Collecties
Aanwinsten 2008
December 2008
- Johann von PUTEANI, Grundsätze des allgemeinen Rechnungswesens, mit Anwendung auf alle Vermögens- und Gewerbsverhältnisse des bürgerlichen Lebens, insbesondere auf Landwirthschaft, Handlung und Staatswirthschaft. Mit einer Kupfertafel (Vienna, Carl Gerold, 1818) pp. xvi, 218, xvii-xx + large folding engraved table and several printed tables in the text.
- First edition of a general theory of accountancy and book-keeping, the result of a prize question posed by the Austrian Emperor in 1812, deploring the lack of a single work covering all fields of economic mathematics. The Emperor further requested that the work should serve as a textbook for schools and also give an outline of book-keeping for merchants, bankers, landowners and civil servants in the ministry of finance. Johann von Puteani had submitted this work and when no response was forthcoming, he decided to have it published by Gerold and be judged by the public. He explains methods and gives examples for establishing and listing assets and their commercial values, compiling inventories, assessing liabilities, estimating income of businesses, managing accounts, budgeting, and drawing up balance sheets.
The large folding table displays the relations of prices of different groups of natural materials, goods and products in an economic system, ranging from natural building stone, or leather goods to fertilizers, tar, potassium, iron and glass - all seen in relation to labour as well.
- Susanne Schulz-Falster Rare Books, London
- [PRICE LIST.] A collection of five price and cargo lists, mostly Amsterdam, varying dates 1720s to 1790.
- [PRICE LIST - AMSTERDAM.] Notta delle Prezzi delle seguente Mercanzie In Amsterdam adj n.d. [ca 1790s].
- [PRICE LIST - AMSTERDAM.] Prix des Marchandises que la Compagnie d'Orient a Amsteldam a vandeües 10 November 1721. [colophon: Amsterdam, Heritiers de Paul Matyssen, Imprimeur de la Compagnie des Indes d'Orient].
- [PRICE LIST - AMSTERDAM.] Notta delle Prezzi delle seguente Mercanzie. In Amsterdam, adi 6 February, 1756.
- [CARGO LIST - AMSTERDAM.] Messieurs les Directeurs de la Compagnie des Indes d'Orient, Presenteront en Vente Publique au mois d'Avril & May, prochain 1722 les Marchandises qu'elle a Receuës des Indes en dernier lieu, avec quelques autres au'elle a Retenues des années precedents. Amsterdam les Heritiers de Paulus Mathyssen, Imprimeur de la Compagnie des Indes Oriantales, 1722.
- [CARGO LIST - ?AMSTERDAM.] Carica Generale di 13 Navi procedenti d'India, cio e Meyenburg, Sannburg, e d'Uno per la Camera di Zelanda; Re Carlo, Westerdyksborn, Amstelveen e Hop Vogel per la Camera di Amsterdam; Barbesteyn per la Camera di Delft; Nettuno per la Camera di Rotterdam, Wassenaer, e Gansenhoef per la Camera di Horn; Wendela & Arensduyn per la Camera di Enchuisen; tutte partite adi 30 Novembre 1719 da Batavia, e arrivate, il Re Carlo, adi 2, le alter adi 5 Agosto del Corrente anno nei Porti di questo Paese. 1720.
Susanne Schulz-Falster Rare Books, London
- F[rancis d'] IVERNOIS, A cursory view of the assignats, and remaining resources of French finance (September 6, 1795). Drawn from the debates of the Convention / translated from the original French (Dublin : printed by P. Byrne, 1795) 80 pp. + illus. with portraits and specimens of assignats. The illustrations comprise 6 assignats (of which 2 are Italian) and 4 portraits (Pierre-Joseph Cambon, François Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas, Georges jacques danton and Frederick II).
October 2008
- Philipp Andreas NEMNICH, Tagebuch einer der Kultur und Industrie gewidmeten Reise. Erster Band [-Zweiter Band] (Tübingen, in der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1809) vi, 238, (1), (239)-517 (2) p.
