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4711 CHAPPELL'S POPULAR MUSIC of the OLDEN TIME, Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes illustrative of the National Music of England, 2 vols. roy. 8vo. facsimiles (pub. at £2. 10s), cloth, 32s 4712 COMMER, Collectio Operum Musicorum Batavorum Saec. XVI, 2 vols. in 1, impl. 4to. 82 and 79 engraved pages, (pub. 21s), hf. bd. 12s

1859

Berol. (ca. 1840)

This work contains a selection from the Adrian Willaert, Jacobus Vact, Sebastian, &c. celebrated compositions of "Clemens non Papa," 4713 COUSSEMAKER (E. de) Histoire de l'Harmonie au Moyen Age: Histoire, Documents et Monuments, 4to. plates of music, and 38 coloured facsimiles of early musical MSS. with the translation, sd. 358 Paris, 1852 4714 COUSSEMAKER (E. de) Scriptorum de Musicâ Medii Aevi nova Series à Gerbertinâ altera, Fasciculi I—VI, 4to. sd. £2. 8s Parisiis, 1863-4 The first five numbers of a new and valu- | Musica Sacra,' published at the Monastery of able publication, which will form a supplement St. Blase, in 1784. Only 250 copies of this work to the Scriptores of Gerbert. M. de Coussemaker were printed. The first volume contains:has for many years been seeking inedited works, Opera Jeronimi de Moravia, Johannis de Garand has succeeded in forming a collection most landia, Franconis de Colonia, Petri Picardi, probably unique. Each number contains about Walteri Odingtoni, cujusdam Aristotelis, Petri 80 pages in double columns, and there are only de Cruso, Johannis Balloce, necnon et septem 250 copies printed. anonymorum; to which are added, Commentaria Roberti de Handlo ac Johannis de Hanboys." Reader, Jan. 7, 1865.

"M. de Coussemaker has just completed the first volume of his continuation to Gerdesius's Scriptores Veteres Ecclesiastici de 4715 DAVID. Les Pseaumes de David mis en vers Français, 12mo. music for one voice with words, old calf, 3s 6d Génève, 1775 4716 DU MONT (Henri) Meslanges a II, III, IV, V, parties, contenant Chansons, Motets, &c. pour l'Orgue et pour les Violes, et les Litanies de la Vierge, in vol. sq. 8vo. cloth, cut close, very rare, 28s Paris, 1657-61 Contents: LIVRE SECOND: Dessus, Haut- Basse-Continue; TROISIEME PARTIE adjoustée Taille, Basse, Dèssus de Viole ou Bas-Dessus, aux Preludes, 1661. 4717 EASTCOTT, Sketches of the origin, progress, and effects of Music, with an account of the ancient Bards and Minstrels, 8vo. calf, 38 6d Bath, 1793 4718 Encyclopedie Methodique. MUSIQUE publiée par FRAMERY et Ginguené. 2 vols. 4to. bds. 36s Paris, 1791-1818 4719 ENGEL'S (Carl) MUSIC of the most Ancient Nations, particularly of the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Hebrews, with special reference to recent dis coveries, in Western Asia and in Egypt, 8vo. with numerous illustrations, cloth, 14s.

Very rare; wanting in most Musical Libraries.

1864

4720 FÉTIS (J. F.) BIOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE des Musiciens et BIBLIOGRAPHIE GÉNÉRALE de la Musique, 8 vols. large 8vo. sd. 36s Brux. 1837-44 4721 FINK'S Musikalischer Hausschatz der Deutschen, eine Sammlung von 1000 Liedern und Gesängen, imp. 8vo.' with all the Music, bds. 10s Leipzig, 1813 4722 FIOCCO (P. A.) Sacri Concerti, a una e piu Voci, con Instrumenti e senza, 11 parts in 1 vol. folio, half calf, uncut, very rare, £2. 12s Amsterdam, E. Roger, (ca. 1691) 4723 FOGLIANO (LUDOVICO) MUSICA THEORICA docte simul ac dilucide pertractata, in qua quamplures de harmonicis intervallis non prius tentatæ continentur speculationes, sm. folio, woodcuts, FIRST EDITION, fine copy, dark calf, VERY RARE, £4. 15s

Venet. per J. Anlonium et fratres de Sabio, 1529 4724 GAFURII (Franchini) de Harmonia Musicorum Instrumentorum Opus, folio, very curious woodcuts, fine large copy, in dark calf, very rare, £4. 15s Gotardum Pontanum Calcographum, 1518 presenting a performer on the organ.

