Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books
Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books
Susanne Schulz-Falster Catalogue Ten - Schulz-Falster Rare Books
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Musique, & la Danse ou Lettres de Mr. G... A Milord Pembroke.<br />
Venise, Charles Pales, 1773.<br />
[with:] GOUDAR, Sarah. Supplement au Supplement sur les<br />
Remarques de la Musique et de la Danse ou Lettres de Mr. G...<br />
A Milord Pembroke. [n.p.], 1774. £1800<br />
Three parts bound in two volumes, 12mo, pp. [iv], 136; 95; 112 (tear<br />
to p. 99); woodcut vignettes to all three titles; one signature coming<br />
loose in part one; parts one and two bound together in contemporary<br />
half calf over sprinkled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; part three<br />
uncut in contemporary stiV paste-paper wrappers; a good set.<br />
First edition, very rare, of this fascinating ‘inside’ view of the Italian and<br />
especially Venetian musical scene of the second half of the eighteenth century,<br />
and in eVect the Wrst book to describe in detail the foundation of theatrical<br />
dance and ballet. In the form of letters addressed to Lord Pembroke,<br />
the emergence of ballet in Venice is described, with special emphasis on the<br />
contribution of Noverre and Angiolini. Noverre is generally acknowledged<br />
to have been the eighteenth century reformer of ballet, with his emphasis on<br />
conveying dramatic action through movement, pantomime, and dramatic<br />
gesture. Goudar provides Wrst-hand information on the dancers, their technique,<br />
repertoire and life. In the second supplement the emphasis shifts to<br />
opera, given an account of the Italian opera, its interpreters and the contemporary<br />
theatrical scene.<br />
Gregory & Bartlett, <strong>Catalogue</strong> of Early <strong>Books</strong> on Music, p. 112 (lacking part III);<br />
Mars 97, 100, and 102 (apparently attributing the work to Ange Goudar alone);<br />
OCLC records copies at Harvard, the Library of Congress and Brigham Young<br />
only.<br />
Argot Dictionary<br />
143 [GRANDVAL, Nicolas Racot de.] Le Vice Puni, ou Cartouche.<br />
Poeme, Nouvelle edition, plus belle, plus correcte, & augmentée par<br />
l’auteur. Paris, Hague, M. G. de Merville, 1728. £300<br />
8vo, engraved frontispiece, pp. [iv], 119, with 16 engraved plates in the<br />
text, all after Bonnart; title printed in red and black, paper a little<br />
browned throughout; bound in contemporary full calf, central blindstamped<br />
vignette to upper board; a good copy with private book label<br />
to front paste-down.<br />
An interesting Argot dictionary is added at the end of Grandval’s satirical<br />
poems, a parody of Voltaire’s Henriade, together with a take-oV on<br />
Corneille and Racine. These poems were inspired by the story of the legendary<br />
robber Louis Dominique Bourguignon (1693–1721), known as<br />
Cartouche, who Wgured in more than one play of the period. His satirical<br />
attacks are partly expressed in Argot, the dialect of the French underworld –<br />
and the origin of the English term ‘Argot’. The Wrst edition had appeared in<br />
1723, and it appears that the Argot dictionary and the plates were Wrst<br />
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten<br />
added to the 1725 edition. The Wfteen-page dictionary is in two parts: Argot-French<br />
and French-Argot.<br />
Bonaparte 3798; Gay III 1328; see Yve-Plessis, Bibliographie raisonné de l’Argot, p.<br />
82 for other edition; Zaunmüller 142 (1750).<br />
144 GRIENDEL VON ACH, Johann Frantz. Micrographia Nova:<br />
oder Neu-Curieuse Beschreibung verschiedener kleine Körper,<br />
welche vermittlst eines absonderlichen von dem Author<br />
neuerfundenen Vergrösser-Glases verwunderlich groß vorgestellt<br />
werden. Nürnberg, J. Ziegers, 1687. £3000<br />
4to, pp. [viii], 64 with 31 (27 of which folding) plates with 55 Wgures;<br />
typographic head and tail-pieces; title page discreetly mounted;<br />
engraved plates irregularly trimmed, but no loss to images; occasional<br />
light dust-soiling and browning; late eighteenth century stained vellumbacked<br />
sprinkled boards; contemporary ownership inscription to front<br />
pastedown, Bibliotheca M. Balthasar HoVman.<br />
First edition of the German answer to Hooke’s Micrographia, and the Wrst<br />
German book to be devoted entirely to the microscope, combining detailed<br />
descriptions with intricate illustrations. Griendel’s design of the microscope<br />
was a distinct improvement on Hooke’s and Leeuwenhoeck’s instruments,<br />
as the object could be viewed at a greater distance from the lense, thereby<br />
greatly increasing the Weld of vision. His instrument is of great interest ‘as