[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Mozart Treatise, 1769

[Charles Agvent]

MOZART, Leopold. LEOPOLD MOZARTS HOCHFURSTL. SALZBURGISCHEN 
VICE-CAPELLMEISTERS GRUNDLICHE VIOLINSCHULE... Augsburg: Johann Jacob 
Lotter, 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.                          $3,500.00	

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