Brossard, Sébastien de.

Dictionnaire de musique, contenant une explication des termes grecs, latins, italiens, & françois les plus usitez dans la musique.

A Amsterdam: aux dépens d' Estienne Roger, marchand libraire, chez qui l'on trouve un assortiment general de toute sorte de musique, n.d. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 388pp. A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Bbb4, Ccc2. Third edition. Contemporary calf, repaired. With two plates of musical notations and illustrations in the text. With the bookplate of the Teston Lbrary and its shelfmark. The bookplate is engraved by R. Brook, engraver to His Majesty. Good.

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Book number: 2224

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Music

Dryden, John.

Albion and Albanius: an Opera. Perform'd at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset-Garden.

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleet-Street, 1691. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. [xiv], 34pp. First edition. Blue paper wrappers. Good.

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Book number: 2454

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Music, Theater

Händel, Georg Friedrich & Johann Adam Hiller.

Georg Friedrich Händels Te Deum Laudamus, zur Utrechter Friedensfeyer ehemals in Engländischer Sprache componirt, und nun mit dem bekannten lateinischen Texte herausgegeben von Johann Adam Hiller.

Leipzig: im Schwickertschen Verlage, [1780]. 0. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. [iv], 72pp. Foreward dated 1.9.1780. Musical score. Printer's device on title-page cut out, but replaced with a facsimile. Contemporary vellum. Good.

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Book number: 2673

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Music

Reed, Joseph.

Tom Jones, a Comic Opera: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden.

London: Printed for Becket and De Hondt, in the Strand; and Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal Exchange, 1769, 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 62pp. []4, B4-I4 [I4 blank]. Without the half-title. First edition. Drab boards over cloth spine. Deaccessioned from Harvard College Library, originally the bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell. ESTC T9029. Good.

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Book number: 2191

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Music, Theater

Smith, Robert [+ ONE More Work].

Harmonics, or the Philosophy of Musical Sounds.

London: Printed for T. & J. Merrill, et. al. 1759. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii, [ii], 280, [xiii]pp. a8, A8-R8, S4, T8 (- T8 blank). Second edition. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With 29 plates of diagrams, some folding. Wolffheim, Musikbibliothek I, p. 178 (1749); Poggendorff II, 945 (1749). With the bookplate and shelf marks of the Llanover Library. Bound with: Smith, R. A postscript to Dr. Smith's Harmonics. Good.

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Book number: 491

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Music

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Smith, Robert [+ ONE More Work].

A postscript to Dr. Smith's Harmonics, upon the changeable harpsichord: which being supplied with all the useful flat and sharp sounds and tuned in the best manner, is made as harmonious as possible: and yet the execution of music upon this perfect Instru

London: Printed for T. and J. Merrill in Cambridge, and B. Dod in London: Sold also by J. Whiston and B. White, J. Nourse, T. Payne, L. Davis and C. Reymers, in London; J. Fletcher, and D. Prince, in Oxford; R. and A. Foulis in Glasgow; et. al. 1762, 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 12pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With the bookplate and shelf marks of the Llanover Library. Bound with: Smith, R. Harmonics, or the Philosophy of Musical Sounds. Good.

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Book number: 1499

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Music

Tansur, William.

A New Musical Grammar, and Dictionary; Or, a General Introduction to the Whole Art of Musick.

London: Robert Brown, 1756. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi, 176pp. A4, a4, B4-Y4. Third edition. With separate title-pages to parts II-IV. Modern brown quarter simulated leather over linen boards. Red label with title on spine. With diagrams and musical notations throughout the text. Good.

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Book number: 194

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Music

Keywords: EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, MUSIC EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS

Theobald, Lewis.

Orpheus and Eurydice; an Opera.

n.p. [London]: n.p. n.d. [1777]. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 4pp. A2. Caption title. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Printed in double columns. Disbound. ESTC T43488. Good.

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Book number: 1566

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Music, Theater

Tosi, P.F.

Observations on the Florid Song; Or, Sentiments on the Ancient & Modern Singers.

London: Printed for J. Wilcox, 1743. 0. Hardcover. Small octavo. xviii, 184pp. a4, b6, A6-P6, Q2. Second edition. Unsympathetic modern calf. With 6 folding plates of musical notation. RISM B, VI, 2 p. 839. Good.

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Book number: 196

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Music

Keywords: EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, MUSIC, SONGS AND SINGING, ILLUSTRATIONS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS

D'Urfey, Thomas.

Wit and Mirth: or Pills to purge Melancholy; being a Collection of the best merry Ballads and Songs, old and new. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either Voice, or Instrument: most of the Songs being new set.

London: Printed by W. Pearson, for J. Tonson . 1719-[1720]. 0. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Six volumes. I: [xiv], 360pp.; II: [x], 348pp.; III: [viii], 352pp.; IV: [viii], 352pp.; V: [viii], 352pp.; VI: [x], 372pp. I: []1, A6, B12-Q12; II: A6 (- A1 blank), B12-P12, Q6; III: A4, B12-P12, Q8; IV: A4, B12-P12, Q8; V: A4, B12-P12, Q8; VI: A6 (- A1 blank), B12-Q12, R6. First complete edition. Nineteenth-century red morocco by Ramage, repaired. With engraved frontispiece portrait of D"Urfey in volume I, and letterpress music in the text throughout. Day and Murrie 236-240, & 242. Very Good.

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Book number: 15

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Fine Bindings, Music

Keywords: Music