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BERG, Alban 1885-1935.Autograph letter signed "Berg," postmarked Vienna, April 20th 1914.
4 pp. in total. Written in pencil and blue crayon on two postal cards numbered "I" and "II" by Berg.. more
Price: $2,750.00
![Oblong octavo. Full dark brown calf with triple rules to edges, spine in decorative compartments gilt, dark red leather title label gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges. 1f. (recto title, verso "Table des Airs"), [1] (dedication), 2-63, [i] (catalogue of vocal and instrumental music) pp. Very rare. ?First Edition. RISM BVI p. 527 (one copy only, in the collection of Geneviève Thibaut). Warner no. 93, citing the second edition, with a note stating "no copy of the first edition has been located. Not in Cortot, Hirsch, Wolffheim, Gregory-Bartlett or Dayton Miller (citing the Amsterdam edition only). Amsterdam and Paris editions appeared in 1759; precedence has not been established, however the fact that Mahaut was living in Paris ca. 1760 and that the publication was announced in the "Mercure de France" as early as January 1759 would suggest that the Paris edition was likely the first. "The text... is augmented with fingering charts for the chromatic scale from c# to d"" and for trills. The latter includes 134 different trill fingerings, with a s many as six alternative fingerings for one trilled interval. Mahaut includes enharmonic fingerings for eight notes to differentiate between the sharp and its enharmonic flat. Following the technical and stylistic chapteres, there are thirty-five pages of music, consisting of flute duets." Solum: The Early Flute p. 91. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, methods for the flute, bringing Hotteterre's teachings up-to-dateBound with:Ier. Recueil de pièces Françoises et Italienes, Petits Airs, Brunettes, Menuets &c. Avec des doubles, et Variations, accomodés Pour deux Flutes Traversieres, Violons, Pardessus de Viole &c... Gravé par Mme. Leclair... Imprimé par Tournelle. Paris: Leclerc... Bayard... Castagnery [1757]. 1f. (recto title, verso "Table des Airs"), 70, [i] (catalogue of vocal and instrumental music), [i] (blank) pp. Not in Lesure or RISM. COPAC (one copy only, at the British Library). Recorded in The New Grove works list. Very rare. Binding slightly worn.](/lubrano/images/items/120x500/20842.jpg "Oblong octavo. Full dark brown calf with triple rules to edges, spine in decorative compartments gilt, dark red leather title label gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges. 1f. (recto title, verso \"Table des Airs\"), [1] (dedication), 2-63, [i] (catalogue of vocal and instrumental music) pp. Very rare. ?First Edition. RISM BVI p. 527 (one copy only, in the collection of Geneviève Thibaut). Warner no. 93, citing the second edition, with a note stating \"no copy of the first edition has been located. Not in Cortot, Hirsch, Wolffheim, Gregory-Bartlett or Dayton Miller (citing the Amsterdam edition only). Amsterdam and Paris editions appeared in 1759; precedence has not been established, however the fact that Mahaut was living in Paris ca. 1760 and that the publication was announced in the \"Mercure de France\" as early as January 1759 would suggest that the Paris edition was likely the first. \"The text... is augmented with fingering charts for the chromatic scale from c# to d\"\" and for trills. The latter includes 134 different trill fingerings, with a s many as six alternative fingerings for one trilled interval. Mahaut includes enharmonic fingerings for eight notes to differentiate between the sharp and its enharmonic flat. Following the technical and stylistic chapteres, there are thirty-five pages of music, consisting of flute duets.\" Solum: The Early Flute p. 91. One of the earliest, if not the earliest, methods for the flute, bringing Hotteterre's teachings up-to-dateBound with:Ier. Recueil de pièces Françoises et Italienes, Petits Airs, Brunettes, Menuets &c. Avec des doubles, et Variations, accomodés Pour deux Flutes Traversieres, Violons, Pardessus de Viole &c... Gravé par Mme. Leclair... Imprimé par Tournelle. Paris: Leclerc... Bayard... Castagnery [1757]. 1f. (recto title, verso \"Table des Airs\"), 70, [i] (catalogue of vocal and instrumental music), [i] (blank) pp. Not in Lesure or RISM. COPAC (one copy only, at the British Library). Recorded in The New Grove works list. Very rare. Binding slightly worn.")
Mahaut, Antoine ca. 1719-ca. 1785.Nouvelle Methode Pour Aprendre en peu de tems a Joüer de la Flute Traversiere. à L'usage de Commencans et des personnes plus avancees, Suivie de petits Airs, Menuets, Brunettes, &c accomodés pour deux Flûtes, Violons et Pardessus de Viole. Dédiée a Monsieur Hebert de la Pleigniere... Gravée par Mme. Leclair. II Recueil.
