[Blainville, Charles Henri de]

Oeuvres diverses du Sr. D**. Paris [Amsterdam], [n.n.], 1713.

Contemporary calf leather, gilt ornamented spine with red morocco title shield. 8°: pi1
¶ 8 2* 2 A-2E 8 2F 2 (-2F2, blank?), pag.: [2] 20, 450 pp. With engraved titlepage by Picart. Contemporary ownership mark (‘Brille’) on the titlepage and the first text page. B0070.

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Book number: 24734

Blainville, Henri-Marie Ducrotay de

Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Planches. 2e. Partie: Règne Organisé. Zoologie. Vers et Zoophytes.

F.G. Levrault 1816-1830 32, 116 engraved plates. . HB. 8vo, cont. half calf, rubbed/scuffed, leather title piece to spine, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Some browning to page margins. Some foxing. Occasional marginal pencil annotations to plates.. Rare. Text French. Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850) was a French doctor and naturalist, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the faculty of Sciences in Paris. Illustrations by the Swiss-French artist Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, (1768-1849).This volume contains the plates for 'Vers' (= worms) (1-48) and 'Zoophytes' (49-116). The complete work consisted of 60 Tomes and 61 Cahiers. Nissen ZBI 4614..

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Book number: S40000

Catalogue: Invertebrates,Other Invertebrates

BLAINVILLE (Charles Henri de):

Histoire Générale, Critique et Philologique de La Musique, Dédiée à La Duchesse de Villeroy.

A Paris, Chez Pissot..., 1757. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xi [xii "Avertissement"], 189 [190 "Approbation," 191 - 192 "Privilege du Roi"], 68 engraved plates, including frontispiece which is supplied in facsimile, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, morocco label; lower corner of first four leaves water-stained, and slightly frayed, joints and corners neatly restored. Blainville (1710 - 1777) maintained that he had discovered a third mode of music between major and minor, which he called "mode mixte"; his symphony in this mode was first performed on 30 May 1751, and Rousseau commented favourably upon it. The final section in this work is on harmonic theory.

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Book number: 4328

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music theory prose French