- Travel Diary by Nemnich of a journey in 1808 through Germany and the southern part of The Netherlands reporting about the trade and industry in general and the fabris in particular. He visited among others Eupen, Verviers, Malmedy and Stablo, Liege, Maastricht, Gladbach and Rheyd, Duisburg, Hannover and Cleve.
- Antiquariat Wilhelm Hohmann, Stuttgart
- Der KAUFMANN wie er seyn soll, oder Anleitung ein vollkom[m]ener Geschæftsmann zu werden. Erster [- Zweyter] Theil (Prague, Carl Wilhelm Enders, 1815) 2 vols; pp. [16], 354; [2], 354, [5] index
[Vol. I: Theorie des Handels, oder Anleitung in das Ganze der Handelswissenschaft; Vol. II: Der Buchhalter, oder Anleitung zum Selbstunterricht in der einfachen, doppelten und englischen Buchhaltung ...].
September 2008
- Carl Friedrich Alexander HARTMANN, Encyclopädisches Wörterbuch der Technologie, der technischen Chemie, Physik und des Maschinenwesens, für Fabrikanten und Gewerbetreibende jeder Art, Kameralisten, Oekonomen, Berg- und Hüttenleute, Forstleute und Künstler, nach den besten deutschen, englischen und französischen Hülfsmitteln bearbeitet (Augsburg : Jenisch and Stage, 1838-1841) 4 volumes, with 73 folding lithographic plates.
- First edition of a technological encyclopedia, written at the beginning of the German industrial revolution, preceded by Hartmann's Encyclopädisches Handbuch der Technologie (Leipzig, 1838-1839).
- Hartmann (1796-1863) was a mineralogist, administrator and prolific writer on technology and manufacturing, his first works appearing in the 1820s. His expertise in the field earned him many honorary memberships of learned societies and invitations to attend international conferences and international exhibitions, and in 1829 he was appointed commissioner of mines in Brunswick. Author of over 100 works on mining, mineralogy and technology, he aimed to disseminate technological progress, inventions and new manufacturing techniques from all over Europe and America. In 1841, he resigned from his post as commissioner of mines in Brunswick, the result, perhaps, of much envy due to his technical knowledge and the honours he had received, and moved to Berlin in order to work as a technical writer and founder and editor of periodicals on technology.
- Bernard Quaritch, London.
- [HAVOUARD], Apperçu de l'étendue de la France, de sa population, de la valeur des fonds ruraux, du produit des terres à blé et du commerce des grains (La Rochelle : J.F. Lhmonadie for the Societé d'Agricolture, an XI [=1803]) 21 pp.
- Provincially printed study of French wealth, resources and demographics in the Napoleonic years. Anonymously published, it supports a critical appraisal of agricultural policies, thwarting effects of excessive taxation on farmers and uncapped grain prices with a statistical, quantitative and historical study of population, wages, prices; the notions of productivity and of real cost of living as relation between wages and prices are also examined. Only few pamphlets printed by Lhomandie at La Rochelle are recorded (Not in Goldsmiths' or Kress. Not listed in OCLC, NUC, etc.; one copy only at the Médiathèque Michel-Crépeau, La Rochelle.
- Bernard Quaritch, London.
July 2008
- [CH.J.MATHON DE LA COUR], Collection de comptes-rendus, pièces authentiques, états et tableaux, concernant les finances de France, depuis 1758 jusqu'en 1787 (A Lausanne, et se trouve à Paris, Chez Cuchet & Gattey, 1788) xii, 231 p. : tables.
- Highly important financial reports, which certainly would have remained unknown, if it was not for the unflagging courage de Mathon de la Cour. Contains reports by Boullogne (1758), De Silhouette (1759), Terray (1770, 1772, 1773 and 1774), Turgot (1775), Cluny (1776), Necker (1781) etc.
- A. Gerits & Son, Amsterdam.
- Alphabetische lijst van de beroepen en bedrijven vermeld bij de wet op hyet regt van patent van 21 mei 1819 ... / uitgegeven op last van den directeur-generaal der directe belastingen en posterijen (in 's Gravenhage, ter Algemeene Lands Drukkerij, 1819) 188 p. : table.