Paris, Lyon: De Lachevardiere, Successeur de M. Leclerc... Les Freres Legoux, [1759]. Oblong octavo. Full dark brown calf with triple rules to edges, spine in decorative compartments gilt, dark red leather title.. more
Price: $3,500.00
![Quarto. 19th century quarter mid-tan leather with patterned boards, spine in decorative compartments gilt, dark red leather title label gilt, speckled edges, marbled endpapers. [xii], 70 [!68] pp. With a fine frontispiece pictorial engraving of a scene from the opera and attractive pictorial engraved vignettes to title and head of prologue, all by Le Pautre after Berin. Decorative woodcut initials, rules, and head- and tail-pieces throughout. The frontispiece depicts Pluton carrying Proserpine off to the Underworld (Act II, scene 9). With cast list including Mlles. Doremius, Ferdinand l'Aisné, Ferdinand la Cadete, Pieche, de la Prée, de Pulvigny, and Rebel; and Mssrs. Antonio, Aubert, Beauchamp, Beaumont, Beaumont fils, Bernard, Bony, Boutteville, le Cointre, David, Develois, Duhamel, Dumirail, L'Estang l'Aisné, L'Estang Cadet, Faure, Favier l'Aisné, Favier le Cadet, Fernon l'Aisné, Fernon Cadet, le petit Fernon, la Forest, Frizon, Gaye fils, Germain, Gillet, Gingant, Godonesche, de la Grille, Jacquart, Jonquet, Joubert, Lavernet, Magny, le Maire, Moreau, Noblet, Pecour, Perchot, Philbert, Poyadon, de Pulvigny, Rebel, le Roy, and Tiphaine.Binding slightly worn, rubbed and bumped. Some minor wear, browning and staining; frontispiece slightly trimmed with minor loss to lower left corner; small repair to blank verso of title and margin of final leaf; binder's holes to inner margins, including to title; page 27 misnumbered "25," page 67 misnumbered "66" and page 68 misnumbered "70." With previous owner's signature to foot of title and last leaf: "Joly de Rosgrand, Senechal de Quimperlé" dated 1766 and later ownership annotations to title (slightly trimmed).](/lubrano/images/items/120x500/20874.jpg "Quarto. 19th century quarter mid-tan leather with patterned boards, spine in decorative compartments gilt, dark red leather title label gilt, speckled edges, marbled endpapers. [xii], 70 [!68] pp. With a fine frontispiece pictorial engraving of a scene from the opera and attractive pictorial engraved vignettes to title and head of prologue, all by Le Pautre after Berin. Decorative woodcut initials, rules, and head- and tail-pieces throughout. The frontispiece depicts Pluton carrying Proserpine off to the Underworld (Act II, scene 9). With cast list including Mlles. Doremius, Ferdinand l'Aisné, Ferdinand la Cadete, Pieche, de la Prée, de Pulvigny, and Rebel; and Mssrs. Antonio, Aubert, Beauchamp, Beaumont, Beaumont fils, Bernard, Bony, Boutteville, le Cointre, David, Develois, Duhamel, Dumirail, L'Estang l'Aisné, L'Estang Cadet, Faure, Favier l'Aisné, Favier le Cadet, Fernon l'Aisné, Fernon Cadet, le petit Fernon, la Forest, Frizon, Gaye fils, Germain, Gillet, Gingant, Godonesche, de la Grille, Jacquart, Jonquet, Joubert, Lavernet, Magny, le Maire, Moreau, Noblet, Pecour, Perchot, Philbert, Poyadon, de Pulvigny, Rebel, le Roy, and Tiphaine.Binding slightly worn, rubbed and bumped. Some minor wear, browning and staining; frontispiece slightly trimmed with minor loss to lower left corner; small repair to blank verso of title and margin of final leaf; binder's holes to inner margins, including to title; page 27 misnumbered \"25,\" page 67 misnumbered \"66\" and page 68 misnumbered \"70.\" With previous owner's signature to foot of title and last leaf: \"Joly de Rosgrand, Senechal de Quimperlé\" dated 1766 and later ownership annotations to title (slightly trimmed).")
LULLY, Jean-Baptiste 1632-1687.Proserpine, Tragedie, en Musique, Ornée d'Entrées de Ballet, de Machines, & de Changements de Theatre. Representée devant Sa Majesté à Saint Germain en Laye le... de Fevrier 1680. [LWV 58]. Libretto]
Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1680. Quarto. 19th century quarter mid-tan leather with patterned boards, spine in decorative compartments gilt, dark red leather title label gilt,.. more
Price: $1,750.00
![Oblong folio. Full contemporary vellum. 1f. (frontispiece engraving), 2ff. (title and dedication, printed on the recto of each leaf and numbered "1" and "2" respectively), 3-39 music; [40] (secondary title), pp. 41-68 pp. Engraved. With early ownership notation to free front endpaper indicating that this copy was formerly in the collection of Domenico Baldanzi. With a fine full-page frontispiece engraving by Girolama Frezza after a drawing by Antonio Meloni incorporating musical instruments within a classical scene depicting the goddesses of war and music. Slight browning and staining, primarily to margins; some foxing. Quite a good copy overall, with strong clear impression.](/lubrano/images/items/120x500/20840.jpg "Oblong folio. Full contemporary vellum. 1f. (frontispiece engraving), 2ff. (title and dedication, printed on the recto of each leaf and numbered \"1\" and \"2\" respectively), 3-39 music; [40] (secondary title), pp. 41-68 pp. Engraved. With early ownership notation to free front endpaper indicating that this copy was formerly in the collection of Domenico Baldanzi. With a fine full-page frontispiece engraving by Girolama Frezza after a drawing by Antonio Meloni incorporating musical instruments within a classical scene depicting the goddesses of war and music. Slight browning and staining, primarily to margins; some foxing. Quite a good copy overall, with strong clear impression.")
CORELLI, Arcangelo 1653-1713.Sonate a violino e violone o cimbalo dedicate all Altezza serenissima Elettorale di Sofia Carlotta Elettrice di Brandenburgo... Parte Prima [Parte Seconde Preludii Allemande Correnti Gighe Sarabande Gavotte e Follia]. Opera Quinta. Incisa de Gasparo Pietra Santa.
[Rome]: [1700]. Oblong folio. Full contemporary vellum. 1f. (frontispiece engraving), 2ff. (title and dedication, printed on the recto of each leaf and.. more
Price: $6,500.00
