Abbé Pierre Bourdelot (3 results)

12mo 16x10 cms, full contemporary calf, a bit worn and with a ownership label to the upper board "Collection Hector Colard" and a small H. C to the title. Binding with an embossed gold crown heraldic device to both boards (Biblioteque de S. Ange) . Title, (xiv), 1-487 pages. Complete. Internally a good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4 volumes 12mo 16x9 cm. Pretty leather binding of full contemporary calf gilt. Bindings lightly rubbed. Small ownership label pasted to the upper boards "Collection Hector Colard" and small H. C. on the titles. Four titles, (iv) 1-334, 1-175, 1-322, 1-230 pages. Complete. Second edition of this first history of music in French. …

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.…