Collecties

Aanwinsten 2001

November 2001

• PLAYFORD, John Vade Mecum: or, the Necessary Companion. Containing, 1. Sir S. Morland's Perpetual Almanack ... 2. The Years of each King's Reign ... 3. Directions for every Month in the year, what is to be done in the Orchard, Kitchin, and Flower-Garden. 4. the Reduction of Weights, Measures, and Coins; wherein is a Table for the Assize of Bread. 5. A Table wherein anu=y Number of Frathings, Half-pence, Pence or Shilling, are ready cast up ... The fifth edition, with New Additions (London : Printed by W. Horton for T. and G. Sawbridge ..., 1692). 8vo in 4s, folding engraved table [viii], 229, [1]
  • Merchant book, first published in 1679. Clearly meant to be carried around in the merchant and trader's pocket, with a protective envelope-style vellum binding, this example certainly extensive used, but still complete. A brief almanac is followed by tables for interest and price calculations, commercial arithmetic, information on travel routes, standard fares for journeys etc.
    Susanne Schulz-Falster, London
  • See also: On the Waterfront : newsletter of the friends of the iish Nr. 5 (2002) 3-4 [online - pdf]
• Tariffa delle Valute a Lire d'Italia e di Bologna. L'autore pone la presente Edizione sotto la salveguardia della Legge 19 Fiorile Anno IX (Bologna : Tipografia Masetti, 1809) 12mo, pp 71.
  • Merchant's exchange rate table, detailing the exchange value of the individual coins of Bologna into Italian Lire, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Included are the rates for Bajocchi, Carlini, Cavalotti, Murajola, Paoli, Papette, Testoni, Spanish and French Escudos, and Milanese currency.
    Susanne Schulz-Falster, London
• In de Nieuw Geïnventeerde Koopmans Comptior- en Schrijf-Almanach op het Jaar onses Heeren Jesu Christi MDCCLXXV Na de Nieuwe Styl (‘t Amsterdam by de Erve de Wed. Gysbert de Groot, ca. 1775)
  • The almanac contains conversion tables for the weight of wheat in Zeeland, Holland and Utrecht and more; handwritten additions. See also Bijzondere Collecties NEHA nr. 604. Also a second almanac: Den Dordrechtzen Almanch, op het jaar onzes Heeren 1790 : Voorzien met alle kermissen, jaar-, paarde-, beeste- en leermarkten ... (Te Dordrecht, : by Pieter v. Braam, 1790).
    Alfa Haganum, The Hague

Augustus 2001

• Mémoire sur le commerce extérieur de la France, tant avec les puissances européennes qu'avec les Levantines, les Nations Barbaresques et les Anglo-Américains pendant l'année 1787. Bureau de la Balance du Commerce, Décembre 1788. Manuscript. fol. p. [8], 97; with 1 large folding table.
  • Detailed survey of French trade and commerce during 1787. For more information see also: Sandra Bos, Jan Lucassen en Roger de Peuter, Inventaire de la Collection Bruyard concernant le Bureau (de la Balance) du Commerce et l'Inspection des Manufactures sous l'Ancien Régime (1571-1831) (Amsterdam 1996) 88 pp. [available as PDF file].
    Gerits & Son, Amsterdam
• TUFTE, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (2nd edition, 2001); Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (1993); Envisioning Information (1990)
  • As an interesting addition to our collection statistics from the 17th-early 19th centuries we acquired the 3 volumes on graphical design by Edward R. Tufte.
    Edward R. Tufte is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design.
    See also the website of Edward R. Tufte

Juli 2001

• HEINITZ, Karl Friedrich Anton, Freiherr von Tabellen über die Staatswirthschaft eines europäischen Staates der vierten Grösse, nebst Betrachtungen über dieselben (Leipzig, Johann Samuel Heinsius, 1786) 4to, pp. [2], 45, [1] blank; with 4 large folding tables.
  • First and only edition of a very rare work of comparative economic theory, in which the author presents tables illustrating four different aspects of a state's political economy. The tables themselves show the economic situation in terms of population, agriculture, and receipts and expenditure, both for the state treasury and circulating money, and are envisaged a useful tool for anyone, be they heads of state or economic policy-makers, who wants to gain an overall view of a nation's economic landscape.
    The Essai is eminently practical in nature, just as Heinitz (also Heynitz, 1725-1802) was very much a practical man. A Saxon by birth, he attended the Universities of Dresden and Freiberg, where he studied theoretical and practical aspects of the mining and smelting process. Brief appointments in Brunswick and Sweden then led him back to Saxony which, after the Seven Years War, was keen to implement fundamental economic reforms, which included Heinitz's specialized field. In 1765, he was thus put in charge of mining, smelting, and forestry in Saxony and immediately founded the Bergakademie Freiberg, now the oldest mining school in the world.
    Soon his fame, and that of the success of the Saxon mines, had spread, and in 1776 Heinitz transferred to the service of Frederick II of Prussia. He presented the King with a major plan to reform the mines, supporting their production with new taxation and customs policies and an improved infrastructure of roads and canals. He was also keen to replace the smelting practices, a hangover from medieval times, with modern steam-engine technology. Although his plans were rejected by Frederick, Heinitz nevertheless persisted in attempting to improve the economic and social status of miners and foundry workers by means of house-building schemes and a benefit fund for those who had fallen on hard times. In this, Heinitz was a direct forerunner of the great Prussian refomers of the early nineteenth century.
    The Tabellen are originally published in French Essai d'économie politique .. Heinitz's only other work was an treatise on mineral production in Prussia, with suggestions for its improvement, which likewise appeared in both French and German, in 1786. A reprint (in German) is in the EHB collection.
    Not found in Goldsmiths', Humpert or Kress; OCLC lists microfilms only.
    Quaritch, London

