1875 - 3189 OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Sm. annot. on title. Sl. worn along extremities.
- One plate lacks outer lower corner (sl. affecting image); fold. plate sl. dam. in lower margin; occas. trifle stained/ sl. fingersoiled. Foot of spine and outer lower corner of backcover sl. dam.; top of spine sl. bumped.
= Very rare Dutch translation of St. Olon's Relation de l'empire de Maroc (first publ. Paris, 1694 as Etat present de l'Empire de Maroc). Gay 1264 and 1275; Playfair 308 (on the French ed. of 1694): "The author was sent by Louis XIV. to effect an exchange of slaves, and to conclude a treaty of peace and alliance against the Algerines. He disembarked in the bay of Tetuan and met the Sultan at Mekenes, but he had to leave the country without effecting his object. He was even imprisoned for some time at Tetuan by the Kaid of that place." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXV.
- Pastedowns loosening; final blanks waterst. Upper joint split; portions of backstrip loose(ning).
= Graesse II, p.104.
- New endpapers; sl. yellowed; occas. sl. foxed. Spine sl. rubbed; corners showing.
- Contents loose(ning), but fine. Backstrip dam.
= Eitner II, p.32; Fétis I, p.407. Rare treatise on ancient musical instruments.
- Textp. partly (sl.) foxed; occas. sl. wormholed in blank inner margin. Vellum sl. soiled.
= Eitner II, p.107; Lipperheide Pg 6. Rare and important overview of the musical instruments present in the collection of the Collegio Romano, which also included some interesting exotic specimens.
- One page (water)stained; first half trifle dampstained in blank margin; upper outer corner of one leaf reattached; free endpapers reattached. Covers sl. rubbed; backstrip dam. at spine-ends and sl. worn; corners worn.
= Cf. RISM D2108 (later edition).
- Sl. yellowed; occas. sl. foxed; 3 plates w. sm. tears in inner (blank) margin; 3 plates trimmed in lower margin, sl. affecting image; 1 plate w. sm. inkstains. Binding sl. worn/ rubbed; spine-ends dam.; lower joint splitting.
= Eitner VIII, p.336; Tchemerzine X, 53 b; Dufour 251.
= Rare.
- Sl. frayed and dogeared; title-p. sl. duststained.
- All vols. w. remains of (unidentified) heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown. All vols. w. later annot. in pen/ pencil on ticket on frontcover. Bindings sl. rubbed along extremities.
= Part of a complete edition by the publisher Pacini of Beethoven's string quartets, with a continuous pagination running from p.64-197 (but not bound sequentially). Francesco Gaetano Saverio Antonio Pacini (1778-1866) worked in Paris from 1806-1840 and was an esteemed publisher with many well wishers amongst composers, as was proven when his business went up in flames in 1835, and he lost his whole stock: his business was saved by the massive support given to him by musicians and composers both French and foreign who sent him their compositions for free.
- Final 50 leaves waterstain in upper outer corner touching score and text; title-p. and "Avertissement' sl. foxed. Otherwise contents fine. Binding worn along extremities (one corner dam.) and backstrip lacking.
= Rare posthumously printed work. No copy traced on the market.
Idem. Ouverture de Faniska. Leipsic, Breitkopf & Härtel (pasted over on first three Vl1 parts w. address slip of "L. Plattner à Rotterdam"), n.d. (±1808), plate-no. 509, 12 parts, loose as issued, folio.
- A few parts foxed and dampstained; old libr. stamps (partly pasted over w. blank paper) on the first page of each part.
= Comprises the following parts: Vl1 (4x), Vl2 (3x), Vla (2x) and Vlc and Contrabasso (3x).
AND 2 others by the same (incl. one duplicate).
- Covers loose/ loosening; contains the parts for Sonatas 17-31 (no. 1-16 not present).
= Piano forte: (2),48-97,(1)p; 1st violin / flute: (2),15-30p.; 2nd violin/ flute: 14-27,(1)p.; violoncello: (2),27,(1)p. The parts for strings are preceded by a part of an adapt. for piano and strings of Mozart ouvertures (piano part lacking, publ. unidentified).
Tartini, G. Douze Sonates pour le violon. Paris, Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique, n.d. (±1810), plate no.137, 2 vols. w. continuous pagination, 55p., engr. score, folio.
= RISM T 247.
AND 2 others.
- Each part with traces of paper tab in outer margin of the title-p. Otherwise contents very fine. Paper over covers and edges and corner rubbed/ sl. worn.
