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Essais sur les Principes de l'Harmonie, où l'on Traite de la Théorie de l'Harmonie en général, des Droits respectifs de l'Harmonie & de la Melodie, de la Basse Fondamentale, et de l'Origine du Mode mineur by SERRE, Jean-Adam 1704-1788

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Title: Essais sur les Principes de l'Harmonie, où l'on Traite de la Théorie de l'Harmonie en général, des Droits respectifs de l'Harmonie & de la Melodie, de la Basse Fondamentale, et de l'Origine du Mode mineur
Author: SERRE, Jean-Adam 1704-1788
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Paris: Chez Prault Fils, 1753. Octavo. Full vellum with titling and decorative to head and tail stamped to spine in black. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [iii] ("Avertissement), [iii] ("Table"), 159, [i] pp. + 2 engraved plates of musical examples and diagrams. Provenance With the autograph signature in brown ink of German-British music theorist Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann (1756-1829) to upper outer corner of title; inscription in ink to front pastedown "Mount Esqre. From R. C. Jenkins - March 1867." Binding slightly worn, soiled, and bumped. Some minor internal soiling, browning, and foxing; final "m" of "Kollmann" trimmed by binder. First Edition. Cortot p.181. Gregory-Bartlett I, p. 252. Wolffheim I, 1016. Hirsch I, Appendix 47. RISM Écrits p. 780. "[Serre was a] Swiss painter and music theorist. From 1723 to 1727 he studied natural sciences at the University of Geneva. After working as a miniaturist in Vienna, he went to Paris in 1751, where he published criticism of the theories then being expounded by Blainville, Rameau and Euler... Serre's writings on music dealt primarily with the philosophical and methodological aspects of the important theoretical ideas of his day. His arguments attempted to clarify theoretical principles and develop them through critical, analytic and scientific procedures. His most significant contributions concerned the foundations of harmonic theory, Rameau's basse fondamentale, temperament and resonance, combination tones, the derivation of the minor mode and related topics." Albert Cohen in Grove Music Online "Kollmann related German and English musical cultures. He corresponded with J.N. Forkel and gathered English contributions for Gerber's Neues Lexikon. He persistently advocated the music of J.S. Bach and printed in his treatises a number of Bach's compositions and in 1806 a separate edition of Bach's Chromatic Fantasy. In 1799 he proposed an edition of the '48', but after Forkel remarked on this, three European publishers proceeded to print it and Kollmann withdrew. He provided, however, a manuscript from which the Wesley-Horn edition of this work was prepared and lent other Bach material to Samuel Wesley when the latter's interest in Bach was roused. Kollmann translated excerpts from Forkel's life of Bach for his magazine the Quarterly Musical Register (1812) and may have assisted with the first complete English translation published in 1820." Michael Kassler in Grove Music Online A very good copy, with distinguished provenance.

Florence Erwin's THREE HOMES. A Tale of North and South by Erwin, Florence [pseudonym?]

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Title: Florence Erwin's THREE HOMES. A Tale of North and South
Author: Erwin, Florence [pseudonym?]
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1862. Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth, illustrated on the spine in gilt. First Edition of this novel set in, and written during, the American Civil War. It is the best-known, if not only, novel by "Florence Erwin" -- about whom virtually nothing is known. In fact, both the title page and the binding are intentionally ambiguous: since the central characters of the book are the journeying Florence Erwin and her husband, is FLORENCE ERWIN'S THREE HOMES the title only, or the author plus the title? The headline atop each page is "The Three Homes." The story follows the lives of three women, each from a different background, who are affected by the war in different ways. The first woman, Mary, is a wealthy plantation owner from the South who is forced to flee her home when the Union Army invades. The second woman, Alice, is a Northern abolitionist who moves to the South to help slaves escape to freedom. The third woman, Kate, is a young girl who is sent to live with her aunt in the North after her father dies in battle. As the war progresses, the lives of these three women become increasingly intertwined... [Amz]. It is interesting that since this book was "deposited" in 1861 and first published in 1862, the three women's tales involve a lot of imagined outcomes, on the part of the author. Included are numerous illustrative plates. This is a remarkably close-to-fine copy of this uncommon wartime novel (spine gilt a little oxidized, front endpaper very slightly cracked, but scarcely any wear).

CONCHOLOGY OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SHELLS. CYPRAEA. Plate 20 by PERRY, GEORGE

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Title: CONCHOLOGY OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SHELLS. CYPRAEA. Plate 20
Author: PERRY, GEORGE
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: Pub by W. Miller., 1811. Image: 12 ¾ x 9". Margins: 16 ¼ x 10 ¾". Hand colored aquatint, Pl. 20. When it was published, George Perry's book on shells was ridiculed for its eccentric taxonomy and fanciful coloring. However, it has now been accepted as a serious scientific work, and Perry's shell names are still in use today. The prints of shells are vibrantly colored, and are the only conchological prints made by aquatint. See Classic Natural History of Prints (Shells) and Nissen ZBI 3134.

AN INQUIRY INTO THE DIFFERENCE OF STYLE OBSERVABLE IN ANCIENT GLASS by (WINSTON, Charles.)

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Title: AN INQUIRY INTO THE DIFFERENCE OF STYLE OBSERVABLE IN ANCIENT GLASS
Author: (WINSTON, Charles.)
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: (WINSTON, Charles.) AN INQUIRY INTO THE DIFFERENCE OF STYLE OBSERVABLE IN ANCIENT GLASS PAINTING, ESPECIALLY IN ENGLAND: WITH HINTS ON GLASS PAINTING. Volumes. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1847. Large 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, gilt. xiv 384 pages; (ii), 24 pages, 57 plates numbered 1-75, plus 53A and 61A, many colored. First edition. "The principal object of this work is to investigate the varieties of ancient glass painting, and to reduce them to a few classes, in the same manner as ha been successfully attempted with regard to Gothic architecture." "The presen work is divided into two parts. In the first I have attempted to lay down rul which may serve to point out the leading distinction of styles: the second contains observations on the present state of the art, and suggestions for it application to particular purposes, and as the best means for its advancement Spine of text volume chipped at extremities and hinge. Internally very good.

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