- D. VAN HOGENDORP, Staats- en handelkundige beschouwing van het koloniaal systhema in Frankrijk; met een tafereel der technologische benaming van al de koloniale en commercieele établissementen der Europeanen in andere werelddeelen; uit het Fransche vertaald (te Amsterdam, bij de wed. H. van Kesteren en Zoon, 1817)viii, 1754 p.
- [ADRIEN SERRE], Livre utile aux negocians de l'Europe, contenant la theorie complette & facile des opérations du change, ... / par Mr. L'A.S***. (A Bruxelles, chez Emm. Flon, 1791.
- Koopmans belang boekje, voor de brievetas 1793 (te Amsterdam, by J.R. Poster, s.a.) 32 p. + map.
June 2008
- Richard DAFFORNE, The Apprentices Time-Entertainer Accomptantly: or A Methodical means to obtain the Exquisite Art of Accomptantship: Digested into Three Parts ... Now Reviewed, and in several places Rectified ... by John Dafforne ... The Third Edition (London, W.Godbid, for Robert Horne 1669) 3 parts + folding table index [without the folding 'accompts' leaf found in the 1670 edition - copy from the microfilm of 1670 edition loosely inserted]. Ownership in ink on verso of title 'James Wilson bought this Novembr 6 1749 ...' and some ink notes on the final blank page.
- Murray (Chapters in the history of bookkeeping) describes this book as "a useful manual ... the rules of book-keeping are clearly explained. He frequently refers to his Mirrour (1636), and also to the works of James Peele, John Carpenter and Simon Stevin. He quotes the compressed form of the Rules given by Johannes Buinga in 1627 and by Jacob van der Scheure in 1634.
- This edition has been 'reviewed and rectified' by Richard Dafforne's son John. On the title John Dafforne describes himself as "Accomptant, and Teacher of the said famous and never-dying Art of Accomptantship, in English and Dutch" and addresses the Epistle "To my loving Friends, The School-Masters...". The first part contains questions and answers on the three prime accounts Proper, Factorage and Company. The second part contains sixty 'rules of aid' - debtor and creditor - and over 300 exercises in the form of a merchants waste book. The third part are "brief directions for the un-experienced, that intend to betake themselves into the Service of the Honourable Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies."
- Hamish Riley-Smith, Swanton Abbot Hall, Norfolk.
- Hustcraft STEPHENS, Italian Book-Keeping Reduced into An Art: Being An Entire, New and Compleat System of Accounts in General. Demonstrated in a Chain of Consequences from Clear and Self-evident Principles. To which is added the greatest variety of Merchants Accompts ... With a Preface ... by James Weir, Gent (Dublin, G. Grierson 1737) xvi + 168 pp + (136) pp.
- The First Dublin edition, preceded by a London printing in quarto in 1735. In the same year, 1737, there was a Dublin printing of John Mair's Book-keeping methodiz'd. Hustcraft Stephens describes himself on the title page as Accomptant.
- Hamish Riley-Smith, Swanton Abbot Hall, Norfolk.
- A.-L. LAVOISIER, J.-L. LAGRANGE, Antoine DIANNYERE, Collection de divers ouvrages d'Arithmétique politique (Paris, Imprimerie CC. Corancez & Roederer, an IV [1796]) 64 p.
May 2008
- SOCIÉTÉ OECONOMIQUE DE BERNE, Mémoires et Observations recueillies par la Société Oeconomique de Berne (Zuric, chez Heidegger et Compagnie, 1760-1761 [Berne, Société Typographique aux dépens de la Société Oeconomique, 1762-1773] 40 parties in 20 volumes. Complete series.
- Johann Georg MEUSEL, Lehrbuch der Statistik (Leipzig, bey Caspar Fritsch, 1792) xvi, 675 pp.
