliers & montagnards décapités reciproquement par les factions. gravure atroce de Louvion." His collector's mark is stamped in lower right corner of the print (Lugt 1533); the second print is anonymous and shows the aristocrats as animals that were killed by or fleeing from the Revolutionary hunter. Monglond, III, 34. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVIII.

- Lacks both frontisp.; 1 fold. map sl. creased on folds. Covers rubbed. Otherwise fine.

= The two fold. general maps ("Carte générale du Voyage Pittoresque autour du Monde" and "Carte générale de l'Océanie") are unnumb. in the "Table des planches"). Sabin 21211; Hill 505; Lipperheide LA8.

- Occas. foxed and yellowed; without the divisional title as almost always..

= Important first edition of this collection of 7 various works by Davanzati, two of which are highly rated in the economic reference works (nos. 2 and 3 of the texts contained in this volume). The following texts are included: 1. Schisma d'inghilterra (on the English Reformation); 2. Notizia di Cambi (on the international exchange mechanism, first published ); 3. Lezione della Moneta (on the metallist theory of the origin and the nature of money); 4. Orazione in Morte del G. Duca Cosimo I; 5. Accusa data dal silente al travagliato (...); 6. Orazione in genere deliberatiovo sopra i proveditori Dell' Accademia degl' Alterati; 7. Coltivazione Toscana Delle Viti, e d'alcuni Arbori. Kress 531; Goldsmiths' 687; Einaudi 1434; Schumpeter in his History of Economic Analysis extolls the third work as follows: "Davanzati's Lezione della Moneta (...) is the 'all time high', also as regards literary elegance, of the metallist theory of the origin and the nature of money." (p.292); for the second work Davanzati is valued by Schumpeter as the one who should be "credited with superior formulation of the quantity theorem in its most primitive form even if we interpreted Bodin's argument in the same sense." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.

- Bookplate on upper pastedown; upper hinge weak; first and final textleaf sl. browned/ foxed. Binding sl. worn/ rubbed along extremities.

= The 3rd English edition. Wildenburg no.4112 and p.52f: "De Aanwijsing wekte in de 17e en vooral de 18e eeuw om twee redenen de belangstelling van veel buitenlandse lezers. Het boek gaf ten eerste een beschríjving alsmede een verkláring van de ongekende voorspoed van de Republiek in haar hoogtijdagen. De algemene verwondering die die voorspoed in het buitenland wekte, gaf aan het werk een bijzondere betekenis. Het werd een uiteenzetting over het geheim achter economisch succes. (...) De tweede reden was dat de Aanwijsing in de 18e eeuw, vooral in Engeland en Frankrijk, werd herkend als een vroege oefening in de politieke economie. Behalve een beschríjving ván was het ook een kritíek óp de economische organisatie van de Republiek. De la Court toetste de door hemzelf geschetste werkelijkheid aan een aantal algemene principes, die pas in de 18e eeuw in bredere kringen opgang zouden maken".

- Partly yellowed/ browned.

= Cf. Kress 552 (ed. 1640) (first publ. Naples, 1604). The 3rd edition of this important early work on mercantile accountancy, arithmetic and exchange rates.

- Partly w. waterstain in upper part. Binding rubbed/ sl. worn (corners showing).

= Hoogendoorn, Lintz 02-1, 02-2 and 02-3/2; Bierens de Haan 2773; cf. The Children's World of Learning 2315 and 2316 (other edition); BNK 484 (the first part only): "(...) bedoeld voor aanstaande klerken. (...) Geen eerste druk bekend (...)".

- Owner's stamp on first free endpaper; bookplate on upper pastedown. Backstrip worn (esp. at foot of spine.

= Knuttel, Verboden boeken 129. Rare.

- Corners bumped and frayed; backstrip sl. worn.

= Scarce first edition of this work in which Jean-Baptiste Say lays out his principle ideas disclosed in his Traité d'Économie Politique in question-and-answer form, in order to reach a larger audience. Goldsmiths 21108; Kress B6577; cf. Einaudi 5111 (2nd ed., 1821).

- A few lvs. trifle waterst.; trifle wormholed in lower blank margin; contents (incl. maps) otherwise very clean. Binding sl. worn along extremities.

= Large paper(?) copy of this important description of Egypt, the Red Sea and the Hejaz with detailed maps by geographer of the King of France, D'Anville. Atabey 27; Hilmy II, 85; Gay 32. Blackmer 40: "D'Anville was the first geographer to make accurate maps of Egypt, although he never travelled in the country itself. He used the information of Pococke and Norden, and especially the observations made by the père Sicard". Contains a few (extensive) contemp. annotations (possibly by/ from the library of ANACHARSIS CLOOTS), i.a. discussing the observations of Tibet made by the 18th-cent. diplomat Samuel Turner (on first free endpaper and blank).

- Partly (sl.) foxed (often in blank margins only). Lacks 55 plates.