Juni 2001

• RINK, E.D. Beschrijving der stad Tiel. Met Plans en Platen (te Tiel : bij A. van Loon, 1836) xii, 323, 32 p. : ill. (folded); contemporary binding, handwritten additions. Bound with: Bijvoegsels en bijlagen tot de Beschrijving der stad Tiel (Tiel : A. van Loon, 1836) 51 p. and Vervolg van Bijvoegsels en bijlagen tot de Beschrijving der stad Tiel (Tiel : A. van Loon, 1847) 95 p.
  • Geschenk

April 2001

• BEUTEL, Tobias Beutel Anderweit neu auffgelegte Arithmetica, oder sehr nützliche und schöne Rechen-Kunst, mit kurzen Regulen und Exemplis nach der Practica, welche ausführlich hier innen beschrieben ist. Nebst der Coss oder Algebra [...] Wurtzel und Zinns, und Wechsel-Zugaben in Müntzen, Elen, Gewichten und Maszen auffs fleissigste revidirt [...] (Leipzig und Franckfurt am Mayn : Moritz Georg Weidmann, s.a. [after 1678]). (20) fol., pp. 501, (3)
  • First edition entitled Mercatorisch- und Politisches Handbüchlein Der Wunderschönen Rechen-Kunst published in 1651. This edition difficult to date, but after 1678 ('Dedicatio' dated 1678), no edition mentioned in the title, but probably the 5th (1678) or 6th (1685), both editions not traced in Ars Mercatoria.
    Bernard Quaritch, London
• HERON DE VILLEFOSSE, Antoine-Marie Rapport fait au jury central de l'exposition de l'industrie Française de l'année 1823, sur les objets relatifs a la métallurgie, et augmenté de quelques annotations ... (A Paris, Madame Huzard, 1823) 8vo, pp. [4], 139, [1]
  • First separate edition, extracted from Annales de Mines, (pp. 649-788) 1823. This national exhibition was held in the interior of the Louvre. Attracting 1,642 exhibitors, the exhibition was open for 50 days. The present work includes details of the metal work shown at the exhibition, and lists the speciality of each exhibitor, the objects shown and when relevant, the prize medal awarded.
    Bernard Quaritch, London
  • See also: On the Waterfront : newsletter of the friends of the iish Nr. 3 (2001) 4-5 [online - pdf]
• Catalogue des produits de l'industrie Malinoise admis à l'exposition de 1849 (Malines-Mechelen : Hanico, 1849) 6mo., pp. 46
  • First and only edition of this national industrial exhibition featuring goods from Flanders and the surrounding areas. The work begins with the terms and conditions of the exhibition, followed by a list detailing the exhibitors (168!) and exhibits.
    Bernard Quaritch, London

Maart 2001

• MARPERGER, Paul Jacob Marperger Das Neu-Eröffnete Manufacturen-Hauß, in welchen die Manufacturen insgemein, dero differenten Arten, erfodernten Materialien, davon dependirenden Künstler vorgestellet werden, auch welche Manufacturen einem Lande und Stadt nützlich seyn, wie selbe glücklich zu introduciren und beyzubehalten, wobey auch von denen Handwerckern, deren Zünfften, deren Rechts-Gebräuchen und Mißbräuchen gehandelt wird. (Hamburg, Benjamin Schiller, 1704) small 8vo, pp. [ii], 306, [2] bibliography, [2]
  • First edition of the first representation of the German manufacture system. Paul Jacob Marperger (1656-1730) is the founder of 'modern' German business literature. After a career as a merchant, during which he was active in many parts of Europe, his writings earned him a position as privy councillor of the Saxon court. 'Fortifying himself with an astounding amount of statistical data, gathered in his travels throughout Europe and Russia, Marperger wrote dozens of technical studies and handbooks on different branches of industry' (Kress Library report of 1984-86).
    In the present work, Marperger gives an exhaustive survey of arts and manufactures in Germany during the late seventeenth century, with special emphasis on aspects of wool, silk and leather manufacture, including a chapter on dyeing.
    
    Kress 2431; not in Goldsmiths', Humpert or Menger; NUC locates two copies at Harvard, to which OCLC adds a copy at Ohio State University.
    Bernard Quaritch, London

Januari 2001

• HORNBERGER, Johann Philipp [von] Grundsätze der Kammeralrechnungsführung (Erlangen, Johann Jakob Palm, 1796) [xii], 259, [1] pp. with 20 folding tables on 23 leaves
  • First and only edition of a rare work on accounting in which Hornberger (1758-1826) presents a systematic analysis of both its theory and practice.
    Copy from the Donaueschingen Library. Rare: not in Goldsmiths', Hausdorfer, Herwood, Kress or Menger; NUC lists the Library of Congress copy only; also Bayrische Staatsbibliothek München; not in OCLC.
    Bernard Quaritch, London