Mediolani, per

This work contains the short life of the author by Pantaleone Melegulo, from which Dr. Burney borrowed the materials for his account of him, and also the woodcut of Gafori lecturing. At the end of the volume is also a woodcut re

"Cette edition renferme plusieurs pièces de vers latins en l'honneur de Jean Grolier et présente l'ecusson de ce tresorier de François ler."

Brunet.

4725 GLAREANI (H. L.) Dodecachordon sive Tractatus de Cantionum Musicarum Modis, folio, original stamped binding, very rare, £5. Basil. 1547 AN EARLY MUSICAL WORK of considerable | des exemples choisis parmi les chefs-d'œuvre des intrinsic value. meilleurs maitres de son epoque."-Brunet.

"Ouvrage important, ou l'auteur a reunis 4726 GRADUALE Romanum juxta Missale; Antiphonarium Romanum juxta Breviarum SS. concil. Trident. 2 vols. 8vo. with the Gregorian music noted throughout, old calf gilt, 188 Lutecia Paris. 1723-34 4727 HARMONICON (The), a Journal of Music containing Essays, Biography, and Miscellanies, 11 vols. 4to. with portraits of eminent composers, and numerous and well selected pieces of music,with words, of the most celebrated masters, hf. calf, scarce, £3. 4728 HAWKINS (Sir John) General History of the Science and Practice of Music, 5 vols. 4to. with 51 portraits, and numerous engravings of Musical Instruments, many pieces of old Music, &c. calf, £5. 58 1776

1823-33

A very esteemed work. Harwood's copy fetched, 1858, at Sotheby's, £6. 78 6d. 4729 HOGG'S JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND, being the Songs, Airs, and Legends of the Adherents of the House of Stuart, with the Music, BOTH SERIES, COMPLETE, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. russia, £2. 16s The Second Series is not so scarce as this

Edinb. 1819-21 with his bright fancies, and quaint thoughts, his humour, and his true-souled naturalness." Irish Quarterly.

the FIRST. "James Hogg, miraculous James Hogg, 4730 HUSK, an account of the Musical Celebrations on St. Cecilia's day in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries, to which is appended a collection of Odes on St. Cecilia's day, 12mo. cloth, 28 4731 KELLY (Earl of) Minuets and Songs, edited by Kirkpatrick Sharpe, 4to. portrait and plate, bds. rare, 208.

1857

Edinburgh, 1836

Only 60 copies printed. The Earl of Kelly | his contemporaries. was much esteemed for his musical abilities by 4732 KNIBB, The Psalm-Singer's Help, a collection of tunes used in the Churches and dissenting Congregations in London, 12mo. with a thorough Bass for the Harpsichord or Organ, calf neat, 128 s. a. (ca: 1700) 4733 LASSUS (ORLANDI DE) MAGNUM OPUS MUSICUM, complectens Omnes Cantiones quas Motetas vulgo vocant, tam antea editas quam hactenus nondum publicatas, a Ferdinando et Rudolpho authoris filiis collectum, THE SIX PARTS COMPLETE, 6 vols. small folio, pigskin, good copy, £15. Monachii, 1604

This very rare Collection contains 512 Motets, by Orlando de Lassus. 4734 MARX, Musikalische Kompositionslehre praktisch-theoretisch, 4 vols. 8vo. full of musical exercises, sd. 208 Leipzig, 1847-52 4735 MEIBOMIUS, ANTIQUAE MUSICAE Auctores septem, Graece et Latine, acc. Martianus Capella de Musicâ, 2 vols. in 1, sm. 4to. folding diagrams, calf, very fine copy, £2. 58 Amst. Elzevir, 1652

The ancient authors here produced are | Gaudentius, Bacchius, and Aristides QuintiliAristoxenes, Euclid, Nicoomachus, Alypius, anus.

