{"title":"Studia Humanitatis","description":"\u003cp\u003ePolitics, Philosophy, Economics, and History from the early 15th century to the modern era, selected by Early English \u0026amp; Philosophy specialist Oliver Yarwood. Download the catalogue \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/Studia_Humanitatis.pdf?v=1793880640\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Studia Humanitatis Catalogue Shapero Rare Books\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePDF here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"desiderius-erasmus-moriae-ecomium-scarce-early-edition-93719","title":"Moriae Encomium.","description":"The scarce first dated edition of Erasmus' \u003cem\u003eMoriae Encomium\u003c\/em\u003e, an important work of humanist rhetoric which satirised the corruption and religious hypocrisy of Europe's elite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted two months after the undated Paris edition by Gilles de Gourmont, of which only a handful of copies survive, all of them in institutional libraries. The present edition, almost as rare, is not merely a reprint of the Paris edition, but contains additional material including an address and laudatory letter to Erasmus\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eby his fellow humanist Jakob Wimpfeling. All early editions are exceedingly scarce, with only three appearing at auction in the last 100 years that we could trace. The first English translation was not published until 1549, although there had been Czech, French and German editions prior to this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent example of a classic work of paradoxical satire, in which folly is personified and holds up a mirror to mankind. An extremely significant work both in its own right and for its influence on the Protestant Reformation in general. Sir Thomas More's own magnum opus \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e was at least in part written as a response to \u003cem\u003eMoriae Encomium\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The Praise of Folly\u003c\/em\u003e was written when Erasmus was staying in the house of Thomas More in the winter of 1509–10. Its title is a delicate and complimentary play on the name of his host: its subject matter is a brilliant, biting satire on the folly to be found in all walks of life. The book stemmed from the decision which Erasmus had taken when he left Rome to come to England, that no form of preferment could be obtained at the sacrifice of his freedom to read, think and write what he liked. The work was first secretly printed in Paris, and, as in other cases, its immediate success safeguarded him from the consequences of his audacity. Whenever tyranny or absolute power threatened, \u003cem\u003eThe Praise of Folly \u003c\/em\u003ewas re-read and reprinted. It is a sign of what was in the air that Milton found it in every hand at Cambridge in 1628. His inherent scepticism has led people to call Erasmus the father of eighteenth-century rationalism, but his rationalist attitude is that of perfect common sense, to which tyranny and fanaticism were alike abhorrent' (PMM 43).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite the risky nature of the work and its explicit and implicit attacks on established religion and authority figures of the time, its rapid popularity ensured that the author and the work were left unmolested by church and state, at least until Erasmus' death in 1536, after which his previously untainted reputation was diminished. By 1559, all of his works had been proscribed under the insidious \u003cem\u003eIndex Auctorum et Librorum Prohibitorum\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe can trace copies in just 12 institutional collections worldwide: 3 in the British Isles (BL, University of Cambridge, and Bodleian Library), 2 in France (BnF and Université de Strasbourg), 4 in the USA (Folger Shakespeare Library, Harvard University Divinity School, and Ohio State University), 3 in Germany (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Universitaet Goettingen, and Wurttembergische Landesbibliotherk), and 1 in Denmark (Det Kgl. 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The population of a community, Malthus, suggested, increases geometrically, while food supplies increased only arithmetically. If the natural increase in population occurs, the food supply becomes insufficient and the size of the population is checked by 'misery' — that is, the poorest sections of the community suffer disease and famine. The Essay was highly influential in the progress of thought in early nineteenth-century Europe' (PMM).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this enlarged edition, Malthus made clear what was only implicit in the first, that prudential restraint should, if humanly possible, be 'moral restraint' — that is, delayed marriage accompanied by strictly moral pre-marital behaviour, although he admitted that moral restraint would not be easy and that there would be occasional failures. Whereas in the first edition he had said that all the checks to population would involve either misery or vice, in the second edition he attempted to lighten this 'melancholy hue' (first edition, p.iv) and 'to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first essay' (second edition, p.vii) by arguing that moral restraint, if supported by an education emphasising the immorality of bringing children into the world without the means of supporting them, would tend to increase rather than diminish individual happiness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His work was an important influence on both Darwin and Wallace in their formulation of the concept of natural selection. 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Further sections deal with the raising of the 'Hue and Cry', the alarm whereby bystanders are summoned to assist with the apprehension of an offender, the various statutes concerning robbery, and the oath to be taken before a Justice of the Peace by the complainant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLittle is known of the author 'J.M.', who also published an account of the \u003cem\u003eBloudy Murther of Thomas Thyn, Esq\u003c\/em\u003e., a politician attacked and killed whilst riding in his coach on Pall Mall the year before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 12mo (15 x 9 cm); 5pp ads to rear, dated MS inscription in pen to front pastedown, hinges reinforced at endpapers, small waterstain to upper gutter margin of first two gatherings; contemporary blind-ruled sheep, rebacked, original spine laid-down, later red morocco lettering-piece, corners a little rubbed, slightly bowed, very good; [10], 127, [5]pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC R2818; Wing 50; Arber Term cat. 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Smith's originality lies in locating the roots of this comparative wealth in the specialisation of labour which had occurred in developed economies, for the 'annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always, either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations' (Introduction). