Excellent Compendium of Musick:. with Necessary and Judicious Animadversions Thereupon.

by a Person of Honour by René Descartes

$3,750 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

London: Printed by Thomas Harper, for Humphrey Moseley, 1653. First English edition. Small quarto 7 5/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 187 x 135 mm . 16 , 94, 1, errata , 1, blank pp. Two parts in one volume. With three engraved plates, and with numerous woodcuts, including head-and-tail pieces and initials. Title-pages with woodcut vignette. Much of the illustrations are of musical notes, staffs and various charts relating to

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