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4736 MEMOIRES sur Madame la Duchesse de ST. LEU Ex Reine de Hollande; suivis des romances composées et mises en musique par elle même, oblong 4to. portrait and 12 plates of music, with the words, hf. morocco, gilt edges, 78 6d

1832 4737 MOLITVA RUSSKAVO NARODA, a Russian national song, 8vo. music and words, 2 portraits, sd. 18 6d (? St. Petersburg, 1840)

4738 MORLEY (Thos.) A plain and easie Introduction to practicalle Musicke, sm. folio, hf. bd. very rare, £2. London, Peter Short, 1597 1771

4739

the same, reprinted, sm. 4to. hf. bd. 10s 6d

1814

4740 MOORE'S Irish Melodies, with symphonies and accompaniments, by Sir J. Stevenson, Numbers 1-VI, in 3 vols. sm. folio, hf. bd. 288 Dublin, 1807 4741 MUSICAL BIOGRAPHY, or Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Musical Composers and Writers who flourished during the last 3 Centuries, 2 vols. 8vo. bds. 58 4742 NOVI FRUTTI MUSICALI, Madrigali à cinque voci di diversi eccellentissimi Musici, Canto, Alto, Tenor and Bass parts, 4 vols. sm. oblong 4to. clean copies, bds. £2. 8s Anversa, P. Phalesio, 1610 Compositions of A. Striggio, G. M. Nanino, | G. Gastoldi, L. Luzaschi, Principe di Venosa, A. Stabile, G. B. Moscaglia, A. Crivello, A. G. B. Mosto, M. A. Ingegneri, H. Vecchi, G. Zolio, R. Giovanelli, P. Bellasio, F. Soriano, G. Priuli, F. Anerio, G. Heremita, A. Formica, A. Dragoni, P. Isnardi, B. Roi, Gio. Croce, G. etc. 4743 OLIPHANT (Th.) La Musa Madrigalesca; a Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, and Roundelays, etc. chiefly of the Elizabethan Age, with remarks and annotations, 8vo. (pub. at 12s) cloth, 58 1837

4744 PADBRUE (CORNELIS, Musicijn van Haerlem) Kusies, in't Latijn geschreven door Joannes Secundus, ende in Duytsche vaersen ghesteldt door Jacob Westerbaen, met een Basso Continuo door Cornelis Padbrué, 5 parts, without title and last leaf to Cantus, oblong 8vo. sd. 38s

t' Amsterdam, by Broer Jansz, 1641 known to any bibliographer. There are 6 pages of commendatory verses following the title by Scriverius, J. Broster Jansen, etc.

Very rare. I can find no reference to Pad- | brué as a musician, nor does this Dutch translation of the Kisses of Secundus appear to be 4745 PARRY'S Welsh Harper, an extensive Collection of Welsh Music, with Observations on the Character and Antiquity of the Welsh Music, etc. atlas 4to. (pub. at 258) plates, calf, 178 6d (1839) 4746 PENNA (Lorenza) li Primi Albori Musicali per li principianti della Musica Figurata: Canto Figurato, Contrapunto e l'Organo ò Clavicembalo, sm. 4to. portrait, large woodcut of the hand and scale at p. 9, bds. uncut, 30s; or, calf extra, gilt edges, the Duke of Marlborough's copy, 34s

Best edition of this rare and curious work, | ney's History, iii. 539. containing the author's last additions. See Bur

Bologna, 1696

4747 PICERLI (Silverio) SPECCHIO SECONDO di Musica, nel quale si vedo chiaro il vero e facil modo di comporre di Canto Figurato, e Fermo, di fare con nuove regole ogni sorte di Contrapunti e Čanoni, etc. sq. 8vo. old half binding, very scarce, £2. 128 6d Napoli, 1631 4748 PIESENNIK ILI RUSSIISKICH NARODNEICH, Popular Russian Melodies, music and words, 3 vols. roy. 8vo. all engraved, with some English notes in pencil, half calf, 258 St. Petersburgh, circa 1780 4749 PLAYFORD (J.) Select Ayres and Dialogues for 1, 2, and 3 voyces, to the Theorbolute or Basse-viol, smallest folio, bds. 32s

1659 4750 QUARTERLY MUSICAL Magazine and Review, 10 vols. hf. calf gilt, Mr. Chappell's copy, £5. 1818-28

Mr. W. Chappel says: Vols. 9 and 10 are | paper; these vols. (9 and 10) were not, Mr. "introuvable," having been sold as waste | Chappell said, Dec. 1866, in the British Museum. 4751 TAUBMANN, Heroic Poem to the Duke of York on his return from Scotland, with some choice songs and medleys on the Times, royal 8vo. music and words, hf. bd. 12s

The poem is remarkable only for its disgusting servility.