= RISM C3688, C3727 and C3758. Title-p. calling for a portrait of the composer, absent from our set.
- Foxed; occas. sl. fingersoiled/ (damp)stained. Rebacked w. later leather backstrip; covers worn along extremities.
= Attractive title-vignette depicting a male figure playing the flute standing next to a bust of François Devienne engraved by JOUVENEL Fils. Includes 36 airs, 18 duos, 6 sonatas, 3 more duos and "Trois thêmes variés". Infuential flute method by one of the foremost flautists of the 19th century.
- First and final leaf loose(ning); spine broken. = Vester D-400.
Esch, L. von. Le retour de Wandsworth, A favorite Sonata for the Piano Forte, with an Accompaniment for the Flute, Violin and Bass, ad libitum. London, Broderip & Wilkinson, n.d. (±1803), 4 vols., no plate-no., engr. title-p. and scores, in parts as issued, folio.
= Vester E-76.
AND 5 others in 12 parts, i.a. F. MAYER, Three Serenades, For Two Concert Flutes & B Tenor Flute, Bassoon or Violoncello (London, Monzani & Hill, (±1835), no plate-no., 4 vols., 4 ident. engr. title-p., engr. scores, folio. Occas. sl. foxed); M. KRASINSKY (= E.L. MÜLLER), Six Duetts for two German Flutes. Op.6 (London, Monzani & Co., n.d., no plate-no., 2 ident. engr. title-p., engr. scores, in parts as issued, folio. Owner's stamp on both title-p.; not in Vester) and H. HILL, A Fourth set of 24 Favorite Melodies, Arranged as Trios, for two flutes, and Piano Forte (ibid., Monzani & Hill, (±1830), 3 vols., no plate-no., 3 ident. engr. title-p., engr. scores, folio. Sl. foxed; title-p. of piano part loose).
- Contents fine. Binding worn/ rubbed; backcover dam.; corners worn.
= Provenance (in pen and ink on title-p.): "Sam. Gawthorpe Jun. 1796" and "Geoff C. Lunn from his tutor Nathan Crowther Mar. 16th 1909". Contains 7 parts, in various issues. Smith p.313, no.2 (2nd issue); no.6 (3rd issue); no.9 (2nd (?) issue); no.12 (1st issue); no.15 (1st issue); no.18 (1st issue) and no.21 (1st issue); RISM H 1381-1387; Vester H 79-H 86.
- Covers of the vol. 2 and 6 loose(ning) and bindings worn along extremities.
= RISM H1388/ H 1396 and H 1396; Vester H 87, H 88, H 90, H 91, H 92 and H 104. In vol.II, part 3-7 the title-p. is changed into "Solos for a German flute, a Hoboy or Violin with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord or Bass Violin".
BOUND WITH (in vol. VI): Idem/ Brivio, G.F./ Geminiani, F./ Somis, B. (Twelve sonatas for traverso solo). N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (18th cent.), no plate-no., 20; 19p., engr. scores.
Händel, G.F. Sonatas or Chamber Aires for a German Flute, Violin or Harpsichord, Being the most Celebrated Songs & Ariets Collected out of all the late Operas Compos'd by -.Vol. III. Part I. Ibid., idem, n.d. (2nd half 18th cent.), plate-no. 549, engr. title-p. and 25 pages w. engr. score, without wr., 4to.
- Dogeared; frontwr. sl. frayed and sl. duststained; final page dam. with loss. Contents clean.
= Harpsichord score only. RISM H 1397; Vester H 93.
WITH a duplicate of the preceding work (frontwr. dustsoiled and corners dam., final 10 pages foxed/ stained, final page not dam.).
- Contents fine. Frontcover of vol.1 loose; bindings worn/ dam.
= The separately published part for harpsichord and voice. RISM H 1075; Smith p.200, 22. Each part contains 80 songs from Handel's oratorios. Two more volumes were published in this series.
- Without the optional piano-part. Occas. sl. foxed.; contents of Vl.1 (and Vl.2 partly) sl. waterstained in upper and lower margin; Vl.2 first few leaves sl. wormholed in lower blank margin; all vols. w. owner's entry of "A. Wattelier" on upper pastedown, title-p., recto (and occas. also on verso) of the first page and on the verso of the final page of the score. Two vols. backstrip dam.; all vols. corners rubbed/ sl. worn.
= Rare early (1st?) edition of these adaptations of Hob. Cf. Hoboken, Beilage zu Band I, Coll. Sy. 10 and RISM H4084 (both w. different title and later edition).