Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229
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Sale 2229 - Lot 103

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(MUSIC.) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Dictionnaire de Musique. xxiv, 596; [4], 428 pages. 2 volumes * Traités sur la Musique. 19 folding letterpress or engraved leaves of music, etc. [4], 394, [1] pages. Together, 3 volumes, with half-titles. 12mo, contemporary flexible boards, shaken, spines darkened; occasional light even browning; uncut. Geneva, 1781; 1781
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The first title, originally published in 1768 and based on Rousseau's contributions to the Encyclopédie, "can be seen as the earliest modern dictionary of music . . . It is in addition one of the first works to give significant space to extra-European music"--New Grove XXI, 802-03. Damschroder & Williams, pages 283-84.