1682

4752 THESAURUS MUSICUS, a Collection of 2, 3 and 4 part songs, several of them never before printed, with some choice dialogues set to Music, by the most Eminent Masters, viz. BLOW, PURCELL, HANDEL, WELDON, and others, 2 vols. in 1, impl. 4to. hf. calf, 15s London, s. a. (? 1790)

4753 THOMSON'S Orpheus Caledonius, or a Collection of Scots Songs, 2 vols. 8vo. hf. morocco gilt, 128 Privately printed, 1733

A select collection of Original Scottish Airs for the voice, with music. 4754 THOMSON'S Collection of the Songs of Burns, SCOTT, and other eminent Lyric Poets, ancient and modern, united to the Select Melodies of SCOTLAND, IRELAND and Wales, with accompaniments for the Pianoforte, by Pleyel, Haydn, Beethoven, &c. 6 vols. roy. 8vo. engraved titles, the music and songs in lithography, (pub. at 48s) bds. 25s London, s. a. 4754 TRAVERS (John) Eighteen Canzonets for two and three Voices, (the words chiefly by Matthew PRIOR), sm. folio, title, dedication, list of subscriber's table, and pp. 1-64 entirely engraved of Songs and Music, half morocco extra, gilt edges, 18s circ. 1750

4755 VILLOTEAU, Recherches sur l'analogie de la musique, avec les arts qui ont pour objet l'imitation du langage, 2 vols. royal 8vo. 2 plates and 4 folding tables, VELLUM PAPER, fine copy, hf. morocco, uncut, very scarce, 288 Paris, Impr. Imp. 1807

the book is not one which is susceptible of extensive sale, and that it is probably as little read by Musicians as Meibomius's curious collection of Antiquae Musicae Auctores."-W. S. | Singer's MS. Note, 1840.

1837

"Renouard purchased the whole of the re- | maining copies of this book in 1812, and destroyed all but 163 copies, including 33 on vellum paper, of which class this is the copy he reserved for himself. He justly observes that 4756 WACKERBARTH, Music and the Anglo-Saxons, an account of the AngloSaxon Orchestra, with remarks on the Church Music of the 19th century, 8vo. facsimiles, cloth, 2s 6d 4757 WOLTZ (J.) NOVA MUSICES ORGANICAE TABULATURA: Ein newe art teutscher Tabulatur etlicher Motteten und geistlichen Gesängen, mit 4 und mehr Stimmen componirt, welche auff Orgeln, etc. gebraucht werden, 3 vols. in 1, fol. musical shorthand, fine copy, vellum, £3. 58 Basel, 1617 4758 ZARLINO (G.) tutte le Opere: Istitutioni e Dimostrationi Harmoniche; con Sopplimenti Musicali, 4 vols. in 2, folio, cuts, fine copy in limp vellum, rare, £2. 88 Venetia, 1588-89

There appears to have been no title published to Vol. II. Fetched, 1858, Puttick, £4. 10s. 4759 Istitutioni Harmoniche, Venetia, 1558-ARON, Toscanello in Musica, con la gionta, Vineggia, Sessa, 1539-2 vols. in 1, sm. folio, Music and Diagrams, vellum, gilt edges, £2. 10s

1539-58

COOKERY, CARVING, EARLY RECEIPT BOOKS.

4760 ALMANACH DES GOURMANDS, 8 vols. 16mo. plates, hf. cf. 218 Paris, 1810-12 4761 GIEGHER, Trattati: I, il modo di piegare ogni sorte di Panni; II, lo Scalco; III, il Trinciante-1 vol. obl. 8vo. portrait, two folding plates, and plates of Carving, numbered 1-6, 1-4, 1-58, fine copy, vellum, rare, 368

Padova, 1639 4762 MARTINEZ MONTIño, Arte de Cocina, Pasteleria, Vizcocheria, y conserveria, 12mo. vellum, 78 6d 4763 PISANELLI, Trattato della natura de cibi e del bere, 12mo. vellum, 7s 6d

Barcelona, 1763

Bergamo, 1587

4764 SCAPPI (Bartholemeo) Opera con laquale si può ammaestrare qual si voglia Cuoco, Scalco, Trinciante, o Maestro di Casa, divisa in sei libri, sq. 8vo. numerous plates, calf tooled, gilt edges, rare, 30s

Venetia, 1610

NATURAL HISTORY.