- Defining "Statistik" as "die Wissenschaft oder Kenntniss von der gegenwärtigen politischen Verfassung der Staaten", Meusel gives detailed accounts of the essential data of various European states; he examines population, borders, regions, industrial and agricultural production, communications, the employment of the people, religious affiliation, forms and structures of government, and its daily business, and finally the various sources for the statistics presented. He first examines Europe as a whole, before presenting chapters on Germany, Austria, Britain and Ireland, Venice, Poland, Russia, the Papal States, Sardinia, and Portugal, among other states.
In addition to his statistical work, Meusel is best known for his contributions to many periodicals of the late eighteenth century, most notably Der Teutsche Merkur and Das gelehrte Teutschland.
Pickering & Chatto, London.
March 2008
- Gabriel JARS, Voyages métallurgiques, ou recherches et observations sur les mines & les Forges de fer, la fabrication de l'acier, celle du fer-blanc, & plusieurs mines de Charbon de terre, faites depuis l'année 1757 jusques & compris 1769, en Allemagne, Suède, Norwege, Angleterre & Ecosse. Suivies d'un mémoire sur la circulation de l'air dans les Mines, & d'une notice de la jurisprudence des mines de charbon dans le pays de Liège, la province de Limbourg & le comté de Namur. Avec figures (A Lyon, chez Gabriel Regnault, 1774). XXXII-416 pp. + 10 tables.
- Posthumous work of the mineralogist Gabriel Jars (1732-1769) who carried out a vast metallurgical investigation in Europe into several voyages. He visited initially the mines of Central Europe between 1757 and 1759: Saxony, Bohemian, Hungary, Austria the Tyrol, Styrie and Carinthie. Then two other voyages followed in 1765: England and Scotland; in 1766: Hanover, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands. Work of Jars was published after its death by his brother; these metallurgical voyages do not present a route, but gathers various reports concerning the mines of the visited countries, carefully described: history, payments, their administration, exploitation.
Librairie Picard, Paris.
- In januari gekocht bij Van der steur in Haarlem een groot aantal archivalia, aanvullingen op aanwezige collecties en nieuwe collecties.
- Aanvullingen
Vlaamse, Nederlandse en Duitse gilden (NEHA Bijzondere collecties 338)
Fa. Determeyer Weslingh & Zn, Amsterdam (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 503)
Van Ommeren, Rueb & Co, Batavia (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 516)
Loterijen - eerste aanvulling (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 548)
Documentatie en afbeeldingen industrie - tweede aanvulling (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 729)
Documentatie en afbeeldingen handel - tweede aanvulling (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 730)
Documentatie en afbeeldingen bank- en verzekeringswezen en zakelijke dienstverlening - tweede aanvulling (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 731)
Documentatie en afbeeldingen landbouw en visserij - tweede aanvulling (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 732)
- Nieuw
NV S. Krakenberger, groothandel in hop, Amsterdam - 1939-1970 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 712)
Zeehandelaar, [Amsterdam] - 1757 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 713)
Koopman, Amsterdam - 1780 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 714)
Boekhandel Albrecht, Winterswijk - 1888-1892 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 715)
Contracten tussen karbouwenfokkers, Sumatra (Indonesië) - 1898-1922 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 716)
Leningen van de familie Deken, Hoogkarspel - 1870-1898 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 717)
Journaal van J. van der Lee Azn, Geertruidenberg - 1830 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 718)
Winst- en verliesrekening van de veeboer Cornelis Zijp, Noord-Holland - 1777-1785 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 719)
Astra Românâ, Ploiesti - 1932 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 720)
Maison Gunther Mohr, Baarn - 1927 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 721)
Ernest Emil Wendt, Underwriters Representative, London - 1886 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 722)
Brandstoffenhandel BBH - 1951 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 723)
Rekening voor voeren hout, Onnen (Gr) - [1746] (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 724)
Rentenier, Noord-Holland - 1828-1829 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 725)
NV Haagsche Plateelbakkerij Rozenburg, 's-Gravenhage - [1900] (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 726)
Kasboek van Pieter Veldt Kzn, landbouwer, Castricum - 1927-1948 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 727)
Meubelmakerij Joh. Wulfers & Zn, Santpoort - ca. 1930 (NEHA-Bijzondere collecties 728)