Author: BONNET Jacques - abbé Pierre BOURDELOT ( ) :
Title: Histoire de la Musique, et de ses Effets, Depuis son origine jusqu'à présent. & en quoi consiste sa beauté. (4 tômes en deux volumes).
Description: .: 16. Amsterdam, Charles le Cene, 1725, 4 parts in two vols. in-8°, (6) + 333 pp , (2) + 175 pp ; (2) + 322 pp , (2) + 230 pp, cont. calf (part of lower hinge of vol. 1 cracked but still firm), spines raised and gilt decorated, stamped "Bond" on fly in both vols., speckled edges, still a fine set.. The 2nd edition of the very first French history of music. Bourdelot, 1610-1685, was a physician (with an amazingly interesting biography). Jacques Bonnet, 1644-1723, completed the work, later (1743) published under his own name. The first edition from 1715 consisted of only one volume (488 pp). This second edition is more than double in size. A lively story with information on French, other European, Hebrew, Persian and Chinese music - even on automata and mechanical music - which defends French against Italian music. Cioranescu 12744. .

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