[Rarebooks] FS: Treatise on violin playing by the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769

[Charles Agvent]

MOZART, Leopold LEOPOLD MOZARTS HOCHFURSTL. SALZBURGISCHEN 
VICE-CAPELLMEISTERS GRUNDLICHE VIOLINSCHULE...
Johann Jacob Lotter Augsburg 1769 First Issue of the Second Edition, 
first published in 1756. Small quarto (6-1/4" x 7-7/8") bound in 
contemporary calf with contrasting leather spine labels and lovely 
decorated period German endpapers. [xvi], 268, [viii] pages. Illustrated 
with 3 (of 4) full-page plates, text engravings, and a large folding 
table of music. Lacks the portrait frontispiece. OCLC locates only the 
copy at the Houghton Library at Harvard. A treatise on the fundamental 
principles of violin playing by the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 
About a dozen pages with marginal tears, mostly at the bottom, with some 
repaired with varying degrees of skill. Loss only to a few letters on 
one preliminary page. Binding is solid with the spine tips chipped, 
corners a little worn, and the spine labels rubbed but still readable. 
Overall a Very Good example of a scarce book.   $3500.00
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