Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 75
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 200
YRIARTE [or IRIARTE], TOMÁS DE. La Música, Poema . . . Segunda [sic] Edición. 6 etched allegorical plates by Manuel Salvador Carmona and Joaquín Ballester after Gregorio Ferro. [20], 126, xl pages. 8vo, 224x144 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, worn, with paper label, lacking original lettering piece; text relatively clean, minor marginal foxing and stains on plates, worming through blank lower margins of last several leaves and lower outer corner of rear cover. Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1784

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Third edition of a book-length poem on the elements, types, and purposes of music originally published in 1774, praising the works of Haydn in the final canto. New Grove IX, 327; Palau 121148.