8vo. (3) lvs., 491 pp., (1) p. (blank). With Gluck's engraved portrait by St. Aubin. Contemporary half leather (worn, heavily rubbed), spine gilt. First edition. Rare. This collection of contemporary publications (letters, reviews, announcements, articles etc.) documents the disputes between "piccinists" and "gluckists". Authors are Gluck, Le Bailly, Rollet, l'Abbé Arnaud, La Harpe, Marmontel, Leblond, Condorcet and others. Front free endpaper with handwritten authors' list, a small library label and the repeated registration number. In places marginal annotations with pencil containing solvation of abbreviations of names, explications etc. First lvs. slightly damp-stained, the last ones water-marked, somewhat brown-stained. Otherwise clean. RISM BVI/1, 489; Hirsch I, 310; Wolffheim II, 963 ("selten und gesucht"); Eitner VI, 93. Not in BSB und CPM. Seller Inventory # 381

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Title: Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de la ...

Publisher: Neapel / Paris, Bailly 1781.

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

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Antiquarischer Buchhandel mit Inkunabeln, Früh- und Erstdrucken des 16.-19. Jahrhunderts, Fachliteratur.

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