Recent Acquisitions

ALPHEN, Hieronymus van.

Een bundelke van reis-gezangen, bysonderlyk voor zeevaarende lieden. Om naar geleegentheid des tyds stigtelyk te gebruyken; Nevens eenige overdenkingen van des menschen reize naar de eeuwigheid. Alles gestelt op eenige der bekendste voysen van de berymde Psalmen Davids.
Amsterdam, 1754. 8vo. Contemporary marbled wrappers.

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[AMSTERDAM - THEATRE DECORS].

[Collection of engravings of theatre decors of the Amsterdam city theatre:] "Het gothisch paleis", "De ouderwetse burgerkamer", "De legertenten", "De Romeinsche hofzaal", "De kerker".
[Amsterdam, Jan Willem Smit, 1787-1794]. Collection of 5 engravings (impression: 33 x 41.5 cm, image: 20 x 24 cm) by Cornelis Brouwer (fl. 1773-1802), Pieter Hendrik Jonxis (1757-1843) and Izaak Jansz. de Wit (fl. 1759-1809) after drawings by Jan Bulthuis (1750-1901) and Daniël Kerkhoff (1766-1821), after the original paintings by Jan Gerard Waldorp (fl. 1758-1808), Pieter Barbiers (1717-1780), Jurriaan Andriessen (1742-1819) and Hermanus Numan (1744-1820).

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[COCHIN, Charles Nicholas the younger]. Projet d'une salle de spectacle pour un théatre de comédie.
London, Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1765. 12mo (18 x 11 cm). With floor plans, interior elevations, sections and a plan of the ceiling decoration of a theatre on 6 folding engraved plates, and decorations built up from rococo fleurons. Late 19th-century red half cloth. Full description

[DANCE MANUSCRIPT].

Regole per ballar bene le quadriglie secondo il moderno stile.
[Italy, ca. 1817/20?]. Small 4to (19 x 12.5 cm). Manuscript in brown ink on paper, neatly written in Italian in a legible Latin hand. Contemporary half dark green sheepskin, brown Stormont marbled sides.

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ELSLAND, Jan van. Gezangen, of het vrolyk gezelschap der negen zanggodinnen, … Den derden druk, op nieuws met verscheide aardige stukjes en plaatjes vermeerderd.
Haarlem, Aäron van Hulkenroy, 1730. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece, engraved illustration on title-page and 12 engraved illustrations in text after Callot and Adriaen van Ostade. Further with letterpress diamond-head music notes and a woodcut initial and headpiece. 19th-century red half sheepskin, marbled sides (rebacked). Full description

FERRIOL Y BOXEREAUX, D. Bartolome.

Reglas utiles para los aficionados a danzar: provechoso divertimiento de los que gustan tocar instrumentos. Y politicas advertencias a todo genero de personas. Adornado con varias laminas.
Capoa, Joseph Testore, 1745. Small 8vo (14×10 cm). With 35 woodcuts in text (including many full-page), 7 folding leaves with woodcut music notation and letterpress text, and some letterpress text set along curves. Many of the full-page woodcuts and some on the folding leaves also include dance notation. Mid 19th-century gold-tooled green calf, with the emblematic device of the "Bibliotheca de Salvá" and initials VSP (=Vicente Salvá y Pérez) on each board.

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FRANCK, Bernard. Collection de 124 carnets de bal du XVIIIe siècle formée par M. Bernard Franck a Paris de l'année 1875 au 23 avril 1902.
Paris, Gerschel, Photographe, 1902. Large 4to (32.5 x 29 cm). With one full-page (27.5 x 23 cm) and 248 mounted carbon print photographs (ca. 8.5-9 x 4.5-5.5 cm) on 63 leaves of thick hinged card board, and 4 preliminary letterpress text pages printed in red and black. Original dark green half morocco, with title in gold on front board and spine, gilt edges. Full description

GRILLET, Laurent.

Les ancêtres du violon et du violoncelle. Les luthiers et les fabricants d'archets.
Paris, Charles Schmid, 1901. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large 8vo. With numerous illustrations of instruments, labels and musical examples and facsimiles of luthiers' tickets. Contemporary yellow half morocco, with richly gold-tooled spine and brown title-label lettered in gold.

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HÄTZL, Georg.

Gartten-Parterres.
Augsburg, Jeremias Wolff, [1690/1703]. With a title-print followed by 12 garden plans, numbered 1-13.
With:
(2) SAENGER, Johann J. Vorstellung einiger modernen Gebäude zum Pracht, zum Zierde und zur Bequemlichkeit eingerichtet.
Neurenberg, Johann Christoph Weigel, [ca. 1700/1725]. With a title-print followed by 15 elevations and plans of contemporary stately residences, all but the title-print lettered a-i, k-p.
(3) CHEREAU, Jacques. [Elevations and plans of pipe organs in 3 Paris churches and of pipe organs by Feillet].
Paris, Jacques Chereau, [ca. 1700/50]. With 16 finely engraved elevations and plans of pipe organs, numbered 1-16. 3 works in 1 volume. Oblong small 1mo (ad 1) & large folio (ad 2-3). Early 19th-century half red roan (sheepskin).

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HESS, Joachim.

Korte en eenvoudige handleyding tot het leeren van 't clavecimbel of orgel-spel. Tweede druk.
Gouda, Johannes vander Klos, 1768. 4to. With an etching showing types of musical notes in text and a folding etched plate showing several aspects of staff notation. Modern cloth.

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