= Despite its incompletenes, an impressive and interesting series of engravings after D. VIVANT DENON, apparently published as an independant pictorial atlas, possibly preceding the plate volume that accompanied Denon's Voyage en Egypte (which contains 143 plates), in which many of the plates that are contained in our copy as single images to the plate are printed together w. 1 or 2 other engravings on one leaf. The captions of the plates in our volume are engraved in capital letters below the image (and differ partly from those found in Denon), whereas those used in Denon's Voyage (...) are engraved w. captions in Italics. Also, the numbering of the plates in our copy does not correspond to that of any of the plates traced in other plate volumes. Whatever the purpose of this atlas may have been, it shows the legendary energy and fanatical interest that Denon must have had during his voyage in which he accompanied the Napoleonic forces employed in Egypt. It is said that many of his preliminary sketches for these engravings were done either seated on a camel or kneeling on one knee. Cf. Hilmy p.172ff; Blackmer 471; Gay 1998; Atabey 338 (ed. London, 1807); De Meulenaere, p.62ff and Henze II, p.50f: "(...) ausgezeichnet durch lebendige, ja brillante Darstellung".

- The 2nd part lacks quire D. Upper joint sl. worn at lower end.

= Cf. Tiele 310 (diff. Dutch ed.); Blackmer 546; Gay 1998; Henze II, p.50; Atabey 338 (ed. London, 1807). "Französischer Graveur, machte Napoleons Expedition nach Ägypten, 1798-99, mit. Im Schutz der französischen Armee durchzog er das Land. (...) Sein Reisewerk erschien 1802, die "erste wichtige Frucht der Aegyptischen Expedition". Es ist in Tagebuchform gehalten, ausgezeichnet durch lebendige, ja brililante Darstellung. In den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung rücken immer wieder die Altertümer des Landes, war doch der Zweck seiner Reise, wie er selbst bemerkt, die Untersuchung der Denkmäler gewesen. Doch das Land selbst und seine Bewohner kommen nicht zu kurz." (Henze). "Denon's work has been justly praised. As a member of the Commission des Sciences et Arts which accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, he remained in Egypt for thirteen months, working continuously to record the Egyptian monuments. He was the first to reveal the richness of Egyptian art to Europe." (Atabey).

- Lacks the map of Syria. A few chafed spots on covers; corners sl. worn. Otherwise a fine and attractively bound LARGE PAPER COPY.

= Cox I, p.235 (Engl. ed. 1788); Blackmer Coll. 1748 (ed. 1799); Blackmer (sale) 1067. "Volney's popular and highly-regarded work was the result of three years' travel, a good deal of which time was spent in Cairo (...) It constitutes the best exposé of Ottoman Egypt at the end of the 18th century." (Blackmer Collection). "One of the most exact and valuable works of the kind ever published" (Cox).

- Final leaf w. tear. = Willems 1125; Rahir 1142.

- Fine copy.

= Willems 356 note; Rahir 337. The second of two 1631 editions: "Il y a sous la date de 1631 deux éditions bien distinctes; elles contiennent l'une et l'autre un traité De Pontifice Romano et ecclesiastico dominio (pp. 59-89) qui manque dans celle de 1628. La première des deux réimpressions contient le privilége, qui n'est pas dans l'autre (...)" (Willems).

- Contents loosening. Backstrip dam.

= Very rare emblem book. Praz, p.236 and p.127-131: "Among the collections derived from popular love emblems which we have just mentioned, one which spread throughout several countries at the end of the seventeenth century offers a typical instance of plagiarism. It contains forty-four emblems, accompanied by epigrams in four languages, the text as well as the pictures being engraved. Of these latter, thirty-two are copies from the emblems of Thronus Cupidinis, eleven repeat pictures from Vaenius's Amorum Emblemata, one derives directly from Heinsius's Emblemata amartoria (...) The illustrations are very crude; they are copies of the emblems quoted above, with additions in the background in order to fill in the rectangular space of each picture which is larger than that of its model".

= Adams/ Rawles/ Saunders F.128; cf. Praz 284.

- Professionally recased. Backcover soiled/ stained. A fine copy.

= Landwehr 179. The fine engravings were produced in the atelier of the Wierix brothers and centre on humans engaged in rich and sumptuous scenes of dinner and drinking parties, money transactions, scenes of elegant and luxurious life. The last emblem presents a lively scene of the Last Judgment. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.

- Without the 8 plates (4 elements and 4 seasons); waterst. at the beginning; sl. yellowed and foxed. Frontcover loose; binding worn/ dam.

= Adams/ Rawles/ Saunders F246; Praz p.334 (note); Landwehr (French) 286; Kat. Orn. Berlin 1671.

- Contents occas. loosening (first quire loose). = Landwehr 409.

- Lacks frontisp.; bookblock loose; fingersoiled and stained. Vellum soiled and darkened.

= Klaversma/ Hannema 979; Landwehr 514; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 439. The third (title-)edition.