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BUONANNI, FILIPPO, S.J. Gabinetto Armonico. 2 engraved frontispieces and 151 engraved plates of musical instruments and musicians. [16], 177, [1] pages, including half-title. 4to, contemporary sprinkled sheep gilt with modern red morocco lettering piece, front joint chipped at top; inscription heavily abraded in blank lower margin of title with few tiny holes. Rome: Giorgio Placho, 1722
Second edition of an exhaustive and lavishly illustrated study of European and non-European musical instruments in the collection of the Collegium Romanum, where Bonanni succeeded his teacher Athanasius Kircher as professor of mathematics. The first edition was published the same year. Alden 722/44 (for references to aboriginal American percussion instruments); Borba de Moraes, page 111; New Grove III, 14 ("one of the principal documents for the history of 18th-century musical instruments").