WORKS ON SCIENCE, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY.

For Engineering and Mechanics-see post class "ARCHITECTURE."-For Transactions and Scientific Periodicals-see ante class " PERIODICALS." 4765 ABBOT'S (J.) Natural History of the rarer LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECTS of GEORGIA, by Sir JAMES SMITH, 2 vols. folio, 104 coloured plates of Butterflies, with the Chrysalis and Caterpillars, also the Plants on which they feed, a most beautiful coloured copy (pub. at £25. 48 bds.), green morocco extra, gilt edges, £8. 15s London, 1797 Sold to the former owner for £18. 188. the full as valuable to the Botanist as it is to "The Insects are charmingly represented in the Entomologist: we never before beheld the all their mutations; and on such large and cha- sister sciences walk so closely and so engagingly racteristic specimens of their food, the whole hand in hand, as in these interesting volum s. plants as well as insects being scientifically deli- IT IS TRULY A FLORA ET ENTOMOLOGIA.” neated and described, that this publication is to 4766 ABEL, EUVRES complètes, avec des notes et développements par Holmboe, 2 vols. in 1, 4to. hf. calf, 368; or hf. bd. uncut, £2. Christiania, 1839 La seule édition des œuvres de ce grand Mathématicien.

Haworth

4767 ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. RECUEIL de plusieurs Traitez de MATHÉMATIQUE, 6 parts in 1 vol. impl. folio, diagrams, fine copy in old red morocco extra, gilt edges, royal arms on sides, £2. 10s Paris, 1676 Including "Blondel, Résolution des 4 problèmes d'Architecture.'

4769

bds. 5s

4768 ACHARII (E.) Lichenographia Suecica prodromus, 8vo. 2 coloured plates, Lincopiae, 1798 Methodus quâ omnes detectos Lichenes sec. Organa Carpomorpha ad Genera, Species et Varietates redigere atque obss. illustrare tentavit, cum Supplemento, 2 vols. 8vo. 8 plates, interleaved, hf. calf, 12s

4770

Stockholm, 1803 Lichenographia Universalis, stout 4to. 14 coloured plates, uncut, 128; Gott. 1810

or calf, 168 4771 ACOSTA (Chr.) Tractado de las Drogas y medicinas de las Indias Orientales, sq. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, numerous woodcuts, calf, 188 Burgos, 1578 4772 ADAMS's Essays on the Microscope, with a history of Insects, 4to. 2ND EDITION, with additions by Kanmacher, beautiful frontispiece by DUCHÉ, with oblong 4to. atlas of 32 plates of Microscopic Instruments, Animalcula, &c. bds. 78 6d

No scientific library can be complete without | of Microscopy. this work, which is indispensable to the student

1798

4773 ADAMS (H. and R.) The Genera of Recent MOLLUSCA, arranged according to their organization, 3 vols. royal 8vo. 138 plates engraved by SOWERBY from drawings by the authors, chiefly COLOURED (pub. at £9. 98), cloth, £7.78

4774

1857-58

the same, pts. 31-36, royal 8vo. several plain and COLOURED plates, sd. 35s

One of the finest works ever issued by Van | the colouring is superb. Voorst. The plates are beautifully executed, and

1857-58

4775 ADANSON, Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal; COQUILLAGES, 4to. map, 19 large folding plates of Shells, clean copy in calf neat, 12s

Paris, 1757 4776 AGARDH, Theoria Systematis Plantarum: acc. Familiae Phanerogamae, 8vo. with the 28 plates in a separate royal 8vo. case, cloth, 12s Lundæ, 1858 Species, Genera et Ordines Algarum, 3 vols. 8vo. vol. I in hf. calf gilt, vols. II and 111 sd. from Dr. Greville's library, 32s Lundæ, 1848-63

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