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Paris, chez Veuve Duchesne, 1768. 8vo. XIV,+ (2),+ 547,+ (1),+ 4 pp.+ extra leaf 229-230,+ extra leaf 247-248,+ 13 engr. folding plates. Slight stain in upper margin pp. 297-304. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with raised bands and red label, repaired hinges, red edges. The extra leaves are cancellances named *Piii and *Qiv. Also leaf Mm (pp. 545-546) is marked with an *. Second printing of the first edition of Rousseau?s important - and what is considered the first modern - music dictionary. It was in the same year published in a 4to edition. Seller Inventory # 93962
Title: Dictionnaire de Musique, par J. J. Rousseau....
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Book Type: Hardcover / Hardback
Seller: Centralantikvariatet, Stockholm, Sweden
Condition: Very Good. Geneve, 1781. 8:o. (4),+ xxiv,+ 596; (8),+ 424; (8),+ 394,+ (1) pp. Worn contemporary half calf, gilt spines with raised bands ann blue and red labels. Three volumes, spine to volume two with loss of half the labels. (Collection complete des oeuvres de J.J. Rousseau, tome 16-18.) Owner?s signature of A. Ekstrand. Wrongly bound. The second part on the dictionary is bound in nr 16, after the title of the ?Projet?, and the music essays are bound in nr 18, after the title to the second part of the dictionary. Later edition from the 1781-edition of ?Ouvres completes? The first edition of the dictionnaire was published in 1768. The Projec contains: ?Projet concernant de nouveaux signes pour la musique?, ?Dissertation sur la musique moderne?,? Essai sur l?origine des langues?, ?Lettre à m. l?Abbé Raynal?, ?Examen de deux principes avancés par M. Ramemau2, lettre à M. Burney, suivie d?une réponse du petit-Faiseur? Ur Carl Axel Ekstrands (född 1817) bibliotek, som fanns på Lilla Nygatan i Stockholm. Hardcover / Hardback. Seller Inventory # 113696