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The history of economic theory up to the end of the nineteenth century consists of two parts: the mercantilist phase which was based not so much on a doctrine as on a system of practice which grew out of social conditions; and the second phase which saw the development of the theory that the individual had the right to be unimpeded in the exercise of economic activity. While it cannot be said that Smith invented the latter theory... his work is the first major expression of it. He begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange... Labour represents the three essential elements—wages, profit and rent—and these three also constitute income. From the working of the economy, Smith passes to its matter—'stock'—which compasses all that man owns either for his own consumption or for the return which it brings him. \u003cem\u003eThe Wealth of Nations\u003c\/em\u003e ends with a history of economic development, a definitive onslaught on the mercantile system, and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control' (PMM).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSixth edition; 3 vols; 8vo (22 x 14 cm); old binder and bookseller's tickets to front pastedown of vol. I, textblock a little toned, vol. 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D.L.R. sur les brigues à la mort de Louys XIII \u003c\/em\u003e(1662). Scarce.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLa Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) began writing his memoirs whilst recovering from a head-injury sustained at the battle of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris in 1652. They survive as an important record of life at the court of Louis XIII, the infamous Cardinal Mazarin's rise to power, and the period of aristocratic discontent that culminated in the Fronde rebellion of 1648-1653.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eMémoires\u003c\/em\u003e were initially circulated privately, before their unauthorised publication in 1662. La Rochefoucauld disowned this book, and the modern academic consensus is that 'Less than half the work is by him, and that very defective. 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VAUGHAN, Cardinal Archbishop Herbert, \u003cem\u003eA Vindication of the Bull 'Apostolicae Curae' a letter on Anglican Orders by the Cardinal Archbishop and Bishops of the Province of Westminster\u003c\/em\u003e, (London, Longmans, Green, and C., 1898). Second edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. NEWMAN, John Henry, \u003cem\u003eApologia Pro Vita Sua\u003c\/em\u003e... bound with \u003cem\u003eMr. Kingsley and Dr. Newman: a correspondence on the question whether Dr. Newman teaches that truth is no virtue?\u003c\/em\u003e (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864). First editions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. NEWMAN, John Henry, \u003cem\u003eA letter to the Right Reverend Father in God, Richard, Lord Bishop of Oxford, on occasion of no. 90, in the series called The Tracts for the Times,\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, John Henry Parker, 1841). 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The covers have been tooled in blind to a 'cottage-roof' design composed of panels where the goatskin has been ruled with concentric lines and tooled in blind, and alternately left untreated and tooled in gilt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimilar examples are exhibited in Howard Nixon's \u003cem\u003eEnglish Restoration Bookbindings\u003c\/em\u003e (see nos 113-116), and as no. 39 of his \u003cem\u003eFive Centuries of English Bookbinding\u003c\/em\u003e, which belongs to a French New Testament owned by Samuel Pepys. As Nixon explains, sombre bindings emerged in the 1670s 'for mourning use and Lenten observance' and were prevalent for the next 50 or so years (see \u003cem\u003eEnglish Restoration Bookbindings\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ep.45). 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It is time that Mr Washington retire; for he has played off so much prudential hypocrisy between France and England, that neither government believe any thing he says'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur letter recalls how Paine had sent his attack on Washington to his protégé Benjamin Franklin Bache (1769-1798) 'in August last' by way of his friend Captain Nathan Haley 'to be printed in a pamphlet'. However, still at the time of writing in January 1797, Paine had of 'yet no certain account of its publication. I mention this that the letter [to George Washington] may be enquired after, in case it has not been published or has not arrived to Mr. Bache. Barnes wrote to me from London 29 August informing me that he was offered three hundred pounds sterling for the manuscript. The offer was repulsed because it was my intention it should not appear till it appeared in America, as that and not England was the place for its operation'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIts publication had in fact been held back by Bache himself, who perhaps felt that it would not help the Jeffersonian cause in the upcoming presidential election. The \u003cem\u003eLetter\u003c\/em\u003e finally appeared on the 8th December 1796, the day after Washington had given his farewell address and signalled his intention to stand down at the end of his second term, where it was met with embarrassment from fellow republicans and irrevocably tarnished Paine's reputation with the federalists. Washington, in any event, did not respond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough anonymous, our letter's recipient has long been identified as Paine's particular friend, Colonel John Fellows (1759-1844), who had served in his uncle's militia during the Revolutionary War. Fellows shared Paine's republican sympathies and his bookshop-come-publishing house, established in 1793, soon became 'notorious for containing what the Federalists considered heretical works' ('Letter from Fellows to William Lee of Washington', May 1821). He acquired the copyright for Part I of the \u003cem\u003eAge of Reason\u003c\/em\u003e, which he brought to the press in 1794, and published pamphlets of Joel Barlow, to whom Paine had confided his manuscript on his way to prison. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvenance:\u003cbr\u003e1. Firstly for the recipient, Colonel John Fellows, with a manuscript note to the top of the first page noting the letter's acquisition: 'From the late Col. Fellows original letter of Thom[as] Paine'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Secondly for the English radical printer James Watson (1799-1874), who published a\u003cem\u003e Life of Paine\u003c\/em\u003e in 1839 (a copy of the 1849 edition of this work is provided with this letter). 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