[Rarebooks] For Sale: 18th Century Treatise on Music

[Norman Kane]

SACCHI, BARNABITE [or BERNABITA] GIOVENALE.  DEL NUMERO E DELLE 
MISURE DELLE CORDE MUSICHE E LORO CORRISPONDENZE.  DISSERTAZIONE DEL 
P. D. GIOVENALE SACCHI BERNABITA.  Milano: (Giuseppe Mazzucchielli, 
successore Malatesta), 1761.  1st (only ?) edition.
Octavo, 126 pages.  Heavy paper over light boards, front free end 
paper soiled & repaired, otherwise excellent.   (Sacchi, a prolific 
composer and learned member of the Congregation of St. Paul called 
Barnabites [hence the added name], was a member of several societies 
and academies of science and art.)
$200.00        (Trade Discount 10 %)

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